What do you wish you DIDN"T DO to your 240?

[palmdale_mob]

Sometimes I wish I didnt get the silvia front and paint, but then other days I love it

[jspecusa]

spending $20,000 total on a s13 back in 1999
spending $35,000 total on a s14 back in 2002
spending $20,000 total on a d1 s14 back in 2004.
what I got back in return was alot of fun, meet some good friends,
and learn alot about the s chasis.
would i do it again?
yes, but under $20k this time.
why?
I'm still a 240 enthusiast.

[bardabe]

selling it, i know barry is going to rub it in again lol

[josephin510]

Buying Rota rims they cracked and a CHUNK caved in i nearly lost my life on the freeway.DONT BUY ROTA ANYTHING HATS STICKERS RIMS NOOOO

[Persona]

Using armor all, Fuck that noise, Meguiars and F21 is where its at.

Luckily i saved my dash but it could have been bad, armor all needs to go bankrupt.


Dont regret anything else, i love my car.

[The Hamsterball]

- Selling my s13 in 2004 for $2500 to some 19 year old, who then sold it to some 15 year old without a license who drove it around any way.

- Buying a pacesetter exhaust just because it looked like the OEM unit that i broke in half.

- Buying kazama tie rod ends, which wore out in less than 6 months, which were then replaced with s14 oem outers with tein inners.

- Stripping my cyl. 1 spark plug thread, rigging the to-be-replaced old spark plug back in somehow, instead of helacoiling it.

- Using a torque wrench that I forgot I dropped in the past to tighten a front subframe to chassis bolt.. causing an overtightened bolt.

- Not getting front camber bolts for stock suspension and still grip racing anyway, which caused the outside shoulders on the front tires to wear out quicker than the rest of the tire tread.

- Accidently overtightening one rear S14 VLSD diff cover nut (not the cover to pumpkin nut, but the cover stud nut that goes through the subframe).

- Buying 4 sets of tires to grip race with instead of buying less tires and spending the saved money on coilovers, and grip racing less often.
(woulda saved gas money and maintenance costs).

- Listening to a friend who said to use locktite on the engine block coolant drain plug after flushing my cooling system and installing a new thermostat and radiator.

- Not getting off my ass and jb welding a microscopic hole on the bottom of my radiator that leaked 2-3 drops of coolant a day and got air into the cooling system, forcing me to bleed the air out every week from the radiator cap.

- using some random assed dual electric fans from the junkyard wired with thick gauge wiring to a switch in on the center console instead of keeping the stock clutch fan..
my dad wired it, did a good job. but it ended up killing one battery and one alternator in the long run.

- Stripping ALL the interior behind the front seats.

- Buying a SOHC hatch for $1600 that caused major headaches for 3 years.. instead of waiting 2 weeks longer for some other seller to finish preparing his car for smog for me.
$2000 for a clean assed near-problem-less black DOHC hatch.

That's all I can think of for now.

I'm an idiot

[Kali Slidn]

ripping all my interior out and taking all my sound detining out of my last hatch would have to be up there haha wont make that mistake again.

[slidewaysmn]

Doing my own wiring...finally after 2 years. Oh and swapping and buying a sr when you are 16.

[Nezahualcoyotl]

spending $150 on new RUCA's, while I had a perfectly good pair. Needed a lil bit of welding though.

Spending $2200 on a SR swap, then getting refed a year later. really stupid.

[CrimsonRockett]

WASTING money on cheap parts, then having to replace them with quality parts.

Learned the hard way, but hey, at least I learned.

There's a lot of idiots on here that never learn.

Do it right, or do it twice.

[The Chad]

Originally Posted by CrimsonRockett

WASTING money on cheap parts, then having to replace them with quality parts.

Learned the hard way, but hey, at least I learned.

There's a lot of idiots on here that never learn.

Do it right, or do it twice.

Couldn't have said it better myself

-I baught a set of Ebay "pillow ball" RUCA's....later felt clunking and a loose rear end. Upon further inspection and removal the arm fell to pieces in my hands....switched to quality rubber mounts in a fancy set of arms.

-I baught an INJEN intake back in 99', just to fit in, for $350 (with the "cold air extention").....By far the WORST investment I have ever made.

-I decided to street race on the I95 and blew a tire doing 105mph....RIP Red 240 (2001)

Live and learn...

[turbo_dreams]

Taking my interior out.

[Kaiyoken]

Regretted ever selling my rx7 and buying a honda instead. Atleast i sold that and got a 240

[VQMaxFan]

welding the diff

[w0nderbr3ad]

Getting megan coilovers.

[johnksoy]

kinda regret buying a 240 cause im broke as shit and would rather have something more comfortable and economical right now. Then Regret buying kts coilovers, kts tie rods, cause I only been to the track twice in 2 years. Regret hawk brake pads cause its my daily driver and found out duralast pads are lifetime warranty. I regret getting my liscence altogether. I would of saved so much just buming off rides. Thinking of all the gas and maintenance spent the last 2 years when I didnt really need a car, Priceless. BTW im 18 so yeah didnt really NEED a car past 2 years. But hey, Im lagging it but gonna get my welded diff installed soon. I got some cheap tires and just gonna burn my patheticness away. wow what a testimony.

[Ares240SX]

I regret not having a job currently. I want to turbo the damn KA24DE so bad it isn't funny. I have some of the parts and I can't do anything with em...

[dsc4130]

parking my old two tone behind my driveway in the path of my dads f250, totalled

[waynehead05]

Solid motor mounts. Way too much rattle.

[CursedGTR]

I regret not sticking to my plan to finish my car on time and going off on little tangents that turned the whole project from a couple month ordeal to a couple years. Oh Well.

I regret, not learning a little bit more about body and paint work before I tore the car apart and got to work (did it over and over and over and over and well you get the picture)

I regret buying a bunch of crazy NAMS suspension pieces and not spending that money on back halfing it when I had the chance.

[TurboSE]

Originally Posted by CursedGTR

I regret not sticking to my plan to finish my car on time and going off on little tangents that turned the whole project from a couple month ordeal to a couple years. Oh Well...

My $10k 6 month RB26 swap is on it's 4th year in my garage, and is almost double my original budget because of tangents.

Originally Posted by slidewaysmn

Doing my own wiring...finally after 2 years....

Definitely not as easy as it sounds.

Originally Posted by fromxtor

I wish I would have taken my project on slowly instead of tearing the whole thing apart, now its all apart and giving me a headache.

That's how I ended up with a shell on jackstands.

Originally Posted by ericcastro

I have no regrets
I have done everything the way it is cause its all my budget can afford.

Maybe those auto meter gauges though.
Fucking american thread size.
I never think to order the metric adapters when i have the $

I know this feeling all too well...

Even with these regrets, I wouldn't trade in for anything...it's been a great experience.

[FaLKoN240]

First car: Crashing it...3 times. Rushing it out of a body shop and rolling around with primered fenders forever. Pulling the rear fenders WAYYYY too much.

Second car: Parking it on a corner... RIP.

Third car: Buying someone else's decommissioned curse, and making it my own.

[gsracer]

putting overfenders on

[Enna]

Buy an SAFC-II to help deal with a chipped S14 WC ecu. Ecu is fried, and I haven't even driven the car.

Should've just built my KA, or picked up a blacktop.

[KasperSlide]

the paint an body on my first 92. shoulda saved the money. but hey i was younger an more dumb back then

[lewisfk]

i didnt swith my oil pump out when i bought my front clip, and i dint know that the oil light was a pressure light not an i'm low on oil light! ya dunmbass of the year!

[98koukile]

Buy a 98 in an OBDII emissions state... sure it's a kouki but I could have a 95 turbo swapped monster instead. function>form

[hottscennessey]

3" summit E-cutout

[Okinawandrifter87]

Selling my first coupe...64,xxx original miles, mint original paint job and interior and exterior. Bought for 900$. UGH

[enkei2k]

buy such a blinging set of rims for all to see. gold rims + black car = lots of attention.