After doing the suspension, etc & keeping my car mostly "under wraps", I finally got Kandi painted a little over a month ago. More detailed write up on the paint for those interested here: 240sx getting painted by Rite Way Auto Paint and Body

Basic pictures of "before":

Brought her "home" to meet Greenie:

Some surgery & let's see what she can do:

Kandi, not so fresh anymore, but ready for some major cosmetics:

Getting patched up

a few magical weeks later:

went to Horse Thief Mile & got in a lil "bumper" trouble:

went to Lone Pine for some hard parking... eerrr, I mean racing... but mostly hard parking, hahahaha:

Gotta keep true to my ricer roots & accessorize:

Custom Rear Firewall since the stock one was rusted & ugly, yum.

I'm not just n/a, I'm auto... and yes, I race it - not fast, but I'm getting there, haha.

Video of my fastest run @ lone pine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZg2SJlDDg

the wheels look ****ing sick!

Vert looks sexy AUTO FTWWWW

F.S. S13 Fujitusbo Leagis R Exhaust
http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=472422

It all looks quite good though. Keep it up!

nice ride man, the roll bar is a bit much imo, but it gets tracked so it ok in my book! On a side note, whats up w/ the PMR whip?

irrc, he just recently sold it for like a thousand bucks lol

looks good qv... I left a comment on your youtube hehe (I'm millikant)

240sx Convertible Weld-in Roll Bar Kit

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I was nodding calmly in approval right up until I saw the auto stalk. I swear to you, my jaw dropped a little. I can't believe you did Silvia front end, roll bar, paint, body fixes, and whatever else before fixing your damn transmission It all looks quite good though. Keep it up!

Transmission is FINE for now, thanks :P. And there's a lot of misc weird things I did, haha.

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he owned it.. irrc, he just recently sold it for like a thousand bucks lol looks good qv... I left a comment on your youtube hehe (I'm millikant)

Sold for a lil less than that, actually .

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nice ride man, the roll bar is a bit much imo, but it gets tracked so it ok in my book!

Yea, not allowed on any tracks w/o it. Really helps stabilize that rear end, too.

Yes, he was on MTV!!! Yeah, I watched that episode.

Anyways, you know I love your progress and am a big fan of you tracking it. The new paint looks great.

I've got a question. Do you have any pictures of how you mounted the rear diagonals of your roll bar? it looks like they're going to the strut towers... I should go scope the cage/bar threads and see.

Keep up the good work and best of luck at your next event.

Thanks for the pic Dexter, but of all ppl, you should know how to search :P

http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=219029

^ Mine are mounted on top of the strut tower brace area. You can also mount it in front (would give a cleaner area to weld), or on the towers themselves if you angle it a bit.

So far so good, I feel safe in it, but I hope I never actually have to test to see how good it really is.

So I guess what I want to know then is has your roll bar been certified or inspected? That box is really flimsy. I'm not convinced it would hold up in a rollover. Like I said, we're building a 4-point for Zach's vert and we'll probably build a 6-point for mine in the near future as well. I think we're going to try to mount to the strut towers.

Your rear firewall is bitchin'. We were thinking about using dimple bars back there as well.

Thanks.

That looks like a URAS Monkey Magic frontlip on your bumper. Where'd you get it? I've been searching for one (or even a knockoff) for a while now.

S13 Auto -> Manual Swap / My 240SX / Convertible Top Replacement / Silvia Fog Light Wiring / DIY: SR20DET Rebuild
Stacey L. Childs, NICO Mom

Dex, I chose the spot on the rear firewall because it seemed sturdy enuf to me - of course, no official testing in rollover, of course. No one in the SCCA has complained about my roll bar yet - considering there's a lot of ppl running the legal autopower version that bolts/welds to the wheel wells, I guess that doesn't say much.

Yea, if you are concerned, I'd definitely do it on the actual strut towers. We originally put it there because I was trying to keep minimal cutting of the oem firewall - then I decided "**** it, let's cut out the firewall", haha.

You didn't answer me question about the bumper lip on your vert

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You didn't answer me question about the bumper lip on your vert

Ooops, yes, uras monkey magic style. doesn't sit as low as I want, but I guess that's good cuz I tend to plow speed bumps & dips a lot.

definitely love the roll bar

I am confused about the rear firewall you are talking about. It doesn't have one. You cut out the firewall to mount a four point or did you cut out the structural support that ASC Mclaren welded in that holds the top of the seat and the belts?

Dex, I see what you are talking about. I will be nice because this is your happy place and not say what I said in the Lab, but that is a no go. It would be a lot easier, yet I don't trust that flimsy box.

For the rear firewall, I'm talking about the metal that the top half of the rear seats bolt to - for all intensive purposes, I would imagine it is okay to call this the rear firewall since the coupe's rear firewall is situated approximately there as well.

In any case, if you look @ the pics I took from the roll bar thread, should make sense.

Yea, my buddies have been telling me to manual trans & boost for the last few years, haha.

I may go boost before manual trans too, ROFL.

Do you not know how to drive a manual trans car or something?

Nope! Isn't that great?

The 300zx I got is manual, so I got to drive that around for a lil bit. Now it's under repair, so haven't gotten much practice since.

I will give you a tip, this is how I teach everyone. I taught my bro in like 10 minutes when he got his Z31; seriously and then he was driving on the street doing deliveries in it the next day. Starting off you do not need to touch the gas. Yes, that is correct. Unless it has like a twin disc clutch in it or something. Just slowly let the clutch out and the car will start to move. You have to feel it out, if it starts to chug push it back in a little. Repeat the process until you get it to roll and have the clutch all the way out. It is like ****ing. You can't just go at it, you need to hear and feel what the girl is doing. Make love to the car, give it what it tells you to.

Now swap the damn trans out, I have parts if you can't find them.

I have access to basically all the parts, I'm just holding out as long as I can. Auto FTW!

Not that I'm faster than many ppl, but it's fun when you do beat them.

Auto FTL!

Broke, you've gotta be the only person on this board who'd prefer an auto over 5-speed. We've gotta get you on the bandwagon here. There's a reason everyone switches to 5-speed and it's not just to be cool.

Lastly, I'm not sure how long the slushbox will hold up to boost. The s13 auto is not known to hold a lot of torque. You'll probably regret boosting the KA without swapping the tranny.

I intend to find out.

just a quick fyi (found this thread again while looking for an old pic):

the slush box is holding up amazingly *knock on wood*.

LOTS AND LOTS of events: everything from autox to hpde over the past year. Slowly but steadily moving up the autox raw time chain (still mid pack right now, but that's more driver fault than car fault).

it's about time for a major maintenance month or two (removing a/c since it's now busted, redoing brakes, potentially new turbo setup, new body kit, etc). Car should look & run way better than it does now before end of the year.

yea, there was another thread I had - have the current/"old" setup since september. took a couple months to really get used to it. then friend street tuned it a little & had to start learning how to drive it all over again. then changed out the differential beginning of summer & that took another month to readjust too, lol.

turbo & misc thread: http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=379495

Dexter, yea, I've had a few posts here & there. The car looks the same for the most part, except a lil mishap @ one of the events earlier this summer.

here she is w/ the enkei's earlier this year:

then this happened @ Lone Pine Time Trials in May/June - pushed it too hard @ the wrong time & went off course:

it was a good thing this was only a front half bumper, else the 400 mile trip home would have been very interesting, haha.

And of course, a few vids:

autox earlier this year (haven't had a more recent video because of vid setup issues during autox, but I'll have a newer one soon):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY1lW7eC7qc

ran Streets of Willow (CCW direction) for the first time in June - not very fast at all (this was one month after above incident, so I'm deciding to take things a lil easy), but I had fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XolbHdngU7Q

then went to a kart track the following week that they let you run your car on, lol (Adam's Motorsport Park for the So Cal ppl) - again, not very fast, rather average time, but it was an interesting mix up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emBrWfhkLA8

What I want to know is.. where I can get a copy of the paper you did on 4 cyl turbo applications.

came outa nowhere!

http://pigsbombs.blogspot.com

There are plenty of books/forum stickies/etc that you can get better info from.

I've been reading up on all that shiz lately though...which is why I brought it up. lol

That instructor was annoying... I hope they aren't all like that.

Anyways, I can't help but smile when I see your helmet... I love your helmet.