Hey everyone, my name is Chris, I'm from Boston. I own a performance shop here called Function Automotive, I do alot of drift cars, mainly drift alignments. So if youre ever in the New england area and looking for a drift friendly alignment shop, just hit me up. Anyways heres my 89 S13 hatch I bought back in 2015. Been drifting since 2016, but had S13's since 2007. This is hatch was my 3rd S13, but ive had 5 total. Ive actaully been doing a full refresh over the last two years so I've got alot to share. All the photos in this first post are from back when it was stock KA, which is how I drove until I pulled it apart to do the SR swap, and bought a 350z in the mean time to keep driving. I'll give a little background on this car, I bought this down in Augusta GA on Fort Gordon, it was a rust free running car, that had a couple stuck injectors.
Heres a couple photos from a few years back, before I took the car apart. Hoping to finish this car for spring with new paint.
Next up was the interior. I wanted an all red interior. I bought a red carpet, red dash mat, red digital pro sport gauges and had a set of red sparco fighter seats from another car. Did LED needles on the factory gauge cluster, red suede inserts and a red suede head liner. Later down the line I did change the drivers seat out to a Sparco circuit two, which only came in black. Before I did any of this i POR-15 the floors, and added sound deading cause I'm old. I will be adding a full cage this year, but im keeping full interior, trimming panels to fit.
First step was POR-15
This gauge pod was from SD engineering, he still sells these and I believe this was one of the first ones.
Painted the rear seat black to match, all interior plastics were repainted with SEM paint for that OE look.
New driver seat with a Street Faction bracket. I put this thing as low as it could go a cause Im 6' 5 and used to barely fit my with helmet on. Now I clear just fine. I also got Sparco Martini Racing Harnesses in red to match, and martini pads for the passenger seat.
This was final product before the new driver seat. That is a Jimmy Up steering wheel I won in a black friday contest a few years back, its engraved with a Charizard.