Hey guys
Well the time has finally come, I've decided to post a little build thread of my Spec. I've been on the forums for quite some time and I've always wanted to make a thread but would never get a round to it. I've been around and I'm pretty sure some of you guys will recognize me but I've never really posted about my car or posted pics, I do have some early pics in my album back when the car was still in good shape lol. Right now I feel is the perfect time since the car is in really bad shape and requires pretty much a rebuild.
I'm gonna try and take pics of everything I do and even try and take videos.
A little history on the car, I bought it back in 2010 from one of Nissan's used car lots. It's original motor was blown I'm pretty sure due to pre-cat failure. Dealer wanted 5000 grand for it and told me that all it needed was a new exhaust manifold lol, I had done a lot of research about Spec V's and learned about a lot of the early failures. I kind of liked the Spec V's and liked how they were different, I'm the kind of guy that wants to drive around in something that not every one has and around here in Toronto you don't see many Spec V's.
I ended up buying the car for 2000 grand since when I started it the engine sounded like a blender full of wrenches inside and when I tried to take the car out it died the second me and the sales rep left the lot! lmao
I sourced a used motor, had my uncle drop it in and pretty much drove it around up until now. Over the years I started to mod it, I've always loved Nismo so one of my first mods was to find a Nismo header that I found here on the forums (had to replace the shit ebay one I first bought lol). Everything about my car has a history and story behind it, from the very beginning nothing was simple. All the work (aside from dropping the engine in the beginning), mods, oil changes etc. were always done by me and it's how I learned to work on cars. In the beginning I screwed up a lot of shit lol :47: broke a lot of stuff and did a lot of sloppy work.
For the past year I've really neglected the car, last winter it finally died on me and to be honest it was more then likely my fault lol I was being a dumbass and drove it around without the air filter (my 2j filter kept falling off...) when I killed it I parked it and it pretty much sat for this past year. I would try and start it up every now and then but I couldn't get it to start. I pulled the plugs and found some coolant on #4 plug and even some rust...
As of right now I'm in the process of taking the cylinder head off, pretty sure the head gasket is finally gone, I've been suspecting for years that it was getting weak and on it's way out. I tried to do a compression test but since it sat for so long battery was pretty dead and even after getting a buddy of mine to come and boost it when I would turn the key and try and crank it all the electricals would just die, me and my buddy said fuck it and just started tearing into it.
Anyways sorry for the long intro I'll start posting pics below.
Well the time has finally come, I've decided to post a little build thread of my Spec. I've been on the forums for quite some time and I've always wanted to make a thread but would never get a round to it. I've been around and I'm pretty sure some of you guys will recognize me but I've never really posted about my car or posted pics, I do have some early pics in my album back when the car was still in good shape lol. Right now I feel is the perfect time since the car is in really bad shape and requires pretty much a rebuild.
I'm gonna try and take pics of everything I do and even try and take videos.
A little history on the car, I bought it back in 2010 from one of Nissan's used car lots. It's original motor was blown I'm pretty sure due to pre-cat failure. Dealer wanted 5000 grand for it and told me that all it needed was a new exhaust manifold lol, I had done a lot of research about Spec V's and learned about a lot of the early failures. I kind of liked the Spec V's and liked how they were different, I'm the kind of guy that wants to drive around in something that not every one has and around here in Toronto you don't see many Spec V's.
I ended up buying the car for 2000 grand since when I started it the engine sounded like a blender full of wrenches inside and when I tried to take the car out it died the second me and the sales rep left the lot! lmao
I sourced a used motor, had my uncle drop it in and pretty much drove it around up until now. Over the years I started to mod it, I've always loved Nismo so one of my first mods was to find a Nismo header that I found here on the forums (had to replace the shit ebay one I first bought lol). Everything about my car has a history and story behind it, from the very beginning nothing was simple. All the work (aside from dropping the engine in the beginning), mods, oil changes etc. were always done by me and it's how I learned to work on cars. In the beginning I screwed up a lot of shit lol :47: broke a lot of stuff and did a lot of sloppy work.
For the past year I've really neglected the car, last winter it finally died on me and to be honest it was more then likely my fault lol I was being a dumbass and drove it around without the air filter (my 2j filter kept falling off...) when I killed it I parked it and it pretty much sat for this past year. I would try and start it up every now and then but I couldn't get it to start. I pulled the plugs and found some coolant on #4 plug and even some rust...
As of right now I'm in the process of taking the cylinder head off, pretty sure the head gasket is finally gone, I've been suspecting for years that it was getting weak and on it's way out. I tried to do a compression test but since it sat for so long battery was pretty dead and even after getting a buddy of mine to come and boost it when I would turn the key and try and crank it all the electricals would just die, me and my buddy said fuck it and just started tearing into it.
Anyways sorry for the long intro I'll start posting pics below.