What got you into the s chassis?

[OneForMe]

seriosuly im not gonna ask what got you into tuners or imports

because alot of us more then half even if you dont want to admit it got into cause of F & F. (yea you memorize all of the one liners thats why you repeat them again and again on rice threads) we all hate those movies now but we saw it again and again that summer of 2000 (or 2001) forgot.





what got you into s13's - 14's?


what was your first emberassing memory relating to your first S car.

whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time

has it helped you gotten laid or atleast gotten you a girl

[ESmorz]

Can I take all the Asian penis for $500 Alex?

[Bubbles]

Sexy Knights.

[Vision Garage]

the girls in ^ SIG??? hahaha

Naw got an S chassis cuz one of my old neighbors had it. She was a girl and I was like damn thats a nice car! Actually was looking into buying a 3000GT vr4 or a honda prelude with the h22 motor. VR4 too expensive, prelude with h22 only in japan! Next best thing. S chassis!

[duffman1278]

I got it for a super cheap deal. I was suppose to buy a GSR motor for my integra but then it came along.

[90hatchie]

gran turismo 1
was amazing lol
wanted a s13 coupe ever since
and now i have tew

[Brian]

Probably Slide Squad.

in high school...
Started picking up Option mags and then saw SLIDE SQUAD in super street magazine.

[ZilviaKid]

i liked the way the fender flare JTUNED silvia looked and wanted one so bad. totally regret it now, shoulda bought a subie or a miata... lol

[allntrlundrgrnd]

I wanted a gsr or a fifth gen lude for a looong time but never found one i could afford, and insurance was kinda expensive. I really didnt want to go fwd though after driving an explorer for like 5 years...

my buddy bought a black 92 hatch and i thought it was really tight. I found a black 92 coupe and i love it

see sig..mines on the left

[Bubbles]

driving an explorer for like 5 years...



As in a Ford Explorer?

[shanes14]

i started with honda's, then after about a year i realized 240s were better, so i now have 2=]

[Dousan_PG]

drift tengoku #1
yoshinori koguchi

[allntrlundrgrnd]

As in a Ford Explorer?

yeah brah you can do madtyte drifz in the snow bra and in the rain

[ESmorz]

As in a Ford Explorer?

https://www.cheaperthancatalogs.com/images/astronaut_explorer.jpg

[Howard92884]

Needed a car when I got into the Air Force found an S13 Fastback for sale at the "Lemon Lot" for $1600. Bought it and dropped an exhaust valve 2 weeks later and punched a hole in the piston. Learned about different engine swaps and started modding it.

[YoungGun]

Fast and the Furious : Tokyo Drift

Come on, someone had to say it.

[VROOOM]

it was my first car, i just bought it because it looked cool. wasnt really into cars. started messing with it about 6 months later

[mrmephistopheles]

Cruising with a friend of mine in his S14 on Okinawa in '99. He had full Veilside kit, sweet stereo, and the doorsills that light up. From that moment, I was enamored with his car. I asked if they had them back in the US, but to his knowledge they didn't. When I came back, I kind of lost hope. I drove around a few Integras and other cars, but didn't really find anything I liked. One day I happened upon a red fastback at a shady car dealer next to a strip club, and while taking the test drive, I fell absolutely in love. I got completely ripped off, paying $4880 for a 9 year old car with 140k+ miles. That said, I still own the car and I don't regret buying it one bit.

I regret cutting away my battery box for the custom short ram intake I had for awhile.

I think Lisa fell for me because of it, and I can't recall having been embarrassed in it, beyond the time when the clutch crapped out on me at a freeway offramp.

[Bubbles]

yeah brah you can do madtyte drifz in the snow bra and in the rain


You've got mail brosky.

[C. Senor]

i honestly fell into one. i had a maxima that i had "upgraded." got me loving nissan. broke the maxima, so i needed a new car and i wanted to go rwd. my brother suggested a 240. we looked into it...5 months of looking and i found my 2 tone coupe and have loved it ever since.

embarrasing?....when i got a faulty rack and my steering locked, spun out run up a freeway entrance and popped a tire. bout it. that and when it was like 6 colors. lol.

regrets? i dont think i have any.

and my car definitely helps initiate some convo's, and gets me compliments from girls..especially about the color. lol. i love it.

[bigOdom1]

I wanted a turbo car, I wanted rwd and I wanted to spend less than 10,000 dollars. my room mates brother got a mazda protege and i bought his 240 (that had not been washed in three years) and a front clip and a clutch and the konis and ground control setup all within the month of August 2003. periodically over the next few months i took apart the clip. with it all torn down and no place to keep it in the current condition i took it to someone to wire it all and tie up other odds and ends (best idea i ever had luckily). after about a month i was driving it and then the bug hit, i joined the forums and actually started to read things (im still a fool about most of it after six years) and try to put away as much money as i could on it.


everytime i stall the car.

regret everything every time my bank account only has numbers after the period. but then its soon gone when i drive to go overdraw the account.

i have met girls stopped at red lights in my car and that mug in my avatar sure isnt what I like seeing in the mornings.

[Flipzide]

Saw Initial D in late 2001. Thought it was cool.. started reading up on it and found out about S13s. I was just starting 7th grade at the time, i think.. damn that was a while ago..

Got an s13 when i got my license at 16. First real mod was an LSD, booyah.

[SexPanda]

i just got my learners permit... at a local used car dealership i saw a little blue sports car. I bought it because it looked kinda cool.

i didnt know what rear wheel drive was, or a ka24, or drifting, or drag...

I just knew i had a little japanese car that kinda looked like a corvette with the popup headlights. I was like hells yeah.

[OneForMe]

too be honest tokyo drift got me into INITAL D.

INITIAL D got me into FD's

So i got an RX-8 because modded FD's were more expensive then my used 8

FC's looked ugly and still do to me

next drift hatcback that looked similar to an FD or FC was an s13,

totalled my Rx-8

fell in love with the flip up lights and layz eyes of a hatchback so i picked up an s13

[k-love]

I was looking for a car and was just going around looking at preludes, eclipses etc. at sellers, etc. A guy down the street from my old house had an s13 for 400$ that ran, 5spd, sohc, still regret not getting it, I saw it and loved the way it looked had no clue what it was. So a year or so later I see this sexy ass red car in the parkinglot while we are at dinner, completly stock 98 240sx, wow i didnt even know they made them in this year/bodystyle! I take down the number etc. and do research and end up making the purchase not long after!

I regret spending money on stupid stuff when I should have done suspension/5speed swap FIRST.

I love my baby, her name is Lucy, she is tempermental, but has her problems, but I would never give her up for another car. I wouldnt trade it for something nicer, I have an attatchment to my kouki haha.

It helped me meet some girls, yeah, "omg you have such a nice car" etc. the girl im talking to now actually is turned on by the fact that I race... saweet!

[ESmorz]

too be honest tokyo drift got me into INITAL D.

INITIAL D got me into FD's

So i got an RX-8 because modded FD's were more expensive then my used 8

FC's looked ugly and still do to me

next drift hatcback that looked similar to an FD or FC was an s13,

totalled my Rx-8

fell in love with the flip up lights and layz eyes of a hatchback so i picked up an s13

Talk about a downgrade.

[deolio]

in middle school my friend had a foreign exchange student from japan living with his family. the kid was crazy about drifting. he gave me a couple of issues of option and i fell in love.

no regrets so far.

it's a good conversation piece with girls. they always want me to take them drifting, so i guess that's good...

[blackrms13]

the sexyness of 180sx

[OneForMe]

Talk about a downgrade.



lol.

no way. i love my s13 more then i did my 8

[Bubbles]

too be honest tokyo drift got me into INITAL D.


Fail.

Initial D is amazing and Tokyo Drift sucks.




INITIAL D got me into FD's


Success.


So i got an RX-8 because modded FD's were more expensive then my used 8


Fail.

Don't buy a Civic expecting to get a Ferrari.



FC's looked ugly and still do to me

Fail.

To be honest, this should be grounds for a ban.




totalled my Rx-8

Success.



fell in love with the flip up lights and layz eyes of a hatchback so i picked up an s13


Fail.

Get an FD, total it and have it towed to my place.

[bigOdom1]

Fail.........................
Get an FD, total it and have it towed to my place.

who made you judge jury and executioner shut the hell up

[Bubbles]

Who are you?

[OneForMe]

I am Manuel Marruenda

son Of Juan Marruenda

Brother of Diego Marruenda

Brother Of Hannah Marruenda

Boyfriend of Katie

Owner of Creamsicle my gunie pig

[Enna]

Gran Turismo 1. Unlocked the full raced out red S14 kouki. Drove the shit out of that car. Loved the styling, the rims, everything about it. Wanted one ever since. I think I was 12 when I first played it.

Picked up my S14 as a zenki back in feb of 07. Yes it did take me 9 years to get it, lotta shit happened in the meantime. Since then I've wrecked it and rebuilt it as a kouki.

My dream car is coming together piece by piece.

[kaking]

i wanted an integra then my junior year of HS i saw drifting on tv. back then most of the cars competing were S13's. thats when i knew i wanted one. i bought my first hatch before i ever evan drove or sat in 240sx

[coww-cho!!!!!]

I used to work for Pole Position Raceway and i asked my friend to come in and race with me for free to see if he wanted to work as a mechanic. at the start of the race he was close behind and i just lose him in every turn and slow down at straight aways so he could catch up

after the race he was like oh shit i didnt know you could drift. shit was crazy fast

and i was like huh? whats a drift? i dont get you. i just drive that way because i can carry the speed a lot better around the corners

then he showed me some d1 shiz
and i was looking for a fun car at the time but never knew these cars existed he told me to get a s14 but i was like nah i already have a camry lol i found a s13 later and got hooked. for a great deal too

[ESmorz]

who made you judge jury and executioner shut the hell up

I did.

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumb_324/1224339062j0elZy.jpg

[jskateborders]

I got it for like 400 or something. I always wanted an integra growing up, but my freind was selling the 240 for 400, so I was like, Ill pick this up till I can buy a teg. Then I got my teg, and when it came down to choose to sell one, well I sold the teg. And actually I got into the whole import thing when I was like 18 (omg, 2 years ago). Before that I didnt really care much about cars, I just skated and such. First sem in college though I hung out with alot of kids in the import scene, so wed alway roll around in their cars, and eventually, it grew on me.
BTW, Grammar day is over.

[kingkilburn]

I wanted an S13 fastback forever but when I was a kid I had no idea what it was. Fast forward to 2003, I started getting into r/c drifting. One guy I used to talk to online had my dream car as the shell for his car. I asked him what it was and the rest is history.

The most embarrassing thing is knowing in hind sight that I got hosed with this car. I've spent to much just to keep it running. I could have bought a turbo FC and had more reliability.

My ex hated my car. Made her boobs hurt. S13 =\= pussy magnet.

[ronmcdon]

just wanted an affordable, fun to drive, cheap to buy, cheap to insure, unpopular with thieves (was back when I picked it up) rwd daily to replace my older miata.

Was looking at FC's, S13s, and S14s. Found a cheaper S14 shell and went on from there. It still is more or less my daily, aside from when it breaks down. My S14 has been one of the most unreliable and expensive to own cars I've had. went through 2 transmissions the past 6 months alone.

[mkiv98]

bought it at dealer auction 2 years ago

regret trying to put an aftermarket carpet in

[bigboto_boy]

i was actually into hondas mad honda fan here haha still am

but i got bored of drag racing and what not and my homie was a drift freak and he took me drifting and i fell in love from there i said fuck fwd and i traded my hatchie for a clean ass s13 hatchie i miss my honda cause it was superduper fast but i love my s13 cause i can do more thigns than go straight and get jacked lol

most embrassing thing was when i first drifted i understeered like a mofo and almost hit my homies car

yesh girls like drifting and racing so i pull bitches liek theres no tomorrow when i say wanna go drift haha

nope i did not fall in love with imports during the fnf times i liked cars since i was a lil kid i used to collect those import toy cars lol

kinda regret getting this s13 i have cause its got some minor issues causing me to hate it sometimes haha

[ILoveJDM]

back in 2002 when I was 14 and didnt know shit about cars but enjoyed learning about new things and playing video games,

my cousin bought a 89 240sx, it was one of the first sports cars in my family i was exposed to (the very first being an old 911).

one day while we were having a family get together, my cousin popped in his GranTurismo 3 disc and started playing on his file, and i noticed he was driving a 240sx, like the one he had outside.

Being severly influenced, i went home and started my own file and came to like the look of the s13 and started looking for my first 240 a few months later.

dont know what kind of cars i would be into right now if it wasnt for him

[karl wasabi]

For me it was Gran Turismo 1, Option DVD's, and yes...drifting.

[keistyle]

im gonna be cool and sat gt1/2
and txrz

[Vision Garage]

my boy X got me into the s chassis game! SON!!! ONE LUV!

http://www.sofacinema.co.uk/guardian/images/products/8/80078-large.jpg

[94cc0rd]

my buddy got me into 240s...

I was looking for a car because my sister had taken the car we were supposedly 'sharing'. I started liking the Scion tC (thank goodness i didn't get one) but my pops told me to get a used car because my insurance would be too high because of a speeding ticket on my record.

I was looking around at civics, accords, integras, altimas, maximas, the typical honda/nissan/toyotas for teens. My buddy tells me to look into 240s and showed me some drifting videos and i was like, dude thats lame. But I started to like how s14s looked and went to go check out a 95 white zenki which turned out to be a 98 black kouki (lol)..

I regret the day I took a freeway onramp too fast and went curb surfing. But I did learn my lesson...

[bardabe]

for me, it was the next cheapest alternative after my dad wrecked my First Z32, plus it was a Silvia not a 240sx it was a nice adventure for me. haha now im back in Z32 land.

[JDM_inspired]

Option (car mag)

[DoriftoPnoy]

Never knew anything about the S-chassis when I got my car. Just remembered hearing the name Silvia somewhere. So my dad looked into it when we were shopping for my first car. The first one he showed me was the one I ended up with. Knew nothing about the SR motor it had to the K's aero already on it. Furthermore I didnt know how to drive stick so learning a stage 2 clutch was fun...

[240sxdriftin]

i fell into my first one...i always wanted a 300zx but couldnt afford one, ended up with a 1990 hatch, bone stock...been with 240s ever since, on my 6th one now....got my first one 5 years ago

[origin_s135]

in high school a friend sold me a beat up one for 900. i really liked the way it performed, dropped with tokico's, super loud exhaust. but then years later i wanted a mint condition one, so that's how i got into it.

[TravisSW]

gran turismo 1
was amazing lol
wanted a s13 coupe ever since
and now i have tew


Ditto, I had the two tone green S13 coupe, but I ended up buying a green S14 coupe. :D

Regret doing? Being too gung ho and buying it w/o much research and buying it from a shady place. lol

Has it gotten me laid? Yes actually haha.

[OneForMe]

to be honest also.

i always thought that there was only one kind of 240sx which was the s14.


i kid in my school 2 years ago had an s13. he told me he had a 240sx but since at the time i thought all 240s looked like s14s. i was shocked and i loved the look of the car.

to be honest i spend that whole summer looking online learning about them.

and then i saw this video

YouTube - dr1ft.jp :: Osaka Touge Drift (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiYqY2MNM54)

FELL IN LOVE WITH THAT GREEN ORIGIN HATCH


AND FOR THAT WHOLE SUMMER 10 TIMES A DAY I WATCHED THAT VIDEO

and that sealed the deal

[theronin]

wanted something that wasnt 4 dr was 4 cyl newer than 93 and was rwd. not many cars fall into that category. the rest, as you could say, is history.

[mtyost]

Sport Compact Car

[S14TEENZ]

I was visiting family out of the states...when i got home she was sitting in the driveway a burgundy 95 s14 auto..that was when i was 15 and it sparked it off...every tells me " another 240" .
i prefer the zenki.
my dad had a 92 s13 and a 91 turbo mr2 in his younger days so he put me in his footsteps.

[ANVIL]

-what got you into s13's - 14's?
my classmate at UTI AZ, Nate (who ive lost contact with, and regret because id love to show him how much ive done to my car since). he went from a 99 Si to a s14 and wouldnt shut up about how awesome 240s were. at the time i was selling my 93 Prelude because i was tired of it. (i riced it out in 2001-2002 when that was still rare, and cool up here). initially i was going to get an EG hatch to build but when i saw the pricing on s13s and the potential of an RB i jumped ship. ironically i ended up buying an EG hatch 2 years and which is now H22 powered and i love both of them

-what was your first emberassing memory relating to your first S car.
dying on the highway coming home from school. luckily it was only a loose battery cable

-whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time
not much, just regretting not getting a few other 240s i looked at. i turned down a really nice s13 hatch with a full real bn sports kit, kouki tails, eastbear lights, ka24de because the ignition was broken and it didnt have an interior. i was going to pay 3500 for it but talked him down to 2200 and i still didnt pick it up. still regret it.
another one i looked at and regret not picking up is another clean s13 hatch but it had z32 brake conversion/wheels all around and lsd. i think he wanted 2600 or 2800. also still regret that. but im pretty happy with the one i ended up with even though it was all stock except for the deck and the glove box re-upholstered.

-has it helped you gotten laid or atleast gotten you a girl
no. my s13 has looked like a POS until last aug when i painted it. my prelude did though, i was still in hs when i had that car.

[Phlip]

I started driving in 1995, and used to see a Zenki S14 around town ALL the time, and I just really liked the way they looked. I had a 81 Buick Regal at the time.
Fuck, I was 16 and working in a grocery store to keep some of the pressure off of my family, so damn if I could AFFORD anything more than a-to-b transportation, but I was not to forget that damn car.
1997 - I have graduated high school now, and that car I so liked was still a little beyond my means, and the new ones are ugly as fucking sin (yes, I have hated Kouki S14's from the gate). Now I have an Oldmobile Cutlass Supreme (sold), and will soon have a 92 Supra (wrecked), then another Cutlass (blown engine), then an 85 Carolla SR5 (sold), and I am nearing the end of college, working full time at a decent job and yaddayaddayadda... Keep in mind, that my only use of the internet to this point was ALL for school and not for recreation, so I knew nothing more about motorsports than what I saw on television, didn't give a fuck about magazines and a "drifter" was a homeless person who went from city to city as far as I knew.
Hey, I got money now, it is March 2001 and I am looking for a car I can actually like, so I am looking through an auto trader and I see a lot in the next county had a 95 for sale, so I swing by and test drive and I like it, so I fill out the paperwork, drop by the next day and pick it up. No plans for it, I was not into heavy modifications and shit, I was thinking nothing more than wheels, tint and stereo at the time, and had those within a few months.
I knew nothing, so the wheels were TERRIBLE fitment, but I had gotten them DUMB cheap, the stereo was as I liked it though, as I had had something in every car I had ever owned...

Then I discovered forums...

My desires for the car changed quickly, B&M shifter, eibach springs and AGX, got it painted and was in the middle of plans to turbo a KA for the car, then I flipped and rolled it and spent 16 days in the hospital.

It was like a bug, though... Even in the hospital, I was planning to either fix mine or get another. Information gained in the in-between of buying and losing the first one had me willing to accept S13 OR S14, I would go for Coupe OR Fastback, but I was NOT willing to take a Kouki S14...
Friend of mine happened to have an 89 coupe shell he was needing to unload before he took a contract job in the middle east, for only 500.00, it was an auto car that the engine had been blown in, he had converted it for twincam already and changed his mind, so no engine/tranny was in the car... Body was clean, as was the interior, so I grabbed a KA from the junkyard and gathered parts from friends for the 5-speed swap. My plans (more hopes than anything at this point) are more grandiose than anything I might have imagined for a car before it, even still though more conservative than the shit that some of these children jerk off to.

Long story I know, but at the beginning of it all was simply the fact that I saw and liked the Zenki S14 when they were knew that got me to notice them, and having owned one is what has kept me INTO them.
Most likely, it will have to be a wreck totaling this one to tear me from it, even when I get a daily and can finish modding it.



what got you into s13's - 14's?
Answered above.

what was your first emberassing (sic) memory relating to your first S car.
Driving back to a party, a faulty aftermarket water pump wobbled, causing my clutch fan to hit my distributor, 3 friends and I had to push my car up a hill to their apartment parking lot.

whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time
Those damned wheels.

has it helped you gotten laid or atleast gotten you a girl
Let's get real, these cars attract DUDES, not women. Since I ain't into love from the homies, no sex has resulted from owning an s-chassis and it has been almost 8 years now.

[lflkajfj12123]

video option and and something i can tuck 18's on

[somovr4]

The panda got me into them. We usually tokyo drifted all over southern missouri.

[Otto347]

Watching Option videos and other assorted JDM dvds. But I remember seeing a yellow 180sx in one of those videos and that's what did it. Only problem was I couldn't afford another car at the time (around 98 or 99). Then I was starting to save some money for a few years and the drifting thing blew up. I got pissed cause I wasnt going to buy a 240 in the midst of the whole drifting craze. So here I am almost 10 years later and had gotten over the sr20 swap (was going to use it in my nissan hardbady) and had started reading up on LS1 engines and a buddy at work told me he had a 93 S13 hatch for sale with no engine or trans for $300. Picked up the LSx from him also and so it starts...........................

[Xbroke_kidX]

wow gt1 and 2 i was still into random shit, wasnt untill freshman year of highschool playing gt4 with some friends i discovered drifting and the S chassis

[HyperTek]

240sx s13 because in 2000 -01 no one had them. and they where sports cars, baby z32s.

[thesimpleS13]

what got you into s13's - 14's?
Family has been into Nissan's for a while, but what got me was......the drifting shit, saw so many hatches around this time (2003 - 2004), not to many coupes, I wanted a S13 coupe so bad after that. Then I came across the S14 which I didn't see to many of back then, either, loved the look of the zenki! Got a S14 zenki after saving up for the longest time, sold it two weeks later, and got a S13 coupe.

what was your first emberassing memory relating to your first S car.
Locking my keys in my car when me, my friend, and this one chick went out to eat the week i got my s13 coupe.

whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time
nothing at all

has it helped you gotten laid or atleast gotten you a girl
kinda not really, but kinda....-_-, don't really care about that incident anymore...

[ESmorz]

240sx s13 because in 2000 -01 no one had them. and they where sports cars, baby z32s.

People had them.

They weren't all in junk yards.

;)

[Chad4061]

loved the looks of s14 kouki and it was rear wheel drive! Also my friends drive s chassis...one zenki one kouki.

[aznpoopy]

what got you into s13's - 14's?
girlfriend was into rx7's, which got me into cars. i was too pussy to buy one since i knew jack about the cars at the time, so i settled for the next best thing.

what was your first emberassing memory relating to your first S car
posting a thread on zilvia mentioning a 'kane' (k&n) filter

whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time
yes, i paid a shop like 200 bucks to change the rear tranny oil seal. and it still leaked after they "fixed" it.

has it helped you gotten laid or atleast gotten you a girl
i guess that would technically be a yes; i'm still with that same girl like 7 years later. we have car buddies, we work on cars and she has like 3 FC's now.

[BoostSlideWayz]

Ive always liked S13's but i never really would consider buying one untill i was looking for a daily driver on craigslist. i found an S13 for 800 bucks and i said well either way running or not 800 bucks is worth it. but it ended up being the exact opposite than what i needed for.... stricked track

[enkei2k]

what got you into s13's - 14's?
my best friend got a SR'd s14 and i had no idea wtf that shit was. after looking into it, i thought 'oh shit this is pretty cool'. Plus the fact that I couldn't afford/find any 1999 Eclipse GSX either. I settled for one myself.

what was your first emberassing memory relating to your first S car.
stalling the second day i got it and rolling down a hill almost hitting someone behind me.

whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time
i regret buying Volks rims for my stock car as a first 'upgrade' 2k right there where i could have spent half that on some ghetto rota's or some shit.

has it helped you gotten laid or atleast gotten you a girl
i think so...? i'm not sure if my girl is with me because of my car or not. but whatever.

[ZX88]

what got you into s13's - 14's?
seeing them in hot version and option videos

what was your first emberassing memory relating to your first S car.
stalling on a hill 3 times in traffic lol when i first swap the trans

whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time
alot buying springs and shocks only to swap them for coiloverts six month later and thinking a 3inch exhaust was cool on an auto kade lol

has it helped you gotten laid or atleast gotten you a girl
the last girl i was with thought it was cool looking and she like the names i gave it. but she could proabably care less about it. but she was korean so....

[dert420sx]

Nissans have been a family thing for us. Growing up on Guam I had a couple cousins who had s13's and a neighbor who had a zenki s14 that was absolutely clean. I used to stare at the car in his driveway whenever i would leave or pull up to the house. My dad gave his 1985 200sx (s12) to me when I got my drivers license in 1996 and I drove that thing all thru h.s.

The mid-to-late-nineties on Guam consisted of mosly riced out Hondas with cut springs, bolt-on headers and exhausts, or slammed Toyota and Nissan trucks equipped with loud ass Flowmasters. The only thing people built their vehicles for at the time was street/drag racing. The emissions regulations aren't as strict as here in California and you could run a straight pipe if you wanted.

My S12 wasn't fast enough to run with those guys but I enjoyed driving the hell out of it on the twisty roads and it was great on gas! I didn't really mod it, save for an exhaust. I heard about drifting from a h.s. soccer teammate of mine who was Japanese but my only opinion of it at the time was that it was just a waste of tires! lol

I graduated H.S. in 1998. By that time, my younger brother (2 yrs younger) also had an interest in cars but he was more ricer. He had a 1989 2.0 Prelude Si that was molested with same cut springs and ricer add-ons. He could never touch me on the twisties with his cut springs but he would smoke me off the line in a drag race. We were just different drivers with different styles. I liked grip driving and he loved dragging. I loved Nissans and he loved Hondas.

I moved to California that fall for school. Sadly, I had to leave behind my S12. The first few months in California sucked without a car. Luckily a friend at school said his dad had a car for sale but it was a shitbox and he didnt know what it was. I went over to check it out and upon looking in the driveway, I felt like I had seen a ghost. There sitting in the driveway was my old S12! Well, not my car from Guam but the exact same white hatchback! But it was automatic and the highest gear you could put it in was auto 3, but he only wanted $500 for it. Picked that baby up right away!

I drove that car to work and school for a year and half before it got stolen in Cerritos- at a laundromat of all places! So come 2000, I haven't had a car for a few mos. when someone in my neighborhood put a silver zenki s14 se for sale for only $2000! I thought not bad considering the car's only 5yrs old.

I've had the car since and she's still a blast to drive. I don't drift, though it's cool to watch all you guys do it! Just not for me. My pockets aren't deep enough to afford all the tires and upgraded parts. I might wanna try autocross once or twice. My gf always wonders why I don't just buy a newer car. I reply that I love not having a car payment. And when something major is wrong with my car, like a blown motor (I'm on my 2nd ka) I just take it to my mechanic and pay him. He's an ASE Master Technician so I have no troubles leaving it at his shop. Not to say that I don't know my way under a car. I just prefer to leave the major things to the pros who have much better tools than I.

So I still live in L.A. with my dogs, my gf, and my mistress Silvia. =)

/life story :blah::blah:
sorry for the long read guys.....well, not really.

[Logan]

what got you into s13's - 14's?

I was looking for a car for a daily driver / to modify and I didn't want a Honda

Option videos, Initial D, haha

I ain't embarassed though, those were the MOST fun days aka the GOLDEN AGE OF 240SX (2000-2004)

I also came across sites like Slidesquad, Sileightymania, Nadine180, Brakeoff, etc that got me into S chassis in Socal specifically

what was your first embarrassing memory relating to your first S car.

16x7+38 / 16x8+38 Watanabe RS-8's

LOL

whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time

Paid MSRP installed for a set of Tein Flex coilovers
Paid MSRP installed for a set of Cusco OS F&R strut bars

has it helped you gotten laid or at least gotten you a girl

FUCK NO

LOL

[Bubbles]

I did.

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumb_324/1224339062j0elZy.jpg


You just gave me a raging clue.

[ronmcdon]

sorry missed the other questions;

what was your first embarrassing memory relating to your first S car.

Got my rear windows smashed once.
Was really more annoying than anything,
but still it felt kinda silly driving around like that for a couple of days.

whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time

I kinda regret getting super-conservative offset CE28's (front in 17x8.5 + 25, & rear in 17x9.5 + 35),
but they do the job just fine.

has it helped you gotten laid or atleast gotten you a girl

No way. some chicks enjoy driving my 240 for whatever reason,
but it would be a stretch to claim it can create the impossible.
the 240 is more a cock magnet than anything else.

I've gotten the most female attention from my old miata,
not that it produced any meaningful results.

[driven_]

my brother, his hatch, his HKS ssqv, and almost hitting a guy on a bike who was jay-riding.

sr20 powahhh.

[drftwerks]

Sweet king of candy
chmercer

[cgtdream]

what was your first embarrassing memory relating to your first S car.

..........none yet

whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time

Buying a rolling chassis for about 2300, and then having to shell out another 200+an engine just to pay off shop fees the previous owner was "kind enough" to tell me about...:mepoke:

has it helped you gotten laid or atleast gotten you a girl

NO

[Touge Noob S13]

what got you into s13's - 14's?
I got into imports back when I was in 5th grade just that I really hated FWD Hondas (still dont like them but not as much as I used to) which everyone had. My dad had a pignose hatch which was his dd, I thought it looked cool. I started looking at the import mags but couldnt find anything (the only 240 I found was one in a JIC ad). My dad sold the car, I got my learners permit and bought a clean 91 coupe for $2300. Its currently my dd and in better condition than when I bought it.

what was your first emberassing memory relating to your first S car
It was the car I used when I was learning to drive stick

whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time
I stripped a thread in one of the holes for the passenger seat. (Im going to get it fixed at my job, I work part-time at Mckinny Motorsports:))

has it helped you gotten laid or atleast gotten you a girl
Some what, a friend of mine likes playing with the headlights and she thinks it looks like an SW20 MR2.

[ms!3]

I used to read super street and shit back in the 8th grade. I saw a picture of daijiro yoshiharas coupe crashing into a wall at formula d. I thought his car looked bad ass.

When I turned 16 the only car I wanted was an s13 coupe. But then I had to sell it:tweak: Probably get another one when I have the time for it.

[lflkajfj12123]

Sweet king of candy
chmercer

also of this

[JRas]

I wanted a car.. got stuck on 300zx's

ended up getting smart and buying an s14 :D

[Driven08]

what got you into s13's - 14's?
My friend had and S13 and looked pretty cool in person and ran great. I also saw the d1gp event and thought it was badass.

what was your first emberassing memory relating to your first S car
I wasnt able to properly drive stick at the time and it would stall on me all the time.

whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time
Put a cheap ass welded exhaust on to the downpipe of the car. It was a pain to put on a bolt on exhaust later on.

has it helped you gotten laid or atleast gotten you a girl
It helped me take out chicks but nothing else.

[ManoNegra]

Had a 91 Celica as my first car in late 90s
got the bug to modify but couldn't find anything for it
saw Intial D and a guy at work had Option vids
wanted a AE86 as my first choice
later became interested in Sil80s till I realized they were played out
found an 89 5 speed base model hatch
this was around early 2002
Have had four since: 89 hatch, 95 S14, 91 hatch and another 95 S14

[SochBAT]

what got you into s13's - 14's?
I got my first one free!

what was your first emberassing memory relating to your first S car
Driving it around after my dad crashed into random crap.

whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time
Getting it all janky. And primered.

has it helped you gotten laid or atleast gotten you a girl?
I wish.

[SDS13COUPE]

what got you into s13's - 14's?
I've always liked the way they looked. I remember ditching school to hit the mall and play Initial D back in HS. All my friends were honda guys, so I told myself not to get one. I bought my S13 coupe in 03 and loved every minute of it. From tranny swaps on my back, to busting knuckles trying to loosen 20 year old bolts.

what was your first embarassing memory relating to your first S car?
The first day I bought my car I was driving on the freeway to show my friend my car and someone cut me off bad, so still new to the rwd I pull back hard and spin out on the freeway in rush hour traffic. I remember being in the 4th lane and some how manuvering my car all the way to the shoulder while spinning out. My heart was pumping but it felt cool at the same time. I knew what drifting was before I got me car and said f*%k it get used to it.

whats one thing you regret doing to your car during that newb time?
I don't really have any regrets.

has it helped you get laid or at least gotten you a girl?
Nope. Just a bunch of guy friends. LOL

[Matej]

Hariguchi sang to me in a dream.

[Xbroke_kidX]

^ haha lucky!!!

what was your first embarassing memory relating to your first S car?
stalling on a hill the first day i got it because it ran like crap
whats one thing you regret doing to your car during that newb time?
rattle can paint....
has it helped you get laid or at least gotten you a girl?
hahah....no

[ThatGuy89]

had always been into cars. started looking around at import magazines when i was like 14. wanted pretty much any kind of import when i turned 16, but since i'm bad at saving money parentals got me a s-10. was still always into to the import scene and had some friends that had hondas, nissans, subies, ect. one friend has a s14 with a sr20. i really feel in love with the car but when i started looking i realized i like the s13 coupes so much more. found one with a bad motor and now i'm swapping in 95ka.

my regret is not researching and planning enough ahead of time. this swap is taking way to long

[xKennie]

what got you into s13's - 14's?
i aint gonna lie but when i was younger i use to love need for speed games and when i saw it in the game i fell in love and promised myself when im older i will buy one.

what was your first emberassing memory relating to your first S car
hahahah when i bought my first hatch i thought it was a single cam due to the chuki front bumper and thought pignose was a dual cam hahahahah

whats one thing you regret doing to you or your car during that newb time
the first one i bought was auto and didnt know how fast a 240 can go thru oil and umm ya on the way home from getting it i didnt check it and engine seized up :bowrofl: (but now i took it out had it rebuilt and its a fresh ka-t about to be swapped in)

has it helped you gotten laid or atleast gotten you a girl
gotten laid from it, no.
compliments from alot of girls yes. my gf LOVES the car and all her friends and my friends at my old high school always know its me behind the wheel of a s13 if im next to the area.

[DataXUnknown]

In the racing simulator Live For Speed, they have cars that kinda look like FC's and truenos and such, Which at the same time I started watching Initial D. Then I got to the sileighty episode with the 2 chicks. Loved the car. Couldn't afford one at the time (or so I thought) so I bought a cressida expecting to be super JDM and get a 1jz and all that jazz and be a cool drifter.

I then realized how much money I make and how easy it is to get parts for the S13 and how much more fun they are, so I decided to ditch the Cressida and go for the S13. Oh and Colin Frost had a lot of inspiration to me as well.

[Bubbles]

I started watching Initial D. Then I got to the sileighty episode with the 2 chicks.


Leave it to two rug munchers to make the quickest pass on Usui.

[silversr]

When I first saw the super street (99,00) article about komatsu and his dark green s15 converted 180sx.