Hey, here is my build up on my 1993 240sx.

I bought the car around the end of June. When I bought it, the KA had a very bad knock. Story behind that is that the guy who owned the car before I bought it had rebuilt the engine, and did not change the crank, which was bad. So the KA was rebuilt and lasted 9k miles before it spun a connecting rod bearing again. So thats why it had a bad knock. Now I just happened to have an extra KA24DE in my garage, which I had got as an extra from the first 240 i bought about a year ago. I was a little sketchy about dropping in a engine that had been sitting in my garage for a year, but I went along with it.
Here is what the car looked like before I bought it.





The car is like 95% Rust free!



So heres where I start. My dad and I drove down to Albany NY to pick it up.

About 3 days after I got it back home, I decided to start working on it. The first thing to do was to take out that knocking KA. With the help of my friend ken, we were able to do this in about 2 and a half hours.


So after we pulled that KA, I had to swap the appropriate parts from this KA to the KA sitting in my garage.
So I started by removing all emissions equipment. I blocked off the egr, and welded up the spot on the exhaust manifold. BTW, the exhaust manifold is an aftermarket one, I'm guessing its an ebay one.

Then I started cleaning all possible parts of the engine up before I dropped it in, because then it would be hard to clean
While the engine was out, I also repainted my engine bay.
I know in the pic there are some spots that are still red, but the whole engine bay is black now.



I also bought a new exhaust from ebay. I remember reading a thread on here about how good the exhaust was, so I went ahead and picked it up.
Here is a pic of the 3 inch cat-back, next to the "aftermarket" exhaust that came with the car.


And here is the exhaust installed on the car.

I also ordered a SPEC stage 2 clutch from enjuku racing.


While cleaning up the engine/engine bay, I decided to repaint some things.
First, I got very bored, and decided to paint my tranny <IMG NAME="icon" SRC="http://is.rely.net/3-78-13854-l-9FLoUlUPkjwNsYRjsFPXQ.gif" BORDER="0">

Then to match, I painted the valve cover as well.

It really doesn't look that bad.

After about 2 days I was ready to drop the engine in. So my friend ken and I dropped the new KA in and started reattaching everything. I did have some problems with getting the driveshaft reattached, but I got it back in with a little adjustment.
I went to start it up for the first time, and it turned over and turned over, but didn't start. I made sure I had fuel and spark. The first problem was that the fuel pump was not turning on when I clicked the key to ON. I referred back to NICO Club on why this could be? I ended up finding a rather large ground wire that we had forgot to connect. This solved my fuel problem, but it still wasn't starting. So I then returned to the NICO technical section, and redid my distributer timing. I got it all back together and still.....not starting. So I decided to 180 out the distributer, and then the engine fired up right away. Its running rough, but I'm sure I didnt get the timing spot on, so I still have to adjust it and all.
Here is how the engine bay looks now.

The car currently is 3 colors




I also bought some LEDs for the gauge cluster.


SO this is it until I have more time to work on it.
ALl of the above happened within about 2 months. I would like to thank all who helped, and NICO for my troubleshooting problems

I will be repainting the car, and getting rid of the doughnut tire
Updates asap. :bigthumb


So I got the idle correct, and it runs/revs like it should
Now that I have that mess solved :rolleyes I can start on the body.
Well, I had some spare lights in my basement, so I decided to put them on the car

They have little LEDs around the rim, it looks pretty cool.

Then I threw on (on the front for now) the rims/tires that came on my first 240.


After I get it painted, I will be buying some Ksport pro kontrol coilovers, and I should be getting some adjustable tension rods in about a week. For rims, I plan on going with sportmax 002's.
Updates when I can :yesnod


So I took some pictures today, but for the car, its hesitates a little from idle to me stepping on the gas. BUt here are some pics






exhaust clip
YouTube - Apexi N1 knockoff

Sorry if some of the spots seem like they dont belong, I just copied ans pasted from my thread on a 240sx forum.
Here is the original build thread.
Chris's 1993 240sx (rebuild?) Build: 240SX Forum / 180SX Forum / Silvia Forum: Nissan Forums / Infiniti Forums - NICOclub

I picked up some goodies today.
Adjustable tension rods
Adjustable tie rods
Adjustable RUCAS
All parts are from Courtesy Nissan, and the best part is, THEY WERE ALL FREE

also scored a whole rear subframe for a 240sx, soon to be redone with all adjustable suspension and some stance GR+pro coilovers.

Congrats. That's a big deal. I'm still waiting to take you and your brother on =P

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520rwhp - 525rwtq at 16psi on stock blower
2002 Ford Mustang GT
4.6L V8 - 5 speed manual

With how rough the car was running in that clip your exhaust sounded almost like my roommate's Scooby with his HKS exhaust. That car is looking to become quite the machine. Are you going to leave it normally aspirated?

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haha 2 people have told me my car sounds like a scooby also haha. Um, yea the car is staying n/a. The reason my car sounds like it does is because its misfiring on one of the cylinders, or i have a bad fuel injector. I'm gonna check my compression soon to make sure its all good, but i'll let you know.

Yeah I just read the thread on the 240sx forum you had this originally posted on. If it smells like oil my guess would be a bad ring.

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2001 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SuperSport

get an S13 front end conversion and maybe some Z3 fenders

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I've always personally felt that Sil80s looked a little silly, like it wasn't sure quite what it was. I know I personally wouldn't do the z3 fenders though, too many ricers with those sorts of bolt ons, all flash and no function.

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2001 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SuperSport

yes. go > show.

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2003 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra
4.6L DOHC V8 - 6 speed manual
520rwhp - 525rwtq at 16psi on stock blower
2002 Ford Mustang GT
4.6L V8 - 5 speed manual

yall some big arse haters...

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