My S13 240 : Ls swap, Corvette trans,ITB's, Widebody, Stupid wide wheels,

[cruuz]

Can't you learn your short block building skills on the LS? Finish this 240 and you'll have peeps lining up to work on their shit, it'll be your rolling portfolio. Just my .02, I'm always sad inside when the really ambitious projects go belly-up

[laextreme5]

Well, car is getting parted out. Over the last year or so as I've been building it my wants and goals have changed. I also let this car get a little away from me in the sense that i let it get a little out of hand in what i wanted to do exactly.

With that being said. The funds from it will be going to a new project. The plan is to pick up a high milage budgie wrx, buy a spare motor and learn how to assemble a short block. I'm already capable of tearing it down to a short block and dropping in a new one and reinstalling blah blah. But i dont have the tools or knowledge currently to actually assemble the rotating assembly myself, and i want to learn.

**** to do it, as id really like to see this through, but investing in my personal knowledge that could possibly further my career is more important to me than finishing a cool crazy project car.

Look of the for sale adds on the classifieds section and buy my shit.

[laextreme5]

You've actually motivated me to work on my S13. Ive had it striped apart for 2 years and had sikky mounts and a 5.3 waiting for it. Just need trans and harness and some bodywork

Glad i could be of service to you man!

[laextreme5]

I recently had someone mention to me my wheels and lips were pointlessly and uneccessaryily wide and it was all for show, and then i didnt know how to measure and spec wheels properly.

Ahem, this is the rear wheel fitment to the inner wheel house, with out the amount of camber i will be runnning.

Any questions?

My lips are pointlessly wide for the sake of depth. I wanted a certain width wheel and i didnt reduce offset just to make them look cool. In fact i wanted to reduce poke past the stock body as much as possible as that would reduce the amount of additional widening id have to do to the body.

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Small update. other than fuck ****** (even thos i absolutely **** that phrase lol, its currrently applicable) IM busy doing a karlton flare install, full top end seal replacement and exhaust intsall on a turbo integra, and have done multiple alignments after work the last few weeks.

Got to pay for these ridiculous parts somehow. Next update will be big as i should get a good bit done by then, or atleast im hoping. Who knows, maybe it will just be to post up a picture or two of a few parts haha

[Greasy63]

Benz88, if you're not dead set on a GM Trans maybe look into a 350z/g35 Trans. Collinsadapters.com makes adapters for them $500 I think. Those 350z Trans go for $300 used on average around here.

[benz88]

You've actually motivated me to work on my S13. Ive had it striped apart for 2 years and had sikky mounts and a 5.3 waiting for it. Just need trans and harness and some bodywork

[laextreme5]

Nice work man.

Besides the build, great photos! You really could be building Legos and your photography would make me believe it's a actual dedicated track car

THanks guys! My photograohy isnt even that good lol but i appreciate the compliment.

[Greasy63]

Besides the build, great photos! You really could be building Legos and your photography would make me believe it's a actual dedicated track car

[Amgcdi]

Nice work man.

[laextreme5]

I see the pedals do not have cylinders on them but I have to ask.. did you play with them?

I am very curious of the ankle effort on floor mounted pedals. for real.

Not yet no, i have no need for them just yet. But once im ready to mount the heel plate ill mount them up. AS for pedal effort, the gas pedal feels about like a bmw pedal. Firm but not overly stiff. Im hoping i can soften it up a bit. As for clutch and brake. LIke you said no cylinders so they are literally just flopping around right now lol.

There are SO many adjustments on the pedals its not even funny. tonight or tomorrow i will take some close up shots to show the amount of variation and adjust-ability they have. The pedal ratios, height, side to side space. ALL of it is adjustable.

[LCG]

I see the pedals do not have cylinders on them but I have to ask.. did you play with them?

I am very curious of the ankle effort on floor mounted pedals. for real.

[laextreme5]

Small update. Seat finally came in.

Initail mock up of it and the pedal box that just arrived today. I got the underfoot 3 pedal from Tilton. Basically the underfoot portion means the master cylinders bolt to the rear of the assembly and are under your feet. requiring the use of a small false floor for your feet to rest on.

This allows maximum forward mounting position for optimal comfort placement, which is good, because i dont think i would have had room of rate typical front mounted master cylinders. I mean could have made it work, but i would have had to serioulsy hack up the seat mounting to get it back several more inches, but then i would have ran out of room to mount the battery, oil canister, air cup tank and compressor, and such that will be right behind the seats.



After initial mock i still can lower the seat about 1'' form blindly feeling the space between the floor and seat. I also need to move the seat back about 1-1.5'' for one to make it more comfortable and two so the seat clears the factory seat mounting brace. The latter isn't that big an issue as i can cut and shut it, which i have outlined if i need to, but i feel moving the seat back that amount will gain the clearance.

With these few changes the seat will be seating as far back and as low as i feel comfortable given my current hardware, and i feel it shall fit the bill perfectly.

The Recaro RS-GE is AWESOME. Initial comfort is great, little tight at a 34" waist but perfectly suited for the insane driving this car will have. Quality is GREAT, as expected with recaro. Supposedly it weighs right at 8 lbs. I totally believe it. Its SUPER light. Sometime this week i will be weighing the bare seat in my small scale and seeing the actual weight.

The Street faction seat brackets are also great. Super low mounting, good quality, everything lines up perfectly. Same can't be said for my previous Planted brackets....

And lastly the Tilton Pedal box. OMG they are awesome. super crazy infinitely adjustable. Superb build quality, and they look fucking awesome.



Anyway, enough of me blabbing. Here are a few pictures.


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[laextreme5]

sweet build. cant wait to see how the aero works out and how much steering angle u will have with the steamrollers up front. I'm getting annoyed with my 235s rubbing.

The offset of the wheels is close to the same inset as a 9.5 +22. So steering angle really should be a problem. As for aero I've got some big ideas and theories I'm going to be doing so hopefully it all works well in the end.

At first I was like, have you read the thread?

Then I was like.. oh

And then I was all like " ha ha ha ha"

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I do have an old stroller I'm in the middle of restoring for him.... LS SWAP IT!!!!!

[LCG]

any plans to LS swap the baby? congrats by the way.

At first I was like, have you read the thread?

Then I was like.. oh

And then I was all like " ha ha ha ha"

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[CBdrift]

sweet build. cant wait to see how the aero works out and how much steering angle u will have with the steamrollers up front. I'm getting annoyed with my 235s rubbing.