Perfect Balance's cars | Small update| 05/03/14

[Perfect Balance]

Now that I've got a "new" old car, figured I'll start a new build thread to keep the progress up with this one. Pics will be on the second post.


1992 Nissan 240sx

Exterior:
H4 Headlight conversion
Clear corners and side markers
Rolled front and rear fenders
EastBear replica front lip
Ebay altezzas with red vinyl and black painted center piece
Subaru Legacy side skirts

Interior:
270mm Broadway mirror
Circuit Sports spin turn knob
Splash Works steering wheel hub
Sparco 325 350mm steering wheel
50mm SRR steering wheel hub spacer
Recaro Pole Position
Nagisa Auto seat rails
Takata 4 point racing harnesses
Aem UEGO wideband Gauge
Stack 52mm oil pressure gauge
Stack 52mm boost gauge
Custom 3d printed gauge pod

Suspension:
Fortune Auto 500 coilovers. Custom spring rates 10/8kg
SPL outer tie rod ends
300zx inner tie rod ends
Fortune Auto rear upper control arms
Fortune Auto rear toe rods
Fortune Auto rear traction rods
Powered By Max tie rod spacers
15mm extended LCA
Energy Suspension rack bushings

Brakes and Wheels
30mm aluminum 300zx front brake Calipers
30mm 300zx ATE front brake rotors
Agency Power SS front brake conversion lines
Hawk HP+ front and rear brake pads
Ebay 5 lug conversion
Nismo 60mm extended rear wheel studs
Muteki open end lightweight steel lug nuts
MB Competition/A-tech 17x9 +17 wheels
7mm slip on spacers (rear)
215/45/17 Federal 595 (rears)
205/45/17 Federal 595 (fronts)

Engine/Engine Bay:
Redtop SR20DET swap
480cc Silvia S15 injectors
Z32 Maf conversion
Wiring Specialties swap harness
Ebay oil catch can
Ebay Aluminum radiator
Electric fan conversion with Maxima fans
Koyo fan controller
Ebay intercooler kit (modified to fit)
Turbosmart VeePort bov
Isis turbo manifold
Megan Racing downpipe elbow
Isis downpipe
DIF AN turbo lines/coolant lines
S14 coolant neck
Touge Factory aluminum pulleys
Walbro 255 fuel pump
Ebay MAF adapter + cone filter
Optima Redtop battery (relocated to trunk)
Circuit Sports coolant overflow reservior
ISIS Dual N1 catback exhaust
Ebay/M2 racing 3 inch test pipe
RS Enthalpy rom tune
Ebay MBC

Drivetrain:
Auto to Manual conversion
Nismo silver coppermix clutch
Nismo lightweight flywheel
ISIS SS braided clutch line
ISIS Short throw shifter
Polished aluminum shiftknob/Tomei shift knob
Driveshaft Shop one piece steel driveshaft
Kaaz 2 way clutch type limited slip differential

 

[Perfect Balance]

Clothes hanger intake tube tie was already on there, not my idea.

 

[nobuffalo]

Awesome, we may have to run the downhill together. We need more info though.

 

[Perfect Balance]

It's bone stock, automatic and it burns coolant. What else do you want to know?

 

[Tornado]

Does it have teh sR20? Is it 1337 JDM tyte?






How much did it cost you? It looks like its in pretty decent shape.

 

[Perfect Balance]

Does it have teh sR20? Is it 1337 JDM tyte?






How much did it cost you? It looks like its in pretty decent shape.

$400 bucks.


Which is awesome, but I've still got a ways to go before it's drivable, and worst case scenario with the burning coolant may be a screwed engine. Hopefully not.

 

[Keef]

Oh LAWD, another 240. I still have nightmares about trying to get my buddy's SR20 running.

Cool. Hopefully you can save up some money quick and start fixing little things here and there, and get to some good parts.

It'd be nice if you had a garage for that Civic. I'm actually pretty surprised it's not completely stripped already, lol.

 

[Perfect Balance]

It'd be nice if you had a garage for that Civic. I'm actually pretty surprised it's not completely stripped already, lol.

Insurance is being gay, I had almost all my stuff taken off of it already and then they called and said they wanted to look at it (even though it only had liability) so I had to put it back together. It's been over a week and they haven't called back. Either way I want to try to sell it like it is with a running motor and no suspension.

EDIT: You getting your buddies sr20 running.

 

[Keef]

Me or we, it didn't matter. We gave up on the wiring (he hastily "tucked" everything under the dashboard without labelling) and had to call in the troops from the local 240/drifting shop Forced Fab to get the damn thing going. It runs now just fine, minus a tune, and the Spec 2 is flowing free.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

It's bone stock, automatic and it burns coolant. What else do you want to know?

How fun is the automatic?

 

[Perfect Balance]

How fun is the automatic?

Well, it's kind of broken in the sense that it requires near redline rpms to make a shift, apparently a pretty common problem with these cars, without a real fix known for them. Also, with the alignment off, the car burning coolant and the tires so bald they have threads coming out of them, I can't say, and probably won't be able to for a while.

 

[YSSMAN]

Sah-weet!

For $400, its bombin'. Literally.

I demand that this car be entered in the 24 Hours of Lemons with GTP Livery.

 

[Perfect Balance]

Sah-weet!

For $400, its bombin'. Literally.

I demand that this car be entered in the 24 Hours of Lemons with GTP Livery.

Well, it wouldn't get very far, it would probably overheat about 15 min into the race, not to mention the transmission would kill itself.

No though, this is my car. To drive to work and stuff.

 

[Keef]

Hell no, definitely not LeMons material. This car has a future! It's got mods, racing, and hardparking to look forward to! This car has things to do, people to meet, and places to go. It'll get there eventually.

 

[Duke]

Insurance is being gay...

Ahem. Not. Cool.

 

[stumpydino]

yea insurance is very uncool
they tend to make a fuss right when you want it sorted
when my sister crashed the insurance company had it taken to a scrappy 120 miles away, on the same day! and then wanted a look

what have you got to do to it to get it driveable?

 

[Duke]

yea insurance is very uncool

Point missed. My point was that saying something is "gay" to mean that it is being annoying or bad is not cool.

 

[Bram Turismo]

What, no Civic anymore? Did I miss something?

Anyway, good luck with that car PB 👍


*EDIT*

Duh! The civic stands in front! Is it me or does the Civic look a bit different?

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Point missed. My point was that saying something is "gay" to mean that it is being annoying or bad is not cool.

Insurance is being very happy.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Duh! The civic stands in front! Is it me or does the Civic look a bit different?

Indeed, it does.

Explanation

 

[Bram Turismo]

Wow, never caught those posts, but I never look into that thread anyway.

Sorry to hear PB, I loved your Civic, it looked so awesome! 👍

 

[JCE]

$400? What a steal! Lice looking ride. Don't rice it out please. Just make it look nice and new and stuff. Coffee can exhausts and stupid JDM junk need not apply.

 

[Perfect Balance]

$400? What a steal! Lice looking ride. Don't rice it out please. Just make it look nice and new and stuff. Coffee can exhausts and stupid JDM junk need not apply.

Rice? Me? Did you really need to say that?

I don't know about nice and new though. I don't care for the "stock, clean" look at all. Also, a part is something you just bolt on and nothing really past that, but something like paint, my cousin put in about 6 hours a day into my Civic for over a week, doing bodywork and prepping it all, painting it, buffing it, only for the car to get destroyed not even a week later. I always thought that with something somewhat crappy like this, I won't hesitate to repair something with some rattle can paint or something like that.

I'm sure in the future once the car is more finished, I'll get it repainted, but that's definitely not on my to-do list right now.

Coffee can exhaust might be happening in the future, but it's going to have very similarly size piping leading up to it...

 

[JCE]

Nice and new with tint, respectable rims (16" & no larger) and new paint is what I sort of meant.

 

[Perfect Balance]

Nice and new with tint, respectable rims (16" & no larger) and new paint is what I sort of meant.

No tint, 17", and possibly nice paint.

17 inchers seem to look more proper on these cars.

 

[JCE]

What color are you thinking of? I've always loved Gunmetal on S13's.

 

[Perfect Balance]

A color change from red is somewhat difficult to do, so I'll probably be going with some shade of red. Like I said though, it's not on my to-do list right now.

 

[JCE]

If red is what you want then I recommend this shade:

Ford (Dark) Toreador Red. My '07 Focus was this color and for a red it was pretty neat.

 

[homeforsummer]

Nah, I reckon a brighter red is where it's at. On white wheels. Motorsport look for the win 👍

 

[kingcars]

Coolant loss could be a bad head gasket...you gettin any white smoke out of the exhaust?