My friends $ 500.00 S-13

Post by **S14 Wannabe** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:29 am

Yeah, he bought it for $ 500.00. Hopefully it will be up and running by December. Perfect project car. So far we need the front 2-piece timing cover and valve cover for the KA. This was bought with HUD (Heads Up Display) and is an SE.

Stage 1 will be just to get the thing up and running. We couldn't get the hood open because the latch was stuck and pulling the hood cord from the inside wouldn't work. We had to disconnect the latch and then remove the hood. Here is a picture of the front.

As you can see from the front view he has some damage to the front fender. The front driver's side strut is missing the top bushing but will be on order shortly. Here is a pic. of the driver's side

If you can't tell the exhaust is a straight pipe exhaust. It has no muffler (which I think is hilarious). It was a ***** to push up the driveway. Here is the passenger side view.

You can tell from the passenger side view that the rear shock is blown or something else is wrong with it. We have yet to look at the suspension fully. Here is a pic of the engine and what we have to work with. It's missing a radiator but the head and valves are all brand new Nissan parts. The bottom end is alright but there is rust in the bottom end and alot of carbon build up on the pistons. There also is not oil pan but soon to come also. This weekend we are going to tear down the bottom end and apply new gaskets where necessary.

Updates will come as parts come in. Sorry for the ****ty pics but all we gots is a ****ty camera phone.

So on Sat. at 8 in the morning my friend and his dad went to Pick-N-Pull because a friend was out there and saw a 92 240 SE in very good condition. The only thing wrong with the car is that the rear was messed up. He spend $ 175.00 or so and 4 hours for this :

In the green box (first picture) there are an assortment of bolts, along with cams, front lower timing cover, oil pan (taken out), front sway bar, retentioner, water pump and some other goodies. The stock suspension was on the car with purple springs. I don't know who makes purple lowering springs but I suspect that they are HKS. He took only the front drivers side strut and this weekend we should be going back for the other 3 if no-one snagged them yet.

If you can't tell (the lower picture) that's a brand new water pump that was on the car just sitting there. So now the only thing we are missing is the front top timing cover and the complete gasket set Nissan sells, to put the engine back together. The gasket set is special order and is on the way.

Again sorry for the ****ty pics.

Post by **S14 Wannabe** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:29 am

O.K. so here is a new update on this project as well. I just so happens that another 240 guy that just joined our little 240 crew is getting an SR sometime this week donated a ton of parts that we needed including a ported-to-gasket intake manifold, brand new ported head, brand new timing chain and tensioners, brand new Accel plug wires, top timing chain cover and tons of other little brand new Nissan nick knacks including a really nicely painted black valve cover. Hell I even came out with a brand new Nissan intake filter. LOL. Why did Gabe donate the stuff? Well his bottom end blew up because after all his engine work he did not buy brand new rod bearing while building up his motor from scratch. Why he didn’t replace them? To this day he doesn’t know. So on Saturday 02/14/03 we went out to World Car Nissan here in S.A. and started to strip his motor of everything we could. What was bought was a complete Nissan gasket set, numerous cans of carb. cleaner, OEM cleaner, piston rings, rod bearings, and sealer.

Here we are starting off the day taking out this 92’ KA24DE swapped into an 89’ 240.[IMG]http://upload.houston-imports.com/uploaded/Gabe's Engine Picking Apart.JPG[/IMG]After about an hour of working this is about as far as we got. Things were taking longer than expected.[IMG]http://upload.houston-imports.com/uploaded/Gabe's Motor After Awhile.JPG[/IMG]Here is that hole we were talking about.[IMG]http://upload.houston-imports.com/uploaded/Gabe's hole in his motor.JPG[/IMG]Something’s wrong with piston number one… I wonder what can it be… oh yeah his rod is completely gone. LOL.[IMG]http://upload.houston-imports.com/uploaded/Gabe's Pistons.JPG[/IMG]

It ended up taking the whole day to take and strip the motor because the head studs were being a ***** with us. But all in all we have tons of extra parts and nuts and do-dads.

The next day 01/22/04 we start working on the car bright and early in the morning. I got started by cleaning up the pistons we had.Next was actually putting on the piston rings and rod bearingsNext was time to drop in the pistonsSmall JDM pose while working. The guy on the right is Manny otherwise known as 912.0turbo. The guy on the left is Carlos, the owner of this project. The guy underneath the car is Carlos’ dad that has worked for Nissan for some time.We came across a problem with the .50-rod bearings so we had to stop for a while and order new OEM spec bearings because the crankshaft wouldn’t turn. What we ended up doing was putting on the lower and upper intake manifolds since we couldn’t do anything with the bottom end.

We stopped. That was the end of the day and it was beyond cold. So Monday 02/23/04 is when they had to pick up where we left off. I say they because I had to work that day. The new rod bearings were fine and everything went smoothly. The only problem was that the intake manifold was ported to gasket size so the gaskets were giving a little problem. By the time I got off from work and headed over there the head, intake manifold and vacuums were pretty much all done. The only thing left was timing. Now the real issue at hand.

Here is the upper intake, head and timing chain on.Timing chain.

The timing is off. 180 degrees off. We all were tired. It was midnight and we just wanted to go home. This is where we left it. Any and all comments/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Post by **MikeMurphy** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:29 am

Keep going! I dont want to disturb the thread. Excellent posts thus far.

Post by **nlzmo400r** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:29 am

sounds like you've got quite a nice write up, looks good guys, from the poses looks like you're even having fun

Post by **Nismo31** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:29 am

500 on that! u coulda got one running for like 800

Post by **S14 Wannabe** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:29 am

Nismo31 wrote:500 on that! u coulda got one running for like 800

Where's the fun in that?

Thanks guys. Believe me much more to come as parts and money come in.

Post by **BoyWonder** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:29 am

Keep us updated. I don't think I've seen too many black coupes, but it looks pretty good for $500.

Post by **Silent Drifter** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:29 am

dude what a rip for 500 right now i can pick up an 89 an 92 for 900 obo an the 89 runs! But have fun, hopefully itll work.

Post by **Toahk** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:29 am

Yeah 500 is a rip for that imo, but im a cheapo. Picked up my 89 smogged and running, no body damage for $425.

Post by **GrubyFngaz** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:29 am

Sounds like a fun project. One thing I do know is that Intrax makes purple springs b/c that is what I have on my car. So maybe that will make him a little happier.

Good luck.Josh

Website · Post by **Bandit240** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:29 am

Right now i can get a 90 Black coupe for $500 it runs but the guy hit a deer.

Post by **Silent Drifter** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:29 am

is the deer included?

Website · Post by **Bandit240** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:29 am

No but i bet about half his hair is still on there. Thats how i knew it was a deer (been there done that got the t-shirt)

My friends $ 500.00 S-13

My friends $ 500.00 S-13

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