Lost Attraction

Christmas came early... Good for you

Lol, My early Christmas will be the first start up :D

If you don't mind me askin how much did that box of goodies run you? if you don't want everyone to know you can pm me gonna be picking up another dohc ca in the future and that one is gettin a monster build......

awesome and you still haven't invited me over to see everything and help you im a little disappointed jk lol
i finally got some of my money and am currently tracking down a ca18det as well ill only be going for 250hp so i wont be close to you but oh well lol

I went through FRSport, $2268.31 USD with a few hundred dollars in savings with the Christmas and New-years sales along with price matching. I still have more parts i want to get.

Drove all over the lower mainland. I was laying in the passenger side of my car looking at the back of my deck trying to fix a problem with my sub not working When i had someone walk up to the car and start giving me compliments on how nice it looks. I pulled my head out from under the dash and made some small talk with the guy untill he said, You dont recognize me.... You bought the car from me! LOL.

 I showed him everything i had done to the car and explained the engine problems i had fixed and he told me that he had the motor rebuilt by someone about 2 years before i bought the car. It was not used much as it was ment to go back and forth to school but his son barely used it, so he drove it around. He told me he stills misses this fun little car and he enjoyed it more them the civic they drive around now, I got the feeling he wants it back :D

Also went by a car meet with some friends, Made some new friends and seen some nice fucking cars..... I wish my camera wasnt so shitty. I didnt want to use my flash until the other photographers dispersed as they do much nicer shots then me. Example

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I did get a good shot of mine after everyone left tho
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Prolowtone on 01:14:28 AM / 22-Feb-12I went through FRSport, $2268.31 USD with a few hundred dollars in savings with the Christmas and New-years sales along with price matching. I still have more parts i want to get.

got charged like $300 at the border and the Canadian dollar was low so it was $2404 CAD :( oh well. ill enjoy it once its all said and done

Just catching up on your thread.. I like your winter wheels better :thumbsup: 15's With some lowering those would be perfect, very 80's vintage aftermarket.

I know i need to go lower and the rims are growing on me. I may get them widened tho as they are only like 6" wide give or take. I want to get stiffer springs, better (shorter) struts and shocks. Or find a super short strut insert and trim the springs just short enough that there is still travel and they sit tight to the top hat with the shorter struts. then get adjustable sleeves for the rear... I got ideas right now but no ,money for any of them. Waiting to get a call back for a few construction and shop jobs

Edit* Going to post up some Photos from the meets i have gone to the last 3 nights in a row later on in the day

Can you widen cast aluminum wheels? I've been told by a couple shops that you can't, but I've always wondered if because they were local yokel shops, they just didn't know the facts about aluminum wheels. I've wanted to run these or the Outlaw II style wheels (the ones like these but with the bigger holes in them) forever, but the sizes aren't there and I'd have to convert to five-lug. I still might do it, not sure.

Edit: oh and that S2000 looks horrible IMO... I hate it when fanbois screw up the body lines completely by adding chunky, flared out body components and modifications. I'm not opposed to completely changing the looks of a car, but it needs to FLOW together nicely. This looks like a fusing of parts from 80's and 2000's cars.

You hate it that he made the car functional by making it wider, etc....
Aren't you all about function?.......

Me? Geezus you never did get me did ya.. I am about function FIRST, but I wouldn't make my car look like ass for performance unless it was a genuine track-dedicated car. I've been to professional drift events, and those cars are IMO anything but clean looking... and I appreciate that, because they are PURPOSE driven. I fully expect them to have ziptied shit and nutso fender flares riveted on.

A street car on the other hand, is there really a need to go that wide? Nope. And certainly not at the expense of esthetics. Note the word there... esthetics. I didn't say "trendy looks" like hellaflush. That S2000 kills its esthetics for no good reason, that's my point.

If I didn't have a healthy appreciation for visual design, I'd just want to drive sand rails. And even tho the S12 is not everyone's cup of tea, it has a distinct design to it. That S2000 has like three different design elements clashing together like it was designed by a person blind from birth.

LOL, I agree its not my cup of tee but the car is well done from a close view, Tho i doubt it will ever be used on track as he has airbags for raising and lowering the front and rear of the car

Arro on 01:36:46 PM / 25-Feb-12 That S2000 has like three different design elements clashing together like it was designed by a person blind from birth.

LOL Ill think about that  :thinking:

airbags? omfgfailsauce!

Total fanboi status achieved.

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Hahahahaha just burst out laughing and woke people up at 3 am :D

Hmmm, What to say.... I have not been doing very much of anything to my car as of recent due to finally being broke. I had been applying to jobs the last few months but kicked it into overdrive the last month and a half. I have not even had one damn callback or E-mail :( I have been applying to shop jobs, construction jobs and general labour jobs.  I have been stressed out and sick on and off for the last few months to top it all off. I have been having problems where i can not eat and have to drink protein shakes for a few days every once in awhile along with feeling down in the dumps. Kinda has me worried as it was about a year ago where i lost about 30 pounds in a few week period....... I want to know but i dont want to have another thing on my plate right now. I also almost broke my finger a few nights ago and have a nice blackish pinky nail and i think i have 3 or 4 planters warts on the soles of my feet so i am going to get that checked out tomorrow before i go out to Vancouver to help try and chase down a wiring problem in my friends prelude.

I am going to go out to apply for an automotive dismantling job for a shit wage at a junkyard tomorrow as well as a parts supply shop (Lordco). If i dont hear anything soon i am going to disappear for a few months :( Which means no Car meets or racing schools this summer, My car wont be built and i wont have a life at all as i will be living in camp again....I think... Its driving me nuts to say the least. To keep my mind off of things i have been working on all of my friends projects since i cant really afford to do anything to mine.

I borrowed my friends welder and mask to do some work on my wiper arms (Inside the cowling) as my wiper on the driver side does not reach over all the way and i noticed that the arm has a rectangular slot on it that i am going to weld up so that the wiper gets pushed all the way over (Fucker popped off on the highway during a super heavy downpour and i couldnt see!). Might also mes around with the exhaust manifold on the DET after i re-weld my Creeper that broke.

Dkdsilver took me out to a good spot away from the general public and any random traffic for a bit of drifting. I got to admit that the S12 looks damn good going sideways in first person when i was following behind him LOL. He had some nice controlled entry and good angles. It was my first time actually drifting and i got to admit that it was really fun and was pretty easy. I was kinda shaky at first when trying to straighten out after a corner and decided to just do chicanes since the area was nice and wide. after about 5 or 6 minutes i was controlling the car and keeping a good line and was surprising Chris's friend who was in my passenger seat. We were laughing our asses off and having a blast, And he asked me "Are you sure you have never done this before? Cause you are doing good" Topped off the night with a movie and went home in good spirits and started applying for more work before passing out. Thanks again dude!

Also have a new pic of my car that someone uploaded from a car meet on the 24th, I currently have it as my background on my 32" TV
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Anytime man im always down to go there again best after rain save are tires lol glad to hear you had fun

I here you. I have to go work in camp up north to fund the build/living. I was just to broke working where i live.
I will have to come down in the s12 and do some skids

you are such a nice guy for letting your friends park their rides around your S-12 it must of made their day    :laugh:

i kinda liked the honda till you said airbags

Hahahaha they asked if they could park beside me and get some good pics :D I didnt mind since i got some good single shots and some good group shots.

In other news my ca20s head cracked on me yesterday when i got home... I just put in a full tank and was getting ready for work. I popped the hood to put in a new exhaust stud as one fell out and i was sick of the ticking noise. I noticed a hissing noise but only on the drivers side, no leaking coming from my rad or the hoses or the rad. I put my ear up to the exhaust and could here the hissing from cylinder 3, I popped my rad cap and the hissing stopped. Car is not smoking so its not the head gasket but the water jacket in the head itself.

Went to my friends shop to get a quote on getting the det Hot tanked, check the deck of the head and block, polish the deck, polish my crank, valve grind etc. gonna cost me roughly 500 to 700 for all the work. :/ Car is offically off the road for a month at least.

My ride while the s12 is broke. 1992? V6 Toyota pickup
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toyota pickups FTW

Super long day Dono if i even want to type it out.    Woke up feeling crappy, Drove 100km home from my friends place. Had a quick nap before i had to leave for work that didnt end so quick so i was late to work. about 40 minutes into my drove an east indian truck driver points at my passenger rim at a stop light so i put down my window (U Have Big Srew in Titre) I said AWWW fuck! pulled into a gas station, No tuner lug to take the rims off, Wait an hour and a half for moms boyfriend to drive out and give it to me. We pull the tire off, Lower the spare from under the truck bed, go to put it on.............. Fucking thing does not have the proper bore size! This just made my day, I roll the old punctured tire over to the air pump and fill it up after i paid the dollar charge :s. Put it on and rushed over to my friends shop as they are down the road and its 6 pm now so most shops are closed that woulds fix it. i had to park down the road as the lot is full.

 Pulled the tire off and try a rim, dont fit put the bad one on lower truck, back to the shop find another rim, pull bad one off to try again dont fit so put it all together again did this like ten fucking times. Skinny road with a dirt shoulder where i shouldnt use a bottle jack little lone leave it up without a tire so it was extra work :( Nothing fit in the end so i filled up my tire and rushed to a Warehousing store i know (Costco) Where i talked to the guy at the parts counter about getting a rim and tire if they had and spares, But as i thought He can only sell my two tires instead of one and they have no rims. Go to Canadian tire and the shop part is closed but i got the guy to get me a tire plug since they also can not sell single rims and tires. Back to my friends shop to ask if i can use the tire machine, They said sure but the part you pull the tire up onto is broke so it was going to be interesting. I tried and got a good sweat going but the machine was to small..... I was moving it around as i tried to pop the bead over the edge of the rim and was flexing the metal bar to the point we thought it might snap...Fucking low profile tires. so im not going to even make it for the end of my shift at work and no one would pick up when i called 9 FUCKING TIMES! so if i get shit tomorrow i am going to rip every single person in the front office a new fucking asshole!

 Tomorrow i need to get up, Cash my cheque at the bank, Get the tire patched and try to not be late for work. Mom gave me a bottle of Deserono and i got a 6 pack of beer. Think im going to dig into the s12 a bit tonight

gave it a stretch this weekend. Took the sharp downhill offramp from the highway in second gear with my foot to the floor, My god did it ever hook up. Felt like me face was going to rip off.

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Finally starting to make time to fix the car and build the CA18DET... By the way, anyone know where i can get the Crank timing gear and the key. Fucking thing is on there so bad i snapped the puller i bought and it chipped a tooth! FML

Some good shit to come in the not so near future (at this rate  :glaresad:)

Haha scary red eyes dude!! - like a zombie movie lol

Im just a little bit possessed

Tempting.. 15x7 +18 wheels x4. 2 or which have 15x9.5 road racing slicks, i would be hesitant to try.wheels are in excellent shape,no curbage or bends.
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What do you guys think.. I want to see how they fit

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/17-4x114-3-4x100-Blue-Wheels-Tires-Versa-Yaris-Accord-Integra-Civic-4-Lug-Rims-/220915552403?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item336f97d093#ht_3224wt_1396 http://www.enjukuracing.com/products/SQUARE-Wheels-G6-Model-%252d-17x9-%252b15-4x114.3-%28set-of-4%29.html http://www.enjukuracing.com/products/Miro-STP%252d1-16x9-4x114.3-ET-%252b15-Offset.html

Truthfully i only liked the last set. Im not really looking for rims at the moment anyways :D MASSIVE UPDATE TO COME :P

REALLY i hope u get your swap done soon as well then we can road trip and visit every one ;P

:laugh: Sounds good dude. I got some shit up my sleeve before that..,Things i am going to hold out on for now and not mention in this thread ;D. Spending $100-$400+ tomorrow, $400+ on the weekend, and i dono how much next week, Then in another week or soo im going to spend about 2000+  :sick: My car officially holds the check book...

But i got some pics to show that i have started on "Fixing things"
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And these are nothing special  :shifty:

Been busy. Also a word of advise, Bolt on is NEVER BOLT ON... Been holding off on putting these in for MONTHS! i test fit one side awhile back and found out the control arms need a "Little" modding.... Cutting, grinding, then full structural reinforcement of the lower control arms because of the cutting and grinding :yay!:
 Finally said to hell with it and got to work
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12.2" X 1.25" Directional vane rotors with 4 piston calipers and stainless braided brake lines. I am working on upgrading my rears to  :thinking:

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Sirius Satilite radio

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DET is on its way out for work

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Waiting to see if i use this r200 or not

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Set of hard stance coilovers

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S13 front hubs with good rotors and brakes

Plus a crap ton of more parts.... 4 Rubbermaid bins, 3 boxs and a laundry bin along with other stuff just lying about

Yeah i had to grind away a couple times at the lca to make them fit. They also say 15" can be used with that kit but i barely fit 16's over it

Did you box-weld yours to? Trying to decide on my nice stiff coilovers and the s13 stuff or my lowering springs and the brake kit :(.. If i keep this kit then i am taking the arms to work and powder coating them. If i dont sleep in, ill try to fit the stock 15" rims on in the morning before i go to the shop so i can maybe sell them to make more room in my garage

http://brampton.canadianlisted.com/car-parts/nissan-200sx-s12-turbo-engine-with-5-spped-transmission_669323.html (http://brampton.canadianlisted.com/car-parts/nissan-200sx-s12-turbo-engine-with-5-spped-transmission_669323.html)
Now i need another 200sx to put one in T_T

Fuck you to ca20.. Who needs a voltage regulator, you thought you could win by scaring me into thinking you caught fire as fuses started to pop. After i found your problem I won by turning on my high beams, full blast on my heater and my sub on full bass at volume 28.
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Car meet and cruise to cypress :) A member of a local car forum  popped this pic up and i must say i love it!
(Thanks again nabs from Revscene.net)
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Stranded roadside with snapped lugs fucking Fucking fuck
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Prolowtone on 10:53:22 PM / 30-Dec-10Tuner lugs

Alomst 2 years and 5 months since i updated this..
Not alot of good has happened to the old girl. I couldnt get the proper lug nuts for the rims without going back to the same ones and it was hard to find 16" rims that where thin enough to fit the short factory lugs but the proper offset to clear the big brake kit. I left my 17s on the front and put the stock rims on the rear, a few days later someone tried to break into it by punching my lock which snapped the back and prevented them from getting in but i cant find a new lock. THEN Both my cars got towed due to my Strada manager being an ass, calling in my cars as abandoned when i was in the middle of moving out.

The black car was towed safely (I would have gotten jail time)...  I get back after dropping a load of stuff off to the New house to find my both my cars are gone from our parking area behind the complex and moms jeep has a large pink tow sticker on it aswell so i rip it off and call the company after moving the jeep. I go down to their impound and found why they were towed. While waiting to go into the yard to get my cars i see through the gate that they had the ass of my grey car lifted off the ground by a forklift moving it across the impound. My head started ringing..

I go talk to the girl at the front desk who tells me the car is dead and needed a jump but brings me into the back where i discover the worst nightmare.
The Grey car (Project Lost Attraction) was towed into something that made a 1' 7" gash in the passenger fender, cut the passenger tire down to the cords and damaged my rim, scratched the mirror and dented/Cracked my front bumper and because they didnt secure the steering wheel so my wheel bar spun up when the front tires turned during the tow and smashed the bloody hell out of the windshield. and when they lifted the rear with the forklift the dented in my gas tank.

I lost all motivation to even look at either of the cars after then and stored them since other then the 4 times had the black car out. I work away more often then im home but have been helping to build and maintain other cars so i wasnt out completely but i was certainly on a bit of a hiatus.


After working away and not being home for a year  at a time i managed to get up the gumption to start into the car again as my newyear resolution.
Making plans on the build again and Installing and Prepping stored and recently purchased parts for install  :evillaugh:


Testfit on the Black car



Fronts clearing strut by maybe 2 mm but clearing the calipers. I the had them dismounted from the bald tires and they are inline for restoration  :cool2:


Other stuff




Partcery shopping in an hour also missing a Z32 front calipers. I still have an entire shelf full of new parts


Tomorrow is my last day home for probably another year. And for those of you that remember my baby brother, He is on a good path for turning 2 in a few days. He loves burnout vids of s12's, He loves cars and anything with wheels sofar. He is joined to my hip when im here the past week hahaha. I get photos of him pulling stuff apart to see how it work just like i did  :angel: still think mother would kill me if he stsrted getting greasy in the garage with me. Maybe this time next year  :thumbsup:

Awesome!

You had more control than I would have. I think heads would be rolling if they did that to my cars. At bare minimum there would be multiple lawsuits involved and the manager would be fired, as well as whoever at the tow company f-ed up my car(s).

Tried to sue but i was put aside as my insurance was up so no money to be made for the monopolized BC government and they somehow consider that parking area as a public road and continued to say i should have gotten tickets ontop of it all. Im away to much and would lose more money if had to miss work and pay for a layer and the rest of those fees. Bullshit eh. Tow company showed me the drivers inspection sheet and that the damage was there before he towed it.. as if he couldnt write more damage on the sheet after he started towing the car and smashed it!

The cars were parked here but the black car was in front of the grey car so how did it get hit at all on the front and passenger sides. Whatever tho, Nothing i can do now as mad as i am, Just need to acquire new fender and front bumper and windshield. 

That's great that you had the inspiration to resume your build. Unfortunately there are lots of people in this world that just plain suck for no damn reason. Good luck bro.

Hahaha Thanks :)

Hey Pro, are those Enkei Zokus???

Hahaha yes they are. Thanks, I didnt know what they were called. they are 17X7