Nissan 200SX Club - South Africa

Here is a short story about my sx.

I bought the car about 2 years ago from a guy who thought the engine was smoked ( I won’t make you jealous with the price)

Towed the car back to my house with half the engine lying in the boot. It took Armand (AR 200SX) all of 45min to get everything back in place and he started the car, poor thing sounded like a tractor running on 2 pistons and needless to say my hart fell to the ground, because I thought here come endless trouble.

After Armand did a few tweaks and replaced the AFM the car was purring like a kitten and I’ve been driving the car for the last 2 years without any hustle.

Upon returning from the rock raceway one night doing about 130km/h on the freeway and praying we don’t die, Armand told me he is going to lower the boost to 0.3bar and the boost is not to be touched until the suspension is sorted out on the car (thanks Armand for looking out for my safety I’m too much of a loose cannon to think about that.). About 3 months ago I bought my sr20det motor and decided to sell the ca18det.

Now with the ca out of the way and all the suspension parts I got the fun can start (thanks to Rezlo and Armand for helping me get the parts)

first thing i did was clean the engine bay after the removal of the ca motor this took me about 3 days

Before:


After:

some more work i did over the weekend removing the old:

new energie bushes going in
Before: what a pain to get that bush out.


After:

replaced the tie rods with new Circuit Sport ones:

replaced the lower control arm bushes and also the balljoint
before:


After:

took the hubs and cleaned them a bit. not goin to replace bearings just yet.
Before:


After:

new brembo disck compared to the old ones.



just assembled the whole setup with the s14 calipers to make sure it all fits but i need pads

here we have the new H&R coil spring compared to the old one. cant wait for these boys to go in i got held up with shock boots and bump stops but i will assemble these this weekend


managed to find gabriel shock boots for the front with bump stops and on the left im just going to use rack ens rubbers trimmed down to fit the rear shocks.

Thanks to Armand (AR200SX) and Ian (REZLO) for helping me get all the parts i needed for the suspension.
also thanks to Armand the made me the alliminium steering coupling that a few of you guys also bought.

Finally some progress! looks good dude

thanks J appreciate it.
nearly had a heart attack guys. ebc yellow stuff pads for the front is R2800.00 and the rear is R800. what cheaper options do i have?

Looking good....

thanks GameBoy