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S13 drift/street build

This is a blog to cover everything I've learnt and done to my S13 from buying it as spares/repair to having a reliable(ish) drift car.

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Current spec

Here is a breakdown of everything on the car at the moment: 1991 UK 200sx Engine: 180sx SR20det Garrett T25g Garrett T28r actuator...

The Tint.

I wish I could count the amount of message requests that have come into my Instagram account which are just "what tints are they?". Top...

CA to SR swap and why I prefer SR.

I've noticed recently theres a bit of a trend of "CA is best" on social media and from my experience of driving both I don't really...

Seeing off a CA.

For this post I was going to go over my experience comparing a CA to an SR but its getting a bit long just covering how I killed my CA so...

Ride height

This is single handedly the most infuriating part of owning this car. I tried so many different options to get this car to a ride height...

Wings

Since I bought the car up until I painted it, then from the first drift day til about mid-2019 both of the wings have been minced. I used...

2015 - 2016

A dump of track content from the first year of driving this. After doing this though I realise it won't work for the years I've lived in...

Giving your driveshafts a better time

I've gone through way too many Driveshafts to admit and I think I've finally hit the sweet spot for S13 chassis. I used to go through at...

Front arch wiring looms

When I picked up the car the OSF Wiring loom wasn't held in place properly. I thought I'd just cable tie it back in place and off I go as...

The Exhaust Saga

If you asked me whats broken the most on the S13 I'd reply with exhaust before you finished asking the question. In my last entry I...

Condition report

So after getting the car back home I knew the car was crusty so the first thing I did was pick up a screwdriver and the knotted wire...

The base

So I had done 2 years drifting an MX5 to learn the basics and I wanted to move into something with more power. I was looking at R32's...

Where we are at...

So this blog is going to be a visual and text based blog covering the build of my car from start to finish. I'm hoping that this will be...

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