Related Links Project 240sx Overhaul Journal Index Today was spent on a lot of loose ends. With the front and rear subframes removed, I went ahead and cleaned the members and then applied a rust converter / proofer. Once dry I added a base black coat and then gloss coat and then installed the new solid subframe bushings. A general “hardening” up of the chassis and suspension...
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It’s been a few days but I finally had a few hours to work yesterday. I removed the factory bushings from the subframe and the diff and fully disassembled the rear suspension from the frame.
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More miscellaneous gutting today. Removed the fuel tank, pump and fuel lines. Finished gutting the trunk and dropped the subframe.
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The trunk lid, rear brakes and rear coilovers were removed today as well as the whole front suspension assembly.
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Today I removed the brakes (mostly) as well as the front coilovers and the windshield wiper assembly.
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Today I didn’t have a lot of time to work so I focused on removing the motor and placing it on the stand.
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I finally had the time to start this weekend. The tear down is always the easy part. As you can see below, the chassis is a little rough around the edges but I will be fixing all of that in the weeks to come. Most of the items have been removed form the engine bay and I began gutting the interior.
This tutorial covers the steps necessary to replace the factory flexible intake with a solid, metal pipe unit that will always draw ambient air from outside of the engine bay. This will ensure that the turbo is supplied with the coolest air possible and will provide a little less thermal load on the motor and its supporting systems. Additionally, running a custom hard pipe instead of the flexible...
Installing the larger KA24DE throttle body onto the CA18DET intake manifold is one of the rare free mods that has no drawbacks. Although a gain in horsepower is usually not evident when swapping a larger throttle body onto a pressurized (turbo charged) intake manifold, increasing the size of the throttle body will improve the motor’s on/off throttle response as well as boost response. The...
If I were to ask you what your vices are, what would you say? Now what about your automotive vices? What preoccupies your mind when you are working on a project? What grabs a hold of you and makes you a slave to the build? I myself have a few and one such vice is efficiency. More specifically, I’m talking efficiency of design, efficiency of cost and efficiency of power. This latest...
This page highlights the progression of the CA18DET swapped 240sx’s water/methanol injection install. Future tutorials will be appended when the project is complete. Images are from newest to oldest. To view the pics in order, start at the bottom. This image is here to show what the compressor blades looked like before water injection. I’ve decided to use placement #4 from this...
Depending on how you count it, the ca18det has over 10 coolant lines. For those building their cars for race use, this can be reduced to only one line (excluding the radiator inlet and outlet). I will demonstrate this with my own car, the ca18det swapped 240sx. In this tutorial, these 11 coolant connections will be reduced to the radiator inlet and outlet and then one coolant line to the rear of...