Damn bandwagon jumpers

[CreAziaN]

He wants a 240. He's been into it for...a couple of months or something. He's talking to me about SRs and crap. He's claiming that a stock SR can beat a stock 300zx TT. I was like :wtf:? I told him the stock SR has ~200HP (talking about redtop)and the TT has ~300HP. He was all bitching and crap about how the SR has 400HP stock. I'm like...I don't want to talk to you anymore. I knew him when he was a kid. He was really cool and all. It's funny how he thinks he knows so much about it after 2 months. I've been into this crap for like 2 years and I know for SURE I don't know nearly as much as 90% of Zilvia. Ugh, just had to rant

Cliffnotes: 16 year old friend wants a 240. Thinks stock SR has 400 horse power

[the240sxer95]

what a noob! he should know the sr has 350 stock. geezee!!

[ThatGuy]

Hey Look the same Friggin post!!!http://www.zilvia.net/f/showthread.php?t=53953 Read what the other one says. Is it your car? Do you have to drive it? Do you have to pay for it? If you've answered any of these with : No. Then who the hell cares what he wants? :mepoke: :rl: :gives:

[oojpeeoo]

soundz like a smart guy that knows his shit :hahano:

[wylin]

anyone who has bought a 240 since drifting got popular is a band wagon jumper. They are the reason why i have to worry about driving arround and watch out for LA Sheriffs in hacienda/ rowland heights.

bleh

[CreAziaN]

Hey Look the same Friggin post!!!http://www.zilvia.net/f/showthread.php?t=53953 Read what the other one says. Is it your car? Do you have to drive it? Do you have to pay for it? If you've answered any of these with : No. Then who the hell cares what he wants? :mepoke: :rl: :gives:

I don't care what he plans to do with it. My point being is that he's fucking clueless! 400 HP stock? Come on now. I could care less what he does with his 240, but at least learn some facts before you try to look cool and give me BS facts

[Salty_X]

That's why you need to break his spirit... with facts.
Just find some dyno sheets of stockish SRs with their sub-200 whp, print a bunch of them out, and leave them in various places where he'll find them: in his locker, his backpack, on his civic...
Then do the same thing with pictures of 240s that got crashed from failed drifts.

If he still wants a 240 after that, just tell him to come to FreshAlloy and introduce himself and tell us all his plans for the car. We'll take good care of him. :Ownedd:

[ThatGuy]

My point was only this: We were all clueless noobs at on point (provided you weren't born with a FSM imprinted in your brain). Rather then coming on here and ranting about this guy, why not let him come on here himself. Sure he'll get flamed and poked fun at it, but hopefully he will also learn something. Or even just try and help the kid like Salty X said, give him the real facts. When it comes to "Bandwagon" jumpers, or Noobs, or whatever you want to call them, it's best in the long-run to convert rather then condemn them. The more of them that are converted to a reasonable way of thinking, the fewer rice-boys there are out there to attract the wrong attention to our make and model of cars.

[CreAziaN]

yeah, i was providing him with facts. I linked him to srswap.com to show him the specs of the SRs. He seems pretty rich to. His parents are willing to fork 10k+ for his car. Damn, wish I had that much :hammer:

[WilloW]

Cliffnotes: 16 year old friend wants a 240. Thinks stock SR has 400 horse power

Those are the one that dump a shit load of cash into their car, thinking they're badass, blows it up then sell it. Who cares man, just sit back and enjoy the show :naughty: .

[240speed]

anyone who has bought a 240 since drifting got popular is a band wagon jumper. They are the reason why i have to worry about driving arround and watch out for LA Sheriffs in hacienda/ rowland heights.

bleh


I got mine a year ago.... I guess I'm just a damn band wagon jumper...

[WilloW]

I got mine a year ago.... I guess I'm just a damn band wagon jumper...

Come one, come all....heheh.

[kandyflip445]

You should give him this site addy so we can educate+flame him at the same time;)

[Hawd]

anyone who has bought a 240 since drifting got popular is a band wagon jumper. They are the reason why i have to worry about driving arround and watch out for LA Sheriffs in hacienda/ rowland heights.

bleh

Glad I live in the ghetto where no one knows what the fuck a 240 is. SO because I bought a 240 1 year ago makes me a bandwagon jumper because I honestly just wanted something sporty, coupe, and rwd and most important was in my price range.

[zombieman]

i got into 240sx 3 years ago. but i'm a big time nissan fan before that. got my car a year ago. i wouldn't consider someone a bandwagon jumper who got there 240sx recently. it's only true if:

1. get a 240sx because of popularity or trend not knowing one dam thing about it. (even if they know, why switch to the car if only to follow the trend)
2. went to a d1 competition, saw how cool it was to drift and got one.
etc.

feel free to add to the list :D

[Abstrak0ne]

I guess I am a bandwagon jumper. I am about to buy my first 240 here in a couple weeks. I've been messing around with them for a couple years now and other cars also. I am not buying it with the intent of being the next Keiichi Tsuchiya or even Takumi. But as something to play with on the side. I went to a couple Driftdays and D1 events but that is not why I'm getting it either.

[Teerawood]

i bought my car last june after i sold my car.. right before the hype... now i am ashamed... am i a bandwagon jumper? :(

[CreAziaN]

ok ok, sorry guys. I didn't mean to call everyone who bought a 240 within the last 1-4 years bandwagon jumpers (hell, that would make me a bandwagon jumper too). I was just kind of annoyed by the comments my friend made (he's from another state so I don't talk to him much). I should have been more clear. What I consider a bandwagon jumper is a person who wants to buy the 240 and knows NOTHING about it. All they know is that it's the "ULTIMATE drift car". He didn't know the 94s were only convertibles. He told me to look for a S14 between the years 95-97. When I asked how come he didn't want a 98, he was simply BAFFLED by the fact that there was even a 98. He thought I was lying or something

Seriously guys...400HP stock? come on :smash:

[Teerawood]

maybe he got too excited..

[wylin]

yes to all, unless you had a 240sx before 2002 you are a band wagon jumper to me.

[Bliss]

yes to all, unless you had a 240sx before 2002 you are a band wagon jumper to me.

good for you. your opinion counts.

[s13Dr1ft]

TT has around 380..

[s13Dr1ft]

Everybody is a fuckin bandwagon jumper. Shut the hell up with this bandwagon bullshit. God. Some people think they have been in somthin long enough that they can call people jumpers. Everyone jumps onto somthing we dont accidentally start doin somthin. Fuck i had my first S13 coupe when i was 14. im 20. I wasnt into drifting at that time but comon. You didnt not have a 240 before anyone else. Use your mind before you post.

Jordan

[wylin]

good for you. your opinion counts.

as does yours, cheers. btw i've had my s14 since 1995

[Buffalo Daughter]

as does yours, cheers. btw i've had my s14 since 1995
That would make us OG's then ? or pre bandwagon jumpers, since our is still in the 1990's sometime. I have had mine since 1999. But anyhoo kids, there just kids.

[s13Dr1ft]

i dont give a damn who jumps into what. if they wanna do this then fine. they can give us there money for our parts :-D.

[s13Dr1ft]

BTW, i love the Advans..Sexxxy

[TheTimanator]

Instead of ignoring him, teach him the truth. If you ignore he's jsut going to spread his lies and eventually he'll find out the truth or you can break his spirits yourself. :smash: Seriously send him here. We'll learn him good!!

I met this kid that says he's gonna buy a skyline for his first car. I just kinda looked at him for a second and then proceeded with our conversation. I tried my best to maek him understand the fact that you just can't go to a local dealership and pic one up. Lets just say he reads too much super street and import tuner. Anyway, there kids like this everywhere. You just gotta edumatcate them. :coold:

[_JDMU]

as does yours, cheers. btw i've had my s14 since 1995
The first car I ever sat in was a Datsun. Who gives a shit. If you dont like all these people with 240's then sell yours. Im not trying to be a dick, sorry if it comes off that way but I am to sick and tired of all this bandwagon shit.

[Bliss]

as does yours, cheers. btw i've had my s14 since 1995

apparently you didnt understand....???

i could care less when you bought your car. why is this turning into "im a badass cuz i've had my car longer! before anyone had a 240 or was drifting, I was already a pro!" If thats what matters most, then my grandma's fucking real OG. She bought her '89 brand new (not really, but thats what some of you guys sound like)!!!! I'm with s13dr1ft, this shit is just getting out of hand. Yeah, some guys who are new with cars/240s/WHATEVER are jackasses, but they were jackasses before they had the car, and will continue to be jackasses after they get rid of it. i think its cool you had your car so early I was 10 when you bought your car. you were into the scene way before alot of people. but does that make you cool? no. does that mean all people getting into 240s are asshole noobs? no. does it mean you can share way more knowledge than most other people? FUCK YES. you can be an ignorant asshole, or you can try to open some eyes. shit, you can just sit there and not do anything, feel free. but get your head out of your ass.

[Buffalo Daughter]

BTW, i love the Advans..Sexxxy
Many many a thanks, (bows). Just ignore them. The real folks will be here for the long run. Over and out.

[Heartwork]

Creazian- Why are you telling us about your friend that we don't even fucking care or know about?

[pruto]

I am a bandwagon jumper, but i bought my car 3 years ago. I guess i'm just a farsighted bandwagon jumper with a crystal ball by my side. Next trend i see... cars that look like boxes and have less than 100hp! hurry guys, hurry! don't want to get into that too late...

[wylin]

apparently you didnt understand....???

i could care less when you bought your car. why is this turning into "im a badass cuz i've had my car longer! before anyone had a 240 or was drifting, I was already a pro!" If thats what matters most, then my grandma's fucking real OG. She bought her '89 brand new (not really, but thats what some of you guys sound like)!!!! I'm with s13dr1ft, this shit is just getting out of hand. Yeah, some guys who are new with cars/240s/WHATEVER are jackasses, but they were jackasses before they had the car, and will continue to be jackasses after they get rid of it. i think its cool you had your car so early I was 10 when you bought your car. you were into the scene way before alot of people. but does that make you cool? no. does that mean all people getting into 240s are asshole noobs? no. does it mean you can share way more knowledge than most other people? FUCK YES. you can be an ignorant asshole, or you can try to open some eyes. shit, you can just sit there and not do anything, feel free. but get your head out of your ass.

Thats my name: ASSHAT. I am ASSHAT!!!; because I have always helped younger socal 240sx owners like nitekids/ henry, budweiser, brian/oversteer, grant, and etc... But i havent seen any quality newbies recently; who care about the car or have ability to learn things on their own, instead i see jackasses who seem to have alot of questions because they had read some import car magazines and/ or think of themselves as the l33t speak 180sx/240sx/silvia masters... because they have just got a 89 s13 slapped some n1 duals on it and some used wheels. When it comes to those types i'd rather share genital herpes with them then car knowledge. The same bandwagon idiots who have attracted law enforcement onto 240sx in the city of industry and made me want to sell my car so i can buy a G35coupe or EVO, so i wont have to put up with idiots.

I am an asshole to newbies and idiots definitely 100%, and dam proud of it.

[exitspeed]

I love these posts every other month when they come up that say the same thing over and over and over and over and...

blah blah blah...bandwagon...bandwagon....bandwagon

Do the the people that bought 240's over 2 years ago deserve cookies? I think not bitches.

[russian]

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dont let your friend stay on drugs. act now.


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[s13Dr1ft]

Hey now...Im buying a Scion Xb..lol..need somthin with 4 doors thats small enough for the wifey.
S13, S14, 87 Firebird, Mini van...gotta get rid of 2. Van and firebird gotta go.

[nightwalker]

That's why you need to break his spirit... with facts.
Just find some dyno sheets of stockish SRs with their sub-200 whp, print a bunch of them out, and leave them in various places where he'll find them: in his locker, his backpack, on his civic...
Then do the same thing with pictures of 240s that got crashed from failed drifts.

If he still wants a 240 after that, just tell him to come to FreshAlloy and introduce himself and tell us all his plans for the car. We'll take good care of him. :Ownedd:

YESsssssssss, come to Fresh Alloy. YEsssssss NOOB, come, come. :yum:

:bite:

[DRFT]

night walker is a bandwagon jumper

[bik]

yes to all, unless you had a 240sx before 2002 you are a band wagon jumper to me.


I got my 240sx on march of 2003... but i wanted one like 1 year and a half before that, i remember they had a 240sx SE 93 in the nissan dealer used cars, i did a TV advertising for them i wonder if they can pay me with the car or at least sell it for cheap, but they wanted $8000 dollars for it (they never sell that car in mexico) was too much money for a "old" car, anyway other oportunity came and i got it from a friend of a friend, there is like 4 S13 on my city and 1 S14 (one of the managers of the nissan dealer) O_o

I dont feel like jump in to the bandwagon, i really wanted a RWD-small-sports-inexpensive car some time ago

[nokeone]

My point was only this: We were all clueless noobs at on point (provided you weren't born with a FSM imprinted in your brain). Rather then coming on here and ranting about this guy, why not let him come on here himself. Sure he'll get flamed and poked fun at it, but hopefully he will also learn something. Or even just try and help the kid like Salty X said, give him the real facts. When it comes to "Bandwagon" jumpers, or Noobs, or whatever you want to call them, it's best in the long-run to convert rather then condemn them. The more of them that are converted to a reasonable way of thinking, the fewer rice-boys there are out there to attract the wrong attention to our make and model of cars.

it's far too late for that...it's already in the shitter..there arn't enough pooper scoopers in the world to save us now...so why convert them?..let them rot in their own delusional ignorance...it is bliss afterall right?

[Maeda]

I'm a bandwagon jumper! I just got my S13 and coilovers, I can't wait to be a driftaa... Actually wait, no selfrespecting poser would claim to be a poser... ok hows this...

I'm a hardcore drifter/touge runner! You've never seen me at an event because events are too 'mainstream.' and my stance alone proves that im cool.

[NismoSilvia270R]

wylin
anyone who has bought a 240 since drifting got popular is a band wagon jumper. They are the reason why i have to worry about driving arround and watch out for LA Sheriffs in hacienda/ rowland heights.

bleh

im scared to sell my car to a local homie. the only thing i see is a bad rep for 240s in the area and a trashed coupe.

[sciamop]

Upon receiving an insurance settlement, a friend of mine purchased a (then) brand new 1992 240sx hatchback (IIRC, $16-18K).

I thought the car was a f*cking joke: 155hp, optional LSD, gigantic 4 cylinder engine, no turbo option, derivative styling etc. What I really didn't understand was that the Japanese homemarket had such incredible cars like the Skyline and the Pulsar and they sent this turd over!

My attitude towards cars has changed alot since then. I think the 240 has lots going for it: It is great value and a fun all around car. They're cheaper than dirt so nearly any modification is somewhat affordable. The community is very active and (somewhat) supportive. The aftermarket is definitely 'there.' All are great reasons to jump on the bandwagon. I'm glad I did!

Todd
90 Coupe
93 Coupe (broken)

[S13SilviaGirl]

Everybody is a fuckin bandwagon jumper. Shut the hell up with this bandwagon bullshit. God. Some people think they have been in somthin long enough that they can call people jumpers. Everyone jumps onto somthing we dont accidentally start doin somthin. Fuck i had my first S13 coupe when i was 14. im 20. I wasnt into drifting at that time but comon. You didnt not have a 240 before anyone else. Use your mind before you post.

Jordan


Wow, I am in awe at your skillz. Great, glad to know you aren't a bandwaggon jumper at the age of 14.

[s14srpilot]

What is a "bandwagon jumper," anyway? If you were not the first person to buy an s13 or s14 you are a "bandwagon jumper" to some extent. Is there a "set number" that defines who is a "bandwagon jumper" and who isn't? I'm ther 599th person to buy an s13 so I'm not a "bandwagon jumper" haha

I got my s13 in 1992. These cars became popular in 1989. That was 15 years ago. I jumped on the "bandwagon" because I saw the potential of these cars because of their fr layout. When drifting came around in 1995 I was aware of it but I couldn't get into it because it was unheard of in the states and there were no events back then. Pretty much anyone who is into drifting or who likes these cars because they are so popular now is a 'bandwagon jumper." Think about it, people started fixing up these cars back in 1989 and drifting started in Japan in 1995. The bottom line is that we all jumped on the "bandwagon" at some point in time. Stop complaining. If you want to be different then move on to another less popular car