I'm currently looking at this Silvia - a fresh import from Okinawa. This makes me fall in love with 14's again as I have never really gotten into any serious S14 build.

1998 Nissan Silvia S14 K's

Exterior -

Optional Aero package

Interior -

R34 bucket seats
Nismo short throw shifter

Drivetrain -

SR20DET redtop
S15 T28 turbo
HKS FMIC
Turbosmart boost controller
Apexi Power FC ECU
550cc Deustchwerks injectors
HKS catch can
R33 differential

Running gear -

Fortune Auto coilovers
Z32 brakes
Largus 19k sway bars

# marcus915 : Oh fuck! Give me his number and I'll go hit him up. I might get them relipped and just have a spare set of wheels.

I sent it through man!

∆ Okay, this is pretty cool. I assume it's all wheel drive now?

No!! I lik my ducktail hahaha. 4G63 Speed3 is DOPE, this is the kind of creativity we needed back in Valo's car scene. Coprone your Prius is amazing hahahaha.

Aww man haha I regret selling mine soooooo much! Been trying to get ahold of one for a while now.
And thanks man! I'm really happy with and can't wait to start adding my own little touches to it.

And damn Big_Boss!! that 127 is coming along a sooo nice! She's gonna be quick! Can't wait to see it all put together and finished.

Helloooooo, Pudsey!

Okay, that was intense. I came expecting to work all day, and now I'm glad to have more experience really getting my hands dirty with this stuff. I've done engine swaps before, but mostly into cars that were already set up for the swaps, in terms of engine mounts and stuff (RB26 into S14, LS7 into G8 V6). This was entirely new territory and we had to do a lot of figuring out stuff by ourselves, but, we handled it - and I think the result came out pretty good, all things considered!

The night I arrived, as well as tonight, I managed to take some nice pictures of all of the cars around the shop.

The first thing I said to Marco when I arrived was: "Let me see it." He knew what I meant, immediately - the other 2JZ powered R33 across the world, the twin to the one built locally at the VS Garage branch in Arizona. Indeed, he took me to the garage to show me how things were going to be set up, and I saw it there:


The green R33 back home is an S1. I think this is too, but I don't know the year or whatever. Marco has been, let's say, "coy" about the details of the car - no fair, in my opinion, especially since it's kind of a demo car! ("Street drift" car, aka, used for demostrations and exhibitions.)


That derrière, though? Off topic: XS Engineering was a local shop in Phoenix (yes, in real life too) and it's cool to see their brand and parts here.


Yes, yes, the steering wheel is a kouki version, and so this might be an S2 with some S1 parts - but that's not even the point here. Marco surprised me while I was admiring his car, and he said "Catch!" suddenly. He threw the keys to me! (I'd like to say I was cool enough to have caught them properly, but I'd be lying. I mean: jet lag.) He told me that I could tool around town with it if I wanted, and that I could even burn up some tires at a local skid pad if I wanted! I told him I was honored and that I'd have to take him up on it - though, not until I had had some proper sleep. My sleep schedule was never truly "local" to Arizona to begin with, really more like somewhere out in the Pacific, so I felt entirely messed up sleep-wise.


Then I stepped around the corner and - holy crap. VS Garage must have some really rich folks for customers or something. I saw what looked like just a tuned Ferrari 355 and a TVR - both exotic for Phoenix (though maybe the Ferrari would have been expected in Scottsdale), but I didn't think I was looking at anything too rare.


Then I looked closer. The TVR, especially, gave me pause, because I wasn't believing my eyes for a moment - I thought I was actually looking at the genuine TVR Cerbera Speed 12, aka Project 7/12! No, as it turns out - this is a 4.0 Speed Six powered Cerbera with a custom turbo kit on it (see also the HKS intercooler) and a full bespoke Speed 12 body kit made out of carbon fiber. The 355 was a surprise, too - it was a genuine Challenge with a low-digit serial number (one I won't disclose, out of privacy).


Beautiful pieces of art. Also confirmed to me that, yes, I was smart for choosing big enough brakes to put onto my own R33.


After taking these pics, I stopped acting like the doofus tourist I felt like and went to bed. We worked all day the next day, and Marco took the few pictures we have of that; but, I snapped some more pictures of some cars in and around the shop.

Marco's very own Supra. Love it - especially the glass roof, which is a pretty sweet styling choice, even if I wouldn't have gone with anything but a fixed roof on one of my own cars.


I love the carbon diffusers on this car. I'd get something like this for the Supra if I thought they were good for aerodynamics or if they fit the theme of the car, but sadly, they are neither (and are outside of my budget while I hunt for more BCNR33 engine parts!).


Another customer car: a Corvette C6, obviously not a base C6 Z51 because it had the wider GS / Z06 / ZR1 fenders, perhaps ZR1 especially.


The car was indeed a ZR1, but I was really surprised when I got close enough to look at the engine. Visible through the transparent engine cover was not the stock Eaton supercharger I was expecting, but instead an individual throttle body intake - connected to two air boxes fed by twin Rotrex centrifugal superchargers! I'm told that this setup was inspired by a mix of Koenigsegg and Ferrari influence, and makes much more power on the same LS block than is usually extracted from the ZR1. Something I've never seen before, that's for sure.


Something I've rarely seen: center lock wheels. I have to say that, on this particular car, the look works excellently.


Outside was the shop's British Drift Championship car, painted with a rather, uh, "confrontational" paint job. I got a chuckle out of it when I first saw renders of the paint job, but I was surprised to hear that they actually printed the wrap like that! Still... funny to some tastes.


At least they're not joking around about the safety of their car. Proper cage and fixed-back seats; and I was wondering about the stock steering wheel and whether or not it had an airbag, until I looked closer and realized it was one of the non-airbag types that they fitted to some early ECR33s as well.


At least the paint was really good looking, underneath the Dogeritolicious wrap.


These wheels looked mega expensive, and were really cool to look at (and fun to photograph).


Sorry, S14, but you're being upstaged by your much cooler big sibling behind you. Keep trying (but, seriously, never stop having a sense of humor, even if that sense of humor might have to grow up a little).


Anyway. That's how my week went. I'm going to be back in the 'States before I know it. But for now, if you'll excuse me, I have a date with a helmet, an ECR33, and a skid pad...

Made some progress on the Civic! MX-5 rear axle and driveshaft is installed as well as some GReddy coils. I've put the temporary plates back on and took it for a spin. Or rather for a drift since you can't keep it in a straight line. Also fixed the front offset.

@Darren: Konichiwa and nice MR-2

Dropped the Mustang at the Ford Performance Center I gave the bumper to and got an engine performance stage 1 pack. ITBs and a new fuel pump plus injectors - now boosting the bhp from 260 to 322. Also new rims and brakes for the added performance

# Harrison15 : The green R33 back home is an S1. I think this is too, but I don't know the year or whatever. Marco has been, let's say, "coy" about the details of the car - no fair, in my opinion, especially since it's kind of a demo car! ("Street drift" car, aka, used for demostrations and exhibitions.)

Well you didnt ask in a direct way and i dont like when people tries to make me cough up informations.. ahah. So yeah, it's a S1 with a few S2 parts.

# Harrison15 : I love the carbon diffusers on this car. I'd get something like this for the Supra if I thought they were good for aerodynamics or if they fit the theme of the car, but sadly, they are neither (and are outside of my budget while I hunt for more BCNR33 engine parts!).

Wacchutryinasayin', neggah? Those are handcrafted locally, yeah i know, it's "just a copy" of varis' ridox, i prefer my own quality rather than original's stuff(which often arent really detailed).

But i might just remove it now, you made me look like a stupid ass for having that. XD

# Harrison15 : Another customer car: a Corvette C6, obviously not a base C6 Z51 because it had the wider GS / Z06 / ZR1 fenders, perhaps ZR1 especially.

That WAS a customer's car. He didnt want to pay us so the court assigned it to us as part of the payment for the work we did on it.. it didnt actually even repay the parts alone tho.


Anyways, i guess someone may have already noticed from Harry's pics from yesterday. Yep, i've got a new hood for my R33.




It's a carbon Top Secret hood Harrison took with him from the US, i love how it looks and hopefully it's going to be painted as the rest of the car very soon. We're just starting with the 127 now since basically we spent the whole morning "working" in the skidpad.

Not too sure about the wheels, but the weather was nice so I went on a nice long drive. Car is also lowered quite a bit, but it is still static and will stay static. Also not going Liberty Walk.







I can't seem to find the right pair of shoes that make me happy with this car, so I'm going to have to keep looking. I may just settle with Work VSXX but I do like the concave style.

Scratch that actually, I've found the perfect wheels for this car and I'm going to get some tires on them today. That being said, I also have some forced induction plans for this car. Anyone want to come over and work on it?

so quick update the evo has started to come along nicely i have so far

debadged
put coilovers new rims and slightly bigger breaks in
tinted the windows and tail lights
removed most of the front body parts and added top secret hood pins
replaced the rear bar for a molded wide bar and door addons

but im still yet to get the head work done and looking at my bank its starting to get a little low might have to sell the bmw which is going sweet took that out to valo last night for some skids
anyway here is the pics

Hey guys this is my new build!

its a 1992 Nissan 300ZX N/A 5SPD Manual.

its dumped on blown racelands lol but it came with a full brembo drilled rotors but there not installed and a brand new hydraulic e-brake from ebay with a sword handle. Its really clean with a straight body and has roughly 101k its going to probably be my drift slut but its really clean so i dont know. Ill need help later installing the hydro e-brake but tonight im going to pick up a set of rims tonight youll see it later!

Hyped:

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Love 300zxs, brother use to own one and man did that thing rip!

its really quick for a n/a!

Added 1 hour 56 minutes later:

Wheels on!

Hey guys!

Yesterday i was just looking around on Ebay for some interior parts and i found a hydraulic handbrake for just 50€.
Later that day, Andrej called me and told that a guy who knows his friend was selling a Momo Drifting steering wheel and Bride Zeta 3 racing seats, because he bought a used drift car and he's planning to make it street legal. I asked if he would need the old 17" rims from the Supra, and he said we could do a straight up trade. He got the seats out before i got there, but we took the steering wheel out in no time.

When Andrej arrived in the shop, we got all those interior bits in the Supra. Now i probably won't be thrown around so much when i drift. These seats have 4 point belts, enough to hold me in place


Here's another shot with the new rims.

^ Wow, you got some serious power now! 600hp, just like my Supra. The Challenger looks like a dragster with that hood. You could just colour match the bumper and hood, it looks good in white.

See you in a little bit man, I gotta come over with the Speed 3 though, my 240s being wrenched on a little bit. We can compare 4g63s though! haha

So, I managed to get a job at a local repair shop, and they agreed to let me use the empty space during down time. All my stuff arrived at my newly rented apartment (which is tiny compared to what I'm used to) including my prized Fuchs. I was riding on the others incase I scuff them, but I managed not to. I got the wheels mounted up, slapped a muffler on the rear to make it look vaguely intimidating, and got some proper pics of her. Since I finally have decent rubber (Toyo R888's) I may have to drag Parker with me and go tōge in the hills...





That K24 fits perfectly in there!

I would race (beat) you Darren, but, I have done literally nothing to the S14 since you all last saw it. I haven't found a suitable RB motor yet. I will ride shotgun, for now...

# ThatBoostedGuy : I would race (beat) you Darren, but, I have done literally nothing to the S14 since you all last saw it. I haven't found a suitable RB motor yet. I will ride shotgun, for now...

Heh, I have a surprise or 2 of my own up my sleeve. I got a new msd tuning box for it, and I messed with the timing, the rev limiter, and the fuel delivery. I mean, how can you go wrong with a 10k red line, and roughly 200 horsepower, in such a lightweight car?

i have the body all on the evo now just need to get some paintwork done and i got the local (expensive) workshop to do my cams and head plus tuning
the bmw is possibly for sale if anyone is interested its a fairly clean still road legal 2jz e36 i love it but need something a bit more light and missile like for my drift car as its really clean and neat i can do a deal or what not if someone has a 180 sivlia or something else light