Forever Simone

So when I got this car back in 2008, it had came with a "bride" seat. Out of every car I've ever built, I am not one to buy knock off parts, nor can I tolerate them being in my car. I mean if someone is going to break into my car to steal something, it better damn well be worth breaking into my car for. Now if you bust a 200 dollar window for a 200 dollar seat, thinking you just came up on a 1500 dollar seat. Yeah I'm gonna have a problem with that, especially when it comes to talking to my insurance adjuster. So here we are at ground alpha. This to me is worse than stock. Really I don't need to go into details as to why this seat isn't authentic, but there are no NEO CHROME VELOUR Bride seats. Needless to say I had an s13 I had planned on building and since the seat bolt pattern is the same I figured I'd pocket a little change for the seat "50 bucks" to get it out of my sight instead of throwing it away. Which was probably the right thing

So I'll keep it short, if you saw my previous entry :  You ever have that feeling....  I mentioned my temps randomly jumped up 20-40 degree's Celsius. I've noticed coolant stank from the radiator but for sure I thought it was a leaky upper hose due to my temp sensor buoy. But I removed the cap on the radiator and I guess it let air into the radiator which lets whatever water/coolant it was holding in piss all over the floor. Luckily my boy Jack @ Jordan Innovations  was selling a griffin radiator for an s13sr20det. Although it's not for my chassis, it will get the job done and he had it there, no wait. I threw it on my tab with my wheels and came down Sunday to their shop in Irwindale to wrench on the car. Needless to say I got a whole lot of shit done. Just parking the car this is how much coolant I was losing from the hole. I took my upper core support off to navigate in here a bit easier.  Luckily the coolant had no rust in it. yellowish green w

You may just think you're looking at a picture of stock base model 1995 s14 seats... well guess what, that's the whole point? I constantly get asked why I had a 1991 s13 seat in my driver seat area (mind you with holes and shit in it) 1. My car came with a fake Bride seat, I don't play that shit, plus it was that fake alcantra crap so it always made me sweaty. 2. It was comfortable, everyone says s13 seats are uncomfortable, well mine was low, wide, great driver position, and wasn't a piece of shit. And it was OEM so I felt secure as a temp replacement. Turns out my buddy Tyler had a spare driver seat since he bought a pair to put a nice s14 seat as his passenger seat in the party car. I was supposed to pick this up after ASB but shit came up and I ordered Kranze LXZ's so my money has been greatly tied up. I was supposed to pay my state referee ticket this month, but once I had to dip into the money instead of getting it out of my hands and into the city&

That you're probably slowly watching your head gasket blow as you're driving to work? my temps are in the following degree formats. 70c/158f warm 80c/176f when doing spirited driving 90c194f when spirited uphill for long periods and quickly will go down to 80c  So having it jump between 100c/212f and 110c/230f for 30 minutes driving 40mph on the streets hurt my heart. I sat and let the car try to cool down with the hood open about 15 minutes, no abnormal heat coming from the engine bay, turbo doesn't seem to be affected. I'm wondering if my coolant may have leaked out in a mass amount. I'm going to stop by the gas station and fill it up with distilled water and see what the verdict is. Otherwise I'm not too sure what to do at this point. I was supposed to pay my state ref ticket this morning of 900 dollars but due to bofa systems being down I was unable to get monies and went home and went to sleep, didn't think much of it. Now I may have