Asparagus' s12 build

asparagus · Post by **asparagus** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:33 pm

Hey man! glad you found me, I don't have a build log anywhere for the Z but I definitely update everything through my blog now so it's easy to find. It's in the sig. Good to hear from you man!

Also, the motormavens thing is up! the photos were taken in october the day after JCCS

http://motormavens.com/2010/01/carspotting...aker-s12-200sx/

v1jilante · Post by **v1jilante** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:30 pm

Nice one mang, good to see the class with which your 12 is presented and the way that the motormavens crew have shot it. Did they run the copy by you before pushing it live?

Matt.

Nitro · Post by **Nitro** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 2:13 am

Nice, I will be wathing your blog from now on, haha

Can't wait to see the S30 building, knowing HOW you do it.

Fury-S12 · Post by **Fury-S12** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:16 pm

shoudl have picked up from the article on THAT Z and your car that you were in the same fold as the Z to the point of being its ex owner both sweet cars even if the Z the very very pig

asparagus · Post by **asparagus** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 2:40 am

S13 front LCA's are finally here and in. Seriously took me forever, I figured "Hey, I've done this before. I'll just use my bench vise instead of the C-style ball joint press that I used a ton during my build." Wrong. Then had to wait til the day to go rent one. Thanks JOE for the arms again(and painting them this cool, interesting color, haha), guy is a saint. He even gave me my cool unequal length header for the ka when my s12 was still in pieces.

Looks like the the sway bar barely lines up, I may have to just get an s13 one somewhere. And I'll definitely need new tension rods, s12 ones aren't even close. It's about time for adjustable ones anyway.

Yuta's 14's amongst my 15's. We threw them all together for this photo thing that you may see later. You can see my blast pipes in the corner too, since I'm still lazily and slowly building a new 2.5in CAspec exhaust. I've pretty much only made the new down pipe so far.

s13 next to s12 front lca, s13 is 10mm longer

result

asparagus · Post by **asparagus** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:15 am

Just popped these pbm rack spacers in. Had them laying around for a year or two but now's the time since with the s13 lca, my tie rods barely have enough threads. Win win! Also currently waiting for some SPL tension rods too, a week or two more since they were out of stock.

pics were taken with my old canon sd550 point and shoot, always surprisingly impressive!

peace out locking plate, SUP DANGER

s12 inners have a surprising amount of threads

spacer

Together. You can see the hockey pucks too

angle, looks good!

v1jilante · Post by **v1jilante** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:04 pm

Holy swaybar Batman - would it sit happier with the bushes angle wise if you flipped it? (from that photo with full lock I was thinking yes?)

asparagus · Post by **asparagus** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 7:54 pm

Yeah, the sway bar doesn't line up 100% since it's the s13 arm. I figure it will be better if I use an s13 sway but I hear it's still pretty much the same. I'll be getting adjustable heim bushings down the line

I had a particular photo shoot thing today at 3pm which required my car to move around and it didn't help that the SPL tension rods still aren't here, not to mention the lack of an exhaust(still building). So I had to borrow my friend Matt's rods for the time being, which also allowed me to have things ready for the SPL's.

This car is really a pain in my dick. It looks simple (well, it is) but it took me practically all morning to do and figure out. And when it came time to finally drill the brackets for the new bolt, I called up about 6 shops in the area since I didn't have a 14mm drill bit nor did I have a drill press. One shop picks up telling me to come over, only to tell me that I'd have to wait until Sunday after 30 minutes of questions and answers. So fu** it. I eyeballed with a Unibit and it turned out just fine.

Looks like a monster!

AND GREEN TEA KIT KAT

Darryn · Post by **Darryn** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:44 am

LOL at kit kat haha

sh** man thats like 5k of wheels right there lol

new lock looks nice, tested it out yet?

Hrmm saving money on buying s14 caster rod brackets... just mod the s12 ones

good work.

asparagus · Post by **asparagus** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:12 pm

Darryn wrote:LOL at kit kat haha

sh** man thats like 5k of wheels right there lol

new lock looks nice, tested it out yet?

Hrmm saving money on buying s14 caster rod brackets... just mod the s12 ones good work.

What lock?

But yeah man, no need to bother with s14 brackets!