My S1580

[colt75]

Been on here for while now, figured its time to make a thread.

Thread has details from when I bought it, and how its changed until now.

Bought this last october in 07.
was pretty stock and standard at the time..
Colour was Dark Blue
Left exterior/looks pretty much exactly as it was.
Just done abit of work on performance

It looked abit like this

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I had always liked the S15 front ends and hated pop up head lights, so I figured it would be good to do front end conversion, so I started collecting parts for the conversion over a 6month period, and in November 2008 I started the conversion.

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Also by this time my wheels arrived from Japan.
They were Work Emotion CR KAIs in 17x9 +17 Offset, Gun Metal Grey.
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By mid december I had finished the conversion and kit fiting, so it went off the panel beater.

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Had abit of trouble with the panel beater, alot of imperfections, scratches and shit on new paint job :S, told him to redo it.

And this is it, when it was done.
Your jealous of the rims on there I know..
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Got it back, Did 5 stud conversion on the rears and smashed on the wheels.
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In the past month, I've completed the 5 stud conversion on the front, and smash in Coilovers.
So this is how the car currently looks at the moment.
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Specs and shit

Engine/Performance - SR20DET Redtop
* 3" Turbo Back exhaust, Dart Izumi Cat back with decat pipe.
*K&N Pod Filter
*Bosch 040 fuel pump
*Front Mount Intercooler
*Nismo 740cc injectors
*Z32 AFM
*Nistune ECU - tuned by Hyperdrive
*Garett GT2871R 52T 0.64 Rear
*Braided Turbo Lines
*6Boost Manifold
*Turbosmart 38mm Ultragate - Atmospheric Screamer Pipe
*Greddy Cams: 264 11.5 Intake, 272 11.5 Exhaust
*Greddy Valve Springs
*Tomei Cam Gears
*GKTECH Rocker Arm Stoppers
*Profec B Spec 2 Boost Controller
*Exedy 5 Puk Button Clutch
*Deka Mini Sports Battery

Interior
*Autometer Boost Gauge 52mm
*Autometer Watertemp 52mm (not connected!)
*Momo Steering wheel
*Pioneer 6850MP Deck
*Pivot Turbo Timer
*Bride Stradia Low Max Seat

Exterior
*Bright Metallic Silver Respray
*S15 Front End Conversion
*Chargespeed 180sx>S15 conversion fenders +25mm wide
*Origin Type 1 Carbon Fibre Bonnet
*Hippo Sleek Glitter S15 Front bar
*JDM S15 HID Headlights
*Type X tail lights
*Type X Rear pods
*Ganador side mirrors
Suspension
*Kei Office Coilovers 6/8kg, with camber tops.
*Cusco Front Strut
*R33 GTS-T 4 Pot Front Brakes
*EBC Greenstuff Pads - Put in less than 1000KM ago
*D-Project Caster Rods
*D-Project Rear Camber Arms
*D-Project Rear Toe Rods
*17x9 +17 Work CR KAIS in Gunmetal Grey - Front - 215/40/17 Toyo Proxes 4, Rear - 225/45/17 Toyo Proxes 4
* Full 5 Stud conversion
*Work Black Wheel Nuts

Current Power
358RWHP @ 22PSI - Hyperdrive
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[hako]

Sure has come a long way, looking good although I think black roof would finish it off.

[Lonewolf]

very nice, love the strawberry face

any reason for the sharp drop off in power?
almost looks like you maxxed something out but you have injectors, ecu, afm etc all up to scratch...

[Barrett]

Car looks awesome and come along way
I just think the side indicators look abit random where they are.

[Alt_F4]

I like :D
New rims set the car off perfectly.

Only the 2nd strawberry face 180 i've seen over here, the other one was a chick at my old work, and hers was purple.

[evil1]

fuck thats come a long way
i wanted to yack when i saw the first pic

[180SXTCY]

when i first opened thread and first saw china rear lights i was like ooo here we go agian...as i read on i became somewat happy again. looks nice dude. with lonewolf, wat happened up top..it just died in the arse?

[family guy]

looks the goods, but black roof and maybe indicators in the mirrors instead. but still shit hot

[stefan]

dont normaly like the 15 front on the 180's but this one has turned out nice. i like it

[family guy]

shaved rear wiper the goods too

[colt75]

cheers guys for the comments!

with the graph.

its a disco potato, and they start to run out of puff around 300+. so it was close to it.
and plus i currently dont have cams in.
so it just drops off..
Andrew at hyperdrive said if i got cams it will bring it back up to redline.

[R3N]

shit car!

put back the old lights and chromies!

just kidding jim! how's the nistune? any complaints? i'm looking at getting my car nistuned as well

[titmeat]

nice one ..those tail lights before were shocking .who does that lol
what housing size did you go for with the turbo ?

[space]

good write up and progress on the car, what plans next?

[dexplosion]

Very fine car my brother! Look forward to seeing it around

[Lonewolf]

cheers guys for the comments!

with the graph.

its a disco potato, and they start to run out of puff around 300+. so it was close to it.
and plus i currently dont have cams in.
so it just drops off..
Andrew at hyperdrive said if i got cams it will bring it back up to redline.

interesting, expected a drop off due to that but not that bad...

[locote]

Agree, that is a massive drop in power 30hp less at 7000rpm (before/after)
surely if it was cams, power would not drop below previous figure, after all your pushing more boost aswell.

[Deke]

fuck yea that looks fat i love it!

[Pav]

when i first opened thread and first saw china rear lights i was like ooo here we go agian...

I was thinking same thing. You have saved this car man, well done!

My mate just bought a s1580 this week, very sexy looking cars..

[viet_boi]

good choice with the rims..car looks really aggressive now

[playe]

seen this at the workshop today. photos dont do it justice...

[PSI 304]

Worlds above what it once was. Congrats on saving this car! as was said by others i woulda done black roof but, your car. Be interesting once cams in and retune done.

[colt75]

shit car!

put back the old lights and chromies!

just kidding jim! how's the nistune? any complaints? i'm looking at getting my car nistuned as well

nistune is awesome! bloody cheap for what they can do (pretty much everything pfc does.. heard it does more.. knock maps etc..)

[colt75]

the performance gear got put in over the weekend :)

the crack inside =
Garrett 2871 52t 0.64
Greddy Cams: 264 11.5 Intake, 272 11.5 Exhaust
Greddy Valve Springs
Tomei Cam Gears
6 Boost manifold modified by The Rod Dawg
Turbosmart 38mm ultra gate
GKTECH Rocker Arm Stoppers

Had abit of trouble with the rocker arm... it popped off while i was driving, that quickly got sorted out, and again on the way home car shat it self for the second time resulting in this guy
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second time had exact same symptoms as when the rocker arm popped off(Bang.. sluggish not running on all cylinders... it wouldnt start), thought the rocker arm shat it self again.. so it got towed..

morning comes waited for towie to to tow to hyperdrive to sus it out and she starts!, so that was weird.. no one knows the cause or what happened.

anyway, after that she ran fine, drove it to hyperdrive for a tune.

Andy managed to get a very impressive figure of 359rwhp on 22 psi :)
and the 3 runs were, 355, 352, 359.

this 2871 is the 0.64 rear housing 100% confirmed.
and supposed to be the 52 trim.
unsure of why the boost comes on abit late..

its also got a big and loud dirty exhaust leak, apparently coming from number 2 manifold to block.

cam gears are still set at 0 degrees, so next time it goes into hyperdrive, they can fiddle with that and tweak it to get the most out of the cams:)

big thanks to yes mate racing + Hyperdrive (http://hyperdrivems.com.au)

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[EYEH8HSV]

holy crap!! thats impressive mate...well done.

[Deke]

fuck yea i love this car looks sick and makes awsome power :)

[Lonewolf]

nice power, needs a 20ve head to stop those pesky rockers :D

[Halle Terry]

Saw this on the Mitchell a few weeks back, pity you wern't game for runs!

But then again, at 360 odd hp i'm adament I would of got hosed hard!

awesome car

[colt75]

cheers for the comments :)

new update:

car came back from hyperdrive with some decent results today.

first run of the day was 345rwhp at 22psi,

after mucking around with the cam gears we managed to get this.

run 57 in red/brown was 4degrees advanced on intake cam. 0 degrees exhaust cam.
run 69 in green was 6 degrees advanced on intake cam, 0 degrees exhaust cam.

tried fiddling with the exhaust cam, but no matter advance or retard it just made it shitter in both ways.. boost came on later, less power, power dropped off alot at the end.
so in the end exhaust cam was left untouched! (probably something to do with the larger exhaust cam)

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now comes in at 4500 instead of the ridiculous 4900 b4... (also due to fixing the massive exhaust manifold gasket leak).

should be the last update for a while now :)

[Lonewolf]

very meaty power

[space]

how she feel on the road?

[colt75]

mini update

bought some d project adjustable suspension arms like 6 years ago, never got around to putting them (couldnt be fucked).
but today i got around to it.

products;
rear camber arms, castor rods, toe rods.

and while i was at it, decided to lower the car abit more.

http://i429.photobucket.com/albums/qq16/einterest/5731_148770318992_644618992_3248070.jpg

just needs a wheel alignment now :D

[Gladio]

Damn, I love this looks good man!, where all the parts for front end conversion just bolt on? soz I didnt read previous comments, to lazy haha

[colt75]

bit of an update, its been a while.

some things happened between the last update and about 5months

*took it to drift practice a few times last year, ran fine apart from snapping the pivot ball in the gearbox, which was replaced, and whilst the gearbox was out I took the opporunity/excuse to put in a new clutch, so an Exedy 5 Puk button clutch was put in :)

*car got yellow stickered but it got over no problems, was pretty much put back to stock minus the s15 conversion (Ie turbo, suspension, etc)

took me about another 5months of slowly reinstalling the parts as i was quite over fiddling with cars after the pits.

during this time, i replaced rocker cover o ring gaskets, as oil was finding itself in the coilpacks

also changed the spark plug rocker cover o rings seeing as bulk oil was pissing into the coilpacks, all sorted now.
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also got the 205/40/17 tyres stretched on
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and fitted a new straight through dart izumi exhaust :)

pics to come shortly

[Kimbalina]

Did a photo shoot with Minh & Jim's car (Minh's are in his build thread)
Jim's,
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Both,
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[XF Falcon]

Looks awesome man, nice car and pics

[lee3671987]

both cars looks mad.....goes well together!