Any Long Island/SUNY Farmingdale 240SX owners?

[nyisles]

Hey all, just found this forum today and was wondering if there are any people from LI here, and/or anyone who goes to Farmingdale.

[TatII]

yeah i go to farmingdale. and i drive a white S14. are you in the automotive classes too?

[nyisles]

Hey... I think i've seen your car on campus a few times. Very clean! I'm a comp-u-geek so I'm not in their automotive program, but rather majoring in CIS.

BTW, good choice on the exhaust...

[TatII]

i wish my n1 duals are still that shinny. no matter how hard i scrub its still alot more duller then that. damn heat!!! had to make my stainless steel dull! anyways what color is your 91? its kinda hard to tell which one is yours cause we got plenty of hatchbacks here.

[nyisles]

Mine's red... you can see pics by clicking on the link in my sig. They are about six months old so the stock exhaust was still on when they were taken, but other than that the car looks exactly as it does in the pics. Gotta wash the car off and take some new pics soon

[TatII]

your car runs a 1/4 in 15.6? thats not bad. thats not bad at all. where do you bring your car? i want to clock my official time too but i don't want to drive all the way to E town. i'll be extremely happy if i got the same time or similar time you have. even though i have slightly more mods.

[turbo2nr]

heY ALL, IM THNKIN BOUT GOING 2 FARMINGDALE AND I WANT A 96 240sx, wit a sr motor!!1

but is farmingdale a good skol? i heard traffic in the l.i.e. is killer, and i probably got 2 take da train the first 4 months

im commin from queenz

so do you recomond the school, im planing 2 major in engineering,

[TatII]

the academic's are a joke, except for math and physic's those classes are hard!! and yes this school is very good. it has a very very good program. i went to visit my friend at APEX and basically i knew everything they knew and i knew alot more then they learned. this school is very math and theory related though, but it really helps you understand what is goin on. and the professors are all really cool. we have a professor whos a pro dragger. he always tells us about his race car. hahah he drives a 8 second car that has a regulator that resticts it to let it go to only 10 seconds. he would tell me that he drove a 10 street car casually and hes like hmmmmmm this car is pretty quick. lolz

[nyisles]

Originally posted by TatII
your car runs a 1/4 in 15.6? thats not bad. thats not bad at all. where do you bring your car? i want to clock my official time too but i don't want to drive all the way to E town.

Thanks mate It definitely runs pretty hard for being almost stock with almost 146k on the odo. All my runs have been at LI Motorsports Park in Westhampton... not the most technologically-advanced track in the world, and it's a little expensive ($45 for test-and-tune), but you can usually get well upwards of ten runs in on Fridays if you want to. Also, factor in that you have to pay for the gas and tolls to get to/from E-town and then the $45 at Westhampton doesn't seem so bad anymore. You should be able to run at least as fast as I did with your current mods... S14s are a little heavier than S13s but you're probably putting a little more power to the ground to make up for it. The key is knowing when to shift... a lot of guys with modded 240s can't seem to break out of the 16s, and it's because they don't shift until redline (which is WAY past the engine's power peak). With a stock or near-stock engine, I found that the best place to shift is around 6200rpm... a little past the power peak, just enough that you fall right back into the powerband after shifting.

As for Farmingdale, it's a great bang-for-the-buck school. I wasted two years of my life away at Shitty Brook with basically nothing to show for it... 500-person lectures and non-English-speaking professors and TAs tend to do that to you. Farmingdale has nice small classes (none of mine are more than 35 students or so) and good, coherent professors. I would recommend it to anyone.

[TatII]

yeah i shift at 6500 on first to second then that number will drop down by 500 rpm after every shift. so by the time i'm shiftin to 4th, i would be shifting at 5500. jspecsileighty did all the calculations for the gearing and it seems to work best.