Project Ladybird SR20

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Right so after the sad demise of the EG, and selling the subaru.. a mysterious voiced whispered to me to go back to Nissan. Now having already built a Turbo N15 wasn't keen on a) doing another turbo N15 B) driving a bog standard GTi. Was very close to buying a R34 GTT in white but then settled something a lil less good... Nissan Micra!!

After reading about others rust problem with there Micra's, was determined to find a MINT shell which I knew would be hard considering these cars are the best part of 15years old.. But they say good things come to those who wait...

If this goes well I'm hoping to do it for couple of other people as well.

Before

Now you see it..

Now you don't..

The Blues Brothers

Nissan Micra 1.0
1.3 Cams
1.6 Injectors
4-1 Manifold
HKS Mushroom Filter
Lightened Flywheel
Custom Roll Cage
Cut Springs
Snap Off Steering wheel
Bucket Seats
Fire Extinguisher

The car is an ABSOLUTE mint shell.. its got a few, I mean a few dings and bumps nothing major! Theres one teeeeny weeeeny bit of rust, infact it aint even rust just starting to bubble, size of a sweetcorn (My bro Passats got more rust )!

 

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First thing was to get rid of all the crap sticker stuck anywhere and everywhere to hide the defects!

And get rid of the rubbish interior! the seats felt you where leaning against a rock and don't even get me started on the steering wheel

This is where it begins boyss



First thing first;

De stickered -

Engine y0

Started collecting parts

Donor car yessssss!!! - Almera GTi

New seats - Recaro

GTiR fuel pump (it will fit had it on my turbo)

Brake lines

Got few whiteline bits

Brand new: Rear ARB

Panhard rod:

New clutch and lightened flywheel

LSD FTW!!! (very rare to get for a almera gti)

Jerrick @ MeisterR is doing me a massive favour so should have Zeta-R Coilovers from him in next 6-8 weeks cant wait. Price he gave me is unbeatable even almera's are more expensive lol

So all parts are here just need to get the shafts made, tomorrow engine should be out so off we go...

 

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Engine out of the micra

Engine out of the Almera GTi

Well firstly got the mounts lined up then welded them after a mock fit

The underbrace needed a little shaving

Engine in perfect I thing :tt2:

Engine out and welded properly ( need to neat it up a little)

Sprayed the rear satin black

Custom shafts :smile: ( painted to see if any hair line cracks so far so good)

Interior sprayed black

Treated the damn rust ( will weld a patch on tomorrow)

 

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Painted the alloys

Final look

Sprayed the rocker cover:

Engine bay ready to be painted:

Stripped for the wiring now:

Everything nearly finished now!

Engine out fitted the LSD box, new clutch and engine/box painted silver... manifold also sprayed with VHT paint.

GTi brakes on with Goodridge brake lines.

Front/Rear ARB and panhard rod fitted. Will need spacers for the front to stop it touching the gear linkage and manifold. Had problems with the rear arb will need drill out the snapped stud.

 

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Recaro Seats fitted

Raditor on with two slime line fans

Nismo Strut brace on


Booked in Unique exhaust on thursday cause no exhaust atm... getting 2.5 mandrel bent system with either a SPOON N1 backbox or a Skyline R34 backbox

Well thankfully everything is done...

Had to get the passenger side shaft shortened cause of the lsd

Had to make custom ARB brackets so it doesn't touch the shifter

Rear panhard and arb fitted

Also got the water pipe on the head custom made so I could mount the rad pipes properly.

Half under sealed

Had a go in it no problems at all :biggrin:

Will sort and tidy up all tomorrow hopefully

 

[sarkel]

Wow man that is some build I kinda like it

 

[wishy]

Awesome little bit mate , will be good to see it finished

 

[Gav-EK9]

haha bonkers build mate ! lol

 

[M.1]

That's some build man. !

 

[Topher-EK9]

keep up the good work dude.

 

[Stevie1306]

looks awesome mate, great project!

 

[M!chael]

This is awesome! Love micra's,will be getting myself one soon

 

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Car is now completed, running sweet

 

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Long day today but well worth it

Went today morning and finally got the exhaust done with SPOON backbox it sounds awesome

Few pics of Phil doing his magic he even fitted my lambda sensor in a new position


On the way back whilst weighing the cat in I weighed my micra

820kg with a sr20!!!!
Then headed off to a dyno to see what it's pushing

Got a nice surprise with just a stainless Mani/exhaust and blitz induction kit

I got


142bhp
127 lbft

 

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Finally coilovers are here

the one and only MEISTER coilovers for micra

Special thanks to Jerrick for sorting it out

 

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Fitted JWT S3R cams

Which resulted in this lovely idle

 

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Fitted the meisters coiles they are awesome :grinning:

Fitted new some T1r's at the front for more grip... just needs tracking and camber sorted before i pay vist to santapod this weekend

Polished and glowed

 

[sarkel]

Wow looking good man and you better come to the mcr-vtec thats coming up soon

 

[D17KDB]

That is awesome mate. Well done