1989 S13 240sx LS1/T-56 swap
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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
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/C1B1AEF9-B274-4AAE-AF8B-CF996AE6329A-5818-000004D45936F714.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/78ED9659-ABF5-4F35-A29A-FC66ACFE75BA-5818-000004D44C722060.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/9C8948CC-FFCB-4432-9948-D016DAD651A1-5818-000004D4435DE2B8.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/94C0F855-38CD-4E2E-9417-D847B751EA38-5818-000004D42A0063C0.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/ACAD2228-360A-4FC6-9790-DC5E30C977BF-5818-000004D420C6260F.jpg)
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.
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/C23681C8-1FDB-4C94-9E66-99AC2FF06DC0-5818-000004D418E30D61.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/5161C042-6512-4EAA-A96F-3594B6C3BFB8-5818-000004D410E16025.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/8FC8BE7A-6826-46CA-855A-174DA9AFE59D-5818-000004D40A8C1BE8.jpg)
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,
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/7CFDFA35-E217-4D55-B999-F6A99442B71A-5818-000004D3F2E03629.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/2429B7FD-901B-45F0-84CF-AA6534A9198A-5818-000004D3EB118991.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/9B81486D-A53F-4CC9-AC52-F4ED097EA672-5818-000004D3E51C72ED.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/6C09C566-6B93-4C44-9A95-BB2DAD316783-5818-000004D3DED92340.jpg)
Brake and clutch master cylinder resi. mounts
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/32F76D14-6F25-465F-A834-6458145B01C6-5818-000004D3D991BF38.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/1DD4BDCD-EAE1-4CD6-B747-5552828D612A-5818-000004D3CB942643.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/95F2A479-5CA3-4F97-8376-40D7BC2D0A35-5818-000004D3BAAD72EE.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/BC54C952-DF4F-490A-81CD-43DFAF613DFF-5818-000004D3B546F260.jpg)
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
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/C1B1AEF9-B274-4AAE-AF8B-CF996AE6329A-5818-000004D45936F714.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/78ED9659-ABF5-4F35-A29A-FC66ACFE75BA-5818-000004D44C722060.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/9C8948CC-FFCB-4432-9948-D016DAD651A1-5818-000004D4435DE2B8.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/94C0F855-38CD-4E2E-9417-D847B751EA38-5818-000004D42A0063C0.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/ACAD2228-360A-4FC6-9790-DC5E30C977BF-5818-000004D420C6260F.jpg)
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.
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/C23681C8-1FDB-4C94-9E66-99AC2FF06DC0-5818-000004D418E30D61.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/5161C042-6512-4EAA-A96F-3594B6C3BFB8-5818-000004D410E16025.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/8FC8BE7A-6826-46CA-855A-174DA9AFE59D-5818-000004D40A8C1BE8.jpg)
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,
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/7CFDFA35-E217-4D55-B999-F6A99442B71A-5818-000004D3F2E03629.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/2429B7FD-901B-45F0-84CF-AA6534A9198A-5818-000004D3EB118991.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/9B81486D-A53F-4CC9-AC52-F4ED097EA672-5818-000004D3E51C72ED.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/6C09C566-6B93-4C44-9A95-BB2DAD316783-5818-000004D3DED92340.jpg)
Brake and clutch master cylinder resi. mounts
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/32F76D14-6F25-465F-A834-6458145B01C6-5818-000004D3D991BF38.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/1DD4BDCD-EAE1-4CD6-B747-5552828D612A-5818-000004D3CB942643.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/95F2A479-5CA3-4F97-8376-40D7BC2D0A35-5818-000004D3BAAD72EE.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/BC54C952-DF4F-490A-81CD-43DFAF613DFF-5818-000004D3B546F260.jpg)
![](http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/TN-LR3/ED8C92DF-2F24-449A-A993-3462D671B877-5818-000004D3AF804F19.jpg)
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!