silent_jay

yes, yes you are, but,
yes, yes I am

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Scorps

Well as soon as the bank gets back to me I will have this thing on the road

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pocon1

This is so much fun! We need more people yelling at each other. Check out the thread that krwlz dragged up called top ten easiest cars to modify.

bodypainter

I'm having a hard time with the level of rudeness in this thread. Sure goes against the spirit of what the Tilted Forum used to be.

silent_jay

It's more sarcasm than rudeness, I mean some of it is rude I'll admit that, but when you get this many opinionated people in one place these things are bound to happen, have you ever seen a session of Canadian Parliament. I'm sorry if I have offended anyone with any of my comments, but like I said these things are bound to happen.

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skier

heheheh this is the best thread ever. Pain Train sure knows what he wants!

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silent_jay

Ya he stuck pretty solid to this thing he bought, I just hope that in a month or two he's not back in here telling us how the beast broke down, but my money's on it breaking.

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Scorps

Lets hope that doesn't happen!

Ilow

eh, if the engine on that ugly thing is as strong as his determination to buy it he'll be fine.

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Scorps

Well right now I don't know what I'm doing, with this car. I want to get it back on the road and drive it but my mom and dad are against it and well if I do get rid of it and get another car I'm hoping to get a Eagle Talon! but I want the T-Bar roof!

TopRamen66

Who would buy that hood for 900? Whats so special about it besides that it dosent match the rest of the car?

irseg

Nobody would ever spend $900 on that hood, he got fed a line of bullshit.

silent_jay

Yep a big ole line $900 for a Daytona hood, oh the humanity. What's the big deal with the T-Top personally I think this is one of the biggest blunders in the industry, next to phantom tops. Seen about 40 of these around my area since this thread started not a one has looked or sounded right. Good luck PT but a Talon would have been a better purchase just make sure it's the TSI, not any of the others, you want the AWD, Turbo or so I hope.

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irseg

You still see those things? I don't think I've seen a Daytona outside of a junkyard in years. They must be big in Canada for some reason.

silent_jay

Ya I haven't quite figured out why people still drive them, I guess it is a Canadian thing, but if you saw what people do to their cars around here and I mean horrible cars. Just the other night some kid in a Neon with a Canadian Tire graphics kit big ass white dragon on a black car, comes all up behind me like he's just the fastest thing, his car was loud because he had this massive grapefruit launcher for an exhaust, and he starts revving the shit out of his car. now I was thinking it would blow up but next thing you know the kid tries to pass me, I let him get beside me, give him the 1 finger salute and punch the gas gone, lesson learned for that kid. Not to mention the insane amount of Cavaliers, Sunfires, Grand Ams, Prix, even Saturns, that people try and make fast. There's even an old Asuna Sunfire that someone has attempted to make cool, it didn't work. Oh yeah and some guy has an old Tempo, and he took another back bumper from another Tempo and cut it in half and voila he had a part of a body kit, or so he thought. All kinds of crappy cars where I live too bad for me.

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bad30th

The Grand Prix GTP is a badass car, and can be made quite fast pretty easily....

silent_jay

I've heard that, but around here it's usually the normal ones, I don't even know what designation they use, they just aren't my cup of tea.

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irseg

That's the most ghetto attempt at a body kit I've ever heard of. And I thought it was bad when they put body kits on without painting them.

bodypainter

Hardly a recent phenomena, behold my first car.


A poor little 6 cylinder, 3 speed 1964 1/2 Mustang. Keep in mind that the 8 cylinder Mustang was a completely different car, suspension-wise. The 6-banger was a Falcon with a Mustang body and at the time everyone knew it. Back then most Mustangs were dirt common and cheap as hell. I paid $400 for that car in 1972 when it was less than 8 years old.

So in my quest to be cool, I jacked up the rear end with a leaf spring lift kit and put 5 bolt adapter/spacers on the rear wheels and then tires so big they hit the fender wells with every bump in the road. At some time after this picture was taken I added GT350 stripes and repainted it myself in my driveway (it didn't look good...).

I cringe now. It was the 1972 equivalent of a riced-out Civic. At the time I didn't give one flying fuck what anyone else thought about it, I liked it. I would even race you knowing full well I was going to lose.

Back to the Daytona the OP got, I still say go for it! Oh, and I'm not implying anything about your car by my story. I've only seen one Daytona like yours in recent years but it looked pretty damn good.

Scorps

Well it was at the shop all week, and well the uni-body is fucked up good, its going to cost way to much to get patched, I will just chock it up as a loss on my half and get the 92 240Sx I was looking at in the first place...don't know why i just didn't get that...stupid move I guess, but what do you want from a guy that smoked weed for 4 years straight

silent_jay

Oh yes we have one of those too. A red Cavalier with primer body kit. It's been that way for about 2 months now, not sure of he plans on painting it or not, oh yeah and once again bigass grapefruit launcher for an exhaust, totally useless.

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Scorps

Ya same thing here this chick had a black Z24 cav, and it had a white body kit all around,and she even had a ram-air hood on so the only part of the car that was still black was the truck fenders and body. everything else was white....she has sense had it painted but all last year it looked like shit. And those exhaust are useless I just ike to noise they make

Scorps

I want to know if a 88 Nissan Turbo 2+2 is a good car or not...


Year: 1988
Make: NISSAN
Model: 300ZX
Model Detail: TURBO 2+2
Price: $4,900
Mileage: 140 km
Date: 5/1/04
Ad Type: Private
Comment: FAST! Loaded, AUTO, TURBO! Leather, p/seat, digital dash, stock stereo, pwr, pl, p/antenna, air, t-tops. Can be seen anytime! Serious drivers only! WELCOME TO THE Z CLUB! $4,900 obo. 140 km


its god low KM and the only thing I don't like is the auto trans, but hell I could get a 5 spd put in later

So what do you guys think is it worth is or should I go to Ottawa for the 92 Nissan 240SX for $5,000?

All in Canadian dollars!

pocon1

Why is it so cheap? That seems like a pretty low price for that car.
That car cost about 40 to 45 large when it was new.
After all, the 18 to 20 thousand dollar 240 is only four years younger and costs more.

irseg

My thoughts exactly. The 300ZX turbo is a pretty rare, sought-after car. For one in good shape, I'd think that would be an awfully low price in US dollars, let alone Canadian. It's worth checking into, but I bet expensive problems started cropping up and the owner got tired of dealing with it. I notice the ad doesn't mention the condition.

silent_jay

Yep, I agree with you guys, something is seriously wrong with this car. There just has to be, for that price

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Scorps

ya probably I was thinking to go take a look at the car just to see what it looks like, maybe it was a repo?

this time I'm going to take it to a shop and have them look over ever inch of this car, if its not worth it I'm going for the 92' 240SX

From the pic its looks in good condition

pocon1

Oh, I thought that was the twin turbo later model. My mistake.
That would account for at least some of the price difference.

Scorps

so is that a shitty year or something....because this thing looks like its mint, and it has a leather interior, now something like this should be running for like 6K or higher...I would think?


and wouldn't the 2+2 turbo mean its twin turbo?

irseg

No, means it has a back seat. The 300ZX also came in a 2-seater version.

pocon1

It's not so much that it is a bad car, it's just that the next one was so much better and different. The car magazines said this one was more of a nice cruiser. A nice car, but not balls out crazy.

Scorps

Well im not looking for a race car here... Im looking for something to cruiser around in thats looks sweet!

then I get to say I drive a 300ZX