Tore up' From the Floor up'

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I've seen some pretty increadible build threads on here lately, and decided its prolly time to post a build thread on my newest POS. I picked the car up about two months ago from a member on TST (Anothony) for 300 bones. The car will be a semi-streetable drifter, it is a 95 240sx se shell, and my plans as of now are to go with a custom built 2jz-gte on a harsh budget. I will be keeping a total investment tally here, for everyone to see. Power goals are TBD, but I'm shooting for the 600whp mark on e85 with meth. for now. I've only been purchasing parts when a deal comes along either locally, or on the boards, and so the progress is alittle slow, but bare with me, and I promise not to dissapoint.


Heres a couple pics of the car before I got it.
(Ant I hope you don't mind, I stole a couple of your pics..)
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/antony.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/oldpic4.jpg

Heres what it looked like by the time it made it to its new home..
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0253.jpg
loving the little dolly I fabbed up for moving the chassis around for the time being..
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0249.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0266.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0267.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0262.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0263.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0250.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0260.jpg
He did include the Dash bar in the car, airbags, harness', front k-member/ rear subframe, all metal/glass from the doors back, and also included an open diff, I welded up, for a spare..
-The car is pretty straight, but isnt perfect, still had alittle rust under the rear passenger rocker
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0269.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0271.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0279.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0285.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0287.jpg
Cleaned it up alittle, and threw on some rust converter, and sealer afterwards. I think I'm going with 50mm over fenders, but if not I'll make a patch panel. Heres the cancer I pulled out of there to get to clean metal.
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0283.jpg

Next up, I found a straight 2jz block in Maryland (virgin bore) for 10 bucks, and also tracked down a complete JDM TT head in Maryland for 200 bucks, so I made the long haul down to MD to pick my parts up, and eight hours/50 bucks in gas later, I ended up with these babies..
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/101_0289.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/20101013113941.jpg

Last parts I picked up for the engine so far, was the crank, and front sump oil-pan/windage tray set-up off an Aristo from a guy locally for 250.00 total. I also tracked down a set of used TT pistons, and rods for 150.00..
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/IMG_0794.jpg

Since I'm pretty broke after I bought all these parts ($610.00 total engine to date) I decided its time to start working on it all..

I started by cleaning the block up, and replacing the freeze plugs. My sandblaster is in South Jerz, so I had to make due with what I had at my disposal, which happened to be a grinder, with wire, and cup wheel attachments. lol fun!

Before-Cleaning-Cleaned-Painted as follows..
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/101_0289.jpg
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http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/101_0299.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/101_0300.jpg
I think the color is pretty fugly, wasnt my first choice, but it was the only engine enamel I had laying around. It looks to be a mixture between JUN, and Kawasaki Green. Who knows, maybe this will lead to a new color scheme for the POS..

More updates tomorrow.. Already tackled pressure washing/painting the engine bay, prepping the head for build, and tracked down/aquired most of the rear suspension parts..

[TROLL]

Definitely interested to see where this goes... I'm friends with Antony and also a 2J owner... I think you should consider a different color for the block though! Haha... damn.

[Bdub215]

Subscribed. I wanna focus on the turbo end of this motor. May or may not NA-T my SC300.

[MuddyREX]

I think you should consider a different color for the block though! Haha... damn.

^this

[jesse096]

Color's deffinatly.... different haha. I wanna see where this one goes!


-Jesse

[ambitiousCK]

Should be interesting ot see where this goes with the 2J

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Troll: Whats up man? Yea, Ant and I were talking about your car when I picked the shell up. We got into talking about what motor I was putting into the s14, which turned into supras in the area, so of course I mentioned yours, and he got into telling me the crazy story of you guys pulling a late one to get your MKIV finished, to make it out to a show with it the next day..

LOL The color of the block may not be a permanent thing, but until final assy. its going to stay this way.. Trying to figure out what main/contrasting colors I will run for this thing isnt easy on a budget, but like I said in the earlier post, the green was all I had left in my stash.. lol wonder why?

BDub: It can be done, without breaking the bank, but unless your a good tuner, it can be a real headache from what I've read. I have a friend thats making almost 700whp on a ge.

I'm trying not to go much over 4K on this car, but I'm only buying parts when they are the crazy good deals I can afford, and most of the parts are/will be used, except the vital things like HG, ARP studs for main/head, piston rings, acl bearings, water pump, oil pump, and timing components. I also have my engine management situation figured out already, and do all the work myself, so that saves a ton..

Now for the updates, not much, but they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I'll just shut up..

Engine bay Before-After pressure wash/paint as follows
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0251.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0317.jpg

Rear suspension parts I picked up from a J30. I will also clean these babies up too, may even make some of them adjustable by cutting off the joints, and threading in pillow ball/ heim joints.. If I start breaking axles, diffs, down the road I'll get a Supra TT rear set-up and just custom adapt the axles/diff to my subframe.
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0314.jpg

Couple pics of my Block gettin some head..
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0310.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0310.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0305.jpg

I dont know if you can see it or not, but I have 4 broken exhaust studs..

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0303.jpg


Pics of the head, after cams, and exh. studs were removed to clean, and replace the 4 broken studs someone prior to me tried to improperly remove. Cams/ valve-train may get beefed up as well, but I'm waiting until everything else is done first. I also started to P&P the exhaust ports alittle, but am not going crazy yet, so I can still port match to my exh. manifold. I may also unleash the combustion chambers alittle, maybe even do a 3, or 5 angle valve cut, since I am building this in a machine shop and all..
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/101_0331.jpg

Pics of head cleaned up somewhat, really only cleaned the exterior of it. I'm still going to hot tank it, so the whole thing looks freshy fresh when I get it all put together..
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/101_0336.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/101_0332.jpg

Figuring out the wheel situation as well, I had these laying around, but I think theyre just alittle too big for a 240..
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0322.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0316.jpg

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I really stepped up my engine cleaning game, since I finally decided to man up, and just buy a soda blaster to clean all this fragile shiz, instead of just crying about my blaster thats down in south jerz..
So here it is.. Alittle before, and after again with the head..
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/20101013113941.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/20101013113804.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0348.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0346.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0345.jpg
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http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0342.jpg

Got bored again, so I decided I'd mix up a couple paints I had laying around from previous projects, (brandywine pearl, and candy purple) to spray my diff cover with, and heres how it turned out, dont mind the before pic, it was after I wire wheeled it, but before I soda blasted it..
Before-After
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0349.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0352.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/Project%20Suprilvia/101_0351.jpg
I really, really like the purple, but I dont know.. So many decisions, so few dollars..

Since I bought the blaster, and its working so good, I may go back to re-do the engine bay by first soda blasting it, and then painting it again.. This will get rid of the few imperfections that still exist in the paint from prior scratches, I didnt prep well enough.. I should be taking my front suspension parts off of a friends wrecked 300z (aluminum 4-piston calipers, and what-not) around thanksgiving, so I'll post more on that coming up soon too.. Stay tuned..

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Mini update: working on tubbing the front of the car out currently. Once I dug into the rust in the front of the car, I got really pissed off, so I just decided to cut it all out, which left me no other option. I wouldve eventually had to tub the front out anyway, to be able to run 10" wide rims, lowered, and make a full lock turning. Plus I like the clean shaved look anyway. Once I'm done with the front, I'll tub the back as well, thinkin 12" wide wheels for the back.. We shall see, I'll try to get some more pics up tomorrow.

[itwillboost]

I love watching builds like this, keep the updates coming.

[TROLL]

Nice progress! I love DIY projects and it sounds like you have the resources and skill to make it happen. I sure wish I had a soda blaster when I had my motor out...

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Thanks for the kind words guys. Soda blasters sure make cake work out of cleaning soft metals. Isnt great on epoxy painted steel, (tried stripping a machine at work with the soda blaster) but thats why they make coarse blast material. I actually picked this blaster up from harbor freight, was on sale, marked down from 150, to 99 bucks, and to boot mine was an open box item, so I walked out with it for 50 dorra..

Finally picked up a new cam too, so were back in business for pic updates..
Havent had much car time since the last post, but heres the pics of me starting the front tubbing/semi tubing process.
I got all the bad cut out of the passenger side well, and now I am working on grafting in the new 12" deep wells, still need to make minor trimming to the well, where it mates to the inner fender. I am contemplating my method to add rigidity/integrity back to the strut tower.

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/059.jpg
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Heres some of the cancer I cut out from underneath of the strut tower
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/061.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/060.jpg
Some more rust around the frame rail area.
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/062.jpg
I really cant stand rust. Heres what ill be working with on the driver side. the rust on this side is towards the back of the tower, and thats the main reason I cut all the way back on the towers, otherwise I wouldve only front halved the towers, splicing into the sides of the towers. The other reason was because I honestly cant stand the dimples the factory adds to the wells for rigidity. They will look much better shaved with tubing supports from behind/underneath the wells/tower area. I guess I will also start to tuck the wires since I'm now doing engine bay.
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/063.jpg
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/057.jpg

[Got Insulin?]

Yup, safe to say I'm impressed. Looks like a killer build, man; keep it up!

[endless]

Thanks man, appriciate the compliment.

Little Update: I changed the tubbs around again, thought up a cleaner way to do it, so things should go alittle smoother this way. I also decided to re-skin the whole engine bay, to clean things up more with the shaved, smooth look.

Heres some pics of progress. I'm designing templates of the skins on heavy duty thin cardboard , and then transferring over to metal. You can also see the cardboard templates I am making.

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/014.jpg

Still have to make up the inner tubb skins, and do a final trim on the inside of the tubbs, towards the frame, but its getting there. I didnt paint them to match the engine block, the metal I'm using is from a green 55 gallon drum I had laying around. Everything will get painted to match when I'm finished.

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/013.jpg
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[auk113]

holly crap... i had not idia that it was that bad up front

let me know if you help, always interested in seeing projects like this come to life.

[auk113]

i'm deff happy to see it went to some one who has time and recourses to fix it properly.

[accordguy04]

TRD Nismo??? Woot woot!

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Heres some of what I knocked out this evening. Also got to transfer my templates over to steel, and tack everything up, but forgot to take those pics since I was beat tired from 10hrs work today, plus build time.

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/004-1.jpg

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/005-1.jpg

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[TalonTsi97]

I'm in for watching this come together. Hopefully you don't bail on it like many others do when getting this deep into it.

Why e85 & meth? You could run one or the other and make the power your looking for safely, but i suggest 100% e85 if its easy available.

Good luck!

[Erik@R/TTuning]

Great project. In for updates.

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Thanks for the compliments guys. Eric, I may need some help dialing the car in, when I get it going. Heard nothing but good things about your place.
I only say e85 and meth cause the meth will be mostly a cushion, incase I cant get e85 in some places, and also nice to have both for putting down some nice numbers on the dyno safely.

[Erik@R/TTuning]

Give us a ring if you need anything at all. :)

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Car progress is still slow since I am working about 70hrs a week, but so everyone knows, I havent given up on this s14, not even a little bit.

No more tubbs in the front, I ordered new hood ledge assy. for both sides of the engine bay (inner fender well supports, with strut towers.)

Got some new goodies, now keep in mind, I am still trying to keep this a budget build, but I got a deal on these jambies I couldnt pass up.

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/IMG_0678.jpg

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/IMG_0667.jpg

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[itwillboost]

This is gonna be slightly epic, I can tell.

[endless]

Thanks, I should be picking my cams up today, but I will keep them a surprise until pictures are able to be taken..

[endless]

Cams didnt come in yet, and wont be here for another two weeks approx.

Heres why I am pulling the tubbs back off, I had a friend over helping with mock up of the turbo system, just to see how everything would fit, in the bay. If I had been going with a single turbo like a 67-65 I would be okay with 10" tubbs, (would've still had to be trimmed down from the 12" that I had) but I am going the custom route as well with my turbo set-up. I feel my turbo set-up is just alittle bit more important than how wide my front wells are. Hint: Just so you get an idea of what I am building, how can you run a monster turbo, with virtually no lag/instant boost? Sled pulling diesel guys have been doing it for a long time, Boost Logic now makes a kit for the 2jz, and I've seen one dsm guy go this route as well, but of course my set-up will be the first in a 240, not to mention a 2jz/240. I'm not going to spoil the surprise, but if you got it, great, I'm not that good with secrets anyway. I'm still a ways off from being close to turbo fabrication. I Will have more car time this week, since I will be at the shop, instead of north jersey for a change.

[CherryBomb]

Incredible, man. I'm really excited to see how this turns out. Haha, I'm waiting two weeks for my new cams to come in too. It's really holding up my progress.

[lepichichi]

cool project GL

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Thanks guys, appriciate the kind words.
Lep: You have a cool project as well..
Cherrybomb: I like your z, always had a soft spot for them. Cams are a pain in the ass, the ones I have on the way started life as Titan in.280/ex.280, 10.4mm high lift but I'm having them reground down to int. 274 ex.278, because a few lobes had damage from graines of sand getting into them..

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So after working 70+hours last week, I decided to make a trip out to the OH area over the weekend to pick up a complete black interior, and an R-154-jz bellhousing. Driving 4 hours home with a truck full of car was fun to say the least :o. Also recieved an Aristo ecu in the mail, but am now picking out a standalone unit to meet my power goals, so I think I will be putting the aristo ecu, and my SAFCII-black face up for sale.

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/IMG_0728.jpg

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[auk113]

hey man how it going, i don't remember if i ever gave you the title for that thing... hit me up i still have some leftover parts laying around,

mis. interior stuff

[endless]

Yo Ant, lol you gave me two titles already, I dont know how many more you could possibly have. I lost your number with my old phone, pm me your number if you dont mind.

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Not much going on here, cleaned up the R-154/jz bellhousing, and picked up a new toy for the shop, pics of both below..

R154 after degrease/soda blast. Ready for MC upgrades/ complete rebuild
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/IMG_0766.jpg

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/IMG_0763.jpg

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New syncrowave 250

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/gtrdhybrid/IMG_0747.jpg