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I have always loved 240sx's and had plans for a 1j swapped drift car, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed I saw a post that a guy had posted for his friend in hopes to sell his s13 "rolling" shell with front end damage for $50 and a 30 brick (a case of beer).
I had been looking for 240 shells on craigslist for a while for something to suit my super low budget of $300 but found nothing cheap enough. Until this which had seemed to fall in my lap...
First thing I had to do was get my other car ('89 535i) on the road, this car needs exhaust. So my dad for some odd reason willingly brought it down to a local custom shop near me to have a custom $1500 exhaust put on, fully payed for by him and I didn't even have to ask him. Next up for that car is a racing harness. Once that car is good enough to get on the road the heavy work will start on the s13.
Saturday 11/21
I borrowed a buddy's trailer and engine hoist the night before to get the old engine out of the car and bring it home. We got the engine out and the car loaded no problem. On the way home a brake caliper piston decided it didn't want to come home with me and left a big puddle of brake fluid on the trailer.
Note the dangling sway bar lol none of the rear end is bolted in, the coils are literately only held in by the bottom bolt in the hub with no nuts and no top hat nuts, sway bar is only in by the bushing brackets, front struts are bolted in, steering is somehow still hanging on to one knuckle, the best part is the wheel arch... it was cracked so the previous owner bolted it together with some aluminum mounting brackets which is freekin awesome!
Because 240 right? Super dank drift kar ready to go skuuuuuuur round sum korners rip the ebrake and shred some rubber!
Ok so first on the list is to gut it completely to the bare shell starting with the interior I just finished this today by taking out the steering column and various small pieces.
Once I was happy with the interior i moved to the engine bay and started removing all the hard lines because they are rusty and look shitty and i plan on doing a full tucked and shaved engine bay. So far about half the hard line fittings have been rusted stuck and I've stripped the bolts and broken the lines getting them out but what ever they're all being replaced anyway. When i got to the rear sub frame to remove the rear lines i decided to try to help myself out and get the rear suspension out of the way. I started with the driver side where i found a rusted out hard line that was about to break so i just took it the rest of the way without even attempting to unbolt it because #yolo.
Got the rear suspension for the most part out of the car snapping the upper control arm bolt because rust makes bolts strong so they never break.
While i was under there and had plenty of room to look around i found a lot of rust that looked like surface rust until i poked it with a screwdriver and found out my frame, sub frame, and suspension pieces are rotting away...
This is completely fvcked...
Thats if for now until i get some time after thanksgiving...
P.S.
I may be a little slow to update and do work on it because im 16 with two cars now and I have very limited money most of witch will be going to the bmw until it is road worthy.
I had been looking for 240 shells on craigslist for a while for something to suit my super low budget of $300 but found nothing cheap enough. Until this which had seemed to fall in my lap...
First thing I had to do was get my other car ('89 535i) on the road, this car needs exhaust. So my dad for some odd reason willingly brought it down to a local custom shop near me to have a custom $1500 exhaust put on, fully payed for by him and I didn't even have to ask him. Next up for that car is a racing harness. Once that car is good enough to get on the road the heavy work will start on the s13.
Saturday 11/21
I borrowed a buddy's trailer and engine hoist the night before to get the old engine out of the car and bring it home. We got the engine out and the car loaded no problem. On the way home a brake caliper piston decided it didn't want to come home with me and left a big puddle of brake fluid on the trailer.
Note the dangling sway bar lol none of the rear end is bolted in, the coils are literately only held in by the bottom bolt in the hub with no nuts and no top hat nuts, sway bar is only in by the bushing brackets, front struts are bolted in, steering is somehow still hanging on to one knuckle, the best part is the wheel arch... it was cracked so the previous owner bolted it together with some aluminum mounting brackets which is freekin awesome!
Because 240 right? Super dank drift kar ready to go skuuuuuuur round sum korners rip the ebrake and shred some rubber!
Ok so first on the list is to gut it completely to the bare shell starting with the interior I just finished this today by taking out the steering column and various small pieces.
Once I was happy with the interior i moved to the engine bay and started removing all the hard lines because they are rusty and look shitty and i plan on doing a full tucked and shaved engine bay. So far about half the hard line fittings have been rusted stuck and I've stripped the bolts and broken the lines getting them out but what ever they're all being replaced anyway. When i got to the rear sub frame to remove the rear lines i decided to try to help myself out and get the rear suspension out of the way. I started with the driver side where i found a rusted out hard line that was about to break so i just took it the rest of the way without even attempting to unbolt it because #yolo.
Got the rear suspension for the most part out of the car snapping the upper control arm bolt because rust makes bolts strong so they never break.
While i was under there and had plenty of room to look around i found a lot of rust that looked like surface rust until i poked it with a screwdriver and found out my frame, sub frame, and suspension pieces are rotting away...
This is completely fvcked...
Thats if for now until i get some time after thanksgiving...
P.S.
I may be a little slow to update and do work on it because im 16 with two cars now and I have very limited money most of witch will be going to the bmw until it is road worthy.
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