Originally Posted by John Bennett
Hello and good luck with the car, if it's not rotten underneath, it's worth keeping and sorting out
errr.....I didn't look for chassis rot when I bought it
I know these are prone to bootlids and big ends but never knew about the chassis. anything I should look for in particular? rotten/bent/snapped rails? sills?
Here's a beauty of an example :http://media.sxoc.com/contributors/s13faq/rot.pdferrr.....I didn't look for chassis rot when I bought it
I know these are prone to bootlids and big ends but never knew about the chassis. anything I should look for in particular? rotten/bent/snapped rails? sills?
Nowt that can't be welded up. The above link's example car got broken and crushed, but people have fixed worse.
Excellent guide - thank you
and no the chassis is nothing like the one in the guide, the only rust spots are on the rear wheel arch and the boot. chassis seems nice and solid and the sills are good too. underbody was waxoyled so should be good for a while
welcome to the board, have fun and erm .. ignore johnny... DONT ignore Johnny - his advice is sage - his time is worthwhile - and his buns are quite firm !
who knows, maybe Nissan's will grow on me, only had it 13 days and ain't really had a chance to see what's it's really like as I've always got my little one with me...I've always had Ford's (with a Golf thrown in aswell) so what do you expect me to say...and no it's not brave of me, we live in a country of free speech and surely part of the idea of a forum is for us to give our opinions?
Anyway good luck with getting the 200sx up and running, I've got 2 sat on my drive so if the other half don't hurry up and sort them out I will be putting them on here for people to help themselves to parts
Unless you want to say something racist or sexist or politically incorrect or that differs from a minoritys point of view or you are pro-ford
Whoah, steady on , no-one was being serious
It's not badge-alliance or owt on here, we just like the 200sx
Thank god, was starting to feel like was on the forum for a certain Subaru club for a minute
It's not badge-alliance or owt on here, we just like the 200sx
I love those little go-devils! (after you've added about 50 bhp!)
It was a great idea when I did it - you had to pay a premium for FWD cars cos all the old nails were RWD - god I loved that MK2 Escort, I drove like such a chav in it "powersliding" on every corner, just about 30 or 40 mph slower than the S13!Not all of us wanna pass our test and jump into rear wheel drive, don't really think it's a good idea (although I went straight into rwd)
Most mk2's have got Cossie engines in now...love watching them things go
a friend of mine is getting his dads sierra cossie this march, his dad was the first owner from new and that car is completely immaculate inside out, Im jealous
I always wanted an Escort Cosworth Monte Carlo, part of me still does but I know theres a lot of other cars out there that are so much faster now, thats one of the reasons why I got rid of the RST, sad to say but she just wasn't cutting it anymore lol
Hello and welcome...
TBH the car looks clean and quite good.
But if you have bought it as a Stage 2 SX i would not expect too much of it.
Anyway good luck with the car
Yay
hope it gets sorted mate, fron reading this u have a lot of worries.
just stick with it if u can ,
welcome to sxoc
The misses created this username but 99% of the posts are by me
Not quite sure what you mean by that mate
This is a line wot was said in the first post....
Well a stage 2 200 sx would have some more things added. And surely it would be running a bigger intercooler. Dont think u will find a Stage 2 chip in the ECU aswellI don't know much about these but its a 1991 red 200sx stage 2.
Ah get ya now
The misses wrote the first post, she doesn't know much about cars bless her
I've had the ECU open and the chip in there doesn't look like a standard one it has "SRB" written on it and is sitting in a cradle. Not sure what stage chip that is but definately not standard.
Car has also got a GTO wmic. Looks a bit of a bodge job underneath but as far as I know the GTOs have twin intercoolers 1 for each turbo and can run 300bhp between them, so I doubted this one on its own is much of an improvement over the standard jobbie. A friend of mine is ditching his GTR intercooler soon for an HKS one, so I'll try and take that off his hands, could be a good upgrade
Hmmmm if thats really true ill get me nickels backAh get ya now
The misses wrote the first post, she doesn't know much about cars bless her
I've had the ECU open and the chip in there doesn't look like a standard one it has "SRB" written on it and is sitting in a cradle. Not sure what stage chip that is but definately not standard.
Car has also got a GTO wmic. Looks a bit of a bodge job underneath but as far as I know the GTOs have twin intercoolers 1 for each turbo and can run 300bhp between them, so I doubted this one on its own is much of an improvement over the standard jobbie. A friend of mine is ditching his GTR intercooler soon for an HKS one, so I'll try and take that off his hands, could be a good upgrade
Could be possible...but with the history off this car ud never know
Have fun you2 and dont wreck it
Will do
Does SRB ring any bells? I've been doing a bit of searching and most people on here tend to go for a "Jez" chip or a ND, never heard of SRB
If its an Ebay jobbie it's going in the bin
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