My Nissan 200SX

JimmyCrackCorn

After a year on Bikes and now two years since the civic got stolen(next month). I now have a car again.

GL scrappy

Nice, congrats. Big lump of an intercooler, any more mods planned? Are the s14 called Silvia or 200sx over there?

Graham_B18C

I've heard a few people refer to them as an S14 over here so I'd off thought it would be a Sylvia but don't the Sylvias have that S badge instead of the Nissan badge? That would lead me to guess it's a 200sx.

Could be totally wrong though

JimmyCrackCorn

Graham_B18C wrote: »

I've heard a few people refer to them as an S14 over here so I'd off thought it would be a Sylvia but don't the Sylvias have that S badge instead of the Nissan badge? That would lead me to guess it's a 200sx.

Could be totally wrong though

Mod Merit badge earned.

I picked up an auto s14 with boost turned up. Needs some TLC as it was a trade in i took off a garage but considering its what id call uk spec without the rust.


issues:

• Exhaust is a stupid cannon (booked in for a custom twin exit backbox 1st next month 3" turbo back already)
  
• Rear Bushings have a knock in what sounds like one of the rear left suspension arms.
  
• VVT Sprocket sounds like a tractor.
  
• Auto box is bad (scares me as i cant predict the kickdown and had wheelspin lane changing).

So the plan is to poly bush an s15 subframe and fit it first.

Get the vvt sprocket from the states change it.

In the new year if the petrol bill isn't two severe manual convert it on a z32 gearbox and start road mapping for duel fuel (e85). Ill be doing as much of that as i can myself.

If it is ill be hunting for small bike as a daily.

This is my second S14 and its the car i miss the most out of everything i have ever driven.

Chris_Heilong

JimmyCrackCorn wrote: »

Mod Merit badge earned.

I picked up an auto s14 with boost turned up. Needs some TLC as it was a trade in i took off a garage but considering its what id call uk spec without the rust.


issues:

• Exhaust is a stupid cannon (booked in for a custom twin exit backbox 1st next month 3" turbo back already)
  
• Rear Bushings have a knock in what sounds like one of the rear left suspension arms.
  
• VVT Sprocket sounds like a tractor.
  
• Auto box is bad (scares me as i cant predict the kickdown and had wheelspin lane changing).

So the plan is to poly bush an s15 subframe and fit it first.

Get the vvt sprocket from the states change it.

In the new year if the petrol bill isn't two severe manual convert it on a z32 gearbox and start road mapping for duel fuel (e85). Ill be doing as much of that as i can myself.

If it is ill be hunting for small bike as a daily.

This is my second S14 and its the car i miss the most out of everything i have ever driven.

You are heading in the right direction, I hat those cannon exhausts a good stainless steel is the one to go for, The Auto box in the S14 is renowned as being really bad so I would say the manual conversion is the right direction. Looking forward to updates on this:) also looks like one of your electric mirrors has a broken motor.

JimmyCrackCorn

I have a few things to sort before fiddling with boxes.

Steering rack bushes are epicly shagged. So they are on order and some tools.

After a service and change of plugs I'll start trimming the fuel maps.

So glad I never sold my wideband.


Ogh mirrors are manual on the UK/euro/Ozzy s14

JimmyCrackCorn

Over the weekend i fixed a broken exhaust hanger and attempted to re-solder the Tachometer.

Exhaust is so much quieter and not hitting the body now. Still getting swapped out Friday though.

At least i wont be driving and shouting at the car to shut up like an escaped mental patient.....

JimmyCrackCorn

Tachometer is 416 USD.


Breakers yard here i come...

JimmyCrackCorn

3" Turbo back and doesn't upset the neighbours, me or set off car alarms in the car park at work.
Looks almost stock two.

All win.

Cannon gets sold on ebay(sorry adverts.ie im in oz).

JimmyCrackCorn

So i crashed it then. Week 3.

Being a muppet i knocked the engine off on a hill while stuck in traffic.
Emptied the break pressure .

Started the car, rolled into a car in front of me pushed by the autobox and slope before brake servo refilled.

Pulled the handbrake but not early enough.



I'm a lucky guy there wasn't a motorbike or bicycle in front of me.


Breakers yard again this weekend. Replacement quarter panel and bill for poor ladies bumper.

I feel very foolish.

Supergurrier

Ouch too bad

CianRyan

**** man, hope the damag ain't too bad, if anything this is case enough for a manual swap.

JimmyCrackCorn

Update:


Car got a service.

-New fuel filter
-Engine flush
-Fresh oil
-Carbon canister removal
-Simplified boost plumbing
-Colder plugs
-Lambda sensor replaced

-Boost turned up 10psi



Todo:
-Wait for new disks to turn up
-Fit disks
-Get car to panel beater

Fly home for Christmas....

JimmyCrackCorn

Overdue update

Not good.

Spent a few hundred quid.

1. Brake disks
2. Lambda sensor
3. Tidied up boost plumbing
4. Removed carbon canister
5. Suspension alignment done but have 3 degree's rear camber which explains why I have no grip in the rain.
6. Flat tyre
7. New pads
8. General service bits, colder plugs...

Photo from driveway after bumper fixed for rego (NCT and Road tax )





Piggyback ECU

All wires tagged and matched to ecu pinout. Map Cleared



Software up and got it connected to the ecu on the desk so I have a cheap as chips piggyback ecu and boost controller. For less than a Greddy Boost controller.

Everything I need to punch the turn the boost up to 15psi.



Exhaust was bouncing around on the rubber mounts so...



Coilover spanners as i was told by the alignment place the height was too low for no camber correction and the coilovers have been installed with too much pre-load.



So i got a camber gauge to set the ride hight where I could set it all up for grip. And have some more ground clearance.



Other Bits:
The rev clock broke a common problem and my attempt at re-soldering finished it. New old clocks arrived.

Dikota digital speedo corrector aswell. For future gearbox conversion.


The bad news:

Nothing has been done since Rego all the nice bits above are sitting in boxes.

I'm cursed any time i spend over 1000 Euro on a motor it gets stolen, borrowed and crashed or struck by lightning....

Just as the car is getting close to being right. A lady at work reverses hard into the nose of my car and she has been off the road for the last 3 weeks.

I get it back on the 21st of March.




Well i guess I wont need to machine polish the lights any-more or re-spray the bumper...

On the upside all the damage is cosmetic no structural panels bent.

JimmyCrackCorn

Car due back this week.




Solenoid for boost control ordered.

Closed loop boost control parts covered. Should make a ridiculous difference in midrange power.

That's about as good as a stage 1 tune can get and about as far as ill take the car for a while. (Famous last words...)

Stavros Murphy

Having spent the afternoon upside-down with a torch in my mouth in the passenger footwell of my skyline replacing the leaking heater matrix with a shiny new one, I feel your pain at having the front rammed in. I always loved the look of those Silvias. Great cars. Dodgy speedo seems to be a Nissan mandatory feature though.

JimmyCrackCorn

Update:

I wont get the car back for another month as the Bonnet is still in the post.


I'm trying to source one locally before then but not having much luck.:mad:


Two months no car....

JimmyCrackCorn

LIMBO pending car:

Drifting.com Sr20 rebuild DVD and Engine Mapping DVD (AEM)

Daved_XB

I'm surprised you couldn't find a bonnet close by, the wreckers yards here in Melbourne had a fair few 200SX & Syklines that have been drifted into poles in them when I was looking for some parts for a mate the other month

JimmyCrackCorn

Daved_XB wrote: »

I'm surprised you couldn't find a bonnet close by, the wreckers yards here in Melbourne had a fair few 200SX & Syklines that have been drifted into poles in them when I was looking for some parts for a mate the other month

The closest one i found was Newcastle with a hail mark that looked like it was hit by a hammer. Series 2 s14 parts are easy series 1 seem to be rare in Sydney.

Then he wanted 100$ for it.

I'm sorting visa stuff at the moment so I can wait and leave it to the panel beaters.

Ill start collecting bits for a manual conversion and I need to get some wheel studs changed.


I also have to sort other things, apparently my car is not legal with:
1. Pod aifilter.
2. Pillar boost gauge

Some unusual laws here.

Daved_XB

Talk to me about it.... I have a meeting tomorrow morning with an Engineer to go over the Challeneger to see what silly laws it's breaking & what I have to fix or remove before its allowed on the road

JimmyCrackCorn

Have the hump Insurance keeps ringing me giving me different dates on when my car is ready.

So while i have the hump i ordered a pump....

400LPH Walbero because 255Lph is not enough.





More than enough to run E85.

JimmyCrackCorn

Got the car back. Fight time


Stripped rear coil-overs and set pre load. Wd40 polish and back in.




Rear raised 35mm. Until I the geometry back to 1.5 degrees negative camber.




New Tachometer in white.....



FAIL:




Poly hangers:

Exhaust was hitting bouncing around making a racket.








New problem:

Car drives like a fiesta when i picked it up. Bogging and bad idle. Drank a quarter tank on the way to work this morning.

New second-hand maf bought and fitted, While on lunch.




Plus:

• New Thermostat.
• All the inter-cooler pipe-work stripped and refitted boost leak free.
• Idle air control valve cleaned and re-fitted.

I was gutted when I got the car back and it was running like a dog. So happy when I finally got it running properly.

Not a car to own if your not stubborn and afraid of a set of tools.

JimmyCrackCorn

Idle Air control valve re-set post MAF messing.


While troubleshooting the rough running. I had fiddled with and cleaned the idle air control valve causing the adjustment to be way out.


Stripped it at lunch reset it to the location it was before i went messing with it. (back to factory adjustment)

Looks and sounds much smoother will test drive it after work.


Getting to be a long list of things iv fixed/fiddled with in car-parks.

JimmyCrackCorn

Boost leak fixed finally.

New Silicone hoses and intercooler later it actually boosts properly.

1.30 am on a weeknight




Compression tested the motor and its a little tired but within tolerance. Debating weather to drop a a fresher motor in or go Rb25 or refresh....

Have some time to think about what i want to do from here. But I don't want to put 15psi through a motor that is right on the bottom end of tolerances.

hi_im_fil

What compression did it make? 15psi is nothing Boost away

JimmyCrackCorn

Compression is low in 135psi mark I think. Not sure I remember.

• Replaced the lambda sensor plug on the loom as it was brittle and cracked.
  
• Coolant hose leaked so I have ordered a collection of silicone water hoses.
  
• Fixed rev clock again with correct cluster this time

Will do an oil change over the weekend.

I have an intermittent abs light to sort out two....

JimmyCrackCorn

Iv been quiet for a while. Just buried with real life, but here is an update..


R32 wheels.....




Yellow Headlight sanding polishing clear.....



Sorry bury but clear.



Washed the car and the day after It was covered in bird poo





Got Floor mats that fit and sprayed them black....




Sold on my Piggyback ECU, To someone turbo a pajero....





Hints of things to come........

JimmyCrackCorn

ogh and saw one of these...



http://www.autospeed.com/cms/article.html?&A=107756

Darraghmh91.

Nice car man don't are many of there goin around

JimmyCrackCorn

Small update. I have been quiet for a while.

Tidy up and prep work for ozzy NCT.


Nissan
Centre caps



Fresh pads and Fluid all round - Bad photo but its pads..
Mintex Pads, Pads I took off were fine but just glazed and felt poor. Now I have a very solid peddle again.




Spotted a split steering rack boot. That is on order so should arrive for next weekend along with poly rack bushes.




Compression











So compression is good as per the manual but its on the bottom end of the tolerance scale and I want a reliable car and more power so I have to do something.


Problem:

1. Auto box
2. Engine tired
3. Turbo oil seals not looking like they like no-reserc
4. I daily drive the car.
5. My NCT/MOT/REGO is in January


So I banged it around, selling it on. Swapping in an s15 motor and box etc and came to the conclusion I need a cost effective solution as I don't want to get into the classic money pit situation.


RB25 swap mounts:




Bits required:
1. Clutch
2. Inter-cooler pipe work and silicone joiners
3. RB25 Series 2 swap harness (Its my daily ill spend here to not tackle wiring)
4. Custom Prop
5. R33 half cut. (has to be a newer engine than the car to be legal)
6. Radiator hoses/ cooling system (s13 rad or alu replacemnt)
7. Service kit, Oil, oil pump,Water pump, Gearbox fluids, timing belt kit, Coolant, oil filter


Other:
Engineering Cert
Larger injectors P2
High flowed turbo P2
Wire in Standalone ECU P2
A shed/Garage
Lift
Luck
Tools



Parts to be collected between now and start of April to spread the cost.
Half cut to be ordered end of March

Daved_XB

Happy to see some updates here.. Keep them up please.. Where are you getting the front cut from? Ichiban Imports by an chance?

JimmyCrackCorn

Daved_XB wrote: »

Happy to see some updates here.. Keep them up please.. Where are you getting the front cut from? Ichiban Imports by an chance?

Anyone with a good reputation who has a RB with no obvious oil leaks and a compression test.
Its not too hard to find these in oz.


If a crashed r33GTST comes up in salvage auctions ill consider that also.

have2flushtwice

are you keeping it? I'm not clear what you mean above. i've an auto box - out of a silvia s13, not sure if its what you need or not.

have2flushtwice

just spotted your location...

JimmyCrackCorn

have2flushtwice wrote: »

are you keeping it? I'm not clear what you mean above. i've an auto box - out of a silvia s13, not sure if its what you need or not.

I'm Keeping it. Cant part with it now, I haven't spent more than I bought it for on car parts yet......


WAX ON WAX OFF

Starting to look like passable.





Steering boot split so.
New Nissan boots for quality and poly bush the steering rack






I fly home in 8 days and i'm in a panic to get this done before I fly out.

chriity139

Love the way you kept the standard look of the 200sx which is very very rare these days. Beautiful car its a credit to you

JimmyCrackCorn

New boots and Steering rack bushings.




Kinda needed them by the look of things.




Car test passed. Road Legal for another year.

JimmyCrackCorn

Not sure about this. We shall see...




In January.....

JimmyCrackCorn

Rb25 clutch and slave cylinder.


No going back now.

JimmyCrackCorn

Not sure about it, prefer the grill but it looks odd with the Nissan badge, could try a Silvia badge.

As for badging a 200sx as a Silvia, couldn't care less...

JimmyCrackCorn

Parts collection continues.

Time to wire the ECU into the sr20 and learn how to map the car while collecting the final parts for the engine swap.

This gives me a couple of months to learn on an engine I plan to replace.


KS-4 knock analyser/ knock alarm. So I don't blow my engine up while I get stuck in.

JimmyCrackCorn

New turbo gaskets and fun.





Exhaust studs are a pig. But job done.
Still keeping quiet and collecting parts.

JimmyCrackCorn

Shaft ordered. In Aluminium

Remaining:
-Rad hoses generic
-Rad R32
-inter-cooler pipework
-T-Bolt Clamps
-Silicone hoses/joiners
-R33 crossmember
-Motor
-Box
-Loom
-Stock Ecu
-S14 Gearbox cross-member
-Pedals
-Clutch lines
-Master cylinder
-Pusher Electric fan

+ Stuff I forgot.....


May is looking ambitious......

Darraghmh91.

love the car mate i have to say i do love those oem wheels on the car along with the colour of both wheels and body

good job

JimmyCrackCorn

52mm Rad




Needs a polish up but will do the job just fine.

JimmyCrackCorn

Ecu on test bed needs to go back to Haltech as I couldn't reset it and remove the password. Hopefully its ok.






Bad news time:

I need to park the rb25 swap for a while as I found out I have a visa to sort out by Feb so finances need to be diverted.

So looking like I need to leave the car on the motor it has for a few months.

JimmyCrackCorn

Not much news.

Serviced the car.
Had boost leaks again, joys of turbo car ownership.

Huge T-Bolt clamps, wont leak now.




ECU back from repair from Haltech so should get a chance to start wiring again.

Also fixed the speakers in the car so I now have a fully working set wired properly.


RB swap still on hold, but i signed up for a welding course to keep myself happy.

toastedpickles

I've a boost leak on my 9-5 right where the intake connects to the turbo, If i could lob on a tclamp id be all over that, where'd you get those?

JimmyCrackCorn

toastedpickles wrote: »

I've a boost leak on my 9-5 right where the intake connects to the turbo, If i could lob on a tclamp id be all over that, where'd you get those?

E-Bay. Lots of ozzy companies list stock. About 4-5 euro each but I know it wont leak again soon. (i'm sure they were made in China so aliexpress if you can wait a month for shipping)

Should have done it when I bought the car and they would have paid for themselves in petrol a few times over

JimmyCrackCorn

Went drag racing:







Broke turbo now have a T28r



Wired in knock alarm

Also heat shrink and soldered all the radio wiring the last owner bodged.




Fingure crossed its the turbo and not more or im in trouble.