Nissan S12, page 2 MOT TIME!!!

This is going to look so badass out on the streets! Those wheels were made for the car IMO

word up!!!

Hey mate, hows it going?.

Havnt done anything over Christmas been slammed with work, but I gathered some parts. Had half a day on it though. This is where I am.



As the little T25 smokes I got myself a disco potato! a gt2860R hopefully this future proofs things for a while. I think It has quite a high psi actuator, I wanna be able to run low boost and slightly higher via the boost controller so I need to find a 12-14 actuator? would the t25 one fit? wonder what that is rated at? probably 5 or something.

Got a catch can to plumb in also.



A brace bar from a s13, saw that on the internets, these apparently fit if you cut off the mounting points and re-weld further in.







Although this one is still too long and I will have to cut the actual brace bar in half as the end of the bar sits over the inner strut mount bolt, guess I shoulda measured first!!.

So maybe I wil cut and re-weld it but am worried about the structural integrity of the bar although I'm not sure how much force these bars actually put up with so I'm guessing it will be OK?

One thing that makes me laugh is at the current ride height which is the frame rails sit about 2 inches form the ground I'm maxed out on the coilover, I cant go higher if I want to!!!



So took the old manifold and turbo off, hate doing this as its such a curse word, so difficult to get those nuts under the manifold, I think ive got the hang of it now though.





Need to sort out how the elephant trunk will fit to the bigger inlet and am hoping the intercooler pipes will line up as they are all completely solid so theres no wiggle room.

I hate the rear arches on this thing, one is mashed from an previous owner accident that has now been stretched and doesn't look that good and the other was pretty rusty that I repaired but its not good and the arch hole is now slightly flattened with the rolling so looks bad too. Sooooo.......











obviously have to trim it and think about how to best weld it in, need to check with the wheel too for that perfect fitment!!!

Tried to find a metal arch with the same diameter and style but slightly wider, might not use the full wideness might cut it down a bit, need to see with the wheel on.


Also noticed the pads at the rear where low and that the rear nearside handbrake wasn't working, need to figure out why still but here was the pads!!





so that's where I am.

Still a million things to do!

I love the wheels, but I don't understand the tiny tyre thing, I have 255s on a 9" a 195 seems tiny

Thanks guys, in regarding the wheels and tyres, I know what you mean its very silly! but its all about dish! u want lots of it so u need a really wide wheel, but you also want it low. So the only way you can fit them on so the tread of the tyre is under the arch is to stretch the tyre!.

As for the rolling I just used an arch roller and a rubber mallet, that's it.

yeah I'm probably gonna keep it pretty standard but it will evolve over time as soon as its up and running and legal to drive etc. I do have some plans!

thanks again for your interest.

Love these cars mate, i'v wanted one for ages (along with about 50 other cars!)

Right, another curse word poor micro update here.

Managed to get the arch extension ready, made a bit of a mistake before so had to weld it up.



So used it as a template for the other side.



before...



after the wheel of death...



so its all trimmed up and ready just need to sort out how to extend the inner arch, then do it all again for the other side!



oh and had to order a handbrake cable from the states as I couldn't get one here, worked out cheaper too including tax and shipping so that's winging its way to the hamptons.

Here's what's been going on, needs a touch more filler work to straighten a few things out, blends etc.

The worst part of this was that I attached the additional inner arch to the outer arch first, then had to weld the inside of the arch last. It was a real nightmare. For the other side I think I will attach the inner arch to the car first so I can easily weld that and then the outer arch, hopefully that will be a bit better.

more.




This sides inner arch was really rotten, I tried to do a previous repair on it but it was really difficult to get a continuous arc so looked curse word and even crapper when I flared it out and it just exploded with the different thickness of metal in the repair.



Just have to make up the inner arch, this is the worst part of the job.





Also borrowed my mates hoist so finally got the engine on the stand and out of the tyre its been sitting on for monthes!



Cant wait to strip this down and see what I have, apparently low compression, need to be on the look out for all the little things to make this a complete running engine, shame I didn't get a running donor but this was too cheap to pass up.

right so finished off the other side, still needs a bit more filler work but I will do that later.











Did a bit of filler work to one of the wings as its a bit of a hack job as I used two curse word wings to make one good one.

Need to look out for another wing really but just cant find any.



As ive been bustin my balls with all this dirty bodywork thought id do something fun!!









Although the horn ring wont stay in!! so that's slightly annoying.

As the elephant trunk no longer fits with the new turbo I needed to make a new inlet pipe.

and also a ghetto beading tool!







Not bad for 3£ which was the price of the grips!

I cant seem to find a -4an m12x1 with a 1mm restrictor anywhere so I decided to try and turn my non restrictor into one.





I went to drill it with a 1mm drill bit but it was too small to fit into the pillar drill so I used the little cordless drill, had right trouble getting it centered so thought I would center punch it! but that just made the little bit of weld fly off! so I abandoned that idea! lol

I just assembled it without the restrictor so I could start ut up, it started first turn after not being started for like 5 monthes! I'm getting closer!

that looks badass. a bit less tyre on the front and its there.

Looks great dude, hope you get the jobs sorted, these just don't get enough love! Still got the van too then? Still got the shell and a mate wants it for his twin turbo'd caravelle. So it might not get chopped after all!