Reece's Car Thread-WTF DID I BUY NOW

[Cano]

I'm half tempted to get a different 240.

Half? Just?

 

[speed junkie]

I'm half tempted to get a different 240.

Just take the extra 30 seconds to look underneath and make sure there's no rust next time.
Oh, and I agree with PB.

 

[Perfect Balance]

The idiot that owned it before me... WELDED the exhaust together.
(and PB told me that I ruined the car, LOLLLLL)

This is REALLY REALLY easy to fix. An exhaust shop could do it in 15 minutes. Or you could do it in no extra time if you decide to buy whatever other piece you need and just replace both of them. An exhaust that's been welded together is not a problem lol.

And I never said you ruined the car. You missed the point then, and you're missing it now. I never said the car was perfect to begin with. What I did say is it had some things that weren't horrible, and now are. You ziptied the fender because it was rusty? So did the rainbow zipties fix the rust or something? Fuel door bolts broke because of rust.. Why were you taking it off again? Same goes for the bumper.. Should have just left all 3 of those things alone, which is what I've been saying this whole time.

You know you can find non rusty fenders for $20-$30 bucks?

And I know you meant that you care about the car, just not what people think about it. I was just pointing out that you only hear this said in these kinds of situations. You never hear someone say "I made my car super nice because I like it this way and I couldn't care what people think". It's always the primered crx rocking the "I love Haters" sticker.

 

[VEXD]

Well.
I get it.
It's called expression.
Reece has the ability to express his chosen image through the medium of his car.
That's individuality.
And as everyone will tell you, all through your life; it would be boring if we were all the same.
I'm quite sure he will go on to achieve all kinds of greatness and through the years, own many different cars that he looks fondly at right now.
It's a fact of modern life though, that we are all able to express ourselves and our own individual opinions in a forum such as this one, and therefore what Pb said is correct, and what I say is also correct, according to your own, individual perspective.

Reece's car would pretty much drop into the hills of Japan's touge routes and blend in.
Nothing wrong with deciding that you want your car to have that kind of style.
Creating that style comes from within.
There's nothing wrong with personal expression, as long as when you do it in public, you keep some clothes on.......

👍

 

[Perfect Balance]

Well.
I get it.
It's called expression.
Reece has the ability to express his chosen image through the medium of his car.
That's individuality.
And as everyone will tell you, all through your life; it would be boring if we were all the same.
I'm quite sure he will go on to achieve all kinds of greatness and through the years, own many different cars that he looks fondly at right now.
It's a fact of modern life though, that we are all able to express ourselves and our own individual opinions in a forum such as this one, and therefore what Pb said is correct, and what I say is also correct, according to your own, individual perspective.

I get what you're saying, and I agree. It's good to be different. But I'll get back to this.

Reece's car would pretty much drop into the hills of Japan's touge routes and blend in.

This is the only sentence in here that is extremely inaccurate. Japan has a HUGE aftermarket, a lot of it which is VERY cheap. Seeing a car like Reece's would be extremely rare, and I don't mean this in any offensive way, it's just really hard to find anyone who retains a near stock look because of how ridiculously cheap the aftermarket is. Only recently has a "USDM" style emerged, but it mainly focuses on extremely clean stock bodied cars.

Nothing wrong with deciding that you want your car to have that kind of style.
Creating that style comes from within.
There's nothing wrong with personal expression, as long as when you do it in public, you keep some clothes on.......

👍

Now back to what I was on to with the first part. I agree it's good to be different, but you'd be surprised how unoriginal this all actually is. It's so common, in fact, that they've come up with a name for it all. They call it the "American 'missile' crisis". They even have t-shirts.

 

[Anna+Reece]

Oh I love a new Exhaust =] it looks so shiny. If anything remove the silencer. I don't think it makes a difference. I still have mine on and all it seems like it does is make it sound like a Honda (what others think, sounds like my old car to me) rather than make it quiet.

I only paid 80 bucks for a shop to do mine.

Also I hope your shift knob isn't aluminum. It's terrible in the hot and cold =[. Burned my hand one day grabbing it.

I tried taking the silencer out... Wouldn't budge I might have the shop I bring it to try taking it out. Removing it, in some cases, supposedly increases power 3-7%.
And I'm pretty sure the Shift Knob is delrin, so I should be fine haha.

Half? Just?

Just half. All the other 240s here are overpriced. Just like this one was.

Well.
I get it.
It's called expression.
Reece has the ability to express his chosen image through the medium of his car.
That's individuality.
And as everyone will tell you, all through your life; it would be boring if we were all the same.
I'm quite sure he will go on to achieve all kinds of greatness and through the years, own many different cars that he looks fondly at right now.
It's a fact of modern life though, that we are all able to express ourselves and our own individual opinions in a forum such as this one, and therefore what Pb said is correct, and what I say is also correct, according to your own, individual perspective.

Reece's car would pretty much drop into the hills of Japan's touge routes and blend in.
Nothing wrong with deciding that you want your car to have that kind of style.
Creating that style comes from within.
There's nothing wrong with personal expression, as long as when you do it in public, you keep some clothes on.......

👍

Thank you very much. Some people just don't get that I want to be different with the car, and I'm happy at least one person is supporting it.

Also, to Perfect Balance, this car's not a missile. Oh lord no. Sure it's not some super fancy amazing thing like you'd find in Chicago, but it's not, and will not be, a missile. I simply haven't had the money to make it into everything I want it to be. At least not yet.

 

[Beeblebrox237]

I'm going to insert my two cents here. Reece's 240 looked great stock. However, there's no pointin keeping a car stock if it's rusty and falling to bits. If you have to do a lot of work, might as well do it to make the car more unique and interesting, right? I'm not a huge fan of the current look, but it fits the car really well and looks a lot better than I would have guesed it would if you just described it to me. It's got a lot fo character right now, and I like that a lot. And considering the fact hat he has no job and the car is in terrible condition, I think he's done a fine job modifiying it. And if he likes it, that's really all that matters in the end. 👍

 

[Anna+Reece]

I'm going to insert my two cents here. Reece's 240 looked great stock. However, there's no pointin keeping a car stock if it's rusty and falling to bits. If you have to do a lot of work, might as well do it to make the car more unique and interesting, right? I'm not a huge fan of the current look, but it fits the car really well and looks a lot better than I would have guesed it would if you just described it to me. It's got a lot fo character right now, and I like that a lot. And considering the fact hat he has no job and the car is in terrible condition, I think he's done a fine job modifiying it. And if he likes it, that's really all that matters in the end. 👍

Thank you, lots. Honestly that's pretty much how I feel about the car too.

I like my car. Far from the best 240 ever, but oh well.

 

[Perfect Balance]

Also, to Perfect Balance, this car's not a missile. Oh lord no. Sure it's not some super fancy amazing thing like you'd find in Chicago, but it's not, and will not be, a missile. I simply haven't had the money to make it into everything I want it to be. At least not yet.

The cars that phrase is referring to aren't missiles, thats why I put it in quatations. Actual missile cars are different. And it's also worth mentioning, even though it's besides the point, that a missile can be a really nice car, and in fact should be nice if possible. Missile describes what is done with the car, not what it looks like.

Thank you, lots. Honestly that's pretty much how I feel about the car too.

I like my car. Far from the best 240 ever, but oh well.

And that's fine, it's like I said in the first reply, it's your car and you do what you want. I just thought some things were questionable. You answered back and some of them I agree with, others I still don't understand. The rest of the time I was trying to correct people that misunderstood what I was getting at.

 

[Anna+Reece]

The cars that phrase is referring to aren't missiles, thats why I put it in quatations. Actual missile cars are different. And it's also worth mentioning, even though it's besides the point, that a missile can be a really nice car, and in fact should be nice if possible. Missile describes what is done with the car, not what it looks like.

When I was referring to a missile, I meant something like Ryan Tuerck's side car.

And that's fine, it's like I said in the first reply, it's your car and you do what you want. I just thought some things were questionable. You answered back and some of them I agree with, others I still don't understand. The rest of the time I was trying to correct people that misunderstood what I was getting at.

I look back at some of the things I have done to the car and question myself, too. Though it's definitely going to get better. Might take a few months, might take nearly a year. But I have new goals with the car.
Though something I am going to do as soon as possible, is replace the frame rails. They are pretty much shot, they're the worst part of the car. So I need to do that. Then it will just keep going from there, I guess.

 

[FordMKIVJ5]

I think PB's point was simply that the car has a lot of issues, and that it would make more sense to spend the money you spent on modifications fixing those issues before you went about adding your own "touch" to the car (correct me if I'm wrong). 👍

 

[Anna+Reece]

I think PB's point was simply that the car has a lot of issues, and that it would make more sense to spend the money you spent on modifications fixing those issues before you went about adding your own "touch" to the car (correct me if I'm wrong). 👍

Could be. Though the only real issues are the frame rails and cosmetically the only issue is the paint, and the fenders. But I'll be taking care of the rails and fenders for sure. Paint, maybe later. That's not the highest priority as of now.

 

[MedigoFlame]

Well, despite the rust, I'm sure your 240SX's better than my friend's coupe. Originally bought it completely stock, small rust, Juniper green, then got into an accident. Then it really degraded. The owner before my friend (another friend that's part of our group who recently got another coupe, but two tone) crashed it into the back of another 240SX on the road. After that my friend crashed into a ditch. And a month ago, my friend hit a tree at a drift event. (Somehow hitting the one tree that grew in front of the fence and on his first ever tandem)

In the current condition, it's got some rust (can't remember the location, but mostly on the driver's side door) and the frame's...bent after his crash into a ditch. But yeah, just showing that yours isn't as bad as my friend's daily 240SX.

 

[Anna+Reece]

Well, despite the rust, I'm sure your 240SX's better than my friend's coupe. Originally bought it completely stock, small rust, Juniper green, then got into an accident. Then it really degraded. The owner before my friend (another friend that's part of our group who recently got another coupe, but two tone) crashed it into the back of another 240SX on the road. After that my friend crashed into a ditch. And a month ago, my friend hit a tree at a drift event. (Somehow hitting the one tree that grew in front of the fence and on his first ever tandem)

In the current condition, it's got some rust (can't remember the location, but mostly on the driver's side door) and the frame's...bent after his crash into a ditch. But yeah, just showing that yours isn't as bad as my friend's daily 240SX.

That reminds me of my friend Alex's 240 daily driver...

It's also his drift missile
That's what a few good wall taps at MAPerformance Proving Grounds 2013.1 will do to you

After talking to a few people, and remembering what Alex's car is like, and seeing that car you shared, I've realized that I was over reacting. I have friends who wish their rust was as little as mine (their words), and one of them's frame rails are pretty much entirely missing. So, I'm gonna focus on fender and quarter panel rust now.

In other words, the car is going in to a local performance shop on Monday to get an exhaust quote...
This thing came.

I love it... sooooo so much.... It feels SO much better than the stock knob. I might get my shifter shortened though, just for appearance's sake.

STICKARRRZSZSZS

JDM Chicago

And with that, some MORE disappointment. First the exhaust, now, wheels.

I drove 2 hours away to go to a salvage yard, to buy some drift spares. I am desperately in need of them. There was ONE car in the whole lot with wheels that would fit my car. I finally found the car, twenty minutes before the yard closes, way in the back. With all the wheels still on, awesome!

But....
they were seized to the brake rotors. So I would have needed to take the rotors AND wheels, then somehow pry the rotors off the wheels. Yeah, no. Not putting that much effort into some wheels that I'm just gonna drift with.

I really need good wheels, not just spares but actual decent wheels. Badly. I'm getting sick of this OEM stuff, I've never owned a set of aftermarket wheels that weren't crap in my life, that needs to change. But first I need new fenders and I need to weld in new quarter panels or get overfenders...
UGHHHH I could go on and on all day about this. I'll wrap the post up here.

 

[Perfect Balance]

It's also his drift missile

Unless he's got another sweet drift car, by definition, this car can't be a missile.

they were seized to the brake rotors. So I would have needed to take the rotors AND wheels, then somehow pry the rotors off the wheels. Yeah, no. Not putting that much effort into some wheels that I'm just gonna drift with.

Bring a rubber mallet with you and just beat them from the backside until they come off. I run into this problem at work a few times a week.

 

[Anna+Reece]

Unless he's got another sweet drift car, by definition, this car can't be a missile.

True.

Bring a rubber mallet with you and just beat them from the backside until they come off. I run into this problem at work a few times a week.

You know, I never even thought of that...

Update, kinda? Small update.
Car's going in to Paradigm Performance in the morning to get the exhaust on. That's about it.

 

[Anna+Reece]

Wonderful

Not the best video buuuuuut

 

[speed junkie]

You should definitely take off that muffler tip silencer.

 

[Anna+Reece]

You should definitely take off that muffler tip silencer.

I'm thinking about it. The only thing, cops around here are pretty strict when it comes to exhaust.

 

[JrDarknes]

Try to keep it shiny D:. I wish mine still was.

 

[motortrend]

I'm thinking about it. The only thing, cops around here are pretty strict when it comes to exhaust.

I think if they pull you over without it they would probably pull you over now as-is

 

[Thatman]

I'm thinking about it. The only thing, cops around here are pretty strict when it comes to exhaust.

Just be cool about it and keep your silencer with you at all times.👍

 

[Anna+Reece]

I'll try to get the thing out when I have time again.

Sad news. I'm not going to be back up with the car until next weekend.

School's starting up again. I'll have a LOT less time to do anything to it.

It's seriously a downer. This car is my favorite thing ever.

 

[Anna+Reece]

So as you know, I went drifting again this weekend (MAPerformance Proving Grounds 2013.2)

SUPER fun time! I was actually doing super well, too. Linking drifts on all my runs, doing four or more connected figure eights on the practice pad, I'm finally getting used to drifting. It's too fun.

But, that resulted in my car being in a non driving state.

Well, I shouldn't say non driving, but it's not something I would trust.

I broke stuff. Radiator, Coilovers, Fan clutch, Fenders, etc... didn't crash though!

Into the garage she goes, and goodbye money.

I'll post a more in depth update this weekend when I can post some pictures of stuff, too.

 

[Punknoodle]

It's all part of the game, man. Nice work on improving your driving, that's the main thing and having fun! I have a time attack track day on Thursday so here's hoping my car doesn't suffer as much as yours!

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

The idiot that owned it before me... WELDED the exhaust together.
(and PB told me that I ruined the car, LOLLLLL)

Welded the cat and midpipe together. Ugh.
This really pisses me off. My frame rails are shot, too. Rusted and damaged.

So I can't put the exhaust on, and I need to get some shop to do it.

I'm half tempted to get a different 240.

In many cases welding the exhaust is the BEST way to go. Not sure why you think its so bad to weld the exhaust. In fact the less welds you have, the more exhaust gaskets you will need and the more often you will have to replace them. You also have to worry about bolts coming loose or breaking. I have a solid welded exhaust on all my cars. Even my 2004 WRX has a solid welded exhaust from beginning to end. (I have pics of the exhaust work in my wrx thread) However we do have a stainless steel flex pipe to allow for the engine and exhaust to flex as necessary. Nothing wrong with welded exhaust at all if its installed properly. 👍

 

[Anna+Reece]

It's all part of the game, man. Nice work on improving your driving, that's the main thing and having fun! I have a time attack track day on Thursday so here's hoping my car doesn't suffer as much as yours!

Yeah you're right, and thanks! Good luck. Hopefully all goes well and you don't end up blowing out your coilover's pillow mount

In many cases welding the exhaust is the BEST way to go. Not sure why you think its so bad to weld the exhaust. In fact the less welds you have, the more exhaust gaskets you will need and the more often you will have to replace them. You also have to worry about bolts coming loose or breaking. I have a solid welded exhaust on all my cars. Even my 2004 WRX has a solid welded exhaust from beginning to end. (I have pics of the exhaust work in my wrx thread) However we do have a stainless steel flex pipe to allow for the engine and exhaust to flex as necessary. Nothing wrong with welded exhaust at all if its installed properly. 👍

Honestly I think I was just upset and it was one of those "Heat of the moment" type things. Though if I find something I really like in the future, then maybe I'll weld that on.

And here are pictures to hold everyone over I guess

ZOMG IM IN DA DRIFT VIDAYO
0:33 is my time to shine

 

[SpartanG]

Congrats man. Motorsports events are addicting, thats for sure. I took my first hit of the track pipe this year and I really want to go back.

And as others have said, breaking stuff is part of the game. At the track I broke my car's VVT system and lost all high end power, and lost seal in the master cylinder. Had to limp the car home with very little brakes....

Race it, break it, fix it! Definitely fix that exhaust, it sounds uhh.... yeah... And just a thought on the previous page's comments: if you can't do it right, then don't do it at all. I've quickly learned this in the few months I've been messing with my integra.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

Where else were you in that video? I started at the :33 mark and seen you drive by. Then I watched for a couple minutes but didn't see you again. Any videos of you drifting at that event?

 

[Anna+Reece]

Congrats man. Motorsports events are addicting, thats for sure. I took my first hit of the track pipe this year and I really want to go back.

And as others have said, breaking stuff is part of the game. At the track I broke my car's VVT system and lost all high end power, and lost seal in the master cylinder. Had to limp the car home with very little brakes....

Race it, break it, fix it! Definitely fix that exhaust, it sounds uhh.... yeah... And just a thought on the previous page's comments: if you can't do it right, then don't do it at all. I've quickly learned this in the few months I've been messing with my integra.

Oh jeez That sucks. And I thought I had a long winter ahead of me haha. Oh, the exhaust, yeah I took that silencer out tonight. SOOOOO much better
Last page, I dunno. But the car will get better.

Where else were you in that video? I started at the :33 mark and seen you drive by. Then I watched for a couple minutes but didn't see you again. Any videos of you drifting at that event?

I was only in that one part lol. I'll try to get a video up soon.

Update:

So I went ahead and started digging into the car tonight.

First, the silencer

Mmmm omg. It sounds so much better now. Now I won't be embarrassed to drive the car!
.... once it's in driving condition again

Moving on
Final pictures before teardown
(last picture in this form <///3)

yes I know I still have the spares on from last weekend

And teardown begins

Got BOTH of these things out

Oh yeah that pillowmount is bad... oh jeez
It's VERY bad...

When I was taking those off, I turned my head and saw something somewhat alarming..

Can you see that? Haha um yeah turns out that rubbing noise was my wheel against my wiring harness

So now the car is pretty much front end-less with no front coilovers, on jack stands. Can't find my short range lens so I don't have any good pictures from today.

Last weekend, we pretty much did a bunch of this

It was an awesome event and I am getting better.