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[acslater9]

Hey all I need your help because I'm a noob at all this car stuff.

When you see this car tell me what would be the first things you would do to it? (cosmetic wise)

http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/cto/3801976329.html

Thanks for reading guys! I appreciate your help.

[simmode1]

Run down to the local salvage yard or Ebay and snag stock replacement fenders/bumper/hood for cheap. Then I'd go in this exact order:

1) Slam it on PBM coilovers.
2) OEM chuki side skirts + OEM kouki rear valance + Xenon front lip + Canadian DTRL's
3) Get gold lug nuts & these cheap 4 lug wheels in 17x9 & 17x10:


Probably not even $3000 worth of mods, especially if you do all the work yourself. Pretty budget friendly route so you can start saving for a swap sooner. Picture this in that gold/champagne with the above pictured wheels, but I'd color match the lip:




Simple and classic with no trendy gimmicks. Removing that scuzzy black tape all around the car will help lots too and thats FREE.
s13-black-trim-how-to-get-it-off-t360375.html

If your body panels and aero are all in different colors, say NO to the rattle can Satin Black paint and instead vinyl wrap that ish yourself in a cooler color.

Sidenote: Man, whatever happened to Adrians13? His hatch was so classic to me...

[mechanicalmoron]

Fix the body and paint.

No crazy bodykits or anything, it's silly to have aero anything on your stock 240. Just fix it and make it look nice, and go from there.

[acslater9]

Wow thanks guys i really appreciate it

[acslater9]

Do people usually paint the car once it has its cosmetic fixes? e.g fenders/bumper/hood

[simmode1]

^^^If they got any common sense. What kinda sense does it make to paint your banged up stuff, fix the problems and then have to paint it again?

Collect all the replacement parts, wait to install them until you also have enuff saved for paint or vinyl, then put your parts on & go right to the paint booth or get to wrapping it. Minimize the time your car spends looking like a multi-colored pile of poo.

[mechanicalmoron]

^^^If they got any common sense. What kinda sense does it make to paint your banged up stuff, fix the problems and then have to paint it again?

Collect all the replacement parts, wait to install them until you also have enuff saved for paint or vinyl, then put your parts on & go right to the paint booth or get to wrapping it. Minimize the time your car spends looking like a multi-colored pile of poo.

Woah, I'm slow, I never knew that vinyl could be used like that, for a whole body. You have totally changed my car color plans.... I guess it's trashy to have a 3 year "paint" job, but, that stuff can look pretty good, and it's cheap. I guess door handles and such are probably a problem, ehh... it will at the very least stay on my radar, that makes it look like I could have a pretty nice looking car for a hundred-some-odd bucks, without any possibility of damage or worsening a situation.

I love you. (but I don't know about your aero suggestions)

[acslater9]

Should you buy a car that has a kill switch? And can someone explain to me what is it.

Thanks

[simmode1]

Woah, I'm slow, I never knew that vinyl could be used like that, for a whole body. You have totally changed my car color plans.... I guess it's trashy to have a 3 year "paint" job, but, that stuff can look pretty good, and it's cheap. I guess door handles and such are probably a problem, ehh... it will at the very least stay on my radar, that makes it look like I could have a pretty nice looking car for a hundred-some-odd bucks, without any possibility of damage or worsening a situation.

I love you. (but I don't know about your aero suggestions)

Yeah, there's a ton of examples of vinyl wrapped s-chassis street/track cars both on NICO & the other forum... Some ppl go with flashy sparkly vinyl, but you can also do a simple matte white or whatever you want. Just go google pics.

As for my aero suggestions, OEM is the tits, man. Nothing fits better or is more durable and it's relatively easy on the budget. And the Xenon lip is a great add-on if you plan to keep your stock chuki front bumper. It is, without a doubt, the best S13 lip available. Short of the Kouki Type-X's lip... but that will cost an arm and a leg. But if you wanna go more extreme with your aero, there are certainly a few nice pieces I could recommend.

[simmode1]

Should you buy a car that has a kill switch? And can someone explain to me what is it.

Thanks

Tricky question. A kill switch is a way to wire up your ignition so that it won't start unless a certain protocol is followed first. They're a good theft prevention measure. But if it wasn't wired up properly, it can be a real headache.

[pepesilvia]

Should you buy a car that has a kill switch? And can someone explain to me what is it.

Thanks

honestly i wouldn't buy a car that someone has previously messed with the electrical system. especially if they've wiring in a kill switch because you don't know for sure if they've done it properly or if they just threw a bunch of wires and electrical tape together into a rats nest.

[mechanicalmoron]

Should you buy a car that has a kill switch? And can someone explain to me what is it.

Thanks

Tricky question. A kill switch is a way to wire up your ignition so that it won't start unless a certain protocol is followed first. They're a good theft prevention measure. But if it wasn't wired up properly, it can be a real headache.

Well, there's not much to wire wrong. And it's easy to fix, if they had a single working brain cell when they wired it.

A common way is to wire either the fuel pump relay wire from the ECU, or the fuel pump fuse under the hood, so that the wire comes into the car to a hidden or disguised switch.

I wired a kill switch to my fuel pump relay wire, and I regret cutting the harness - it doesn't provide the same function as pulling the fuse, when I'd thought it would also be useful for fuel work/diagnostics. If you cut the relay circuit, the ECU kills the engine, whereas if you pull the fuse, it will burn the residual fuel pressure off.

My suggestion is to be more skeptical if the owner did what I did, and tapped into the ECU harness. If I was to do it again, I'd modify a fuse to work as a plug, and run the loop into the cabin with an in-line fuse holder to make up for the lost fuse function.

Don't let him talk it up as a selling point - make sure that he knows that it's just more molestation, and lowers the value, when if you wanted one you could add one for a tiny bit of work on your own.

On the other hand, if the car's cheap and/or already heavily molested, who cares. I feel all bad about cutting my ecu harness, but it's mostly important that it's soldered, and every OTHER harness on my car was already cut, so who cares?

But it IS nice to know that if you flip it, it would make theft considerably harder, for anybody driving the car instead of hauling it away.


If you're still talking about the car in that CL link, go in guns blazing, the paints no good, theres a lot of damaged panels, including the quarter panels (which are a part of the unibody), it has the brown interior (I sort of like it, but for some reason everyone else hates it - list it's replacement as one of the necessary expenses that you will incur as the new owner) it's got an automatic (regardless of your swap plans, list it as a necessary expense), and all that. Shoot for under a thousand. If it's got a good motor with good compression, I think that'd be a great deal.


About the vinyl, haa yeah, I saw that..... there's some 240s in seriously hideous vinyl. Some people seem to use the fact that it's not permanent as an excuse to let their inner ricer out. I guess it's better than permanent rice (I wonder if I could sell my self, and get a car business to sponsor my vinyl.....)

[simmode1]

There's plenty of non-ricey vinyl wrap examples out there too. Like paint, it's completely up to the owner, but a lot less permanent/pricey.

Matte Aluminum wrap.


But then you could go the other direction and do something outlandish like:

[mechanicalmoron]

I saw a neat purple mirror s13 on zilvia. But almost all the other ones are sparkly, and almost all the sparkly ones look reeeeally bad, IMO.

That matte aluminium looks really good though, I think.

[simmode1]

I ain't gonna lie... I would love to do that Chrome wrap, but I think I'm a little too old to be driving an all chrome 240sx around... lol

[mechanicalmoron]

I ain't gonna lie... I would love to do that Chrome wrap, but I think I'm a little too old to be driving an all chrome 240sx around... lol

Ehh if you didn't live an all-day drive from me, I'd say come over and help me, cause I'm young and obnoxious enough to drive a mirrored car with a stock motor around

Well, almost young enough. I forget I'm EVEN old enough to drink legally. It's scary.

[MellowZ32]

I ain't gonna lie... I would love to do that Chrome wrap,

calm down, justin beiber!

[Razi]

[simmode1]

I ain't gonna lie... I would love to do that Chrome wrap,

calm down, justin beiber!

Oh then I bet you'll love this one... lol


Can't forget the classic Unicorn wrap...

[Ace2cool]

I miss the unicorn wrap. He took it off and it looked like AIDS underneath. part rust, half black, part red. It was terrible.

[Razi]

I need that unicorn wrap in my life.

[Ace2cool]

It's gone bro. All gone

[MellowZ32]

Oh then I bet you'll love this one... lol....

LOOK! HE THINKS HE'S PEOPLE!

[Ace2cool]

Seriously. how hard is it to poach a goddamn egg properly???