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[twistedsymphony]

QUOTE(Maaaaarc @ Apr 26 2008, 03:26 AM)

New here, Hi.

Glad to see a fellow 240sx Enthusiast. I've had 2 so far, an S13hatch and an S14 Zenki.

I sold the S14 a while back, when Tokyo Drift came out, and am looking to either get another Zenki or a coupe S13.

We'll see.

Good luck with your project maaan.

..this may sound dumb, but if you have any question, ask me.
I'm in the scene pretty deep.  

I have a question... do you know where I can get a 3" cat for a reasonable price? no one has been able to answer that for me very well.

[twistedsymphony]

I just got my new head unit in



I can't believe how fast it got here, I'm going to have to hunt down a harness adapter. I so wasn't prepared for this thing to get 2-day delivery  

[twistedsymphony]

a test pipe doesn't help me... there's no reason for me to make this car illegal so why should I.

I can get an unflanged catco for $45 shipped, but weld two hunks of metal on either side to bolt it up to the 240 and suddenly everyone wants 150+ shipping.  

[twistedsymphony]

I spent a few hours yesterday installing an setting up my new system. I love doing harness work, all connections are soldered with Silver and then sealed with shrink tubes.









This unit is AWESOME and everything I wanted it to be. The navigation works fantastic, the picture quality is great and it sounds fantastic. All of the touch screen controls are easy to see and understand too.

I still have some stuff to finish up though, I need to find a more pertinent route for the GPS receiver module as right now it's just running along the floor under the passenger's floor mat. I need to get an antenna adapter so I use the regular radio, and I'll probably want to bypass the factory amp in the trunk as right now it's way too loud, and the sound quality will probably be better coming directly from this unit.

[grim_d]

QUOTE(Maaaaarc @ Apr 28 2008, 12:18 AM)

I had a RS*R Catback on my '95 with a test pipe and it passed smog with flying colors.
I've known others to pass smog with just a test pipe.

..I thought you wanted an SR in this car?
um..SR's are illegal, so why not a test pipe?

Plus it makes it sound more bad ass.

IMHO.

sr20's are illegal? that's fucked up!

[twistedsymphony]

QUOTE(Maaaaarc @ Apr 27 2008, 07:18 PM)

I had a RS*R Catback on my '95 with a test pipe and it passed smog with flying colors.
I've known others to pass smog with just a test pipe.

..I thought you wanted an SR in this car?
um..SR's are illegal, so why not a test pipe?

Plus it makes it sound more bad ass.

IMHO.

I live in NH... we don't have smog testing here, but inspection stations are required to lift the car and verify the presence of a cat... with my last car (a 2002 WRX) I put in a test pipe (technically a down pipe that elimated the cat but.. same thing) and failed at every single inspection station I brought it to because of it. Eventually I'd end up having to drive 2 hours round trip to a shop where I "knew someone" to get a sticker.

It was a huge headache and I'm not about repeat that with this car.

As for the SR yes they are illegal (grim, they're illegal because they were never sold in the US by Nissan, so they don't meet US emissions regulations), but as long as you don't have to pass OBDII (which I don't because it's a 95) then most shops wont know the difference...

besides I've decided to go LS1 instead of SR, which, among other benefits keeps the car legal.

[Dano2k0]

Thats an excellent looking bit of kit TS, very nice indeed

Nice job on the wiring harness aswell, looks a nice job.

Have you fitted your new speakers yet? it'd be nice to see what youve got and when they are fitted, i assume once they are in completely that the original grills will be covering them though?

I need to measure up in my front doors and see what speakers i can fit in them and order some new ones.

Cheers

[twistedsymphony]

No unfortunately I haven't got my speakers in yet...

Saturday I'll be installing my exhaust... it's f-ing sweet, it's a custom 3" catback with a magnaflow muffler with rolled and polished dual tips.

I bought it last fall but had problem getting the rusted up bolts off my old exhaust. I found another semi-local 240sx fanatic who's going to give me a hand this Saturday. He's done an S15 Silvia conversion on his car so I'll be sure to take some pics of that too  

here's a picture of what it looks like

I took pictures of the exhaust when I unpacked it but I haven't put any of them online yet.

Also yesterday I got in my Silvia Digital Climate Control system...

The 240sx has the typical fanspeed, hot/cold,vent-selection setup, in Japan however they offered an optional digital climate control system where you could set the temperature you wanted it and it utilizes all of it's sensors to regulate the temperature in the cabin..

It's quite the difficult conversion as there are a half dozen sensors that need to be installed, some of which need to be modified for fitment in a left hand drive car, and to make matters worse, since it's a pain to completely remove all the wires out from the dashboard out of the junked Japanese car they typically just snip the wires a few inches past the connector, which means I have to completely rebuild the wiring harness (though buying it this way instead of a complete harness saved me about $150)

it should be a fun project though, not to mention a sick addition to my car  

[ubernewb]

QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ Apr 27 2008, 10:17 PM)

I live in NH... we don't have smog testing here, but inspection stations are required to lift the car and verify the presence of a cat...

which is why god gave us bits of pipe and sledgehammers...

unbolt cat, beat the innards out with the pipe/hammer combo, bolt cat back in.. congrats, you've now got a test pipe that looks like the factory cat.

can't think of a single car i've had that didn't get the treatment.

[twistedsymphony]

QUOTE(ubernewb @ May 1 2008, 03:47 PM)

which is why god gave us bits of pipe and sledgehammers...

unbolt cat, beat the innards out with the pipe/hammer combo, bolt cat back in.. congrats, you've now got a test pipe that looks like the factory cat.

can't think of a single car i've had that didn't get the treatment.

  Actually on my old truck I just took the heat shielding off an old exhaust and scrapped it around a random section of pipe where the cat should go...  

the WRX wasn't so easy though because the ENTIRE exhaust had been replaced and it was 3.5" inner diameter pipe at that... so no factory heat shield was going to fit around it convincingly, nor did I have a factory cat to bang out that wasn't going to cause restrictions clean either.

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I installed my new exhaust over the weekend.. it sounds amazing. Also after I got the old exhaust off we discovered that the factory cat had already been gutted   and the guy helping me with the install was able to fix the broken stud.

Here are some pics:



it's a custom made to order design by a company called BRM
3" stainless Steel piping with a 14" resonator chamber and a dual 2.5" tipped Magnaflow muffler.  

[grim_d]

that looks the nuts mate bet it sounds nice. get a vid or sumthin up so we can hear it

i would have riced it up with a 4-inch slash tailpipe style

[twistedsymphony]

QUOTE(grim_d @ May 6 2008, 10:35 AM)

that looks the nuts mate bet it sounds nice. get a vid or sumthin up so we can hear it

i would have riced it up with a 4-inch slash tailpipe style

I did have the option of a single 4" tipped version of this exhaust but I opted for the dual 2.5" tips, I thought they looked much more classy. I had a 4.5" tip (on a 3.5" exhaust) on my last car and it drew way too much attention  

As for a video my brother will stop by next weekend to film it.

Also I got my new speakers in last night... they're f-ing sweet, I need to finish making my custom amp-bypass harness before I install them though.

after seeing Dano2k0's thread I decided I needed to pickup the pace.... my new rule is to "do something every day" to my car... no matter how small...  

[grim_d]

nice cant wait to hear it. glad you decided to update frequently,I love s14s.

looking forward to seeing your speakers.

hopefully i can join the club and get a car w.i.p going in the coming months when i get a new car, i straight up REFUSE to do anything to my current shed

[twistedsymphony]

What are you driving now, and what do you plan on buying?