I've taken some time to map out the suspension geometrically in hopes that I can have a better understanding of how minor static changes will affect the car and make the proper choice in what parts to put on it. As such, suspension has been more of a focus as I make up my budget. I don't like dyno queens and prefer road racing and auto cross. My goals for the rebuild are to make a great performing vehicle. Where the floor rust was previously, I'd just feel better with a complete floor pan instead of patched floor when I have a roll bar welded in. Thankfully, I have a donor car lined up in the near future that is virtually rust free. And of course, like most S13s, the reinforcement plate that helps tie the strut tower to the upper frame has some rust bubbling through. This wasn't addressed and the inside of the rocker panel started to rust out. In 2008, I noticed some rocker rust through the wheel well from years of leaves and muck being retained by the inner fender liner. In 2005, I patched the floor boards under my passenger seat as the rot was so bad, my passenger seat was only being held in with three feet on the brackets. The car was originally sold in New Jersey and spent close to ten years there before it made its way south to Virginia. Rust has been a huge issue I've battled and catalogued over the years. One of the driving factors in undertaking the frame up restoration was to fix a lot of problems that twenty two years of age brings on a car. But I'm not remiss from buying used quality parts as well as shopping for deals and specials. I'm not going to compromise performance just to save a few hundred bucks. This build is going to balance budget with performance, which is why it's going to be slow. I'm finally kind of ready to start formulating my ideas into text, so this will be kind of a way to vent my ideas and internal machinations as well as the usual automotive pornography we expect on NICO. This is going to be a fairly lengthy project as I'm going to amass a good portion of the parts I want to put on the car before doing the stripping and repairing. I've been in the process of amassing parts for a full tear down and rebuild of my S13.
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