V$ Marcus's RP Builds

marcus915 · 2016-02-23T17:33:46+00:00

Hey everyone! I live in Osaka, just up the road from my good friend Lewis. I'm a huge Nissan S Chassis/R chassis and Toyota JZX/GX/MX fan. I work at an office, basic 9-5 job, gets me through the day. Usually out terrorizing Osaka streets at night, or running some touge with my team Cooldown late into the night. Everytime I buy a new car, I'll add it to the list on this post. Spoiler: Starting balance - 20000V$ 1994 Nissan Silvia S14 Club K's 1990 Nissan Laurel C33 Medalist 1991 Nissan 180SX RPS1

Soju

I am a big fan of mesh wheels, and those look really great!

Mikingo

SOOO FUCKING SICK WHEELS !

hugap

c33 is vip?

marcus915

So I've been gone for quite a long time..it was time to do adult things and stop fucking around so much with car stuff..

Cause I decided to upgrade from the dinky garage I used to a much nicer space. Saved up a good amount of money and bought this place in full! There have been some changes to my cars as well.

My cars have taken a bit of a side priority, main one being the new facility, but I did work on my cars. The FR-S received a Chargespeed Type I front bumper and Varis hood, and it's been my fun/daily car. Really reliable and fun to thrash on, now with the HKS turbo kit. I forget if I had the Panasports on before on the last update or not but w/e.

My beloved RPS13 definitely took a back seat in the past half year - just been slowly sourcing hard to find aero. After a trackday at Meihan I crashed into a friend during tandem and destroyed my full Works9 RPS front. Straightened up the radiator support and decided to go for different aero, as well as Origin Lab overfenders. Also decided to go back to the old SR20VET setup as I enjoyed the frantic feeling of the SR over the 1J.

Now this is my daily, a GX110 Verossa, and has been for a couple of months now. I traded the S2000 for this car to a good friend of mine, who's currently building up my S2000, and it is wild. Will show pics in the next post. The Verossa runs an R154 five speed manual (swapped from a Chaser), a mostly factory 1JZ-GTE with a few bolt ons, and rides on my go to 326power Chakuriki GT+S coils, on a set of 18x9 Grenade GX-01's.

Haven't quite had time to work out my finances yet but that will be done soon.

11000rpm

Nice to see you back!
Ive never been a verossa fan but yours looks fresh with those rims tho

JF1

Three nice cars.

holeecrab

heyyy fellow chargespeed user ;D

(btw check your pm)

JF1

Hello, Holee.

Ward

Damn you are back I have missed you BBY also that verossa is sexy af

Sleepin_mOnkey

i realy dont dig those retro jdm rides but the verossa sits nice

marcus915

eyy thanks boys.

still working on my financial statement from the last half year, but for now have some more updates.

Brought the Verossa into the shop and played around with the coilovers - got it sitting nice and pretty and did an eyeball alignment. Drives straight enough so whatever.

My friend who purchased my S2000 came by the shop today, and I snapped a couple photos of the car. Don't have the specifics of what he's done, but as a reminder this is what it used to look like when I sold it.

Pretty wild transformation so far.

Haven't shown you guys the engine bay in the 180SX in a while now - as mentioned before put the SR20VET back in and put the 1J on a stand. Fired right up, so decided to pull the motor YET AGAIN and sprayed the bay a nice two tone, and the valve cover a gloss teal.

You may notice the other 180SX sitting in the corner there..

This is a 1996 180SX, a real Type X, that's had a bit of a life but brought back to great shape by a good friend of mine. He's in the market for a C33 and mine has been sitting for months since the SR blew a rocker arm, and it's super tempting to have a second car to thrash on daily while I work on my own piece of shit 180. It's sitting on Tein Super Drift coils, full five lug swap, R34 Brembos and wheels, basically all the foundation upgrades I would have done anyway. Super super super super tempted to straight trade my C33 for this beauty.

MrTomush

Verossa wasn't cup of tea with style but good luck, and S13 getting wild paint engine bay, like they just amazing...

Sleepin_mOnkey

Both s13s are wild i would tak the trade

marcus915

Yet again been another long period of time..didn't end up with that 180SX, but..

(photo from a month ago)

More to come later !!

skip

Damn, everyone joining the S15 gang. Guess I'm gonna have to wait to see you do your magic on another car.

also seen your Insta story, undeglow is spicy asf

saletl

that c33 was nice. lookin forward to see the s15 get's attention

marcus915

# skip :
Damn, everyone joining the S15 gang. Guess I'm gonna have to wait to see you do your magic on another car.

also seen your Insta story, undeglow is spicy asf

you right, i figured i'd get back into a 15 cause i've never seemed to be able to keep one for more than a couple months. truly believe this one is the one though!

(underglow the world 😉 )

# saletl :
that c33 was nice. lookin forward to see the s15 get's attention

thanks dude! the c33 was nice but had to trade up eventually lol

some updates - the Verossa is still around - the sensible daily aspect has slightly been ignored..

Full Vertex kit, a must do for all Verossas in my opinion. Picked it up for 16,000 yen which is about right for a brand new kit.

Fully adjustable LCA's/RUCA's (Serial9/Cusco units) for more camber and shortened steering knuckles for quicker steering response. Definitely looking into some angle mods (no Wisefab, fuck that!). Total cost 5,000 yen.

Up Garage gem find, full set of SSR Agle Strusse, 18x9.5j and 18x10j, required some fender work but they fit good under the stock metal guards. 22,000 yen.

Finally, S15 machine check. It's a 99 Spec R, very well kept, 86,000k's on the clock. Traded the C33 and 40,000 yen on top for this, so far not missing a thing. Rides on Tein Super Drift coilovers with Parts Shop Max arms. Nice upgrade over stock and feels so good to throw around.

Standard SR20 fare, modified S14 Greddy intercooler kit, Greddy valve springs, Tomei downpipe and Xpreme catback, planning to go midmount TD06 or top mount GTX3871R in the future. Koyorad radiator/hoses, ran the car at Setonaikai all day, drove it home and never failed once on me.

Not sure what I want to do build wise yet, but stay tuned for RPS13 updates !

Finances -
$68,755 + $38,000 (eight months income from last update 4/12/17)

$30,000 (shop cost not incl. rent) = $76,755
$4000 (S15 trade price) = $72,755
$4300 (Verossa stuff) = $68,355

Renaruto

yesyesyesyesyesyes <3

Soju

Just pure awesomeness 🙂

marcus915

thanks guys!!

had some fun on the touge today 😉

And where to begin on the RPS13? Its been through so many changes in the past couple months.

Firstly, the car is mostly all one colour now. Sprayed the car one colour cause I was sick of multicolour so used up the rest of the leftover red, which I'm going to be changing soon anyway.

Repaired some old aero (D-Max Type III rear, Works9 side), and put on my D-Max hood. Currently rolling on a set of ABC Exclusive Glanzen (18x11 +0) cause I can't get enough of these wheels, and a set of CST Hiper Zeros my good buddy @[deleted] let me use.

Previously, I was running a Greddy FMIC kit on my SR20 VVL. In the quest for throttle response, the boys at Cooldown helped me fabricate a much shorter flip mount kit and created new brackets to fix the intercooler to the radiator support. This cost us a total of around 20,000yen for all the material. The throttle response is ridiculous now though!

Lastly, a photo of the car at Meihan C course. Car feels so damn good..

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