my 180sx winter streeto project

[LennyS13]

so I got another s bodie again hopefully will have some better luck with this one

so was chattin with another member on here (D. Daly) , telling him I wouldn't mind something for the winter nites.

few weeks later I get a call one evening about a guy wanting to get rid of his s13.5 , maybe interested in a swap some sort.

after chattin with the guy I loaded up one of my cars that he was willing to swap for and trekked down to cork.

deal done and after busting two tyres on my transporter I was finally home with.

plans are to put 180 front back on, change the kit, wheels and get some driving in this one most importantly.



so here one of two pics before I tear it apart

small bit of a spec for you guys to read

97 kouki

163km

engine just rebuild with acl race bearing , cosworth gasket

front mout

tubular mani

aliminiumover flow bottle

apexi turbo timers

kouki spoiler

original mats mint interior

front and rear braces

few other pieces

amyway heres how it stands right now

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0658_zpsde510e81.jpg

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0657_zpsf14d32ba.jpg


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[jdmjimmy]

Good to see another build happening Please make it cool

[grange]

Damn fine project :)

[LennyS13]

Good to see another build happening Please make it cool

I'm gonna try alright jimmy. It's gonna be few different shades for while until I figure out what colour I wanna put it.

As for wheels I am leaning towards somethin more usable than big dished wheels

[LennyS13]

so after collecting a few bit at japfest and selling the wheels skirts and rear bumper i set about test fiting the new kit

kit off
before i cleaned it
superlites are only to keep it rolling so dont panic lol
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0648_zps6d31a232.jpg

front support had a little bit of rust as you can see from this pic which i will address soon
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0645_zps009d380c.jpg

looks much better than the kit
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0650_zps2d70ec3f.jpg

i think that kouki spoilers gotta go too

some bullock put silage wrap on the windows :(
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0646_zps5f2f7f6a.jpg

tint removel specialists called to do the job while i tackled the front window and that silly sunvisor
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0647_zps77d332b0.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0649_zpsa27fac5c.jpg

while i was in dublin too i popped in to redpowermotorsport and got some bride material to see could i make a gaiter and cover few pieces

glovebox not so bad for first attempt
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0651_zps9976e81f.jpg

hopefully gonnna have few more things tidied up this week weather being nice

[ste]

Mates old car he purchased it from wez in wkd and was 1st registered owner here

[Billy_P]

Kit looks well dude. Much nicer than uras kit.

[darren C]

It has a new 3 puk excedy clutch aswel

[NoelB]

Be a nice build man what wheels ya going using??

[gar]

story lenny , nice motor , best of luck with the build ;)

[LennyS13]

It has a new 3 puk excedy clutch aswel

thanks Darren gavin was telling me you rebiuilt it??

[LennyS13]

thanks for replies.
yea its looking much better with the oem kit imo.

seen a thread the other nite when this car was 11k!!

also plan is to fit sall wheels for now get it together and have to slide time, im gonna go on a colour change and some dandy wheels in the new year. as soon as weather stops giving out I will update another bit

[Ray09]

If ya decide to get rid of the Kouki spoiler il take it off ya!

[Jay_ep70]

ahould be an intersting project lad looks way nicer with the oem look :)

[darren C]

I sure did lad any questions just pm me

[LennyS13]

If ya decide to get rid of the Kouki spoiler il take it off ya!
Yeah im gonna sell it pm me if ya want

[LennyS13]

few more bits collected up.

got the nismo style bonnet vent off brian @ driftkits up at japfest.

the bumper camr from dori rory on here Friday.
great guy to deal with , good quality so im happy with that

the bonnet I collected sunday evening off ichael kirwin on here whos building anothers13 for track.

so hopefully in the next week im moving into a unit so the real work can be done and asap lol

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0653_zps021bc5ec.jpg

[johnmaloney88]

Great work, gonna look so much better with the s13 front back on it.

[liamcrowley]

Big improvement, looks the job lad!
I've two good steel wings, and both lights with all the mechanism here if your interested!:cool:

[LennyS13]

Thanks liam.

Pm on the way

[Billy_P]

Nice work dude, Looking the part, Would have sold you my steel wings but they went to roscommon!

[LennyS13]

Nice work dude, Looking the part, Would have sold you my steel wings but they went to roscommon!

cheers billy i ended up buying 25mm charespeed wings off brian in driftkits,

they should be here before the week is out

[D.Daly]

No spoiler and huge 15s would be sweet on second thoughts..also I'll send you a colour you need to paint this on fb.xoxo

[LennyS13]

No spoiler and huge 15s would be sweet on second thoughts..also I'll send you a colour you need to paint this on fb.xoxo

I get you something like this car I spotted online would nice with overfenders

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0657_zps3b0b18ba.jpg

[LennyS13]

took a little road trip down around cork last night

met liam Crowley in little island to get headlights

good lad to deal with.

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0656_zpsd92f7ec1.jpg

then heading on down tobandon to sr20_cam to get wheels.

luckily he had a ct which I badly needed and antoher impulse buy , rear cusco stutbrace.

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0658_zpsea484c60.jpg

got these ssr meshes off him.

they are reversed o I might change them back and keep the 20mm spacer on

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0654_zps84a3a9d3.jpg

[LennyS13]

reversed with the spacer on,

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0655_zpsfd350a21.jpg

imoff today to find out about a unit as I reallyneed one for the winter to get things done, my own soaces are too crampt

[noiseMaker_]

nice to see car being rescued! oem kit and s13 front such a big improvement! car looks much tidier already, looking forward to see more of it, great job so far!

[LennyS13]

nice to see car being rescued! oem kit and s13 front such a big improvement! car looks much tidier already, looking forward to see more of it, great job so far!

thankis a milol

changed out the smoked rear light for standard ones, wings came pics to follow

[LennyS13]

quick update. no pics as of yet of the chargespeed wings

offered up the bumper

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0653_zps021bc5ec.jpg

did a small job patching up an exhaust on ae86 last weekend, the guy gave me this nardi in exchange and i fitted the 50mm spacer that i got from juice
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0654_zps6b929fc5.jpg

swapped the rear lexus lights for standard ones. much better i think anyway
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0655_zpsec44e1b7.jpg


the misses was up yesterday while i was working on another car looking for something to do , so she split the wheels for me so i can sand blast the centres
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0656_zps1b8b78a3.jpg


hopefully be moving it over to my bsses unit when i get rear light bulb holders

[JDMfrank]

Looks well. My old meshes, Should look well on it.

[LennyS13]

changed my mind got something a little better , was hoping on vs-kfs but the guy i was trying to buy off in the us was just too damm lazy

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/PICT0670_zps0wkngzfg.jpg

bought some rear quaters off origin lab threw jesse streeter should be here soon

fittied rear koukis will have pics later and spoiler should be here in two weeks

[LarZ]

A fine choice! Nice dish too

[LennyS13]

thanks havent been active in a while,but have bought alot of stuff will update over the coming days

[NoelB]

Coming along nicely Lenny

[LennyS13]

long time away but some major progress ill just let the pictures talk and add a little here and there

so i gathered up everything layed out the panels i had and offered up to see what i had in my head was ok
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/31957292_1793233150722531_4600337808593256448_n_zp svlagwbiq.jpg


http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/31956404_1793234604055719_4158951385452249088_n_zp s61jzgiay.jpg


http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/32105346_1793234640722382_7105483208900214784_n_zp saxozuexc.jpg

sold the rear type x lip for a g-grow from tomas kouki on here

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/29939193_10156301628915979_771536436_n_zps50fdgkts .jpg



with all that done came time to loan it up on my recovery truck and take it to the unit


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i had a week to use the lift and shed to myself so things got going


http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/20706781_10155564151420979_119438958_n_zps03csemtf .jpg


it needed front panel changed as it was butchered up in japan to fit the 15 front along with a rusty battery tray and tub


the new front i got was cut a little short of where i was hoping so had to add in a piece looks rough here but i tidied it up as i went (learn by doing it they say)
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/0_zpsrmoegzxi.jpg

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/9_zpsld4vl1yh.jpg

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/13_zpssx7kjhhg.jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/11_zpseqyloaat.jpg

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/21912678_2098034716889240_691161929_n_zpsylwgrp0m. jpg

i said to hell with i and stripped the bay back and decided to paint it now and have it back together before dropping it for paint, shaved off few brackets around the bay and bolt whole too

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/21912678_2098034716889240_691161929_n_zpsylwgrp0m. jpg

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/21849395_2098034383555940_1024570409_n_zpscm45exyr .jpg

so finished all the welding and cleaned up the bay primed and painted it before japfest at mondello 2017

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/22054651_1566098660102649_133617779_n_zpskt60uogn. jpg

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/31959425_1793234264055753_157492830086889472_n_zps qbvaddce.jpg

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/31957389_1793234610722385_5559449820206202880_n_zp sszcenqlu.jpg

this is how it sat leaving for the weekend

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/31964285_1793234270722419_6070406213802131456_n_zp sdmvkgvrq.jpg

[LennyS13]

got everything back in its place and fitted some nagisa auto fender braces i had collected some time ago before starting on the rear

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/22386366_10155760912365979_52000993_n_zpsrhw1cgfj. jpg


some of you may be mad at me for cutting perfect rear arches but sure hey had to be done lol

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/22093703_1566098316769350_1221483310_n_zpsk6xwugeg .jpg

i dont think i did to bad for my first attepmt, i cut them and added in a piece so they could be welded up and look some way factorty only bigger
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/22093404_1566098303436018_237121486_n_zpssef4ieif. jpg
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/22054591_1566098146769367_2022787011_n_zps6fi0m8p3 .jpg

passenger side also deleted the ariel while i was here as my over fenders didnt have a hole for it which i was pretty happy about

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/22155447_1566097926769389_1552779094_n_zpswhtegvhu .jpg
all welded up
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/22093622_1566097906769391_635730762_n_zpssotkjwv4. jpg

[LennyS13]

all window were then removed and dropped of at flipsideauto where he set to work , i stressed i wanted the panel gaps on point which he delivered and even fitted new door pins and shims

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/22773562_1741974645836564_1997739207_n_zpswwuytfs3 .jpg

first bits to be painted were the east bears

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/23634708_1609336309112217_422091338_n_zps4ttgd6qa. jpg

loving the colour combo and that dmax bonnet

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/31959669_1793233077389205_4648284070411763712_n_zp sdozr1nxx.jpg

all together with new windscreen fitted coming along like i dreamed

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/31961120_1793233207389192_7030843617962885120_n_zp suciax3nn.jpg

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/31969775_1793233234055856_4218504671834144768_n_zp sbj0i1bka.jpg


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b-wave all the way hard to be different with these cars but the mix match of parts is working for me

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[IMG]http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/31956057_1793233147389198_4768578227402702848_n_zp sr76yy4ht.jpg
from the day i bought it to now

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y436/LennyMorrissey/31959314_1793233117389201_1178864554478665728_n_zp sonpfeftz.jpg

so thats it at the moment have some bits gathered up again like new raybrigs bride rails etc will be back with more updates soon hope to see the road this summer

[LarZ]

Unreal! Loving the detail. Didn't know this was Zach's old car actually. I didn't cop it. I'm yet to see this in the flesh.

[LennyS13]

thanks larz slow but it was worth the wait, looking back through the forum motivated me to get back into it,

thats zachs old car alright , ive yet to see this outside even lol im gathering up more bits to get it ready for the road and will probably go at the engine in the winter either bigger turbo etc or complete swap over to rb

[Ptank]

Car looks great. Digging the color

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