Baz's March ST

[Baz]

Thought it was about time ha ha
Bought this car April 2006,arrived to Ireland august or september 2006,
It was a one owner car with a genuine 77k kms with documentation to prove it
Payed 425,000yen for it and with Vechicle registration tax and customs duty and Vat the car stood me 3900Euros Roughly

March st when it was in japan
Front
Back
Driver side Interior
Passenger side Interior
Clocks
Clocks 2
Engine
Engine 2

Car getting Serviced, Undersealed Nismo suspension Fitted






All the parts I bought Before the car even arrived
Blitz Dual solinoid Boost Controller
5zigen 14's(The most heavy wheel I've put on a car)
Greddy E-manage Blue and Apexi iridium plugs

Car as it stood One month after arriving to Irish shores





Picture of the lump with Blitz Starlet turbo airfilter



Then I found this Diagram on a maylaysian web forum and proceded to replace,check and double check the position of all vacuum pipes as
These are essential for the bypass control valve for the supercharger to work properly



New full Stainless steel Exhaust fittd as the factory one was rotten at that stage


Oval Tail pipe


Bailey DV26 duel piston dump valve and samco tee piece fitted

Which I eventually removed

Then I stumbled across this and laughed alot becuase it was like ####e rider out of bo-selecta


Then after a few weeks of getting the emanage fitted she melted piston 3 due to the crap fuel in Ireland, car was mapped by ed in the uk on 99octane.
We only had 95octane in Ireland

Pic of the melted piston



So the rebuild started,
While the Engine was out(car was off the road for 2-3months), I ordered a new bpcv, new ht leads distributor cap ,headgasket, head bolts,
crankshaft and camshaft oil seals and conrod bearings, all new from Nissan japan.
Also bought a spare engine, was'nt too happy with look of it so I ripped it apart aswell and used piston 3 from the spare engine to,
build my original block. got the cylinders professionally honed to allow the rings to bed in again



















Vid of the first turn of the key
http://s77.photobucket.com/albums/j4...t=Video000.flv


first pics after the rebuild





After that I ordered pipework and an intercooler from the Us as I planed on bringing the car out on track,
wanted to keep intake temps at a minimum on my newly built and run in engine

Here's how the engine looked before starting it





Here's how it looked the day I finished it



here's how the first outing ended up lol



There's alot more in this blog to come the last pic of it in the gravel is from March 2007 so I'll keep updating as I sort out pics and get time to write it up

[jim_bling]

about time mate i would love one of these my self looking great so far as well keep up the good work

[moddedmicra]

Well put together blog Baz Look forward to the next installment

[pjg1979]

Great ST you've got their, love the vid, lol.

That last Pic reminds me of an old advert, "It's in the Saaaand", lol.

Anyway excellent start to a great blog.

[Baz]

Cheers lads stay tuned

[ollie240585]

Fantastic Baz, I recognise that dump valve, i got the same one. lol.

I love the car and I love what you've done with it!!! Keep it up!!

[Red K10]

a realy nice looking ST mate!

Where do you have find thise ST in japan, on a site or something else?

I want to import over a while(2 years) also a March ST

[superls]

baz very nice motor mate, are they all the pics of it you have in japan as i have a few more on my comp somewhere, as i almost bought it lol.

some good progress and improvements have been made tho so well done.

[Baz]

baz very nice motor mate, are they all the pics of it you have in japan as i have a few more on my comp somewhere, as i almost bought it lol.

some good progress and improvements have been made tho so well done.

No way? I have more alright somewhere

[Ed]

Nice bit of car blogging there

[superls]

No way? I have more alright somewhere

yes lol, but i couldnt afford it at the time, i had a contact in japan that emailed me everytime an st was going up for sale or auction.

[Red K10]

how did you find this ride on the web?

do you have a site for me.

[Baz]

how did you find this ride on the web?

do you have a site for me.

Do a search man

tradecarview.com

Now back on topic

****UPDATED****

Then I bought a larger turbo from Ed HT10/T2 hybrid built by Turbo technics
, its the one on the right and the left one is a turbo from a glanza I had lying around



With just over 101k on it this is how it stood at the time shortly after the turbo went on



New tubby

Car with New 15" Rota grids








Then I bought This ; Cusco tower brace from japan





Pics of the brace on the car




Then I got a set of ca18det injectors which I eventually take out due to severe over fueling!!!!!!!lol





Pic of the s/c


Job Done


Got the car remapped and was told by the mapper that it was running far to rich
but it still made good power




Then a parcel came from Japan
Spares got some tasty stuff aswell!



Two Nismo Pressure plates and paddle clutch plates
Sold one to Warren off here and kept one for myself but did'nt fit as the clutch in the car had only done 10k kms



I tryed to put the car through an mot (national car test or NCT in Ireland )
and there was a serious emissions problem due to the injectors being overkill
so it failed, so I decided to take them out and put gthe standard one's in and a remap

The results were astonishing on 95octane petrol, we had it over 160fwhp but was'nt safe ignition timing wise
as we had a knock sensor fitted during the mapping so after 2hours this is what we ended up with



Few random pics











***UPDATED***

After two weeks the clutch decided to let go and 4 days away was a trackday!!

Here's one I prepared earlier



A spring missing from the clutch disc!! lol

This fell out on the deck when I removed the pressure plate

Gearbox



New Nismo Pressure plate and disc


This was one of the better dices on track
http://s77.photobucket.com/albums/j4...tdtrackday.flv

Ed advised me to relocate the lambda sensor to the down pipe as it original place in the turbo's exhaust housing could be dangerous with raised boost levels



The next mod was a set of sparco fixed bucket seats
Had to import ek10 seats which cost €300 seats cost €80



After that trackday I removed the gearbox to inspect the bearing as they were starting to get noisey









Then I picked up two second hand ancient Nismo gauges ,Water temperature and oil pressure:

[Speedle]

some top work over the years Baz, Fricking awesome bit of kit made even better! top job!

[Ceirwan]

Agh making me jealous!
I love the starbo but I like these more!

[Novasteve]

Nice! so are they similar power to starlet turbos as standard then?

[Baz]

Nice! so are they similar power to starlet turbos as standard then?

No 108hp standard

Thanks for the comments lads

[1.3GX]

savage blog baz fair play, your cars by far the nicest on this forum

[Shero]

looks bloody brilliant mate! glad to see it gets used and abused on the track asweel!!! good job man!!!

[Baz]

savage blog baz fair play, your cars by far the nicest on this forum

Would'nt say that now buts thanks

looks bloody brilliant mate! glad to see it gets used and abused on the track asweel!!! good job man!!!

Drive like its supposed to be drove

Thanks for the comments lads

[Snikty]

That is AWESOME!!!

Great write up man and absolutely love everything you've done with the car over the years. Keep it up, look forward to the next installment!

[MicraFish]

Wow it is such a fine piece of machinery! I love it!
Makes me want one - although I know nothing about engines, so it would just be wasted on me lol

[superls]

baz have you got a front lower brace fitted? i recall reading it somewhere, may be wrong tho?

if you have, have you got any pics of it.

and get some pics up with the new suspension fitted.

[Baz]

baz have you got a front lower brace fitted? i recall reading it somewhere, may be wrong tho?

if you have, have you got any pics of it.

and get some pics up with the new suspension fitted.

No man that did'nt work on the st because of the Arb

I hav'nt even fitted the new suspension yet

[superls]

ok man fair enough,

those pics i mentioned further up heres a link to them all that my contact sent me.

http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x...s/barrys%20st/

[chipedwood]

This is one awesome looking little machine!

Nice to see it still running and well!

[Baz]

ok man fair enough,

those pics i mentioned further up heres a link to them all that my contact sent me.

http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x...s/barrys%20st/

Thanks Man for that Been a long time since I seen soom of them pics

This is one awesome looking little machine!

Nice to see it still running and well!

Thanks mate , yeah touch wood now she keeps going for another bit

[micramicra]

Quote:
Originally Posted by 1.3GX View Post
savage blog baz fair play, your cars by far the nicest on this forum
Would'nt say that now buts thanks

I would!!!

[Jody]

nice and clean baz...

[Baz]

Small Update