The Joy of Building a Car from Scratch: A Personal Perspective

As I sit here with my trusty sidekick, Nicole's new SR hatchback, I have to say that I'm really excited for this project. Having built several cars in the past, including two S13s, I know how much fun it is to see a car come together from the ground up. And let me tell you, this car is going to be a labor of love.

Now, I know some people might look at buying a built car and think that's cheating or that the owner is trying to pass off someone else's work as their own. But that's just not how it works for us. We're all about building cars from scratch, learning the skills ourselves, and putting in the time and effort required to make them truly special.

And speaking of special, this SR hatchback is going to be a real treat. I bought it with some modifications already done to it, but that's okay by me. In fact, I think it's actually helped us get off to a great start. The previous owner had put in some good work, and we can use those parts as a springboard for our own projects.

Of course, there are always people who might be a bit miffed about buying built cars. They might see it as not being "real" or that the owner is trying to get away with something. But let me tell you, I've been in this game long enough to know that everyone's car has been modified in some way. It's just part of the world we live in.

So, what does it take to build a car like Nicole's SR hatchback? Well, for starters, you need a clean shell with no rust or frame damage. That costs around $2,000. You also need a Silvia front, which comes in at about $1,000. The internal is another story altogether - we're talking about a whole new world of parts and upgrades here. Let's just say it adds up to around $3,000.

Now, the SR itself is where things get really interesting. We've got a swap kit that includes everything we need to make this car go from zero to sixty in under 5 seconds. That comes out to around $500 for the parts alone, but trust me, it's worth every penny. And then there's the turbo - oh boy, is the turbo ever something special. We're talking about a whole new level of performance here, folks.

Of course, no car build would be complete without some wheels and tires to match. I've got my eye on some Cosmos Wheels that I think will look perfect with this car. And let's not forget about suspension - we need to get the ride nice and smooth if we're going to make this thing handle like a dream.

Now, I know what you're thinking - all these parts must add up to a pretty penny, right? Well, let me tell you, they do. We're talking about over $116,000 just for the parts alone. But when you think about it, that's not so bad considering how much time and effort we'll put into making this car truly special.

And that's exactly what I'm excited about - taking all these parts and turning them into something truly unique. Nicole has a friend who's parting out his couple of S13s, so we're going to hit him up for some replacement parts to get the interior looking fresh and new again. We'll add some pop-up headlights, maybe some 20 mil over fenders in the front, and give it a nice stock hood to finish off the look.

Of course, there's one more thing that's on Nicole's wish list - a full-on pop-up system for those headlights. Now, I know what you're thinking - that's not exactly easy to do. But trust me, we've got this in the bag. We'll get some typex front bumpers, maybe some 20 mil over fenders in the front, and then we'll just play around with the alignment until it feels just right.

It's going to be a fun project, folks - that's for sure. I'm excited to see how it all comes together, and I know Nicole is too. She's not feeling too well at the moment, but she'd be stoked if you guys could send her some good vibes. Thanks so much for tuning in, and we'll catch you guys tomorrow!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enas you can tell by the title of this video today is an exciting day but before we get into that there's actually two other super sick things that happened today that I get to share with you guys Nicole what have we been lacking for a while privacy construction workers play peekaboo with us since we got the house we've had this issue where our windows were actually transparent and people were looking into our house mainly construction workers kind of staring at us while we're sleeping so we ordered blinds a long time ago and they finally came in I think they're called Shades well either way privacy these ones look super cool I like them they kind of like slide this way we were going to get like normal blinds but then these looked fancy so we did this they weren't actually that much more I got like blackout shades for the gaming room so it's like super dark now and we did the same in our bedroom so we can sleep extra long it's kind of hard to see them in video but they look really nice and I'm very excited we now have privacy in our home but number two is even more exciting for said title of the video it would be really nice to have like cool conditions to be to you know fix up said thing in the title of the video let's go out to the garage I kind of already told you guys but we have air conditioning it's still in progress the guys are working outside on the unit and trying to get everything dialed in but I'm really really excited to have like a nice cool workspace especially in the summer it's just nice to see all these things finally happening because they've been on our list for a while and even though we kind of set up everything and had it ordered it's nice for it to like finally be done but the exciting part has yet to come you want to tell them Nicole I'm getting a call car a car that I've been craving I think I have chocolate in my teeth so excited we went out actually super late last night and we looked at this car and uh we went with Alberto there's a few things kind of like wrong with it we'll talk about that more later in the video but we are going today I get money from the bank and we are going to pick up this car it's a steal of a deal and Nicole is very excited so am I I'm going to want to steal this thing so much Nicole's actually tutoring today so she's not going to be able to go with us to pick up her new car but I think she's going to meet up with us at the shop later the BMW is a little blocked in so we're going to take the mini today Big Boost got a little haircut and we are heading to Marcos to go borrow his van trailer so we can pick up the new car all I know that I heard that Nicole's going to have a better car than you Alberto went with us last night which I'm very thankful for so I didn't make another stupid decision like I did getting that Miata which was actually a pile of poop um but uh the car actually wasn't really running right and I I'll go more into detail on that later got a bit of a late start so we're sitting in traffic but it's okay we we we got exciting this going on I just made up that word exciting exciting that's legitness thanks for the van Marco yeah I was actually messaging the owner of the car that we're going to pick up a few weeks ago but he was asking like $99,000 which is a fair price given the car and like all the parts with it but it was more that I wanted to spend for a car for Nicole and for what our purpose was going to be but recently it just dropped down to 7500 because like something blew up with the power steering and there's just some other minor issues so that kind of like sparked my interest in the car again we went to check it out last night and now we're going to pick it up when we went to look at the car yesterday uh the belt wasn't on any of the pulley because of the issue with the power steering pump but I wanted to put it back on so Alberto helped put it back on so we could just run the car I wanted to go drive it and then coolant started leaking on the back of the engine and like smoke billow everywhere so I think that kind of worked into our favor of getting a better deal on the engine because it's not like in perfect running condition but we compression tested it it was good it's got good money in parts what do you think about it Alberto it's I've already Sol the car um it should be pretty easy to fix it I can probably have it done in one day want to go over the whole car to make sure it's safe for Nico to drive like I got to check all the suspension bushings make sure nothing's lose and the car is not going to like fail on her and it ca an accident so we aren't bringing the car home tonight we're just going to drop it off at the shop that's just something that I don't really want to mess around with it's one thing if like a wheel falls off while I'm driving or something weird because I it's me I can handle it not that Nicole can't handle it but the last thing I would want to do is get a car for her and then have something bad happen because the car is not put together right so uh we're going to bring this shop and Alberto is just going to go over it and I think it'll be better that way then we can take it home and we can do all the other stuff that's not as safety oriented if you know what I mean I wish Nicole was here to like share the excitement right now she's tutoring she's going to be so excited there it is guys look at that just kidding there she is is oh boy it looks so much better in the daylight we're going to give the guy some money very nice gentleman and then we'll bring the car back to the shop and we'll talk a lot about the car but let's load this bad boy up stoked it's so pretty in the daylight not bad so look big boost this new haircut looks so great power FC meth kit yeah we'll probably just move it just so we can load the car up easier this's the battery that Wheels good thank you very much hope you enjoy it man any final words for the car nothing that's it brother you're done with moving on the trucks sadly it for a little bit I'll be back thank you man made it to the shop I'm so excited to get this thing inside so we can show you guys all the cool Parts in this car and why we decided to get it got some food all right so the the car is pretty and all but that's not why we picked up this car you ready navoo ready to have your mind blown oh my God what's in there an engine oh my God it's pretty right it's beautiful it's fully built said but I your 10c car it's literally like the same exact internals as my 240 except better cuz I think this one has CP pistons and I have uh yours are better mine are better yeah I thought CP was better than wco no about the same thing but he start so they're better but he's start coed anyway uh ression it's a built Sr it's a 2867 turbo it's got lots of nifty little Parts like an external waste gate on the stock manifold maybe a genuine blow valve gredy who knows fuel pressure regulator it's got nice paint it's tubbed needs a little bit of work like I was saying in the car but uh this Silvia front which I don't think we're even going to keep because Nicole wants pop-ups it's worth like a grand it's got 264 cams it is a lot of car for the money not to mention OEM typex Sid skirts OEM typex Wing OEM typex rear the car just has a lot of money in Parts you know how much we got this for not much 6,800 bucks no but but but wait the best part he threw in a brand new am Meth kit and an aexi standal on ECU yeah no yeah dude how do you guys get these deals well the the car is like a little broken right now but that's cheap yeah no it's a really good deal the previous owner was a really good guy and I think he was just kind of over the 240 life another cool thing about car is it was built by a pretty reputable shop too which is cool in the 240 world so you know it wasn't just kind of like hacked up in a garage it's definitely all there I mean the interior could use a little bit of TLC I'm going to start getting a bunch of random little interior pieces just kind of plastic here and there maybe some carpet I think we'll be able to clean it up and make it look super OEM I just want to make it like Super Fresh like brand new Street 240 fical it's got to look perfect oil pressure am true boost water temp a m AFR do you realize how good of a deal you got on this carnicle yes do you know how good of a deal I got on our marriage I'm just kidding no I'm so thankful I love it thank you I love you all right so you're going to have to kind of clear up what is the purpose of this car why did you want a 240 what are you going to use it for the pop-ups are so cute okay but um because it makes me feel closer to my husband no but what what do you want to do do with the car I want to drive it around and be all hot boy and then on top of that I just want to screw around with drifting but trust me I'm not getting I'm not going to be tanding without Adam I'm not I don't even know if I'm going be going to drift events but just like more like learner day types of just like oh I know how to do donuts or like when we go out street shifting maybe do a couple donuts like a donut I don't like I'm not going to like just like my riding level it's not going to be like oh yeah I'm the new like FD driver no we're not tandeming I'm not keep this don't worry yeah we're going to keep get too excited we're going to keep this nice and clean so keep your hopes low right now expectations low I don't think I mentioned but uh one really rare thing that this car has is pretty much everything intact with the AC we're basically just going to make this car what Adams could have been if he didn't get into caging and stuff even though the cage of stick mine's just going to be more the clean full interrior type of thing Nicole's already pulling stickers off but the main project first is just for Alberto to kind of go through make sure the engine's running right make sure the car is safe and then we can start playing with all the Cosmetic and all the other fun stuff that I feel confident in so Nicole are you going to help me work on this thing yes Nicole kind of wants to learn the the basics at least the basics we'll get you changing your wheels maybe teach you how to change some of the Interior stuff I I understood the pulling the four things out the what the four things out with the wires with the charging the spark plugs the coil packs but it's something with the spark plugs right mhm yeah that's the start it is hey I know it's an inline no if it wasn't for this yeah it just sounds weird saying inline four CU I don't is there such thing as a V4 I don't think so I don't I don't think it's just kind of like assumed we got some boost juice with the car too Alberto actually drinks the stuff for breakfast so that'll be convenient me and IA are going to pull out all the spare parts we got and go through them see what's worth keeping what's worth throwing out all right let's dig in it's like Christmas all right oil pan we don't need right can we garbage in this keep I guess I don't want this uh rubber trim this is convenient some decent hose can never have too many H what are these is this one electric fan lots of junk but we got some good stuff in here mainly like couplers and just little O-rings and gaskets and tidbits thanks Blake I forgot to mention but the car also has bash bars in the front and the rear too which is tight what color are they black black yes I keep forgetting stuff about the car but it also has a wi DSX LSD the viscous VLS D1 I don't know how it'll be since we haven't driven the car yet and it also has brand new BC coilovers it's got everything it's perfect NAA when are you going to get a 240 yeah n hopefully one day tell me you know what it is meanwhile we've got school going on in the back of the shop I got to study Alberta's like she's using my whiteboard one very tiny hand though wait where is the brick fluid I was using yeah was w0 or something this is what Alberto gave us to clean the Whiteboard with I'm cleaning it with brick cleaner doesn't it work well it works good yeah right Alberto fixed the coolant leak back there put a new power steering belt in we'll see if that fixes the steering issue uh but he thinks the rack might be blown but we'll see also topped off the coolant because it's pretty much empty check the oil oil's good Alberto says he has to shim the power steering pump a little bit it's got a little bit of lifter tick but yeah Power Ste so since we got the power steering and the coolant all set now I really want to take the car for a quick test drive to see like just kind of what shape it's in then hear what it sounds like so my camera died so we're down to the iPhone now we just hop in it sounds so cool it's cooled pretty quick yeah I got I want to pay attention to the afrs the afrs look like 13 that's a little lead yeah that's what I saw we'll see again but like 13s yeah yeah so it's going to need a rune pulls hard though it feels good the car definitely needs some things but we will keep you posted like you were drinking it earlier but then like you're talking about the car like it right now you have 5 seconds so this thing's gonna make some really big boost a lot of you guys might be wondering so like why another 240 and the main reason is I kind of have experience with them I know the setup I'm familiar with them and I have a lot of spare parts that I'll be able to use for this car and if for some reason something breaks on my car I can always pull parts off it and use it on my car if Nicole actually follows through with wanting to learn more about working on cars and actually helping out with this 240 it'll be easier for me too cuz I'm more familiar with it and I can actually help her rather than having to learn it myself too 240s really are simple they're like one of the easiest cards work on they're a great learning car and that's where I've learned like most of the stuff that I know how to do is on just a basic Sr hatch I'd love to go ahead and assume that we're past the whole built not bought thing but I'm going to go ahead and assume there'll be a few little internet trolls dwelling in the comment section I understand the animosity there is towards people who buy built cars and then go and like parade them around it shows like it's their own work but that's not what we do and I bought my cream s13 with some stuff already done to it and I think it's really important to note that I don't try to like pass off the previous owner work or the previous shops work can be like hey this is all the stuff that I've done with the car I just like to kind of use it as a point to jump off of a point to continue the build a point to make the car better anyone that's in the 240 Market already knows that pretty much every car out there has been modified and they're all usually pieces of crap so I personally rather spend a little bit more and get one that's been cared for and has good parts into it than something that's not really worth anything I would totally love to build a car from scratch in the future but for this for Nicole it's just not really necessary buying this car with stuff done to it is going to save a lot of time and a lot of money just in case you are from familar with the car or 240s I made a little Quick List on my phone of just what it would cost to build something similar mind you this estimate does not include labor and it doesn't include all the little itsy bitsy parts that aren't major and that aren't worth calculating in a list we can assume like $2,000 for a clean shell with no rust no frame damage 1,000 bucks for the Silvia front 2,000 for the internal since it's built about $3,000 for the SR the and the swap kit swap harness is probably about 500 bucks 1,000 bucks for BC coilovers 1,000 bucks for the turbo $1,000 for the typex arrow another th000 for the gauges in the chase Bay power steering kit 1,000 bucks for Wheels about 500 bucks for ISR arms about $500 for the ISR suspension kit and a well over ,000 for that power FC and the meth kit not to mention probably another $500 for the chipped and tun DCU so that's well over $116,000 we got the car for 6,800 bucks no it's not like a ridiculous steal because 240s and pretty much any car for that matter when you add in a ton of these expensive Parts they don't add value to the car I'm really excited for this it's going to serve a much different purpose than my two 240 and I already have a friend who has like a couple 240s that he's parting out so I'm going to get a bunch of replacement parts for the interior and try to make it as like OEM fresh as I can new window trim carpets lots of little things I just want to do like I don't know all our cars have a lot of attention to detail and that's how Nicole is as well as myself so it it's really going to be fun I don't know how you guys feel about s 88s but at the moment Nicole really wants pop up so I think we're just going to get her a typex front bumper some 20 mil over fenders in the front like I have in my car and then we'll have to get like a Stock hood or something we got to get here some different Cosmos Wheels play around with the alignment there's a lot of stuff with car and I think it'll be a fun project amongst all the other projects that we have going on I really need to settle down otherwise nothing's ever going to get done but I try to keep things interesting I try to keep lots of projects going on so you guys have fun watching the videos and you don't get bored we'll probably have built like five new cars by the time the 2J is done but we just need parts I just need to get the parts so we can finish the 2J very excited thank you guys so much Nicole would tell you how excited she is but she's sleeping she's still sick unfortunately let us know what you think of the car and wish Nicole to feel better in the comment section and we will see you guys tomorrow later when you say when you say that you love me that you when you sayas you can tell by the title of this video today is an exciting day but before we get into that there's actually two other super sick things that happened today that I get to share with you guys Nicole what have we been lacking for a while privacy construction workers play peekaboo with us since we got the house we've had this issue where our windows were actually transparent and people were looking into our house mainly construction workers kind of staring at us while we're sleeping so we ordered blinds a long time ago and they finally came in I think they're called Shades well either way privacy these ones look super cool I like them they kind of like slide this way we were going to get like normal blinds but then these looked fancy so we did this they weren't actually that much more I got like blackout shades for the gaming room so it's like super dark now and we did the same in our bedroom so we can sleep extra long it's kind of hard to see them in video but they look really nice and I'm very excited we now have privacy in our home but number two is even more exciting for said title of the video it would be really nice to have like cool conditions to be to you know fix up said thing in the title of the video let's go out to the garage I kind of already told you guys but we have air conditioning it's still in progress the guys are working outside on the unit and trying to get everything dialed in but I'm really really excited to have like a nice cool workspace especially in the summer it's just nice to see all these things finally happening because they've been on our list for a while and even though we kind of set up everything and had it ordered it's nice for it to like finally be done but the exciting part has yet to come you want to tell them Nicole I'm getting a call car a car that I've been craving I think I have chocolate in my teeth so excited we went out actually super late last night and we looked at this car and uh we went with Alberto there's a few things kind of like wrong with it we'll talk about that more later in the video but we are going today I get money from the bank and we are going to pick up this car it's a steal of a deal and Nicole is very excited so am I I'm going to want to steal this thing so much Nicole's actually tutoring today so she's not going to be able to go with us to pick up her new car but I think she's going to meet up with us at the shop later the BMW is a little blocked in so we're going to take the mini today Big Boost got a little haircut and we are heading to Marcos to go borrow his van trailer so we can pick up the new car all I know that I heard that Nicole's going to have a better car than you Alberto went with us last night which I'm very thankful for so I didn't make another stupid decision like I did getting that Miata which was actually a pile of poop um but uh the car actually wasn't really running right and I I'll go more into detail on that later got a bit of a late start so we're sitting in traffic but it's okay we we we got exciting this going on I just made up that word exciting exciting that's legitness thanks for the van Marco yeah I was actually messaging the owner of the car that we're going to pick up a few weeks ago but he was asking like $99,000 which is a fair price given the car and like all the parts with it but it was more that I wanted to spend for a car for Nicole and for what our purpose was going to be but recently it just dropped down to 7500 because like something blew up with the power steering and there's just some other minor issues so that kind of like sparked my interest in the car again we went to check it out last night and now we're going to pick it up when we went to look at the car yesterday uh the belt wasn't on any of the pulley because of the issue with the power steering pump but I wanted to put it back on so Alberto helped put it back on so we could just run the car I wanted to go drive it and then coolant started leaking on the back of the engine and like smoke billow everywhere so I think that kind of worked into our favor of getting a better deal on the engine because it's not like in perfect running condition but we compression tested it it was good it's got good money in parts what do you think about it Alberto it's I've already Sol the car um it should be pretty easy to fix it I can probably have it done in one day want to go over the whole car to make sure it's safe for Nico to drive like I got to check all the suspension bushings make sure nothing's lose and the car is not going to like fail on her and it ca an accident so we aren't bringing the car home tonight we're just going to drop it off at the shop that's just something that I don't really want to mess around with it's one thing if like a wheel falls off while I'm driving or something weird because I it's me I can handle it not that Nicole can't handle it but the last thing I would want to do is get a car for her and then have something bad happen because the car is not put together right so uh we're going to bring this shop and Alberto is just going to go over it and I think it'll be better that way then we can take it home and we can do all the other stuff that's not as safety oriented if you know what I mean I wish Nicole was here to like share the excitement right now she's tutoring she's going to be so excited there it is guys look at that just kidding there she is is oh boy it looks so much better in the daylight we're going to give the guy some money very nice gentleman and then we'll bring the car back to the shop and we'll talk a lot about the car but let's load this bad boy up stoked it's so pretty in the daylight not bad so look big boost this new haircut looks so great power FC meth kit yeah we'll probably just move it just so we can load the car up easier this's the battery that Wheels good thank you very much hope you enjoy it man any final words for the car nothing that's it brother you're done with moving on the trucks sadly it for a little bit I'll be back thank you man made it to the shop I'm so excited to get this thing inside so we can show you guys all the cool Parts in this car and why we decided to get it got some food all right so the the car is pretty and all but that's not why we picked up this car you ready navoo ready to have your mind blown oh my God what's in there an engine oh my God it's pretty right it's beautiful it's fully built said but I your 10c car it's literally like the same exact internals as my 240 except better cuz I think this one has CP pistons and I have uh yours are better mine are better yeah I thought CP was better than wco no about the same thing but he start so they're better but he's start coed anyway uh ression it's a built Sr it's a 2867 turbo it's got lots of nifty little Parts like an external waste gate on the stock manifold maybe a genuine blow valve gredy who knows fuel pressure regulator it's got nice paint it's tubbed needs a little bit of work like I was saying in the car but uh this Silvia front which I don't think we're even going to keep because Nicole wants pop-ups it's worth like a grand it's got 264 cams it is a lot of car for the money not to mention OEM typex Sid skirts OEM typex Wing OEM typex rear the car just has a lot of money in Parts you know how much we got this for not much 6,800 bucks no but but but wait the best part he threw in a brand new am Meth kit and an aexi standal on ECU yeah no yeah dude how do you guys get these deals well the the car is like a little broken right now but that's cheap yeah no it's a really good deal the previous owner was a really good guy and I think he was just kind of over the 240 life another cool thing about car is it was built by a pretty reputable shop too which is cool in the 240 world so you know it wasn't just kind of like hacked up in a garage it's definitely all there I mean the interior could use a little bit of TLC I'm going to start getting a bunch of random little interior pieces just kind of plastic here and there maybe some carpet I think we'll be able to clean it up and make it look super OEM I just want to make it like Super Fresh like brand new Street 240 fical it's got to look perfect oil pressure am true boost water temp a m AFR do you realize how good of a deal you got on this carnicle yes do you know how good of a deal I got on our marriage I'm just kidding no I'm so thankful I love it thank you I love you all right so you're going to have to kind of clear up what is the purpose of this car why did you want a 240 what are you going to use it for the pop-ups are so cute okay but um because it makes me feel closer to my husband no but what what do you want to do do with the car I want to drive it around and be all hot boy and then on top of that I just want to screw around with drifting but trust me I'm not getting I'm not going to be tanding without Adam I'm not I don't even know if I'm going be going to drift events but just like more like learner day types of just like oh I know how to do donuts or like when we go out street shifting maybe do a couple donuts like a donut I don't like I'm not going to like just like my riding level it's not going to be like oh yeah I'm the new like FD driver no we're not tandeming I'm not keep this don't worry yeah we're going to keep get too excited we're going to keep this nice and clean so keep your hopes low right now expectations low I don't think I mentioned but uh one really rare thing that this car has is pretty much everything intact with the AC we're basically just going to make this car what Adams could have been if he didn't get into caging and stuff even though the cage of stick mine's just going to be more the clean full interrior type of thing Nicole's already pulling stickers off but the main project first is just for Alberto to kind of go through make sure the engine's running right make sure the car is safe and then we can start playing with all the Cosmetic and all the other fun stuff that I feel confident in so Nicole are you going to help me work on this thing yes Nicole kind of wants to learn the the basics at least the basics we'll get you changing your wheels maybe teach you how to change some of the Interior stuff I I understood the pulling the four things out the what the four things out with the wires with the charging the spark plugs the coil packs but it's something with the spark plugs right mhm yeah that's the start it is hey I know it's an inline no if it wasn't for this yeah it just sounds weird saying inline four CU I don't is there such thing as a V4 I don't think so I don't I don't think it's just kind of like assumed we got some boost juice with the car too Alberto actually drinks the stuff for breakfast so that'll be convenient me and IA are going to pull out all the spare parts we got and go through them see what's worth keeping what's worth throwing out all right let's dig in it's like Christmas all right oil pan we don't need right can we garbage in this keep I guess I don't want this uh rubber trim this is convenient some decent hose can never have too many H what are these is this one electric fan lots of junk but we got some good stuff in here mainly like couplers and just little O-rings and gaskets and tidbits thanks Blake I forgot to mention but the car also has bash bars in the front and the rear too which is tight what color are they black black yes I keep forgetting stuff about the car but it also has a wi DSX LSD the viscous VLS D1 I don't know how it'll be since we haven't driven the car yet and it also has brand new BC coilovers it's got everything it's perfect NAA when are you going to get a 240 yeah n hopefully one day tell me you know what it is meanwhile we've got school going on in the back of the shop I got to study Alberta's like she's using my whiteboard one very tiny hand though wait where is the brick fluid I was using yeah was w0 or something this is what Alberto gave us to clean the Whiteboard with I'm cleaning it with brick cleaner doesn't it work well it works good yeah right Alberto fixed the coolant leak back there put a new power steering belt in we'll see if that fixes the steering issue uh but he thinks the rack might be blown but we'll see also topped off the coolant because it's pretty much empty check the oil oil's good Alberto says he has to shim the power steering pump a little bit it's got a little bit of lifter tick but yeah Power Ste so since we got the power steering and the coolant all set now I really want to take the car for a quick test drive to see like just kind of what shape it's in then hear what it sounds like so my camera died so we're down to the iPhone now we just hop in it sounds so cool it's cooled pretty quick yeah I got I want to pay attention to the afrs the afrs look like 13 that's a little lead yeah that's what I saw we'll see again but like 13s yeah yeah so it's going to need a rune pulls hard though it feels good the car definitely needs some things but we will keep you posted like you were drinking it earlier but then like you're talking about the car like it right now you have 5 seconds so this thing's gonna make some really big boost a lot of you guys might be wondering so like why another 240 and the main reason is I kind of have experience with them I know the setup I'm familiar with them and I have a lot of spare parts that I'll be able to use for this car and if for some reason something breaks on my car I can always pull parts off it and use it on my car if Nicole actually follows through with wanting to learn more about working on cars and actually helping out with this 240 it'll be easier for me too cuz I'm more familiar with it and I can actually help her rather than having to learn it myself too 240s really are simple they're like one of the easiest cards work on they're a great learning car and that's where I've learned like most of the stuff that I know how to do is on just a basic Sr hatch I'd love to go ahead and assume that we're past the whole built not bought thing but I'm going to go ahead and assume there'll be a few little internet trolls dwelling in the comment section I understand the animosity there is towards people who buy built cars and then go and like parade them around it shows like it's their own work but that's not what we do and I bought my cream s13 with some stuff already done to it and I think it's really important to note that I don't try to like pass off the previous owner work or the previous shops work can be like hey this is all the stuff that I've done with the car I just like to kind of use it as a point to jump off of a point to continue the build a point to make the car better anyone that's in the 240 Market already knows that pretty much every car out there has been modified and they're all usually pieces of crap so I personally rather spend a little bit more and get one that's been cared for and has good parts into it than something that's not really worth anything I would totally love to build a car from scratch in the future but for this for Nicole it's just not really necessary buying this car with stuff done to it is going to save a lot of time and a lot of money just in case you are from familar with the car or 240s I made a little Quick List on my phone of just what it would cost to build something similar mind you this estimate does not include labor and it doesn't include all the little itsy bitsy parts that aren't major and that aren't worth calculating in a list we can assume like $2,000 for a clean shell with no rust no frame damage 1,000 bucks for the Silvia front 2,000 for the internal since it's built about $3,000 for the SR the and the swap kit swap harness is probably about 500 bucks 1,000 bucks for BC coilovers 1,000 bucks for the turbo $1,000 for the typex arrow another th000 for the gauges in the chase Bay power steering kit 1,000 bucks for Wheels about 500 bucks for ISR arms about $500 for the ISR suspension kit and a well over ,000 for that power FC and the meth kit not to mention probably another $500 for the chipped and tun DCU so that's well over $116,000 we got the car for 6,800 bucks no it's not like a ridiculous steal because 240s and pretty much any car for that matter when you add in a ton of these expensive Parts they don't add value to the car I'm really excited for this it's going to serve a much different purpose than my two 240 and I already have a friend who has like a couple 240s that he's parting out so I'm going to get a bunch of replacement parts for the interior and try to make it as like OEM fresh as I can new window trim carpets lots of little things I just want to do like I don't know all our cars have a lot of attention to detail and that's how Nicole is as well as myself so it it's really going to be fun I don't know how you guys feel about s 88s but at the moment Nicole really wants pop up so I think we're just going to get her a typex front bumper some 20 mil over fenders in the front like I have in my car and then we'll have to get like a Stock hood or something we got to get here some different Cosmos Wheels play around with the alignment there's a lot of stuff with car and I think it'll be a fun project amongst all the other projects that we have going on I really need to settle down otherwise nothing's ever going to get done but I try to keep things interesting I try to keep lots of projects going on so you guys have fun watching the videos and you don't get bored we'll probably have built like five new cars by the time the 2J is done but we just need parts I just need to get the parts so we can finish the 2J very excited thank you guys so much Nicole would tell you how excited she is but she's sleeping she's still sick unfortunately let us know what you think of the car and wish Nicole to feel better in the comment section and we will see you guys tomorrow later when you say when you say that you love me that you when you say\n"