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By Dave Coleman
Engineering a car is a series of compromises. When Nissan decided to make the 240SX a slow, soft piece of suck, it was a compromise calculated to make it durable, quiet, easy to drive every day, and cheap to build. When I decided to take this same worn-out, 300,000-mile piece of suck and make it fast, I was naturally sacrificing some of that comfort and undoubtedly some durability.
| | Project S13 Silvia: The official guide to not screwing up your wheel bearings like I did.
by Dave Coleman
Short version: RTFM | | 
Project Silvia: Once we went black, there was no going back.
by Dave Coleman
Achieving a passable paint job with a spray can is not nearly as simple as you might imagine. Here are some tips: | | 
by Dave Coleman
Experience teaches you a lot. Like why all car's aren't spray pained flat black, how long JIC coil-overs will last without any maintenance, and just how many wheel bearings one car can chew through. Do yourself a favor, read this and learn your lessons the easy way. | | 
By Dave Coleman
"Dude! You’re on fire!"
Yea, yea, the car’s fast, but I just melted an intercooler hose or something, so this isn’t exactly the best time to talk. Nor is it really the place. I mean, everything was going great a second ago, but something just popped and now every time I hit the gas, I get this lazy "blaaaah" and the car just gets slower. We could chat about it, but we're over a blind hill, we're going 7 mph, and the track is still hot. Maybe we should catch up in the pits... |
 
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