Im a mechanical engineering student at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, getting ready to graduate this May, or next December. The building of my car been slow for a number of reasons, but I hope that it will speed up and Ill end up with what I want out of my 240 after i find a real job.
I bought an 89 hatch when i was a freshman at school, The car had been the previous owners resto project. The car had been destroyed by hail, had the motor blown up...etc. It had a ka24de swapped in when i got it with some slightly janky wiring. Here is what it looked like at that time
shortly after that, I picked up some 17X8 final speeds for cheap, and ended up selling them for profit..in hindsight, that was probably a bad move because they did look pretty sweet.
here's what she looked like at this point
the car sat like this for a while, It was my daily driver and it saw a fair amount of track duty and street sliding
I ended up getting rid of my side exit exhaust and throwing in a j30 lsd, and a 1 piece driveshaft somewhere during this time
and made a pretty badass shift knob...
The car stayed like this for a while, I spent a summer in New Hampshire with my family, and spent some time trying to get back into motocross i ended up spending all of my time, money, and effort into motocross, I bought a 250, got my 125 back up to par, and f*** up my back. I ended up herniating a disc and not going to the hospital, i thought it had gotten better until I noticed that the feeling in my leg and foot was compromised, I ended up finding out my spine was twisted and has pinched a nerve and done some other s***...and my sophomre year in school was kicking my a**...so the 240 got neglected, and i had to sell a bike or the 240 to pay for school...so i sold my 250.
pic right before it left
the 240 was in a sad state at this time, It had been in two hit and runs, the heat had destroyed the hack job that was done on the roof and she started running like buttcrack
if anyone has suggestions on fixing my roof let me know.
When my Junior year started I ended up getting a job working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory working as a student engineer, a job which I still hold today. I also joined the school's Baja SAE team and learned a ton about fabrication, I was busy so I didn't touch the 240 for about 8 months. It was no longer my daily so i only drove it a handful of times, all of those times in anger.
Here are some pics from baja in case yall are interested, and the 240 in anger
Last summer I actually had some money, and time, so I ordered an engine gasket kit, motor mounts, PS rack and went to town. and got her running propper!
sorry...no pics
Then I got hurt again, I was back on the dirtbike trying to train for a desert race, crashed, and hit my head. Concussion. nbd right? wrong. about a week or so after that happened i started getting massive headaches. They are cluster headaches and come in cycles. When they happen, they pretty much render the rest of the day, and the following day useless. I still get them from time to time. This halted the plans i had for the 240 for about a month.
Finally, I got around to doing some body work on it (still havent done the roof), and painting her in my yard. I painted her a nice shade of white. In these pics she isnt cut or buffed...as a matter of fact, i still havent gotten around to doing it.
Last night I noticed my radiator support has been completely separated from the rest of my car...no idea how it happened. But there will probably be some ghetto fabbing present in this thread real soon. or a legitimate tube front end!
i think its funny. keep it on
LOL j/jk
but i think it came out okay. 
