Build Thread: Adam's Nissan Stagea C34

[pistol-pete]

rears need more offset, apart from that looks saweet!

[Run-It-Hard]

That is true, I don't have enough power to use the grip that the 10's give me ... yet.

Not selling the car guys, Are you positively annoyed friend?

[Run-It-Hard]

HAHAHA

positively annoyed, nice.

[capturedcreation]

Good to hear you aren't selling it, would have been such a shame after all the work and I'm looking forward to see it continue to develop!

[Tangents]

That is true, I don't have enough power to use the grip that the 10's give me ... yet.

Not selling the car guys, Are you positively annoyed friend?

+1

[SatchiThaStagea]

I've had it for a little over four.

I don't see it going anywhere, anytime soon though.

Your phone on the first pic says 5 march 2011 and that was before you picked her up right?

Glad to hear you keeping her either way

[Run-It-Hard]

yeah?

March, April, May, June?

[SatchiThaStagea]

yeah?

March, April, May, June?

Lol lucky your good with cars

[Run-It-Hard]

works either way you look at it I guess, still 4 and a bit months in my book.

[Run-It-Hard]

Bringing it together

I like my cars as solid as possible. I had almost every brace known to man on the MX-5 and it made a huge difference. Being a convertible, it did have a lot of chassis flex in standard form. On the other hand, the Stagea is almost as solid as a concrete block, but there is always room for imporvement right?

There is a downfall though. Finding braces to improve it are hard to come by. So when this discontinued Cusco rear strut brace popped up on Up garage, I knew what I had to do.

Here’s hoping I can find a few more braces to whack onto the Stagea over time.

[Run-It-Hard]

So I've been doing some light reading this morning, and I've noticed that people have said taht a S14 turbo rear subframe will fit the Stagea?

Just the subframe? no need to change shocks, or arms etc?

Also, another thing that has been bugging me (can't find much info on) are the diff's, is there a diff centre that we can drop into the Stageas housing? I guess it's either that, or getting my diff shimmed.

[kidafa]

Theirs an under body trans brace on ebay at the moment if your still looking for braces to stiffen it....

[Run-It-Hard]

Yeah Chef's one, I've got my eye on it haha.

Anyone done the S14 subframe swap before?

[Big Fella]

speak to MIKE, pretty sure his car had the S14 rear frame, same width as a manual stagea i think.

[Run-It-Hard]

yeah he did, I'm curious if the RWD and AWD stagea subframes are the same though?

But Grant (Yokotas13) did say it bolted straight up, many moons ago. He isn't very eloborate though (never has been).

[Big Fella]

yeah he did, I'm curious if the RWD and AWD stagea subframes are the same though?

But Grant (Yokotas13) did say it bolted straight up, many moons ago. He isn't very eloborate though (never has been).

should be, only the manual and auto are different. might have issues with diff ratios tho, gotta find out what the front diff is so you can match it up,

you'd probably need shorter/manual half shafts too. rear arms are the same, sway bar is the same.

might be easier to get the rear end out of 33 gtst??

And your coilovers propably won't fit, being auto, you'd have eye type, you'd need to get some fork type ones if you change the entire rear end.

[Run-It-Hard]

Well to my understanding, the Cradle itself is a direct fit, without changing anything else (i.e remaining Stagea parts will bolt up). If that's the case, I'll be more than happy to do it and get some wider wheels on in the future.

If not, meh.

sent a PM to Mike earlier today, keen to hear what he has to say.

[pipster11]

sway bar is not the same!

[wolverine]

Yeah Chef's one, I've got my eye on it haha.

Anyone done the S14 subframe swap before?

Darrinspencer has done one from memory.

[M I K E]

Darrinspencer has done one from memory.

he did 260rs cradle.

i did s14, everything lines up, i used the same diff i was running but obviously needed to use the shorter half shafts. lower control, camber, toe and traction arms are all the same and interchangeable.

while the cradle is out, replace the subframe bushes with whiteline units or equivalent