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Engine went boom. Options? New Car? 2017-07-15 06:50:31 Post No. 17537812
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1993 Nissan 240sx 5-speed
~285k Miles on Body
Still clean, many mods with brand names not Chinese bullshit. Was my Daily. KA24DE was rebuilt after I got the car ~150k miles ago, and lasted 13 years. R.I.P old friend.
It's my first car and I love it, so selling it isn't really a option. I'm more torn between mothballing the 240sx in lieu of a new car. Or taking the down payment money and replacing the engine/trans (trans is original and tired).
Even before pic related happened, the whole car was starting to get "tired," body flex and electrical gremlins are starting to become more prevalent. AC hasn't worked in 10 years. Cool HUD dash took a shit on me last year, had to swap dull analog gauges in :-/ Nissan no longer provides any parts for the S13, after 20 years they are no longer mandated to build spare parts. I've always avoided re-produced parts after too many pre-mature failures. This is now proving expensive and sometimes impossible to do now that I can't get true OEM parts.
So I'm pressed into a corner here with this sudden failure. I was planing on milking it about another 12 months so I could continue saving for my massive down payment. The engine burned oil, but not bad, I would say a quart every 2500miles of hard driving. The bottom end appears ok, but cylinder walls on #2 and 3 are roached. This KA24DE had heart and served me well, fuck.
So in terms of a new car, I spent the past 13 years turning my 240sx into the car I wanted. I would say with the latest addition of wilwood brakes I was getting quite close to satisfaction. So if I'm going to buy a new car I want to be able to sit in it and not immediately begin to think of what things I can add or change to make it more close to my personal preferences.
So I've narrowed it down to the Civic Si or Civic Type R. Hopefully not too many groaned reading that, but like I said, I'm not selling my 240, so RWD will stay in my life. I can fix the KA24DE on the cheap later.
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>>17537812
Swap a SR20 and keep dailying the 240. Get spare parts from wreckers or aftermarket places. you dont need OEM shit nigga
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I know a site that has oem parts, like legit oem parts but they ship it from Japan, bought knee pads, the no smoking ash tray and the parking pole, it is expensive but that's the price u pay for oem
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>>17537825
SR20 is indeed a tempting option, but any used engine will need new gaskets and seals before I could trust it.
>>17537838
There are still parts out there, but literally the day that the 20 year rule expired all Nissan dealer parts sites de-listed almost everything, and anything still in stock literally triple in price. I watched in horror F5-ing.
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>>17537812
an s14 ka24de works just fine in an s13 if obd1, just swap the temp sensors and it'll have a few plugs that won't get connected to the engineharness. if it's obd2 you'll need to put the s13 throttlebody or tps on it as well.
for a/c fill it with the leak detector dye and look around for the leak, put new o-rings on, swap the compressor if needed. pressure switch could've gone bad, etc. so check for pressure in the lines first. it's not hard toget that back working. a running de is 100-400. 75-150 for a manual trans. chassis flex, rip the braces off the vert and put them on your car, or install the framerail reinforcements
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>>17537812
v8 swap
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KA24DE was a pretty common engine, just find a new engine and transmission. Yeah, they might be worth more than the car itself, but money comes and goes. You'll hate yourself for letting it go
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CA18 swap. Be the hipster you know you can be.
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