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ixfxi · 11-08-2012, 12:32 PM

oh... i was talking about your 240

(jk)

RocketOgre · 11-24-2012, 01:51 AM

Nothing wrong with changing things up every now and then. I feel you would have been happier in Nissan's AWD turbo offering, but hey, kids can put those kind of toys out of the the price range.

drscooper · 11-24-2012, 07:57 AM

you get your evo yet?

Drift_This · 11-24-2012, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CamryOnBronze

Can't believe how fast the time goes- I was told by pretty much everyone that it would go fast, but it's crazy when you experience it for yourself.

This right here is so true. My nephew is 2 1/2 and it seems like last week he was a newborn. Now he has a new little brother (2 1/2 weeks old) and they are both growing up way to fast for me. I never believed it before those 2 little guys

CamryOnBronze · 11-26-2012, 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RocketOgre

Nothing wrong with changing things up every now and then. I feel you would have been happier in Nissan's AWD turbo offering, but hey, kids can put those kind of toys out of the the price range.

Yeah man, I don't make half the cost of one of those in a year, LOL.

Quote:

Originally Posted by drscooper

you get your evo yet?

I did actually. Post incoming!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drift_This

This right here is so true. My nephew is 2 1/2 and it seems like last week he was a newborn. Now he has a new little brother (2 1/2 weeks old) and they are both growing up way to fast for me. I never believed it before those 2 little guys

Totally crazy for sure!

future · 11-26-2012, 01:25 PM

Awaiting pictures. VIII or IX?

CamryOnBronze · 11-26-2012, 01:30 PM

VIII

Well, here it is! I managed to find an Evo that I was happy with...

I am the third owner of this car. It's a 2003 and I picked it up from a town West of Illinois with exactly 69,000 miles on the clock a week ago yesterday. The guy I bought it from has another VIII and built this one for his fiance to drive, but things didn't work out and he needed to sell the car. He owned it for a year and only drove it about 1,000 miles in that time span. Here are the current modifications:

AMS Intake (Vibrant/K&N)
AMS Downpipe, Resonated Test Pipe
Megan Catback Exhaust, O2 Housing
Precision 880cc injectors, Walbro 255 fuel pump
ETS LICP, FMIC
Evo IX BOV
Forge MBC
Exedy Twin HD Clutch (Less than 500 miles)
GSC S1 Cams
Skunk2 Lowering springs
DEPO JDM Tails
XXR 527 Wheels
20% Tint
AEM Analog Wideband
Defi Boost Gauge

Before him it was owned by a doctor who also had a GTR and some sort of BMW. He only used it as a weekend car and it has never seen a winter from what I understand, so I almost feel bad driving it year-round in Michigan. I'm planning to take the necessary precautions to keep it as nice as I can though!

I like the cams and fuel system mods, so those should stay put. I'll be replacing the full exhaust, wheels, tail lights, and gauges for sure though. I'm picking up some stock wheels and snow tires this week and selling the XXR wheels and current tires. I'll be removing the tint soon as well.

Overall the car seems to run really well. I am pretty happy with the condition of everything, but there are a few things I need to address. It seems to have the heater control mechanism issue that many 03s had, so ironically the heat doesn't work very well right now in the car. I ordered the revised gears and control cable last week, so I should hopefully have the time to fix that by the end of the week. The trim around the shifter was painted black and the cig lighter/ash tray are missing, so those items are on order as well.

The gauges will be removed from the column (drives me insane lol) and the great Toby is going to make a center bezel setup for me with my Defi gauges from the 240. It'll probably take a while for him to fab that up though. I'm planning to do coilovers and wheels, but will probably wait until the spring to install those items. No sense in getting them all salty this winter if I don't need to.

Anyway, I really like the car so far! I think everyone expects this build to be insane like my 240 was, but I can't afford to go that wild on such an expensive car. I'll for sure add some goodies to it and clean things up a bit, but it's going to be a slow process.

Here are some quick snaps of the car I took this morning before I left to plate and register it:

Thanks for reading! I'll do a quick blurb about the story of bringing the car home in the next post.

CamryOnBronze · 11-26-2012, 01:34 PM

I left Sunday morning at 7 AM and drove out to my brother's house in downtown Chicago. It was super foggy out when I left, but fortunately it cleared up about an hour or so into the drive.

There's a road in there somewhere...

Took the skyway on accident lol:

Chi-City:

The express lanes of I-94 were shut down going into downtown, and there were two cars sitting on their sides in the middle of the freeway. Looked super sketchy. After visiting with my brother for a bit, we set out on the hour or so drive out to the country to pick up the car in St. Charles. When we pulled in, Justin was outside cleaning up the bay and going over a few things. Super nice dude, and the car drove and looked great. I found out about the heater issue, which was a bit of a bummer, but for sure not worth backing out on the car over. We chatted for a while and loaded things up, did the paperwork, etc and I was on the way!

Signing the paperwork:

I met up with my best bro Kyle (King of Red 2012) in Naperville for lunch before hitting the road for the 5 hour drive home to Michigan:

Michigan Welcome Center:

The car never missed a beat on the way home, and I averaged 26 MPG, so I was pretty stoked about that. Much better than I anticipated from one of these cars. About an hour from home, I spotted two deer running from the median across the freeway about ten car lengths in front of me. I slammed on the brakes and steered towards their path to the right hand side shoulder. No idea why I went that way instead of left, but I am so glad I did. I somehow managed to split between the two deer and neither of them hit the car. I thought for sure if I cleared the one on the right, the one on the left would slam her head into the back door.

I glanced in the mirror and saw headlights and deer parts splattering everywhere. I am guessing there were others crossing as I went through that weren't so lucky. I grabbed second gear and dropped the hammer to get the heck out of there before I got rear ended. Very, VERY fortunate to make it home with the car and myself in one piece. Stupid deer!

Home safe and sound in the garage:

Poor 240, lol:

Excited to get to work on making this thing my own! Parts should be showing up soon.

Damon

future · 11-26-2012, 01:35 PM

I wouldn't expect anything less in how clean it is

How does it compare speed wise to the 40?

CleanAndLegit · 11-26-2012, 01:51 PM

^^ ridiculously faster im assuming since he only had a t28 set up, anyway awesome damon really really liking the evo, hopefully its really what you wanted, insanely clean in and out. I had a quick question, when you had to bend your ebrake brackets on the s13 how did you do it?

CamryOnBronze · 11-26-2012, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by future

I wouldn't expect anything less in how clean it is

How does it compare speed wise to the 40?

It's a bit hard to tell, but it feels quicker to me for some reason. I'll have to take it out to the drag strip for the hell of it in the spring and see what it traps. Granted, I won't be launching it like I did the 240, lol. But I am terrible at drag racing anyway, so it shouldn't matter too much.

Quote:

Originally Posted by CleanAndLegit

^^ ridiculously faster im assuming since he only had a t28 set up, anyway awesome damon really really liking the evo, hopefully its really what you wanted, insanely clean in and out. I had a quick question, when you had to bend your ebrake brackets on the s13 how did you do it?

Thanks man, I am liking it a lot so far. As for the brackets, I just hit them with a dead blow hammer until they cleared the driveshaft, lol.

future · 11-26-2012, 02:00 PM

I would not expect it to be much faster if anything. They are heavy and if you cath a evo out of boost its game over. That engine lives on boost

forgotten · 11-26-2012, 03:29 PM

i may be missed it while reading, but what are you doing with the s13 chassis?

Pinggg · 11-26-2012, 05:11 PM

Nice pickup dude,

drscooper · 11-26-2012, 05:13 PM

wow man awesome! i love the rally red! my fav color of them! glad you found one man im sure you'll make it bad ass!

tricky_ab · 11-26-2012, 05:19 PM

Ah it's nice to see you're new ride!

I can't wait to see what you have planned!

vehicle336 · 11-26-2012, 05:37 PM

I miss my Evo every day, spendy cars but absolutely worth it. I really won't be surprised when the 240 sits and is ignored while you start building the Evo. You say you just want to drive it and leave it, but trust me, you won't be able to. They're just too damn fun and too damn easy to mod.

VAs13 · 11-26-2012, 05:50 PM

is it bad that i kind of want an evo now? ive always had a soft spot in my heart for them, and now seeing how nice yours is makes me want one even more.

TMW · 11-26-2012, 07:07 PM

looks great damon

but those wheels... c'mon man

throw them in the garbage or something lol

in all seriousness, good luck with everything and the evo should be a lot of fun

future · 11-26-2012, 07:28 PM

Here you go, to start your build http://zilvia.net/f/sale-items/49040...-so-cheap.html

CamryOnBronze · 11-27-2012, 09:23 AM

haha, thanks guys. I've got some goodies on the way already... ugh lol.

Quote:

Originally Posted by forgotten

i may be missed it while reading, but what are you doing with the s13 chassis?

It's been parted out to about 95% stock. A good friend of mine is coming to see it this weekend and make arrangements to bring her to her new home.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TMW

looks great damon

but those wheels... c'mon man

throw them in the garbage or something lol

in all seriousness, good luck with everything and the evo should be a lot of fun

haha, thanks man. The wheels are killing me. Picking up stock wheels tonight and snow tires in the morning, so they should be gone by tomorrow!

I didn't have a lot of time last night. All I managed to do was swap the tail lights back to stock (until Russell gets his Evo VII tails in next month for me) and pick up my revised climate control gears and cable. Will be good to have that problem corrected:

Forgot to take a pic of the tails, but they are ugly anyway lol.

drscooper · 11-27-2012, 09:54 AM

what wheels are you planing on picking up?

jr_ss · 11-27-2012, 11:12 AM

I've always been a fan of the EVO, but I absolutely cannot stand the blue seats. Subaru did a similar thing and ruined the STI when they did that hideous blue interior. Oh well, I'm sure your seats won't be around long.

I wish my 12' STI got 26mpg on the interstate...

ShadowMan · 11-27-2012, 05:27 PM

I mean, its cool and clean and all, but I guess I'll just wait a couple years for it to get parted out because you had a kid or 2 more and then it will be as unpractical as your 240. Like I said, minivans bro, just start there and you'll never have to part it out. just saying.....

towlie · 11-27-2012, 06:30 PM

I like it. Wheel plans?

CamryOnBronze · 11-28-2012, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jr_ss

I've always been a fan of the EVO, but I absolutely cannot stand the blue seats. Subaru did a similar thing and ruined the STI when they did that hideous blue interior. Oh well, I'm sure your seats won't be around long.

I wish my 12' STI got 26mpg on the interstate...

Yeah, the blue is not ideal. But oh well I guess, haha. Maybe I can do MR seats or something down the road to get rid of that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShadowMan

I mean, its cool and clean and all, but I guess I'll just wait a couple years for it to get parted out because you had a kid or 2 more and then it will be as unpractical as your 240. Like I said, minivans bro, just start there and you'll never have to part it out. just saying.....

*Impractical. And that's why we have a Highlander- for kid hauling. I don't NEED this to cart kids around, but I want to at least have the option when I'd like to bring everyone along.

Quote:

Originally Posted by drscooper

what wheels are you planing on picking up?

Quote:

Originally Posted by towlie

I like it. Wheel plans?

Hoping for something from RAYS CO. Should be ordering by the end of December if things go my way.

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Picked up stock wheels and some junk tires last night:

Picking up some stock lugs tonight, selling the XXRs, and having some new snow tires put on tomorrow morning. It will be nice to have that out of the way. Here's a quick shot with the stock tails back on, lol:

Jlugo711 · 11-28-2012, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CamryOnBronze

Yeah, the blue is not ideal. But oh well I guess, haha. Maybe I can do MR seats or something down the road to get rid of that.

Hoping for something from RAYS CO. Should be ordering by the end of December if things go my way.

Going with RAYS CO. Wheels?.. might as well buy a Sparco or a Bride!

kyles1988 · 11-28-2012, 02:35 PM

Jlugo711 · 11-28-2012, 02:41 PM

I guess the wan face didn't set the joke off the way I thought it would.

Anyways... the Recaros would be sweet!

drscooper · 11-28-2012, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jlugo711

Going with RAYS CO. Wheels?.. might as well buy a Sparco or a Bride!

well there we go folks!

and nice man, should be a fun toy and will look great im sure!

11-24-2012, 01:51 AM	#3002
RocketOgre Leaky Injector Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Puyallup, WA Posts: 87 Trader Rating: (1) Feedback Score: 1 reviews	Nothing wrong with changing things up every now and then. I feel you would have been happier in Nissan's AWD turbo offering, but hey, kids can put those kind of toys out of the the price range. __________________ '89 hatch DD'd SR'd 2871'd - Sold 2006 Legacy GT Wagon

11-26-2012, 01:30 PM	#3007
CamryOnBronze Post Whore! Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: MI Age: 35 Posts: 3,913 Trader Rating: (131) Rides Gallery: CamryOnBronze Feedback Score: 131 reviews	VIII Well, here it is! I managed to find an Evo that I was happy with... I am the third owner of this car. It's a 2003 and I picked it up from a town West of Illinois with exactly 69,000 miles on the clock a week ago yesterday. The guy I bought it from has another VIII and built this one for his fiance to drive, but things didn't work out and he needed to sell the car. He owned it for a year and only drove it about 1,000 miles in that time span. Here are the current modifications: AMS Intake (Vibrant/K&N) AMS Downpipe, Resonated Test Pipe Megan Catback Exhaust, O2 Housing Precision 880cc injectors, Walbro 255 fuel pump ETS LICP, FMIC Evo IX BOV Forge MBC Exedy Twin HD Clutch (Less than 500 miles) GSC S1 Cams Skunk2 Lowering springs DEPO JDM Tails XXR 527 Wheels 20% Tint AEM Analog Wideband Defi Boost Gauge Before him it was owned by a doctor who also had a GTR and some sort of BMW. He only used it as a weekend car and it has never seen a winter from what I understand, so I almost feel bad driving it year-round in Michigan. I'm planning to take the necessary precautions to keep it as nice as I can though! I like the cams and fuel system mods, so those should stay put. I'll be replacing the full exhaust, wheels, tail lights, and gauges for sure though. I'm picking up some stock wheels and snow tires this week and selling the XXR wheels and current tires. I'll be removing the tint soon as well. Overall the car seems to run really well. I am pretty happy with the condition of everything, but there are a few things I need to address. It seems to have the heater control mechanism issue that many 03s had, so ironically the heat doesn't work very well right now in the car. I ordered the revised gears and control cable last week, so I should hopefully have the time to fix that by the end of the week. The trim around the shifter was painted black and the cig lighter/ash tray are missing, so those items are on order as well. The gauges will be removed from the column (drives me insane lol) and the great Toby is going to make a center bezel setup for me with my Defi gauges from the 240. It'll probably take a while for him to fab that up though. I'm planning to do coilovers and wheels, but will probably wait until the spring to install those items. No sense in getting them all salty this winter if I don't need to. Anyway, I really like the car so far! I think everyone expects this build to be insane like my 240 was, but I can't afford to go that wild on such an expensive car. I'll for sure add some goodies to it and clean things up a bit, but it's going to be a slow process. Here are some quick snaps of the car I took this morning before I left to plate and register it: Thanks for reading! I'll do a quick blurb about the story of bringing the car home in the next post. __________________ CamryOnBronze.com

11-26-2012, 01:34 PM	#3008
CamryOnBronze Post Whore! Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: MI Age: 35 Posts: 3,913 Trader Rating: (131) Rides Gallery: CamryOnBronze Feedback Score: 131 reviews	I left Sunday morning at 7 AM and drove out to my brother's house in downtown Chicago. It was super foggy out when I left, but fortunately it cleared up about an hour or so into the drive. There's a road in there somewhere... Took the skyway on accident lol: Chi-City: The express lanes of I-94 were shut down going into downtown, and there were two cars sitting on their sides in the middle of the freeway. Looked super sketchy. After visiting with my brother for a bit, we set out on the hour or so drive out to the country to pick up the car in St. Charles. When we pulled in, Justin was outside cleaning up the bay and going over a few things. Super nice dude, and the car drove and looked great. I found out about the heater issue, which was a bit of a bummer, but for sure not worth backing out on the car over. We chatted for a while and loaded things up, did the paperwork, etc and I was on the way! Signing the paperwork: I met up with my best bro Kyle (King of Red 2012) in Naperville for lunch before hitting the road for the 5 hour drive home to Michigan: Michigan Welcome Center: The car never missed a beat on the way home, and I averaged 26 MPG, so I was pretty stoked about that. Much better than I anticipated from one of these cars. About an hour from home, I spotted two deer running from the median across the freeway about ten car lengths in front of me. I slammed on the brakes and steered towards their path to the right hand side shoulder. No idea why I went that way instead of left, but I am so glad I did. I somehow managed to split between the two deer and neither of them hit the car. I thought for sure if I cleared the one on the right, the one on the left would slam her head into the back door. I glanced in the mirror and saw headlights and deer parts splattering everywhere. I am guessing there were others crossing as I went through that weren't so lucky. I grabbed second gear and dropped the hammer to get the heck out of there before I got rear ended. Very, VERY fortunate to make it home with the car and myself in one piece. Stupid deer! Home safe and sound in the garage: Poor 240, lol: Excited to get to work on making this thing my own! Parts should be showing up soon. Damon __________________ CamryOnBronze.com

11-26-2012, 05:50 PM	#3018
VAs13 Nissanaholic! Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 2,097 Trader Rating: (28) Feedback Score: 28 reviews	is it bad that i kind of want an evo now? ive always had a soft spot in my heart for them, and now seeing how nice yours is makes me want one even more. __________________

11-26-2012, 07:07 PM	#3019
TMW Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: next level Posts: 1,207 Trader Rating: (6) Feedback Score: 6 reviews	looks great damon but those wheels... c'mon man throw them in the garbage or something lol in all seriousness, good luck with everything and the evo should be a lot of fun __________________ @tannermwilson

11-08-2012, 12:32 PM	#3001
ixfxi Post Whore! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: bangin on my chest Account: BANNED #fucksupreme Age: 79 Posts: 5,923 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	oh... i was talking about your 240 (jk)

11-24-2012, 07:57 AM	#3003
drscooper Zilvia Addict Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: homegrown Posts: 799 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	you get your evo yet?

11-26-2012, 01:51 PM	#3010
CleanAndLegit Post Whore! Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Rancho Cucamonga Posts: 3,693 Trader Rating: (55) Feedback Score: 55 reviews	^^ ridiculously faster im assuming since he only had a t28 set up, anyway awesome damon really really liking the evo, hopefully its really what you wanted, insanely clean in and out. I had a quick question, when you had to bend your ebrake brackets on the s13 how did you do it?

11-26-2012, 03:29 PM	#3013
forgotten Leaky Injector Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Montreal Posts: 110 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	i may be missed it while reading, but what are you doing with the s13 chassis?

11-26-2012, 05:11 PM	#3014
Pinggg Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Coconut Creek, Florida Age: 28 Posts: 1,255 Trader Rating: (22) Feedback Score: 22 reviews	Nice pickup dude,

11-26-2012, 05:13 PM	#3015
drscooper Zilvia Addict Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: homegrown Posts: 799 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	wow man awesome! i love the rally red! my fav color of them! glad you found one man im sure you'll make it bad ass!

11-26-2012, 05:19 PM	#3016
tricky_ab Post Whore! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: It's dark, and hell is hot! Posts: 9,413 Trader Rating: (23) Feedback Score: 23 reviews	Ah it's nice to see you're new ride! I can't wait to see what you have planned!

11-26-2012, 05:37 PM	#3017
vehicle336 Zilvia Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Spocompton, WA Posts: 187 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I miss my Evo every day, spendy cars but absolutely worth it. I really won't be surprised when the 240 sits and is ignored while you start building the Evo. You say you just want to drive it and leave it, but trust me, you won't be able to. They're just too damn fun and too damn easy to mod.

11-27-2012, 09:54 AM	#3022
drscooper Zilvia Addict Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: homegrown Posts: 799 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	what wheels are you planing on picking up?

11-27-2012, 11:12 AM	#3023
jr_ss Post Whore! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pa Posts: 6,056 Trader Rating: (34) Feedback Score: 34 reviews	I've always been a fan of the EVO, but I absolutely cannot stand the blue seats. Subaru did a similar thing and ruined the STI when they did that hideous blue interior. Oh well, I'm sure your seats won't be around long. I wish my 12' STI got 26mpg on the interstate... __________________ My SR20VET

11-27-2012, 05:27 PM	#3024
ShadowMan Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: oceanside, CA. Posts: 538 Trader Rating: (4) Feedback Score: 4 reviews	I mean, its cool and clean and all, but I guess I'll just wait a couple years for it to get parted out because you had a kid or 2 more and then it will be as unpractical as your 240. Like I said, minivans bro, just start there and you'll never have to part it out. just saying..... __________________ in any situation....thou shalt blaze

11-27-2012, 06:30 PM	#3025
towlie Nissanaholic! Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Pacific NorthWest Posts: 2,496 Trader Rating: (11) Feedback Score: 11 reviews	I like it. Wheel plans?

11-28-2012, 02:35 PM	#3028
kyles1988 Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Normal, IL Posts: 1,026 Trader Rating: (12) Feedback Score: 12 reviews

11-28-2012, 02:41 PM	#3029
Jlugo711 Leaky Injector Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Florida Age: 29 Posts: 72 Trader Rating: (1) Feedback Score: 1 reviews	I guess the wan face didn't set the joke off the way I thought it would. Anyways... the Recaros would be sweet!

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