DeanS15
My car is so clean you could eat off it.
ok, it's about time i put up a project thread after 2 years of never getting round to it. where to start.......some of this might be in the wrong order to what i did it, i dont remember exactly but this lot has been done over 2 years so please bear with me :thumbs:.
i bought the car from sva imports back in april 2008 after jez8553 talked me around to the s15. i had been considering a 350z, rx7 and evo, and i've never once regretted taking his advice due to the s15's exclusivity and looks.
the car was a virtually standard pewter silver spec r with 57k km on the clock, a rare hks kansai front strut brace, a nice new looking set of tein flex coilovers with edfc and a set of bronze enkei rc5 17's. that was it. otherwise dead standard, a nice and clean blank canvas.
first things first..........
this is as it was soon after picking it up
it wasnt long before i joined the sxoc and started to notice how cheaply you can get parts if you wait for the group buys and before long i had my hands on an apex type 1 intercooler, ths performance downpipe and elbow, s13 decat, uprated fuel pump and ngk 7's. i also bumped into sumo power at a show where they had all vat off on any order placed that day - so i put my name down for a nice new hks silent hi-power exhaust system. it seemed as though i was all set for stage 1......
engine.......
a trip to the rolling road expecting to get a good base figure showed detonation occuring due to a problem with base timing so i got the car home, spent a few days fitting the parts i had accumulated and took the car to jez at horsham developments to have it looked at - turns out the cas had been messed with but once he'd sorted it and fitted a greddy profec b2 boost controller and remapped it the smile was firmly back on my face.
fast forward a couple of months, i had already started to get bored of the t28r running out of puff at high rpm so started to explore other setups and collect 'bits', amassing a box full of stuff from a garrett 2871r turbo to z32 afm, apexi filter, apex hard pipes, nismo 740cc injectors, exedy hyper single clutch, arp head stud and nut kit, driftworks rocker arm stoppers, tomei poncams and type a valve springs, apex radiator, h-dev manifold and so on.......anyway after another trip to h-dev and another map, i was the proud owner of a freshly checked over and strengthened sr
a later trip to the rolling road showed a good result, 357bhp/345lb/ft with room for improvement.........i have dressed the engine bay with lots of polished parts, painted rockers, samco hosing and decals as times gone on, but above all i like to make sure its always tidy
braking needed addressing..........
after putting a few miles on the new setup i decided that i needed desperately to uprate the brakes - having heard how aggressive the big brake kits from k-sport and d2 can be for fast road i looked into a dbpower big disc and pad conversion, opting for a 330mm grooved setup up front and 290mm grooved setup in the rear. running redstuff pads all round with db power braided lines and a bmc stopper on dot5.1 fluid. for the price and balance of what i required the setup works very well and continues to do so, the pads dont give off too much dust, the discs are wearing well and feel was improved 100%. i will swap the redstuffs for ferodos at some point but this is only due to cold bite, when warmed up they are very good.
i bought the car from sva imports back in april 2008 after jez8553 talked me around to the s15. i had been considering a 350z, rx7 and evo, and i've never once regretted taking his advice due to the s15's exclusivity and looks.
the car was a virtually standard pewter silver spec r with 57k km on the clock, a rare hks kansai front strut brace, a nice new looking set of tein flex coilovers with edfc and a set of bronze enkei rc5 17's. that was it. otherwise dead standard, a nice and clean blank canvas.
first things first..........
this is as it was soon after picking it up
it wasnt long before i joined the sxoc and started to notice how cheaply you can get parts if you wait for the group buys and before long i had my hands on an apex type 1 intercooler, ths performance downpipe and elbow, s13 decat, uprated fuel pump and ngk 7's. i also bumped into sumo power at a show where they had all vat off on any order placed that day - so i put my name down for a nice new hks silent hi-power exhaust system. it seemed as though i was all set for stage 1......
engine.......
a trip to the rolling road expecting to get a good base figure showed detonation occuring due to a problem with base timing so i got the car home, spent a few days fitting the parts i had accumulated and took the car to jez at horsham developments to have it looked at - turns out the cas had been messed with but once he'd sorted it and fitted a greddy profec b2 boost controller and remapped it the smile was firmly back on my face.
fast forward a couple of months, i had already started to get bored of the t28r running out of puff at high rpm so started to explore other setups and collect 'bits', amassing a box full of stuff from a garrett 2871r turbo to z32 afm, apexi filter, apex hard pipes, nismo 740cc injectors, exedy hyper single clutch, arp head stud and nut kit, driftworks rocker arm stoppers, tomei poncams and type a valve springs, apex radiator, h-dev manifold and so on.......anyway after another trip to h-dev and another map, i was the proud owner of a freshly checked over and strengthened sr
a later trip to the rolling road showed a good result, 357bhp/345lb/ft with room for improvement.........i have dressed the engine bay with lots of polished parts, painted rockers, samco hosing and decals as times gone on, but above all i like to make sure its always tidy
braking needed addressing..........
after putting a few miles on the new setup i decided that i needed desperately to uprate the brakes - having heard how aggressive the big brake kits from k-sport and d2 can be for fast road i looked into a dbpower big disc and pad conversion, opting for a 330mm grooved setup up front and 290mm grooved setup in the rear. running redstuff pads all round with db power braided lines and a bmc stopper on dot5.1 fluid. for the price and balance of what i required the setup works very well and continues to do so, the pads dont give off too much dust, the discs are wearing well and feel was improved 100%. i will swap the redstuffs for ferodos at some point but this is only due to cold bite, when warmed up they are very good.
