**Project eBay** (sorry 56k, no one loves you)

[sommmatt]

That clearance pic is a little misleading with the flat tire and all. But hey, its looking great so far.

[NismoDriver240]

dam i forgot all about that lol, itll be fixed thursday and ill have another clearance pic up when the entire exhaust is on, that wasjust a test so it'll have a little more clearance, like prob another inch or inch and a half i'm thinkin

[KA24Carnage]

Car is comin along nicely, mayne. I was just looking at Ebay earlier today, silvia front-end/180 tails and clicked on over to the KA24DE-T pages and found a few things for relatively cheap I wouldnt mind looking into so.. thanks for giving those of us that havent bought **** from Ebay a little more insight into the products.

Keep it updated for us, hope the two-fawty is running good for you now.

[MoldyOldy240]

If this is going to be a thread where more than one person contributes, contributers should post prices, name of seller, shipping price and time to ship. Hell, you could just do like the OP and do a print screen of the auction. Now THAT would be some stickyworthy ish.....a thread dedicated to ebay quality control (or in some cases, lack thereof lol)

I agree; that way we can narrow down quality ebay sellers. Sorry for teh thread jack.

[NismoDriver240]

sounds like a good idea, should be a different thread though, i'll start one up.

got some new tires, just to hold me over til i get my new wheels and tires later.front: 195/65r15rear: 215/70r15

super beefy in the back, clearance is fine, and it got rid of most of my rear fender gap



headers should be in mid next week! then finally that sound clip haha

[ken240sx]

You may have gotten rid of some rear fender gap, but the car is as high as a jeep lol. We've all been there at some point.

[E7-S14]

holy crap those r huge tire.

dam!minivan sizes?

whats your spending total up to now?

[BMAR240SX]

Thats 4x4

[xrider252]

jw what u do with the egr pipe

[ken240sx]

you throw it in the trash, with the rest of your emissions.

[NismoDriver240]

holy crap those r huge tire.

dam!minivan sizes?

whats your spending total up to now?

Light truck/minivan tires i think. spending total lets see... $700 for the car$40 carpet$40 backseat $145 exhaust$168 cat$111 headers$172 tires (mounted and balanced)$30 intake$50 paint$17 headliner

Total: $1473Not bad for a keep myself busy project, at all. its tough to find a running 240 around here for less than 2k, let alone with new tires, headers and exhaust. i'm proud

you throw it in the trash, with the rest of your emissions.

xrider, i'm blocking it off and i'm pulling all emissions when the swap gets done and the engines out
Modified by NismoDriver240 at 3:05 AM 5/16/2008

[mchkc240]

Sick *** idea! Sometimes you do find good ebay stuff Keep it up!

[mchkc240]

BTW would you mind to tell me how did you do that $7 headliner??? Because I want to replace mine.

[NismoDriver240]

wayy ahead of ya :P

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[eazye2000]

Nice project man. If you ever need any help, hit me up. I'm just outside Bedford, MA. Around Billerica, and Burlington. I got lots o toolz.. lol

[srpowered240sx]

sounds like a good idea, should be a different thread though, i'll start one up.

got some new tires, just to hold me over til i get my new wheels and tires later.front: 195/65r15rear: 215/70r15

super beefy in the back, clearance is fine, and it got rid of most of my rear fender gap



headers should be in mid next week! then finally that sound clip haha

that looks like crap (the tires). why get such a huge tire in the back? theres no point in staggering the tires like that. now you cant rotate either. i think you still could have saved some cash on that cat by getting a cheap universal and having some flanges welded to it as well. as far as cheaping out on the rest, its your plan; so far, so good.

[NismoDriver240]

Nice project man. If you ever need any help, hit me up. I'm just outside Bedford, MA. Around Billerica, and Burlington. I got lots o toolz.. lol

sweet dude yea i'lllet you know, maybe we can set up a boston cruise

that looks like crap (the tires). why get such a huge tire in the back? theres no point in staggering the tires like that. now you cant rotate either. i think you still could have saved some cash on that cat by getting a cheap universal and having some flanges welded to it as well. as far as cheaping out on the rest, its your plan; so far, so good.

yea i know but i needed tires, terribly TERRIBLY bad. these will be on just long enough until i can save up some cash for a whole new setup.

[xrider252]

sweet dude yea i'lllet you know, maybe we can set up a boston cruise

yea i know but i needed tires, terribly TERRIBLY bad. these will be on just long enough until i can save up some cash for a whole new setup.

i second that ur tire where showing the belts, just to let u know i never drifted that car the wheel where from another car

[srpowered240sx]

yea i know but i needed tires, terribly TERRIBLY bad. these will be on just long enough until i can save up some cash for a whole new setup.

so, doesnt excuse the crappy tire size, that was your choice. im sure those werent the last 4 tires in the shop, maybe the CHEAPEST 4 tires, but not the last.

[NismoDriver240]

i second that ur tire where showing the belts, just to let u know i never drifted that car the wheel where from another car

oh sweet thats what i was thinkin cuz the other tire wasnt worn. was the car hit in the front driver side? looks like the strut is a little bent. no biggie theres no damage, maybe a bad strut? i'm lowering it when i get the wheels in 2 weeks so no big deal

so, doesnt excuse the crappy tire size, that was your choice. im sure those werent the last 4 tires in the shop, maybe the CHEAPEST 4 tires, but not the last.

shop? i used craigslist lol. i didnt get a stimulus check that i was anticipating cuz im over 18 and a dependant so i had to borrow $100 so i just used craigslist. like i said, they'll last me, i dont think it looks to bad, i just need a driver front inner fender wall and it'll look a lil better

[xrider252]

i dunno the struts r from some kids car that i sold my kyb and tein spring to, so if it bent it not from me, bumper also from another car, left fenders was push out but i did my best to fix it.

[NismoDriver240]

recently got my exhaust manifold in the mail, FINALLY!



Not a fast shipment by any means, took 9 days, and i needed this part, expecting it in the usual 5-7 days things take to ship. e-mail contact was minimal, they auto notified me I won, then send shipment info 2 days later, listing all the common shipping companies (fedex, ups, usps) giving me a tracking number n leaving it up to me to figure out who's shipping it.

Box was kinda rough...





Product was packed to a rating of 5 on a scale 1 to 10. they put plastic to stop any dings, but the 1 sheet of bubble wrap was the type you'd find around a cup from the dollar store. like i said, alot of plastic, but i like to see alot of the large bubble bubble wrapping, wrapped, not placed, on the product



They're going to get neutral feedback, the slow ship kinda irritated me.





Also got an update on the money for the swap... for those who dont know, long story short, house sale was supposed to be settled amongst family in January, they wont sign check. bull****td til now, money will be in next friday the latest so my swap will be in sometime next month

[BMAR240SX]

How does it sound and perform now

[NismoDriver240]

sounds nice, but im in the middle of replacing the alternator so performance and other than idle sound i wont know until tomorrow when the sound should be up

when it was idling before i found out about the bad alternator, it was loud cuz it's been sitting, but once it started to come down it sounded very nice, the perfect purr.

how's the V6 perform

[Kristine]

hahaha! this is amazing!

[NismoDriver240]

IT LIVES!!!!

so i got the car to stay running, the rough idle went away and thats that. i found i need ne suspension... BAD. i was debating coilovers vs springs and struts but i have some debts to pay and i found a guy on craigslist that has some cheap, gold motegi mr8, i believe, wheels. so i'm going to get...

Springs: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...ZWDVWo ... rs...ZWDVW

Struts: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...ZWDVWo ... rs...ZWDVW

Let me know what you guys think!

[BMAR240SX]

I got to take that down, i sold that sucka last tuesday

[NismoDriver240]

got some sound clips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6kbMqaDXMU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_DQ8qbImvY

im shifting at like 4k 4.5 max rpms. in the second vid, the cam dude says go cuz im on the phone with him lol. kinda quiet since it's a n/a stock engine, but when i get on it it sounds good, at least i think so

[articzap]

I was expecting a ricey exhaust but that actually sounds pretty damn good. I approve!

[finalgear]

But it also looks like you need motor mounts badly in that 1 pic of the engine bay.