Selling my 89 240 SX 350 V8 $3,995

Hey guys, time for me to sell my baby...
Its a VERY clean 89 Nissan 240 SX hatchback...

5 spd, Very strong running Chevy 350 V8 swapped in...
Custom high performance exhaust...
It always fires right up & purrs like a kitten...

Everyone looks when they hear a torquy V8 but see a sweet Red 240 SX!

Nice 16" rims with Goodyear Eagles on them...
4 BB Holly Carb...

I made the fake black ducts in front functional for much better air flow, cooling & performance...

It has both oil pressure & temp gagues added...
Nice racing Fluidyne radiator...

It has a nice pilot shifter, sunroof, Fog lites and drives great!
Located in Indy In.

Please no requests for pics unless you can come here and can afford $3,995.
I had quite a few pics posted here a couple months back...

Pics please, and whats wrong with it that you are selling so cheap.

V8....

V8....

HAHAHAAHA

btw, you don't have to put "nice" in front of every part.

with all that weight in the front i bet it handles like shit.

I'd still take it.

yeah it would be a fun car but id change the exhaust.

Its alot of fun, handles fine...But of course thats an area that can be improved to what ever degree you like...

im still waiting to hear whats wrong with it if you are selling it so cheap

Well, the driver side pw window motor is out...
Great car & value...
If you can get to INdy let me know.

Where at in INDY, im in chicago

NE side...about 2.5 hours from Chicago, depending on what part your in.

Let me know if you want to see her...

4 gs isnt cheap bro. THats about right. Its an 89, i wouldnt pay 2k for a stock one...or any s13 for that matter.

4 g's for a 240 with a 350 is cheap. Whoever gets it is making a steal.

Ask Sidewayz, I've been looking to see how the price of the 240 is doing, and its hard to find anything for under 3 grand now, for something with 160,000 miles and 3 years older than mine.

yea all 240's prices are shooting wya up its shit. glad i already have one but i want another so im on the lookout for a wrecked one. what no suspension upgrades. its got to handle like ass if u dont have any suspension mods to it

it's kind of hard to make a decision to drive for more than 2~3 hours to buy a car that you've never even seen yet. (plus you need to drag someone along to drive your car back if you decide to buy it)

unless it's in horrible condition... i'd say just post some pics. it's useless w/o any...

He has pics posted up
search thru his posts

lolz. like its so damn hard to post new ones. just post up the damn pictures here if you want to sell your car!!

SR20detpower getting a V8 thats lighter than either the ka or sr will set you back quite a lot of money, new crate motors that are aluminum block are like 6 grand easy. that plus the custom fab you can be quite a bit faster with either the SR or the KA.

There was an FC at a local drift event that had a V8 and it kept spinning out, the guy said he had to get used to the new weight distribution because it was so nose heavy, they needed custom coilovers to handle the weight and stuff like that.

Man FDs are hard to come by and they do that to one...the more i listened and looked at it the balck made it easy to think it was a Camaro.

he said FC even tho i wouldnt do it to either

Its actually handles pretty good...

Not near as bad as some might think...
Sure it can be made great/better though...

I think the price is just right for a very good body, clean Interior, & strong running V8!

yknow i really dont know how much i believe that if you are on the stock suspension. its not like normal 240's handle that good with the stock 15 year old suspension... i cant believe that adding weight made it any better. have you driven any sort of normally modded 240? (like coilovers, braces, sway bars, strut bars, etc?) i bet you would hate driving your car afterwards.

Hate driving my car?
Ha ha...Nope I LOVE it!

Yes, I have driven several 240's with modded suspensions...
Have you driven a 350/240?

Its not for everyone, but its VERY cool! Its intended more for a muscle kinda guy...

I kept trying to upload a pic here and ended up putting the same one in my Gallary...For those actually interested...

Make me a close offer...

I'd love a chevy 350 engine in my 240. 290 rwhp off the bat. How much did it cost for you to swap that in your car? LS1 engine right

It was done before I bought her...
No its not a LS1...

It was done before I bought her...
No its not a LS1...

LT1? Or one of those real ole school engines?

You can get a RB25 swap done for like 2500-3500 for 280-300whp off the bat and it would be so much better

You can get a RB25 swap done for like 2500-3500 for 280-300whp off the bat and it would be so much better


Ummm... 3500 would pay for the front clip... you would still need a driveshaft and unless you dont care about being ghetto - custom mounts, and then you'll want a prewired harness since the ghetto ones hardly work, and then you'll just have to ghetto rig the tach in.

that gets you 220-230 Wheel. add a downpipe and a boost controller and intercooler and you'll be in the 280 range

but that brings the total to a little over 5K for just the swap and 6500 for all the power making stuff.

for that much I'd just buy an S15 SR and do some boltons so the weight distribution isnt completely fucked.

what cars have alum. 5.0's in them that you can get em cheap? and that $2500 you are using as an example doesn't really make a good example because you got a free engine, so that kind of throws off the cost a little.

and i dunno maybe it was race motors i was looking at, but i remember trying to find cheap aluminum ones, but the alum. was expensive, only iron was cheap. but this was just in catalogs...

lol i gues im still missing it....

where do you get cheap, new aluminum block V8's with aluminum heads? still seems like they are 5-6k.

what i was originally saying is that to possibly save weight with a V8, like you said, vs. either ka or sr then it will cost a lot.

LOL. most of those are at about 100k miles, automatic transmission, partially cut wiring harness, may or may not run, etc. etc. and im doubtful how many of them are aluminum like i said. maybe i didnt spell this out exactly but what i was talking about is a new, running, complete, engine with manual transmission, with aluminum block and heads. that, like i said, seems to be 5-6k. of course if you want to be ghetto with the swap you could grab any mercury engine with 117k miles on it and a partially cut wiring harness and dented oil pan and go from there, but thats not really what i had in mind.

any race crate motor you run into is going to cost around 4 grand to 15 grand.........what really kills it is most of those motors are AFTERMARKET blocks that aren't made by chevy or ford, those themselves usually go for a couple grand.... but they have been refined to be stronger and lighter.

and since aluminum block v8's are fairly new, the longer you wait the cheaper they will become. There are a lot on the roads now and soon they will be showing up in junkyards by the handfuls, I think just about every v8 ford and chevy have now is all aluminum, I don't know about Dodge so I won't say.

Id actually splurge a little and find a 98+ 6.0L chevy motor from a tahoe, pickup, van, etc.... It is basically a 6 liter ls-1, if you were ever going to modify it, that would be a good engine to start with as its the same heads, intake manifold, and block design as the LS-1 and LS-6, they are reffered to as GENERATION 3 chevy small blocks.

All LT-1's are iron block, and LT-1's out of Impala SS, like this one, or Caprice cars are iron heads as well. Corvette and Z28/Transam have a more aggressive cam shaft, less compression, and aluminum heads. I'd rather have the Impala SS motor with the higher compression, and it still runs on 87 octane like a charm, one GREAT thing about that car....


Well, if you get a 6.0L motor out of a GM truck, you'll be getting an Iron block with aluminum heads. Still a LS motor, but Iron block.

Wait for some wrecked '05 Vettes and GTO's. Then you can get a LS2 motor, that's a 6.0L aluminum block LS motor. 400hp, 395tq out the door. Or, if you really want to go all out, buy a LS7 crate motor. 7.0L (427ci) that makes 505hp on 91 octane. All motor = Badass.

And, the LT1's in the Corvettes had a compression ratio of 10.4:1, or 10.8:1 for an LT4. Also the Camaro's had a compression ratio of about 10:1 compression. Each with aluminum heads of course. Requiring the use of high octane.

Also, I don't see how it's possible to have more compression with the iron heads the Caprice/Imapalla SS's and run lower octane. Even if the cam profiles are mild by comparison. If you're saying they have compression ratios of upwards of 11:1 and are running iron heads with 87 octane. I think you're slightly mistaken.

I believe their compression ratios where more along the lines of 9.5:1.

When my friend gets done with his swap and dynos it ill tell you what it cost him to get it al done its gonna be like 3500.

question, how much would dropping the V8 into the car cost

how much to get the tranny to fit, how much for the driveshaft, the rear diff., the axles, the mounts?????

and well the scrap yard sr20det, have an average miles of like between40k to 60k, not 140k

http://www.hpsalvage.com

Has good deals on LT1 and LS1 motors with low miles, usually includes transmission, uncut harness and ECU.

Back in '03 I was quoted $3300 for a LT1 w/ T56 six speed tranny with around 50K on it. Prices and milege might of changed... obviously.

But gives you an idea.

Back to the tread guys...
A 89 Very clean 240 SX hatchback already DONE for $3,995...

Outstanding fun right here cheap!
:)

Not that anyone cares, but I really just don't like V8s anymore unless they are owned by a respectable person who didn't just swap a V8 in hsi car or buy a V8 equipped car and think he's fast.

Some of hte most annoying quotes ever:

A car like that with a V8 is FAST!!

Uh douchebag, power isn't proportional to the number of cylinders your engine has.

Oh man, you have a V8 in there?!?!?!?!???!!!

Count the spark plug wires asshole.

Top fuel dragsters use V8s so they must be the best

Look at the latest issue of Summit Racing and price parts. You'll see that V8 parts are cheap as hell. Pistons for a SBC run about the same as a set of pistons for a KA or an SR. Shit, buy pistons through HKS or Greddy, your account will be in the negatives until you retire.

V8s have more torque

Yea, once again, if it has a bigger number at the end, it makes more torque. And we all know that torque wins everything right? Wrong.

Peak Cylinder Pressure creates torque. Exactly the reason you usually pop ring lands right around 4k. Then stroke can amplify torque because the throws on the crankshaft act as levers. Bore will help with torque as well since pressure affects area. Increase the area of the piston head and increase how much force is being exerted on it. Say you have a PCP of 700psi. If you have 2 square inches of area on the top of the piston, then you have a total of 1400lbs pushing the piston down. Increase bore and pick up 1 square inch. You'll then have 2100lbs pushing down on the piston. But FI can just increase the amount of air entering the combustion chamber and effectively increase PCP.

So, don't just assume that because you have a V8, you have more torque.

Well if I spent as much on my V8 as you did on your little 4 cylinder, I'd be going twice as fast!

So what? You're saying that because you aren't as into cars as I am, smart as I am, or just simply looking for an excuse to not win, I should just go ahead and say "you're right, you are faster than me,"? Fuck that. Its a competition of whos car is faster, not who can spend the least amount of money on their car. Stop making excuses. You lose.

And BTW, if you buy a brand new car with a V8 and say this, that is automatic grounds for an ass kicking. You just spent $20+k on a car. I haven't spent that much on my car including insurance asshat.

Well if I used turbos, I'd kill you

But you aren't smart enough to, so go sit in the corner and bitch like a little girl.

your engine is strung out while mine is just getting started

Yea, okay. You still lose.

So, uh, all you V8 guys please don't take offense to this(unless you want to in which case, I don't care, and you're wrong). Its all the posers that give most of you a bad name. Just like the ricers give us a bad name. If any of you actually know me, I have respect for just about anything. Esp fast ass cars. So go have fun.

i totally agree with that, i will respect anything thats fast, but i hate people that always have an excuse for losing

well excuses like if i had a turbo or if i didnt mess up the shift, you just suck at driving and tuning your car shut up and go home

well really people we should stop argueing about this her as this guy is trying to sell his car

what do you think a sr20 swap is? lol some engine from a scap yard....


and if your talking everything new it would be 5-6 grand. That would probably be what it would cost to have a rebuilt SR and rebuilt tranny with a new custom wiring harness as well....


well the SR's you are likely to get are less than 50k miles and will most likely run for another 100k

i dont really like the v8 win everything guys who say if it isnt a V8, its slow. A guy with a "built" 350 lost to a friend who had a I6 283 in a 67 camaro with stuff done to it...its funny to see the look on a guys face when his mighty V8 loses to a fellow domestic that turns out to be an inline 6.....


i think the car would be a cool car to own, but idk about gas mileage and maintaining everything on it...good luck with the sale

Thanks,
It is actually a fun car to drive, yeah it doesn't get good gas mileage though...
I have respect for all cars, well almost...

I also like something that is different & orig.

Yep the 2.4 DOHC version is a good, reliable stout motor...

I wave at them as they pass me when I am at the gas station ;)

far from fast though....i mean cmon reliable yes maybe but not fast by any means. lets be honest.

Stock, they are quick, but toally gutless, they only have "power" in first gear and in second between 4k and 5.5k. But they are a badass platform for turboing.

I've seen a Chevy straight 6 in the 9's before hahaha, thats fast for that motor


I think other motors are fast, hell to some extent a stock 240sx dohc is fast, if your in traffic how much power do you really need? you can stomp on it with your ass whipping 155hp and be on someone bumper wrecking their shit in 5 seconds.....


but in the end, v8's can make more power.... and if anyone can prove me otherwise please do it right now....

show me a Jap 4 or 6 cylinder making more power then the top v8's... you won't be able to do it.

Nope, I can't.

But I can name two modded V8s(both mustangs) that I kicked the hell out of last night.:)

Then I can name one that beat my ass. Then he pulled up next to his trailer...:gay:

Look, its no big secret that the engien with the highest overall displacement(not jsut the number they put on the valvecover:gay:, but how much the engine flows at max RPM) ultimately can make teh msot power. Duh, airflow=HP. And all the true import tuners know this. The only thing us import guys do is take advantage of people with potential that don't use it. So what that you can make more power in teh end? All that matters is what you're making now. Either win or lose respectfully.

And don't even say Top fuels. They don't count. For it to count, you have to make at least three passes without popping a cylinder.

Three passes without popping a cylinder? Yeah right.

And i might not be able to show you a V-6 or anything smaller that will beat the record V-8's, I can show you turbine engines that will, so what? Am I going to only think anything with a turbine jet engine in it is fast? Because, they are faster, right?

No. Land Speed Record is from twin jet-turbine engine vehicle.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/record_category_pics/g_main_pic.jpg

Top Fuel may be Quicker, in the 1/4, but not faster.

you just go out of your way to mention V-8's all the time for no particular reason.

To the thread starter, are you still selling the car.

Yes, I have a few interested people, but no money has been put down yet...

yeah in this thread its appropriate thats why i decided to argue about your V-8>* stance because the thread is actually related to V8's. but in countless other threads its the same old shit blah blah blah V8's are the fastest blah blah blah.