Just when you thought I was done. Dave’s 180SX build.

Unf. TCIII look so good in that colorway.

Wassup y’all. It’s been a fun summer, but winter is fast approaching.

Here’s a quick recap of what’s been going on.

Started with the season opener. Shit was fun as always and I improve a small amount each time. Not much but I’m trying.






The handbrake was extra soft/wouldn’t lock and really threw me off. I tried fixing it with new brakes and even tossed in new calipers with uras style sea horse extenders.


I went to the second dday and broke all of my aero and a coolant hardline to my turbo snapped. Luckily that happened towards the end of the day. Unfortunately, I was only 3 or 4 laps into advanced and didn’t get the seat time I wanted there. Handbrake wasn’t fixed and I found that the only way to lock it, was by smashing the foot brake. It’s really wonky and won’t work if I’m not quick enough. You can see in some pictures the use of foot brake to lock the rear. I think my cables are just done.








Luckily, brother trucky let me throw my pile on his trailer and I drove his steed home. These days I’m extremely grateful to still have friends that care.

It was then that I decided it would be a good time to start figuring out the repaint and aero refresh situation. It felt like it took me the whole summer, but here it is. Metal cut and kog fenders in. Most of you have already seen it through IG. I’m so happy with the end result. It’s exactly how I had envisioned it.










I had to do some black magic work to make one piece wheels fit right, so my alignment was way off after. Most people would’ve just bought some retard large dish wheel from vrwheels. I couldn’t. And I was sick of looking at cars with koguchi fenders and dish wheel. Some even had v8’s 🙄.

Thankfully, Jesus from Ooo dang hooked it up on the alignment. I apparently didn’t have any kind of castor before either. Car feels so good now.



Then Tomy, Angel and me did a car show called Tuner Evolution. It was fun to fuck around and get drunk. Got some decent shots of the car too.



Almost right after, we had a drift event at autobahn, on the skidpad. It was fun as hell and felt great to be back behind the wheel. Unfortunately, I broke my bumper and destroyed my splitter coming out of a gas station that day







Solo run that I botched at the end.


So that’s basically it, up to this point. It’s been a long year, but I’m not ready for the winter yet. Shout out to angel for the paint and the boys for the help.

Oh yea and I’ve been dealing with fuel leaks all year. So stupid. lol



One more dday this weekend. Stay tuned for pictures.

I can’t believe it’s 2020 and I’m barely doing this. Also only did the drivers side. Hahaha. I’ll be doing the rest over winter probably.








Some D pictures from a Final Bout practicer at Autobahn CC. Tomys car continues to rule.




Some from the CFR Quarantine8 closer






2020 has been a shit year all around. I hope everyone is ok and hasn’t been greatly affected by this goddamn virus. It seems surreal to be living through a pandemic. Grateful to have been able to do any track stuff at all this year. Social media is ridiculous. It seems insane to get judged for something so stupid. Typically don’t care what anyone says but when family and friends do it, it tends to sting a little. That being said, I think I’m not doing it (SM) anymore. Or very limited at least. Instead, I’m going to make an effort to come here more. Even if it’s just me. I miss this. I hope to see more activity here again.

Looks amazing as always! How did you end up liking all the heat/sound barrier in the foot area?

I got so stoked when I saw recent activity on here. It would be amazing to get this forum back up and running.

Flipped through this build thread real quick, and I kept thinking how insanely far this car has come. If anyone knew back then. . .

RAD MIKE Circa 3006 wrote:

Looks amazing as always! How did you end up liking all the heat/sound barrier in the foot area?

Duuude. It worked so well. I’m in the middle of doing the entire car. I’m hoping it makes a difference for sound. My rear end howls like a banshee on the moors. So much that I’ve been considering getting Nismo bushings to replace the solid jams.

evanger wrote:

I got so stoked when I saw recent activity on here. It would be amazing to get this forum back up and running.

Flipped through this build thread real quick, and I kept thinking how insanely far this car has come. If anyone knew back then. . .

I wish man. It’s honestly probably a pipe dream and I’ll likely be the only jag off here posting updates. But that’s ok.  Lol.

HUGE shout out to Mike. He came thru and fixed my crinkled ass wheel house from a rear ending incident a few years ago.




HUGE shout out to Tomy. He let me take my car to his house so we can work on repairing some minor rot in the engine bay
He also let and helped me make a “makeshift” paint booth

HUGE shout out to Angel for painting my engine bay. He also did the Valve cover and some Z32 brakes. Oh yea I finally did Z32 brakes. Just the fronts though. Haha.

I also took this time to replace the coilovers. The old ones were fine. I just wanted new ones. Also coated the wheel wells with Por 15. Looks great and I’m sure it will do some kinda rust prevention. And yes, I did polish the letterings on the calipers.







Updates soon! Spring is around the corner and I’m finally getting urge to finish the car from all the winter projects.

Mann your engine bay looks insane now. I need to do mine so bad but it’s not gonna happen anytime soon. How big are Z32’s compared to stock? And are S13 brakes very different from 14? I would imagine they’re the same.

Keep updating this. It’s way more satisfying than seeing just another picture in the chaos that is my feed. Maybe it’s time to finally make a build thread? Are you uploading from your phone?