My 240SX Build Up.

So hi, my name is Jonathan, I just turned 19, I got to Dawson (my car is never there so robbers...:squintfin ), I work at Canadian Tire and I live in Montreal, I've wanted a 240 for years and finally got one and now I'm finally getting work done on it so I thought I'd start a build thread since D1 Champ was doing it and everyone seemed to enjoy it. I did a lot of stuff over the last year, but things...didn't go my way (to keep it polite) on most of it, so now I gotta start over.

I got my car July 13th 2005(lucky day for me, but the start of an unlucky chain of events lol). It was a bone stock, black on black 1992 240SX LE Super HICAS 5 speed. All it had was a some old gay Alpine deck. (It was stolen alogn with my Topaz a few months ago. lol) This is the car the week I got it. Didn't even have plates yet. The car had 192,129kms when I bought it, right now (summer driving only) it has 213,xxxkms. 10w30 Mobil1 with Nissan filter all the time. lol











I did a little work on the car, change spark plugs, cleaned out the airbox, cut holes in it which makes the car sound amazing at WOT. I found this in the little hose that comes out of the airbox.




In the next few months, I got plates, a sound system and JDM turn signals.

Government says "no vanity (custom) plates", I say :squintfin .






This was my sub box that I overpayed because it's garbage and the amp that came with it was a speaker amp, the guys at FutureShop laughed at me when I went to get it installed. (Last time anyone else but me touched my car, lol)


This was the super ghetto wiring job the previous owner had done for his deck, I bought a factory connector and wired it back in before installing my new deck.

During the winter I decided the shave the rear wing (wow, what a huge mistake to do myself. I don't have a welder so I used bondo and I don't have a real paint gun so I used rattle can, the trunk turned out sooooo shitty, I should of listened to everyone here lol, but live and learn I guess.)










That was all I did that summer.

After last winter (2005/06), I started buying parts, this is where it started to go downhill. I bought an RB25 turbo to start my KA-T build and of course it was damaged during shipping (or so the seller says) so I had no use for it. Then I bought Kei Office coilovers from Japan, after 6 months the rears blew out (hurray), I bought some rims which the guy who lives in Toronto told me were 16x8, but they were 16x7 and the pictures of the tires he sent me were very old because the tires had no tread left when I got the rims. (Never send your dad to pick something up. lol) It all worked out great for a while though. I thought the car looked pretty good and it was a total blast to drive when the coils were good. I also got 225/50ZR16 Hankook Ventus RS-2 Z212 tires at all 4 corners, these things are amazing, I love them!!!!











This is what a coilovers look like (blown vs not blown).


Sucks cause the front were still in great shape.

Now I gotta get the hatch done professionally and the frame welded cause both my rails are done. Anyone know a place that can do this PM me!!!

So now I'm back on stock suspension, I got a bunch of new parts which saldly I didn't take any pictures of when I was installing them:
-Brand new front control arms with Whiteline poly bushing and new balljoint
-Brand new inner/outer tie rods
-Energy Suspension 3-piece poly bushing in TC arm.
All 3 things bought from www.PDM-Racing.com They are awesome guys.

I started buying parts again, both for handling and KA-T.

Blitz LM filter.



Z32 MAFS



550cc injectors


Secret rims....Offset nazis such as myself will loooooove these I'm sure. Only thing I'm giving away is that I'll be keeping the same tires.....

Sadly, I don't have any install pics, but everything mechanical up to now was done by myself. I'll get install pics once I start installing all the crap I got on my bedroom floor. lol I'm also ganna strip the interior and take out the sound deadening this winter so I'll have pics of that.

**** a lé trop clean:O nice car

Nice. this is what I like to see. Balls out baby!

nice to see another KA-T build. :bigup:

turbo it :run:

Nice read cheech - too abd it aint leather interior like my friends. But, sweet ride man. I love the drifts these cars can pull.

louis dumont said:

**** a lé trop clean:O nice car

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C'est ben sa que je pensais, pis il est encore vraiment clean, mais les puttain de frame rail de merde y me font shier lol

D1champ said:

Nice. this is what I like to see. Balls out baby!

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Well my progress will be much slower then urs lol, i only work part time so money is an issue and i gotta find a winter beater and im totally hooked on wanting a 4x4 so thatll cost me alot if i end up getting a truck lol

neat said:

nice to see another KA-T build. :bigup:

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Papp said:

turbo it :run:

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Wont be turbo for a while, lack of funds....scratch that, SERIOUS lack of funds, but feel free to donate!!:bigup:

Bacci said:

Nice read cheech - too abd it aint leather interior like my friends. But, sweet ride man. I love the drifts these cars can pull.

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leather is nice, but leather seats are waaaayyyy to slippery to drift in lol, unless u got a damn good harness, so im happy with cloth

nice... i remeber you telling us u paid 5k for the car a wile ago... keep us updated:bigup:

Yeah, I bought it for 5k in Toronto last summer, I know you can get them cheaper, but honestly, I don't regret it, I love my car.

Very nice car! It looks awesome, too bad your frame rails are done... Keep us updated!

very clean!

****ING MINT PAINT!!! Can't wait to see the ka-t pur!

Subzero said:

****ING MINT PAINT!!! Can't wait to see the ka-t pur!

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J'aime cette photo la

i got some rear coilovers for you if u want.... megan racing brand new in box! pm me ill make u a deal

I got a couple of new parts:

30mm iron Z32 front brakes with pads and calipers:


Z32 MC:


PDM Racing subframe collars:


Project Kics magnetic drain plug:


Battery relocation box:


Personal Sprint steering wheel (hardcore JDM shit right here, even though it's made in italy lol):




Ichiba front 5lug hubs:



Rear hubs from an R32 GTS-t (R32 GTS-t rear spindles are for sale!!!!) (no pic)

Walbro 255lph fuel pump: (that little black piece in the middle broke off during shipping, you gotta love our postal service, anyways it was insured sooo... )


Anyways that's it, oh and my super dupper secret rims are on their way, Takumi Project shipped those bad boys yesterday....should I leak what they are???? lol

trop nice...

vraiment nice !!! PLUS DE PHOTO !!! continue ton beau travail !! encore une fois... ton char est trop sa coche !! :bigup:

tell us wut these 5 lug low offset 17's are or we'll kill u...

takumi project ALWAYS has some sick wheels. TRU JDM y0!!!
come on... quit teasing... we want PICS!!!