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Anonymoose's '87 S12 Nissan Silvia ZX Turbo


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Got some pictures finally, this is gonna be a slow build but hopefully a good one. Plan is to fix any rust I can find, give the motor a service and tune, think the tappets are gonna need doing soonish (starting to hear them) get wheels, lower the shit out of it and do a motor swap sometime. At the moment everything is standard.

Picked it up for 500 last weekend and did a 12 hour round trip from London to Yorkshire and back here in the UK. Was a steal with an almost full MOT (WOF), had to tax, it runs sweet and skids up nicely. Only rust I've found so far is the front lip mounting bracket which is nearly totally gone and surface rust on the suspension etc which I'll be replacing anyways..

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Small update. Managed to score a set of 40mm lowering springs and front shocks for 40! Will be a good upgrade and some lows since my current springs are pretty rusty. The shocks I have already are newish so will be swapping the springs over after giving them a clean up and may send the legs away to get remade with proper low springs if I don't do a s13 swap, still haven't decided. While picking these up I also missed the auction for the set of wheels I wanted, for the second time. mad&happy.jpg

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So Friday was a good day, got some wheels and my boy took his first steps! Win. I've got another set on the way mid next month but both sets are temporary untill I sort yahoo.jp out. I'll be cleaning them up and polishing the shit out of them and painting the "barrels" gold as it shows nicely through the windows/slots. Cleaned both the bitches today and got another pic for fred. Same old but hey...

This month I'll be finishing the wheels and swapping in the suspension, sort of decided I'll be chopping the standard springs I have and get it low, then have the 40mm lowering springs for MOT's until coilovers. Also fixing the rusted front lip brackets and a tiny patch on the boot that I found today

Wheels

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Gave them a real quick sand and autosol. Will get a mirror polish after a proper job

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Tyres are the ones that came with the wheels so will sell them if someone wants to buy or throw them away, plan on running wide, low profile tyres to make up for lack of width/offset, think it'll look cool

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  • 2 weeks later...

Got my sleepy eyes on, happy with the install as I thought I wouldn't be able to find anywhere without wrecking the dash, works as normal or sleepy mode, lights eitherway.

Getting onto the wheels again today so will hopefully have them done shortly and someone is interested in my wagon so may have big updates on the way/moneys

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Oh and engine bay for Nic, CA18ET (?right) not DET like I was told, didn't even look in the bay until this week lol

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I ended up selling this before anything good was done and is nothing on any of the builds here but may be interesting anyways

 

Picked up a set of these <3

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Wheel from some 4x4

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and this shifter I hacked up using mountain bike handle bars

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Winter came

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Got some mint fishnets which I've always wanted, also never used :rofl

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At this point I had already found some lowering springs for the car but decided I wanted to get decent coils that would really get the car to where I wanted it so I got a set of these S13 badboys mixed with some other parts from murica.

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So then it was search time for the S13/S14 parts needed to convert to use the fuckers. I picked these things up.

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I then found the brakes were having a few clearance issues on my 14's, mainly on the back of the wheel centres.

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I knew spacers wouldn't be an option due to the longer S13 LCA's and my calculations for where the wheel would sit soo after some massaging...

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With all the parts hanging around and more to come I realised my "garage" needed a clean up.

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..tbc

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Then I finished polishing up the Starsharks and up put paper all over the back closet, paint booth!

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They came out like this

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Then we moved house

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All the crap in the outside storage cupboard finally had somewhere to go

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Cleaned enough

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So the missus went away for a week and I took the oportunity to take over our lounge with all my spare wheels, parts and greasy stuff so I could get the car into my new shoe box.

 

couple of shots during

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New rear

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Old front legs out

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New front stuff

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First time off the stands

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After finally getting everything off and fresh things back on I started to test fit wheels to see if my calcs were right. Yep.

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...So I had a problem. Not wanting to run a thinner tyre size because I planned to widen the wheels in the future and worked out these would be perfect on there I got to work with a roller. I worked on it slowly, trying to keep the arch lip as vertical as possible I think I did well.

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and then

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The front fitment of upgraded parts gave me so much shit I was happy, after re-arranging the rear shocks for the car, to find only a massage was needed.

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Then it was out

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My boy doing work

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Next day drive time!

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Started driving it to work to see what needed to be done...brakes was one thing that never really worked well :/ But it felt nice and was lower

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Got my front lip back on

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Threw the wheels on and lowered it some more

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:)

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Did some more of this

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Tried to take some pictures but my potatoe didn't want to play

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