New kid on the block..

Cade · #1 09-07-2003, 03:13 PM

Howdy all 240 lovers, just thought I would introduce myself since Im new here, and this will be like my 2nd home. Im 16, guess you can call me by my user name which is also my middle name. I dont have a car as of now, my mom is buying me a car in Feb. I know what it is but I'll keep it a secret and post pics up here for you guys. But...In the meantime Im on the market for a 240Sx Fastback to be my daily/drift car. I think I found the one Im gonna get, 30 miles away, its a 89' 240Fastback, good ac, new battery and tires. Thing is the guy says "Needs new engine", I dont really know whats wrong w/ the engine and from the sound of the guy he doesnt either, but doesnt matter, Im gonna get her and set her up in my garage and put a Sr20 Red top in her. I think its a nice find for $750.oo....Anyways thats about it...Cant wait to get to know you all!...One more thing, please dont confuse me or label me as one of these newbie kids that has just jumped on the Drift-bandwagon. I love the sport, the thrill of it, yes I have drifted before, and it will break my heart if Drifting blows up and America whores it down to having little HotWheel version of Fumiaki Komatsu's Nissan 180.....That is all and good day.

ShinRekka · #2 09-07-2003, 04:00 PM

hope you have a good job and good income and money cause sr swaps are a pain in the ass, i just did one with my friend, took 3 weeks. Had to get wireing harness and ecu even though it was garenteed on the front clip. So far its costed him around $5000 not including the car. If your gonna do it, go to a shop that is familiar with it and that can order you the engine and install it so that way they have to deal with all that shit. In no way was that swap fun, i ended up wanting to bash my head through a brick wall

. We finaly got it working on friday and was very dissapointed, was not as good as alot of people said it is. Another thing that was dissapointing was the left front lamp was bashed in the fenders bent and the hood looked like someone threw a brick on it. Doing this swap pretty much cut my liking 240's down near zero. I dont even know if i want another one. Next car i get is gonna either have the swap already done perfect or come with a turbo on it stock, or mustang with a fucking blower on it. So basicly what im coming too is it just not that easy, especialy for a 16year old, i remember when i was 16 i wanted to get custom 21/2 inch pipes made for my stang and i didnt know were to go, or what to say when i got there. That mostly happened on anything i wanted to do or have done. And later on when i though my car was fast i used to go around racing and being stupid, and you know what, i flipped my car. If i hadnt installed a saleen roll bar i would have no head and my body would be ground down to my lower back. I mean i swapped engines before like my carbed mustang V6 for a carbed v8, that was incredibly simple compared to swaping a SR into a 240, technology is so much better and alot more complicated. So bascily i wouldnt recommend that swap for a 16year old. I wouldnt even recommened getting that car with a bad engine. But if you do go through with it and get that car, please do a carfax report. I just bought a subaru legacy wagon and i just replace the radiater, whole exhaust system and low and behold the underneath of the car looks like it sat in salt water for a few weeks, i dont even think it will pass inspection. Well anyway welcome aboard and good luck with what ever you plan on doing.

Cade · #3 09-07-2003, 04:44 PM

Thanks for the warning, but Im still gonna take my chance w/ it. I have no job, but I got whats left of what I worked for this summer, which is $630 or so. I asked my mom if I bought the car if she would pay for the engine, and she said that she isnt funding for 2 cars for me. So we worked out an agreement to take out 2K or how much ever its gonna cost to get the car and Sr20, from my College fund, and after I get a job, before I go out blowing it, I gotta pay back my College money I barrowed. Everything is seeming to work out pretty good. My cousin has a shop w/ everything needed to do the swap, he has done one swap so far, swapped a 2.3Turbo into his Foxbody mustang (The car I drifted). So hopefully everything will go smoothly.

ShinRekka · #4 09-07-2003, 04:55 PM

good, looks like your set. But swapping the svo engine into a fox mustang is a little less complicated but alteast he has some experiance and having a shop is gonna make it a hell of alot easier. Just research the wireing and ask around for the best place to get the engine. good luck.

ghostchild316 · #5 09-07-2003, 06:43 PM

If you're gonna do an engine swap,let me have your injured KA and tranny...

Cade · #6 09-07-2003, 07:03 PM

lol and the bidding starts a .01!.....nah let me take look at it first when I get it and after I take it out, I'll take and post some pics of it if you want and if you still want it, just pay for the shipping and you can have it. lol Just more space for me.

Soyo · #7 09-07-2003, 08:04 PM

no, give me the old engine

ghostchild316 · #8 09-07-2003, 08:23 PM

Soyo,why the hell would you want an old SOHC KA for?

Freakin weirdo

Cade · #9 09-07-2003, 08:30 PM

My question is why would anyone? But yea first come first serve, or pending on the condition, highest payer first serve...lol Gotta love us Americans..=)

ghostchild316 · #10 09-07-2003, 09:05 PM

I like SOHC KA's that's why

GRR for some odd reason I keep on thinking in the back of my head that if I do the SR20DET swap to my car I'm gonna be disappointed with the outcome

RalphCare · #11 09-07-2003, 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghostchild316

I like SOHC KA's that's why

GRR for some odd reason I keep on thinking in the back of my head that if I do the SR20DET swap to my car I'm gonna be disappointed with the outcome

at first thats how it probably would be, so i would just wait till i get amazing parts before i say that the engine is craptacular. and if so many jap tuners use em, why would it be shit or disappointing for that matter.. so that keeps me thinking joyfully

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ryuhito · #12 09-08-2003, 01:34 AM

This poor kid is gonna have nightmares if he gets this car and tries to finance a swap through his student loan. IMO, don't mean to be a hater. He's gonna run out of money real fast and end up kicking himself while he works 16 hours a day.

Cade · #13 09-08-2003, 04:27 PM

Student loan?...No...Its my College savings or whatever you like to call it. Ever since I was born my parents pay in $500.00 a month, Im simply just taking 2-3K outta that savings and whenever I get a job, I pay whatever I took out. lol Theres no 'loan' especially w/ no student organization.

enecks · #14 09-08-2003, 07:11 PM

Damn, dude. Go to a state school instead of a private school, and you'll have like $60-70k to spend on a car :P. $40k/year for school is just way too much. And I know whereof I speak: I'm a senior at Duke, and I regret not going to UNC. The education would have been just as good; the social life would have been better; and the cost would have been far less. And then I could have gotten a better car :P.

Cade · #15 09-08-2003, 08:49 PM

I dont know where I wanna go or what I wanna do. I plan on going to a Arts & Music school, then go on to U.T. or U.C.L.A. and study to do whatever I wanna do if I dont make it as a paid musician. My parents dont have a ideal College they want me to go to or even say I have to, I could go to County College for all they care, they just wanna make sure I have my options open. I dont know...lets re-frame from this topic, I get nervous and depressed when I think how/what Im gonna do when I get older.

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