Anyone with a clean KAT want to be Nico's ROTM?

[WDRacing]

This thread is for ROTM only man...don't ask questions and whatnot in here. Make a new thread.

WD

[Pieknabestia]

Ill post my pics in couple of weeks, im getting new paint job, House of colors... cameleon blue to red... I got a 96 ka-t, with oem jdm 98 front end...kouki... original 48k miles, 5spd, with all parts that Greaddy sells...lol And in couple of months my ka-t (engine with transmission) is going to be for sale... (doing my 2jz swap... ) Just got the turbo... and it did 249rwhp... wanted to build that engine but reather go with 2jz and getrag... Thanks

[spooled240]

is this still going on? If so, I'll submit some pics. My car is not the best but what the hell

my vote goes to sunny though, his car has the look and had (or has?) a clean/fast ka-t.

[simmode1]

is this still going on? If so, I'll submit some pics. My car is not the best but what the hell

my vote goes to sunny though, his car has the look and had (or has?) a clean/fast ka-t.

Yeah, it's over. Here's the winner:http://www.nicoclub.com/ROTM/rotmjune08.shtml

But I would like some more detail on this car; like what lip is that, what seats are those and what kind of #'s is his setup making...

[WDRacing]

is this still going on? If so, I'll submit some pics. My car is not the best but what the hell

my vote goes to sunny though, his car has the look and had (or has?) a clean/fast ka-t.

Definitly still on bro...we're always looking for new prospects for the ROTM and calender slots.

WD

[ShionS14]

just throwin' my name in the ring, all though this pic doesn't show my turbo

[WDRacing]

It's a nice car, but we are looking for something not so stock.

[ShionS14]

awe no sleepers... i feel so discriminated against.

[ken240sx]

but a lot of people like a stock looking 240 that pwns at the track! That makes it more unique considering there's so many ricers and front end conversions out there.

[spooled240]

yeah but i think WD is talking about the stock wheels and stock rideheight..not necessarily stock aero

[WDRacing]

yeah but i think WD is talking about the stock wheels and stock rideheight..not necessarily stock aero

Exactly...

Where are the pics of your car Josh? You have two first names...

[spooled240]

Exactly...

Where are the pics of your car Josh? You have two first names...

lmao yeah i know, sorta like "Ricky Bobby"...cameron is scottish though so idk.

Here's some pics i snapped just a few days ago...and yes i know time stamp=fail

LOL this is the daily driven ebay turbo kit at 10psi-don't know if this is ROTM material but it's been working for me nicely for a little over a year and I did all the work myself including the exterior.

[WDRacing]

Scottish FTW

Zomg...ebay turbo? You know those things can kill you

[ShionS14]

yeah but i think WD is talking about the stock wheels and stock rideheight..not necessarily stock aero

Ya I have stock wheels but my ride height isn't stock, I didn't buy Tein Mono-Flex coilovers just to put it back to stock ride height.

[spooled240]

Scottish FTW

Zomg...ebay turbo? You know those things can kill you

yeah i know i'm playing russian roulette with a chinese turbo but it seems to be working fine at 10 psi

Ya I have stock wheels but my ride height isn't stock, I didn't buy Tein Mono-Flex coilovers just to put it back to stock ride height.

why don't you drop it some more?

[sunnys14]

ShionS14 and Spooled240, you both need to work on that ride height . I dont mess around, my frame rails are 2.5" off the ground.

Work pwns me WD, i'll promised you a story and ill get you one soon.

***Teaser Pics***



Modified by sunnys14 at 9:57 PM 6/25/2008
Modified by sunnys14 at 1:11 AM 6/26/2008

[ShionS14]

I have had my car corner balanced to give me the best handling and that was the optimal ride height since I don't have adjustable tie rod ends for bump steer and other adjustable components to correct camber, toe and roll center. If I went lower I would have worse handling and I would be chewing up tires quicker.

[sunnys14]

Unless it was a track car, corner balancing isn't really important to me in a street car. Camber + stretched tires FTW.

For the note, Toe chews up tires way quicker than Camber ever will.

[spooled240]

the slammed look looks really good but this car is my daily driver, not a track car. I live with some of the worst roads in the state being in socal so I need a small wheel well gap so my aero and exhaust doesn't get f*cked up.

[ShionS14]

Unless it was a track car, corner balancing isn't really important to me in a street car. Camber + stretched tires FTW.

For the note, Toe chews up tires way quicker than Camber ever will.

Not to be rude or put you down in any way, but slapping suspension parts and not setting them up properly is like slapping in a turbo and not tuning. Sure it works but not as well as it could. Excessive negative camber reduces your cars braking ability and handling since you have less contact patch and shifts the load to the inside of the wheel. Increased load on the inside of the wheel will wear out the tire faster than if it was at a zero camber and puts additional strain on the inside tire wall (as opposed to sharing the load between the two sides) deteriorating that side quicker. Not saying toe doesn't chew up tires, because I know it does. If you are really interested in race car prep a good read would be "An Introduction to Race Car Engineering" by Warren Rowley. This is a first in a series he is writing and it goes over tires, kinematic motion and dynamic load transfer.

Side note: Sorry WD for getting side tracked from the purpose of this thread.

[spooled240]

eh no worries man, it's just a matter of function>form vs. form>function.

[sunnys14]

This car is my daily driver also. I drove about 11k miles in 5 months, no problems at all. I rotate the tires every 5k miles or so to make it wear evenly.

I set my own alignment on a rack at work. I run about 4.5 degrees in the back and 3 degrees in the front. Thats how much I want to run.

[spooled240]

hmmmm that's good, but there's no way my car would last with some of the big *** dips and sh1t we have out here, i'd probably be buying jdm bumpers and lips once a month lol

[ShionS14]

Not to mention risking denting the inside lip of you wheel.

[slepys14]

Shions14, you da man! my 96 black s14 se is the same way, a nice stock looking car that rips! Power to the understated sleepers!

[spooled240]

this is a sleeper, hubcaps ftw!

but a 13 second ka-t under the hood

[slepys14]

Nice clean car!