Hulk Smash

I had a real “Frank” in Old School weekend. I got so much done. I don’t know how it happened. Here’s a recap starting with the pic above. The weather was finally nice, so I rolled the car out of the garage to have more room to work. My goals were passenger air bag removal, […]

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Update. Up to date. Bunch of small stuff going on. The engine bay looked all awesome – as shown in the above pic – after powder coating the pipes and installing the DEI Titanium turbo blanket/wrap…but, it was not to last. I prepped it for start up, started it, and my same mystery condition resurfaced. […]

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With the car painted and the weather cold, it was time to reassemble the interior with some of the bits and pieces I had accumulated. This was February-ish 2009. A good job to do in a cold garage. Anyway, you can see it was an absolute mess. I put the S14 driver seat in my […]

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I mocked up the intercooler and got it fitted in the core support area. However, I managed to take some absolute crap quality pictures of most of what was involved in getting it to fit. So instead, let’s look at the piping fabrication. The pic above was our starting point.

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Paint! Well, almost all there. Fresh out of the garage.

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Hulk Smash becomes a refined gentleman!  Here is the starting point for the bodywork.  It doesn’t look too bad – straight rust free body.  At this point, I had big plans.  You will see how those unfold.  As I mentioned before, the green doors are rust free replacements for the original white doors.  Also, in […]

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With the engine out, I wanted to clean up the bay before putting the rebuilt engine in.  It’d be like taking a shower then putting on dirty drawers; you just don’t do it.  So, it was washed and degreased…

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Good-bye, GReddy turbo kit.  Hello, cash moneys!!!  Selling the turbo kit put me in a spot of having a good chunk of change in my pocket and not a definite plan on what to do with it.  Prior to selling the kit, I had saved up some money and bought/installed some other neat stuff.

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I’ll take it.  What?!!?!  Hulk Smash begins.  After looking for many months, I got…um…lucky.  I came across this 1995 Nissan 240SX SE on Auto Trader and picked it up in Manhattan, Kansas, from a nice gent in a real hurry to get rid of it.  Here are some pre-purchase pics and the way it went […]

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