Bought this silvia at an auction for cheap to replace my daily driver corolla. It's SR manual, has a working vlsd some whatever lowered suspension, tig welded 2.25 or 2.5 304 (i think) exhaust with a 4" tip.


Shitty paint on roof


Uncracked dash! ended up being more a picture of the wall and the trees than the dash.


Motor's caked up inside and the bottom end, maybe top end too makes funny noises so I thought I'd buy another motor and rebuild it. Probably shoulda got another NA motor and left it at that but instead I'm turboing it.
Diesel oil's doing it's job and starting to clean the build up off.

My "engine building room"

Don't worry, I have an engine stand, that's just for disassembly. Block will go up on stand when it's all machined up and ready to assemble.

Motor number(S14SR) one needed boring which I didn't want to do just yet so I found another in spec block(S13SR) and using that along with the piston I got from lewisengines.


Went looking on ebay and a few forums for a cheap turbo/turbo suit rebuild but couldn't find anything. Me trying to cut costs on something that's meant to a daily driver and not cost me a lot, I decided to use the turbo that's been under my bed for close to a year. It's pretty big but whatever, couldn't find a t3/t4/t518z/td06/td05 for less than 500 bucks so using something I already have. Wasn't exactly 500 bucks but close enough. Only problem is it'll make more power than I wanted from this car.


Since the turbo's too big to fit where an off-the-shelf turbo manifold would put it, seems like I'm making a manifold. So I made this incredibly accurate drawing of an SR exhaust flange.

Turned that into a CAD file and sent it off to the watercutter. Should have a prototype flange tomorrow.

I'll get some pictures of the boost controllers for the turbo later.

Vertex knock-off front

Got m-sport sides as well, looking for a vertex/m-sport/chargespeed/maybe gp rear. Also got enough panels to do onevia as well but I'll see how it looks with silvia front with aero.

There's probably more stuff that I've forgotten about but that's all for now.