KAIRO
A slammed 1998 Nissan Silvia S14 under a sodium streetlight on wet asphalt at night
BUILD LABPriced before a single part is bought

Tell us the car.
We’ll price the build.

Give KAIRO the chassis, the style and the budget. It hands back named parts, current prices and the order to buy them in.

Then Concept Art of the finished car, and a public Build Card that keeps score for years.

Read a build plan
The Lab opens soon. Nothing here asks for your email.
First plan free. Then 5 plans, $7.
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01The state of the art

A 19-year-old buys an S14 with $3,000 and no idea what order to spend it in.

The knowledge exists. It is scattered across three places that each answer half the question and none of the money.

01

Forums

Zilvia, HondaTech, NASIOC. The answer is real and it is buried in a 2013 thread that ends in “search button”.

Time to answer: days
02

Instagram

A finished car, shot well, captioned with nothing. No part names, no prices, no path from stock to that.

Prices shown: none
03

A phone note

Where the planning actually happens. A mod list nobody else can see, with no way to show the progress.

Builders reached: 0

The result is money spent badly, in the wrong order, on parts that do not fit the style the owner was going for.

02What ninety seconds gets you

A shopping list, not a picture.

Three questions: the chassis, the style, the budget. The Build Lab returns a Build Plan with real parts, the split of the money, the install order and what to walk past.

LAB RUN 0001
Car1998 Nissan Silvia S14
StyleDrift
Budget$3,000
Ordering the spend
Ten styles
JDMKanjoVIPDriftTrackOEM+StanceRetroRallyTime Attack
BUILD PLAN

1998 Nissan Silvia S14

Drift · Seattle
ALLOCATED
$3,000
Budget split
Suspension
$1,40447%
Wheels
$1,01634%
Interior
$40013%
Drivetrain
$1806%
Install order · partPrice
1
BC Racing BR coilovers
SUSPENSION
Height and damping in one buy. Cut springs will destroy the shocks.
$1,095
2
Rear camber and toe arms, adjustable
SUSPENSION
Coilovers without arms means the rear alignment is a guess.
$189
3
Welded differential, fitted
DRIVETRAIN
A Nismo GT LSD is $1,400. Weld it, learn the car, buy the diff later.
$180
4
Work Emotion CR Kiwami 17x9 +17, used set
WHEELS
Buy used. A curbed lip costs nothing and the offset is right.
$620
5
Federal 595 RS-RR 215/45R17, four
WHEELS
Cheap, consistent, and they let go predictably at low grip.
$396
6
Reclinable bucket seat, side mount and rail
INTERIOR
You cannot feel the rear step out from a worn stock seat.
$400
7
Corner-weight alignment at a shop
SUSPENSION
The last $120 makes the first $2,880 work. Do not skip it.
$120
SKIP THIS$2,450 you keep
  • Cold air intake$180
    It buys you nothing on a stock SR20.
  • Front-mount intercooler$450
    Pointless before the turbo, the injectors and a tune.
  • Coloured cam gears$220
    Jewellery. They do nothing until someone maps the car.
  • Wide body kit$1,600
    This is the last thing you buy, never the first.
KAIRO reference build. Example figures, not a live quote.
03Concept Art

Then it draws the car you are paying for.

The same chassis, rendered in the style you picked, at night, never on a studio floor. For the wall, the group chat, or the header of your Build Card.

1992 Honda Civic EG6 in Kanjo style, shot at night
Kanjo
1992 Honda Civic EG6
Caged, stripped, small wheels
1996 Nissan 240SX S14 in Stance style, shot at night
Stance
1996 Nissan 240SX S14
17x9 +17, tyre over the lip
1998 Acura Integra DC2 in Time Attack style, shot at night
Time Attack
1998 Acura Integra DC2
Splitter, flares, wet paddock
04Build Card

The plan becomes a page that keeps score.

Every Build Card is a public URL and a downloadable 1080x1920 poster with the Spec set like a parts catalog. The Build Progress rail fills as the money goes in, one stage at a time, for years.

  • A record, not a post
    Photos, spec rows and stages accumulate. It cannot be moved to a competitor.
  • Shared by builders, not by us
    The poster ends up in a Discord because someone wanted it there.
  • Free, forever
    Build Cards, the Feed and the Seattle-Tacoma meet list cost nothing.
Build Card header photo of a 1998 Nissan Silvia S14 at night
1998 Nissan Silvia S14
@kuro_s14 · Tacoma, WA
STREET BUILDER
Build Progress
Stock
Wheels
Suspension
Engine
Exterior
Interior
Spec
CHASSIS
S14 Kouki
ENGINE
SR20DET
POWER
312 hp
BOOST
16.5 psi
WHEELS
17x9 +17
HEIGHT
Slammed
Download poster1080x1920 · 2.1 MB
KAIRO reference build, shown as an example.
05What it costs

One-time payments. No subscription, ever.

Car Editor charges $25.99 a month for pictures. CarMod wants $6.99 a week. KAIRO sells packs of credits that do not expire, in a browser, with no app store in the way.

Unused credits are refunded in full within 14 days by replying to the receipt. No reason asked.

Your first Build PlanFree
5 plans$7
20 plans$19
10 Concept Art$9
40 Concept Art$25
Full Send bundle$29
Build Cards, the Feed and Meets stay free. No ads against the Feed.

Build.
Style.
Share.

The Build Lab opens soon at kairo-kct.nanocorp.app. Send the address to whoever is about to spend $3,000 badly.

Starting in Seattle-Tacoma, then city by city.

Copies this page address. Nothing else happens.