Sr20Det Ceff

[sil80sr]

Hey Im bored at work so I thought Id do a quick write up on a new street car we've built.

So I have a sil80 which was getting a new engine, but, I didnt want to sell the stock motor because it had been stupidly reliable and also another drifter/ street car was something we were after. A friend was selling a sort of rolling ceff shell with the necessary bits for an ok drift car, coil overs etc. No engine either, making life a bit easier. I always want what other people have and after getting jelly over kriss' ceffy it was a no brainer really. Well a no brainer bar the brief encounter with wanted to sr20 an 86 we had.. which was sold shortly after. SO much rust!

Word of advise. Dont buy a stripped ceffy. All those little bits are impossible to find. If you find them they are stupidly expensive.

So it was decided to finally pull the stock motor out of the sil80 just before christmas when the front main & crank went.

So this is what I had saved on the desk top for inspiration

And so I bought a series 3 front bar, autech skirts and bonnet becuase the shell didnt have anything and then it looked like this (te37s were just thrown on to roll it around)

Then looking through the boxes of crap that came with the car, i relised there was only a serverly munted loom and no interior. FML.

Sent it off to primal to be painted in Marakesh brown for something a bit left of centre. I had this one saved for inspiration

Brown on silver cst's is what I was going for.

Got it back from primal and thats when the real fun was going to begin.

Engine went in without a hitch really. Sooo much room in the bay its like its meant to be

Then i orderd some square headlights and front bar parkers from YJ.

It cranked the next day and we thought it would all be down hill. Then the next month or so was spent working out why there was no spark. It was time for matsuri and it wasnt starting, so we ended buying a munted ceffy for the loom and interior parts. I dont have any pics of it. No need really. Its since been cut into bits and wrecked for future if this brown one incurs any damage drifitng.

In the rush, I bought some enkei rpf-01 17x9 + 22 due to not being able to wait the 9 weeks for cst's.. which i still havent ordered. Even with the new ceffy loom it wouldnt start and it was too late. It didnt make matsuri. Lost motivation and sat it there for about 3 weeks untouched

Later it was found to be sr engine loom... it was working fine the sil but might of rubbed on somethng when going in. Started it and it was leaking oil again. Turns out key way was stuffed and replaced it. Started runnning still pretty rough.

Got the exhaust modded to twin tips, bought a bride zeta, chucked in interior and 4 point cage. Wired up the lights and here we are.

It caught on fire on the weekend due to the battery shorting., no damage except for a munted odyssey battery $250 worth and fire estinguisher powder all in the boot.

And here we are 6months or so later..

Tein aus spec coils

Whiteline Sway bars

Jap bolt in cage

Kazama tie rod ends

skyline drum brakes/ handbrake set up

locked 4.3 diff

bog standard sr20det

arc air box

hybrid fmic mounted in bay

s14 rad

splitfires

t25g

Packing 140kw

So whats left to do?

Gromets in fire wall

s15 dash install

find side rear pods

weather shields

secure bonnet release

find a passenger bride rail for the bride brix passenger seat

replace drivers side window regulator

get roof wing painted

Get interior 100%, boot lining, roof lining etc.

Also picke dup series 2 lights for cheap which need some repairs.

Going to see what it needs for an engineers too.

Edited April 17, 2012 by sil80sr

[toffy]

Seen pics of this car in the pics thread , nice to see the build up of it .