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Renaruto
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http://https://www.facebook.com/R... Location: Japan probably Occupation: Yes Age: 25 V$: 5.300 |
#155334 2019-04-20 19:51 |
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Getting ready for the season!
 Let's get to work!!
Yet again - Thank ya'll for the nice comments! I'm really enjoying the S13 so far and it was a really good decision in my eyes!  I'm still coping with the paperwork for the garage (yes the opening has been delayed yet again) so I had to distract myself with something fun and relaxing - like modifiying my S13 (because that definitley cant get extremely painful or anything as everyone knows lol). Since my bank account is crying itself to sleep at the moment I didn't have that much to play around with but I still think I managed something good here. First mod - Clear indicators.  Not much to talk about here lol. But still a small detail that can catch eyes quick. These were made by D-Max and cost about 5,726¥ which is about 50V$. If you want to check them out you can get them here! Second mod - Sleepy Eyes!  Probably the most common mod on every japanese car with pop-ups. Really easy to achieve on the S13. Pull out the switch for the pop-up lights, cut the brown wire. Done. This makes you able to pause the actual "popping-up" of the lights so they actually look sleepy. Easy Peasy. Third mod - Ito style front bumper.  This one required a bit more work (and some money). For this I needed some Nismo N1 style vents which were not easy to find. But I ended up with these Australian made ones from JSAI Aero for 110V$. I also had to get some paint and putty. I got some paint-matched spray cans made at my nearest paint & body shop aswell as the body putty and some sanding tools. Everything costed me about 300V$. With everything ready to go I started by removing the stock front bumper from the car. Doing that actually revealed something about the car that I didnt knew yet - it has a rad made by Koyorad! OH YES!  The whole removing process is pretty easy on s-chassis so it doesn't take that long. Some bolts on top, on the side, on the bottom, remove the plugs from the blinkers and you're done.  With the bumper removed I could start messuring and cutting the holes into the bumper to place in the vents. I also cut out a part of the license plate "block" for the full BREAK ITO effect. When I had the vents in place I first glued them on with some epoxy body glue and blended it a bit with bondo. After that I sanded everything down and started to paint (primer, paint, clearcoat). Wet-sanded the clearcoat to make it shiny.  I also ended up removing the grille with the additional turn signals so if anyone wants to have them - first one that turns up gets them for 100V$. So After everything dried up and looked good I started to install the freshly modified bumper - BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! Of course I couldn't just install the bumper without a proper looking lip! I ordered a GT-1 Motor Sports FRP front lip for about 142V$! If you want one for yourself here's the link.  This thing is starting to look really s p i c y. Everything turned out really great! Pretty proud of this not gonna lie.. But since we are at the topic of sanding and painting.. Fourth mod - painted a-pillar covers  Yup. I took the remaining paint to get the a-pillars looking fresh since they where kinda starting to look faded and really scratched up. That's about it. Taped the windows off, started sanding, primer, paint, clearcoat, wet-sand, done. Last but not least - Type X rear valances  Nothing special about this - except that I found them used in the same color as the car for about 250V$. And you might've noticed the plate on the last pic - I also got the S13 registered! So it was finally time to get this thing out of the workshop and out on the streets! Decided to drive down to Odaiba and get a good shot of the car on it's first day on the street in my ownership.  I still have so many things planned for this thing but its pretty nice to enjoy a S13 in a semi stock shape for once. It's also such an amazing feeling to have a openable roof on a nice warm almost-summer day like today has been! Just open up all the windows and enjoy the weather.. <3 Anyways, that's it for now! Hope you enjoyed x !! |
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