Pross07

Hey guys, I decided not to be lazy and finally create my build thread. Some background information, i'm from Newfoundland, Canada. I work at Volkswagen/Audi dealership as an Apprentice Technician. I currently own a 1995 Nissan 240sx Zenki.

My story on how I acquired this vehicle is quite the tale and pretty much makes this build so I hope you enjoy this!!

So to start, Me and my Friend Jeremy started up a new car club two years ago and it really took off! you can check it out here
http://www.facebook.com/edition709

Anyways, while starting this club I had a trusty daily driver 2010 Mazda 3. Now after starting this group I had an undying love for the 240's. I always wanted an S13 with the flip up heads lights, and for that year I just kept saying to the guys I was going to get one until they finally told me to SHUT IT until I actually was going to purchase one.

So for months I was searching high and low all across Canada looking for a decent S13 model but all the ones I found needed work and couldn't be shipped unless it was driveable. It got to a point where I just gave up for a few months. Booked a trip to Halifax with friends to have some fun and then Christmas came along.

So here came the new year (2012) when my friend Justin messages me about an s14 in a town few hours away.

I jumped on it quick and called the guy and said he wanted it sold within a week, and that following week I was leaving for Halifax. He was asking 3500 for it and I didn't have much saved up after the new year. So I didn't have time for a bank loan or any means of getting the money fast, and after running it through my father he quickly said no.. So I just gave up.. but the next day my dad came to me and asked if I really wanted to do this and I told him yes. He agreed to lend me the money until my loan went through so I could purchase the car. So all that week I got the SUV suited up with all necessary parts that I needed.

Ok so this is the start to a funny story. The guy called me before coming out and said to buy a battery because the one in the 240 was not his. I thought this was sketchy, but decided this was my closest thing to a 240 I could get. There was snow storm and delayed us but we started our adventure to Bonavista.

This was my excited face on the way to the seeing the car!


We had to stop for a pee break and found this sign.. Thought it was quite funny...


We finally made it to Bonavista. The road to this community isn't salted, and was just after a huge snowstorm, so it was horrible, but we made it to the car!
The guys snuck our logo on the window without me noticing! ha


Once we came to the car, noticed she was sitting on 19's with two steelies up front, and two other 19's in trunk, minor interior parts needed replacing, both side tail lights were cracked but other then that it looked to be in fair condition.
Settled on taking it for 3300.

So from here, he wrote a bill of sale for the car, and assured the vehicle was registered under his name and if I had problems just to call him before he went back to Alberta. So after all that I had the car!

Stopped to try and change tires to a set I borrowed but found they didn't fit right, so we headed out again on the road.

Stopped into Clarenville for a celebatory feeedd. and headed for home!


Got it back to town and gave it a huge bath!

Got the car inside and out of the elements at my friend Ryan's garage for some minor maintanence!




We decided to take out anything that was useless. On the way home we found that there was extension cords all throughout the car and had no clue why..

We found out that the previous owner had disconnected the stock stereo wires and replaced them with extension cord! HAHA


Removed all the old junk from the car!

To make things even more sketchy, the guy had it running by doing this...

After removing all the interior and the mess of wiring he had done, we decided to pop off the tires, and start removing all the old lights since I bought over $100 in brand new bulbs.



Other then some slight rusting underneath everything looked pretty decent shape! Nothing a trip to auto parts shop to pick up some OEM replacement goodies!

First real look at the KA and was in fair shape. There wasn't a leak, that you see on the cover. Someone had a shaky hand while trying to pour by the looks of things..

This is the look with my 17's off my Mazda that I had. Just some rims I needed as I wasn't keeping the 19's.

Took a few shots of the interior. Really clean, minus the mess of wires...




Cleaned up these 19's and sold them for the Halifax trip we were taking in the coming weeks haha..

With all this crazy nonstop car stuff, my poor Tigger wasn't getting any attention and she looked sad!!

All done! Everything back together and ready to move to the garage for the parts I had on order


Right after this, we brought the car up to where I would be storing it and working on getting it ready for Summer of 2012. I'm tired so it's bed time.. tomorrow I will continue with the build!