RHD people,

[s13 iDRIFT]

ok so this weekend im selling my wheels and putting the money toward a RHD shell, and the plan is to swap all my stuff over to it. and sell my 240 now as a shell to my brother, but i need to know a couple things,

1- is insurance more?2- how much harder is it to drift it?

that would be appreciated, and ill be sure to post pics when i get it!

[FolkertSX]

idk but id love to have a rhd car. all the weird looks you'd get, pulling threw drive thrus backwards , it be so much fun. is the shift pattern still the same though? it be weird having 1st way over. and shifting with your left hand would take getting used too

[xX RB Xx]

no insurance wouldnt be more.. unless you have a coverage plan that pays for modifications.

i dont see why it would be harder to drift. your going to have to learn how to use the gearbox with your left hand and the ebrake will still be in the same spot. unless your left handed i wouldnt do it.

[s13 iDRIFT]

ok thanks RB, and i was just wondering, i thought it would feel weird, but i may go through one drive thru in reverse for SH*TS and GIGGLES! hah

but i doubt i have that insurance, thanks man!

[PieRat]

Insurance is going to cost you the same as every 2dr sports car. I'll warn you though my insurance company couldn't insure my car because they didn't know how much it was worth.

I had to get an appriasal done and now there insuring the appraise value. ($325/m) I pay.

All the gears are the same as a usdm car. Sixth gear will be the closest to you. The e-break as well will be in a different location then a 240. It will be on the opposite of the gear box closest to the rhd.

Signals are on the right hand side.

It's kind of a pain in the a** to control the radio from the right hand side.

Hope my 2cents help.

[sr20power]

I didn't have any trouble driving RHD, yes it was a bit weird to be shifting with the left hand. But what I thought was hard to get used to was driving in the center of your lane. Being on the right hand side of the car I noticed that I was always getting closer to the left side of the lane.

But no extra in insurance and should be much harder to drift with.

[StandardProspect]

Its not that hard, just takes a little getting used to. I drove a rhd 5-speed in ireland. It actually makes sense though, because you drive on the left side of the road there. Why do you want rhd so bad? I think it pretty stupid imo.

[Coeur de lion]

Insurance is the same, and it's not harder to drive!

Just gotta get used to being on the other side..

Like...you might still go out to your parked car and get in on the USDM driver side...and then say to yourself "Oh yeah!"

You also might find yourself going into fast food places more than drive throughs..unless you have a passanger with you.

[s13 iDRIFT]

ha well i have shifted for my brother a couple times with my left hand, it seems easy. but i have always wanted a RHD 240, ever since i saw one, and that was like 2 yrs ago, l0l

and thank you all for the info, and i dont have a radio. =( but owell.

[k00laid83]

i have to agree with this guy...i've never driven my rhd 240 yet...im still building away but im almost done! can't wait to experience it.

[OutToWinPAHC]

How many of the people who replied to this have actually driven a RHD car? I take it not many. I have driven one in the islands, and well it was weird as hell. Not hard but its a learning experience that takes getting used to. Its like driving for the first time all over again. (shift patten is the same, as well as the foot work)

[Nali]

Driving and shifting with the other hand is a little bit weird for about a 3 days depending on how much driving you actually do. You'll get used to it really quickly same as you did the first time you drove manual transmission

I think the most annoying part is reaching for the window when you are trying to shift, beyond that its just another car. The pattern and pedals are exactly the same

As for drifting. It makes no real difference, depending on which hand you are superior with you may decided you actually liked the car before.I know some of my friends love having their dominant hand on the steering wheel, while others prefer using the dominant hand for shifting and pulling the Handbrake.

I fall in the former, id rather have my dominant hand hold the wheel while the useless one gets to shift and pull the Hbrake.

P.S I'm right handed

[Koshin]

RHD conversion cars are ghey....

if you found a RHD shell, is it a legit RHD car? or a conversion as well?

[hbpignosePA]

wow you fail hard

you think it will help your drift skillzzz

just ask your daddy im sure he will buy it for you just like he bought your car/wheels.

(btw a whole RHD shell is a bit hard to come by, and i seriously doubt you have the skill/ ability to pull off a conversion

[Papi Chulo]

Gay

[s13 iDRIFT]

wow you fail hard

you think it will help your drift skillzzz

just ask your daddy im sure he will buy it for you just like he bought your car/wheels.

(btw a whole RHD shell is a bit hard to come by, and i seriously doubt you have the skill/ ability to pull off a conversion

well i never said that itll help my drifting skills, i no it wont, itll probably make them worse, but owell. and it is a converted RHD hatch. im glad some people think they are gay, and you should hate because my dad pays for some stuff, he has payed for alot of things wich doesnt mean i havent payed for some stuff. and you dont have to have skill/ability to pull it off. im selling my wheels this weekend and going to get that RHD.

[sean@z1]

Why not buy the real thing from canada and take it out on the weekends to the track

[Nali]

well i never said that itll help my drifting skills, i no it wont, itll probably make them worse, but owell. and it is a converted RHD hatch. im glad some people think they are gay, and you should hate because my dad pays for some stuff, he has payed for alot of things wich doesnt mean i havent payed for some stuff. and you dont have to have skill/ability to pull it off. im selling my wheels this weekend and going to get that RHD.

^^Dude are you high? That post isnt coherent at all.Rephrase that in a way people will understand.

[Quality_Salvage]

well i never said that itll help my drifting skills, i no it wont, itll probably make them worse, but owell. and it is a converted RHD hatch. im glad some people think they are gay, and you should hate because my dad pays for some stuff, he has payed for alot of things wich doesnt mean i havent payed for some stuff. and you dont have to have skill/ability to pull it off. im selling my wheels this weekend and going to get that RHD.

There's a punctuation fail for team Alabama. Among many other problems.

Do what you want. Although a right hand drive conversion does nothing to benefit the performance of the car, it is kind of a cool gimmick. (Don't hate)

[nifares240]

this is a waste of time. you'll realize it. save your car.

[Amtk240]

RHD sounds like a cool idea of having, but I'd feel bad passing all those Mailboxes and not having anything to put in them. I guess it's good to have if you work as a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service, otherwise I find it irrelevant in the States.

[masterdisaster]

My summer daily driver is a 180sx ..

1- i find it more comfortable to drive on the right for some weird reason.

2- i'm 6 feet and got long limbs lol .. i got no problem in drive-thrus. (altough going in reverse is hilarious sometimes)

3- Passing .. i never had a problem with it .. just leave more room when you check if a car is comming.. and then floor the s*** out of that SR.

4- you gonna love the funny looks people give you.

Insurance is 700$ a year (59$ a month) i'm 24 with a clean record.car i stored half the year .. so half of that

drift a corner from time to time.. nothing harder .. hmm .. but all the FR cars i've driven are JDM ones.. so can't help there lool

5- the only issue i had @ first was down shifting. ( in lhd your use to pulling the stick towards you and back to go from 3rd to 2nd, ..2 or 3 times i grinded the transmission doing the same movement with my left hand . due to the pulling towards me and going back = grinding reverse gear ... oups

[AZ89two4Tsx]

Insurance is going to cost you the same as every 2dr sports car.

I had to get an appriasal done and now there insuring the appraise value. ($325/m) I pay.

A 240sx is not a sports car.

Your insurance company is raping your ***hole bigtime.

[themadscientist]

RHD is more natural for me. You will occasionally get in the wrong side, just act like you were looking for something in the glove box.

[sean@z1]

RHD is natural as well I am a left handed person easier to shift great fro traffic as you can see ahead of you instead of the car in front drive though at checker are great as you can go in the RHD line as i call you are the only person who comes up iin the driver seat and shocks the hell out of the cashier and it is funny when pulled over the police are use to walking up to the passanger side of the car and when they see your on the driver side they start askin about the car most cops are blown away by the old R chassis car and have never seenone. the list can go on so like i say buy a real one hell buy a R30 paul newman edition and have a rare skyline before the prices shoot up crazylike in Japan

[themadscientist]

R30 paul newman edition and have a rare skyline before the prices shoot up crazylike in Japan

[sean@z1]

TMS is that what your R30 is?

[themadscientist]

one of them, yes.

[sean@z1]

Sweet lets see some pics of that sexy beast

[mRodiek]

Your not going to be able to pay for insurance only when you drive it, my dad had a B4C Camaro that he wanted to drive only during the summer and the insurance company told him to pay year round or not at all.