Free Mods...

[S13CoupeLover]

i'm basically stuck with my project and wanted to know of any free mods you can do to a 240sx hatch. anything at all??

i don't have money and get pretty bored fast. so anything simple, hard, takes a long time, etc etc would be great!

also if this has been asked/said or whatever i'm sorry for posting again.

[Razi]

Take a crap and a piss.Instant 2 lbs weight reduction!!! Yeaaaahhhhh. J/k

You could go fill your tires up to the proper psi...Iono.

[S13CoupeLover]

i have actually weighed myself before and after taking a crap and piss and i did loose like .5-1lb. haha

yeah i haven't checked the psi yet...

[Razi]

I went from almost 190 lbs to 160 after exercising alot:)30 lbs reduction! woo!

[DMan II-40]

I don't know about free, but there is always relatively inexpensive. Such as new fluids, home made intake, etc.

Only free things I can think of are like stated already PSI, and possibly a good wash and wax.

[chaosli]

go weld ur diff maybe

[S13CoupeLover]

man... i need to be doing that. i weigh ~180 and i want to be 150 about..

[crash n burn]

-lit sleepy eyes-assuming your intake is the same, you can cut out the entire side where the resonator attached to, gives it a throaty tone at WOT and plus you'll end up with a larger surface for air to enter on the filter-wire your front side marker lights into your blinkers so they alternate like JDM cars-delete your EGR and AIV systems

thats like..the free **** you can do with misc bits of wire and what not..nothing crazy, but subtle

[S13CoupeLover]

-lit sleepy eyes..eh no to easy.-nope k&n intake cone.-yeah i was thinking about that... i may do that-i don't think i can do that and be smog legal....

could i do anything with my hood? to make it open differently?

[keith0486]

replaces the air in your tires with nitrogen it makes your tires run cooler and gives u better gas millage.

[crash n burn]

awwww

california love!

-get longer bolts and start stacking washers

BUT lit sleepies are retardedly easy bro, basically your placing a switch in the circuit to interrupt the headlight motors opening fully when the lights are turned on, there's an article in the tech section about it, very very easy

[S13CoupeLover]

lol yeah sorry might have seemed like i meant it was not to easy. i meant to say "no, way to easy"

Keith:yeah i know about that but i don't have money at all... not even a job. parents won't let me get one till after high school.

[keith0486]

thats bs you should go get a job part time job behind there back thats what i would do.

[S13CoupeLover]

well they want me to be working more on school work and not be thinking to much about my car.

even though i can't work at school cuz i'm thinking way to much about my car...

[nismojunkie]

The longer bolts and washers raise the back of the hood up so that there is a small gap. iirc it's supposed to let hot air out of the engine bay.

[S13CoupeLover]

yeah i realized that, that's why i edited my old post. i'm going to do that also.

[I_Farted]

awwww

california love!

-get longer bolts and start stacking washers

BUT lit sleepies are retardedly easy bro, basically your placing a switch in the circuit to interrupt the headlight motors opening fully when the lights are turned on, there's an article in the tech section about it, very very easy

the hood prop = dope...

[AZ89two4Tsx]

If you're looking to reduce weight, you can do a backseat removal, and then search for other things to take out you don't want/need.

Other than that, just inspect every little nook/cranny of the car to see if you can find anything missing/broken? You might be surprised at what you find.

Idk, you can't do much of anything these days without money. Especially now.

[S13CoupeLover]

yeah i can't really take out the rear seats. i have people that actually sit back there since i'm like the ONLY kid that has a car in my school. so of course when we go somewhere they jump in the back.

[ghx407]

-Homemade CAI with clothes dryer ducting (put the K&N cone behind the black grill under the driver's side blinker)-Eliminate EGR, AIV, etc.-Eliminate the SCV and its butterflies in the intake manifold-Tighten throttle cable-Clean spark plugs with sandpaper (make sure there's no debris on them before putting them back in)-Advance ignition timing ~2 degrees-Gut your cat, resonator, silencer, etc.-Add 1-2 oz of acetone to every 10 gallons of gas (not free, but extremely cheap)-Eliminate clutch damper-The more water in your cooling system the better; in warm parts of the country of course (keep at least 15% coolant to lubricate and protect from boiling)-THE BEST FREE MOD: remove weight !!!

[S13CoupeLover]

well now. that's a good list i can think about.

Edit: Keep em coming!!!!
Modified by S13CoupeLover at 10:38 PM 10/6/2008

[JHL]

i like this thread ive been asking around for cheap/free mods but here they are!

keep em coming

[keith0486]

oo i got one if you really want a project try removing all the sound deading by hand with scrapers that will give you something to do for a week end.

[jeff420]

all i did to my 240 to get lit sleepy eyes when i still had my popups was cut the brown wire. was easy as hell, i was drunk, went outside with some snips, cut the wire, and bam it was done

[ag240]

Gut your trunk and remover sound deadener, that will keep you busy for awhile.

The JDM turn signal thing was the easiest mod i did, and it works real good too.The Sleepy eyes was a good thing aswell, but i dont use it often.

You should remove your whole interior (trim panel, seats, carpet etc.) clean out your car, then put it pack together. That's a profitable mod, you clean it out and find lost change.

[crash n burn]

just cutting the brown wire wont do..theres something wrong then.

when you turn on your lights with your headlights "sleepied", they'll close and reopen automatically.

you have to interrupt that function with a switchhttp://www.nicoclub.com/articles.php?id=200234

[Razi]

Ahh yes the clutch dampener.I want to do that this weekend I heard it's a very good mod.

[odmoht]

removing the rear seats doesn't do that much =x only takes off about maybe 5-10lbs total? well for me it did...removing sound deadner thing w/o dry ice sucks a lot...lolif you do remove ur rear seats and take off the sound deadner, should take a while and keep u busy

[xX RB Xx]

if you take out all the seat belts thats about 10 pounds.

[odmoht]

oh yeah...forgot about them lol