Carlos Cano's 620SX being built by Sinister Designs Inc.

[SinisterDesigns]

Hello everyone. My name is Daniel John. Most people new me back in the day on the rotary forums as the Mechanical_Deviant. I am in the process of opening my own shop Sinister Designs Inc we speacialize in all types of fabrication. We are sponsoring a 240sx vert for Carlos Cano for XDC this year. You might know Carlos from top drift in his yellow S200 powered AE86.

The build started a couple months ago but was put on hold for the holidays. We have recently resumed the project. We will attempt to update on here daily. The build is a 92 240sx vert. It is being powered by an L92. The L92 is a 6.2 Cadillac Escalade motor and very similar to the LS3. We will plan on using a Hurst t56 transmission, complete custom suspension and knuckles. The car will have custom wiring and be powered off a stock ecu flashed and re tuned.

I am going to post some pics to bring everyone up to speed. The car is being prepped for a tube chassis front and rear end. The car is already seam welded. We finished up the motor mounts yesterday.

THE BEGINING







SEAM WELD AFTER STRIPPING



LAYOUT FOR TRANS TUNNEL







LAYOUT FOR CUSTOM OIL PAN



FRONT OF OIL PAN



BACK OF OIL PAN COMPARISSON TO STOCK





OIL PAN WELDED



CARLOS AND I WORKING ON THE MOTOR












sorry to post so many pics at once I just have a lot of back work pics lol. I will try to keep this post updated daily.

[alex]

Hi Daniel, which swaps have you done in the past and how hard will it be to wire the L92?

[Bebop]

Reason for choosing the vert?

[SinisterDesigns]

@alex
Ok list of swaps....hmm well I used to do lots of honda swaps, other then that its a handful of just random swaps. Wiring isn't usually an issue. To be honest my brother is the wiring master. He can pin and un pin ecu connectors and do all kinds of crazy madness. He adds and removes things out of factory harnesses for me, and when he is done you ususally cant tell he was there. I also have him re pin all my broken plugs. I like harneses on motor swaps I do to look factory and have hold downs.

@ Blaze.
Why not a vert? Acutally we originally were doing two cars and we just thought it would be cool to have twin verts. The other car is still being built but not this extensively and wont be doing a whole season.

[SinisterDesigns]

Ok its been a busy hectic few days. We made up a diff adapter to install a Z32 diff, and installed R33 axels. We did the 5 lug conversion on the back and made up the brackets for the hydro E-brake calipers. Also picked up so shiney toys.

ROLL CAGE MATERIAL


HEADERS WOOT


AWESOME NEW DIFF MOUNT
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MAT MACHING MOUNTS


CALIPER MOCK UP


CALIPER BOLTED UP, I KNOW IT LOOKS THE SAME


BOLTED UP VIEW FROM THE BACK


THE DIFFRENCE IN BRAKE SIZE


Im so out of it lol

[Justin Banner]

There any way you can get more photos of the caliper braket you made? I'm interested in that.

[alex]

thanks for the update Daniel , which headers are you using?

[SinisterDesigns]

Alex im using just some chepo ebay LS3 headers. Im just using them for a base and im going to chope them and make them fit. They actually almost fit perfectly.

[SinisterDesigns]

Today was highly productive. However it was one of those days where we got a lot done and have nothing to show lol.

BOSCH 440 FUEL PUMP
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DID THE 5 LUG SWAP IN THE FRONT


TEST FITMENT FOR THE NEW FRONT BRAKES (these are off my r33 im actually going to use new 300zx brakes)


HERE IS THE COMPARISON OF THE OLD TO FRONT NEW BRAKES

[SinisterDesigns]

Oh hey justin ill post pics of the brackets up soon.

[Justin Banner]

Originally Posted by SinisterDesigns

Oh hey justin ill post pics of the brackets up soon.

Thanks. I'm thinking of doing a similar deal on my S12.

[SinisterDesigns]

Ok people I am alive. The whole shop was down for a week. One of us had bronchitis and the other two of us got strep. We did manage to chop up the headers and do a couple other things. I will start back in on the project today. We have basically no time to build this car so this should become quite the show. I will post pics later today we have quite the collection of nice parts mounding up here.

[Bebop]

On that note....SICK BUILD!!! lol

Why not a vert?

I always questioned the rigidity of the verts... but once you get seam welded and caged it kinda throws all that out the window.

[SinisterDesigns]

Ok I am posting random pics from the last week of our total sickness. This weekend has been a tornado of building I'll put new pics of current progress up tomorrow night. Ok here we go.

I WILL START WITH SOMETHING PRETTY FOR YOUR MINDS TO WANDER ABOUT


WELDING UP A HEADER


PASSENGER HEADER MODIFIED


HAD TO COMPLETELY BUTCHER THE DRIVERS HEADER TO GET AROUND THE STEERING.


DRIVERS HEADER COMING TOGETHER


THIS IS HOW WE DO OUR WIIRING FROM THE GROUND UP


MAT BENDING TUBE


PAUL WELDING

[SinisterDesigns]

Originally Posted by blaze1

On that note....SICK BUILD!!! lol



I always questioned the rigidity of the verts... but once you get seam welded and caged it kinda throws all that out the window.

Actually I dont know if you have ever seen a vert in person stripped. They come with a massive amount of bracing and are basically seam welded from the factory. I think that the verts are very stiff from the factory. They are acutally built as coupes. Then braced inside then the roofs are cut off, all at the factory. We were told by Formula D we were only allowed to remove enough bracing to install our cage. Also the RX7 verts are built as verts from the factory. Thats why the FC verts only way a couple hundred lbs more, where as the 240 vert is substancially heavier then a coupe.

just food for thought

[alex]

about how long would it take to wire the engine for this particular swap?

[ZumnRX8]

nice, will keep an eye out

[SinisterDesigns]

Originally Posted by alex

about how long would it take to wire the engine for this particular swap?

Ok the wiring. Hmm well it will be started this week. My bro does the wiring. It will probably take about 4 hours to decipher all the wiring and for him to draw a schematic. Once he has a layout and direction it usually takes about 8 hours of work to completely wire a car.

[SinisterDesigns]

Ok guys sorry for the late reply its been hectic.

Front end minus the bash barand headlight mounts


everything that makes the car roll and or stop


Did I mention this is gonna be an S14 vert?


mock up of the bumper for the bash bar


A little perspective