Full Build - Restoration of JDM Nissan 180SX

I am so glad that you are here joining us for this build series because this car has been 20 years in the making and some cars are just absolute Classics absolute bangers absolute best of all time of their specific era in space and time on the Continuum I would agree with all of that I used to have one of these cars 20 years ago I didn't I wanted to modify it I wanted to make it mad I neither had the friends skills or money to do it at that stage you get all the information off the internet everybody that was on the phones for these cars they're always Stone they didn't even go on car cruises they just smoke a bong and Float home but now all these years later we're doing it properly as weirdly as we can smoking bongs as we don't do that and we're not floating home just yet we're skidding home we're gonna track float home on a cloud of Joy once this build's finished but it's not finished it's just kicking off we really hope you enjoy this build series because we are we are so excited we're so excited so thanks for joining us and enjoy the build of the 180sx thanks if somebody asks you what is the best car in the world you would probably say two-door STI a Volkswagen up and you might be right except you're wrong it's actually an SR20 powered 180sx it's cool this here is going to be the dream build of creating the ultimate 180sx foreign welcome to another episode of Mighty Car Mods now before we kick off people I just want to have a quick chat about some facts and figures and the madness that has been going on in the used car scene now I bought this car in 2019 and I actually think I paid way too much for it I've got the receipt here I bought this car for nine thousand three hundred dollars which is about 1 000 American dollars now even nearly 20 years ago my mates were buying these for nine thousand dollars eight thousand ten thousand dollars kind of the same so pretty much for the last 20 years the price of these has kind of just kind of been going like this and then in the last two years yeah something happened something crazy happened people that I'm calling car gate was that like an EVO leaving a meat it's like a Mustang leaving a meat is the madness that happened with used car prices now there are two 180sx's for sale right now in Australia one of them is a completely munted non-turbo that's had a different engine put in it it's thirty five thousand dollars and then there's another one that's like that that does have an SR20 it is turbine five-speed um and it's like five hundred thousand dollars so what is going on I don't know but it would look like this car which is basically stock and super clean yep well um well yes it's filthy but it's super stock clean from instance don't look too closely we'll we'll fill you in good from afar but far from good um but now because I actually have a history with these cars with s13s non turbo 180s gtas s15s it's now time to actually make the ultimate 180sx the car that I always wanted but couldn't do and now I'm going to do and you know what it's actually not going to be that crazy this is my plan a nice clean streetable 180 SX with 180 kilowatts wrong at the wheels wrong what you put you if you don't make a thousand horsepower you're not really a problem I'm not making a thousand horsepower now how much would this make right now it hasn't been dynoed I don't need to dyno I can tell you it's going to make 110 kilowatts maybe 100 so I'm pretty much going to do the exhaust that makes 128 and then with a boost control it makes 135 and then it goes bang so if you put 91 off I'm aiming for 180 but maybe I'll have a little flicky flick switch there that takes it up to 220 which is kind of what makes it awesome but the goal is 180sx 180 kilowatt we're going 90 style people yeah 90s style so before we jump in let's just show you what we're working with today and then there is a boot full of spare parts and then there is stuff that has been ordered all over the world that is incoming for this car I'm very very excited this is what this is what I'm all about people I mean and and this and yeah and Falafel is good anyway let's have a quick look around the car and then let's dive into the build welcome it's going to be a magical journey it's going to be great come with us it's gonna be awesome magic The Mighty Nissan 180sx is probably my favorite car out of Japan before prices went crazy these were an affordable way to get into modifying Cars track days and drifting with a 2-liter turbocharged rear-wheel drive manual package with a design that has actually stood the test of time this one is quite simply the best condition 180sx I have ever seen and I am going to honor that while also making it my own and building the car that I always wanted as a kid but never did there are a few areas that need some attention most notably under the Bonnet where it looks like we've got a blown turbo so people 180sx you've got a bit of info about it there were about 300 000 at least JDM ones built possibly or some people are actually holding on to them as Collectibles because as years pass and laws change in different countries looking at you America um it's then legal to have them these did go to America in this stage and also these things were built for a whole 10 years even when the next model came out which says a bit about the popularity this is technically a hatchback um but I just want to take you back a bit because I've spent a bit of time in some 180 stock ones modified ones over the years and also back when they weren't cool I mean they were cool because it was a JDM car but they weren't like you know forty thousand dollars plus they were just nuggets that you picked up if you'd upgraded from a Corolla or a pulsar um so firstly stock not that fast yes they make turbo noises yes it's got an SR20 in it but they weren't that fast you weren't really going to beat you know a Skyline or a modified thing rexies would give them a run for their money on the launch back in the day um so really it wasn't this Fantastical magical Driving Experience um can you drift a stock one yeah particularly if you've got one with an LSD in it um they they go sideways well which is kind of partly what made them so popular but everyone modified them now why do they modify them because of the reasons I just said they were kind of a little bit slow they were kind of yeah okay at drifting but you could modify them for cheap and get a huge huge result these days maybe that's not as possible if you go and buy a brand new you know golfer you've got to spend big money and you know it's a big thing to go and go a bit faster with these it wasn't difficult exhaust boost controller and Away you go so that's pretty much what everyone did any 180 that you saw had Wheels coilovers suspension Springs boost controller front mount that's kind of what it had and then The Crazy Ones people would put Skyline engines in them or they would you know build the engines and go stupid with Boost but we didn't have the fuel back in the day to make a thousand horsepower like you can today which is why you see cars doing it Martin you are strumming my skin they were modified weren't they no because that's exactly what I had my 180 yeah it's it's kind of like you've got a Vertex style kit I say vertex style because most people it's like I've got a Vertex kit that they got off missing Soviet no it wasn't it was a Vertex style kit you do a front mount you do an exhaust you do an intake you do some coilovers and off you go I cannot even believe that I'm saying this we are actually cracking out oh we're gonna have a purity I can't even believe it like I can't if you told me 10 15 years ago that you would need a purity box for a 18 SX I would have laughed at you but I know there's some people out there saying stop they should just be stuck the Purity they should never change we never mess with them it's beautiful this is a pretty nice one anyway so yeah it's pretty clean but we are going to feel completely yes we're not going to throw this stuff in the bin we are going to throw anything we pull off and put in the Purity box we're not pulling that much stuff off but we are going to do some tasteful nice modifications just like everyone at ESX in the world has ever had before yes it's going to be good now it's also probably worth saying this car is currently unregistered um my where did my paperwork go you kicked it do you know where I keep you stomped on it 186 Purity box there we go there it is people back to standard if it happens what I don't know why you would but hey it's there at the authorized inspection station 180sx oh fail fail so it failed and then but when you go down to the notes and you go reason for the fail probably not surprising in the best possible result they could be is um the tires were bold on the back and that was probably because this person did a lot of very sensible runs to the shopping center buy their dog food so um there is a whole bunch of stuff in the boot that came with the car we're going to pull it out we're going to see what we've got like I said we've got lots of stuff coming I think we just need to start just exploding it yep getting everything done now we also drove this car we took it around the truck and it was just blowing more blue smoke than its previous owners yeah so um we need to compression test it and then the big exciting thing that's happening is the turbo there is going in the bin in the Purity box oh sorry in the Purity box it's not going in the bin it's going in Purity box so one of the best things about buying a used car like this that is actually something that's quite Niche is it actually came with a couple of boxes of spare parts so we're just going to have a look through and see what we've got uh what it is that we need to keep and what can go in the bin I mean the purity box so I'm gonna put that one there get the Purity box over here and let's just start seeing what we've got so we also need the bin Martin can we please put some of this in the bin yeah oh yes in the bin all right so for example we probably can't put a flare in the bin can we probably go at a boat shop let's see what's going on over here all right so are they coils these are these are like the special yes are they actually all right coils I think they are oh yeah they're basically what you find on Volkswagens but they're good upgrades for SRS awesome that's on the gtir as well great so yeah NGK coils and we have there's four of them which is how many we need so that is good button that's come with one of these what is a 180sx without one of those hang off the bat even though no one couldn't actually travel Japan for years and seen one or used one uh We've also got some stock hoses which is pretty cool so brand new genuine Nissan hoses which is cool I believe that's a battery tray which is cool oh battery support awesome that goes over the top of the hoses another one of these what's that for I know but they're little there's four nuts for something um pit work as well I feel like pit work is JDM well yeah that isn't oil filters yeah you do see them and there's lots of them so either they're planting on lots of oil changes or you've got basically like two years of ownership right there for your Sr Bam Bam box we've done a whole episode on how to install one of those pieces of [ __ ] and yeah more batteries faced up I don't actually know what that's for someone else oh yes look at this one oh a new shift boot it legit needs one of those that's unreal it's a good mods I believe that's sump plug cable Tire stunt plug I don't know what they are oh some plug washers yes someone cares about this car man what's that oh that's for uh what see I do not know why the car came with this one what is it nice face still don't look yet no it won't hurt you much I don't like it there you go what is it it's a bow time there you go okay fantastic um and little green things I guess they go somewhere and a pit work belt oh that's actually good man that's like a full major service right there that's awesome I believe these things are timing chain so we have to do a timing belt over here is a bit more kind of random stuff uh you've got your bow tie and your tissues there you go um there's a bunch of mounts here uh that's for adjusting coilovers that can probably go I think they're in the bin battery terminals NGK spark plugs just kind of random random things the things that are handy to have all right let's compression test it then let's just pull it apart sure and throw all the old stuff in the bin done so the person in the YouTube comments that was upset that I got rid of my rubber floor mats from my Volkswagen up this is for you and you can get I I was going to use that one and I was going to use that dude no no look what look what is it Nissan motorco March that's not 180 mats wow you chucked them up that is legit worth a lot of money you chucked my floor mats in there they came with this car that is not yours but you can have it that is legit worth money mine what else is in here we got March floor mats with the 180sx that is insane thank you that is insane the comment section now quite liking my mats is it possible that he's here uh for the back of the March uh yeah but look they're pretty like someone's oh it says March it says March it's worth money did you chop these in huh oh wait on that says March dude there's a rare one what are the chances there you go take those I could have used them in my build um and now these ones in the bin March too do the whole boot of floor mats is Nissan much stuff what does that say that says Nissan dude legit that is worth money I'm not even joking yeah it's worth money sick what is this that was in the boot I don't know open it can you open it oh do you know what I think that is I think that is the um that's the sunroof sunroom piece of the I do you do not you don't come on man that never just delete it edit that bit now that we've seen what kind of extra loot we got in the boot when we bought it the first step is to jack up the car and investigate what's going on under the Bonnet the Bonnet is what we call the hood in Australia and we call the trunk the boot and gas we call that petrol because it's not a gas power's in kilowatts measurements in centimeters and shrimps are called prawns damn it and people over revving their Hondas through fart can exhaust we call them [ __ ] we're removing the spark plugs so we can see what kind of condition they're in and then we're gonna set up for a compression test so because the car's been sitting the battery's a bit tired we are going to put it on charge it's still in good enough condition to keep but I do have a jumper pack on it just because we're going to be cranking we've got our compression tester on cylinder one we're looking for 150 160 but most importantly is consistency along the whole lot so throttle open fuel pump off all the spark plugs out and give it a crank please sir here we go yep 160. 160. yep so this one's 160. and smell old fuel we go ahead and test all four cylinders and they're looking healthy at 160 PSI I just want to highlight how good the interior is of this 180sx a lot of the time when you get these cars there's kind of holes in the dash from where people in Japan have put gauges and all sorts of random accessories and stuff this is so clean it is I mean I've never seen anything like it the doors the carpets the handles there's no cracking on it there's no stains or marks on it it's just it's amazing so pumped so as part of our mild modifications we are going to do a coil upgrade we're doing that because we are also going to go to an aftermarket ECU to give us a bit more control and also give us the ability to do that now this Factory coils are known for cracking and sure enough even that first one has a giant crack the whole way down here and it just it just makes them misbehave it's sort of a common fix so back in the day you could just put replacement coils as aftermarket options as well we're going to go for an even more modern coil that does require an aftermarket ECU to run it so all this is going to get disconnected and pulled off we just make a new little sub Loom that goes from here into the new coils three out of four yeah that one cylinder four straight down there yep it's under three two survived somehow probably because they've got probably because that one got replaced yeah back when I had my 180 when I was young um every few months or something it felt like you had to change these because I could never afford to change all four of them at once so your cards start running terribly you replace one of them uh basically you know unplugging and plugging them in again to try and work out which one it was and then you replace that one and then a few months later you're doing another one and it's just it's just heat and age these are like right down in the top of the rocker cover and they get hot and they get old and brittle technology has advanced though so the new ones that are in there should last forever do you know where these ones can go Martin absolutely they can so I'm moving the intercooler piping so we can access the turbo I'm going to remove that because that one there is going in the bin and dirty box what in the Purity box sorry it's going into the Purity box uh and we have got a JDM S15 T28 brand new uh on its way which hopefully will be here soon so nothing too unexpected under here it does have aircon but there's no belt on it and there's a lot of grease and crud on the wheel which makes me think it hasn't been on there for a while a lot of oil on the sump but generally that's coming from somewhere else some people look at the sump and go oh I've got an oil leak down low usually it's up top and it's running down to the sump and just covering everything got a rear main seal leak as well that can end up with a slipping clutch so I think we will replace a clutch in this did you say there's some leaks under this 180sx one um and the other thing that's good to replace as well if you don't know how long it's been done is rocker cover because a lot of the time just the smallest rocker cover leak can drip down and just cause an absolute mess so I don't know where else Sylvia's leak from but rear main certainly and rocker cover certainly and there's quite a few over on the this side where the alternator is so we're going to fix all that because we should because it's a mad car needs to be fixed next up I'm going to spray all the old uh nuts and bolts with some WD-40 specialist penetrant it's a good idea to do this first uh get under here spray it all do other stuff do we've got to do give it time to get in there and then you can release it the dump pipe bolts and the ones on the back of the turbo and the exhaust are notorious for being Rusty and gross on pretty much all cars so I'm going to just spray every bolt in that whole setup and then come back later with some long spanners and attempt to crack them without breaking stuff we need to access the turbo so the next thing to come off the car is the exhaust this this is made easier by spraying some of the rubber exhaust hangers with WD-40 silicon spray and then removing each section while this car may still have decent levels of Purity it doesn't mean it's all in good condition so you can see also from up here that some of these hoses are starting to crack as well so we're obviously going to be replacing all of this with a new piping kit but these are kind of some of the things that you wouldn't normally see particularly a crack like this which is going to be hidden underneath these hose clamps so all of that stuff is going in the Purity bin box the next thing to come off is the front bar so we've got better access and so we can remove the factory side mounted intercooler we are keeping these SSR wheels for now so that it's easy to move the car around but eventually we will replace them with something else so we took our spark plugs out to do our comp test we are going to throw a new set of NGK bkr6e plugs in that is the one that is uh usually recommended on the factory listing for an SR20 a lot of people go to sevens you're chasing a lot more power we're not chasing a lot more power uh these will be totally fine for our purpose so we're going to put them in just so nothing Falls in there we are probably going to read a rocker cover gasket but that doesn't affect the spark plug so I'm just going to wind them straight back in standard spark plugs like these ones have a useful service life of somewhere between 20 and 40 000 K's that's going to be less in an engine that's tuned for more power or being tracked and thrashed more modern cars often use iridium or platinum tips in the center and ground electrode which can go upwards of a hundred thousand K's before needing replacement the front bar is ready to come off and go straight into the bin except it doesn't fit I've got another front bar to go on which is an upgrade that I'll be showing you as the build progresses but for now we've finally got access to the turbo so it's time to get it gone all right this has been released from its prison oh there it is please take it mate it's all yours should be disconnected hopefully something down there trick is to take the manifold off with all the lines still attached all right there you go let's have a look at what we've got here Martin so this here is the factory turbo off the 180sx uh which is around 30 years old yeah the 90s was that long ago the car's also done around 110 000 K's according to the dash but it is an import and it's possible that there was some sneaky shimming in going on somewhere so maybe it's done 150 160 hundred and eighty thousand K's so that there is going to be replaced with a new turbo that is going to be due here soon which I'm going to go through with you which is very very exciting but for now this one here which we intuitively think there's something wrong with because it was blowing a lot of smoke this one here can just go in the bin so the factory turbo is now gone uh the front bar is off which is going to give us access to the side mount intercooler which is literally about this big now I know there are going to be some Purity police out there but we are increasing the Boost and I want to put a front mount on there and I've already bought it and already paid for it plus they look mad they do they do look good so that is coming so I'll get rid of the piping and the actual core of that uh what about you Martin so we also noticed when we drove at the track that the suspension was a bit sort of clunky and thrashed it does have aftermarket coilovers in it but these are meant to be rebuilt um occasionally when they wear them out if especially if you're in a hard time doing skids so we think these are a bit we're out but we've actually got some others that we want to put in that should make the ride Bellissimo yeah um so we're probably going to swap them out these ones are going in the bin the other thing as well is this has the s13 turbo brakes which is I understand it a single pot calipers um very typical of what you'd see on a base model Subaru Impreza or a pulsar like they're just a bit bigger but there's nothing particularly flash about them so there are a number of break upgrades you can do on these including 300ZX calipers and calipers from other Nissan's GTR brakes gtst brakes stuff like that you have to dial it in with how many studs you got and we're staying four stud so we're going to try and find ourselves a little break nice Factory suite upgrade it was a very common thing to do back in the day to do a five stud conversion because then you've got way more options for wheels and things like that but I'm I'm straddling the Purity fence it's like part of me wants to make the car way better which we're going to do the other part of me wants to kind of relive my youth of having a 180 so there's certain things that I want to do that may not make sense to everyone but they make sense to me you know what I mean I just want to keep it four-starred until I realize there aren't enough Wheels available and then I'll be back here telling you why it's a really got a good idea to change the fight if you can find four stud wheels and you can fit your brakes you don't there's no other huge benefit for something making 200 kilowatts anyway um yeah anyway so look this suspension is coming out which is easy on this car uh we'll take the brakes off and then I'm going to start dismantling the rear of the car because we've got some changes happening back there as well I'm refreshing my memory of pulling apart the rear of a 180sx by watching a video of me pulling apart the rear of a 180sx on YouTube that we made many years ago all of this stuff is going in the bin I mean the Purity box and we're going to be upgrading the back with a Type X cookie rear conversion all the factory boost control is coming out along with the aftermarket boost control system which is in there so we're just going to replace it with a new Mac valve you can recycle that kind of stuff but it's often a good idea for the money is to play it safe with one that you know works so that's going to come out we might reuse that mounting system we'll get some new hoses on there as well and throw this all in the Purity box what are they in the Purity box I mean yeah is that a cocky rear end and one's a kooky one's a bookie and a schmooky isn't that what you call it all those words make me feel a bit weird people call them I've got a schmooky kook MR2 do ya yeah good for you man all right in the bin 30 bucks people and I'm gonna buy an MR2 with it what stop it don't put on the bin dude no it's not it's like we're doing a kooky conversion sorry I can't even say I didn't mean I can't even say that no we had to cover you with a goat what is it don't talk it's a [ __ ] Martin don't talk you wasting something I'm not putting them in there put them in the Purity box that's what I'm storing them in there until you can have a pure shitty looking 180 using those lights I'm just storing them in there until the bin gets taken just one just put in there why are you so upset about set the internet just be cool I'm destroying your car so you should do what the internet is [Music] next up it's time to remove the coilovers which should be a simple and quick process but due to one of these bolts being completely thrashed it's taking way longer and is way smokier than it should be foreign [Music] again [Music] next up I can remove the tiny Factory side mount intercooler [Music] all right [Music] y people here's where we're at front bar in the bin intercooler bin intercooler piping in the bin turbocharger bin exhaust in the bin wheels and tires spin Brakes in the bin suspension bin rear lights in the bin Santa garnish spin oh make it stop did I forget anything Martin I don't know but by bin we mean Purity box we don't actually mean the bin for most of the items that he just rattled off no Purity box you know what I love about this things like the power steering and the belts and all the other stuff that are really boring to fix and modify they all work really well and everything's really clean we slap some injectors in this we slap an ECU in this we slap an exhaust and a mad turbo on it yeah and we're good man it's going to be great excellent so we've been doing lots of ordering online and a massive box has arrived with a bunch of random stuff so we've got a uh it's a water line kit we've got some dampers for the Bonnet like different struts so you get rid of that which kind of makes it cooler that one there I'll show you that in a minute that I'm very very excited about um boot kit because they're rooted oil filter we did already get some of these with the car but they are there that's a fuel filter that one is some what's in there ah NGK iridium spark plugs which is cool uh and then we have for the proper old school we've got a bullet front mount intercooler kit that's in that oh that's I think um oh rocker cover gasket man that's good in here we have let's have a little look all of this will be going on I gather this is probably parts for the front mount intercooler kit which is yep hoses clamps stuff like that and then in here ah turbo gasket I think some of them are going to be coming with the turbo anyway and then Here We Go the actual core for the front mount look at that you know that's just going to be you know it's going to be ah adjust your pants everyone so that's that now Martin's going to show you some chisel and then I'm going to show the turbo I also have some amazing modifications to unbox which I'm going to show you and then we're going to smash them into the vehicle the first is a set of shock Works coilovers which are made specifically for this 180sx we're also able to specify oh cool shirts we're also able to specify um what damping rate we want it on the Springs as well to kind of keep it nice and streetable which is important I think because you put really really stiff coil levels in the street car you run it and then you never want to drive it we want the opposite effect with this so there is some very sweet looking shocks work coilovers now a lot of the people that make this kind of stuff shot works are a good example you just talk to them first and you say what this is what I want to do with the car this is how I'm going to use it and then they can sort of give you some advice on what weight spring and the valving for inside the shock itself so that's mad it's got a full set of coilovers to suit our four stud vehicle the other handling mods we have as well is a bunch of white line gear which is pretty cool this is a sway bar kit specifically for the 180 or so so we've got heavy duty sway bar links and front and rear sway bars just show you because they're freaking awesome these are also adjustable so you can fine tune your suspension by fine tuning how stiff the sway bar is or where you mount it which sort of changes the way that it behaves which is excellent so we have our handling mods which is our coilovers and our sway bars like that get around the diff and get around the exhaust Etc which is pretty awesome so throw them on replaces the factory ones and then excitingly also coils I spoke about last time this is what's really cool though this is a a coil fitting kit so this helps adapt the Volkswagen style NGK coils to our Nissan now you can get ones for various Nissan vehicles s13 S4 ms-15 and the only thing that changes is the plug on the end so what's cool about that is that now plugs directly in which means you don't have to make your own Loom and then this end plugs into your cart now because we are going to be adding a aftermarket ECU in the form of a haltech elite uh we'll change this plug because we've got to run wires up from the ECU up to here so we can do sequential ignition injection all that sort of stuff which is pretty much that's a loom we got from vag parts and this is the last and exciting part as well is our haltech Elite and Associated bits we've also got a plug-in adapter so we can plug directly into the factory Looms in good condition so why wouldn't you boost control solenoid as well which you spoke about last time and then we've got our haltech Elite 1000 I believe this is no 1500 cool there's a haltek elite 1500 which you could convert that to ease throttle if you wanted to but we're not going to today and we also have our wide band which means the car is constantly sniffing its exhaust to making sure everything's working and there's no pingers going on like that so that's all the stuff we're going to throw in it looks like a lot but this is all like relatively easy and bolting which is very very cool we also have a clutch in case the car ends up needing that which it probably will and we've got a new radiator over here so that is going in just to uh make sure the car actually runs at the correct temperatures because it's still other than one or two laps that's done at the track where it's just blue blue smoke everywhere we're not really sure what our state everything is in and then we have over here our turbo which I'm not even going to unbox until it's ready to actually put that on because I'm just I'm trying to delay the gratification and excitement just a little bit because there is so much mad stuff to go on the car so what has changed a little bit between now and like 20 years ago and you modded on the same mods is just a replacement radiator probably would have been over two grand for something that's like custom made now this stuff's been around for so long there's been so much r d so much development processes have gotten cheaper you can get mods and do all this stuff with awesome new gear for a lot cheaper than it used to be absolutely and so when I had my 180sx back in the I guess early 2000s a front mount kit installed on your car was around two and a half thousand dollars absolute Madness now you can buy a front mount like a really good quality one for five six hundred bucks 700 bucks anyway let's jump in let's run the music let's do this modifying cars doesn't always mean more power even though it usually kinda does it also means making the car run better and more reliably and one often overlooked issue here is cooling it is hot in Australia for most of the Year winter usually only requires some Woolen undies and a hot water bottle to get through and it barely gets into the single digits so we have some mad new parts to go in to help with cooling but first we need to clean up the dirty mess this Nissan has ejected out all over itself so if you need to measure some stuff up uh make sure you check out the all-new black Mighty Car Mods tape measure while many parts of the car will remain pure there is one piece that's about to get chopped and that's the battery tray to make way for the cold side piping of the new front mounted intercooler there are some measurements available in Japanese and using a translator helps us get a basic idea of what to do once the hole's been chopped I'll be keeping the spirit of Nissan Alive by painting the exposed edges with 240Z white left over from our Fair Lady RV project with the radiator out and everything else out of the way this is the best possible time to do some belts and our previous owner has very kindly supplied us with the belt so I'm going to rip off these old ones they look not great and uh replace them this 180 has some serious oil leaks it appears to not just be engine oil but power steering fluid as well and the aircon looks pretty sad I'm going to clean up the pulleys and replace the shagged belts and then clean everything down so I can try and identify exactly where these leaks are coming from meanwhile I'm getting our new front mounted intercooler installed [Music] everything I should [Music] while we're up the front of the car we're installing our new black alloy radiator these are affordable offer better Cooling and don't have 30 year old plastic end tanks that can blow off while you're waiting for your drive-through slop dropping on me [Music] [Applause] [Music] push me harder [Music] for any Purity police now would be a good time to look away from the screen I need to make some minor adjustments with an angle grinder yes angle grinder and minor are not words that are usually associated with each other but in this case some trimming is required to fit in around the new intercooler longer a fuel pump upgrade is one of the first mods you should consider when going for more power a consistent fuel supply means less chance of detonation and stable mixtures good quality aftermarket pumps are cheap these days but beware of going too big and trying to flow more fuel than the rest of the system can accommodate that usually causes more problems than it fixes now because Nissan love car enthusiasts they made it really easy to change the fuel pump in a water nesx you pop the boot lid you pull out the plate at the bottom of the boot and You Yank it out this is the original fuel pump looks very similar to the MR2 one of a similar era that I pulled out once and similar to the super turbo one funnily enough that's the cradle that it goes into now we're going to put a new fuel pump in it is possible to over pump your car you base it on the power figure that you're chasing we know we're going for 180 to 200 kilowatts we don't need a huge pump that's a raceworks e85 compatible pump as well we're going to put that in so a little adaption happens it comes with a bunch of fittings and rubbers and stuff to try and help make it work because this works with a multitude of different fuel hangers I'm going to pop that in and we'll have all the fuel supply that we need there's often a variety of housings and brackets that you can install your pump onto if you can get a specific drop-in kit for your car with everything done that will make things easier if you're customizing it make sure the pickup point and filter sock are in the same position as the original then make sure it's firmly secured and always use new hose that's submersible if it's inside the tank so the front man in the cooler is in the piping is in the radiator is in we have a massive list of things to do of which only three things have been written off how are you going exactly right fuel pumps in as well which is a big one because we didn't need all that and this all had to happen first so there's a few things still to happen with turbos and ecu's and other fun things we actually don't have our injectors yet so we're waiting for some new injectors and then we'll be able to slap that in as well and we're actually believe it or not not that far from just turning the key I know it doesn't look like it but it is a pleasure to work on this nugget isn't it if you've got an old nugget like this guess what it's worth more than 33 dollars now I bought this for nine thousand dollars but its value has gone through the roof Shannon's is a sponsor of our show and all of our cars are insured with them and when this is on the road registered and rolling around it is also going to be in short with Shannon's um they do agreed value so if you like me have bought a car for 3.50 and now because of the crazy second-hand prices that are going around it's gone up um give Shannon's a call and um and adjust your adjust your um value you'll end up speaking to someone who knows about cars so if you go I've got a 180 they'll know right away why you're calling and it won't be because you blew it up yeah it'll be because the value has gone up and it's worth updating every single year injectors need to arrive if we can change them fuel pressure regulator as well then we slap our turbine and how taken we Plumb everything we plug it in we fill it full of coolant we change all the fluids yes and our exhaust actually looks pretty good really good um I'm just trying to work out whether to go full me 20 years ago Canon or the twin tip I just I don't know what do you think what do you think man twin tips there's nothing wrong with the big cannon either Martin that's true um even though you know you if if you if it's too loud you're too old man that's definitely true all right all right let's um let's kick on I just want to let everyone know because I think it's important that this 180 is bloody excellent it's so good it's so good man I mean except for the enormous gigantic hit it's had on the front that probably bent one chassis rails into the other it hasn't been hit at all in stats so bad no it hasn't but it's a nice car that's been stacked that's been looked after all the parts are really nice nothing's Rusty in my wanted it's just really good man it's very happy even better now if you didn't already what is the plan for this car a 180sx with 180 kilowatts of the wheel which is about 80 more urban Mr Drifter is meant to come with um today it's getting a new turbo now we don't need a massive turbo because we're only aiming for 180 kilowatts of the wheels which is not a huge amount of power but it's actually going to be a really good amount of power for this to be a fun street car and get me back to my youth people so we are replacing the Shag Factory Turbo with a T28 ball bearing turbo this is from a JDM S15 random fact I ordered this um from high school and the guy rang me and said do you know who I am and I said no but I hope you're going to send me a turbo and he said I was the one that helped you rebuild the turbo for your Miss Daisy project which was our SDI engine in the back of the beetle that you can see up there small world now here it is this is exciting now if you're going to replace something Marty's in My Philosophy as always try and replace it with something better if you're going to go to all the effort of taking it out and redoing it you may as well so I could have got something the same as what was in there or tried to rebuild it but if you can go better go better now Martin do you want to bring that one over and we'll have a look the biggest difference I can see so far look how much bigger the wastegate actuator is compared to that one and importantly the front housing massive difference so much size difference but it uses the same plan so they say T28 because this flange here is the same which means you can use it on our stock manifold which is a low Mount setup so the other option is that flips the other way and you have it sitting up nice and high and proud but this can retains the uh the stock positioning which also means we can use these lines so someone's put aftermarket lines on the turbo for cooling and oil we'll be able to reuse all that now I know some people you know want to make a million horsepowers for their youtubing and their views and all that other stuff but ultimately that stuff can often lead to a sacrifice in the actual enjoyment and drivability of the car we've experienced it by making cars that have too much power or kind of same core on the internet but they're not that cool like a Mark III golf which is one of our most viewed videos ever that thing was a piglet to drive yeah and just you know and the police would pull you over every time you went out cool for what it was but this here is meant to be a nice car that you can drive regularly that makes good power and is fun enough to do a bunch of different stuff forbearing has a reputation for spooling up a bit quicker and we're just going sort of like a little bit bigger but not heat because if you put a massive turbo on a silver or an Sr with an SR20 in it you get a Dyno curve that just goes certain right at the end and makes heaps of power but otherwise sucks to drive on the road so this is all about mid-range and just being able to punch the throttle it responds and it goes and while there are sometimes recipes of what turbos work in different configurations we know that this one here is going to work because this is a factory delivered turbo on an SR20 for a more recent model S15 so we know it's going to work so today we're getting the turbo going uh we're also getting our coilovers we want to get the car rolling again yeah so that's happening um some brakes I also bought uh some seats off Facebook marketplace now I'll show you these in a little while all you need to know is just to remind you the car costs nine thousand dollars and so did the seats not quite but I mean I mean almost I mean it's it's when the seats cost almost as much as the car you know we're in crazy times when it comes to secondhand Goods people absolutely crazy times so goals so far uh get the turbo on get the coilovers on you've probably seen by now that we've opened a new workshop called Super Garage um so why aren't we using the Hoist because we was at that project and that plays up so other projects there's an RX7 in there there's two other cars in there and we've got some friends in there that are doing their project because workshops are like Utes everyone wants to use them so we put a lot of time and money into setting up that space and today we will be on our backs again in here as we have it for the last seven years it'll be fine all right let's get to it this Factory turbo has been spinning away furiously for almost three decades and I'm stoked to be replacing it with something brand new that's capable of making even more power but everything is Rusty and rounded off and that means everything takes longer than it should so this particular nut here on the manifold is already rounded over most of them look like they're fairly thrashed I actually can't get that one off I'm going to use some of the WD-40 specialist penetrant fast release and just let that soak in and just give it a little bit more and then focus on another one I don't want to leave that one to last because as Marty says if you leave the hardest one to last it'll be even harder so there is one more to get to which is under the line so I'm just going to leave that to soak in for a little bit take this off and then we'll get back to that hopefully I can separate them without using an angle grinder yourself [Music] when we pull this apart I noticed all the breathing stuff was a little bit smashed like the hoses were unhappy and just cracked and not great so what we've done is we're going to use a different solution for this catch can this is like a factory catch canister thing which is cool but it's kind of in the way of the exhaust manifolds a bit messy and there's heaps of cool aftermarket options out there like this one which is from GK Tech which is an Aussie company and they've made this awesome catch can that actually sits in the spot where your intercooler pipe used to go so once you've got a front mount you can then put this tank in which sits there which looks super neat and it's a really quick and easy run of hoses straight from the outlet here into the tank and then back out again so that's a mad solution looks cool black matches just a bit neater the car is really starting to come together in that mad OEM plus look that I'm going for we've done so much already but there is still so much to do all right that catch can is installed we'll do the hoses once the turbo's in there we also just found out that our side fit injectors are actually back ordered and we can't get them for months so instead we're going to do a top feel top feed rail conversion that's on its way now from Interstate and we'll be able to slap some injectors in with the catch can installed I'm removing anything from the factory turbo that needs to be transplanted over to the new unit [Music] so I've attached the manifold to the turbo everything that looks like it's been set up properly and now um we can boost his calling what's it saying Martin it shows you it's time to begin your journey great let's you're right yep I mean I'm working on a Nissan so as alright as you can be yes we're at that most exciting part of the build where we're installing the turbocharger that magical mystical mysterious and magnificent device that makes everything marvelous except it doesn't fit so the turbo that was already on the car came with this kind of aftermarket hose kit I've reinstalled that in the exact same configuration that it was on the factory turbo but it just seems to be fouling here on the stem of the wastegate actuator so I'm just going to take that off and see if we can kind of maneuver it in a way that's going to make it fit better in the car all right take two reconfigured some of these lines and now let's uh see how we go getting it into place it is pretty common for the factory oil and water lines to fail after lots of thrashing or lots of Turbo swaps it's worth remembering most of this stuff was only ever warranted for three years and when now 10 times that and it's still going strong these aftermarket Replacements are durable but have their own issues of rubbing through things they shouldn't with so many different bits to attach to our spoolie boy we're going to leave it all loose make sure the threads are engaged properly and then tighten it down till it's happy and check it all with a torque wrench [Music] brake caliper upgrade options are limited when you stay with the four start hubs so we're going to stick with the factory brakes for now I'm going to clean up all the old Gunk check the seals and repaint them for an extra 25 kilowatts we'll install brand new upgraded discs and pads as well as new brake lines which should give good pedal feel and good stopping power for our desired power level thank you okay people so it always takes a little bit longer to get things done than you think it's going to get done particularly when things don't always work in their initial configuration and they almost never work in their initial configuration when a car's dissolved bolt on um but the turbo is now mounted manifold is done so that part of it is done except for the drain of the turbo which is not right so it seems to be a different size I don't know if they changed it I'm not aware of it they did but if we need to get a different part it's just the bit that bolts onto the bottom of the turbo and turns from a two bolt into a hose to go back into the sump yeah now we also ordered some more brakes and stuff so we haven't ended up getting the coilovers done today because we're just gonna have to take them out again anyway because there's still a bit of stuff that has to be done up here so basically we want to do that and the brakes and wheels and tires all in one go and the calipers have been fully stripped and blown apart cleaned up they're in really good condition which is awesome don't need a full rebuild all the boots look really good just going to clean it paint them up so they look cool and then uh yeah use that with our new rotors which will get the sort of best we can get with the factory brakes because we're staying four starred it limits you to what brake which you can do so these are fine especially if you upgrade your rotors and pads and make sure your calipers are good we'll put some braided lines on it so it's gonna be good back in the day people did do five side conversions it was a really common modification people did I didn't do that for my massive 16 uh 16 inch wheels but um the parts were just not available we did explore that option but it makes finding Wheels uh really tricky so at least just to get things moving around for now we might end up with these painted or I might just have to buy some cheap wheels off the net until we get something from Japan I'm not sure yet but we will get something just to put on there it may not be the classiest most fancy wheel or the best option but it'll just be enough for us to roll the car around because at some point we've got to do a clutch as well there's just there's lots of things we've also got injectors on the way too so yeah a few deliveries still to come but all fun stuff to put on we've decided to rebuild the factory brakes which should be fine for now for our 180sx with 180 kilowatts Marty's also given them a coat of heat proof red paint and we've got a whole video on how to do this if you want to check it out meanwhile I'm working in the boot trying to get out the existing coilovers which is proving to be harder than expected so I've managed to get one knot off in the back of this 180sx that's drop man [Laughter] um which is a 12 mil but my 12 mils Mana Now does not fit on the other nut so why is it when someone's installed the coilovers only two nuts are required why would they be different and why this one here is okay the other one is just completely rounded over why you don't need to do them that tight I don't understand [Music] the car came with coilovers of unknown conditions so we're going to flip them and install a set of new ones we've also got some mad new slotted brake discs for the front and the back which along with a pad upgrade will be perfect for this level of performance and means we don't have to mess around with the master cylinder or the booster we're installing a set of shock Works coilovers that we've had made specifically for this build that have been valved and sprung to suit how we want the car to handle it is possible to ruin a car's ride if you get the specs really wrong so it pays to do some research first in our case with this car now being a classic we've gone for a setup that's good for 80 Pace foremost to enjoy the Driving Experience we're running 7 kilo and four kilo Springs and one of 15 different valve specs to specifically suit s13 for Street driving but for a sometimes track car like this there is enough flexibility in the built-in adjustment to have a bit of fun only if we went up in a tire size or in full race car would we need to pull it all out and rebuild to suit higher speed and bigger tires so before we put the new brakes on uh we're just cleaning up the Hub and just getting rid of all the grease and grime and grot that's on there of course to clean the brakes by using WD-40 special as brake cleaner that's exactly what this is made for so we're basically going to give it a good Shake soak all of that up and then I'm going to agitate it with a wire brush got a little pan to sit underneath so just catch all of the grot and then that'll be nice and clean for our new brake upgrade after my big battle with the original Factory bolt I've decided to install an adjustable camber bolt kit at the top white line make this one it gives you up to one and a half degrees camber adjustment at the bottom of the Hub sometimes you also have adjustment on the top of your coilover and you can also actually use both just a fine tune it to get the angle right and to get your alignment perfect [Music] it's important that new discs are cleaned before you install them as they often come from the manufacturer covered in a form of oil to prevent them corroding on the Shelf we'll be installing some braided lines when they finally arrive I'm also going to touch up some bits that I mangled when I was installing the calipers we have made some progress people we've got our list and we've we've just added five items and we're probably only going to cross off one or two but I feel like we've made progress even if the list does not agree it was meant to be a fairly simple project really it was meant to be simple it was meant to be it I I don't want it to turn into yellow Civic don't worry that'll never happen again coilovers coilover's done done they're in there break up with paint done rotors and pads done all of that still to do well that's still to do so some of this stuff is going to be much easier to do on a hoist like changing the clutch so we're going to head over to Super Garage to do that and also our sway bars yeah as you may have seen in some of our other videos now we have a secondary overflow Workshop uh which is called supergo with a hoist so we are still Mighty camels this is the mighty car mod space there's just a garage that's kind of a collaborative space that our friends are using as well um so we'll have to go over there today and try and get ourselves onto our own hoist sounds good to me um but it means that we can now get on a horse and do some of this stuff we could struggle on here but why when we can just go over there and do that there's also some things that like for example our turbo is on so we could put our exhaust back on but you've got to pull the exhaust off any way to do the clutch if that's going to stay off for a little while wheels are still on their way brakes are done no point bleeding that either until we can also get that on a horse we can gravity bleed it and we can check everything and just flush it all out and do some of our oils yeah so all of this stuff here um that there we're gonna pack up in the truck and take over there and there's also so if you just swing it over here we've got some seats there coming soon and then all of this this is all um mostly genuine Nissan stuff that has come from overseas so all of that's got to go in as well um and then there's a new front bar as well and um yeah all sorts of exciting things in here that we'll get to soon so anyway for now we're going to take it down off the quickjacks and take the car over to the super garage and continue on the Hoist [Music] thank you so this here is our all-new Workshop Super Garage where we go when things get a bit too complicated or not enough hoisty at the other place there's a whole bunch of Super Garage merch if you want to check it out you can go to supergarage.com and you know what let's just get crazy if you enter the coupon code 180sx you get a discount sweet call it 10 off you can grab yourself a shirt or something mad alright so now we can get on the Hoist becomes a whole lot easier the back's too low to get on the Hoist so we have to jack it up because we didn't adjust the coilovers Martin what would you have though I mean that you've got two you've got two mad white Nissans right here yeah what would you have um it's not a hard Choice out of these two wonderful hard decision out of these two white cards that are over here see these two white Nissans because I'm just distracted by this blue Coupe from the 80s it's just so sick and triangly and doritoy I mean the choice is I mean which one would you have Mountainside on three one two three one adsx it's not what people want to hear it's not what the internet thinks that is a whole generation older and feels it when you drive it but it's about the feel and the spirit and it's about the the noise and the visceral emotional intentionally said with an RB don't listen to any of this [ __ ] what but this is actually the answer is both yeah both as long as it's not a rotary I'm in you I agree with that while we're on the Hoist I'm gonna be changing all the fluids including the engine oil which hasn't been done in years we're also going to be installing some more handling mods which means the factory sway bar can go in the bin thank you [Music] now we're up on the horse perfect opportunity to upgrade our sway bars now white line who are a sponsor of the show have sent a bunch of parts to basically modernize the sway bars that's on our car the 180 designed in the probably early to mid 80s did come with Factory sway bars which is pretty cool the ones that we're putting on basically mirror them but they're also adjustable which means you can fine tune the way it behaves it also comes with a mounting kit which is pretty extensive actually heavy duty new rubbers that go through the middle as well and then this basically converts it so that you can use a blade type adjustable sway bar which looks like this so the factory one the mounts come up the bottom just sort of bends around and whatever the bushes are a bit cracked so these kind of need to be changed anyway this sway bar we are basically adapting it so that you can select the different holes in here and that changes how rigid the bar is which changes the way that the car responds so during alignment or even just when you're out in the truck whatever you can get in there just take one bolt out throw it through the next one put it back in and you've been able to fine tune the way it behaves usually to do with oversteer and understeer so a sway bar is a part of a suspension setup that is designed to connect both sides of the car together to provide some rigidity so that when the car is turning instead of tipping over the opposite side of the car is actually working in harmony with the side that wants to tip over now with a four-wheel drive for example like when we're off-road with the chimney we actually wanted the two sides of the car to be operating independently so we took the sway bar out completely why would you change it to offer some more rigidity and also with aftermarket ones you actually get uh different options of how it's set up and some adjustability like on these white light ones so the classic wave upgrading use brakes sway bars is just to get the factory right and just put a bigger one on so it's just actually fatter mount's in the same spot but it's bigger diameter which means it's stiffer which means it has more of an effect so these ones are called blade adjustable which means you can just change where it's mounted and that in some ways lets it sort of artificially increase the diameter of the bar because it just it's all stiffer so you mount with the hole close to the bar that's going to make it stiffer and further away is going to make it a bit looser you adjust it front to back to sort of dial in what you want the car to do you also don't have to have coilovers you don't have any fancy suspension in the car you can literally get a stock car sway bars and some good tires and there's people that will just pump everyone with that set up because it just stops it stops IT rolling dials in in the understeer out of the understeer whatever it is you want and just go smash everyone and I think like uh with a lot of modifications for the car it always comes down to working out a ratio or a bias based on what your interests are I mean you can make a track car that is great for the track but then maybe there's a downside of that and the Lotus was a really good example you know really great on the track but not a great car for just kind of driving around day to day the other reason for changing this stuff is that underneath this car all of these kind of mounts the bushings this stuff's like 30 35 years old and if nothing else it's a great opportunity to change all of those things but our philosophy is always if you're going to pull the stuff off you might as well replace it with something better which is what we're going and if you can't get these parts for your car replace those because a lot of they're common or you can get them remade in the same if you've got something really weird and rare that doesn't have aftermarket stuff replace those bushings because they get real stiff and then sort of stop doing what they're meant to do while the car's on the Hoist we also decided to install a new clutch and get rid of any old juice that's been sloshing around for years after going to the effort of removing the gearbox it actually looks like somebody's already installed a new clutch with next to no use so it can all go back together with some new gearbox oil the end links connect the sway bar to the rest of the suspension and in the case of our upgraded ones they are adjustable it means you can set the preload during an alignment and this usually means relaxing the bar so it doesn't actually activate until you load it up through a corner in terms of initial settings to get it to the alignment shop we want to match the factory positioning as much as we can and with the end links in place we can then install the mounting bushings and we're all done pretty much everything you can see in the background there with the exception of maybe the laptop on the drink bottle have to go in the car before it starts yeah but we have some things to go in like a fuel system up here some ignition coils over here some intake piping some intercooler piping incontinence injectors kind of not much actually it's actually not that much and this is fun because we're going to make it all work let's let's dude it's we've got let's call it for what it is we've got this we've got injectors we've got coils we've got intake there's some turbo bits there's exhaust there's our haltech that's actually going to make it work we've got no fuel we just checked if we were professional this would have a thing on it that says no oil you know they always get a little brown tag with a bit of string that's not on there at least these are done up I call that Hilux tight 90s nugget is your middle name don't worry about it anyway we've got what I can I'm getting soup Keen I can't assure you but actually I can't assure you that it's going to start because yeah but it's got a new that's why we're doing all of this work but there's nothing better than putting a new turbo yes that's right and so that's what we think was wrong with it we don't actually know no idea it hasn't been started or driven for years I mean years so we could get through all of this turn the key and it just goes and then we just get back to Volkswagen up we just get back to stuff that work no this is this is way better than us I'm not even gonna I'm not even gonna shoot with that this is this is actually where it's at bloody we're going for a massive 180 kilowatts Martin let's let's just keep the tunes what kind of tunes do you want uh I want you want some hip-hop you want some EDM you want some DNB some jungle I want idiom DMB all right let's kick it let's get some work done to my mad 180. in the late 80s there would have been a whole bunch of business meetings involving sake and crab to wheel and deal an injection and ignition system for this car from the various suppliers around Japan this in themselves would respect what they wanted and then the accounts Department would have torn it up and given them side feed injectors and coils that always crack fast forward 30 years and we have an enormous aftermarket and technology that can make Power reliably that those Engineers could only have dreamed of back in the day so we're gonna throw in a set of top feed injectors into a new fuel rail at a gfb pressure regulator and then set the whole lot on fire with a set of NGK coil packs Spectra and Audi R8 that makes somewhere upwards of 400 kilowatts importantly it's all new with zero kilometers on it meaning reliable power with plenty of Headroom to turn it up later so gfb in Australia have sent me a box full of stuff for my mad 180sx so in here we have a what is this a boost gauge I didn't even know they made boost gauges they've been sponsors of our show for like a decade I didn't know that they made boost cages but look at that it's like one of the mad like it's all blacked out and then when you turn it on it's going to light up and be unreal that's really cool we'll run that definitely I've got a bunch of fittings in here we have a it's probably a fuel pressure oh it is fuel pressure gauge here and some Associated fittings uh and then of course oh here it is this is what we're all about this is the uh I mean you would have seen these on the show gfb they're the best ball valves in the world they just are we've used them forever designed and made in Australia by our mate Brett we've actually got a whole series on our second Channel MCM TV2 where he comes and does a bunch of technical videos about boost leaks and smoke tests and all sorts of really technical interesting stuff so I'll link that up there I'll link it down below this here of course is a valve that I've used in so many different cars because it has this awesome uh bias so you can either vent all the way out the snorkel or you can kind of recirculate it or a bicep anywhere in between that is awesome and there's a bunch of fittings and other bits and pieces in here that's unreal thank you for sending that over um let's keep going let's keep installing we're going for big Power people 180 kilowatts oh and there's also our gfb fuel pressure regulator I think you're meant to open this I think I'm pretty sure it says open on a table so don't drop stuff out of it not like this um there it is [Music] so the fuel rail is in the fuel pressure regulator and gauges in I'm about to do the uh fuel filter the old one the stuff coming out of it this looks like mud just like the stock and this smells like old shellacy like fence paint smells gross so that's you know bad thing about having them sitting around while you're getting ready to fix them up but the good thing is we can drain the fuel tank and basically every bit of the fuel system is now new including all the way up to the injectors and this is a really nice top feed conversion really common now because these injectors are like a more modern and available system than using side feeds we were going to slap new side feeds in it but then couldn't get them in time and or whatever so top feed rally the only difference is you've got to sort of customize your own bits but if you're putting in aftermarket people officially regulate it in any way it's not that big a deal fuel goes in one side comes out the other through the rig back to the tank job done and a gauge on the front which is super easy to set your pressure we're starting it today people car's going to start so starting now the Mad thing is these little adapters so these guys go on the injectors because the injectors are I don't know Bosch or something and then our our connectors are standard Nissan so that also saves you having to cut everything up and resolder everything uh the wiring doesn't quite fit in its Factory location so I've just sort of star distribute back and we'll tuck it in and make it look neat when it comes to boost we need to add a valve in line with the hose supplying pressure to the turbo wastegate diaphragm the function of the wastegate is to regulate how much exhaust gas passes through the turbine and how much pressure is vented out by lowering the pressure to the diaphragm more boost is required to open the wastegate valve which results in higher levels of boost we'll achieve this by installing an aftermarket boost control solenoid its function is to allow the pressure supplied to the wastegate diaphragm to be controlled by the ECU in our case a haltech elite 1500 so most of the work under the Bonnet or the hood if you're a friend from the usar has been done next up we need to make the thing all work haltech um run an adapter which is this this is Plug and Play so basically we've got a haltech elite 1500 and this here will plug directly into the factory Loom which is freaking awesome and then we can get the car on the dyno so that Scotty can dial up our magical 180 kilowatts it is gonna it's probably gonna make a little bit more than that I don't want any I don't want one kilowatt more 240 um it's 240Z isn't it no it's a 240s what is it in what are these in America they call them a 240s SX 240SX is that what they call it yeah what a dumb name it's weird because it's got a 2.4 liter in it does it anyway uh the reason that this is kind of cool is this is like an adapter plug so the factory wiring loom goes click straight into there and then out of here we go from these plugs and then that plugs directly into the back of our haltech like that super simple and what we've tried to do is use a much existing factory wiring as we can unlike some of the old crud we've worked on lately Mazda RX7 where the wiring was completely Cactus this stuff's pretty good so we can use like the factory boost controller wire and that will incorporate this yeah so we have to run any wires for the firewall even the new cores we put in through the firewall I'm going to install it fantastic right now [Music] thank you all right there is the factory ECU in the bin being replaced with this I do have some sad news though we're not going to be able to get it started today we're actually missing some stuff from the intake yeah so I'm gonna go pick it up like now and we'll start it tomorrow we're gonna start it don't worry we'll start it tomorrow it's gonna be so good man [Music] Celtic make a patch harness that makes this ECU a direct plug-in and it's all pre-configured for our car making this super easy the 180 SX list is getting shorter we did a whole big day of it haltech I just did that boost controller yep your sway bars are in what does p plus mean I don't know what the p means okay cause and worrying I've done awesome um oils we've done diff box not engine we've done brake lines which I think I saw somewhere here all brakes off lead brakes brake lines yep done yeah that's done it's good man let's get in there I mean that that's an easy one just throw some tires on that's got to go back on anyway that happens at the same time engine oil is easy and then these two are like big and that's once we get back from paint we are just about ready to start and run this thing but first we're going to make sure it's got all the necessary fluids like some Castrol Edge oil and some coolant the best way for an aftermarket ECU like our haltech Elite to get feedback is to install a wideband oxygen sensor sometimes they can be fitted in the same location as the factory narrowband one but in this case we're going to weld on a threaded bun that the sensor can screw into and then connect it all into the wideband controller and then into the ECU itself finally while priming the fuel pump we're going to set our adjustable fuel pressure regulator to around 40 PSI load up our tuning software and give it a gut full of crushed up dinosaurs all right after all this time it's finally at the stage where we've got to turn the key Dave the absolute Legend is here to help us he was just telling us about how he got stung by jellyfish that sounds [ __ ] sounds so not fun sounds so [ __ ] this will be so much less painful well it's a Nissan so you never know it'll probably be just as painful and just as smelly all our mods are in place uh the intake pipe is done we recycled an old bit from an old Subaru on that the wideband sensor is in as well we also made one little change where we ran the map sensor we're going to have a big two meter long pipe that goes to the ECU but actually it's just neater to put a map sensor here and then run two meters of wiring because apparently electricity moves faster than air I don't know that's true it sounds like it is it sounds smart I'm going to say it is so we haven't started it yet we've primed it it's got fuel we drained all the gold crappy fuel that we put new fuel in and now it's the moment of truth don't know if it's going to work no idea I'm turning the key everybody here we go [Applause] now that's a big no from Dave so one of the things that complicates a nice simple easy starting procedure is this car has this I I understand why it's in there it's got this kind of hidden kill switch but it's this kind of momentary button that's hidden under there so you never really know where because the I can turn it like this and all the Reds and stuff come on like it looks like it's primed but there's no fuel pump priming until if you listen now and the fuel pump relay clicks but the pump doesn't go so it's like after the relay which is also not great I'm gonna hold that there it goes there it goes because I'm holding the stupid button which means it doesn't Prime which means it's going to take longer to start anyway we'll work that out here we go try again oh who wants to go it's gonna go is it gonna go it's gonna go no oh dude it's gonna go so close that needs a bracket badly it's another Prime is it people if it doesn't start now I'm giving everybody a discount on the shop and if it does start they're not getting anything does that make sense no not really just do it anyway oh I like the sound of that the discount is 180sx and you'll get 10 off Super Garage t-shirts what I already said that you need something else it's 180 nugget is the discount sure cranking backwards on itself sounds really bad not in a sex move way so what has happened is this is an aftermarket Loom to run our Audi R8 Lamborghini coils golf polo Jedi coils anyway and um it's it plugs in but there was question marks as to whether it's the exact right one for our particular version of Sr s13 SR20 blacktop blah blah so there's a possibility it's just not exactly in the right configuration luckily this is easy to fix because they just need power on Earth which they've got all of them and then there's just four different signal wires the easiest way to fix it is just to re-pin it down at the actual haltech plug just go if this one is supposed to be still under one it's two you just swap them over beep it out make sure it's right plug it back in and crank it again hey Martin are you trying to tell me that the configuration of an Audi R8 Supercar is different to this one adsx I'm trying to say this 180sx is better yeah Dave knows next he knows all right that is cylinder four okay it was very backwards people with Dave's help we're going to re-pin some of these plugs and then we can attempt to start the car again hopefully with everything wired up exactly as it should be it wants to go it's about to go your kill switch I think is doing stupid stupid [ __ ] again because it did run out of fuel now it's on again thank you very much the car starts after years of sitting in storage and running like absolute ass when it did work and I am so excited that it finally has pure Nissan power running through its veins again and I have pure Nissan power running through my veins again too it has been a big Journey getting it to this place but the journey is not over we're not even near the tip no of the mountain no oh we might not not only the tip of the tunnel uh it's screaming making weird noises it's leaking oil it's leaking other stuff I don't even know what else it's leaking down there but there's there's colors of liquid that I don't even remember putting in the car um so there's a couple little things to do there's empty power steering reservoir for some reason there's an oil leakage I'm pretty sure the turbo return because it looked a bit dodgy but we'll get under there and have a look but oh yeah it starts which is awesome so it can move to its next stage yeah what is that stage oh you're about to say about people you are about to be flipping over backwards naked like a squirrel with nuts in the middle of hibernation and your spare rooms full of food you invite all your friends over next thing you know I can't imagine it's gonna be what it's like to be inside your brain s13 Nissan SR20 sounds like poo is awesome you actually appear to be loving it even more than me if such a thing is possible I love this oh this is my favorite thing to do to cars like make this all new and modern and nice and work and like all right calls dude you've got an Audi now basically I've already got one oh yeah true if you are next big step for this build which we are just ridiculously frothing for is paint I'll make Trung from Powder house agreed to make this thing look as good as the day it rolled off the production line maybe even better because we're using some properly mad quality materials to make this thing look epic step one is to spray a guide coat and then strip off the stuff we aren't keeping then block the car back to try and find any damage that might be hiding under its 30 year old paintwork turns out there are a few bits that need a new section of metal welded in mostly on the boot and we're doing the second lot of indicator holes while we're at it I mean in large amounts my daughter gotta eat too overall the panels are pretty straight and only a few spot repairs are required before the car can be put into primer we're also doing a new rear bumper bar which unlike the rest of the car is fiberglass so making this thing fit is challenging with the new parts fitted and the repairs done it's time to roll the car into the booth and hit it with some primer I've moved so fast in the flash you'll see everybody getting left behind after the prime is completely dry trunk can block the car back and make sure it's straight ready to get its first base coat [Music] speed it up [Music] and then after warming up the paint the base coat can be sprayed on the color is an exact match to the original Factory wide it just looks way newer because it hasn't sat in the sun fading for 30 years although we've shown this transformation in less than five minutes there is hundreds of hours of Labor in a respray like this not to mention the skills you need to get good at it in the first place so if you find a good painter make sure you shout them their fair share of kebabs for turning your old nugget into gold [Music] it looks amazing Trung has done such a good job he did finally the car has had some of the love that it deserved I decided to go the top deck which means we are black up the top white everywhere else because the car had a sunroof and that's black anyway it just looked nice blacking that off I seem to do that with a lot of my cars black mirror caps Martin what do you think it's so glossy he's done an amazing job on this car um the amount of effort that he puts in is unreal and this is not intended to be show car finish it you know didn't take six months to a year or longer which a lot of repaints do he just smashed it out in a matter of weeks which is which is absolutely awesome and it is glass it's just so good he's done all the effort to do the prep to put the bass down to clear it to do all that stuff and then also to buff it back so it's just like it's it looks amazing really in the flesh um I'm just so impressed that yeah black turret which is really good a few little details that we're going to sort of fix up and it's actually guys it's black too you can see some white residue but that's actually the Polish so um it's a bit deceiving but yeah it needs things like wiper Blazers inside it needs the panel stuck back on the paint is still gassing off and still drying that's why it's still in pieces but we're going to unpack the big box that he sent us with all the other painted stuff in it so we can work out what needs to happen next so one of the things that I really wanted to do with this 180 and with my previous 180s was to give it a Type X conversion so we've got the Type X Wing we've got the rear lights which cost millions of dollars and a Type X front bar as well we've got the side skirts those are in here I've got some seats I've got some Wheels I got some tires some interior bits uh some kind of high touch things like the knob that's on the gear shifter and stuff like that a new Nismo one of them which is fancy and then the Pista resistance I have an old logo Nismo oil cap worth thousands of dollars that's going to go on that's going to go on last and that's when we know the project is done so let's dive into this box and you and I will see at the same time exactly what we've got oh this is so exciting there's the Timex Wings awesome look at it oh look at it mad look at that it's so good I know that we're not assembling right now but I just do want to we need to see it sit this like that it's going to look like that mountain it's going to be so good yeah that looks red oh amazing all right let's keep keep unpacking this amazing package of Awesomeness so when you paint a card what you'll notice is um a lot of the time everything's sort of usually covered in a fine layer of dust because all paint shops all panel shops end up Dusty because so much sanding's going on so even so some of these panels might look a bit grubby looks a good example like over here because this is two pack paint that has been cured that is like totally fine and good to go everything will just need a bit of a clean up when we put it on the car most important is we don't scratch it so I say that while holding a knife right near it but that's that one side skirt there that is a side skirt that is a OEM Nissan plastic side skirt so that's not an eBay fiberglass situation that is um that's a proper aftermarket Nissan we will fit everything we'll get all the right adhesives and stuff to fit it all properly because there's different glues and stuff that you need for different areas of the car depending what you're doing whether it's a side skirt or a towel liner and then we'll start to fit this stuff up and then once it's all fitted up we give the car a proper detail get all the dust and dirt and all the stuff on it make sure everything's attached properly and then the car will be looking freaking amazing this is my uh Type X front bar that I imported from the states just don't want to lose track of this oh look at that look at that I am so pumped for this oh it's coming out people [Applause] can you just lift the whole thing up and then I'm just gonna debug it oh look at it hasn't been crashed into anything it's just new and not yet hey hey all right I've got it I've got it oh yeah man nice oh look at that everybody just so new so white I'm not actually going to put it on but just have a look at this for a second just have a look at the kind of situation that's going to be happening over here people just start to just yes so good freshly painted so good it is so good I'm sorry if I'm acting weird it's just because I'm excited and there's just the original uh rear bar and then the um bit under the Bonnet you also the on the Bonnet has this um cool luck liner stuff as well keep noise down and whatever and then you put the black thing back under there we've also got um the brackets for arrive so in the time while the cars are paying a few parts that got held up have arrived including what was that mutton nothing nothing fell on the ground don't worry about it Trump gave us touch-up paint because I always end up scratching cars um we've also got from 5.0 ignite which is our bracket to run our VW Audi Lamborghini Polo coils and some adapters for that too and also a triggering system and a photo which looks like it's from ages ago this is from Purity box man Purity box no that one's actually going in the bin okay good um this is from the 2010 Perth Auto Salon uh 25th of July 2010. um from Kev #does it fit my Honda what a legend well so we met in 12 years ago me and him yeah 12 years ago wow now he runs this which is pretty cool so we've got our can you please hold that got our bracketry which is awesome and we've also got I think this is a trigger kit yeah so this trigger kit takes the old school crank angle or can angle sensor out of the equation with um with that which is pretty epic so that's just the bolting nice Bolton thing and that will work with the haltech as well and Trigger everything without any issues it's time to get the car up in the air so we can start putting it all back together this is the part of the project where I cross my fingers and hope that all the parts I bought in advance are correct because it took so long to ship everything to Australia I'm starting on the rear end cookie conversion also known as a Type X conversion which includes rear lights and the center garnish this drastically updates the look of the car and brings it in line with exactly what I'm going for so this here is the coveted Center garnish that makes the Type X conversion work with a shape of these new lights one thing that I forgot to do though is get the Type X lock you can see how much fatter this is and now there's a big gap between here and this lock mechanism here so to get one of these uh that suits a Type X from Japan is probably a two month weight I have managed to find one on eBay that doesn't have a key but it is the right length so at least it's going to look right so I'm going to keep assembling this for now that should arrive in the next day or so and then I can change that lock component out and then maybe I can make the key work with it maybe I'll get another one later but for now it just means that we can keep assembling without it looking too bad because with that big hole it's not great it's time to get the Type X conversion done so we can move on with the build all that's left to do is some minor wiring changes but I am so stoked with how good this looks next up the festi 30 year old floor mats can go in the bin because they literally smell like bong smoke and sweat I'm attempting to straighten out the lower sill as 30 years of driving on and off hoists and being jacked up at drift meets has bent them out of shape the factory side skirts bolt to the seals and are screwed in from both the top and at either end next I'm going to grind off all the old crusty adhesive and use some nice fresh double-sided tape to make sure they stick flush with the rest of the body these skirts were hard to find they weren't cheap and due to their age are a little bit brittle so some drift stitching will be required to prevent them from falling apart any further [Music] so the side skirts are on now they are an OEM parts so they fit really nice they are also secondhand so I had to spend a bit of time grinding off old glue and putting new fasters and stuff in but overall I'm really happy with how they turned out now we've got to move on to the front the rear end looks amazing By the Way That Type X conversion just always looks so good on 180s it's amazing again the fitment is not like perfect like you'd expect from a brand new car when people are kind of 3D scanning and CNC you know making parts for things but it does fit it does work the front bar is now going to be the true test there are a bunch of different brackets and little JDM things that say Nissan on them that are meant to attach somewhere and we haven't worked that out yet Factory though right Factory yeah Nissan parts I assuming it'll be better but there might be some things in the way I've also got a front mount of course which yeah I can now come off which is cool ready to reveal in all of its Glory it is also leaking something we haven't worked out what I think it's power steering fluid but we've got to fix that we're just going to sort of get all the panels back on so they're safe and um yeah should be a winner look how good it looks though people look at that thread it's almost like it calls for a little really nice spread of intonation on that one isn't it beautiful it's got quite a wide range compared to some yeah it's very brilliant sounding all right cool cool let's just do a quick little test fit of this front bar and see if it's going to work or whether our day is not going to be that good thank you [Music] you know how earlier on I was saying that um I didn't have the correct cylinder lock for the back because the Type X bar actually sits a little bit further out I ordered one online and this box here that says cylinder lock on it I'm pretty sure is going to be yes that's exactly what I need all right I'm going to take that back off and install this foreign [Music] foreign [Music] so when I ordered this conversion kit to convert this one into a Type X I did manage to get most of the right parts I need so these brackets here the front bumper support but what I didn't get was the type X pods that go here so these are the ones that came on the car and you can see these would normally sit like this and connect to the bumper the Type X ones are different because you can see that it's kind of fat it kind of comes out here so getting those is a um there are a couple of options but I want to keep that OEM I have managed to find some so I've managed to find a left and a right they are going to need to be painted but they are genuine and they're brand new Nissan items so they are coming the other thing that I forgot to get is the emblem for the front bumper if you have a look over here that is completely uh bald at the moment but I've managed to get a Type X emblem so that is coming as well so that stuff is still going to be how long I don't know they're crazy times at the moment but we don't need to be able to move the car around I found some Wheels on the internet that do fit I'm not sure what's going to stay on there long term but we can get the car rolling around and then once we've got a few other little things fixed then we can move into the interior but for now we're waiting on parts and we're going to put some wheels on foreign [Music] the Volkswagen Audi Lambo calls I've used to fit the spark plug tube just fine but a bracket is a good idea to stop them moving around to Mad CNC item with locking collars and bolts into the factory rocker cover which I now need to remove to do a cam angle sensor upgrade the factory cam angle sensor connects via a cog system onto the exhaust camshaft to detect how fast it's spinning in relation to the crank this allows Nissan to do four sequential Fuel and Spark with the ECU that saves a little Fuel and also feels nice and smooth and modern to drive it's a common mod for reliability on Nissans to upgrade this to a non-contact sensor and that is achieved by installing a tone wheel in place of the factory Cog and installing a new sensor into the side of the head one major part of this mod is that you're replacing a 30 year old part exposed to Decades of heat Cycles in a hot part of the engine with a brand new part this will only work with aftermarket ecus and the benefit is a more accurate trigger signal which can help with tuning [Music] with our new trigger system in place we can clean up the mating surface of the rocker cover and stick it back onto the engine and then everything can be left to dry [Music] I just found another dollar this Rick car that keeps giving time to put the seats in the bin because they've been injected with rectal slime for almost three decades with the seats out this is the perfect opportunity to give the inside of the car and the carpet a good clean and see what other Treasures may be hidden down below I will need some of the seat belt components from the factory seats such as the seat belt clips luckily no tools are required they were so loose I can remove them by hand Safety First kids now we can also get our ECU checked and fired up and Dave from haltech is here to make sure that everything is working exactly as it should [Music] electrical stuff is now done we've got our air temp sensor plugged in today's been tapping away at the keyboard changing our triggering type now we find out if our new sensor that we're putting is actually going to work see if the car will start foreign [Music] [Music] system appears to be working the timing light looks good now it's time to hear this thing yep get Keen that's right all right people here we go forgot your kill switch excellent so excellent I hope the check engine light is meant to be on I checked there's an engine the car is running it's sounding good that is excellent it works enough to be able to get it to the dyno next up it's time to do some of the extra pieces including the interior so this here we got a couple of seats these are a Caro sr3s which I believe came Factory in some Civics like EK Civics and dc2 type R Integris or something we got these for forty thousand dollars and they look like that they are in really good condition and um that there is the uh I think that one there is the driver's side seat and then over here in this box we've got some rails so seats are going in I've just been giving the interior a little bit of a clean up under the seats I was considering changing the carpet it actually doesn't need changing it's in really good condition it's nice and black which is what I'd want to change it to if it was that kind of festy 80s gray but it's not so uh seats gone rails gone then I got a steering wheel gear knob some other little interior bits then I've also had arrive the pods that we were missing last time these which go on the front bar like this so these were the pieces were missing last time so they go on there Trung has painted those as well and then the other thing that I have is the uh risers razors for the Type X bar for that to go on so we we are getting close we are getting close there's just lots of little bits and pieces um but we're just going to dive in get the seats in get the steering wheel done and then we'll move on to the exterior stuff as well as all of the mechanical updates that we've done so far the interior of the car is also getting a freshen up start with replacing the factory steering wheel with something brand new we've got a whole video with step-by-step instructions on how to change a steering wheel which you can check out on our Channel there are heaps of options and it's made easier with this car because there's no airbags to make the new wheel fit an adapter kit is required and then your aftermarket steering wheel will Mount to this [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] with the new steering wheel installed now I can move on to the seats using seats in a car that were not designed for it usually requires the use of adapter rails these convert the factory seat mounting positions on the car to the mounts on the seats well they're meant to but they don't always fit and you may need a pry bar hammer drill or even a welder depending on what your setup requires to make these fit bolt-on doesn't always mean bolt-on there are loads of cheap and fake seats available but for a build like this it was really important for me to have genuine seats that are quality recurras like this are expensive even second hand but they are totally worth it because they're some of the best seats available and I'm stoked to have such awesome quality in my 180. seats are in and they look freaking amazing and the car is starting to look just like the poster which was drawn before the car was even built these posters are only available while this build series is on if you don't have one yet grab it now and we'll autograph it and send it to your door anywhere in the world next up it's time to install the Type X bumper pods which I managed to get as genuine items that were already here locally in Australia I'm also changing out this slime-covered Nismo knob for a brand new one that is exactly the same design because I really like it [Music] foreign steering wheel and gear knob are done and the test sit is a massive success now it's time to install the pistol resistance the Type X Wing dude this is the cherry on the cake it is the sweet the Cherry Pie top I put it over the holes you put it over your holes yep hold on no I'll put it just let go for a sec no let go is yours lined up no mine's that's lined up on my side line yours up on the holes I'll just let go of it give it now that's that's right that looks good on this side we are back in super garage now because the length of the exhaust is not correct with our vertex bar you can see just the from the short amount of time we've been starting it that there is turning all black but not in a good way speaking of good things you asked for it we finally have it chopped hoodies it's got chopped fingers on the front it's got chopped fingers on the back they are available right now so you can pick them up on the shop what are we doing we're chopping off the exhaust we're modifying it we're going to weld some new bits on this twin pipe I do kind of like the OEM plusness of that too it just doesn't fit now look we could try and cut it and trim it in something else I don't know if that would work but we bought a couple of components I got a Canon it's what I used to have so I just I want to put that on there because I think it's going to be cool and then maybe I can swap back to something like that later this is not a specific 180sx exhaust this has been built which is good and bad sides of some mild steel bits in there that are kind of a little bit Rusty but it doesn't matter it'll last just nice nicely and fine uh this is just a aftermarket Muffler that someone's made fit it fit the old car really well this one is specifically 40180 but but we're probably going to have to move the mounts yeah so these are going to have to move back it's got some silencer in there that's going to go in the bin and so then um we also do have this Muffler though so that's a good thing so we're going to try and keep that muffler so that because if you just go turbo on this it'll be so loud you wake the dead if we keep another Muffler in there it should actually be pretty good and it's got a cat as well that's where that is set to mount we actually need it more like that because the black up the bumper doesn't look cool does it not cool so this here is about to get chopped a chopped a check it out on the mighty come on Shop link below reciproc saw that chop that off zot it on cut these off we're going to cut and weld some stuff like the world's worst power steering leak so we're getting a hose made to fix that yeah it's just dropping stuff everywhere you know at least if we know that now because it's running all right let's chop [Music] we're going to be adapting a new exhaust parts to fit our existing system which in my experience is actually way harder than making a whole new one from scratch obviously a bolt-on system is the ultimate in ease of install assuming it actually does bolt on welding old middle to new metal and getting all the angles right takes a bit of trial and errant but I reckon I can make this work with the help of the Hoist and some stands we'll send the old Muffler to the big metal Shredder where it can be turned into a can of beans and then we'll cut the mounts off the new Cannon this will allow us to place the muffler exactly where it needs to be in the bumper cutout and then work back towards the existing exhaust system [Music] a whole lot of eyeballing ensures that the muffler looks good in its final position we're roughing in the angle of the cannon and the position left to right then tackling the hangers back onto the muffler next I'm going to cut up a bunch of three inch bins to join the cannon to the rest of the exhaust some careful measuring and tacking is the key to getting this ride but sometimes you do get it wrong and a quick hit with an angle grinder can break the tax and you can try again once it all looks right I'm going to run a few welds on each join so it doesn't move when I take it off and weld the whole thing together I'll be using a MIG because it's fast and the whole thing is going to be painted [Music] foreign [Music] the exhaust is done and it is a fruit salad of a pipe if you have a look down here there is basically every food group here of all colors sizes distinctions and smells starting from the butthole of the turbo exactly right and then we do our catalytic converter which is cool got our dump pipe and our Flex joint uh why didn't we just get a new one um well yeah you can't and if you can they're made like quite cheap really thin material the Mufflers don't muffle they actually I think they just end up making the car sound like [ __ ] and I thought this car sounded pretty good with the muffler that was on it I mean if you're gonna go a full system you just get JDM legit is what I wanted to do you just like you get the whole thing that was not possible in the time frame that we had this here is functional it's a three inch turbo back system and it appears to be custom made for this car there are so many pieces I'm kind of good with that having custom made some exhausts and known how difficult it is but knowing that they just fit really well like this just it fits great and yes okay is a bit of surface rust on it but there's no holes in it it's not leaking anything one two three four five six seven different eight different nine different 10 yep 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 piece exhaust You could argue that the amount of welding required to stitch This Together probably would have cost more in gas than a whole exhaust but happy with it it's going to work it's going to sound good it's going to muffle enough so it's not going to offend everyone and it's going to be good all right so um we've just got a little repair to do at the front for the power steering and then Martin we're off to the dyno to make our 100 280 kilowatts once the car's working we also have to get it made legal for Street use because it's been unregistered for so long this involves an authorized inspection to make sure that it's safe it meets design and safety standards and a check for tires body condition working lights indicators horn and dash engine leaks seat belts and a brake efficiency test only then can we get number plates insurance and registration because I've updated the rear lights they no longer work with the factory Loom plugs so I need to resolder old style plugs onto the new lights it's fairly simple because even though the updated lights are a new design most of the wire colors have stayed the same so it's just a matter of mixing and matching and with that done the lights and indicators are now all working it's time for the awesome dirty Nissan 180 to go on the dyno and see if all those mods that we've done particularly to the engine the fuel system the ignition system have been worth it especially with our mad new S15 turbo cram and some boost into it it is a very very exciting day now we originally wanted to go to the dino last but this one we had it booked in there's a bunch of stuff that hasn't been done it doesn't have the badge on it yet it doesn't have my old Nismo old logo cap on the oil yes because that is that's when we know that it's all done uh we've still got to fix up the wing stuff you probably saw last episode that didn't fit properly that is something we're gonna have to do later but today it's about getting it on the dyno and seeing what kind of power we make now Martin at wastegate pressure it's possible that we actually make more than the 180 and that means this project has been a complete not a failure no we'll not a father at all it look it's com it is completely possible that that happens but also I would say this car hasn't been driven for ages it's sat around for a long time and when we did drive it when we first got it on the track it was very very unhappy so being that's not registered yet we haven't been able to put any case on it this is the first time we're really going to be uh driving in any anger on the dyno so I'm crossing my fingers nothing explodes out of it rods oils fluids coolant anything that's supposed to be inside the car driven in love Martin yes so that's what the dinosaur we're gonna test it as long as everything works we're tuning this thing and then we'll be ready to Rego and drive well we didn't set up from the very beginning that we wanted 180 kilowatts at the wheel you did say if we don't get 180 kilowatts at the wheels the mission has not been accomplished it means you've failed but if it makes 240 kilowatts at the wheels I'll be cheering and I will have one as you know we'll be winning in every way in carness um all right Scotty of course is going to be helping us the tuning fog he's been helping us for years he knows about his cars we of course will be taking a guess of what kind of power it can make and the winner will be getting a prize uh in fact right now is your opportunity before we go any further to guess below what the number is don't fast forward just look right now below put your guess in of how much power you think it's going to make and um let's see actually you'll get a prize too you know what someone we're going to give you a prize too let's load it on the dyno let's spin it up let's see how we go while we are aiming for the specific figure of 180 kilowatts it doesn't mean that the car will actually make it in fact it could make more or less that is just the physics of the system and the name of the game and that's assuming the car works at all other than driving on and off a tow truck it's still completely untested and a full send on the dyno could be the exact thing that makes this car go kablamo I am down here with turning fork also known as Scotty helzinger thank you very much hello mate before we start I know people come down here all the time and they go they've got a magic number I want 500 kilowatts I want a thousand kilowatts I so I am coming to you with that today all right these it always makes me nervous okay I want and I don't want any more and we do it all right you know it's amazing this is the probably the first request ever I think with this we can make the lower number of 180. can we yeah I think so okay what I'm nervous about is if we can't get enough boost out of it and we make more than that so this is an unusual we can't make more so it just needs to be one all right the world is full of YouTube builds and everyone making a million kilowatts these what are these stock 100 105 yeah they're not much approximately yes 180 makes a really fun car would you not agree can you help me hold down the veil of the too much power on the internet steam if this makes 180 kilowatts the thing is going to run forever you can take it to any track day you can hold it flat and then you can use your driving skill and your car set up to actually enjoy that rather than just make 400 kilowatts and then first Corner you're done Scotty Hill's here everybody Scotty helzinger we also have over here uh Martin of course is still here and David's here as well he's recovered from his jellyfish sex incident uh and he's he's back so we're here on the dyno 180 kilowatts um we've gone through all the mods the car's here it's freshly painted please don't lean on it uh I mean where you were holding it was fine yep that's okay now it's not finished yet so don't be checking too closely the panel gaps and there's no badge over there and there's no wing and a few holes don't worry about any of that we're getting to that but we're here for you because all this films we're here for me come on we're here for me my car but I'm very happy to be working with you again today always a pleasure what we'll do before we get too carried away let's just do a bit of a health check so we'll warm the thing up and then check oils just check everything and make sure that we're not missing anything then we'll do some revving stuff and make sure that all the belts are going to stay together and we don't have any funny noises yeah then we'll get into the tuning part of it no point in doing a tuning part until we make sure the thing is going to hold together great all right let's do it thanks for having us down pleasure with a car like this that is untested we're starting our session by running it up at low RPM to give everything a check and sure enough we already have a problem we're not getting boost control well a couple of little gremlins but nothing crazy so the first one was just some boost control Plumbing which that happens all the time even I forget which input which one's the in and which ones the out on the solenoids I always just look it up um the other thing that we've got there is there's two two pin plugs in the 180sx one of them's a an Evap solenoid and the other one is the boost control solenoid so we've just got those two back to front I like how you very politely said we have these Gremlins it was me that installed this I think it's so it's hard to say we at all I got it wrong [Laughter] in other news we is tuning up really nice the injector setup is all really good okay good the fuel pressure seems to be set well it's at 43 and a half pounds which is about pretty much normal what you'll be expecting but the injector size and everything is all working really well okay good I can sort of tell that because the way that we tune the engine is how efficient it is so basically every time the camshaft spins around it's a two liter engine two liters of air should go in and two liters of air should come out it uh except for when it's boosted but we kind of let's just talk about it as if it's an aspirated thing so the efficiency of the engine at 100 efficiency two liters in two liters out yeah knowing how much air is there I can then set my air to fuel ratio I just need to then map out how efficient the engine is which being a four-stroke engine it's roughly 50 efficient at idle and roughly 100 efficient flat out yeah which is normally 90 95 something like that okay um when all my numbers in my fuel map all kind of line up it tells me that I'm not manipulating anything or trying to make up for inefficiencies in fuel system or injector size or anything like that yeah and at the moment everything's looking really really good the O2 trims are all working well so not much to report as soon as we can get this thing ticking and get some more boost in it yeah things are good a quick general question if we're running a Turbocharger with one bar of Boost so one atmospheric pressure 14.7 are we now putting in four liters of air and four leaders out like is is it double because we're literally adding we have the normal we have the normal aspiration and then we have the same amount again yep we're expecting to double yep double the oxygen content that's in there yeah and because if we're putting 15 pounds of boost into it we would also expect to put a hundred percent more fuel into it would be the rule of thumb yeah okay um there are inefficiencies so you don't always exactly double the power is that to do with heat as well um it's heat it's inefficiencies in flow it's the exhaust restriction and it's the exhaust turbine restriction as well so the the back pressure from atmosphere on the exhaust system makes a difference and okay the more stuff you're pushing out the harder it is so there is a diminishing return there you can't put two bar or 30 pounds of boost in it and get three times the aspirated power I could hear you talk all day Scotty are you the same do you feel like you could just listen to this all day I could I love it and I get to do it in person I feel very lucky I feel very lucky Scotty I do enjoy it I still really really like it it's nice it's good to be able to do all this stuff you've been doing it for a long time I thought we'd been doing it for a long time we've been doing the show for 15 years you've been doing this for 20 right nearly nearly 20 years yeah long time thanks every single day I think I still learn something which is probably the um the attraction to it you know it's really nice luckily this is a fairly simple fix swap two of the lines around and then reap in a plug and we're ready to try again Dave's just rewired it our new Deutsch connector with his fancy look how fancy this is look at that so special anyway Aunt now we are um testing it and um Scotty can activate it from inside the car and now we're hearing relays going click click so we're not talking which is awesome now that we've got some boost control we're gonna spin it up again on the dyno with a target of 12 pounds of boost initially and see what kind of power figures we can achieve all Full Throttle go [Music] [Music] ribs just touched the rebel a bit at the very top there all right so 149 kilowatts on 12 pounds Turn the Page up so we'll put two degrees of timing in it we're so far away from and it's a drama but what we'll see here is if we're even closer we get a significant gain as soon as we don't get a significant game we'll pull out of it straight away okay cool [Music] [Applause] a little enough so we're going to move it up to 14.7 one bar and that should get us closer if not achieving our 180 kilowatts at the wheels let's do it Scotty Beam us up Pages up Scotty Target fresh eyes now 15 pounds 15. I'll start our data logging come up on it Full Throttle let's do it 181 81 80. that's going to be close it'll go under it'll go under okay so I picked up a lot of mid-range because the Boost is coming on earlier now yes um top end yeah not a lot of heat so what do we do now up we go 17 18. 18. three at a time yeah confidence yeah I've got confidence in you not in myself in you oh no all right here we go 18 PSI for 180 kilowatts in the 180sx let's do it Scotty I feel good about this one people feeling good [Music] look at that curve look at the curve let's check the numbers yeah is that it are we done no no we need it we need to see one eight so do we go 18.5 now or we just go to 19 or do we just go to 20. Let's tidy up the ignition timing that'll do it why not let's have a look let's put in we'll put two degrees in up here and just see what happens see what it wants okay all right here we go on Full Throttle go oh wasn't too much it wasn't too much never too much is it I'm going to do that 183. yeah hey good job excellent thank you man thank you Scotty good job admittedly a relatively straightforward job but the one thing I do just I just want to point out with it that turbocharger on it have a look at this thing it is making over 150 kilowatts for the meat of the Rev range yes yeah and that is the thing that if we go and put a gt35 on this or a gt30 it's going to do this right yeah and the difference will be that down low you don't have that drivability yeah for that amount of time yeah so yeah I get it that it's mad at three and four and 500 kilowatts and I definitely appreciate that but I also appreciate targeting something like this is this the lowest powered performance modified car you've had on here other than a Honda very very very long time your aspirated Honda is 140 150 kilowatts so um so I get it if you might get slightly frustrated that it's it's only making 180 no no because we're back in 1994 now yeah 95 96 people didn't want to blow their warranty straight away like this is 19 96 1997 era power imagine owning a 180 SX with warranty like VM yes the shape of this car back then would have been like it's pretty radical yeah yeah yeah this is lining up with what I remember because yeah 22 pounds T28 yeah at 10 kilowatts per pound yeah okay on a stock S15 turbo 220 on on low 20 pounds of boost was the number yeah because they are not even though they're famous engines they are not these massive powerhouses are they the combo on it is perfect the thing hasn't missed a beat so we've got nice at idles yeah it's idling it makes mad Choo-Choo noises 900 RPM it's got good vacuum turn it off Scotty just turns off no no just we're done that's it yeah we're done we're finished I thought you were worried it was it was one running out of life just idling I'm so happy with that curve thank you very much always a pleasure you are the boss tuning fork yep you're the big boss oh thanks guys I I always enjoy your day on the dyno you know that it was a lot of fun too Martin I'm stoked yeah should be that's mad that's gonna be so good to drive you can tell from that code that's straight away put your foot down it's going to boost up it's going to make mad sounds you're gonna be gone yeah sideways hopefully we've hit the power figure and nothing's exploded and I am absolutely stoked now we've just got to finish a bunch of little jobs in preparation for our street registration 100 looking amazing uh we've just come back from the dyno and mighty and I've done a bunch of little like fiddly things fix UPS um the most probably important thing is I change the coolant overflow bottle these do have a reputation for cracking and ours were starting to have hairline cracks all through it if that lets go you get corn everywhere it's not a fun time you can buy aftermarket ones which is awesome like remade one so I just replaced that which was super easy and my next job was also to tuck away all the ECU stuff so rather than having it hanging around in the footwell and you end up stepping on it or getting crap on it or just uh tucked it all on in and put the factory panel back in place now at the back of the car I had to do the number plate adapter it's got one of those weird like JDM Flappy ones and also run the wiring and the lights for the running lights that light up the number plate at night uh put all the interior back together so the kick panels and stuff if you have a look inside now it is just absolutely Bellissimo I would actually say there's probably not many 180s in the country that are this clean so there's a couple of tiny little things that still have to happen the whole car needs a little bit of a kind of a clean and detail inside a couple little things fixed up it's not registered yet as we spoke about it still needs the blue slip so it has to go through all of the safety stuck check check all the lights and everything that we expect to be happening in the next one to two days uh the wing we have to repair the back and repaint all of that stuff that is going to happen and then it's ready to actually reveal it in its finished form and go for a drive and drive it yeah yeah it drives really nice the power steering also kind of fixed itself the big drama we had literally the day that we're going to the dyno was the high pressure feed for the power steering just gave up just leaking we fixed it we put new fittings and then there was like a pinhole Lick in the actual rubber that was spraying stuff everywhere so just having a bad time so end up just replacing it with a dash 6 AM line and some bump tubes that go into the power steering thing but I did it late at night and I wasn't watching and then I had a tiny kink in it so I had no power steering and I thought oh well work that out reposition it put it back together quickly slap it on the truck to take it to the dyno and once I was on the dyno it fixed itself because it just bled out all the air and now it has power steering it works fine so that's good the last 20 always but I think right now being that it's mostly finished it's time it's time for this item Martin badge Engineers it's time for this to go on this is a Type X emblem it's called emblem red because it is and that is going to be going right here I imagine it probably has some like sticky stuff on it if it doesn't we can find it if it doesn't we will put some on there no no we are we're good so here we go oh it's got um we've got to drill some holes I do we yeah cool we've got to drill Oh either that or these are going to be snapped off but I'm pretty sure take them off we're gonna just go oh I do look so good this is pretty exciting isn't it Martin really I mean you've just got a you just gotta love what's been going on over here mate all right there's that one now before I get too excited and do the badge we also have to make sure that the car is covered now all of our cars are insured with Shannon's they're a sponsor of the show and the 180 even though it's not been registered has been with Shannon's as laid up cover which means it's been covered while we've been working on it so it might be off the road you might be restoring It Whatever light up cover means you still have some coverage laid up cover stops when your car moves under its own power so in our situation the car's been dynoed it's roadworthy now and ready to be taken for an inspection I now start you can drive it there to get it inspected so at that point you want to call up and change it back to full comprehensive yeah and so as well as having all of the different insurance for cars Shannon's also do CTP they do home they do roadside and stuff like that but what's important for us is that we get a choice of repair and also agreed value so some insurance you might call and they go oh we think it's worth this whereas with Shannon's There's an actual value and we know that these cars have been going up in value you can't get them for five grand anymore when we were looking you couldn't even get in for twenty thousand dollars so it's a matter of having a chat with them and working out exactly you know agreeing what we think the car's worth and then that will be locked in that is the car's value um and so we need to get that ready we need a CTP which is a compulsory third-party insurance that we have here in New South Wales get the comprehensive done so I'm going to call and get that done so look we'll get the badge on then we'll sort all of that out but if you need a quote for your car or house or bike you can check that out at shannons.com and then we can go get our number plates and drive it on the street which is what this is all for so mad Martin we need to do this together mate all right I'm going to peel the first bit off you peel the next bit off all right Martin are you ready you get your finger on there as well Martin say when when our 180sx's registration has been rejected and the last couple of months all last couple of years of doing this project has all been a big waste of time I mean we got to hang out yeah we had to fix the car but it's you can't you can't drive it what's the point it's not a race car other than the annoyance of not being able to drive the car there is also the financial consideration that an unregisterable 180sx regardless of its condition is probably worth between eight and twelve thousand dollars a registered one like what we've done is probably worth 25 or 30 at least more absolutely roadworthy yeah um so here's the problem we went down to service New South Wales um and um and they said no they said no they just didn't they said no so we've registered a few cards from scratch before I mean a notable one would be the mirror for example um which is something that you know got completely redone um the super turbo imported that had to register that so you've got to do the same thing you get all your approvals get all your paperwork get your compulsory third party insurance which is a thing in New South Wales um in case you hit someone that doesn't cover the uh the car that covers the person it's a way of making sure that there's um like medical care for everyone and paying for all that can I go through this Martin and then we're going to uh we've done it a few times we know what paperwork we need um but we just got rejected I'm gonna this is from the actual website okay this is what I think we should be going off if your vehicle's New South Wales registration has expired but it's within three months of the expiry date you're still able to renew the registration which is not yay that's not us but yay for those people for those people the vehicles will be registered if the registration expired more than three months ago you'll need to re-register it so start from scratch establish registration what do you need an application for registration we did it your proof of identity we did it tick your business or organization details if applicable your compulsory third party insurance and authorize unregistered vehicle inspection report blue slit got it um payment and number plates you will receive number plates when the vehicle's registered yes we did all of that we took all of that and they said no they said no now the reason that they said no and this is the bit that I can't work out is that they want I'm still trying to get my head around this because it's so stupid they want a receipt from the person who owned it before the person we bought it from to us they wanted they want a receipt from the last one I need to do this they want a receipt from the last registered owner which is not who we bought the car from so as you know cars bounce around you know people sometimes choose to let their registration last because if you pay it every year usually you're paying over a thousand bucks a year to keep something registered so if you've got something off the road maybe you choose to let it lapse knowing that you'll have to go through this process later on it's a it's a more thorough inspection they've got to check the engine numbers and the shades of numbers and everything match up but the car because it has been registered in New South Wales before is on record that VIN is on their records when they look it up on their end they see a person who used to own it or who the last person that had the Rego and they want a receipt from that person except we don't know who that person even is Martin I've got a little scientific diagram just here that I'm going through it I love your direction I like your drawing skills now this guy here he owned a 180sx there he is now he sold it for money to this guy actually I have a story about that unregistered uh the reason his face is upside down is because I drew it upside down I thought he was just really sad anyway he sold it to him unregistered so here's a number plate no unregistered which you're allowed to do he sold it to us for money unregistered as an unregistered car my understanding is that the RMS wants a receipt not from him not from the person we bought it from but the last registered owner they want a receipt from him saying that we bought the car from him but if my understanding is correct that would be fraud we didn't buy a car we didn't buy a cup and then so I can't get a receipt from him saying that we gave him money because we never gave him money now why is this a problem that means if you bought a car like a barn find right you bought it and you go oh I'm going to do it up I'm going to whatever and it's been sitting there for 30 or 40 years and then you go the Project's too big for me and you sell it for you mate your mate according to this if this is correct would need a receipt from whoever put it in the barn 40 years ago yes who might not even be around that's right so I just rang this guy who's the guy we got the car from that's us that's him don't know who that is and said hey man they've asked us for a receipt from him and he said that's weird as you'd expect but he also said I traded the car for Hot Wheels what and I went Hot Wheels was that like the toys and he goes yeah so he goes I don't know how to give you a receipt because I swapped it for Hot Wheels also like so right on so he so this is wrong I said he traded this for money but he traded this for Hot Wheels for a Hot Wheels car yeah so then now what we need to do is we need to go to the RMS and go this guy has a receipt for a Hot Wheels car for a real car yes which we then swapped see it goes around and around we then swapped for money yes for here yes now so the person behind the counter has then told us which I've never heard before that I need to go to and see a justice of the peace right a justice of the peace is someone who is designated by the governor to keep the peace and and there it's it's a volunteer position of somebody whose job in life is to um witness affidavits and verified documents verify that you've signed it not verify the document right it doesn't matter what's in it you just he just go did you actually sign it show me your idea and then they check it right well I don't well the reason that that doesn't make sense to me is that they want to know that we own the car but I have a receipt from but not only do I have that it's the requirement on there I need proof of ownership that's the receipt that I have with the car so anyway I have to I'm going to go and find a Justice of the Peace and I have to write a document that says I own the car okay and then the justice of the peace through their order of the governor of New South Wales will witness that and then we need to try and get a receipt from him saying that he swapped his thing for a car for a Matchbox car show the paper Wheels car and then I need to get my my just of the piece affidavit and the Hot Wheels receipt and take that back that's where we're at I've got to go find a dust of the piece I was I was good with it until the Hot Wheels thing though I just got so confused come on I never understand the whole I just hey maybe it's worth money so it is a whole new day a new day of we're on our way back to serves New South Wales with all of the paperwork that their website said we needed plus the additional paperwork that is not mentioned anywhere but a person at the counter told us that we needed please tell me you brought your diagram so if we need to explain how this whole thing works you can see it um Martin just a quick idiot check yep what we need our PDF form application yes Improvement of identity yes our organization or business details if applicable yes yes we need our CTP green slip yes that one the trick with that which we've been caught on before is to be setting up new registration get a receipt number on your CTP even though you've paid it ring your bring your insurance say make sure it's got a receipt number Shannon's will do it for you and it has the VIN of the car and the receipt number then they can make sure it's actually been paid otherwise their theory is you might just be waving around a random document that doesn't actually exist yes exactly uh we got the receipt from the original owner and authorized unregistered vehicle inspection report which is what we call a blue slip your payment they'll get the payment once they do it yep the number plates uh will be given to us once the vehicle is re-registered plus statutory declaration that says I hereby solemnly and sincerely declare and affirm that I own this 180sx and then I've taken that to a Justice of the piece untrue and witnessed that I have claimed because I do own this car so um on our way to service New South Wales not at this point I just don't know anymore I've registered so many cars over the years over 20 years of driving so many second-hand cars imported cars unregistered cars I've never ever ever been told that I need to go and get permission from the governor of New South Wales agent as adjusted the piece never no neither anyway uh we're heading on down now and we'll let you know how we go right well everybody that that did not go as expected at all not at all mostly because we got our recording we are we are legal people we are ready to go on the streets of Sydney Why didn't it go as expected I'll tell you why because we went up to the counter with all of these random things that the person the other day told us we needed and they're like you don't need any of that none of it you just need the stuff off the website that you brought last time that we brought we brought exactly the same paperwork as last time but then we'd also got this um just for the piece thing they didn't want to see it there's like just so just give us the receipt just give us the shows you bought the same stuff the CTP with the receipt number they established registration form granted it was a different person yeah we went to a different counter and the last person said no this person said yes we had all the extra stuff anyway um so I don't know how that works but when we left for Server New South Wales and it says how did we do that person got a five out of five thank you which was a it was a green smiley face how was your feedback how was your session today well my 180s ACT is going to be registered five out of five Service New South Wales and for today compared to 10 years ago they're doing a lot better than they used to let's just put let's just say that that's true it's still not the most pleasant experience but shall we um we can go and put these on the car let's go we got our number plates people and they can finally go on as usual it took longer and was more work than any of us by the two of us that is expected but the outcome I think is also so much better than could have predicted in terms of how clean it looks how nice it looks cleaning up all those little things that sort of niggly things that the project cars of this age always end up biting you in the butt with all that's fixed everything works it drives nice it's downloaded for good numbers nothing leaks out of it yet and otherwise it is pretty awesome it's still untested other than its time on the dyno so who knows how it'll actually go but it is hard to believe that it's the same car that it was a couple of years ago that we bought this took it around the track realized it was just blowing more smoke than Cheech and Chong and then we're like man this car actually needs a bit of love but love is what it got and look at it now like it just this era of cars I'm sure you'll agree with me I just think it really resonates with me I just think it looks great it looks it looks like it has utility you know what I mean a lot of cars these days like Honda Civics and other newer cars just look like robot vomit you know for the sake of robot let's just for the sake of robot it needs to look wild just add some more plastic yeah whereas this is all you've got really good visibility out of a car like this as well one of the best things about these there's so much glass in that turret you can see really well the seating position is nice the dash doesn't get in the way it's really light nice to steer um the only thing really left I guess is a real proper like race spec wheel alignment just so everything is done but that's all been dialed in drives nice yeah it's going to be good so um yeah Martin it is time to put the plate on and time to go for a drive I just I really can't believe how far it's come do you remember what this car used to look like [Music] without you and I know that you could make it on your own but without you without you now [Music] praying for the silence [Music] [Music] [Music] without you and I know [Music] let's go to that 183. yay so here it is finally it's a long time to get to this point now we could have just like done a real quick fix left a plate on and going yay the car works again but it undoubtedly would have blown up in a cloud of Turbo smoke but I think the result is way better with everything being done with the paint and all that sort of stuff as well it's um it is hard to get custom plates in case you couldn't work it out it's 180. 180 anyway um this is well 180 the same thing this 180 as you can see we ordered this in advance and it's the same plate that is on our artwork Martin here it is what's going on take it take take that malt mutton and um put it in there Martin it's yep should be the outside hole oh they fit nice don't they see back when you had your 180 you didn't get a choice of like plate sizes did you no you had to like bend them will cut them and then they got in trouble and that was the only way to make them fit yeah you're on working over there I sort of if you tighten that all the way down it probably won't go in all right still at Lowe's [Music] we're just gonna we're just gonna do this one look at that awesome and it goes getting it all together it's um it's funny you know you don't often get the chance to kind of relive one of your kind of young dreams of like how do I do it again and cars are a really cool way of doing that you know because they are time machines aren't they yeah it is and you get in it and you're just like oh I remember like I remember what it felt like to be back then and you'd imagine that if you are driving around in your first car one of your first cars and you're in your Hyundai i30 whatever it is who's to say in 10 or 20 years you might be like oh man I love that thing it's the memories that you like I know I know it's trippy though right it's the exact same thing because I I have a real soft spot for Gemini's why because my first car was a Gemini I just had some mad adventures and so it's like it's it's definitely a thing man yeah let's go for a drive 20 years time on Mighty Car Mods I-30 rebuilt all right here it is first drive in the 180. it feels good it's really good [Music] I want to hear it not on a dino I'll give you just a little hit man oh wow it sounds amazing that's so good I'm not sure just how low it is yet so I still don't kind of trust any of these it's got to come up a little speed bumps and stuff like I said it had you can do it sink the tune's great man oh it sounds great feels so good [Music] oh it feels just so fun to drive it just you know it doesn't have so much power that you're worried that the back's gonna kick out everywhere it just feels fun and awesome like the right amount isn't it it's great that is everything I could have hoped for and more I'm just I'm starting to get the Red Mist yeah I need to get to our racetrack for a fall absolutely a full Shakedown because I'm feeling myself wanting to do things I can't do in this environment and I'm going to do the right thing and try and contain that because I'm older and more mature now Mark you know it's got more you know it wants it yeah I know I haven't even wound it out yet but that is going to be a story for oh my God unreal it's just it's so nice in here too like we're not liking something where it's got the nice sounds and the nice go it's actually a nice place to be in a 30 year old nugget I know it's so good and this this for me is kind of pretty much going to be a daily this is kind of what I'm going to get around in so I don't want a really really aggressive setup yeah in terms of um how the alignment is set I just want something that is good for the street it's really comfortable there's nothing rattling there's a couple of little things that I can do we need to fix up but I think it's got some some quite stiff bushes in it somewhere maybe in the dip loves it that's red uh this is a pretty awesome car but we are up to the sort of last five percent of just fixing little things like we had an issue with the power steering where it just blew a power steering hose and made it annoying to drive um and also it's just had this really annoying rattle yeah uh and and those are little things that you absolutely want to fix because like it's got a front mount it's got a mad radiator it's got a brand new turbo like a brand new TV 28 yeah from an S15 um so we've done all the stuff to make it awesome but there's a couple of little things that were not great I want to talk uh prices quickly when I bought my first 180sx in probably the late 90s that's how old I am it was four grand so for it was 4 million yeah uh Yen my mates are paying 10 grand in the early 2000s yeah and so now 40 50 60 there was one for 70 a couple of weeks ago absolutely crazy uh but there's a problem with it let's send it up and show you what the issue is my number plate is 180 and anybody that says that it's one bot is a [ __ ] but that kind of robot vomit number plate is kind of the it's kind of the number plate people have on Hondas right well it's 180 turbo it's that old time but is that one bow then no that's 180. what makes it go from an 8-0 to a b because you've got a consonant following the zero everyone knows that the number plates man it's the non-plate thing everybody it's 180. it's hard getting number plates these days really a bad car because like that's gone is it no because people that are coal rolling like because that's trains or Cummins yeah yeah oh no a Cummins Diesel what are you talking about a Cummins diesel yeah but I'm talking about coal rolling they make it cider too who does Cummins do they can you keep sending my car I'll send my own car up into the sky what else have you seen um clag that was gone [Applause] all right I've fallen both people are driving that's cool um what else moist you can't get can't get moist they've actually got a thing that if it seems a little bit rude they just don't allow you to do it yeah uh which is weird um they decide afterwards they don't like it they reclaim your plate do they really yeah right because remember you tried to get um BG CK yeah up yeah and they were just like nope bad your [ __ ] up yeah yeah remember yeah do you remember rock yeah anyway let's go we're wasting the internet now sadly properly wasting internet I'm I apologize if you're in the middle of Alaska using a satellite starlink to get the internet right now while trying not to be mauled by a bear I also in these two decades are just talking [ __ ] wasting your internet really confusing if you had a sheep farm you'd be like why am I sheep making all that noise nah just put the car up watch ready see now everyone with the shape block all right no wrong noise you know we when we swear it magically bars watch this see and all you can hear is a sheep yeah it's bizarre watch that's a goat is it yeah are you [ __ ] me this whole time I thought it was a sheep did you it's a goat yeah like when I go [Applause] Barrel goats so the exhaust is one aspect of this build that didn't get a whole lot of love because we already had some exhaust components that were on the original car and then we just had to modify them to fit I've just counted all of these components there are 17 different little chunks of pipe to make the whole thing and I've undone a couple of bolts up there to try and accentuate the problem but what you hear is it's so hard mounted it just rubs it knocks it makes the whole car vibrate and so we decided we would fix that with something that I'm about to show you that is freaking awesome you might be wondering why we use this exhaust system in the first place it is the one the car came with at least a good proportion of it is partly because it's already three inch it already fitted we thought it fitted really well we later discovered it actually vibrates and rubs and we thought maybe it had really hard engine mounts and it just seemed like a weird thing but actually the exhaust was rubbing on so many different points it's basically not using the rubbers which is the whole point of the rubbers is to to disconnect that vibration the other thing is kind of hard today to get a good quality 180 SX exhaust in Australia that's and I say good quality like something you'd want to put on a build that's that's had this much effort put in um you can get like cheaper ones but they are very noisy and we didn't want a really loud one and 15 years ago there'd be heaps on the Shelf all over the place but now for money it's kind of a specialized thing now yeah and what a lot of people don't realize is you can get yourself a mad made to order exhaust for this car from Japan check this out this here is a completely custom made exhaust for the 180sx that we got from Japan it is a fujisubo system uh this is not a sponsored video we were proper customers we ordered it and bought it uh it was overnight's plural parts from Japan and the reason that we got one of these is a they still make them brand new and they are made to order but also this is what we got for your Superstar excellent remember how good it was yeah just fit and it was beautifully made and you might be wondering why do they still make this stuff well they don't really leave them on the Shelf the truth is they make these with big CNC mandrel bending machines and just load of programming so your custom order one literally comes through the door as an order they punch it in they get the pipe the pipe goes in the machine gets bent up they do a couple of Worlds and there's your 180sx exhaust system um it's kind of cool that that manufacturing is still a thing and also they can do it so inexpensively because I guess Labor's a bit cheaper but also the machines have come so far because they get this made from scratch custom in Australia with our labor rates is like thousands of dollars there was also a period of time remember when I was saying that you could get kind of a 180sx for 405 Grand then an exhaust maybe half the cost of your car whereas now we're talking about it being five percent of the cost of your car so there's actually a business case for them to make it um I actually can't remember what we ordered I hope it's a turbo back system otherwise we're getting a little bit uh a little bit custom with it but we and you are about to find out let's see what we got that's a Cat-Back isn't it um that's I don't know I don't know is the answer there might be another box that has the rest of it in it though we're gonna have a look We've Ended up with a Cat-Back system which is okay because it means we'll be able to replace the main Frankenstein section of the pipe and make the fujitsubo work with whatever is still left hanging off the turbo there's actually a while ago that we ordered this exhaust so I couldn't remember exactly what it was that we ordered so that is a Cat-Back system but we can add it to the dump here it's already got a performance three inch system that's going from the turbo back anyway so this bit and this bit is actually not [ __ ] so we're going to keep all of that the rest of it can go in the bin and uh we're just going to make sure that it all fits up and particularly fits with our aftermarket bar because it's a Vertex bar it's kind of everything's a bit wider and bigger just to make sure that it fits so um we will leave this on here take it off from there put it up see if it works and we might have to fabricate some stuff or it might just fit so uh let's find out together foreign [Music] coming off with this amazing exhaust hanger tool thank you humble mechanic for showing us that all right exhaust that is but Martin you did a great job with some of this look at this remember this here I remember we had to get that distance right to make sure that it would actually move out far enough but I got a feeling kind of a similar issue aren't we that if we lay this down we're gonna have to move those mounts further back for the tip to be in the same spot part of the issue is you actually run into the end of the car like there's metal under there that means you're exhaust can go so far so potentially you have to extend your tip or whatever but we'll just have to fit it up and have a look it is made for a Type X but maybe not with the massive kit on the back of it you can see where the rear of the car like the bump is meant to attach to this and it is that much difference like that's how much fatter it is and I reckon if you come with me I reckon that is going to be the difference between that and that look at that so that is the distance that's how much fatter a Vertex bar is going to be so yeah we might have to take these off and move them and but then that won't be long enough oh no we'll work it out the new system looks so good compared to the old one and the quality of the build is exceptional but we've now realized that we don't have everything we need because we don't have a new catalytic converter both of these exhaust systems are three inch performance exhaust systems the main difference being that the new fujitsubo one doesn't have 50 000 different cuts and welds in it there's also a bit more muffling to be done here you can see there's a bit more size here instead of this kind of Canon style Outlet then we've got our bends down here we've got a resonator and then down here we've got a bunch more pipes and then a catalytic converter what I don't have on this one because of what we bought is a catalytic converter so that would normally mean having to order something or if your mates are been working on his lavogue and you're really really desperate for a high flow cat you could get something like this dude that's my shot you can get something like this that is uh from this Subaru levorg and even though this is a whole piece you can see where it goes from the turbo back you can just chop this off your Subaru project excuse me so we can just chop this now the thing to check is if this flange here actually fits see if it does this becomes quite a simple job you could just drive it like that that just see that fits so all we need to do is get this is this is like an Nvidia exhaust nice system we're going to chop it right there excuse me mate you all right we're just gonna we're gonna give it a chop right there we're going to add it to the rest of the fujisubo system that's mine and then um you're still talking that's my [ __ ] it tells us take it this is our [ __ ] can I have it yeah thank you if you buy me a burger I'll buy you a burger but it has to be a nut burger a sanitarian not Burger veggie burger without avocado because like you might have seen in our recent episode when we took our Hilux out avocados aren't vegan anymore I know I do avocado what I do avocado it's up on the Hoist holy [ __ ] um I'm stealing this from Martin's lavogue I'm cutting it I'm sticking his Subaru [ __ ] on my madness and can you put put yours in the back I can't it's going to go sideways my the preference here is to go sideways it's gonna it's gonna slide in the best because it's got the this hole's quite highly tight I'm gonna put two in the front are you pretty sticking your thumb in that one ah hold on stick your thumb in a dude seriously but can you if I hold this big pipe and then can you just push from behind because I'm holding my hands squash my fingers it's very tight on it dude you're hitting this I think I'm in the wrong hole hold on now you've got the no it's the right hole oh it's just a different different rubber ah there it is to go completely sideways yeah it's just hard to get it through the first bit hang on hold on now you you stick your fingers on that bit we'll do it together three two one go yes dude it's hanging there perfectly there we go that's great so now let's get the next piece on cool do we need to use the little um Ring The Ring Thing this one I'm assuming that's what it's for it looks like a ring you put around the base of it and then yeah sort of helps it why did I use that in sort of like a gasket I guess that is a gasket right you get a bit of movement on it I'm guessing maybe we dropped something all right so now that one there you go oh I know that so that doesn't need a it doesn't need a normal gasket because that is the gasket put that on and then we will measure up the rest ah chill out there's another rubber you can put it through on this bit which might help it's holding it up man oh there we go all right and I'll nut through this one so that can stay a bit loosey-goosey for now and when we'll make up our little pipe so if we measure that out just with a measuring tape that actually looks straight like it won't be much angle but the orientation of the flange will change look at that I forgot the end of the Mighty Car Mods uh these are our measuring tapes I forgot they're magnetic dude that's awesome well that just holds on so that is exactly being Japan I'm going to keep going in centimeters mutton that's 31 centimeters exactly all right [Music] some money [Music] I've welded it on my welding is not fantastic but it is functional and uh doesn't appear to have any holes in it where it can leak so now we put the flange on it and then we can put it all back together [Music] converter thanks to the levorg is now in place thank you lavogue thank you to all our Subaru friends um and straight away the biggest change is doesn't hit anything before that'll go ah remember you must soon as you moved it it's perfect it fits really nice and that's aftermarket sway bar as well which don't always fit exactly the same as Factory um I'm really happy with that that's great we bring it down yeah bring it down I got to put a couple of bolts back in the top of the dump um off the back of the turbo and then we'll just um check everything else up there because there was an exhaust leak and we didn't know where it was but since looking at that exhaust there are a couple of little holes and stuff in there so that will fix that we'll check the front and then um yeah Happy Days people due to our fat aftermarket bumper bar we're probably gonna have to extend the tip but for now we're going to finish the install so we can go for a test drive the exhaust is on we've spanner checked everything under here just around the manifold our dump and the Turbo so now people it's time to go for a drive see what it sounds like [Music] it's not often in life when you get the chance to do over something that didn't go right the first time and my original s13 from when I was a kid well those dreams went up in smoke literally so to have the chance to do it again and do it right was an opportunity that I was going to take and hold on too tight with both hands of course I couldn't do it by myself but with the help of a few mates along the way and a whole lot more time than we expected this project truly did become my 180sx dream build foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] fan base ability and historical significance of Japanese cars from the 1990s there is nothing that even comes close to the 180sx and that my friends is a fact well yeah that's all true unless you've got something that will destroy all Nissans

Channel: Mighty Car Mods

Views: 995,183

Keywords: mighty, car, mods, mcm, MCM, moog, marty, turbo, jdm, how, to, diy, do, it, yourself, nissan, subaru, supercharged, race, 180sx, Nissan, SR20, Type x, JDM

Id: 810sWCJZFuk

Length: 163min 57sec (9837 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 27 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/Confusables]

Curious as to why an ultra-long video like this and not a curated playlist of the build episodes?

[u/HighFiveKoala]

I thought it was going to be a quick abridged version but it's every episode of the build in one 😁