My little 240sx build thread...

presidential · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:15 am Post subject: My little 240sx build thread...

Haven't really figured out where I want to put this yet, so I just stuck it here because I'm the man and I can. I'll post another thread asking if you all think we should have a specific area to put build threads in or not. Anyway, on with the show.

The car is a 1993 240sx with roughly 147k on the clock. I got it for the scant price of 100 bucks from a friend because of a blown transmission (automatic).

Here she is when I got her...so stock, so virginal.

This is the stock mill. She really kept good care of it as the valve cover I painted 3 years ago is still going strong.

I didn't like the old front end or wheels, that had to be changed.

Staggered offset. 17x7 front, 17x9 rear.

Wrenching away...my friends are great.

The motor is now 6 bolts from coming out.

Roughly sitting down on the coilovers. It's on jackstands in the front and ramps in the rear, so I don't have an idea of the real fender gap yet but it should be the same as the old camo car (which is where I got the suspension from).

Of course, this is the valve cover that's going on the new motor.

The new motor will be a SR20det (2.0L turbo) with right around 300 rwhp to start. I'll keep this thread updated.
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2002 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS
1993 Nissan 240sx again
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bowtie6872 · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:57 am Post subject:

well, as seen as you asked(kind of)
a project garage subset in the showroom area..
or a totally sep. area would be nice..

bowtie6872 · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:00 am Post subject:

300 hp at the wheels .. will that little rearend take that..
or is the 300 so far up the rpm. it won't matter...

presidential · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:25 am Post subject:

The rearends are pretty stout to about 450 wheel. The horsepower will be top end but the torque peak is around 3700-4000 (out of 7500 rpms). Should be around 290 ft. lbs. at the wheels...makes for a fun 2500 lb car.
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bowtie6872 · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:55 pm Post subject:

Novacaine · Kamakasi Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 7988 Location: texas

whatcha doing with the ka24?

i like the wheels...but, you know i've gotta say it needs more tire.
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presidential · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:04 pm Post subject:

KA is going to a buddy of mine for his brother's car. 147k on it with a fresh timing chain and new injectors.

The rear tires are 245's...once I see how much real clearance there is with the suspension under load, I might go wider. Right now, it looks like the rear wheels will be flush as is so I want to avoid wheel spacers if the tires get so wide that they hit the coilovers.
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2002 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS
1993 Nissan 240sx again
195x Triumph Bonneville muttbike

JOES66FURY · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:54 pm Post subject:

looks uber clean....a steal for a hundred bones......like the color too
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kyhunter89 · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:10 pm Post subject:

nice body...

presidential · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:18 am Post subject:

Wish the rear quarters didn't have dents. The girl I got it from is a bartender part-time and all of the rear quarter damage was done by patrons in the bar's parking lot. Nice, huh? I'll fix it all after I get the car up and running for a few months. It'll blend right in with all of the other multi-colored 240s around here.
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2002 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS
1993 Nissan 240sx again
195x Triumph Bonneville muttbike

presidential · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:46 am Post subject:

Here comes the pain:

This finally got here.

I fed a 15 year old some beer, he made faces.

You know what these are.

Most of this needs to be thrown in the circular file.

Gook and muck, slime.

This makes magic somehow.

This is all out of magic, full of fail.

More fail, receiver hitch style.

I like my exhausts to look a certain way.

Before.

After. Not quite done with the cleaning process. More will be done once it gets closer to running. All of the impossible to reach stuff is clean pretty much.

I can't believe we did this to an almost perfectly good car. LoL!

Art giving the old KA the shaft one last time.

Clean but not clean enough.

See? Now this is getting better.

Art rewiring everything.com. It'll be amazing when done, no real visible wires.

Plop.

We all had our Secrets.

Farewell KA.

That was the weekend. I've still got a bucket of parts to go.

Thanks to Art and Sean for throwing down and helping make this weekend happen. You guys rule.
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2002 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS
1993 Nissan 240sx again
195x Triumph Bonneville muttbike

Novacaine · Kamakasi Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 7988 Location: texas

progress makes me happy.

wheres the rest of the engine?
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presidential · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:11 pm Post subject:

The whole inside of the car is filled with 'em. Most everything pipewise that came with the motor was garbage, hoses were all shot, etc...
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TransAmLvr · I'm sPesHul Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 8885 Location: VA

Congrats on the progress, Prez- it's looking good. Oh, and by the way, you owe us a video when it's all done... Laughing

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presidential · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject:

I plan to get used to it nice and easy and then put my GoPro on it for some sliding. Smile

I'll have a start-up, exhaust and some drive-by stuff before that though.
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2002 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS
1993 Nissan 240sx again
195x Triumph Bonneville muttbike