I'm bored, so here's my s13 project for you to critique.

[KA24Power]

This is my new car. My old s13 was great to me, took lots of abuse nicely but was pretty tired after the season. I decided to sell it and buy a s***ty winter beater and picked this thing up.

Bought the car after about 3 seconds of looking it over. No frame rust, no rocker rust, no hatch rust, and no sunroof. perfect. oh, except for a few s***ty dents. But that was reflected in the price.

I wanted a cleaner car than my last one. Frame repair sucks and so does fixing rust. Getting dents fixed is a lot easier.

Unfortunately I didn't have anywhere to work on it all winter so it sat at a friends house waiting for me. Come spring time I finally got to play with it.

when I brought it home



cheap cars have dents. and non-running ka's.



oh and broken springs!

I ended up putting in an alternator, removing a s***ty best buy alarm, putting on a door that wasn't totally dented and a new front fender. Got the car driving, remembered how much I hate automatic s13's.



DD'd the car for a few weeks hating it more and more. front struts were blown, rear toe was way out of whack from previous owner "drifting" into a curb.. all sorts of little problems.

Bought some rear toe links to fix the alignment, then ordered some low from the internet.

Don't mind my "bremo" brakes. Previous owner was a confused person.

low. ish.

Installed rear 5 bolt hubs and some s14 SE wheels for now



Then I got really tired of driving an Auto. Pieced together a 5 speed swap and did some work on a weekend.





Then I bought some wheels, got my front 5 lug together and finished rebuilding my z32 front brakes.

One saturday of hard work





Finally the car is coming together. Its fun to drive, looks pretty rad, and I don't hate it. I need a diff. Badly. I'm on the fence between a a s***ty VLSD or going full-c*** welded. I have a chance to get a kaaz 2 way right now... but its gonna cost a good penny.

Wheels are cheap. We all know A-tech/MB's are. Fitment is good enough for the summer and they'll make good drift spares when I get some nice wheels. No idea what I want yet, but I'm keeping an eye out for some AVS Model 5's in good size/offset. OEM Type x aero is on the want list but I don't know when that will happen.

In the mean time I'm just going to drive the car and have fun with it.

Here are the most recent pictures of the car.

[midnight91]

man im liking it i like that color with the color of your rims and you def made it look better by getting rid of that door and fender. Also i think that drop is nice. Should be a really cool car when its all done

[str33tprintz]

Very nice job. Obviously this isn't your first 240. Very clean.

And you know what every noob to the 240 scene should take note. You did not put a body kit, loud muffler or spoiler on the car and yet it looks great

Almost makes me wish I hadn't bought an s14... almost

[thatonekid]

very nice and very clean

[Black on Gold]

Looks good. Very well done my friend. Keep up the good work

[KoukiTony]

very very very nice. i love pig noses with a lip and a drop. also like someone else said the dark blue looks nice with the wheels.

[AZ89two4Tsx]

Looks good dude.

Try looking into a shimmed VLSD.

And btw, what kind of driver's seat is that?

[noobdrftr]

very well put together i like it a lot

[ca18detgabby]

And btw, what kind of driver's seat is that?

looks like Z seats maybe? only can see the corner

car looks great.

little more freshining up and it will be awesome.

[adrianfromthecastle]

I like!

[placham]

What's up with all them dents, did your ex do that?

And why did you wrap a comic book around your shifter

Other than that looks ait, as long as you dont rice it out.

[KA24Power]

Dents were from the previous owner. Kid was a s***bag that didn't know what he was doing. transmission took a few seconds to engage in drive and was overall beat - he liked doing neutral drops to impress his friends.

The seat has an unknown origin. I'm thinking its very similar to the ones that used to come in DSMs or old vw's. Its an oem Recaro.

Needs paint and bodywork but I'm holding off on that until the car goes away for winter. No sense pulling it off the road right now.

Thanks for all the compliments guys. I'm really holding off on an exhaust becuase of the limited ground clearance and the fact that right now this car is 100% canadian street legal. driving around with peace of mind is nice.

[Didderson]

I like your cars paint code .

Great start to a project! I threw out my sohc immediately... middle cradle bearing flung all around...

Makin' me like the pignose all over again! subscribed.

[Tidfu]

Good lookin' piggy man, loving the stance.

[positron1]

Very clean car...nice!

[duffman1278]

Looks really clean, good work.

[locoluna825]

love this color same as mine dont change it >:O

[rob912]

what specs on the tires

[KA24Power]

225/45/17's out back and some 215/40/17's on the front

[KA24Power]

Well I guess I'll update this where I left off.

One of my rear wheel bearings was on the way out and I wanted to hit a track day the next week. Ordered the bearing and found a spare open diff and had it welded. Installed both on a wednesday night and drove 3 hours to the track to camp out.

Got up early, had a lot of trouble getting used to the welded diff and the fact that this was my first time driving the car.

about half an hour into the morning I biffed it into the wall trying to drift a corner I didn't need to. :' (

I could have fixed the car but I decided I wanted to take a break from nissans for a bit.

R.I.P.



After this I went on to buy an IS300





Car was great, drove awesome but it was Automatic and apparently impossible to swap to 5 speed (2001)

DD'd this car for a few months, slid it in the snow a bit but got tired of driving a car that wasn't really me and that I couldn't have as much fun in.

Picked up a winter beater for a steal. 1997 Legacy AWD sedan - Automatic. I've got a problem buying automatic cars.



and then I got rid of the lexus and bought a mildly built s13.

only teaser shot, haven't had time to get more good daylights yet.

[justinedible4]

Dang sucks bought the blue s13, that thing was nice.But looking forward to more pictars of the new one!

[240sxJoe91]

Yea that blue piggy was really clean...cant wait to see more of this new 240 you got

[Xdisaster240sX]

I love the way the blue s13 looks. Sucks man.

[im_looking_for_a_240sx]

car looked great! cant wait to see the new pics or the car. definitely sucks that you crashed at the event. did the wheels hold up?

[kpodj61240]

ouch man..hope you were ok....i liked your shift boot!

[Cbus240]

Ouuchh. That really sucks about the blue hatch, it was looking really good man, and I really liked that color. Like everybody else, I wanna see the new one!

[93sivliaUsdm]

that pig was sexy man, sucks you drilled that wall. auto's arnt that bad but i agree manual is way better lol. and i want more pics of that white hatch and what kind of camera do you use? it takes superrrr good pics

[KA24Power]

haha, yeah I miss the blue car a lot but I'm pretty excited about the new one.

some of the pictures of the blue car were shot with an Olympus E-510 but I switched to Nikon and now shoot with a D90. The one of the crash tagged "Dan Wienbrand" wasn't taken by me and I didn't see what he was shooting with but it was a Canon.