1989 S13 240sx LS1/T-56 swap
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1989 S13 240sx LS1/T-56 swap
My little brother bought this car yesterday for a steal and we plan on building it, but I will be doing the majority of the work because he lives in SC and the car is in TN with me. I'm looking forward to a project like this because im a 4x4 guy and never really mess with cars.
The car has had a large amount of work done to it already, all the motor/trans mounts are burned in, the engine bay has had probably 100 hours of work into it, and a large amount of parts have been collected.
The specs are
- F-body LS1 and t-56
- shaved and tubbed engine bay-EVERY hole has been filled, fender tubs fitting 18x10 -3 wheels lock to lock no rubbing, false walls, blended corners everywhere, shaved cowl/firewall, shaved firewall seam, closed the column hole, shaved brakes with internal reverse swing wilwood units (2 brake, 1 clutch), metal work for 4" CAI through drivers fender (not just a hole)
- 6 point cage
- s14 rear diff with 2-way tomie advance trax
- wilwood clutch and brake master cylinders under dash
- near perfect dash and interior pieces
- r33 5 lug conversion( just need s14 spindles) with 300z brakes
- custom headers 95% done
-full exhaust built
Plans
- chase bays LS1 harness
- Jazz or RCI fuel cell with artec industries fuel cell mount
- full interior
- black roof and not sure about color yet. Either Bullit mustang green, silver, white, grey
- coilovers and suspension parts to make it a track car
- undercoat entire bottom of car
- overfenders for rear and some form of a clean body kit
- To make it as clean as possible really
How it looked when I picked it up
getting it into my shop, had to move it alone without help. So I used the winch on my crawler to drag it inside and a pallet mover to pull it in.
Here are some pics of the engine bay and of the car after I cleaned it out. You can see the interior panels are in good shape,
Brake and clutch master cylinder resi. mounts
The car has had a large amount of work done to it already, all the motor/trans mounts are burned in, the engine bay has had probably 100 hours of work into it, and a large amount of parts have been collected.
The specs are
- F-body LS1 and t-56
- shaved and tubbed engine bay-EVERY hole has been filled, fender tubs fitting 18x10 -3 wheels lock to lock no rubbing, false walls, blended corners everywhere, shaved cowl/firewall, shaved firewall seam, closed the column hole, shaved brakes with internal reverse swing wilwood units (2 brake, 1 clutch), metal work for 4" CAI through drivers fender (not just a hole)
- 6 point cage
- s14 rear diff with 2-way tomie advance trax
- wilwood clutch and brake master cylinders under dash
- near perfect dash and interior pieces
- r33 5 lug conversion( just need s14 spindles) with 300z brakes
- custom headers 95% done
-full exhaust built
Plans
- chase bays LS1 harness
- Jazz or RCI fuel cell with artec industries fuel cell mount
- full interior
- black roof and not sure about color yet. Either Bullit mustang green, silver, white, grey
- coilovers and suspension parts to make it a track car
- undercoat entire bottom of car
- overfenders for rear and some form of a clean body kit
- To make it as clean as possible really
How it looked when I picked it up
getting it into my shop, had to move it alone without help. So I used the winch on my crawler to drag it inside and a pallet mover to pull it in.
Here are some pics of the engine bay and of the car after I cleaned it out. You can see the interior panels are in good shape,
Brake and clutch master cylinder resi. mounts
Last edited by Tncumminsguy; 01-26-2013 at 12:24 PM.
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Glad to see a project of this caliber being finished. Seeing a car 80% disassembled really scares some people. having four s13s, they are fairly simple to work on everything! Had rb20, rb25, sr20 and KA-T.. wish I would have stuffed some american torque into it
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Just waiting on some more key parts and this thing will get rolling along
thanks, thats the plan!