S-Chassis Nostalgia (NO BANDWAGGON JUMPERS!!)

[fliprayzin240sx]

Originally Posted by jacobzking

here's my redtop motor in 2002/2003 (blitz turbo, haltech...) and my wife's s13 coupe in 2004. but I had started my first SR swap in 1999. OG?

Just cuz your running Haltec, you're automatically okay in my book!!!

[jacobzking]

Originally Posted by fliprayzin240sx

Just cuz your running Haltec, you're automatically okay in my book!!!

i'm lucky. one of my bests friends (eat with him 2-4 times a week) was THE haltech technician when they had their office here in the US. he's a badass tuner. even has some extra E6s laying around

[MarcD]

Picked up my 1st s-body at 18 back in 04', used to do mad tight open diff skids in it untill I got side swiped into a embankment.



Only pic I can find.

[chokudoriS13]

Most of my pics were lost when Imagestation went down, sadly...

No (real) Nismo grill, no coilovers (just springs/shocks)... 2002, at a hotel in Inglewood, where I was picking up a friend who had just arrived from Amsterdam:


2002, with detprimera's SR20DET P10:



This is at the 2003 BBQ, one of these was taken by Kevin (Mephistopheles):



Don't quite remember what's going on here:


At Signal with my friend's then-new R33 GTS25t, must have been 2004 because I see the Bride seat and Willans harness I bought in Tokyo in Jan 2004:

[usdm180sx]

Signal Auto, now THAT'S a blast from the past. I used to get oil changes there =(

[ryandriftingfat]

Don't forget tech for drift days.

[fliprayzin240sx]

When did Signal Auto fold out of LA? I havent heard anything about them since maybe 06/07. Buddy of mine shipped 2 crates of parts thru them and I had to go down to Socal and pick them up from their shop.

[Vitzio240sx]

God i love this thread. Its so fun reading stories older guys about how it used to be back in the day. Full of win, keep the thread alive guys! thanks

[ryandriftingfat]

Originally Posted by usdm180sx

Signal Auto, now THAT'S a blast from the past. I used to get oil changes there =(

I didn't take the pic, but it was taken there. Got a few others too.

Originally Posted by chokudoriS13

Don't quite remember what's going on here:

Hahaha. Got pics of your coupe too.



I must have looked over every inch of that S15.

[chokudoriS13]

Originally Posted by ryandevilhorns

Hahaha. Got pics of your coupe too.



I must have looked over every inch of that S15.

Hah! That's the same R33 I posted above. The S15 belonged to Franz, who used to import RHD cars. Haven't talked to him in a loooong time.

My buddy (with that grey R33) now has this (which pretty much never ever leaves the garage):

[MadScientist]

Do Luck Widebody R32... I don't blame him one bit...

Do Luck wing is soooo sick... a set of Double Sixs would complete this.

[fliprayzin240sx]

If yall hate how the 240sx scene has become because of the mad dorifto bandwagon...we should all blame Signal Auto since they went campaigning around the country to show off drifting with the Signal Twins.



I was in NJ when they had their demo in Englishtown, during one of our local drift wednesdays. That was where Signal met Chris Forsberg and decided to bring him to CA. That was back in late 02/03.

[ryandriftingfat]

I didn't know about them except through drag racing when they brought that S15 out to IDRC in 02.



Probably just showing off because their NSX powered Civic hatch was clearly their comp car.

[chokudoriS13]

Originally Posted by ryandevilhorns

I didn't know about them except through drag racing when they brought that S15 out to IDRC in 02.



Probably just showing off because their NSX powered Civic hatch was clearly their comp car.

Seeing that S15 and Civic reminded me of another famous drag car, the JUN R33. I was actually at Upgrade Motoring in Northridge in 1997 the night the car was brought in from Japan. That was the first time I had ever seen an R33. It was pretty much this reaction: I screamed like a little girl and the jet-lagged Japanese driver was pretty pissed .

[usdm180sx]

Originally Posted by fliprayzin240sx

When did Signal Auto fold out of LA? I havent heard anything about them since maybe 06/07. Buddy of mine shipped 2 crates of parts thru them and I had to go down to Socal and pick them up from their shop.

They closed up shop here in 2010 =(

[Corbic]

Originally Posted by fliprayzin240sx

. That was back in late 02/03.

Man, that was 10 years ago. I'm sure many of our forum members where still watching Blues Clues and Pokemon back then.

[Brian]

Originally Posted by chokudoriS13

This is at the 2003 BBQ, one of these was taken by Kevin (Mephistopheles):

I took this one!

[Brian]

Originally Posted by ryandevilhorns

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I took this one too, and this was my car right before I bought it.

[ryandriftingfat]

Yea and I have a few more. 3 finger gap SE lip too.

[Brian]

Better than that, I have print pictures of the original blue 180sx with s15 face that I took with a disposable camera. lol

[chokudoriS13]

Originally Posted by Brian

I took this one!

Then Kevin took the other one .

Is he still around?

[driftsilvias13]

Upgrade Motoring in Northridge! Im actually surprised they are still open for business.

[OBEEWON]

Yes. Signal.

They were the cheese.

[ryandriftingfat]

Originally Posted by chokudoriS13

Then Kevin took the other one .

The shitty quality pic? Nah I took that one. Brian took the ones that are good quality.

[projectRDM]

Originally Posted by rican_nick

for the ATL guys. Thre was a guy who had a white/cream coupe with bomex front and SSR Integrals. He was working on a KA-T for a while then joined the airforce(i believe).. this would of been 2001-2002.. Anyone have a picture.. i loved that car?? I also bought my HKS front mount kit from him, one of the happiest days of my life....LOL sad but true.

edit: i think his name was Jerome.

Originally Posted by biggie

To continue and turn around the story then, the wreck allowed me to pick up a friend's car as he was joining the AF.

Most noted for his appearance in SCC mag in '03:



Though it doesn't look as good to me now, but oh well, after almost 7 years of my ownership:

Cool story here, kind of late replying (I don't come on here anymore). The car shown here used to belong to Jeremy Dibble, a local Atlanta guy who I met in 1999 I think. He put the Lenso wheels on it, lowered it on Apex'i coilovers, and did a bunch of bolt ons to the KA, the decided he wanted a hatch and sold off all the parts, put it back stock, and sold it to Jerome Silvers, who had the same exact car but an automatic. Jerome put all the same stuff back on it (he had most the same parts), including the wheels, then swapped to the Silvia front end, and was planning to turbo it. This was maybe 2002, he kept it for several years and we went on numerous mountain runs together as well as events and meets all over. Sometime later he left for the Air Force and sold it to Chad White (biggie), it's current owner. It's seen the three owners that I know and numerous parts and changes over the years. Glad to see Chad still has it.

[Enna]

Holy shit it's ProjectRDM.

[russian]

Originally Posted by fliprayzin240sx

HAHA...thats why you sir is a bandwagonner. But really tho, i think our cut off is 05. Thats when the whole mad dorifto blew the fuck up stateside. If you had a 240sx before 04 and you can name 2 of the 3 lowering springs were readily available stateside prior to that year...then you're an OG.

eibach, H&R and sprint. i had eibach (not sportline) and agx. lmao.

[gearhead55]

Originally Posted by Brian

Better than that, I have print pictures of the original blue 180sx with s15 face that I took with a disposable camera. lol

I'm gunna one up you, I still have a piece of the rear bumper of the blue signal car from a drift showoff event in 2003.

Komatsu tapped the K-rail with it, the bumper exploded and i grabbed a chunk of it. So much flake in that paint. Back when there was just one K rail between the cars and the crowd and you could reach out and touch them as they slid by.

I also gave Koguchi a high five while he was doing a burnout in the red 180sx.

[davinci]

man this thread is great, im 32 and didnt own my first 240 till late 2005. Not due to any drift bs, and i didnt join this forum till way later b/c im just not a forum kinda guy. but back during these days i saw non fujitas car, i also saw the superstreet silver s13 with the advan looking wheels and always wanted one.

but it was to expensive for me at the time when i was 18-21. sooooo i went with cheap honda ef hatchbacks with b16a swaps LoL ah the good ole days of Redline auto in arlington TX. =D this thread is great and i love seeing the riced out kits that where hot back in the day. yes.. i had a wings west rs kit on my hatch.but deff no bandwagoner here, i cant stand stretched tires and knockoff parts. All my parts back in the day had to be ordered through the performance shop i went through. engine and all. there was no online.

[MadScientist]

^^ all the pop-up Nopi shops that never sold real parts, only cheep shit from Nopi, like hype white bulbs, Razo, Tenzo, Eribuni, etc...

Only the hardcore guys could get you an HKS exhaust, and the big 4 were nearly unknown (c1996). I had major ties with JUN when they came to the US, and it was them and friends who talked me into starting Rare Trick (c2002). Just so happened that JUN closed as I opened and my connections went to the motherland and spead like cancer. I basically Raped the idea of Six Degrees of Seperation in Japan. If Jun was friends with Nagisa, and Nagisa was friends with Omori... I was their hackysack!

And so you guys know, I do plan on re-opening Rare Trick, but it will be very different this time!

-Drew