Destined To Fail.

[Devocat]

↑ yes clean dem wheels tho.

also cant wait to see this thing finished


(hurry up)

haha thanks! im trying!! got the drift schedule, so my end month for all the work to be done is march.

clean your front wheels, and definitely don't adjust the camber

front wheels are going black, but are becoming designated drift wheels. I need to find a set of nice, straight, unmolested and cool sized 17s for daily use. might be THAT guy and get rs reps

Such a bittersweet thing when your car goes into the shop. Keen to see it sitting proper!

thank you man!!

[Dremetos]

might be THAT guy and get rs reps

You don't have the personality for RS reps. Next time you go to brush your teeth, look in the mirror and just practice going "Yeah, I have BBS RS replica wheels, they're fake. Absolutely not genuine." It doesn't work, lol.

[Devocat]

update friends (in no particular order):
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.

[meech]

im so happy this car is coming together, for some reason i feel attached to it and I've never been within 500 miles of it hahaha

[Devocat]

Thanks man I really appreciate that comment, put a real smile on my face

[Danscomp]

1) What front wheels are those?
2) I like your car
3) Depending on where in Onterrible you are, teach me to drift.

Thanks

[Devocat]

1) What front wheels are those?
2) I like your car
3) Depending on where in Onterrible you are, teach me to drift.

Thanks

1)idk I always get asked. They look sorta like work rezak roars or Desmond regamasters
2)Ty
3) Toronto area sir

[Devocat]

Unrelated to the build, but I wrote an article thats posted on scraped crusaders. take a look at it by clicking on the photo (:

[Devocat]

also if youre running into any issues you can just click on the link here

[SnazzyQ]

Damn sweet write up man.

Everything about people dumping unreasonable amounts of money (nothing wrong with that under the right circumstances) is just silly and makes no sense without any experience, and I completely agree with the the whole theory of "seat-time to build-time ratio".

Anyways I enjoyed reading that, It really opened my eyes into the whole world of drifting for enjoyment and not for sponsorships and what not.

[Devocat]

Back to the build I guess

Got to do some fun stuff today. started by going out and picking up some brakes, found a good deal on the local classifieds. Seller was awesome, brakes are brand new so thats pretty noice



I cannot get over how giant the brakes are compared to the ones I have on the car now. Its just ridiculous






all I need is to paint the calipers, then Ill just wait for a day warm enough to install em.

Then I did some scary stuff with my hood. The idea behind it is that it pulls air through the rad when I'm driving, so it cools down my engine and keeps under hood temps low which is nice
I started by gutting the hood




then I measured and drew out my cuts. this took the longest, measuring stuff out on a non flat surface really sucks, but I got it straight. I used the spray nozzles for reference



I then taped the edges so I had a straight line to cut on.



and whammy, vented hood



I still have to smooth out the edges, and im not sure if i should cut more up the hood and make the fold longer and less aggressive. I'll put the hood on the car and see, for now I like it.

oh, I also got an aluminium rad


thanks for reading, friends

[mikey G]

Braked look good bro, so does the hood....are you from NY?

[Devocat]

Braked look good bro, so does the hood....are you from NY?

thanks m8 and nope a bit further north

[mikey G]

Oh true, was just wondering! I liked the article as well, and while I completely agree, this type of consumerism has been around forever haha. Regardless of the scene (muscle, fitment, tuner, drift, ect ect). Looking forward to more updates!

[JordonVW]

Just read all this thread, it's fun seeing peoples car going from some cares, to not many cares, to nearly no cares in a build haha, makes for an interesting read