My first car was a '63 Bug that my parents bought
me. The goal was to tune it so it would break the speed limit on the
freeway. YEE-HAAA!!! :-0
One of my favorite cars. I prefer the convertible, but
either in the SS version is fine by me.
Our first 240SX. The Mrs. got it new in ’91.
Sadly, it didn't sell in great numbers due to Nissan’s lack of balls
to put a REAL engine in it.
On the side of the road in San Simeon after a weekend
of flogging our beast at Laguna Seca Raceway.
I get that all the time...
Meltin’ the tires in Turn #2 at Laguna. Stock
sway bars can only handle so much. I’m on my daily tires with Tokico
Blues & Eibach Sportlines though…
In the middle of the Corkscrew chasin’ a Honda.
BASTARDS!!
Photo op on the paddock after a hard day on the track.
Ours is the beast on the far left. That’s The Mrs. & I. We
have a pic in another journal.
Two generations & three variants of the U.S.
240SX.
Pit Road at Casa Ego. The fastback on the right
has a dead tranny. You already know the black fastback in the back.
It's wore out. The white coupe is our newest victim.
I’m doin’ mostly suspension work right now. I
need to get the sound system installed…
Rollin’ in da hood whiteboy style. South Central baby!!
My solution to converting my
Skyline to left hand drive…
On the streets, this setup works well. High
mileage, decent performing tires with a relatively lightweight (16.5 lbs.)
wheel. On the track, it’s my biggest limiting factor.
My next set of wheels!
Driving the 101 South through Camarillo with the other
commuters. That’s normal freeway speeds here in SoCal. (When the
traffic permits.)
The ’93 coupe rolls 100k. Sadly I was only doing
60mph at the time. :(
Misc. suspension parts that are making their way to the
coupe. The black sway bar is stock, tiny, & hollow. The
new one is beefy & solid.
Stock suspension ride height. It worked OK &
road nicely. Wasn’t sporty enough for me.
View after slaving away putting all the goodies on my
ride. Now she rips around like an overgrown GoKart!!
Click the pic to hear the squirrels scream!! That's a stainless steel, mandrel bent, cat-back exhaust system w/
a free
flow catalytic converter. Good for a small handful of HP.
] Look closely & you’ll see all 150- squirrels in
their cages. The strut tower bar keeps the suspension geometry
constant regardless of the loads.
Same goes for the rear.
Now THAT is a bitchin' car! 240Z front end
on a 240SX chassis. FUCK YEAH!!
posted by Ralphs_Alter_Ego on Friday 7th September 2007, 13:58:52
Damn, you put some work into that car. (And that journal.) Good job!
I’ve only ever had one car that I enjoyed working on and that was my ’67 RS
SS Camaro. I liked working on it because it was ‘cool’ and had lot’s of
room to work around on the engine (Hell, I could climb in there with it!)
and I new what things were.
For the most part, all my other vehicles since, I just open the hood and
stare at things and get a headache then off to a mechanic shop to pay too
much. *shrugs*
Ohhhhh baby that Chevy is SWEET!! Dude, tell me you got laid every
day of the week because of that thing!
This engine is all
computer & sensor driven. Dirty connections are the biggest
headache to trace. As it's 13- yrs. old, the technology is half
horse & buggy, half spaceship.
I want to ride the corkscrew one day,that is the madest bit of track
ever,is it as hard in real life as it is on the playstation? BTW you should
of kept the beatle.
I drove it like mad on my PS prior to
going. It's kinda like the game in that I sorta knew what was
coming & the lines were kinda the same but with the speeds my car
did (read: 100-MPH on the front straight & 2:12 lap times), there
weren't any major surprises for me.
btw- The record
for that track is such that I could be given a ONE MINUTE head start
& STILL GET BEAT BY 5- SECONDS!!! :-0
The Corkscrew
was tough because they took out the palm tree that used to be the
line-up point for the entrance. Finding the optimum braking zone took
a few laps.
Some people make turn #2 a double apex. I do
one w/ a late exit.
Turn #3 has a later apex than most
people seem to drive. That is one of the trickiest for me as I really
need to hit it right to carry the speed to #4 which I work on not
lifting through. :-0
#5 is fun 'cause if I do the
earlier turns right it has some quick braking to set myself up for a
fast exit without sliding all over the place.
Turn #6 is
an ass clincher. If you lift or brake, you can lose the rear & go
left into the wall. You can see the tire marks on the track &
owies on the wall from those who lose it there.
Rainey
Curve is a BLAST. FLAT OUT all the way through!!
Just
as in Gran Turismo, #10 is one you have to set yourself up for with
some care. Brake too late & you're oversteering off the line
towards the dirt. Brake too soon & you've lost all that
speed you carried down the hill.
Again, as in the video
game, #11 is a bitch to get just right. Braking zone there is easier
to pick out as they do have the markers. Still, get in too hot &
you're slidin' to the grass. Brake to soon &
you've lost all your momentum to kick some ass on the front
straight.
Shake the fumbles you made on the last lap off
& scoot as fast as you can down through the little shake of #1
& get ready to do it all again.
The seat reclines nicely & the fastback I've slept in before
hiking up Mt. Whitney.
The front seat story is the Ford
Tempo I owned when The Mrs. & I first started dating. We had a
marathon session in the passenger side front seat of that bad boy.
Man was I limber & flexible back then...
The legs are
from good genes & a massive amount of bike riding I used to do.
you need to drop that lump out of the 240 and put a nice rb25det engine in
it - alot more low down torque to get out of the corners and shitloads more
reliable.. the only downside to the 180/200/240 sx's are the lack of
reliability when thrashed..
sometime next year i'm going to get an s14 silvia and drop the rb25
engine in it :P
going for my drift license at the end of the month too \o/ yay !
Dude, you're killin' me. :-0 Folks have squeezed LS1's in
them as well.
I'm in the Republic of California
& choose to go legit with all my mods. CARB approved is what goes
into my machine. Call me a wussie...
I have no issues
with reliability. Most peeps I know don't either. If
you're talkin' engine, remember, we got the KA not the SR.
The tranny & diff. are pretty much bullet-proof.
Now
go fuck yourself, I'm jealous of your cars! ;)
heh i've got buyer for it, just agreeing on a
price now.... going to get myself a little cheap ricer
to abuse over the winter cause wet greasy twisty roads + big power rwd
isn't good on the wallet :(
having just played an endurance race of 30 laps around laguna on Forza 2, I
have some inkling of the stress of that track, but in the real world you
can't just hit restart if you smack into the wall
guimonkey (74.98.238.*) on Friday 7th September 2007, 20:03:26 (#55350)
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You lucky fuckin bastard. I LOVE Laguna Seca so much. Although I have never
been I have 'driven it' in many many racing games. Is there
anything better than the corkscrew? Not only that complex, but the turns
leading up to and all the way to the finish line after it. Being a huge F1
fan I was so pumped when I learned that Indy was being ditched only for the
hope that Laguna would get the race.
Hahahaha Vermont ave, been there once in the 90's...
Nice journal, RAE i want to visit laguna seca in 2008...
Many of the cabs here in my city are volkswagen sedan the "bugs"
I'm gonna take pics and post them in a journal after an alcohol and
drugs rampage.
Back when the V-Dub
pic was taken, Momma Ego was driving me through the streets
of Ventura one afternoon. Some old bitty pulled up next to
me us & asked me if I was LW.
I'm
thinking, "Jesus Granny!! Would LW be puttin'
around town with his mom in a
B210?!?!?!?"
I kindly said no &
saved myself the wrath of Momma Ego for being rude to some
dumbass who needed a slappin'...
Car Crazy III
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