ka-t build

Decided to make a thread showing off what has become of my car since the time I have owned it. I bought this car a few years ago. I dont have any pictures of it when I first bought it, but it looked like any other pos 240 with some shitty kazera wheels and rockin a 4x4 status. I blew the head gasket bout a year ago and decided that I would turbo the car while fixin shit. At the start I was just goin to run a t28 and have a little fun with it but then I got crazy and I started buyin parts like it was cool. So now this car has gone from a little project street car to a full out rebuild of the entire car.



Old oil soaked block



New motor with lots of shit done to it.



got a new garret gt3076r





then i decided to tub the car, still havent finished painting it yet though.



Then i picked up these wheels. alot of you guys probably recognize these wheels.



also picked up a z32 trans not that long ago. sending the bell housing out at the end of this week for machining.



car as it sits now.

left alot of info out so ask questions if you want. By the end of this build motor should be putting out round 500

NIce job so far

Gt30 ka-t- check
Wheels- check
Sweet tubs- check

Your off to a good start. Don't make the car
Look like your asshole. Good luck with the rest.

you definitely hit the ground running. Good luck with the build. I would normally say kat is a monumental waste of time, but I think you might be one of the few who have the money and patience to do it the right way.

Got speed. If you ever have a doubt in your mind about the kat working out, just get an SR and be happy. Best advice Ic an give.

So whats the plan here? Street car or track car? Some nice stuff so far.

D*S LongGrain wrote:

you definitely hit the ground running. Good luck with the build. I would normally say kat is a monumental waste of time, but I think you might be one of the few who have the money and patience to do it the right way.

Got speed. If you ever have a doubt in your mind about the kat working out, just get an SR and be happy. Best advice Ic an give.

Ka-t > Sr any day.

I love KA-Ts nowadays. If I could back in time id have built a sweetass 35R kat instead of dumping my money on that stupid ass 14SR.

nice build. u using nistune?

D*S Dstar wrote:

So whats the plan here? Street car or track car? Some nice stuff so far.

Cars mainly goin to be a street car but it will see days at the track.

Curtis DeAngelo Nelson II wrote:

nice build. u using nistune?

No im not using nistune, I got a series 2 ems. I already have most of my parts I just need a map sensor and ic piping and then thats it.

got this shit for them cold days



also picked up some suspension shit for the front of the car like a nismo power brace, tien tie rods, new lca, and these spl tension rods



these things are beefy and i have heard lot of good things about spl. I think im goin to get the rest of my suspension arms from them.

SPL is good shit.
I got those same tension rods, very solid haven't had any issues with them.

What size injectors are you running?

I have top feed 75lbs injectors but I may have to go larger.

nice tub job

So haven't worked on the car for a while because I've been working a lot but I found some time this weekend to do some things.


got all the suspension stuff in. Everything is new as far as front suspension goes except for the cross member. I got SPL Tension rods, Progress sway bar, Nismo power brace, and Nismo rack bushings. Still need to get 5 lug hubs and coils.
Z32 trans stuff came in and After that I put the motor in



Turned out good but fuck JGS and their stupid mounts. Actually they are good quality and the motor mounts aren't bad to install but since I'm running a z32 trans shit got gay with the trans mount. So I go to look on the website to see how they want the cross member to be modified but they only have the instructions for their prototype trans mount or some shit and not the production trans mount soo wtf. What ever though I just used some shit I had laying around to offset the trans mount so that it would work.

Are you going to convert to Coils since your on the AEM?

Looks good. I like the Xcessive Intake Manifold.

yea im going to coils from an ls1 and yea i like the intake also. really cleans up the intake side. Im also bout to put a roll cage in next week hopefully. ill get pics when done

kappa i had no idea you were on this site, car looks great. im gonna have to stop by n check it out soon

yea been on here for a while. come by anytime.
who knows a good place to get a cage welded up. got a quote from this place called aspec right by me for a half cage with door bars and they wanted 3700 not including the price of material. seems way to expensive to me.

Yeah thats a shitload of a quote for a halfcage. Hit up BDR or Destruction Warehouse.

for sure thats way too much, I'm paying half that for my FD legal cage.

D*S RyanDavidDavid wrote:

for sure thats way too much, I'm paying half that for my FD legal cage.

Yea I knew that was way too much. Where you go for your cage? destruction warehouse?

Not much of an update but I got these

They were supposed to have red calipers but they sent me black ones soo have to send them back.
also I have my car at destruction warehouse getting a half cage welded in. will get pics of that when its done.

got the cage done. I think it turned out pretty nice







after paint



also put on my brake kit but it doesnt clear the wheels so gonna have to put spcaers on.

Dang. This is gonna be cool