Project Useless.... Caged vert all riced out.

[NERDE30]

Coming from a guy thats loves S13's and love my E30 you are my hero! LOL This build is sweet. I was thinking about doing the same build on my sedan, but then decided to go with the old tried and true S50 swap!

[MR 325]

Awesome! Im impressed the paint shop got motorsport stripes to stick to a nissan valve cover, though!

Haha, I lol'd.

Looks good!

[KamakaziX]

Oh, I hate all right.

[LJ851]

Awesome! Im impressed the paint shop got motorsport stripes to stick to a nissan valve cover, though!

[ill roller]

Good stuff... Just got this back from the body shop.



HATE HATE HATE!

[e30guydownunder]

I got my motor and gearbox Friday. It's sitting in the bay on some mounts already :) I managed to get the intercooler and a 52mm radiator in there with room on the back for a thermo or two!

These things really fit in the bay well, the mid mount TD06 and screamer setup it came with shouldn't need much modification either (going to raise the gate a bit). I'm more than stoked :D

[e30guydownunder]

Sweet as what I've already made, might just work.

[ill roller]

If we contact tougue factory could they make us a set of motor / trans mounts?

I'll look into it and get back to you.

Pull the side moldings and door handles off and spray 'em black really quick. Just a random suggestion.

I'm still debating that... Im not typically a fan of the color matched moldings, but for some reason I felt like it kinda worked. Once I paint the outside of the car I'll be painting the moldings, but I may go black until then.

I love color matched handles on a white car:

Cheers, how much clearence you got between the engine and the radiator support panel? I previously had the intercooler and radiator mocked up IN the engine bay.

p.s. silvia radiators are a great fit in the E30 rails, just need to dream up some mounts. I was already planning to use one in my bay. So I'll be using the silvia radiator and hoses!

Id say there's about 5-6 inches. I was planning on doing the same with the Intercooler in the bay, but it looked it was going to be a squeeze with getting my fan setup in there and my Intercooler being fairly thick... That's actually an S13 koyo in the car already :)

[stinkydriverx]

Pull the side moldings and door handles off and spray 'em black really quick. Just a random suggestion.

Totally agree

[e30guydownunder]

Cheers, how much clearence you got between the engine and the radiator support panel? I previously had the intercooler and radiator mocked up IN the engine bay.

p.s. silvia radiators are a great fit in the E30 rails, just need to dream up some mounts. I was already planning to use one in my bay. So I'll be using the silvia radiator and hoses!

[ck_taft325is]

I love color matched handles on a white car:

[87e30]

Pull the side moldings and door handles off and spray 'em black really quick. Just a random suggestion.

[e30 gangsta]

If we contact tougue factory could they make us a set of motor / trans mounts?

[ill roller]

Rear subframe has finally been swapped out... It's nice to see the car no longer at gay ride height, but now I have to figure something out to get the front lower.





And minor modification to fit the shifter:

Im gonna be back in Chicago the 2nd weekend in July, Id love to check this thing out if you have it on the street by then

There's a drift day I'm hoping to make it out to on the 17th, so there's a chance the car will be done when you get here.

Amazing work. Any thoughts of selling engine mounts?

Touge Factory kept measurements for the mounts, so there may be a chance that they'll be will to make more.

I'm now waiting on an SR20 and Z32 box to arrive :D

Could you take a pic of the firewall clearence you have. And possibly some showing better the sump clearence to the steering rack.

Next time I'm at the shop i'll get some more pictures... The clearance on the underside of the car may have to wait a bit as the car isn't on a lift anymore.

[grippymonkey]

this build wins!