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09-28-2009 09:23 PM  

I'll start from the very start. I use to have a 1G awd Talon with some goodies on it. Then one day I said I'd like to try rwd nissan turbo. I sold my 1G DSM (I should have just parked it ohh well). Paid $600 back in 04 for the a stock 89 240sx. It  had bad paint, ugly interior but I really didn't care since I only drove it after I got of work and it was always dark when I got off lol. I had planed on just doing a SR20DET swap into the car but I had rough time from a supplier. Then I heard about a 2.0 inline 6 motor, and started looking into it. The most common thing I heard about it was that it loved to rev. I was sold at that point and got my motorset from Karime (importer out here in Socal) He got me a really clean motor and trans. I got a mount kit and installed it into my S13.

Found a good RB forum and wired up my swap myself. 6 wires later it ran and I was happy even it if was the crappy stock turbo and intercooler. I threw in my PFC and installed a Greddy Power Extream 2 on to the car and I loved it. Took the car to the track and ran a 13.7 my only good pass out of the 3 I got . Next up was a FMIC install and piping. I had Mike @ Protech-Fabrication get on his knees and make it for me lol, he wasn't very happy but I twisted his arm. Also got a RIpps intake manifold for my RB20 since greddy didn't have one for my anemic motor (why bother is just a crap 2.0l inline 6 motor)






 

Car ran really good I was happy and on my way to the dyno to check out my gains then I got served by some crazy lady on 2 lane highway . I got trapped behinde some guy watch the whole thing and I had no where to go and the chain reaction got to me. Car was totaled out by the insurance company and they gave me 1k for it lol. I was pissed but I didn't know any better, live and learn.

Then one of my friends told me about a 95 240sx that was for sale. guy wanted $900 because the motor was blown. I thought to myself no fuking way so I took the trip out to the guys house to look at it. Yup he wanted $900 for it and I forked over the money and got the pick slip the same night!. It was rough but it was better than nothing.




Had Mike @ Protech come pick it up with his trunk since I don't own one lol. What a nice guy, he did my intercooler piping and now he picks up my car for me. So I yanked the RB20 from the S13 and what ever else I could use and paid $50 to a wrecking yard to come and get it. I was out of town working for 6 months so before I left I dropped my motor off to my friends at OSR to do some work for me.  I had a new timing belt, tensioner, idler pulley and water pump for the swap the 1st go around but didn't bother since the motor was is such good shape. I had them install those, and some Tomei stuff I ordered. I would like to say that I got this stuff from RHDjapan. Tomei 270 intake and exhaust cam, Tomei headgasket, Tomei valve springs, Sard 800cc injectors. I got a very good deal on all this stuff. When I got back home it was time to throw the motor back into the car without the exhaust manifold because that too was getting an upgrade.


Mine eyes!!!!

This is where time kinda stopped. took a while to get the manifold and 02 housing made but it was well worth the wait.












It hasn't had direct sun light in YEARS lol.

2.75" intercooling piping mild steel that hasn't been painted yet lol. I'll get to it after I get the car running.



ahhhh yeaa Lightning maf blow through.



I also threw on my GTspec with the cartboy mounts and OMG. It was like fighting in 8' of water.

need a new downpipe *** .

I had CarlH @  blackboxtuning@gmail.com do my S14 harness since this go around I didn't feel like messing with the wiring. He did a great job and wired in a resistor box for my Sard 800cc injectors and made sure my consult plug worked. I sold the PFC a while back and went back with a stock ECU. I got a Nistune realtime daughterboad for the car. I had a huge problem with my stock regulator and I couldn't get my car to start much less idle for 2 weeks. OSR saved me again, with there help I tracked down the problem and got the car to fireup on a stock bin with just the injectors size and maf changed. In a few weeks I'll be getting it on the dyno to start working on the tune . So for now the only vid is of it turning over.

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11-12-2009 11:00 PM  
Ripps makes some great stuff, did you order from them or find it here in the States?
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11-13-2009 12:45 PM  
Ordered it right from them many years ago.
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02-05-2010 10:25 PM  


Still working the bugs out.

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04-06-2010 10:15 AM  
Nice. Good luck with your build. I think you did well in making the best out of a shitty situation.
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12-19-2010 12:56 AM  

Forgive my late update, I found the problem I had with nistune.  It wasn't hardware problem or software, it was the clasic user error lol. Didn't hit the burn to rom button after I had made changes to the rom. Ohh well now I know and it worked great. I dialed the boost to 16psi and it pulled all the way to 8k.

 

Then I tried to turn it up to 18psi and started to hit fuel cut @ 7k  turns out the MAF is maxing out. I need to change the intercooler pipe size to 3"  or 3.5" not sure if I can get away with 3.5 but 3" should be easy to do. 

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12-20-2010 04:59 PM  
Very nice car. Its how it should have been made in the first place!
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12-20-2010 05:19 PM  

Thanks wish I could drive right now but it will be road ready soon. I have to change the Subframe bushings, 5lug and Zbrakes installed. I have everything but the subframe bushings.

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05-21-2011 06:55 PM  
Yet another small update. Had some work done on my car. Had the rear subframe bushings changed, Installed my R32 GTS-T LSD and Axles, Changed over my leaking fuel tank to a non leaking tank, had the Zbrakes installed and 5Lugs installed. Since the car is running @ 15psi I'm going to take it home and do some more work on it. Turns out my thermostat is sticking now . I have to pull the intake manifold now to change it sad times. I also got some R32 GTS wheels from someone for my stock S14 wheels. They don't look too bad either.

vented hood and desert don't mix going to take a while to clean out all the sand that has stacked up in there.
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05-24-2011 07:02 AM  
I'm glad to see that you're up and running (even if you still need to give it some time in the shop). With the motor sticking further forward now that it's an inline six have you noticed any significant differences to the handlling?
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05-24-2011 11:22 AM  
When I had it my S13 I couldn't tell, it understeered the same but it was on stock suspension.
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