Again, I’m back with some updates! this site is really dead these days but I feel like da’'s are a pretty dead car too. but I don’t care if the forums i post this stuff to watch or not just my own personal journal to see how far I’ve come.
anyhow, enough blabbering.
got my one pieces in and they are super clean and crack free.
also I placed an order and got all my fittings for my brake tuck, 3/16 nickel plated copper brake line, m10x1.0 banjo to 3an fittings for the master cylinder along with the banjo bolts.
so, more progress. got my booster and mastercylinder in from an rs, both the 35* banjo fittings, all the brake tuck fittings and my tubing in. I also bit the bullet and bought the rigid 37* flare tool so hopefully it should be a breeze to do.
I painted my booster to match my valve cover because why not. this is just a budiet build not some track inspired wannabe show car. just a build for myself to learn and experiment with. here’s some pictures as well
Yeah man, I can link you. im at work right now but I’ll get it to you. they are aeroquip fittings from my understanding and they come with all the an to metric adapters you need. they also make it where you can get banjo bolts/fittings with your kit for more $$$. but they are straight and I wanted 35* fittings and I used some 10mm banjos we had kicking around the shop.
so,it should route in a orientation like this:
also on a side note I bought another seat. yes it’s a rep. but I don’t care. I need to figure out how to use the stock belt with it because I don’t want a roll cage. I just want a harness bar. and I got my rigid flare tool in so I’m gonna practice some flares and hopefully start doing some lines this weekend.
What’s up guys. It’s been a minute since I’ve updated this due to the weather, money work life blah blah. Anyhow, I ended up buying a recaro replica seat and ordered buddy club rails but literally took a month to ship. So I got a refund. Then I fitted my shitty fmic. Wasn’t hard to do but it was very cold out that day. Maybe like 10 degrees and I did it at night time.
so, a bit of backstory. My civic’s motor decided to throw a rod on my way to work from my girlfriends house (2 hours from my job) and I missed work due to that. I got it to her grandma’s house which is next door to her’s and left it there. Decided I wasn’t going to do anything with it and sold it to some dude for dirt cheap. Then I was on the hunt for another car. Mind you this was around the time I was getting ready to drop EVERYTHING off at the machine shop for the bottom end. Saved for like a month and some change and had almost 4k to spend. Bought a shitty 02 subaru forester had rusty brakelines go out on me the day I bought it. Fixed that then within a week found a 91 s13. Traded my forester for that with cash on top. Both cars are shitty condition but I’ve always wanted a 240sx and I bought one that runs solid but has its issues(Rust).
anyways, that brings me to where I’m at with the da. Debating parting it out for more money to work with or finishing it. I’ve come very far with the car and really don’t want to undo everything but debt is calling my name.
also, I partially installed the brake booster for future mockup of the lines. Pics to follow in second post.
