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so as some of you may know in the passed two years I've been diving into the world of rwd nissan awesomeness. my first hatch which originally was going to get a 5speed swap finally served its purpose in life!!!
The ka will be torn down and rebuilt with an RPM machining stock rebuild kit. ISIS tubular bottom mount manifold with either gt28rs(hopefully) or a t25/28. whatever I can get for cheap basically. Gonna run stock sr injectors, walbro fuel pump blah blah blah all that stuff. k time for the good stuff.
ISIS radiator
head studs my turbo manifold and my roomates turbo manifold.
my ISIS bottom mount with a blown t25 for mock up purposes.
CX racing intercooler kit
HKS knock-off that comes with the cx racing kit
Only recent picture of the hatch that will be receiving all these goodies
and a little sneak peak of what will be going on next to my ka-t build
sorry for ****ty quality when the real build **** starts going down I promise to use my dslr and not my iphone haha.
Hope you guys enjoyed! keep an eye out for more updates trying to have this setup together and driftable by july 7th.
Update 5/15/12
Got the engine all tore down and got some more parts in. gonna be dropping the head and block off at the machine shop in the morning. hopefully they'll just be telling me to order standard bearings and pistons so I don't have to pay a bunch of money for machine work. I'll also be having them check the head for cracks or warpage and if it all looks good they'll be replacing the valve stem seals since I don't really have the tools for that.
The UPS man and I are gonna become really good friends this week
Update 5/22/12
ISIS downpipe, ISIS shifter and Tomei shift knob came in
my favorite part of this entire build, xcessive manufacturing intake manifold. On the flow bench: Stock head and valves at .340" lift, 28" H2O vacuum, Stock intake 190 CFM, Xcessive intake with stock throttle body 217 CFM (14% increase), Xcessive intake with Q45 throttle body 228 CFM (20% increase)
current state of my garage haha
shifter and shift knob installed. don't mind my dirty floor it was raining that day.
decided to go ahead and kat swap the red hatch too.
In other news I sold the red hatch to my roomate so it will be getting the sr and lots of other goodies. his will be a dedicated track car where as mine will still be a daily until this winter maybe, so its gonna be a much sweeter build then mine haha.
My rebuild kit and water pump also came in. Dropped the valve stem seals off at the machine shop and gotta drop the cam cap and bolt for intake 1 off so the machinist can get an idea of how much bolt he'll be machining out of the head since I broke one off in it. Hopefully when I drop that off tomorrow he'll know whether or not the head will need to be milled. stay tuned guys.
Update 5/27/12
Heard from the machine shop apprently the head I dropped off has multiple bent valves and is going to need milling. Pretty sure I can get a new head through work for around three hundred which is about what I'd have into repairing this one so I'll probably do that. In the mean time I'm pulling my current ka to swap the manifold and route all the turbo lines while I clean the bay and delete the plus in that harness that will no longer be needed (air injection, egr, iacv ect..) Then I'll drop it back in and play with tuning and boost pressures and work out any kinks I may have on this engine since I won't be too upset about if it pops. I'm goin into this ignoring what everyone says the limits of the stock ka are. I'll find them on my own haha. Also this will give me time to possibly build up my other ka before it goes in. who knows if it last long enough I may do forged internals on the one thats in my garage.
Heres a few pics from today.
update 7/12/12
well I've been sucking at updating this so here goes.
finally pulled the motor out.
then as I was cleaning the old gasket off of the intake side of the head I was lucky enough to drop the razor blade in the only intake port with an open valve
luckily I had a new headgasket and arp headstuds laying around that I was gonna use when I put the other block back together, so pulling the head off to chase the little bastard down wasn't a big issue.
got her back together with the intake and exhaust manifold bolted up within 8 hours of dropping the blade into cylinder #1. which I feel was pretty quick for the amount of beer I drank that day
installed my NRG short hub and quick release. Unfortunately the wheel is still on back order
then I made an awesome discovery.
...yup, ants.... and a lot of them. I pulled the carpet up that was at the bottom in that picture and discovered a nest with hundreds of larva and tons more ants. well time to pull the carpet...and might as well pull the rear seatbelts out..don't need those...and while we're at it the automatic seatbelts in the front need to go the s14 manual ones are much nicer and don't try to choke me out when i hop out of the car in a hurry.
(not actually a pic of my car but it looks the same.)
decided since the engine was coming along to becoming a well rounded motor for drifting I might as well add some drift car styling to it.
what the kit will look like after paint and mounting.
powdercoated kelly green for my black and green theme.
and just so I don't have to hear "so does that thing have an sr in it?" all the time.
well thats all the pics I have for now. few things that aren't pictured are that I cleaned up the wiring harness to get rid of all the unnecessary plugs that are deleted when removing the emissions components and the IACV in order to run the xcessive intake mani. Also gutted the evap from under the dash since the car won't be running ac anymore. Ran the oil feed line and had the spare oil pan I had have a return line fitting welded on so I can mock the return line up later this week. figured out almost all the new vacuum line/coolant line routing that comes with the switch to the xcessive intake. once thats finished the motor will be going back in and then i just gotta hook everything up and wire in the gauges and apexi. shooting for a shakedown at drift nirvana on august 5th.
update 7/29/12
well pretty much all the wiring is done. all the vacuum and coolant lines are ran other then BOV, wastegate, and FPR. Got the intercooler mounted and most the piping mocked up. gonna have to cut and tweak the cold pipe from the looks of it but oh well can't expect much from an ebay kit. other then a drivers side LCA everything for the kat swap and fromt 5 lug swap are already paid for/ on the way. fuel rail should be here tomorrow and the gasket set and radiator hoses later this week and by then everything else should be ready and I can finally fire it up. stay tuned everyone! here's a few pics.
slight harness tuck just like I did on the accord. Just extended the injector wires and run the harness under the IM instead of over. Cleans up the engine SOOOOO much on any car and its super simple especially if you have an extra harness.
Update 8/12/12
Haven't updated in a while so here goes,
Finally got a fuel rail so the fuel system is officially done.
installed an o2 bung in my test pipe for the wideband.
This is the resault of not welding for a year and then picking up a welder running two practice beads and then just doin it. also tacked the bolt in the useless half sized o2 bung that came on the test pipe that way the bolt doesn't back out and start leaking.
Battery tray mounted behind the passenger seat. think I used enough srcews?
how it looks as of last night. gotta run a few more vacuum lines and finish installing the exhaust and charge piping. Hopefully I'll be tuning it tonight.
close look of the master cylinder heat shield and intake.
Thats all for now. look for updates in the next few days.
update 9/9/12
I slacked again so heres a big update.
finally got it running and found a slight oil leak from where the pan didn't seal very well since it was running I figured I'd just drive it to work and use my lift to do the oil pan since the front subframe has to be dropped to do it in the car. got it all ready to go and drove it three feet before realizing there were no brakes.....fuck. turns out my screw happy self put a self tapping screw straight into the middle of the brake line going to the rear of the car. I wish I had taken a pic if the whole cause it couldn't have been a more dead center hole in a brake line haha. luckly it was small enough that since the line was in good condition i was able to cut the hole out reflare it and us a union to combine the two new flare fittings and compensate for the 1/2" that was cut out. Heres the car when it was up how it needed to be to get the line out easily. "Do a barrel roll fox!!!"
here it is with the new valve cover and the bay cleaned up after I fixed the brake line!
meanwhile. my disease worsens.
93 240sx convertable. Some day it will take over daily duties with a stock motor. got it for $250 from a friend cause the front end was wrecked so I'll be cutting the front off and building a tube chassis front for it. But thats a much later project so well get to that eventually
The hatch at work getting a new oil pan seal and power washed all the nasty **** off the subframe since I had it off the car.
Got the car home and got my garage cleaned out a little bit so I can actually fit a car in there again!!!
Hardparked in my garage awaiting its new rom tune that I got a great deal on so I don't have to use the apexi and worry about timing.
All red tails!!
well the rom tune showed up and I installed it that night. took it for a rip and it pulled hard at 6 psi but was still smoking alot. and now that the AF's were right I couldn't blame it on being super rich. Investigated a little more to find this.
Blown oil seals
kind suspected it since we found oil in the turbine housing but it wasn't smoking on my roomates sr so it was worth a try haha. will be buying an isis t25 replacement this week so I can finally get this thing running. then I just gotta track down my PS leak and its ready for the track next month! Stay tuned guys!!
update 9/22/12
Brought the car up to the shop to get it ready for our car show. huge success considering I was the only two imports in a sea of classic muscle cars and still got a ton of attention for both my cars. I was also the only one there with turbocharged engines heres a pic a snapped in the back parking lot at work.
new turbo showed up so me and my buddy ben stayed late at the shop installing it. so no more blown turbo.
thursday morning tragedy struck in the form of a blown hg. thanks to a loose radiator drain plug i got about 10 miles with no coolant before looking down to see my temp gauge pegged all the way hot.
yanked the motor thursday night after work.
found my bearings stuck to the magnetic oil drain plug and since I have a full rebuild kit short of a few gaskets I'm just gonna rebuild the motor. sending the head to the machine shop monday to be magnafluxed and if its not cracked i'll have it milled and have him do a valve job so its 100% fresh. the bottom end I'll be doing entirely by myself other then possibly having the crank polished. won't know for sure what it'll need till my machinist takes a look at it all though. Also discovered my flywheel and clutch need to be replaced after the extreme abuse I've put them through since I got the car goal is to have it ready for 100dod on december 1st and 2nd. if not it'll be ready for next season. stay tuned guys.
Update 10/17/12
soooooooo this update needs no words....
block is in the hot tank now. gonna paint it when its done.
Update 10/30/12
I'll let the pics do most of the talking here.
car is up and running strong. few coolant leaks to sort on in the morning along with a bad thermostat to replace and it should be ready for the street again. we drove it for about 15 minutes with no thermostat in it and it ran awesome and pulls hard for the slight little bit that I got on it.
few random shots from the last few weeks.
The ka will be torn down and rebuilt with an RPM machining stock rebuild kit. ISIS tubular bottom mount manifold with either gt28rs(hopefully) or a t25/28. whatever I can get for cheap basically. Gonna run stock sr injectors, walbro fuel pump blah blah blah all that stuff. k time for the good stuff.
ISIS radiator
head studs my turbo manifold and my roomates turbo manifold.
my ISIS bottom mount with a blown t25 for mock up purposes.
CX racing intercooler kit
HKS knock-off that comes with the cx racing kit
Only recent picture of the hatch that will be receiving all these goodies
and a little sneak peak of what will be going on next to my ka-t build
sorry for ****ty quality when the real build **** starts going down I promise to use my dslr and not my iphone haha.
Hope you guys enjoyed! keep an eye out for more updates trying to have this setup together and driftable by july 7th.
Update 5/15/12
Got the engine all tore down and got some more parts in. gonna be dropping the head and block off at the machine shop in the morning. hopefully they'll just be telling me to order standard bearings and pistons so I don't have to pay a bunch of money for machine work. I'll also be having them check the head for cracks or warpage and if it all looks good they'll be replacing the valve stem seals since I don't really have the tools for that.
The UPS man and I are gonna become really good friends this week
Update 5/22/12
ISIS downpipe, ISIS shifter and Tomei shift knob came in
my favorite part of this entire build, xcessive manufacturing intake manifold. On the flow bench: Stock head and valves at .340" lift, 28" H2O vacuum, Stock intake 190 CFM, Xcessive intake with stock throttle body 217 CFM (14% increase), Xcessive intake with Q45 throttle body 228 CFM (20% increase)
current state of my garage haha
shifter and shift knob installed. don't mind my dirty floor it was raining that day.
decided to go ahead and kat swap the red hatch too.
In other news I sold the red hatch to my roomate so it will be getting the sr and lots of other goodies. his will be a dedicated track car where as mine will still be a daily until this winter maybe, so its gonna be a much sweeter build then mine haha.
My rebuild kit and water pump also came in. Dropped the valve stem seals off at the machine shop and gotta drop the cam cap and bolt for intake 1 off so the machinist can get an idea of how much bolt he'll be machining out of the head since I broke one off in it. Hopefully when I drop that off tomorrow he'll know whether or not the head will need to be milled. stay tuned guys.
Update 5/27/12
Heard from the machine shop apprently the head I dropped off has multiple bent valves and is going to need milling. Pretty sure I can get a new head through work for around three hundred which is about what I'd have into repairing this one so I'll probably do that. In the mean time I'm pulling my current ka to swap the manifold and route all the turbo lines while I clean the bay and delete the plus in that harness that will no longer be needed (air injection, egr, iacv ect..) Then I'll drop it back in and play with tuning and boost pressures and work out any kinks I may have on this engine since I won't be too upset about if it pops. I'm goin into this ignoring what everyone says the limits of the stock ka are. I'll find them on my own haha. Also this will give me time to possibly build up my other ka before it goes in. who knows if it last long enough I may do forged internals on the one thats in my garage.
Heres a few pics from today.
update 7/12/12
well I've been sucking at updating this so here goes.
finally pulled the motor out.
then as I was cleaning the old gasket off of the intake side of the head I was lucky enough to drop the razor blade in the only intake port with an open valve
luckily I had a new headgasket and arp headstuds laying around that I was gonna use when I put the other block back together, so pulling the head off to chase the little bastard down wasn't a big issue.
got her back together with the intake and exhaust manifold bolted up within 8 hours of dropping the blade into cylinder #1. which I feel was pretty quick for the amount of beer I drank that day
installed my NRG short hub and quick release. Unfortunately the wheel is still on back order
then I made an awesome discovery.
...yup, ants.... and a lot of them. I pulled the carpet up that was at the bottom in that picture and discovered a nest with hundreds of larva and tons more ants. well time to pull the carpet...and might as well pull the rear seatbelts out..don't need those...and while we're at it the automatic seatbelts in the front need to go the s14 manual ones are much nicer and don't try to choke me out when i hop out of the car in a hurry.
(not actually a pic of my car but it looks the same.)
decided since the engine was coming along to becoming a well rounded motor for drifting I might as well add some drift car styling to it.
what the kit will look like after paint and mounting.
powdercoated kelly green for my black and green theme.
and just so I don't have to hear "so does that thing have an sr in it?" all the time.
well thats all the pics I have for now. few things that aren't pictured are that I cleaned up the wiring harness to get rid of all the unnecessary plugs that are deleted when removing the emissions components and the IACV in order to run the xcessive intake mani. Also gutted the evap from under the dash since the car won't be running ac anymore. Ran the oil feed line and had the spare oil pan I had have a return line fitting welded on so I can mock the return line up later this week. figured out almost all the new vacuum line/coolant line routing that comes with the switch to the xcessive intake. once thats finished the motor will be going back in and then i just gotta hook everything up and wire in the gauges and apexi. shooting for a shakedown at drift nirvana on august 5th.
update 7/29/12
well pretty much all the wiring is done. all the vacuum and coolant lines are ran other then BOV, wastegate, and FPR. Got the intercooler mounted and most the piping mocked up. gonna have to cut and tweak the cold pipe from the looks of it but oh well can't expect much from an ebay kit. other then a drivers side LCA everything for the kat swap and fromt 5 lug swap are already paid for/ on the way. fuel rail should be here tomorrow and the gasket set and radiator hoses later this week and by then everything else should be ready and I can finally fire it up. stay tuned everyone! here's a few pics.
slight harness tuck just like I did on the accord. Just extended the injector wires and run the harness under the IM instead of over. Cleans up the engine SOOOOO much on any car and its super simple especially if you have an extra harness.
Update 8/12/12
Haven't updated in a while so here goes,
Finally got a fuel rail so the fuel system is officially done.
installed an o2 bung in my test pipe for the wideband.
This is the resault of not welding for a year and then picking up a welder running two practice beads and then just doin it.
also tacked the bolt in the useless half sized o2 bung that came on the test pipe that way the bolt doesn't back out and start leaking.
Battery tray mounted behind the passenger seat. think I used enough srcews?
how it looks as of last night. gotta run a few more vacuum lines and finish installing the exhaust and charge piping. Hopefully I'll be tuning it tonight.
close look of the master cylinder heat shield and intake.
Thats all for now. look for updates in the next few days.
update 9/9/12
I slacked again so heres a big update.
finally got it running and found a slight oil leak from where the pan didn't seal very well since it was running I figured I'd just drive it to work and use my lift to do the oil pan since the front subframe has to be dropped to do it in the car. got it all ready to go and drove it three feet before realizing there were no brakes.....fuck. turns out my screw happy self put a self tapping screw straight into the middle of the brake line going to the rear of the car. I wish I had taken a pic if the whole cause it couldn't have been a more dead center hole in a brake line haha. luckly it was small enough that since the line was in good condition i was able to cut the hole out reflare it and us a union to combine the two new flare fittings and compensate for the 1/2" that was cut out. Heres the car when it was up how it needed to be to get the line out easily. "Do a barrel roll fox!!!"
here it is with the new valve cover and the bay cleaned up after I fixed the brake line!
meanwhile. my disease worsens.
93 240sx convertable. Some day it will take over daily duties with a stock motor. got it for $250 from a friend cause the front end was wrecked so I'll be cutting the front off and building a tube chassis front for it. But thats a much later project so well get to that eventually
The hatch at work getting a new oil pan seal and power washed all the nasty **** off the subframe since I had it off the car.
Got the car home and got my garage cleaned out a little bit so I can actually fit a car in there again!!!
Hardparked in my garage awaiting its new rom tune that I got a great deal on so I don't have to use the apexi and worry about timing.
All red tails!!
well the rom tune showed up and I installed it that night. took it for a rip and it pulled hard at 6 psi but was still smoking alot. and now that the AF's were right I couldn't blame it on being super rich. Investigated a little more to find this.
Blown oil seals
kind suspected it since we found oil in the turbine housing but it wasn't smoking on my roomates sr so it was worth a try haha. will be buying an isis t25 replacement this week so I can finally get this thing running. then I just gotta track down my PS leak and its ready for the track next month! Stay tuned guys!!update 9/22/12
Brought the car up to the shop to get it ready for our car show. huge success considering I was the only two imports in a sea of classic muscle cars and still got a ton of attention for both my cars. I was also the only one there with turbocharged engines
heres a pic a snapped in the back parking lot at work.
new turbo showed up so me and my buddy ben stayed late at the shop installing it. so no more blown turbo.
thursday morning tragedy struck in the form of a blown hg. thanks to a loose radiator drain plug i got about 10 miles with no coolant before looking down to see my temp gauge pegged all the way hot.
yanked the motor thursday night after work.
found my bearings stuck to the magnetic oil drain plug and since I have a full rebuild kit short of a few gaskets I'm just gonna rebuild the motor. sending the head to the machine shop monday to be magnafluxed and if its not cracked i'll have it milled and have him do a valve job so its 100% fresh. the bottom end I'll be doing entirely by myself other then possibly having the crank polished. won't know for sure what it'll need till my machinist takes a look at it all though. Also discovered my flywheel and clutch need to be replaced after the extreme abuse I've put them through since I got the car
goal is to have it ready for 100dod on december 1st and 2nd. if not it'll be ready for next season. stay tuned guys.Update 10/17/12
soooooooo this update needs no words....
block is in the hot tank now. gonna paint it when its done.
Update 10/30/12
I'll let the pics do most of the talking here.
car is up and running strong. few coolant leaks to sort on in the morning along with a bad thermostat to replace and it should be ready for the street again. we drove it for about 15 minutes with no thermostat in it and it ran awesome and pulls hard for the slight little bit that I got on it.
few random shots from the last few weeks.
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