Project 240sx

I’ve owned my 1995 Nissan 240sx since early 2008. From 2008 – late 2010 it was my daily driver. It was a project car for Rice Boy TV – where we added Enkei RPF1′s (18 x 8.5 (rear) & 18 x 7.5 (front)), an AEM intake, Magnacore wires, plugs, NRG short hub, NRG quick release, NRG steering wheel, and DC Sports test pipe in addition to the Tanabe coil overs, Apexi N1 cat back exhaust, Battle Version tie rods, and a few interior refinements.

Then it was driven and not upgraded as planned.

I thought of motor swaps to get more power than the 100hp KADE. Skylines had left me with a love of the inline six. Particularly the RB25det and RB26det, however the more I researched them – the more I realized having a Japanese market engine in a US car is not the best idea for daily driving. I then debated VQ, 2JZ, 1JZ, and LS swaps – the price of the motors, custom mounts, drive shaft, fuel system upgrades, and rear end upgrades – made it seem a bit unlikely for the budget I wanted to have for the project.

So more time passed, busy with work and living in Vancouver working on Need for Speed Shift 2 – I had never really considered a KA-t setup.

Then I had Christmas break off and my Nissan was back in Ohio at my parents – so I started thinking about what I really wanted from the project. I wanted to do the work myself, to learn the car more, to build something reliable, and to be able to continue to work on the car myself – without it becoming a track machine only. Keep it a street car, build power over time as I get used to owning a turbo car.

After a couple months of work with my best friend & Honda tech – Chris Stein project 240 is running and I’m stoked.