The Zombie
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The Zombie
I thought I'd share some content, since I still browse the forums every now and then... and yes miss the chaps on here quite a bit.
So some of you might know that I owned an S15-Autech, was an awesome car but times got tough and I had to sell, something that I've been trying to kick my self for ever since. Then luck struck, my S13 in SA sold, the 5 years I owned it left me -R80K of school fees, fun while it lasted. At least I made half back.
All the school fees, and the feeling of owning a trouble free S15 made me realise that the whole thing is overrated and I won't try build a big HP car again.
Then an opportunity came along and the bug bit, with a little bit of spare cash on hand, I bought someone's project car. The guy wanted to turn it into a drift car, he ended up buying everything, but with tied hands never did anything.
The specs as advertised
Exterior:
GP sports custom fixed headlights. Only pair like it in the world.
Vertex copy front and sides (not the purple one in the pics)
Factory rear (comes with 180SX rear)
Duckbill Rear spoiler
200SX front guards
No bonnet
Clear taillights
Interior:
Cusco 4PT halfcage
Recaro SR3 drivers seat
S15 passenger
Nardi Steering wheel
Nismo duracon gear knob
Suspension/brakes/wheels:
Full 5 stud conversion, 4 pot front (S14)
Kei office front coilovers, D2 rear (these things are shit)
17X9 +17 SSR XZR-4's
15mm rear spacers so effective +2 rear and +7 front with S14 lower arms
215 45 17 all round
Megan racing 'drop joints'
Engine:
RB25DE VVT from R33 Complete
RB25DE manual gearbox
Exedy 5 puk clutch (brand new)
9 bolt flywheel
RD28 engine cross member
CA18DET radiator
2.5" custom exhaust (will need to be modified)
So I quickly calculated who much it will cost if I built it from scratch, and yeah a good NZ$8000 worth of parts, and I'm getting at NZ$6000. The idea was to build and sell it. And maybe have some fun while doing it.
How it came advertised
Next round I'll post up some pics of my journey on completing this...
So some of you might know that I owned an S15-Autech, was an awesome car but times got tough and I had to sell, something that I've been trying to kick my self for ever since. Then luck struck, my S13 in SA sold, the 5 years I owned it left me -R80K of school fees, fun while it lasted. At least I made half back.
All the school fees, and the feeling of owning a trouble free S15 made me realise that the whole thing is overrated and I won't try build a big HP car again.
Then an opportunity came along and the bug bit, with a little bit of spare cash on hand, I bought someone's project car. The guy wanted to turn it into a drift car, he ended up buying everything, but with tied hands never did anything.
The specs as advertised
Exterior:
GP sports custom fixed headlights. Only pair like it in the world.
Vertex copy front and sides (not the purple one in the pics)
Factory rear (comes with 180SX rear)
Duckbill Rear spoiler
200SX front guards
No bonnet
Clear taillights
Interior:
Cusco 4PT halfcage
Recaro SR3 drivers seat
S15 passenger
Nardi Steering wheel
Nismo duracon gear knob
Suspension/brakes/wheels:
Full 5 stud conversion, 4 pot front (S14)
Kei office front coilovers, D2 rear (these things are shit)
17X9 +17 SSR XZR-4's
15mm rear spacers so effective +2 rear and +7 front with S14 lower arms
215 45 17 all round
Megan racing 'drop joints'
Engine:
RB25DE VVT from R33 Complete
RB25DE manual gearbox
Exedy 5 puk clutch (brand new)
9 bolt flywheel
RD28 engine cross member
CA18DET radiator
2.5" custom exhaust (will need to be modified)
So I quickly calculated who much it will cost if I built it from scratch, and yeah a good NZ$8000 worth of parts, and I'm getting at NZ$6000. The idea was to build and sell it. And maybe have some fun while doing it.
How it came advertised
Next round I'll post up some pics of my journey on completing this...
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x10000000000000000000000000000000000000DriftZ wrote:I dig the name of this project.
And x2 on the export/import of bits too SA.. help some brothers out!
Enzio wrote:Who needs ligths? When you're going sideways forward facing lights don't do anything but confuse squirrels and sheep next to the road...
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Hehe I never leftToby wrote:Welcome back, Vlade!
Sorry for the delay, blame woman and other hobbies...
As Gary would know, parts is rather hard for me to source, problem is time & money, shipping is a bitch too. As soon as I'm financially sorted I'll try again to help guys out.Everyone wrote:Parts?
Car is way further in progress than pics, but will go with the flow
Willie fixing the steering up, so she can roll, straight.
cleaned all bits, and the car, grouped and sorted all the parts, got the front swaybar in and all the suspension tighthend up and semi aligned, but then we hit a snag the left ball joint's thread is buggered, so I had to source another one.
Then the Motor was an Auto so we had to remove the damn auto spigot bush, thing was a bit tougher to remove than the CA one, but we turned to my good friend... Google for some advice, and found a cheap DIY method.
You take a roll-bolt or an anchor-bold that just about fits in the spigot hole, get something to leverage off so you can tighten the bolt and extract the bush... sorta like this...
walla!
test fitted the gearbox and clutch assembly... just needs to be torqued up
My ultimate goal with this car is something similar to this, simple and efficient
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haha plenty of updates, been giving you guys drips and drabs...
Before the motor went in I changed the cambelt, removed all the unnecessary shit from the old aircon unit, and blocked off all the heater lines. Guy I bought the car from said the motor did about 70 000 km odd...
Motor ready to go in...
After some blood and sweat, and help from my flat mates, and fellow Silvia owners we got the motor in...
With the motor in, the front sits rather low, it just about clears the bump on my garage entry...
We got a thing here in NZ, if you're car is higher than 300mm from the center of the wheel to the guard... its a 4x4, roads are very similar to SA if not worse because of the variation in terrain, so you learn to deal with it.
Next on the cards was the wiring... Since this motor was an Auto late model R33 I struggled my ass off trying to find a wiring diagram that could help me get on the way... the local guys called my ECU the gray plug of doom (NEO RB), since few people had success with it wiring it up...
A bit of the wiring nightmare...
My Flatmate Willie, did an awesome job wiring up all the lights, start and charging system...
The lights look freaking awesome, I'm gonna change the perspex cover on them though, will buy some UV resistant perspex and create some new covers for them...
After more than 2 weeks of struggling and pulling my hair out I finally got it going... I ended up using a wiring diagram from an R34 Stagea
It's Alive!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skBtxH-afu8
I was really worried about the ECU and the RB NEO nightmare stories...
I'm over the moon, after the wiring diagrams and pinouts on the ECU made sense it all came together quite quickly...
added new special ECU
still looks rough, will tidy things up now, and get rid of those stock intake pipes
Now that I know everything is wired up, I deloomed the front harness...
The bits not needed
Passenger side completed, still need to finish the other side...
Willie started chopping up the exhaust we are gonna mend it temporarally so we can drive it to a muffler shop to get it welded up... but we ran out of grinding disks, exhaust is freaking tough
Before the motor went in I changed the cambelt, removed all the unnecessary shit from the old aircon unit, and blocked off all the heater lines. Guy I bought the car from said the motor did about 70 000 km odd...
Motor ready to go in...
After some blood and sweat, and help from my flat mates, and fellow Silvia owners we got the motor in...
With the motor in, the front sits rather low, it just about clears the bump on my garage entry...
We got a thing here in NZ, if you're car is higher than 300mm from the center of the wheel to the guard... its a 4x4, roads are very similar to SA if not worse because of the variation in terrain, so you learn to deal with it.
Next on the cards was the wiring... Since this motor was an Auto late model R33 I struggled my ass off trying to find a wiring diagram that could help me get on the way... the local guys called my ECU the gray plug of doom (NEO RB), since few people had success with it wiring it up...
A bit of the wiring nightmare...
My Flatmate Willie, did an awesome job wiring up all the lights, start and charging system...
The lights look freaking awesome, I'm gonna change the perspex cover on them though, will buy some UV resistant perspex and create some new covers for them...
After more than 2 weeks of struggling and pulling my hair out I finally got it going... I ended up using a wiring diagram from an R34 Stagea
It's Alive!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skBtxH-afu8
I was really worried about the ECU and the RB NEO nightmare stories...
I'm over the moon, after the wiring diagrams and pinouts on the ECU made sense it all came together quite quickly...
added new special ECU
still looks rough, will tidy things up now, and get rid of those stock intake pipes
Now that I know everything is wired up, I deloomed the front harness...
The bits not needed
Passenger side completed, still need to finish the other side...
Willie started chopping up the exhaust we are gonna mend it temporarally so we can drive it to a muffler shop to get it welded up... but we ran out of grinding disks, exhaust is freaking tough
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