SCato

Updates?

2009-08-27T16:06:00.000-07:00

well lets see nothing much has changed......

Ive replaced:

Alt Fuse
Battery
Turn Signal Bulbs
Wiper Blades

Still Need To Replace:
Driveshaft....

Need to buy:
Driveshaft....
SAFC
T28

Also ive found out my ALT is aperently old as dirt.... not good. And my wiring harness is a joke... still not all good.... idk.... atleast im getting some nice paychecks.

CANT F_ING WAIT

2009-06-01T23:22:00.000-07:00

That Day Was Awesome!

2009-05-29T08:51:00.001-07:00

Will's edit of FD Atlanta, was my first FD i went to and i had so much fun!

Formula D Atlanta 2009 from Will Roegge on Vimeo.

The Elitest

2009-05-25T18:29:00.000-07:00

Every drift group is trying to be more elite then the next one.

very lame

another end of a week.

2009-05-23T19:00:00.000-07:00

So yea not much to blog about today...

i dont wanna go off about how i want to start editing more and more but i haz no footage except what ive already used in vids, and i realized 95% of it is useless.

So far so good with the car..

Check list with things i need:

Tires. badly...!!!
New Job

and thats really all i NEED at this point.

This video is badass and the song is stuck in my head.

Formula D Long Beach 2009 from Will Roegge on Vimeo.

So..

2009-05-21T23:19:00.000-07:00

Went out and work on the car abit today... ended up taking a razor and cleaning up all the residue from the Sexy Pants stickers, so lesson learned there.

NEVER EVER put a sticker on a painted surface. EVER!!!!

So yea after that i whipped out the touch up paint and "fixed" the hatch surface. So no worried about rusting there for now eh?

Also checked out the engine bay, Checked fluids, tighten bolts, etc.

O in my fury of bloggin last nite i forgot to mention i finally got Kamizake Renegade's off the ground. Went out and did some intial filming, with Adam and a few other locals. Made a very quick edit while trying to get back in the grove or editing and using iMovie, i guess once i get comvertable with it i can make the jump back up to Final Cut, or else that icon is just gonna stay sitting there on my dock..... which would be a mjor waste for such an exspenive program...

either way heres the quick edit i made:
http://vimeo.com/4461883

So yea... i guess im just waiting for money to come my way. Cause ive got all these things i need to and want to do with my car, just takes $$$$$$$$$ liek everything else in life.

Burnt Out...

2009-05-20T19:42:00.000-07:00

im so sick of my job atm. so much its affecting my car, for the past 2 weeks, ive been sitting with quarter tank left. and some how its still going.

ive hit boost 3x in the past week. O yea.. 2 weeks ago i got in a wreck... ended up hydroplaning off the road at 25 mph. and took out a mailbox. When i came to a stop everything looked fine, except where the mailbox itself bounced off my hood and then bounced off the trunk.... great. So after all the hoop la. i go to drive away. thats when i learned that my driveshaft had taken all the damage in the crash....

from what i could gather when i hitthe mailbox, the pole acted like a vulcrum and the cement base of the box slammed right into the driveshaft. it completely destroyed the carrier bearing. Well considering this is my only daily i had to replace the driveshaft ASAP. well 3 days later and 40 bucks less i got one that i needed. So after i got that installed the next day was FD Atlanta. was fun drove my own car there and hung out for abit. Seems since i got back from FD ive got no drive to do anything with the car...

i hate the way it looks, ive got shitty SEs on it, the rears have 70 series tires..... fucking 17s are much smaller than that. After the wreck all i can see is the damage but i cant afford to fix it, and then i start thinking about when i do get some rims ill have to roll the front fenders and both fenders are bad... so i guess ill be looking for a clean front end for my car. but finding a perfect driverside fender is like finding a needle in a hay stack. grrr...

well atleast the interior is clean enough.... ive came to all this becuase, before a few weeks ago, i would have a day off and the day before i would be planning what things i would go and do with and to my car. and i wouldnt have a negatiove attitude about it. but now i have off tommorrow and i dont even wanna look at my car.

so with that i leave you with what im doing right now. looking out the window giving my car the finger..

its a love hate relationship. and ATM i hate it.

hello.

2009-04-11T22:29:00.000-07:00

So long stroy short.

No SAFC or Boost Controller. BUT!

I did get an exhaust, 3" catback, with resonator and 4" tip.

50 dolla.

Also I fixed EVERY SINGLE LEAK!!! for now... Got my oil return line bent in the right place and added a new OIL SAFE hose. and sealed the deal with 2 new ties. done and done.

so yea... thats about it

Struck A Deal.

2009-04-01T19:18:00.001-07:00

for a SAFC 2 and Greedy Profec

im happy.

a bit

2009-03-25T19:30:00.001-07:00

of an update, i guess.

also came up with this:

Filling.

2009-03-24T11:12:00.000-07:00

Muh taxes

damn turbo tax gets to keep 50 bucks... all cause i dont have 20 to pay for the efiling. I knew there was a way that this would come back to bite me. but meh its not like i paid for the software. So hopefully soon ill have a sizeable amount of cash come my way. i need it badly.

Not To Much..

2009-03-22T23:13:00.000-07:00

to report...

ca is good, and i cant wait to start working at NTB, ive been in desperate need of some new clothes lol.... so i soent some time today going through the interwebs and bookmarking some shirts and things. So yea.... im kinda planning out what im gonna be spending all this extra cash flow on. so far:
Clothes, suspesion, and maybe some rims

aaron let me in on his plan and i might be piccking up his rims off his s14. there shitmax 002's that are 16x8 0 offset. not the last set of rims but just something that my car will def like.

wow... i just remembered i need to file my taxes. plans for today! but yea....

nothing new really.

waiting for 2 events, April 3rd Fast & Furious comes out, and hopefully we can have a nice big meetup for that and then the following sunday we are having a giant moutian run. and i def can not wait for that

Yesterday.

2009-03-17T11:05:00.000-07:00

so i finally got to go take the drug test for NTB, and well that was a trip in it self. My battery died when trying to find the place and anthony came to give me jump and show me where the place was, considering the NTB guys had no clue they just gave me the general direction and sent me on my way.... but yea my battery hasnt been charging properly and i knew it... I ws hoping it wasnt going to be my alt, so after limping it home from Kennesaw, with the car dieing inbetween redlights i got it back to my apt, and popped the hood. the bolt on my alt was pure white and was sparking..... so i thought well there it is.... the bolt diddnt look tightened down at all. So i went to tighten it, and in the process teh whole assembly shattered into tiny pieces..... and when i touched the wires going to the alt and the bolt, they crumbled apart.... i was so pissed. so long story short, i completly removed the alt and went to work trying to find a way to fix this mess. so i went to oriely got some wire and some battery ends. and went to work rebuilding my harness. in my apt parking lot. in the rain. fun fun. well i took me about an hour and i had the harness remade and had the alt back on the motor. and now with my alt belt tighter than before and my battery finally getting the right amount of charge the car is running better. except now ive got a bit of delay from what feels like spark when i hit boost..... guess thats what i get for getting cheap spark plugs. well ill have good ones in there before i get tuned.

Got me an email!

2009-03-14T22:54:00.000-07:00

$180 tension rods
$120 tie rods
$250-$400 knuckles
$180 traction rod
$180-$200 G1-G2 toe rod
$200 RUCA
$50-$100 Sub frame collars (or solid Risers)
$1000 coilovers

$150 in shipping for everything

Everything will be available in our pending shipment scheduled for the end of April.

we accept payments through www.paypal.com to the address maxusa@poweredbymax.net

thanks - Dan

No Dan... thank you

150 for shipping everything..... woot!

A time max out the CC

2009-03-11T20:49:00.000-07:00

So im putting together a list of parts im gonna buy.... my plan is to start this job at NTB, pay off my CC that i owe ATM, clear out all my debt, and then place in an order to PBM. muhahahaha so yea looks like if they finally get me in for training i can start planning more in detail, but things are looking goo so im say 3-4 months away from doing this

Suspension Parts:

Powered By MAX.
Coilovers: 1000
RUCA: 200
Rear Toe Rod: 200
Tension Rod: 180
Traction Rod: 180
Sub Frame Spacer: 50
Tie Rod Spacers: 10

Tie Rods:
TEIN
Inner 88.00
Outer 88.00

Sway Bars:
Tanabe
Front 30.4mm 175.50
Rear 22mm : 175.50

Bushing Kit:
Energy Suspension

Steering Bushing:
FRS: 25.00

Later On:
Kaaz 2-Way 500-750

Long Weekend.

2009-03-10T01:27:00.000-07:00

OK first off. South East Drift Challenge. was insane! two days of sliding at turner field, it was more awesome than its sounds!

but the final day ended with a top 32 comp. turned out only 21 actually qualified.... but none the less, was fun to be part if the crowd during all this! Marty and Sammy were KILLING IT in the Tiger Racing S13!

ALthough Justin in the Marco's Old LS1 S13, won the finals against Marty, (although, i would have said marty did a whole lot better IMO) and Andy sapp came in 3rd with Sammy Tiger finishing off the top 4.

All of them did amazing and really shows what ATL can offer!

OK enough chat about them. time for my car!

So the fornt bumper is back on the car, after an hour with a saw and little convincing. everything was looking good saturday morning....

long story short. My PS boiled over..... and by sunday i had no fix for it so i cut off the PS belt.... no PS and welded diff.... SUX

So friday im redoing the entire PS system and hopefully i can find the issue that caused this in the first place. wish me luck. O and i still have the coolant leak....... i need ot get on that.

I guess...

2009-03-03T22:25:00.000-08:00

the simeple things can get fixed quickily... lol

so i went to Oriely during my break at work tonight, and got a vac line connector. went out in the parking lot and cut off the burnt middle and connected the 2 ends. wala! and my shit idles perfecty fine and i can hear my BOV again.

well the plans for friday are as so:

Wake UP 9am. Goto Moms Office and Do the Taxes For the family

eat lunch after

Go pickup my front bumper from home

Goto jackson's and cut bumper support, and reistall bumper

Fix leaking rear brakes

Fix coolant leak

Clean Inside and Outside of my Car.

ugh... fucking full plate ahead of me.

AS i spoke....

2009-03-02T22:05:00.001-08:00

So i noticed yesterday that i couldnt hear my BOV as much.... I said to myself that if it was not working something would be off... so i must not be hearing it cause my crazy loud exhuast....

well my idle was hitting pretty low. and i decide to pop the hood and look if there was a lose connection or a vac leak... thats when i discovered it.

My vac line that goes to the BOV had been eaten thru..... by the PS pump pulley..... so i needz new vac line.

I Can...

2009-03-01T21:47:00.000-08:00

only hope theres not a rule about NOT posting everyday..... then again if there is i wouldnt be missing it... lol

Im home watching Tortoro or however you spell it.

ZOMG.

2009-02-28T19:40:00.000-08:00

No news to report on the CA... but i helped my friend Casey move his new S13 shell into his garage. His old car was a nice s14, until a Van rammed the car behind him at 50mph and thus shoved that car and that made him part of a s14 sammich. long story short. he is fins and both ends of the S14 are toast.

So He picked up a S13 and decided to swap everything over that will work. So we started by moving in the S13 Coupe into his garage. To bad i have to work tommorrow or i would be there to help with the S14 tear down.

Traction.

2009-02-27T19:16:00.000-08:00

I no haz it.

its raining all day today, and i had to drive around everywhere. Boost hits and the rear end kicks out, its fairly fun!

lol but another day another day not fixing issues...

Note To Self.

2009-02-26T23:13:00.000-08:00

Battery Tie Down and Coolant Leak

maybe if i fucking see this more often i will actaully go fix these issues. Cause i keep telling myself to do it., but for some reason, pulling over on the side of the road and re connecting my battery is easier than buying a fucking tie down.

O and adding coolant is easier than replacing a hose.

I fail so hard.

Rain.

2009-02-26T00:31:00.000-08:00

So after my swap and eveyrthing i have finally hit a point where everything has been replaced and my car is actually acting well. No issues today or yesterday. And then it rained....

and well before with the KA that means i would go hit up my favorite place to slide. Its this nice slb of aprking lot far from the road. and well i saw it raining from inside wrok at closing tonight and i had the great idea of going and introducing my CA to the spot. Well that when my mind kciked in and was like "You dont have an exhaust!!!!! You will get caught and/or ruin your spot for future sliding"

and as i sat there argueing with myself i wondered if other people had this thought process.. Obviuosl most dont and go slide without thinking the long term consequences of their actions. But im kinda glad i think this way. Cause i like my spot. I like going back to my spot and i especially like having my spot.

O and dont worry i cured a little of my Sidewayz Itch, on the way home it kicked out when i hit boost and I let it go and did a short lil Manji. :)

then my battery fell over and my postitive wire fell off the post and my car died in the middle of a 4 lan road..... on a hill..... FML.

Boost Leaks.

2009-02-24T19:13:00.000-08:00

fuck them in the little hole they come out of........ FUCK

i dropped 60 bucks on a fucking 02 sensor.... thinking that was the issue. NO i was dead fucking wrong! small little boost leak from my BOV.

well there goes 60 bucks donw the drain.

actually its not that bad cause my old O2 was on its way out and the CA pulls harder now so i guess theres a positive.

Whoa....

2009-02-21T23:18:00.001-08:00

in all the hustle and bussle i totally forgot about blogspot... So i guess its a good time to update the status.

So yea.... ITS IN AND RUNNING

minus a leak or two im all set, and enjoying it greatly, so i guess ill just leave this blog for personal stuff and random things. no more swap info lol

hit a snag... of sorts.

2008-12-27T18:45:00.000-08:00

So i found out that the front mount kit i found will not work with the CA. becuase it was made for the SR...... fuck... Basically the Hot And Cold pipes are different on teh CA and teh SR.....

So yea... im on the hunt for a CA Cold and Hot Pipe.!!!!!

tell your friends.

O and come monday ill be hitting up Pull A Part and looking for either a taurus or altima fans.

Ballin!!!!!

2008-12-25T17:24:00.000-08:00

So christmas ended up being better than expected!

I ended up with more than enough money to buy the motor and complete the swap! So thats coming even sooner!!!!

Better Time than Ever?

2008-12-24T20:35:00.000-08:00

well its Christmas Eve..... and im bored. So i figure its time to start this shit.

Theres gonna be a shit ton of drama involved with this, but whatever. Ill be using this blog to follow the status of my Engine Swap.

Ill be going from a KA24DE to a CA18DET.

not the average swap for a 240sx, but the CA does come from the 180sx in japan. Which shares the same basic chassis, but if your reading this you probably already know everything you need to know, so lets continue here.

So far i have allocated everything i need for the swap to happen.

Motorset
Upgraded Fuel Pump
Front Mount Intercooler Kit
Blow Off Valve
Boost Guage
And Misc Fluids

Its a farely striaght forward swap. And the motor I have sourced for this is sitting in a S13 currently. So once its pulled i dont have too much wiring to do. So thats a good thing.

Now as the motor sits. Its in a s13 god knows where, inside the alabama borders.... but its currently got a SR t25 on it. Well the guy quoted me a price on it, and well i dont need the upgraded turbo or the side mount. So after telling him that he lowered the price. He will be giving me the stock CA t25 withe the engine and i wont be getting his fuel pump. So after all the caluclations, it cam down to 5 numbers. 600.00

I was fairly shocked at it, and well its really tooo good of a deal to pass up. So after Friday i will have the cash in my hand and at some point in Jan. I will be borrowing a truck, going to test drive the car with the motor, and if it all works out ill be coming home with the motor!!!

but anyways

Ive located a r32 GTR fuel pump to replace my stocker

and

A buddy of mine will be hooking me up with a HKS front mount kit

as for the BOV, Ive got a pretty little Greddy Type RS sitting at home waiting for some pressure.

I wish i had some pics but alas this is the first of many posts to come. So there will be pictures!