First off thanks Steve (Dutchy) for sticking it out with me from the early morning until the early morning pretty much every day over the last few days working on this heap. Although I couldn't get some things I wanted done, I got a ton of shit finished and feel super accomplished and learned a bunch. So ya, here we go. These are my tension rods, one s13 another s14. This is what happens when you ball out on some things and your budget eventually says no. Thanks for the free multilink brandan and Masashi you guys are rad. Took them completely apart, wire wheeled and anti seized and adjusted them to the same legnth
I also swapped my trusty old differential for an s13 pumpkin with an s14 rear cover. the reason for this is that the s13 differentials do not have the bushings in the pumpkins, so they make the rear end feel that much stiffer, and its alot more cost effective than buying solid bushings for the s14 rear diff.
Little things seemed to take the most time, bolting down the ball joints took alot of time because they just kept spinning, even with the impact gun. We also had a rude reminder that this is a 20 year old nissan (haven't had one of these in a while) in taking out the drivers side tension rod, it had to be cut out in pretty much every place, bushing burned out, at one point my car was on actual fire (for like, the sixth time since the rockers). Idk, shit happens. but its done!
did hotrod style hockey puck motor mounts. After installing the 248/232 can (Steve installing it since I have no idea what I'm doing) I noticed how undeniably terrible my engine mounts were. So I looked around and then did some research and decided on a set of mounts, but, with Christmas time here to budget said no. 2.5 hockey pucks per side along with some hardware does just fine. That being said, with the cam and pretty much solid mount the car feels aggressive. Literally everything moves. It's awesome.
I got the car basically aligned, threw an s13 diff in there with a new axle, got my fans in, fixed a tensioner, got my stubborn ball joints finally bolted down, the cam in, engine mounts and all that's really left to do is some wiring for my HIDs, battery relocate and efans
now all i basically have to do is wiring of the fans, HIDs and battery, which i will be doing inside and just taking out to my car since its freezing outside.
Thanks for reading! More pictures soon.
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