to all 240sx owners

[low_civic]

photoshop can do wonders for a picture :P

[BigDon]

its not a p/s, i swear

[low_civic]

big im messin with you lol...looks like a nice slide...gave me an idea

[BigDon]

gave u an idea????? of what. lol

[low_civic]

drifting my ****vic..and p/s it for the back wheels to spin lol...

[BigDon]

like p/sing your civic?

[low_civic]

lol yeah

[BigDon]

do it, id like to see it

[Grimey]

I don't have a Nissan myself, but I've taken plenty of pics of them on my site:

http://grimey.fotopic.net

It might give you some ideas of what to do to yours. (If you want to modify it) :thumb:

[BigDon]

cool, nice pics

[TwoForty]

well ill give a life story of my car since its early and im bored :loser1:

1990 Nissan 240sx





these pictures are the first day i brought her home. the car had about 180k on the odomoter but was a clean car. so i spent my first summer just driving and cleaning the car, you couldnt begin to imagine the places i found dirt.

first summer pics



so anyway the story continues. one day i let me friend who was just learning to drive a manual transmission car take my car for a drive. well needless to say, he missed a shift (3rd gear at about redline into second gear) and basically raped my engine. the RPMs peaked around 9k so i figured the engine was toast but to my suprise it wasnt. we limped it home to find the timing was way off, valves were burnt and the exhaust mani gasket was blown. i couldnt ever get the car back into proper timing specs so that ended up being the demise of the engine.

the car sat for about 6 months in my garage while i pondered what to do with it. i was thinking SR or RB motor for a long time but i wasnt ready for that kind of swap financially. its not that i didnt have the money for it but i didnt want to take myself broke doing it the right way even though it tempted me.

anyway, my dad comes home and tells me that a guy he works with has a super clean ka24de engine for sale. im interested but i wanted something more. i sit on it for a few days and come to the conclusion that having my car back on the road is more important that anything right now.

heres is the KA24DE motor, it had barely over 70k on it when i put it in my car




it cost me 500 bucks for the motorset but what was the most impressive thing was the maintnece record of it. the car was only serviced by the dealer it was bought from originally.

[TwoForty]

okay so now i have my engine and everything i need to put it in my car. the swap was fairly straight forward and went smooth as can be.

heres a URL to the thread i chronicalled the swap in: http://www.pittspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18503

while the car was all torn apart i decided to add some other extras for good measure. i mean how can a car enthusiast not



the finished product after the swap was well worth the effort. i have my car back on the road and she is reliable as can be.

here are the most recent pics




Downtown Pittsburgh

[TwoForty]

the final list of modifications goes something like this:
FINAL MODIFICATION LIST

Engine
KA24E -> KA24DE Swap
Nismo motor and tranny mounts
MSD Blaster 2 coil
Bomz Ghetto Intake
Magnaflow High-Flow CATALYST
APEXi Evo Series 3" CATBACK
Removed AC

Suspension
Eibach Springs
KYB AGX Shocks + Struts
Megan Racing REAR Strut BRACE
Ebay Front Strut Brace

MISC
New Shift Boot
Sylvania Silverstar Headlights
Removed TWEED garbage from DOORS


now here is the fun part, the future of my car.
the car is sitting right now im my warm garage awaiting her new engine im not give up too much detail but the new engine is from a legendary nissan car

[BigDon]

nice car man, of course u know that, lol. did u take the stock sh*t off the door panels, and is that a different hatch lid on the back?

[TwoForty]

Originally Posted by BigDon2005

nice car man, of course u know that, lol. did u take the stock sh*t off the door panels, and is that a different hatch lid on the back?

ya i took the stock tweed garbage off the door panels and used goo gone to get the little bit of glue off too. my hatch is just a stock hatch without the wiper and spoiler. it was rusted and i cleaned it up and primered it.