Fast and the furious relating to 240's

I just watched F&F a couple days ago and i noticed that in the movie johnie tran refers to a sr20 motor at the point inthe movie where dom and brian are in trans garage and tran is beating down that old guy for motors. Has anyone else relized that? oh well flaming for this will occur i kno.

my real question: I kbb'd a 95' 240sx and it came between 5k-6.5k depending on the accesroies and i was wondering is that really a fare price? I was on autotrader and i found a 95' black 240 for 3.8k... i am looking into buying a 240 as most of u can figure and i've posted here alot and i was just wondring what you all bought your 240's for and what a fare price for one would be...

Yeah, everyone has noticed that he says it, but, has anyone realized that the 2 cars missing engines are a Civic and a Teg???? HAHAHA Silly writers, SR20s are Nissan engines.

^^^yea I noticed that. Did you also realize they were tlaking about putting those engines, into their Hondas, for Race Wars, a drag tournament :disappoin F&F writers are dumb bastards.
In the first movie, the drag racing scene had 2 Tegs, Eclipse ( :rolleyes: ) vs. a damn Rx7, you tell me whose gonna win? And why theh ell is it drag racing in the first place! argh!!!!!!

Because...ummm....all street races are drag races!!! (Except for Touge, but that wasn't popular enough when the movie was made.) Also, in the first race, the Asian dude was driving a Civic, not a Teg. And I know everyone has said this a million times, but how do you lose your floor when you push your engine to hard? And how did he get away from the cops when he had fried piston rings and blown welds on his intake manifold?

Oh yea your right, that white civic have some fuckin Mustang taillights. wow, thats just........unhumantarity, i had to make a new word for that crap..

Anyways, duh he ran from the cops, Eclipses are invincible!!!!!!! :evillol:

And oh yea, not all street races are drags, sorta...theres the kinds that envolve having to make turns then theres highway battles, woot

Yeah, they had the turns in 2F2F. And how did they get that fucked up Supra chassis all straight and shit? It looked like it had gone through the trash compactor.

and how do you blow the welds on your intake manifold? and how does shooting a car make the nitrous explode? and how does double-clutching help win a drag race? and why does paul walker suck so bad? and why would anyone be so stupid to make a movie like this in the first place? and how does a car spin out when it tops out?

and how do you blow the welds on your intake manifold? and how does shooting a car make the nitrous explode? and how does double-clutching help win a drag race? and why does paul walker suck so bad? and why would anyone be so stupid to make a movie like this in the first place? and how does a car spin out when it tops out?
well....a porrly designed intake manifold with shitty welds maybe from BD would....Actually Nitrous isnt all that flamable....Double Clutching keeps the revs up so when you go to shift you lose no RPM....I dont think he sucks?....because they know theres a bagillion dollars in that market to be made....He doesnt spin out because of Top Out. Im guessing he has a 1/4 mile marked off and in that 1/4 mile stretch he got 145 seeing that its a movie. Im also guessing he hit his brakes and maybe lock them or caught a gravel patch...

we are getting WAY to serious about this

well....a porrly designed intake manifold with shitty welds maybe from BD would....Actually Nitrous isnt all that flamable....Double Clutching keeps the revs up so when you go to shift you lose no RPM....I dont think he sucks?....because they know theres a bagillion dollars in that market to be made....He doesnt spin out because of Top Out. Im guessing he has a 1/4 mile marked off and in that 1/4 mile stretch he got 145 seeing that its a movie. Im also guessing he hit his brakes and maybe lock them or caught a gravel patch...

maybe but it would have to REALLY suck....nitrous doesnt explode unless you literally set it on fire with like a plasma torch or something...double clutching doesnt help at all. the point of it is to rev match in cars with no synchros or blown synchros. if you want to keep the revs up, buy a better clutch. as far as i know, there are no cars that the power band is so high that you need to rev between shifts. maybe stock civic dx but you shouldnt be racing that car anyways.......he sucks(i guess its my opinion)....i guess......he spins to make it look cool for the movie. not for any logical reason.

Everything in that movie is done to make it entertaining, none of it is logical. (And yes, it was entertaining, anyone who says otherwise needs to lay off the tool attitude.)

http://www.erikanderson.net/pearlharbor/gallery/ussshaw.jpg


OMG PEARL HARBOR WAS BOMBED??????? :gay:

haha wtf

back on topic, i got my car for $2800 (s13), a friend of mine got his s13 coupe for $1500, and yet another with an s14 in pretty good condition for $3k, so between $3-5k for the zenkis ('95-'96) and prolly $5-7k for the koukis ('97-'98), so $3.8 is not bad if its in good condition

peace

oh crap i totally over-looked the part where he sayed his real question, lol. Yea $3.8 pretty damn good, especially with the prices of these cars inflating faster thana fat girl. wasn't 95 like the cheapest S14's? i heard that before and i forgot why..

that asian dude in the white civic is r j devera, probrably the only true car guy in the whole movie. that s2000 in the movie was his. its super charged, and doesn't have those gay golden snow flake decals on them. r j devera is one of the pioneers of import cars.

also the first movie did have a 240sx. its the purple one that michelle rodriguez was driving. its a 95 S14 with a kouki front end conversion with one of the earlier SR20DET swaps done to it. the car was originally silver color before they borrowed it for the movie and painted it purple.

that asian dude in the white civic is r j devera, probrably the only true car guy in the whole movie.

DeVera always hates on himself for not being great at racing like everyone thinks he is... I think thats pretty cool.

How do you know the S14 is a Zenki and not a kouki? It has kouki lights, front and back.

Oh and about the S14, at races wars when the guy in the white FD talks to her, she's sitting in racing seats, but when the line up to race, they are stock seats. someone messed up.

the guage clusters is a 95-96 cluster on that car, not a 97-98

Damn you guys really paid attention, lol

HAHAA i didnt think i would get this much response to a F&F question but i guess everyone and i mean everyone has something to say about the fast and the furious... yea im 15 and in about 2 1/2 months i will be the BIG 16 and i just got my permit(its late for reasons i dont wana explain right now) but we are guna trade in are 96' intreped for roughly 5k and look into buying me my 240!!!lucky me... and i already have a set plan on what im going to start doing with it but i really need help with the more technical stuff cuz i kno my fair share about cars but i still dont kno everything so ill be bringing up questions with u guys when i run into sumthing, also i was wondering what suspension i shld go with off the bat. i was thinking the iboch pro kit but im not sure what do u think?

i was wondering what suspension i shld go with off the bat. i was thinking the iboch pro kit but im not sure what do u think?
That is for honds. Go with a race proven kit on the 240 like JIC Magic, Silk Road, or Tein. That is, if you are thinking of going coil over. Tein also has lowering springs if that is what you want. It will mess up your camber though. Look through some of these threads for some links, and you will be able to find every part you could ever want for the 240SX.

There's a diff between the Zenki and Kouki gauge cluster?

shit i dont even remember seeing the inside of the 240. i dunno i havent seen the movie in years though.

that movie makes me laugh...

There's a diff between the Zenki and Kouki gauge cluster?

yea there is... slight difference,

95-96
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/gt500916/DSC03073.jpg
97-98
http://carad.ebayimg.com/i5/04/a/04/54/39/68_4.JPG

actually doubly clutching is what you do when you don't have a synchronized transmission
Don't you use it to downshift? That is what I do, anyway. That way you don't change the rpm's so much that you lose traction on a corner. And I still don't see a difference in those dash clusters. Oh well.

the difference in tach's is the zenki goes from say 8 o'clock to 2 o'clock the kouki goes from like 8 o'clock to 4 o'clock.

its weird though my cluster is black with white letters i wish it was white with black letters that looks cooler. maybe its just because thats the one i dont have though. grass is greener, eh?

also on that pic the tach is different.
Now I see it. And they went to white face ones on the 95 and up. Looks a little rice to me. Have you seen the gauge replacement from stack?! That thing costs $1,800!!! I would have liked to have one, but it won't display MPH, only KM :( Oh well, so much for that.

KMH is better lol, nvm, I don't wanna start an argument, so yeah, wtv. Also, what determines the color of the gauges (white/blck) is it the trim level? Or was it an option or something?

For the nitrous question...

I have heard of someone having a leaky soleniod and the IM filling up wiht nitrous. Then when he went to crank the engine, BAM!!!! Blew his shit up...

Double clutching=why?

Best saying ever for racing "Smooth is fast,"

kinda like when im smooth taking some bitch on the beach i get in her pants faster?

kinda like when im smooth taking some bitch on the beach i get in her pants faster?

Could you be more horny?

Could you be more horny?

rofl

dude.. i didn't read anything on this thread... but i had to look at it bcus its LONG, 3 pages deep...

after wasting 1 min of my life, i demaaand the return of that minute and an apology from the MOoDS!!!

I just wasted like 3minutes of my life reading this

you people now owe me three minutes lol

F&F is made by hollywood, to entertain regular people that have no knowledge of how cars work or how to make them faster, example the ricer crowd, now alot of them will swear by the movie, adding tons of body work to only the PVC cold air intake and ebay exhuast/muffler

ya i figured that was whack too, SR20DET in civic's and such, i did notice the 240sx though, and the skyline which was a fake if i remember correctly, i could swear that i read an article stating that it was an accord modified to look like a skyline

ok ok ok dammit, haha has anyone except like 2 people answered my real question? well,i will restate afew questions in the later part of the thread for those who just want to talk about F&F. Ok, how much did your 240sx cost? Which suspension should i go with off the bat?(already been answered but more wouldnt hurt)I also need help with the more techinal aspects of my car since I do not kno everything about automobiles yet. And is 3.8k fair for a 1995 240sx s14, blk,blk leather 5 spd with a mooner no rear fin and basically stock?Woooh lets try to get these answers along with hatin on F&F which is a movie that i personally like for the entertainment value but for car knowledge it teaches your absolutely dick...have a nice day

that S14 sounds like a pretty good deal. I'd check out the mechanical condition of the car... besides what options you will get. (i.e.- engine bay, tranny, clutch, dif, tires/brakes, etc...)

I got my 93 S13 for 2k ... engine was clean and it was a base model.. hence, no hicas or abs... pretty good deal for my standards.

as for suspension, it depends on what you want to do. If you are planning to race on the track... i'd go with coilovers but if you are just going for a street tune.. springs and shocks would be more ideal because of comfort (roads aren't straight and flat like they are on a closed track)

yea good point. Well that was the cheapest one i found so ill prolly get one for about 4-5k or around there, yea im going for perforamance and comfort i kno i wont get as much performance as id like becuz of the prolbme of it being an everyday driver so ill just wait and see what happens. thanks btw

id go for that '95 it sounds good.

suspension: Tanabe Sustec Pro SS (http://www.rxecret7.com/tnbesustecssnissan.html)

and rear subframe spacers. but this would be a pretty rough setup, but its not too bad. its worth it to me

and does anyone know the answer to the white vs. black gauge cluster question? trim level? compeltely random? or what?

that skyline is real, it was on the cover of SCC i believe, its a Motorex car or was called Big Bird.

Hell yes it was...:biggrin: That car should have been racing.....

and does anyone know the answer to the white vs. black gauge cluster question? trim level? compeltely random? or what?


white gauge clusters were wit SE models, black was it base and LE i think...

white was definitely an SE thing tho

god damn i knew i should have kept looking for an SE. i like the white a lot better.

My first s14 had the black guage faces and different seats but the s14 I have now is a se and has white guage faces and different cloth on the seats.

well u can just find yourself some SE gauges... i'm sure you can find used or OEM parts...

ya theres no need to get a new car if its just the gauges u want

no im saying i should have waited and passed on buying my car and just looked for a few more months, or however long it took, to get an SE. thinking about it now i would have wanted those SE wheels too. and 5 lugs...and sunroof...20/20 hindsight. oh well S14's are rare to come by these days.

Everything in that movie is done to make it entertaining, none of it is logical. (And yes, it was entertaining, anyone who says otherwise needs to lay off the tool attitude.)
Werd...

the yellow skyline was real
the blue car that the 'tough' *ahem* guy drove was just a maxima though. that may be wat your referring to.

That Maxima was gay, but not as gay as the Jetta.

Everything in that movie is done to make it entertaining, none of it is logical. (And yes, it was entertaining, anyone who says otherwise needs to lay off the tool attitude.)

The movie itself wasn't that bad. I love that someone made a movie about people stealing stuff to build cars. Thats great because I could see myself doing the same thing.lol

My problem is people make a movie and don't take the time to reasearch one of the main subjects of the movie. Not much if any of the car talk made any sense... And when you understand a subject, its annoying to hear someone talk about it and not have a clue what they are talking about. Just think of the movie as this forum and the actors as dumb-ass newbs... Yea its like that..

If they did make it all technical and accurate, all the little kids who went to see it wouldn't have understood anything (well, even less then they did) and people who don't know anything about cars (most people who went to see the movie) would want it to be less technical, so once again, the majority wins. But I totally agree, they should have done it right by researching and stuff like that.

I meant it looked gay, I dunno about any of the technical aspects of the car, I would have taken the R33 or the S2000 tho.

the movie was alright, didnt the spanish chick have an s14 in the movie though??

wow...read the rest of the thread ur late as hell

probably would smoke just about all the cars on this board

Considering it is prolly a sponsored car, it was in a MOVIE...

Most of the people on here, including myself, are not rich, don't have high paying jobs, and have pocket change left over from paying bills, college expenses, (saving for college:me:), and whatever else pops up. So everyone spare us the "I konw a car that can beat your car up" line. We all know if a car is fast. The maxima is quick as shit. Spun the tires like Puff Daddy's rims all the way down teh street. Thats quick.

Anyways, back on topic...

lol fanat.
since we are talking about maximas....i saw a hot ass milf driving an altima se-r. that was kinda cool. i dunno about maximas though. most of the new nissans look kinda goofy.

I like the Sentra and Altima SE-R, the Maxima was nicer last model then this model. I love the Z and the Titan tho. lol