im new and gettin a 95s40 for $2000

[fmf221]

hey guys........im new and theres a guy down the road sellin me a 95' 240 5 spd for $2000, it has 72,000 and needs new airbags(priced at $450 w/ sensor), new front air dam(gettin the ebruni shogun and sideskirts), and a new hood(gettin predator hood). then its gettin painted black at my buddys bodyshop.a few things ill be gettin next.......accel plug wires(blue), bosch sparkplugs, bosch rotor and cap, new shocks, a small system (2 10inch woofers) short shifter and on......eventually i would like to get greddy power extreame exhaust, greddy headers, injen CAI, unorthodox power pullys,white rims, lower it, centerforce dual friction, 50 shot nos and the list goes on.............what yall think?

[Bbill528]

nice, not bad price w/ what it has wrong.

[PalmerWMD]

Great plan!

Fred...

[blink0r]

Keep the nitrous out of the car. That's what i think.

[fmf221]

hanks guys ....keep em comin....im iffy about the nos also, it would mostly be a show thing, only use it probably once or twice,is 72000 to many miles for it?

[nametakennow]

Not for a 95'. I'm not sure about the show before go thing, but whatever, it's your car.

[eniety]

What's nos? NITROUS@#$@#^! People don't use that word here : )

Is 72k too much for it? Mileage doesn't matter. What matters is how the motor was treated.

[nametakennow]

Well, yeah to a point. But there is a point at which distance and age begin to matter a lot, no matter how well you treat it.

[eniety]

I would rather have an older motor with higher miles than a newer motor that was beat to hell.

[UncleBen]

yea you can keep the oil changed and keep a engine maintained for 200k miles, but eventually, sooner or later its gonna quit, just becuse stuff gets old. but if you maintain an engine, it will last you SO much longer. thats a good find man. 2000k ain't nuthin don't seem like, just for a 450$ fix. i like you plan pretty much, but why dont you want to do the performance stuff first, and keep the kit and hood stuff till after you can kinda back up that "fast" look?

[eniety]

i know, but you get my point.

[neurovish]

i know, but you get my point.

my '95 has about 108k on it...Personally i wouldn't touch that car though, it's been wrecked, who knows what was messed up

[fmf221]

well.....my best friends dad ownd a body shop so im gonna have him look at the frame and such...and im gettin the hood and air dam first because it needs them and it looks like crap right now. if worst comes to worst....we can put it on the frame machine at the shop and it would cost me close to nothing.

[issanni]

My 95 came in pretty much the same condition as yours...how are you gona fix the passenger side airbag? When mine blew, it ripped a massive hole in the dash, and i'm wondering what i'm going to do about it. I just replaced the stock wheel with a nismo wheel rather than spending the $450 for new airbags and sensors. I like your plan..except for the Erbuni might i suggest something of a better quality? Cwest, bomex and other companies offer more tasteful front ends and are much higher quality. My car has 209,624 miles on it and it's still running really strong. I took it to my friend's dealership (he's a mechanic at the local nissan dealership) and all the mechanics were amazed it was still running and even more amazed it was running so well, so 72k isn't anything to worry about.

[fmf221]

thanks issanni, i relized last night i could save the money by putting in a racing stearing wheel.for the passengert airbag im gettin a whole new dash also, it dosent matter what color because ill just paint the whole thing before it goes it.im going to e-mail the guy back tonight and tell him i just need the passenger side and the dash with the sensor, hopefully it will be around $300 now.when you installed your stearing wheel, did u need a instalation kit, how do you put it on?i personally like the erebuni kit and its the only one i like right now.was your hood smashed in?mine isnt to bad but it could benifit from a new one.thanks for the info.

[ghost01]

nice price, try to keep the show for later, work on speed, thats what matters!

[s14=pimpin']

Nice find! There is a write up I wrote in the 240 general section on things to look for when buying a '95 240sx, you may want to read it. Do a search, type in "purchase", and the post will pop up.

a guy I know is selling a complete '95 front end (he did a kouki conversion).

My pass air bag also blew, a dash is very hard to find at a scrap yard, and about $1000 CAN new from Nissan. I bought a MOMO race wheel, its nice. Replacing the air bag is big $$$. You may just want a dashcover for your ride, I am considering one.

read that thread I wrote, it should help you alot.

good luck, post pics once the ride is ready, and i think you can get him lower than 2k, closer to 1k and he'll probably still sell it. Haggle, its worth a try since the car is written off, its worthless.

Not sure if its the same in the states, but when car is totalled, its branded. Once a car is branded, it is very difficult to ever sell it again, at a decent price at least. But this may not apply in the US, not sure again.

cheers

:beer

PLUR

[AZhitman]

Good advice from S14. Haggle down below $2K, because those are just the things that you KNOW are wrong with it. By the time you do the necessities (which you MUST with any used car) you're looking at more $$$$.

You're gonna need new tires, change out all the fluids (preferably to synthetics), clean the intake/TB/plenum, etc., etc. The little things will add up!

Here's the most important part: IF the bags have blown, it's probably been written off by the ins. co. That makes it a "salvage" or "rebuilder" title. ALMOST NO insurance company will give you a full-coverage policy on the car, which means you drive around with liability insurance ONLY. You dump a lot of $$$ into the car, and it gets vandalized (or some a$$hole with no insurance hits it), or you wreck it yourself, and you get JACK s*** for your car. All that $$$ down the tubes. Unless you can get it for minimal $$$, STAY AWAY.