New guy looking for advice

[5150james]

Hello everyone i am looking to pick up a 1992 nissan 240sx tomarrow and i would like some advice on if it is a good buy or not and what to look for when i go.
heres the specs he has:

1992 sr20det red top with 45xxx miles
it has custom FMIC
synapse synchronic bov
three inch piping exhaust with magna flow passes smog with no problem
garret gt2871r turbo
tial 38mm external wastegate open dump
walboro 255 fuel pump
nismtune piggy back ecu tuned at 15 psi by trev tec
megan racing 3 inch elbow
welded diff
silvia front end

a couple pics

http://i51.tinypic.com/30jlljm.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/oqbw43.jpg

http://i53.tinypic.com/nx851z.jpg

The guy is askn 4500 does that sound reasonable?

Thank you for any and all help

[S14kouki_10]

What are the cons>?

[5150james]

hes havin a baby? but i guess that would be a con for him haha. . from what he has told me it is clean inside and out i will see it in person tomarrow.

[benj1159]

^^^ that i am going to buy it tomorrow ^^^

[5150james]

Should i be looking for anything thats not as obvious as smoke on start up, grinds, leaks and stuff like that?

[5150james]

^^^ that i am going to buy it tomorrow ^^^

lmao you cant buy i got dibs

[benj1159]

^^going to but it right nao^^

[sac]

Im gonna buy it right meow! ;)

[5150james]

so you sayn if it checks out its a good deal?

[HPKMotorsports3]

looks good jack it up to check the chassis to make sure there is no rust... check the eng oil to make sure its clean of debris or shavings... check for smoke while car is jacked up check to see if the ball joints and tie rods are bad..

[5150james]

looks good jack it up to check the chassis to make sure there is no rust... check the eng oil to make sure its clean of debris or shavings... check for smoke while car is jacked up check to see if the ball joints and tie rods are bad..

thank you for the tips! it is greatly appriciated! will the ball joints be loose or whats a good wear sign on them?

[pink godzila]

check the VIN number.

Any turbo leak etc...

Smell if burning gas..

Ask who did the swap... where he got the SR.. etc

I would say $4000 my max.

[5150james]

4k you think? i was gonna try an talk him down. he started at 5k what would be some good points to talk him down?

and thank you for your help!

[pink godzila]

Between 4000 ~ 4500... if you can save some why not...

[5150james]

exactly. I really thank you all for the warm welcom and the helpfulness! Hopefully tomarrow i will be the proud owner of a 240! and start learning the car inside and out

[5150james]

Gettin ready to go check out the car wish me luck everyone!

[WanganRunner]

I don't think $4,500 is unreasonable if the car is really mint.

Get out your magnet, run it over body panels to check for filler, eyeball the paint seriously, get under the car, etc.

[nissanfreak317]

Keep an eye out for any rust, shoddy wiring, battery location. If the car was originally an auto before the sr swap check to see if reverse lights work. Listen for potential rod knock, like ear to oil pan while running, sometimes it can be very faint. good luck though, this looks like a great deal if everything checks out.

[5150james]

Thank you for the tips everyone saw the car today an should be buying it this weekend I might have him bring it to a local shop to look it over just to be safe. It turned out I actually know the guy. He was in my auto class last semester. he let me take it for a spin and it ran grate no grinds or weird sounds when driving.

[FRpilot]

If the car was originally an auto before the sr swap check to see if reverse lights work.

just wondering... why wouldn't the reverse lights work. it's as simple as 2 wires. i've done 2 auto to manual swaps but my current dd reverse lights aren't working even though they were working before. what are the problems with this?

[nissanfreak317]

just wondering... why wouldn't the reverse lights work. it's as simple as 2 wires. i've done 2 auto to manual swaps but my current dd reverse lights aren't working even though they were working before. what are the problems with this?


Just a simple indication that whoever did the wiring for the swap really had no idea what they were doing, or was completely careless. It would just be something to take note of and prompt further investigation into other possible problems. I have seen many guys trying to sell off their plagued swaps because they screwed the wiring beyond belief and have no idea how to fix it.

For yours, I believe there is a reverse sensor on the transmission, you might want to check and see if it is connected/working properly.

[5150james]

Picked the car up today an drove it for damn near 8 hours after I got the insurance on it. Love this thing can't wait to learn the car and startworkin on it! thank you for your guys advise helped me a lot when checkin this car out asked questions that he wasn't prepared for kept him on his toes.

I have once question and will be calling the shop that tuned the car tomarrow. The guy said the bov isn't recirculated back to the intake an is just flowing open causing it to loose vacume an will die out if not brought down to idle slowly. I instanly started thinkn the tune due to it being tuned for 15psi. . Any insite would be helpful

[yingiang]

Picked the car up today an drove it for damn near 8 hours after I got the insurance on it. Love this thing can't wait to learn the car and startworkin on it! thank you for your guys advise helped me a lot when checkin this car out asked questions that he wasn't prepared for kept him on his toes.

I have once question and will be calling the shop that tuned the car tomarrow. The guy said the bov isn't recirculated back to the intake an is just flowing open causing it to loose vacume an will die out if not brought down to idle slowly. I instanly started thinkn the tune due to it being tuned for 15psi. . Any insite would be helpful

mine was vented also. even when bov went off and i just let the revs drop all the way down it did not die. i was running z32 maf also. i also didnt have irradic idle that some 240sx have when using vented bov.

[ManoNegra]

recirculate
open bov can the cause of a series of minor things like rough idle, running rich, flames out your ass, etc

ps proper sentence structure will make some of the older guys like me more willing to help you out in the future

[edguti18]

Won't pass smog is an sr. Ask him if the welds in the diff were done by a pro welder u would not want the welds to brake and ruin ur new car. Check that the clutch grabs good and boost and oil leakS. Goodluck with the car man.

[irritatedmax]

Congrats on the purchase. It looks like a good starting point.

Yeah, as ManoNegra said, recirculating the BOV will fix the idling down issue. It will cause stalling issues primarily and when you have an MAF setup (that isn't blow through) it is best to keep it recirculated. It isn't a fault of the shop who tuned it.

The ECU is NIStune and is a rechipped, reprogrammable ECU. It is a full on converted stock ECU - not a piggyback but not a standalone (think Hondata).

Good luck with the car.

[cardoza]

I'm also running a non-recirculated BOV with no issues and no special tuning.