Project 7 Lemon: slow, low and smokey

[arkadyzv]

So it finally got warm out and I can finally go back to the regularly scheduled ricing. The car is an s5 gtu, body probably has over 200k on it , 70ish on the motor. Plan is to make it my full daily driver. And also start doing auto'x's and HPDE's since I've wanted to get into that for ages.

The main three issues to address were 1) the tranny would violently jump out of first, so I picked up another tranny from a friend for pennies 2) suspension, the car sat on Tokico Illuminas and with stock probably 200k springs so it looked like an off road monstaaa 3) The oil control rings are pretty shot so it smoked up high, not really an issue too much but it will be rebuilt and streetported in a month or so.

General Plan:
1. Doing all the bolt ons and tricks see how much power I can get out of an NA S5 13b without doing anything bigger than a streetport.
2. Most of the money will go into suspension, probably to be later swapped into my convertible next year when I begin my LS1 swap into there.
3. Make it look decent, fixing the dent on the drivers door.
4.....
5. Profit.



How it sat, from my understanding springs are supposed to sag as time goes by, but from what I see these didnt, in fact I could probably foot-**** that gap.

So I got an awesome deal on Ksport Kontrol Pro coilovers. I was planning to just change out the springs and keep the Tokico's since they are 5 way adjustable but in the end it was smarter to sell them and instead of using the money towards springs and new strut top mounts, I purchased coilovers.



Mad tight jdm orange


Pushing the rear up to attach it to the hub, that didnt really work out so we used a jack instead. :tard:





Tightened down the strut tops


Checkin' the fitmentzzz, twas jdm.


The Tokico's and poop springs are coming out.


The brake line was being a vag.


Got the Ksports in the front


There was too much slammiez and the only way to get the regular jack out was to use the trusty rusty scissor jack, FTL.



Profit?


My friend Yousef practicing his NOPI model gig, sexiest 350lbs of Puta, I've ever seen




Some skin action to seal the deal.


Took out the ugly S4 tail lights..


And replaced them with the right S5 tail lights.


Finished product


Ride height still needs to be adjusted, we just threw in the Ksports so I could sell the Tokico's off.
Need to purchase an adjustable rear sub-link to fix the disgusting rear camber.



After that I replaced the transmission, and also mounted up the Racing Beat Road Race Exhaust, basically a true dual setup which sounds amazing.


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= Best sounding NA 7 exhaust ever, really quiet, but with a deep tone.


Oh and I got all the doo doo butta smears off the car too.

I need to get alignment done and play with the ride height, because as of now with the exhaust mounted, the car is basically on the ground.

More updates to follow including the engine being yanked rebuilt and streetported.

[lownslow95]

Car looks amazingly good lowered. Get some rims and call it a day.

[Silverfc88]

Invest in some low profile ramps. They help alot to get a jack under the front.



So how do you like cruising around on the KSports?

[arkadyzv]

Originally Posted by 95nracer

Invest in some low profile ramps. They help alot to get a jack under the front.



So how do you like cruising around on the KSports?

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I'll let you know this weekend, I still need to register and insure the bitch, plus I had to raise it a lot and my mid-pipe still sits on the floor lol. I got the Ksports for 750 shipped brand new so I'm sure they will be okay especially for the money.

[otaku64]

Wahoo...nice lights!

- sal campo

[03.5MSP]

Glad to see you got this underway. Post up more pics once you get the engine back too.

[FlashFive]

sweet!

[Honest_Bob]

Nice job so far.

[93EGY8]

car looks bad ass man! im lovin the white and those wheels are sick!

[arkadyzv]

Originally Posted by otaku64

Wahoo...nice lights!

- sal campo

Yeah s5 kouki tails are bank.

Originally Posted by 03.5MSP

Glad to see you got this underway. Post up more pics once you get the engine back too.

Thanks,

Yeah I gotta figure out what exactly I want to do, but definetly doing all the seals and gaskets and a decent streetport. Need to do a lightweight flywheel and I want to do rear end gears mid summer.

Originally Posted by 93EGY8

car looks bad ass man! im lovin the white and those wheels are sick!

Thanks, and yeah 2nd convertible wheels for the win.

[amp]

nice to see em resurrected...

[arkadyzv]

[the mike]

What did that exhaust set you back? I need to get rid of the obnoxious cans on mine. I need something better than stock, but with a little bit of noise.

[arkadyzv]

I peiced it together for I guess around 600ish, the whole system new is 1100 even. The crappy thing is I had to get the pre-silencer cut and that section straight-piped because it hung so low and there was no way to fix it, so its not exactly as quite but liveable. I've personally always liked the Racing Beat stuff, I had their 3in turboback on my TIIverty,its pretty quite until you get on it and its deep. This one had a fart cannon it on before and IMO rotaries especially NA ones sound like **** with poop shoots on 'em. Unless its the Greddy Power Extreme, but thats serious bank.

[the mike]

Yeah, this is like 5" cans, sounds rediculous even with the silencers in. I love the way Jerry's car sounds.

You car and mine are almost twins, minus the drop and wheels. White and blue FTW.

[arkadyzv]

Originally Posted by the mike

Yeah, this is like 5" cans, sounds rediculous even with the silencers in. I love the way Jerry's car sounds.

You car and mine are almost twins, minus the drop and wheels. White and blue FTW.

lol nice, the blue is bothering me though, about to switch the whole interior to the mint black one I have in the vert. Although I used the Duplicolor vinyl and fabric paint on the back carpets and panels when I did the rear Cusco strut bar(****ing PITA with having to cut into the speaker towers) and it came out decent enough.

As far as the wheels, I have an extra set of vert wheels , I'll let them go for a good price too.

Edit: just saw that you have a 240 too, theres a red sr20 swapped s13 coupe sitting in the garage next to my vert lol. Its not mine though, but its been there so long that it might as well be.

[Spoolin_VQ30DE]

dam look @ dem ricers .... Jeeve def. needs to lower the back in the first pic looks like mad 4X4.. Ricers for life FTWFTW

[Ace]

nice car! i've got a strange fetish for these cars...maybe someday...

can't wait to see some v8 power in this....

...oh wait...hehe