Eric's SW20 G-Limited Hardtop - JDM

Hey everyone

So I'm new to this forum, and after some reading around I thought I should post up my SW20

This is my first car, I recently got my learners and because my family does not own a manual car, I had to purchase one.
So after many hundreds of hours working at a large supermarket, i had enough to go and buy a car. obviously, being a drift photographer, the logical choice was a Silvia, I decided that I wanted something a bit different though, something you don't see every day.
 
After checking out this car and going for a drive in it, I fell in love with it. Its just awesome, although sometimes I do get a bit frustrated with it :P
 

 
Anyway, onto the car's details

It's 1990 SW20 G-Limited with hardtop
Manual 3S-GE
Fabric Seats
Fog Lights

It's a Japanese import; It was imported in 2007, in Tasmania, and has slowly worked its way up the east coast of Australia until it arrived with me at the start of this year :P
 

 
Obviously, some owners have mistreated it, and I have found old for sale ads with my car in it, but so far, I have done next to nothing on this car - bar giving it some loving and starting to recondition it

Aftermarket stuff:
-HKS Hi-Power Muffler
-HKS Springs
-HKS Pod Filter
-Volk Knock-off wheels with locking nuts
-RDA Slotted rotors with EBC Red stuff brake pads
-Clear front indicatiors
-Alpine head unit with clarion 6 point speaker system/layout
-OMP Style Wheel
-Short Shifter and New leather Shift boot with red stiching + Aluminium shift knob
 
The plan for this car is to be slowly reconditioned. I have started work on the interior by fixing the shifter assembley and the shift boot, The car will hopefully being repainted in the factory black, as it has had a hard life and a terrible debadging process (the guy gave me the badges though) Also new wheels are planned as the ones that are fitted have terrible offset.

I do have a few questions about this car
Apparently the combination of G-Limited, hardtop, manual and black is rare?
Power wise what am I looking at?
If I was to recondition the seats, should I have them Redone in leather or Fabric?

Sorry for the long post, but if you read all (Or at least some of it) thanks for your time!, and there will be more photos coming soon!

-Eric

Black on black...I like it!
just needs dark tints :)
 
Re drift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUOHK525EEs

Understeer will always be a problem in this car due to the lack of weight over the front to push the tyres into the ground and find grip. What size wheels are on the front and what tyres are you running F+R?

Welcome Eric,
Nice choice of car and good luck with the rebuild. You can sort out a lot of understeer with suspension tweeks but a decent diff will help a lot with managing exit out of the corners.
Cheers

Havent updated this in a little while as not much has happened, but some good things are coming!
 
So we noticed the car was handling funny as the weight shifted arround through the gentlest right handers, took to to a suspension shop and apparently the rear struts are screwed. the best deal we could find for the problem to be fixed was arround $1000. Instead I just opted for coilovers
 
I purchased some HSD HR Coilovers, the lowest spring rates they could go with were 6kg's, so I chose 6kg's front and 8kg's rear. I have a few mates who have softer springs if necessarry
 
They should be here tommorow, and will be installed by this weekend. I also purchased some gauges, SAAS Oil Pressure and Vacuum, which are awesome :D

I will upload some pictures later

-Eric 

Installed coil overs on the weekend, I had no clue what to do so my mate (who's a semi-pro drifter) said he would help me and I just handed him tools :P I learnt a lot though

After installing the coil overs and adjusting the tightness of some bolts he decided to take it for a test drive. I've never pushed my car as hard as he did, but man you can feel the huge difference that they make!

We conveniently ended up behind a turbo r34 skyline when testing it in some windy corners so we decided to play ;)

We could keep up but due to the tires not being grippy enough and the open centre diff we couldn't quite get through the corners fast enough, but she loves to rev!

Even though the cannon is a bit ricer it still makes a nice noise past 5000 rpm!

So far that has been the best 1200 bucks I've ever spent!

Tl;dr : cars awesome now with new suspension and keeps up with turbo skylines in corners

I will post some pictures later today, she really needs a bath from all the dirt in my mates shed

Tires are on the list of things to do ;)

Have to sort out brakes as front callipers have to be rebuilt, front rotors and all the pads changed

I want to get new wheels first though, these ones sometimes clip the suspension.

Any suggestions on wheels?

So Tought I'd write out my massive list of things to do. My wallet hurts already just thinking about it :/

-Front Brake Caliper Rebuild
-New front rotors
-New pads
-Remove rust on pillar
-Repaint and paint match roof
-Engine out
-Replace all seals
-check water and oil pump
-Timing Belt
-KAAZ 1.5 way LSD
-New Clutch
-New wheels
-New tires
-A/C Regas

All of that's happening in the next 6 months, I want it all done by the time I get my p's

Any help/opinions are much appreciated!as I'm still learning