the 1987 Nissan Sentra Sport Coupe

sportcoupe(turbo) · May 28th, 2007, 02:11 AM

Well here goes i got the car a year ago with a dead distributor once i had it replace i found out that the car is burnin oil so here i am doing a total rebuild of the engine and the under the frame rust shinanigence :P but im gonna post some pics of the car before i went into the rebuild faze as i don not have a camera rite now but as soon as i get one il post the pics of the engine all taken apart in my room :P

Some mods :

pace setter short throw shifter

tokico struts

eibach springs 1.5" drop

edelbrock breather

got clevite (4) pistons

" " " Rods

main and rod bearings all clevite

complete rebuild head

ported and polish intake manifold

took out power steering and the whole ac asembly

some pics:

these pics are old this was when i just got the car and i was cleanning the car up

eny responce would be nice my real name is Ivan by the way, love this forum
and hoping to meet some new people and hopefully i will get a new digi cam so i can show
some of those 20yrs old goodies all exposed

future mods :

posably if i can fined a lighter flywheel or machine mine

try to get the e16i into a multiport injection and if that goes to plan then turbo the e16i

get a 4to1 exauhst manifold

maby get a puley from the e16 b/c it doesnt have the belt groves for the ac and power steering as i gutted those thing out of my engine bay enyway

in canada very hard to get enything for this engine god dam :P

Divo25 · May 28th, 2007, 11:32 AM

looks good but is it hard to drive without power steering ??

sportcoupe(turbo) · May 28th, 2007, 12:36 PM

no man not at all its only a bit hard to move it when the car is standing but thats about it and plus the car is veryu light its only 2000lbs i belive well enyway its not too bad its all about getting used to it and thats it

sportcoupe(turbo) · May 28th, 2007, 11:50 PM

sry i made a mistake above the struts a monro nitros gas powerd

sportcoupe(turbo) · Sep 4th, 2007, 02:37 AM

got some photos off the digi these are after i rebuilt the eng i desided to go with a n/a eng
but im still searching for the m15 cast head for 10/1 compression

and im also gonna try to convert the injection system to efi and still need to do the exaust piping

sportcoupe(turbo) · Sep 4th, 2007, 02:39 AM

if you can notice i found some lighter timing gears

sportcoupe(turbo) · Oct 11th, 2007, 02:13 AM

well here i am back its bean a while and im starting a new project with the car which is going turbo on the e16i but first im getting all the parts im going to use. il be posting more as soon as i move to my new place

but here is how its all going down
1 getting a new 33m cast head and doing 3 degry valve cut + port and polish
2 geting a 38weber carb or somthing else (still desiding on that) and yeas im doing a carb'd 2 turbo
3 getting a fuil pressure regulator keeping my fuel pump its good (15psi)
4 using 04 wrx turbo cause i have one and evry flange i need for it
5 using mazda speed inter cooler and the boost resurculator but il be ising it as a bov

thats it for now soonil be posting pics and my slow progress cause i am officially broke for now and here are a few shots of the cabin sinse i have finished gaging it up

sportcoupe(turbo) · Oct 11th, 2007, 11:21 AM

and here I am getting ready to go to my buddies

sportcoupe(turbo) · Oct 11th, 2007, 10:35 PM

here are some night shots that i did 10 mins ago (:

here is the intercooler im using just had it in the car thought i would take a picture

sportcoupe(turbo) · Oct 14th, 2007, 11:36 PM

oh i have anothere project that il be posting pics of .... basically i'le be making home made coilovers using the oem struts imm going to thread the shaft and using a nut to compress the spring to desired hight and stiffness

b13pnoysentra · Oct 29th, 2007, 02:55 AM

I like this sleeper project!

sportcoupe(turbo) · Nov 3rd, 2007, 01:58 AM

thnx... ye still got lots to do but i have time im pretty happy with the rebuilt motor rite now has enough power to beat stupit ricers :P

sportcoupe(turbo) · Nov 3rd, 2007, 02:03 AM

and i still have to repaint the car i wanna do the jdm sunny coupe theam i like it very much and rim it during the summer and maby once in a wile throw on the stock rims to go complete sleeper look

sportcoupe(turbo) · Nov 13th, 2007, 01:00 AM

check out the block in my livingroom after i fitted the new pistons this was somtime during the summer just found the pics

sportcoupe(turbo) · Jan 21st, 2008, 12:24 AM

i have some more progress work to show but have been halted for a wile b/c im having some engine problems (nothing major) basically nothing spesial to update but I got a set of rims and cleaned up the engine bay a little bit the pics are couple months old this was somewhere in sep.