How many pounds of sand bags for snow? - Zilvia.net Forums | Nissan 240SX (Silvia) and Z (Fairlady) Car Forum

Natty · 12-19-2008, 08:45 PM

How many pounds of sand should I be packing in my S13 hatch the get better traction in snow and ice? Open diff and all season tires are okay for flat roads, but I can't do hills at all (without chains, anyways).

Also, how much worse will be back end swing out when slowly accelerating out of a corner? It's not too bad now.......

clark · 12-19-2008, 08:57 PM

just drive your car you wimp.

just fill the hatch up with your purse collection, that should do the trick.

ZX88 · 12-19-2008, 09:02 PM

how about just dont drive in the snow.

Fries · 12-19-2008, 09:04 PM

You're going to get sideways going up a hill. Countersteer and just give it a little throttle.

There's nothing you can do to make the 240 AWESOME during winter. [I personally love the way it behaves]

Turn up the radio, tell the other drivers to pass you if they dare and relax.
Man up brother!

Natty · 12-19-2008, 09:10 PM

I just want enough traction to make it up the hills. I don't want awesome snow driving ability.
Nice to see the quality of posts on this site go down the shitter. Probably why I don't post here anymore.

chituntang · 12-19-2008, 09:16 PM

Well, their answers are reflected on their driving habit. Maybe you just need to try it out to see at which level you like it the most and leave it there.

Fries · 12-19-2008, 09:17 PM

Honestly I dont know if it's possible to put enough sand in the trunk of a 240 to make it go up hills like a fwd or awd car.

This is the reason why I told you how to deal with it.
Rather than making a new thread that has been covered atleast 6 times this season why not search or go get 10 bags and toss it in the trunks and see how it feels?

sillyvia13 · 12-19-2008, 09:22 PM

dude only bag I use is unda my dick.

Get a set of snows in rear and go.
If not nothing will change it.

and as for post about purse's DUDE THAT SHIT WAS FUNNY! you gotta admit. I am kinda against shit talk via net but that one made me laugh... lol.

And dont give up, I noticed in snow the car enjoys drift mode, so just kinda drift er where... its all good, Radio Up. Check, Finger out the window. Check. 2 nd gear and up this hill we go! ye haaaaaaaaaaaw

*hit something cheap, and from the side, never head on, save the rad so you can sit in car and not freeze to death without heat.
ENJOY>
Peace

jakerps13 · 12-19-2008, 09:36 PM

You need rubbers, winter rubbers.

Matej · 12-19-2008, 09:40 PM

Climb hills in reverse, using the 180-degree spin maneuver like in movies, and shoot guns.

sillyvia13 · 12-19-2008, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matej

Climb hills in reverse, using the 180-degree spin maneuver like in movies, and shoot guns.

THIS THREAD IS THE GREATEST!

Matej is right...
GUNS! in reverse.
all day.

all in all...
falken 512's in front on 15 inch rim.
and some studded in rear, I pass trucks on highway slidewayz.
aint no stoppin a redneck in his pick em up s13 truck

sxe · 12-19-2008, 09:56 PM

"and when you feel it it feels like a bag of sannddd"

awesomenick · 12-19-2008, 10:03 PM

Just try to keep momentum. My car does fine until I stop and try to get moving again.

But WTF would you get sand bags for? Are you an old lady in a pickup truck?

nixad · 12-19-2008, 10:08 PM

learn to drift

bigOdom1 · 12-19-2008, 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Natty

I just want enough traction to make it up the hills. I don't want awesome snow driving ability.
Nice to see the quality of posts on this site go down the shitter. Probably why I don't post here anymore.

Then Go the fuck back where you came from.

dmragecm · 12-19-2008, 10:38 PM

dude dont worry people are just giving you the response you deserve for that retarded ass questions. get some good snow tires and you'll be ok.

look the monkey cant put out the fiiaaaahhh

DeadlyZ33 · 12-19-2008, 10:39 PM

wow what a bunch of retarded clown responses.... (except the part about shooting guns)

YES put sand bags in your trunk, the more you put the better your traction shall be.

And so it was written.

98koukile · 12-19-2008, 10:53 PM

^Yeah if you want to go around easier. I can't believe someone from nashville is worried about sand, we just got 5" today and my car is fine, I took my 255 wide 452s off but no sand bags, just drive man. I haven't gotten stuck in 4 years of owning this car (knock on wood)

xsublimefrekx · 12-19-2008, 11:20 PM

snow tires is all you need, i just got back from a 4 hour snow drift with a bunch of buddies and i didnt get stuck once. No sand in the trunk and slammed on PBM's

Matej · 12-19-2008, 11:23 PM

The best thing to do is not drive your 240 in the snow, unless it's your absolute only option. People will hit you, you'll get stuck a lot, and salt will kill your chassis.

**mrmephistopheles** · 12-19-2008, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Natty

I just want enough traction to make it up the hills. I don't want awesome snow driving ability.
Nice to see the quality of posts on this site go down the shitter. Probably why I don't post here anymore.

cheer up, it's all meant in fun.

i'd get no more than 100 lbs in there, but snow tires are a must.

I10cruiser · 12-19-2008, 11:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jakerps13

You need rubbers, winter rubbers.

thats what she said

Steveohoes · 12-20-2008, 12:24 AM

2 tons of sand should do it.
and buy and install a truck bed and sand spreader like this:

lflkajfj12123 · 12-20-2008, 01:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clark

just drive your car you wimp.

just fill the hatch up with your purse collection, that should do the trick.

lol oh mannnnnnnn

lflkajfj12123 · 12-20-2008, 01:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmephistopheles

cheer up, it's all meant in fun.

i'd get no more than 100 lbs in there, but snow tires are a must.

not really

i'm driving on all seasons

and using my pair with winters as weight in the trunk lol

i dont even need them

the ground is all ice and snow here and i'm fine

gripDRIFTschassis · 12-20-2008, 02:24 AM

I just drove in 2 inches of snow/slush.. did horrible. we'll reason being is i still have the RE01's (no air)...lol...just got bored and yea im not doin it again. i was on flat surface, i just let go of the clutch and it just spun tires..1hour to drive around the block...but yea i never drove my car in the snow before (owned for 3 years)..thought it should be a first..and now a last...on the RE01's atleast..

BustedS13 · 12-20-2008, 03:20 AM

play sand comes in like 50 pound bags for about three bucks at home depot. i think the tube sand stuff comes in more solid bags, and the bags are a lot longer so they'd go the whole width. i'd just do two, maybe three.

but i've only been stuck once in my life. i parked on a really steep hill at this restaurant.... it snowed, i came out and couldn't get up the hill with the one tire fire. group of kids comes along and they all shove my car up the street without me even asking.

midnight zenki · 12-20-2008, 07:27 AM

I use to daily through three winters, including the one where we had blizzards for three weeks straight with 2 50lb tubes of sand and winter tires and had no trouble aside from the 3-4 feet of snow on the ground.

sidewayz240 · 12-20-2008, 08:06 AM

Get snow tires, fuck sand bags.

Last winter I drove through a Canadian winter on all seasons, this winter I have blizzaks. WORLD of a difference. We just got a few feet of snow yesterday, I was plowing through banks and running circles around lots of fwd cars. Learn how to drive in the snow and with some decent tires, you should never have a problem.

dori_sil8t · 12-20-2008, 08:29 AM

id say put atleast enough... im a inch off the grond with some snows 15+ lastnight, i was plown for the city.

12-19-2008, 08:45 PM	#1
Natty Zilvia Addict Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 944 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	How many pounds of sand bags for snow? How many pounds of sand should I be packing in my S13 hatch the get better traction in snow and ice? Open diff and all season tires are okay for flat roads, but I can't do hills at all (without chains, anyways). Also, how much worse will be back end swing out when slowly accelerating out of a corner? It's not too bad now....... __________________ 1991 White 240sx Fastback LE, rusty spoiler, weak driveshaft, exhaust rattle.... Rattles are just your cars way of saying 'I love you.'

12-19-2008, 09:04 PM	#4
Fries Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: May 2007 Location: Texas/or/Afghanistan Age: 37 Posts: 1,514 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	You're going to get sideways going up a hill. Countersteer and just give it a little throttle. There's nothing you can do to make the 240 AWESOME during winter. [I personally love the way it behaves] Turn up the radio, tell the other drivers to pass you if they dare and relax. Man up brother! __________________

12-19-2008, 09:10 PM	#5
Natty Zilvia Addict Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 944 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I just want enough traction to make it up the hills. I don't want awesome snow driving ability. Nice to see the quality of posts on this site go down the shitter. Probably why I don't post here anymore. __________________ 1991 White 240sx Fastback LE, rusty spoiler, weak driveshaft, exhaust rattle.... Rattles are just your cars way of saying 'I love you.'

12-19-2008, 09:17 PM	#7
Fries Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: May 2007 Location: Texas/or/Afghanistan Age: 37 Posts: 1,514 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	Honestly I dont know if it's possible to put enough sand in the trunk of a 240 to make it go up hills like a fwd or awd car. This is the reason why I told you how to deal with it. Rather than making a new thread that has been covered atleast 6 times this season why not search or go get 10 bags and toss it in the trunks and see how it feels? __________________

12-19-2008, 09:36 PM	#9
jakerps13 Zilvia Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Appleton, WI Age: 40 Posts: 171 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	You need rubbers, winter rubbers. __________________ Lower than a pornstar's morals.

12-19-2008, 08:57 PM	#2
clark Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: new york Posts: 1,035 Trader Rating: (1) Feedback Score: 1 reviews	just drive your car you wimp. just fill the hatch up with your purse collection, that should do the trick.

12-19-2008, 09:02 PM	#3
ZX88 Post Whore! Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: ATX Age: 36 Posts: 2,946 Trader Rating: (8) Feedback Score: 8 reviews	how about just dont drive in the snow.

12-19-2008, 09:16 PM	#6
chituntang Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: ATL Age: 38 Posts: 505 Trader Rating: (13) Feedback Score: 13 reviews	Well, their answers are reflected on their driving habit. Maybe you just need to try it out to see at which level you like it the most and leave it there.

12-19-2008, 09:22 PM	#8
sillyvia13 BANNED Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: nh Posts: 1,645 Trader Rating: (1) Feedback Score: 1 reviews	dude only bag I use is unda my dick. Get a set of snows in rear and go. If not nothing will change it. and as for post about purse's DUDE THAT SHIT WAS FUNNY! you gotta admit. I am kinda against shit talk via net but that one made me laugh... lol. And dont give up, I noticed in snow the car enjoys drift mode, so just kinda drift er where... its all good, Radio Up. Check, Finger out the window. Check. 2 nd gear and up this hill we go! ye haaaaaaaaaaaw *hit something cheap, and from the side, never head on, save the rad so you can sit in car and not freeze to death without heat. ENJOY> Peace

12-19-2008, 09:40 PM	#10
Matej Post Whore! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: N/A Posts: 9,423 Trader Rating: (39) Feedback Score: 39 reviews	Climb hills in reverse, using the 180-degree spin maneuver like in movies, and shoot guns.

12-19-2008, 09:56 PM	#12
sxe Zilvia Addict Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: in a house. CA Age: 36 Posts: 686 Trader Rating: (2) Feedback Score: 2 reviews	"and when you feel it it feels like a bag of sannddd" __________________ Wwwwhhaaaaa Pppssshhh

12-19-2008, 10:03 PM	#13
awesomenick Zilvia Addict Join Date: May 2006 Location: UT Age: 36 Posts: 945 Trader Rating: (33) Feedback Score: 33 reviews	Just try to keep momentum. My car does fine until I stop and try to get moving again. But WTF would you get sand bags for? Are you an old lady in a pickup truck?

12-19-2008, 10:08 PM	#14
nixad Zilvia Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 163 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	learn to drift

12-19-2008, 10:38 PM	#16
dmragecm Zilvia Addict Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: nawff jerrrsey Age: 38 Posts: 779 Trader Rating: (6) Feedback Score: 6 reviews	dude dont worry people are just giving you the response you deserve for that retarded ass questions. get some good snow tires and you'll be ok. look the monkey cant put out the fiiaaaahhh

12-19-2008, 10:39 PM	#17
DeadlyZ33 Leaky Injector Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: usa Age: 39 Posts: 126 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	wow what a bunch of retarded clown responses.... (except the part about shooting guns) YES put sand bags in your trunk, the more you put the better your traction shall be. And so it was written.

12-19-2008, 10:53 PM	#18
98koukile Zilvia Addict Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Western Mass Age: 38 Posts: 949 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	^Yeah if you want to go around easier. I can't believe someone from nashville is worried about sand, we just got 5" today and my car is fine, I took my 255 wide 452s off but no sand bags, just drive man. I haven't gotten stuck in 4 years of owning this car (knock on wood) __________________ Just talking about cars, one at a time Horsepower sells cars torque wins races -Shelby

12-19-2008, 11:20 PM	#19
xsublimefrekx Zilvia Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: ct Age: 38 Posts: 243 Trader Rating: (5) Rides Gallery: xsublimefrekx Feedback Score: 5 reviews	snow tires is all you need, i just got back from a 4 hour snow drift with a bunch of buddies and i didnt get stuck once. No sand in the trunk and slammed on PBM's

12-19-2008, 11:23 PM	#20
Matej Post Whore! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: N/A Posts: 9,423 Trader Rating: (39) Feedback Score: 39 reviews	The best thing to do is not drive your 240 in the snow, unless it's your absolute only option. People will hit you, you'll get stuck a lot, and salt will kill your chassis.

12-20-2008, 12:24 AM	#23
Steveohoes Zilvia Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Springfield Posts: 211 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	2 tons of sand should do it. and buy and install a truck bed and sand spreader like this:

12-20-2008, 02:24 AM	#26
gripDRIFTschassis Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 22 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I just drove in 2 inches of snow/slush.. did horrible. we'll reason being is i still have the RE01's (no air)...lol...just got bored and yea im not doin it again. i was on flat surface, i just let go of the clutch and it just spun tires..1hour to drive around the block...but yea i never drove my car in the snow before (owned for 3 years)..thought it should be a first..and now a last...on the RE01's atleast..

12-20-2008, 03:20 AM	#27
BustedS13 Post Whore! Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Phoenix AZ Age: 40 Posts: 10,287 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	play sand comes in like 50 pound bags for about three bucks at home depot. i think the tube sand stuff comes in more solid bags, and the bags are a lot longer so they'd go the whole width. i'd just do two, maybe three. but i've only been stuck once in my life. i parked on a really steep hill at this restaurant.... it snowed, i came out and couldn't get up the hill with the one tire fire. group of kids comes along and they all shove my car up the street without me even asking. __________________

12-20-2008, 07:27 AM	#28
midnight zenki Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: CO Posts: 420 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	I use to daily through three winters, including the one where we had blizzards for three weeks straight with 2 50lb tubes of sand and winter tires and had no trouble aside from the 3-4 feet of snow on the ground.

12-20-2008, 08:06 AM	#29
sidewayz240 Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Toronto Age: 34 Posts: 327 Trader Rating: (6) Feedback Score: 6 reviews	Get snow tires, fuck sand bags. Last winter I drove through a Canadian winter on all seasons, this winter I have blizzaks. WORLD of a difference. We just got a few feet of snow yesterday, I was plowing through banks and running circles around lots of fwd cars. Learn how to drive in the snow and with some decent tires, you should never have a problem. __________________ -Trevor

12-20-2008, 08:29 AM	#30
dori_sil8t Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Ontario Age: 42 Posts: 385 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	id say put atleast enough... im a inch off the grond with some snows 15+ lastnight, i was plown for the city. __________________ unionautoclub.com