Washed & Waxed outside in Febuary

It was warm out last week, so I dragged out the hose and washed the 240sx by hand for the first time. To me (this might seem a bit weird) washing a car by hand in a sense, is a good way to know a car. When you wash a car by hand for the first time you pick up on a lot of little things you had never seen before (good and bad). If I had the chance to wash every car I ever went to test drive by hand, I would.

So anyway, after I washed the car by hand I decided I was very happy with my purchase. I was so proud of the car that I decided to wax it by hand too. It was 40 something degrees this day(felt like it was 80), so I didn't mind being outside. After the car was nice and clean I decided to snap a few quick pictures, nothing special just some driveway shots.





New pedal setup


whats supposed to go here?








If anyone could give me some ideas with what to make the car look like that would be great, I want to keep it stock bodied(including pignose front)...There are not many nice pignose hatchbacks that you see. Right now the current plan is to throw some coilovers on it, get a pignose front lip, throw on a set of wheels (no idea where to start with wheels, thinking something in white), and do a few little "clean up" modifications tint ect.... Hope you guys like the pictures.

nice! car cleaned up really well! hopefully you stored it as soon as the snow flew! lol.
and as for the pic where you asked whats supposed to go in that slot... the control for the power mirrors goes there....

That looks VERY clean, i can't wait to actually WASH a car short of running it through an automatic place or rinsing it off at a booth.

The part that is "missing" some 240sx's came with power mirrors and that's where that switch would be, the ones that have manual mirrors have just a little block off plate there.

the black car white wheel look, i'm not a HUGE fan of, but not a bad idea.
sample.



this style works better (IMO)



some decent look of my buddy Adrians car.
http://ooodangjay.blogspot.com/2010/03/ooo-dang.html

found this in my brother's S13 pic folder and figured I could throw it up

I've always liked the diamonds on that coupe. I'm even thinking of buying myself a set. 16x10=crazy poke and I <3 poke lol. For like 500 shipped you cant beat them even though theyre a tad bit heavy. And they make the 57d's in white. Awesome wheels as well.

mmmm, really clean. makes me miss my pignose. =)

booey13 wrote:

I've always liked the diamonds on that coupe. I'm even thinking of buying myself a set. 16x10=crazy poke and I <3 poke lol. For like 500 shipped you cant beat them even though theyre a tad bit heavy. And they make the 57d's in white. Awesome wheels as well.

Those rims are made right here in Milwaukee, Lol. Its one of my options also. =)

Dude sucks for me...you can drive across town and pick them up lol

I guess I am open to any wheel thats going to really look good on a 100% stock bodied pignose S13 hatch (besides being lowered).

bunny13 wrote:

found this in my brother's S13 pic folder and figured I could throw it up

to me this is the best coupe ive seen in a while. once my car gets painted hopefully itll look like that, only my gram lights 57d's area magenta

Do you plan on rolling/possibly pulling fenders? If not you might want to stick with a narrower wheel. The diamonds are 16x10. You could get a 16x8 in any offset you wanted since they're made to order. The 501's are most likely 15/16x8 +0. The battles are 17x9.5 and the 57d's are 17x9. If you plan to leave the fenders alone and just lower the car I'd look into the xxr's

^agreed. Hence my brother found it in a folder where I store all my favorites lol. I believe the owner is joshchewuh on Zilvia.

not sure if you guys saw this thread, but alot of good thoughts here.
http://www.wi240sx.com/t100-need-ideas-or-pics-of-how-something-might-look

I did see that. Good job with that man. I save so many pics that I just group them by chassis lol.

Flicktitty wrote:

not sure if you guys saw this thread, but alot of good thoughts here.
http://www.wi240sx.com/t100-need-ideas-or-pics-of-how-something-might-look

man this is like the coolest thing ever. nice work!

booey13 wrote:

I did see that. Good job with that man. I save so many pics that I just group them by chassis lol.

me too, i currently have 3,500 + S-Chassis pics on my computer 2500 of them are S13's lol.

Flicktitty wrote:

not sure if you guys saw this thread, but alot of good thoughts here.
http://www.wi240sx.com/t100-need-ideas-or-pics-of-how-something-might-look

Damn, thats great.

So I was just informed that MB Battles only come in 5 Lug... Not sure if that still makes them an option. I am willing to roll/ and do a slight pull on the fenders, By stock body I just mean stock front, sides, and rear body peices.

Someone offered to sell me a set of 5zigen FN10RC's (17X8), But I am not sure how I like the looks of them on the S13.

just cause there 5lug doesn't make them a non option. going 5lug can be done pretty cheap.

you can do aftermarket 5lug hubs (ichiba seems to be common) and new brake rotors and your pretty much set.

Flicktitty wrote:

just cause there 5lug doesn't make them a non option. going 5lug can be done pretty cheap.

you can do aftermarket 5lug hubs (ichiba seems to be common) and new brake rotors and your pretty much set.

Not a bad deal for these.
http://www.frsport.com/Ichiba-Front---Rear-5-Lug-Hub-Conversion-Kit-89-94-S13-240SX_p_7818.html

Its still extra money to spend that I don't have right now though. So once you install these hubs, do you re-drill a set of rotors or do you get them from a different model?? I was considering doing a Z32 front brake swap also, but again it depends on how much funds I have come spring. When is it my turn to win the lottery? (I should start playing first I suppose)

u can test drive my car then wash/wax it for me...

JustTouge wrote:

Flicktitty wrote:

just cause there 5lug doesn't make them a non option. going 5lug can be done pretty cheap.

you can do aftermarket 5lug hubs (ichiba seems to be common) and new brake rotors and your pretty much set.

Not a bad deal for these.
http://www.frsport.com/Ichiba-Front---Rear-5-Lug-Hub-Conversion-Kit-89-94-S13-240SX_p_7818.html

Its still extra money to spend that I don't have right now though. So once you install these hubs, do you re-drill a set of rotors or do you get them from a different model?? I was considering doing a Z32 front brake swap also, but again it depends on how much funds I have come spring. When is it my turn to win the lottery? (I should start playing first I suppose)

you COULD re-drill them i suppose, or you can just go get any off the shelf 1995+ 240sx SE Brake rotors. if you go with the Z32 brakes all of it will be ready to go if you use the Z32 hubs.

You can actually get the full set from westcovina for like 420. Here is a listing from them on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ICHIBA-FRONT-REAR-5-LUG-HUB-CONVERSION-S13-BOLT-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem2c5a610ceaQQitemZ190494870762QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

And there are actually sets on ebay for like 200 bucks. As for brakes...you can get rotors drilled for 4 and 5 lug from enjuku, phase2, and a few other places for like 150 iirc. And if you like the battles but want to stay four lug, look into xxr's new 527 that should be out soon. I believe theyre offered in 4 lug and look just like battles. Thinner spokes, but still concave.

^the rotors that I mentioned are drilled and slotted. Like flicktitty mentioned, s14 se rotors would be the cheap 5 lug route. My brother got a set for like 40 bucks from Napa.

here, make this happen.

Piglip + Low + JDM amber,clear corners = win.

^agreed

This one doesn't have jdm signals but it does have explored sideskirts. I think it looks awesome for a diy