Project slideways introduction

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Project slideways
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Joined: Wed Feb 19, 2020 11:10 pm
Car: 1992 240sx hatch

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I guess I'll start off my introduction with some history on my car and the history I have with it.

So back in 2008 I moved to Florida to live with my brother and uncle I was around 14yo and my brother was 17yo.
Around that time my brother ended up buying the 240 with about 172k miles. Bone stock, gun metal grey, 5 speed, non super hicas, se hatch.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ovaXLwW4QC8s7dfV6
It was decently clean centeral FL car.
One day we were leaving school and got rear-ended by a Tahoe. The insurance company paid out for the car but never filed the paperwork. (Still clean title) so our uncle ended up getting it pretty well straight with a Porta power.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/m6292AatJTK4mDfa7
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wKK7xUygHc54qiiC7

Probably 6 months later my brother's friend's talked him into spray painting the car.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/jBC936fsYA9DcT137
https://photos.app.goo.gl/w5GWJHGdUyVDP7mB7
https://photos.app.goo.gl/xckPR6racoVszHKE6

2009 we ended up moving to Oregon and a lady ended up backing her truck up on the hood🙄 insurance paid out for the car again but didn't file the paperwork with the DMV AGAIN hah
You can see the hoods messed up in this picture.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/fZskPAA57VHLC4cG7

The cops here really started hassling him because of how it was painted so he ended up spraying it again...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/C8pAHhTUgCQ9nCNX7

And his friends went crazy with the hood.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/26qsYVDbQY3FTZEW6

My brother ended up moving to Alaska with me a few months later and over the next 4 years would drive the car only on his month off that he'd spend in Oregon.
Over the next 6 years nothing besides wheels changed on the car. Over those 6 years I had several different cars an Accord, 350z, lifted Jeep ect. Kept trying to buy it from him but he'd never sell it to me.
Well the end of 2019 he ended up getting married and telling me I could buy it for $500 and drive it home so I showed up to buy it and it wouldn't start. The fuel pump had gone out so he replaced it and I picked it up later that day.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/rdpq2H1sw3x8vX5BA
https://photos.app.goo.gl/yxDomESsbiLa4LCf8
https://photos.app.goo.gl/eWgsaJTBYj3bf5JRA


I scored a clean set of bumpers for cheap so threw them in the daily.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XJ3FPMKGWTeaNPwD7
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZXitkNn3N7Fv1Hvo8

But I'm really a fan of pignose bumpers Soo I picked one up.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/kMnXN1TKepwenDKX9
https://photos.app.goo.gl/w564tKS2tET98FSTA

The car still had the trashed hood on it and both headlights just weren't right so bought a clean set.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NfGLateatosiiYuJ9

Even got my gf out working on cleaning up the wheel wells
https://photos.app.goo.gl/k261mBweHpe8GvBA6
https://photos.app.goo.gl/qPDg2Bgm6rzwsN1r5

I got some of the cheap Chinese adjustable suspension that he had for it installed.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/z2xD84gDpxkWL1g9A
https://photos.app.goo.gl/W7fMG2H5F4tJEdbQA

And that's pretty much as far as I've gotten. I'll keep this updated as best as I can.
Any help on making the pictures work would be awesome


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PapaSmurf2k3
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Joined: Thu Nov 21, 2002 3:20 pm
Car: 2017 Corvette, 2018 Focus ST, 1993 240sx truck KA Turbo.
Location: Merrimack, NH

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Google is a bit of a weird hoster. If you click on the image in one of your links so it brings it up kinda stand-alone, then right click it and hit "copy image adress", you can paste the link here in between the image tags. There's a little picture icon you can press in the post creator that will paste the image tags for you.
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Or, if the image is the right size and you have it downloaded on your computer, you can just drag and drop it in the post. Nico will host it.

You sure got around the country man! Moving from Florida to Alaska.

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PapaSmurf2k3
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Car: 2017 Corvette, 2018 Focus ST, 1993 240sx truck KA Turbo.
Location: Merrimack, NH

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Here's a few threads about posting pics. They'll show what I'm talking about with "image tags":
how-to-post-pictures-on-nico-t592944.html
https://www.nicoclub.com/archives/uploa ... imgur.html

Project slideways
Posts: 3
Joined: Wed Feb 19, 2020 11:10 pm
Car: 1992 240sx hatch

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Ended up scoring a set of 35mm extended lca for $60 guy ended up throwing in a set of s13 cams and a head.

I'll be doing the dual exhaust cam swap here in the next week or so.

I got the lca's installed a couple days ago
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gdZQ1JqADLWT6fHk8

https://photos.app.goo.gl/PC487Hv5FPydH1yk7

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wvwwHRtfyy47gfMf9

Pulled the wrecked rear bumper off the car yesterday. My uncle didn't do a half bad job pushing it out after the wreck.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/dBZQaLiaVkeS9DHBA

In the next few days I'll get the rear bumper and lower tail light panel installed. Then I'll be on the hunt for clean stock fenders that aren't $400 for a set lol

Total investment in the car is at $700 now including price of the car

Project slideways
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Joined: Wed Feb 19, 2020 11:10 pm
Car: 1992 240sx hatch

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PapaSmurf2k3 wrote:
Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:04 pm
Here's a few threads about posting pics. They'll show what I'm talking about with "image tags":
how-to-post-pictures-on-nico-t592944.html
https://www.nicoclub.com/archives/uploa ... imgur.html
Awesome thanks! I'll give it a try when I get home from work.
I'm on my phone so it'll be a bit different

adammickel
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Joined: Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:27 am
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You could describe a certain VP of engineering from one of my previous jobs with the 'baby yoda drinks soup' meme.

adammickel
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adammickel wrote:
Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:31 am
You could describe a certain VP of engineering from one of my previous jobs Sarkari Result Pnr Status 192.168.1.1 with the 'baby yoda drinks soup' meme.
the 'baby yoda drinks soup' meme.


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