Chris's 1993 240sx (rebuild?) Build

[Didderson]

Curious as to how you made the tail lights.

Nice ride height. Maximum rubber looks ok. I like tire stretches, but with your offset you can't. You'd have more grip than me though that's for sure!

[Nis-240sx-san]

WOW...haven't updated this in a long time.... well...
Long story short, I drove the car NA all through the summer of 09, then garaged it in october, and finally brought it out in march of 2010 to start working on it.
First time out of the garage in March.



I returned the car to stock ride height by putting on the stock springs and struts. Then It was time to get the engine back out of there.




It was around this time that I figured out what color I wanted to paint my car...Pink. Why, you might ask? Simply because I could, and couldnt make up my mind on any other normal color. But in order to paint the car, I had to get it toed to my fathers garage, because his garage is a lot bigger, and cleaner. And then the work started.



Took out all that tar.

Also decided to have it stitch welded in a few key spots.


and heres my friend Ken welding up some new metal to replace the rusty spot on the rocker.

After the welding was done, it was time to paint the interior.



and this is how the car kind of sat for a while.

Then I decided I wanted the roof to be black..

and heres how it came out



In the mean time, as my car was at my dads garage, my engine was still in my garage. so I worked on that as well.

Angry KA wants BOOOOOST

More work..



Then on one random late night, i had a few friends come over around 11pm, and we all decided to drop my old subframe, and get the new one all mounted up.
Heres my friend brendan being stupid haha

and the end result


The next thing was to slap some paint on the engine bay..decided to go with white there too.


ALso got the interior back together the way I wanted.


Then came paint day..


All primered


and a few days later...Pink time..


and just being stupid..

then...
it looks orange here...but thats because I used my s*** cell phone to take all the pics..






after waiting a few days, i got her back home so the engine could be put back in and wired all back together




Then as everything was going together, I realized that my downpipe was f*** up...but I know many people have issues with KA-T downpipe fitment and such...so I had to trailer the car to my friends welding shop downtown.


Getting the car on and off that U-Haul trailer was a pain...but we got it..


Getting the downpipe fixed was pretty much the mast thing I had to do to get the car to running condition.
heres an engine bay shot.


First time I drove it to work..


After everything was in order, I got an alignment done, and the car ran golden! By the time i finished putting everything back together, it was mid May 2010. And thats pretty much when my summer began..








Then I made this little picture after summer was over, and the cold months were starting to approach...and then the S13 would be stored again till the Spring.



Uh...thats it..there is always still more to come...but i often forget to post about it...and theres a ton of little s*** in between the build that I just totally skipped...but its all good, you guys get the gist of the whole build.

[Taran14]

At first i was like pink..wtf! but it grew on me and it looks good, but sweet build!
but your car is crying for some kouki tails, and sides!