The Legacy of the 240sx: A Dream Car Come True

For those who have been following my content, you may be wondering how I came to own and build such an incredible machine. The answer lies in my passion for Japanese cars, specifically the 240sx. This iconic model has left a lasting impact on the automotive world, and it's easy to see why. With its sleek design, impressive handling, and powerful engine options, the 240sx is a car that has captured the hearts of many enthusiasts.

As I reflect on my journey with this car, I am reminded of the countless hours I spent researching, planning, and executing every detail. From choosing the right wheels to perfecting the suspension setup, I was determined to create a vehicle that would surpass my expectations. The 240sx is more than just a car – it's an extension of myself, a reflection of my passion and dedication.

One of the most significant decisions I made when building this car was selecting the engine. While many enthusiasts might opt for a higher-powered motor, I chose to go with the more practical and cost-effective option – the LF. This decision paid off in a big way, as it allowed me to maintain a balance between power and affordability. The result is a car that not only looks incredible but also performs exceptionally well.

Of course, building a dream car like this one requires the right team behind you. For me, that meant seeking out experienced professionals who shared my vision and passion. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with talented individuals who have helped bring my car to life. From the designers at EVO Tuning to the mechanics who worked tirelessly to get my vehicle on the road, every person played a crucial role in this project.

As I look back on the journey, I am reminded of the countless hours spent researching, planning, and executing every detail. From selecting the right wheels to perfecting the suspension setup, I was determined to create a vehicle that would surpass my expectations. And what's more, I'm not alone in my enthusiasm for this car – I've had the support of loved ones, friends, and even strangers who have shared my passion.

But as exciting as it is to share this experience with all of you, I also want to acknowledge one very important group: you, the audience. Your feedback, encouragement, and support have been instrumental in bringing this car to life. Without your interest and enthusiasm, I might not be where I am today, driving my dream car on some of the most beautiful roads in Georgia.

Speaking of which, let's take a moment to appreciate the beauty of this car – both inside and out. From the sleek lines to the powerful engine, every aspect of this vehicle has been carefully crafted to create an experience that is both thrilling and relaxing. Whether I'm cruising down the highway or carving through twisty roads, my 240sx always puts a smile on my face.

And now, as I sit here with my car in front of me, I am filled with gratitude for the journey that has brought us to this point. It's been an incredible adventure, one that has taken me from garage tinkering to international racing events. But at the end of the day, it's all about sharing the love – and what better way to do so than behind the wheel of a dream car?

That said, I also want to acknowledge some of the tough choices I had to make along the way. One decision that stands out in particular was having to trust others with my beloved project. Was I sad when I realized that I couldn't do it all by myself? Absolutely – but it's one of those moments where you have to recognize your own limitations and ask for help. The end result is a car that far exceeds anything I could have achieved on my own, and I'm grateful for the expertise and guidance I received along the way.

In many ways, this car represents more than just a machine – it's a testament to human ingenuity and collaboration. When you combine your passion with the right team and resources, incredible things can happen. And as someone who has been fortunate enough to experience that firsthand, I am humbled by the journey and grateful for the opportunity to share it with all of you.

The car's design is an extension of my personality – sleek, aerodynamic, and above all, fun. Whether I'm carving through twisty roads or cruising down the highway, this car responds eagerly to every input, thanks to its incredible handling and suspension setup. And let's not forget the sound – that throaty growl from the engine is music to my ears.

But at the heart of it all lies a deep love for Japanese cars, particularly the 240sx. This model has left an indelible mark on my psyche, inspiring countless hours spent researching, designing, and building this dream car. And as I sit here with my keys in hand, ready to hit the road, I am filled with a sense of pride – knowing that this machine represents everything I stand for: passion, dedication, and a love for the journey.

In conclusion, owning and building a 240sx is more than just a dream come true – it's an experience that has shaped me into the person I am today. It's taught me about perseverance, collaboration, and above all, the importance of chasing your passions, no matter how impossible they may seem. So here's to this incredible machine – may our journey together be filled with excitement, adventure, and many more miles to come!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enOh July 31st 2015 I bought a piece of junk 240th deck with 240,000 miles on my friend Chris finds a car at Topsy Motorsports in Atlanta Georgia at the time I lived in Richmond Virginia Frisco's I finally found you at 2:40 taffy I think it's rust free to come check it out and fly to Atlanta Georgia get the top three motorsports ago that's the one it needs a lot of love but I need to show the world you can take something from nothing and create something great what do I have my dream import into the 1990s 13 - jay-z built motor - 40th thing the first and foremost let's go over the car this started off as a twin-turbocharged 2jz the twin-turbocharged project was an experiment the experiment was king use bill twin turbos on the 2jz using the stock housing to make single turbo power wouldn't be cheaper more efficient to do in a single over time we realize it was just too difficult he got 200 the engine bay and eventually after a 500-mile road trip to my hometown in Virginia the motor blew up so then not with that we finally decided to go single turbo we use the CX racing thick wall manifold with a garret GTX generation to triple ball bearing turbo now it's a 30/70 1r in my met garrett at SEMA suggested the apu going six turbo on this car they asked what what power goals you want how like five to six hundred so i go to Long Beach California pick up the turbocharged ego isn't that's a little small the oh no dude trust me so I get a bigger hot side for the turbo from them in the car big 509 horsepower in Ford and somebody put on sport on pump gas with the help of involved injection 850 feet the ejector and also a radium fuel room I love tile ways ain't I allow that is nothing but smiles per gallon well oh now one of the biggest hauls of my car when the Juke e-rate think it you crazy specializes in deep thoughts especially and I met a man named hurt in hurt you might know from the hoonigan YouTube channel I met her and he said dude I know the Friends of the Jew who I used to work there let me help you out help me out with the is our control arms and also any other suspension component that wasn't the coil over this car has every nut in bulk touched every single thing if this were a resto mod and an American car to make perfect sense pieces of ball joints are roughly this car was an absolute basket case the body was completely tore up it was roughed underneath it as myself and friend tried to pick herself and we were successful but it was still very difficult the body shop could have done it in less than a day we made our life much harder we use the accept manufacturing the rust repair kit which hit a common spot in the free world that rubs on an F 30 put a cup to the appearance of the car and is actually proper glue from Ford this is actually the same color on my Mustang GT and if the exact same paint codes when you park the side by side it's exactly the same we were going to settle for the 370z nissan blue which is very very similar but we figure that grabber blue all the bodywork all of the paint was done by balm or body shop and i went up there for five days and knocked out a ton of the work but the problem was is when we were finally ready to paint the car i had to go home for a little while and then the car got stuck in Baltimore after a blizzard is Baltimore then myself my friend Jay Kissel and my friend big well three months later went up after the snow and finally cleared and got the car in this color it's not a huge dent in the side and they were able to fix that and basically make this car look new it the prom bumper is a version collect and all the way around is origin on the other side however had I done this again I would have done a polyurethane kit and now I have to worry about cracking fiberglass so let's talk about the 2jz it is a motor built by bridle loop and it is ridiculous yeah and it is so ridiculous it gets almost at 3300 rpm like what the hell turbo though almost act like a supercharger I'll go down to third and listen to it it's always ready to go it's amazing compared to the twin turbos I had before the twin turbos were incredibly laggy and I was very surprised by that I thought what their smaller size that they would be well laughs but they're not well I go into third gear I give it a little bit dear buddy what a woman at the friggin lovely oh my god but after all of that hardship look at me I'm the happiest guy in the frickin planet right now so ridiculous but have you noticed they took my thighs ravine and it would smell pretty much in boost it didn't affect that much because of the Psalter I have a big giant small fan up front and I have to Mishimoto fans up front as well with a shroud I'm also running and is our radiator provided by into June which also does the job very well even with the extreme heat under the hood the intercooler setup is the ex racing we come to did the piping with ch rethink it to fit the single turbo we also use ATX Racine single turbo jus JZ conversion to where instead of the job come from the left it comes from the right where the jus JD has it so it comes all the way diagonally across the car hundred the car also has 264 cams in it so it can be a little temperamental sometimes when you start the car but that's just part of the beads I have an a my band right here and everything looks good all my gauges work I have an AM infinity Loney PU if you do a Jew jay-z or any engine swap into a chopped D that it doesn't belong it please save yourself the effort and get yourself a standalone ECU is it possible to do it without it yes is it a lot harder yes just do it I'm telling you it's worth the money it's absolutely worth the money I also have c-32 brakes coming them to 300zx and also a brake booster delete and all of my lines come from chase Bay's so chase thank you so much for helping me out with this project you are nothing but curious about it and I'm very thankful however the user brake booster to leave you definitely have to be a man to hit the brake get to use your leg straight engage how hard you hit them because there's no help from a brake booster so you basically have to stop on the brake the harder you hit the brake the faster you stop the car around town amongst other things to be kind of hired them the reason I say that is because I have a cause one in a halfway LSD in the back what that does it gets rid of the open differential this parking factory is an open set with the single cam motor in it so that means I would one wheel seal that be very dangerous with this so it puts the cause LSD in which you take the factory pumpkin or Casey to be normal death he put in the cause and the same cases so the one thing though is it's extremely aggressive it feels like a well to dip everywhere you drive around town however every other times you're on full throttle or getting on it or whatever it's perfect you're going around to bend you don't even notice that it does its job so let's talk about the interior I have a DMV steering wheel with an energy hub these are status rating state status is actually a beautiful company you have this awesome configurators you can any seat you can imagine and what's really beautiful about that is that agency power along with Vivid Racing basically collapse and help me create these custom seats I said I wanted barebone nice beautiful suede these and then they threw in grabber blue in the back of the seats which is phenomenal they took their time with these they did a really good job and they were awesome about it no I have a one of a kind seat just for me like a dude and blues out of three these days it's so cool so another piece of advice if you're going to do a 2gz swap in the Neff 13 I recommend not using the are 154 I'm using the are 150 for transmission right now it's a five-speed but it shift like a truck it's actually pretty fragile if you're not careful you can't Billy badass it in speech if ya take your time take a breath in between chip if you don't you can break some my recommendation is if I were to do this all over again I would do a CD double O 9 it's a freaking easy transmission they can take a lot of horsepower and they feel really good and there are six feet in step Carsley I actually have no idea I haven't weighed the car yet but actually if you'd like to go in the comment section below and calculate the winner barrier they go for it I'd love to see you guys figure it out put it this way the cars stupid life so when you have 500 horsepower in this thing it's perfect like literally perfect I go around corner they give it a dump input and I love it to death because it's not too fast and it's not too slow what you came to momentum you have to do minor things to get this thing around turn and it's awesome one thing I really liked about this car when I first got it is that it was pretty much a crack with - however with 240 almost no escaping it I've had this car sitting not even that long it is already cracked on the dash I don't even know how that happens I understand because it's done but even it's just weird how they just like magically appear so maybe I'll wrap the dash something nothing it's so bad I know that room how much whoo-hoo oh my god a little gender thing no one thing that thus far that is kind of frustrating sometimes is my clutch and it's an OS guy can't win this I had his back before the single did it wasn't made to handle or spare at all just back about hating on you but it blew out it could handle the horsepower so I want to notice I can't win this which feels great it crapped really really low but when you want to know you're a goner dude it's really tough I always just go to hell like this I thought five times it's just really hard because the car still lights aren't rolling back he's going to be careful you got to time when your movie but it's just insanely crap do I believe that there comes to a point with a project car where you go is this worth it into worth all this heartache that I've gone through so many times here's an example I spent in my rack and pinion to be completely redone right fully sent back and s14 rack opinion and they didn't tell me so then I kept Biden tie rods for a 13 I would do five of them he's none of them fit finally they got across the street autozone and by a 14 to experiment and then they fit it's like little crap like that is would delay the project car or like before I blew my promoter up it's like through this part I want to do it anymore but when you finally go into booze you finally hit that hard hitting Tam and Eamonn or whatever you do you smile and you're like holy crap I get it now I absolutely get it now another thing about interesting was the type a continued lines I bought for this car Nissan still makes them brand new I came from a factory in Japan and they said tiebacks daylights out of Japan like brand making you in the box I like that's amazing let's shoot how much of a legacy the 240sx is left on all of us in Japan and in the states and around the world another big question people ask me why did you go with the two jigs why didn't you go with the nets are why did you go with an RV why did he go with an LS and actually out of all the flocks out there the LF is most practical lot to do in a 244 much Bart bang for your buck is through the roof and it works for the most part but I already had him on so far regardless do you hate my mother gar or not I had him up the car at a VA car I wanted to do an import another little kid it was time so I got my favorite import motor of all time and here we are and do I think I did the right thing yes because I get in them updating they get the 240 and even though they're about the same power the completely different experience that's what I was going for this is the Dominator of the mountain that one just like a cruiser and can go past of time that's how I look at it the first pair wheels I had on this car we're handed REO to and they have an REO dude I really liked the look of I thought they were great but they're just a little too big for what I was going for so I went with the dot flow four wheels which I absolutely loved it was a game changer for my car not only was a bit mid way better I also downsized the tire as well and that is what gave my gardening a whole new plug so when I finally figured out I couldn't do this car by myself and then I was making a big change I was moving to Atlanta Georgia I needed to go to somebody I could trust and I went to evolve tuning it was a brand new shop they had just built their own offices it was really cool of idea I ended up becoming president because they treated me so well in any time as far as a problem I can call them be like hey dude I need a little bit of help because I might have a film shoot I might have to travel I can drop this thing off and by the time I get it back it's big and a lot of people are going to argue build off blah blah blah I don't care you know what the important thing is I'm driving and that's what I wanted to do in the first place am i a little sad that he didn't do the whole car myself a hundred percent but you know what I'm totally with admitting and taking away from my pride he'll let professionals help me out because it made my life so much easier because this car would have never been done without a vault in himself the thing would be sitting in my garage for like six years so huge big to them and I can't think do it up they've been amazing to me out of all the people I think so far though there's one important group of people I really need to make and that is you with you guys watching my content for so long you guys gave me the ability to build this dream car and I can't be more thankful for you guys I'm so happy you guys are them my livelihood you guys let me eat and have a roof over my head let alone build a dream car so I all of you to thank for this wonderful experience I'm embarking on today and driving this car I've been dying to drive this July of 2015 no let's have some fun haha whoa give them the food so so bad the best thing to do is with the car and third or fourth year but in third right now it just cutting ease around and the car loved it my parents supported me my friends supported me my friends would help me on all the time in the car they would drive 40 minutes out the moody's virginity to help me on this car I waited to bring into a place that's beautiful in the Sun awesome Georgia back road you like this car it's like the combination of all my favorite things about Japanese cars good handling lightweight great engine that's reliable when you do it right reliable turbocharged good chassis great suspension and just fun that's the key it's just fun so once again I want to thank all of you for letting me live my dream and let me have this far and I'm speechless this car handles so good it's on Rails it's fast it's balanced it's great and I can't be more than full so thank you guys so much for watching this video take it easy don't forget to subscribe and I will see you guys next time have a fantastic day my 240 made it to the top of a button without breaking I can't believe itOh July 31st 2015 I bought a piece of junk 240th deck with 240,000 miles on my friend Chris finds a car at Topsy Motorsports in Atlanta Georgia at the time I lived in Richmond Virginia Frisco's I finally found you at 2:40 taffy I think it's rust free to come check it out and fly to Atlanta Georgia get the top three motorsports ago that's the one it needs a lot of love but I need to show the world you can take something from nothing and create something great what do I have my dream import into the 1990s 13 - jay-z built motor - 40th thing the first and foremost let's go over the car this started off as a twin-turbocharged 2jz the twin-turbocharged project was an experiment the experiment was king use bill twin turbos on the 2jz using the stock housing to make single turbo power wouldn't be cheaper more efficient to do in a single over time we realize it was just too difficult he got 200 the engine bay and eventually after a 500-mile road trip to my hometown in Virginia the motor blew up so then not with that we finally decided to go single turbo we use the CX racing thick wall manifold with a garret GTX generation to triple ball bearing turbo now it's a 30/70 1r in my met garrett at SEMA suggested the apu going six turbo on this car they asked what what power goals you want how like five to six hundred so i go to Long Beach California pick up the turbocharged ego isn't that's a little small the oh no dude trust me so I get a bigger hot side for the turbo from them in the car big 509 horsepower in Ford and somebody put on sport on pump gas with the help of involved injection 850 feet the ejector and also a radium fuel room I love tile ways ain't I allow that is nothing but smiles per gallon well oh now one of the biggest hauls of my car when the Juke e-rate think it you crazy specializes in deep thoughts especially and I met a man named hurt in hurt you might know from the hoonigan YouTube channel I met her and he said dude I know the Friends of the Jew who I used to work there let me help you out help me out with the is our control arms and also any other suspension component that wasn't the coil over this car has every nut in bulk touched every single thing if this were a resto mod and an American car to make perfect sense pieces of ball joints are roughly this car was an absolute basket case the body was completely tore up it was roughed underneath it as myself and friend tried to pick herself and we were successful but it was still very difficult the body shop could have done it in less than a day we made our life much harder we use the accept manufacturing the rust repair kit which hit a common spot in the free world that rubs on an F 30 put a cup to the appearance of the car and is actually proper glue from Ford this is actually the same color on my Mustang GT and if the exact same paint codes when you park the side by side it's exactly the same we were going to settle for the 370z nissan blue which is very very similar but we figure that grabber blue all the bodywork all of the paint was done by balm or body shop and i went up there for five days and knocked out a ton of the work but the problem was is when we were finally ready to paint the car i had to go home for a little while and then the car got stuck in Baltimore after a blizzard is Baltimore then myself my friend Jay Kissel and my friend big well three months later went up after the snow and finally cleared and got the car in this color it's not a huge dent in the side and they were able to fix that and basically make this car look new it the prom bumper is a version collect and all the way around is origin on the other side however had I done this again I would have done a polyurethane kit and now I have to worry about cracking fiberglass so let's talk about the 2jz it is a motor built by bridle loop and it is ridiculous yeah and it is so ridiculous it gets almost at 3300 rpm like what the hell turbo though almost act like a supercharger I'll go down to third and listen to it it's always ready to go it's amazing compared to the twin turbos I had before the twin turbos were incredibly laggy and I was very surprised by that I thought what their smaller size that they would be well laughs but they're not well I go into third gear I give it a little bit dear buddy what a woman at the friggin lovely oh my god but after all of that hardship look at me I'm the happiest guy in the frickin planet right now so ridiculous but have you noticed they took my thighs ravine and it would smell pretty much in boost it didn't affect that much because of the Psalter I have a big giant small fan up front and I have to Mishimoto fans up front as well with a shroud I'm also running and is our radiator provided by into June which also does the job very well even with the extreme heat under the hood the intercooler setup is the ex racing we come to did the piping with ch rethink it to fit the single turbo we also use ATX Racine single turbo jus JZ conversion to where instead of the job come from the left it comes from the right where the jus JD has it so it comes all the way diagonally across the car hundred the car also has 264 cams in it so it can be a little temperamental sometimes when you start the car but that's just part of the beads I have an a my band right here and everything looks good all my gauges work I have an AM infinity Loney PU if you do a Jew jay-z or any engine swap into a chopped D that it doesn't belong it please save yourself the effort and get yourself a standalone ECU is it possible to do it without it yes is it a lot harder yes just do it I'm telling you it's worth the money it's absolutely worth the money I also have c-32 brakes coming them to 300zx and also a brake booster delete and all of my lines come from chase Bay's so chase thank you so much for helping me out with this project you are nothing but curious about it and I'm very thankful however the user brake booster to leave you definitely have to be a man to hit the brake get to use your leg straight engage how hard you hit them because there's no help from a brake booster so you basically have to stop on the brake the harder you hit the brake the faster you stop the car around town amongst other things to be kind of hired them the reason I say that is because I have a cause one in a halfway LSD in the back what that does it gets rid of the open differential this parking factory is an open set with the single cam motor in it so that means I would one wheel seal that be very dangerous with this so it puts the cause LSD in which you take the factory pumpkin or Casey to be normal death he put in the cause and the same cases so the one thing though is it's extremely aggressive it feels like a well to dip everywhere you drive around town however every other times you're on full throttle or getting on it or whatever it's perfect you're going around to bend you don't even notice that it does its job so let's talk about the interior I have a DMV steering wheel with an energy hub these are status rating state status is actually a beautiful company you have this awesome configurators you can any seat you can imagine and what's really beautiful about that is that agency power along with Vivid Racing basically collapse and help me create these custom seats I said I wanted barebone nice beautiful suede these and then they threw in grabber blue in the back of the seats which is phenomenal they took their time with these they did a really good job and they were awesome about it no I have a one of a kind seat just for me like a dude and blues out of three these days it's so cool so another piece of advice if you're going to do a 2gz swap in the Neff 13 I recommend not using the are 154 I'm using the are 150 for transmission right now it's a five-speed but it shift like a truck it's actually pretty fragile if you're not careful you can't Billy badass it in speech if ya take your time take a breath in between chip if you don't you can break some my recommendation is if I were to do this all over again I would do a CD double O 9 it's a freaking easy transmission they can take a lot of horsepower and they feel really good and there are six feet in step Carsley I actually have no idea I haven't weighed the car yet but actually if you'd like to go in the comment section below and calculate the winner barrier they go for it I'd love to see you guys figure it out put it this way the cars stupid life so when you have 500 horsepower in this thing it's perfect like literally perfect I go around corner they give it a dump input and I love it to death because it's not too fast and it's not too slow what you came to momentum you have to do minor things to get this thing around turn and it's awesome one thing I really liked about this car when I first got it is that it was pretty much a crack with - however with 240 almost no escaping it I've had this car sitting not even that long it is already cracked on the dash I don't even know how that happens I understand because it's done but even it's just weird how they just like magically appear so maybe I'll wrap the dash something nothing it's so bad I know that room how much whoo-hoo oh my god a little gender thing no one thing that thus far that is kind of frustrating sometimes is my clutch and it's an OS guy can't win this I had his back before the single did it wasn't made to handle or spare at all just back about hating on you but it blew out it could handle the horsepower so I want to notice I can't win this which feels great it crapped really really low but when you want to know you're a goner dude it's really tough I always just go to hell like this I thought five times it's just really hard because the car still lights aren't rolling back he's going to be careful you got to time when your movie but it's just insanely crap do I believe that there comes to a point with a project car where you go is this worth it into worth all this heartache that I've gone through so many times here's an example I spent in my rack and pinion to be completely redone right fully sent back and s14 rack opinion and they didn't tell me so then I kept Biden tie rods for a 13 I would do five of them he's none of them fit finally they got across the street autozone and by a 14 to experiment and then they fit it's like little crap like that is would delay the project car or like before I blew my promoter up it's like through this part I want to do it anymore but when you finally go into booze you finally hit that hard hitting Tam and Eamonn or whatever you do you smile and you're like holy crap I get it now I absolutely get it now another thing about interesting was the type a continued lines I bought for this car Nissan still makes them brand new I came from a factory in Japan and they said tiebacks daylights out of Japan like brand making you in the box I like that's amazing let's shoot how much of a legacy the 240sx is left on all of us in Japan and in the states and around the world another big question people ask me why did you go with the two jigs why didn't you go with the nets are why did you go with an RV why did he go with an LS and actually out of all the flocks out there the LF is most practical lot to do in a 244 much Bart bang for your buck is through the roof and it works for the most part but I already had him on so far regardless do you hate my mother gar or not I had him up the car at a VA car I wanted to do an import another little kid it was time so I got my favorite import motor of all time and here we are and do I think I did the right thing yes because I get in them updating they get the 240 and even though they're about the same power the completely different experience that's what I was going for this is the Dominator of the mountain that one just like a cruiser and can go past of time that's how I look at it the first pair wheels I had on this car we're handed REO to and they have an REO dude I really liked the look of I thought they were great but they're just a little too big for what I was going for so I went with the dot flow four wheels which I absolutely loved it was a game changer for my car not only was a bit mid way better I also downsized the tire as well and that is what gave my gardening a whole new plug so when I finally figured out I couldn't do this car by myself and then I was making a big change I was moving to Atlanta Georgia I needed to go to somebody I could trust and I went to evolve tuning it was a brand new shop they had just built their own offices it was really cool of idea I ended up becoming president because they treated me so well in any time as far as a problem I can call them be like hey dude I need a little bit of help because I might have a film shoot I might have to travel I can drop this thing off and by the time I get it back it's big and a lot of people are going to argue build off blah blah blah I don't care you know what the important thing is I'm driving and that's what I wanted to do in the first place am i a little sad that he didn't do the whole car myself a hundred percent but you know what I'm totally with admitting and taking away from my pride he'll let professionals help me out because it made my life so much easier because this car would have never been done without a vault in himself the thing would be sitting in my garage for like six years so huge big to them and I can't think do it up they've been amazing to me out of all the people I think so far though there's one important group of people I really need to make and that is you with you guys watching my content for so long you guys gave me the ability to build this dream car and I can't be more thankful for you guys I'm so happy you guys are them my livelihood you guys let me eat and have a roof over my head let alone build a dream car so I all of you to thank for this wonderful experience I'm embarking on today and driving this car I've been dying to drive this July of 2015 no let's have some fun haha whoa give them the food so so bad the best thing to do is with the car and third or fourth year but in third right now it just cutting ease around and the car loved it my parents supported me my friends supported me my friends would help me on all the time in the car they would drive 40 minutes out the moody's virginity to help me on this car I waited to bring into a place that's beautiful in the Sun awesome Georgia back road you like this car it's like the combination of all my favorite things about Japanese cars good handling lightweight great engine that's reliable when you do it right reliable turbocharged good chassis great suspension and just fun that's the key it's just fun so once again I want to thank all of you for letting me live my dream and let me have this far and I'm speechless this car handles so good it's on Rails it's fast it's balanced it's great and I can't be more than full so thank you guys so much for watching this video take it easy don't forget to subscribe and I will see you guys next time have a fantastic day my 240 made it to the top of a button without breaking I can't believe itOh July 31st 2015 I bought a piece of junk 240th deck with 240,000 miles on my friend Chris finds a car at Topsy Motorsports in Atlanta Georgia at the time I lived in Richmond Virginia Frisco's I finally found you at 2:40 taffy I think it's rust free to come check it out and fly to Atlanta Georgia get the top three motorsports ago that's the one it needs a lot of love but I need to show the world you can take something from nothing and create something great what do I have my dream import into the 1990s 13 - jay-z built motor - 40th thing the first and foremost let's go over the car this started off as a twin-turbocharged 2jz the twin-turbocharged project was an experiment the experiment was king use bill twin turbos on the 2jz using the stock housing to make single turbo power wouldn't be cheaper more efficient to do in a single over time we realize it was just too difficult he got 200 the engine bay and eventually after a 500-mile road trip to my hometown in Virginia the motor blew up so then not with that we finally decided to go single turbo we use the CX racing thick wall manifold with a garret GTX generation to triple ball bearing turbo now it's a 30/70 1r in my met garrett at SEMA suggested the apu going six turbo on this car they asked what what power goals you want how like five to six hundred so i go to Long Beach California pick up the turbocharged ego isn't that's a little small the oh no dude trust me so I get a bigger hot side for the turbo from them in the car big 509 horsepower in Ford and somebody put on sport on pump gas with the help of involved injection 850 feet the ejector and also a radium fuel room I love tile ways ain't I allow that is nothing but smiles per gallon well oh now one of the biggest hauls of my car when the Juke e-rate think it you crazy specializes in deep thoughts especially and I met a man named hurt in hurt you might know from the hoonigan YouTube channel I met her and he said dude I know the Friends of the Jew who I used to work there let me help you out help me out with the is our control arms and also any other suspension component that wasn't the coil over this car has every nut in bulk touched every single thing if this were a resto mod and an American car to make perfect sense pieces of ball joints are roughly this car was an absolute basket case the body was completely tore up it was roughed underneath it as myself and friend tried to pick herself and we were successful but it was still very difficult the body shop could have done it in less than a day we made our life much harder we use the accept manufacturing the rust repair kit which hit a common spot in the free world that rubs on an F 30 put a cup to the appearance of the car and is actually proper glue from Ford this is actually the same color on my Mustang GT and if the exact same paint codes when you park the side by side it's exactly the same we were going to settle for the 370z nissan blue which is very very similar but we figure that grabber blue all the bodywork all of the paint was done by balm or body shop and i went up there for five days and knocked out a ton of the work but the problem was is when we were finally ready to paint the car i had to go home for a little while and then the car got stuck in Baltimore after a blizzard is Baltimore then myself my friend Jay Kissel and my friend big well three months later went up after the snow and finally cleared and got the car in this color it's not a huge dent in the side and they were able to fix that and basically make this car look new it the prom bumper is a version collect and all the way around is origin on the other side however had I done this again I would have done a polyurethane kit and now I have to worry about cracking fiberglass so let's talk about the 2jz it is a motor built by bridle loop and it is ridiculous yeah and it is so ridiculous it gets almost at 3300 rpm like what the hell turbo though almost act like a supercharger I'll go down to third and listen to it it's always ready to go it's amazing compared to the twin turbos I had before the twin turbos were incredibly laggy and I was very surprised by that I thought what their smaller size that they would be well laughs but they're not well I go into third gear I give it a little bit dear buddy what a woman at the friggin lovely oh my god but after all of that hardship look at me I'm the happiest guy in the frickin planet right now so ridiculous but have you noticed they took my thighs ravine and it would smell pretty much in boost it didn't affect that much because of the Psalter I have a big giant small fan up front and I have to Mishimoto fans up front as well with a shroud I'm also running and is our radiator provided by into June which also does the job very well even with the extreme heat under the hood the intercooler setup is the ex racing we come to did the piping with ch rethink it to fit the single turbo we also use ATX Racine single turbo jus JZ conversion to where instead of the job come from the left it comes from the right where the jus JD has it so it comes all the way diagonally across the car hundred the car also has 264 cams in it so it can be a little temperamental sometimes when you start the car but that's just part of the beads I have an a my band right here and everything looks good all my gauges work I have an AM infinity Loney PU if you do a Jew jay-z or any engine swap into a chopped D that it doesn't belong it please save yourself the effort and get yourself a standalone ECU is it possible to do it without it yes is it a lot harder yes just do it I'm telling you it's worth the money it's absolutely worth the money I also have c-32 brakes coming them to 300zx and also a brake booster delete and all of my lines come from chase Bay's so chase thank you so much for helping me out with this project you are nothing but curious about it and I'm very thankful however the user brake booster to leave you definitely have to be a man to hit the brake get to use your leg straight engage how hard you hit them because there's no help from a brake booster so you basically have to stop on the brake the harder you hit the brake the faster you stop the car around town amongst other things to be kind of hired them the reason I say that is because I have a cause one in a halfway LSD in the back what that does it gets rid of the open differential this parking factory is an open set with the single cam motor in it so that means I would one wheel seal that be very dangerous with this so it puts the cause LSD in which you take the factory pumpkin or Casey to be normal death he put in the cause and the same cases so the one thing though is it's extremely aggressive it feels like a well to dip everywhere you drive around town however every other times you're on full throttle or getting on it or whatever it's perfect you're going around to bend you don't even notice that it does its job so let's talk about the interior I have a DMV steering wheel with an energy hub these are status rating state status is actually a beautiful company you have this awesome configurators you can any seat you can imagine and what's really beautiful about that is that agency power along with Vivid Racing basically collapse and help me create these custom seats I said I wanted barebone nice beautiful suede these and then they threw in grabber blue in the back of the seats which is phenomenal they took their time with these they did a really good job and they were awesome about it no I have a one of a kind seat just for me like a dude and blues out of three these days it's so cool so another piece of advice if you're going to do a 2gz swap in the Neff 13 I recommend not using the are 154 I'm using the are 150 for transmission right now it's a five-speed but it shift like a truck it's actually pretty fragile if you're not careful you can't Billy badass it in speech if ya take your time take a breath in between chip if you don't you can break some my recommendation is if I were to do this all over again I would do a CD double O 9 it's a freaking easy transmission they can take a lot of horsepower and they feel really good and there are six feet in step Carsley I actually have no idea I haven't weighed the car yet but actually if you'd like to go in the comment section below and calculate the winner barrier they go for it I'd love to see you guys figure it out put it this way the cars stupid life so when you have 500 horsepower in this thing it's perfect like literally perfect I go around corner they give it a dump input and I love it to death because it's not too fast and it's not too slow what you came to momentum you have to do minor things to get this thing around turn and it's awesome one thing I really liked about this car when I first got it is that it was pretty much a crack with - however with 240 almost no escaping it I've had this car sitting not even that long it is already cracked on the dash I don't even know how that happens I understand because it's done but even it's just weird how they just like magically appear so maybe I'll wrap the dash something nothing it's so bad I know that room how much whoo-hoo oh my god a little gender thing no one thing that thus far that is kind of frustrating sometimes is my clutch and it's an OS guy can't win this I had his back before the single did it wasn't made to handle or spare at all just back about hating on you but it blew out it could handle the horsepower so I want to notice I can't win this which feels great it crapped really really low but when you want to know you're a goner dude it's really tough I always just go to hell like this I thought five times it's just really hard because the car still lights aren't rolling back he's going to be careful you got to time when your movie but it's just insanely crap do I believe that there comes to a point with a project car where you go is this worth it into worth all this heartache that I've gone through so many times here's an example I spent in my rack and pinion to be completely redone right fully sent back and s14 rack opinion and they didn't tell me so then I kept Biden tie rods for a 13 I would do five of them he's none of them fit finally they got across the street autozone and by a 14 to experiment and then they fit it's like little crap like that is would delay the project car or like before I blew my promoter up it's like through this part I want to do it anymore but when you finally go into booze you finally hit that hard hitting Tam and Eamonn or whatever you do you smile and you're like holy crap I get it now I absolutely get it now another thing about interesting was the type a continued lines I bought for this car Nissan still makes them brand new I came from a factory in Japan and they said tiebacks daylights out of Japan like brand making you in the box I like that's amazing let's shoot how much of a legacy the 240sx is left on all of us in Japan and in the states and around the world another big question people ask me why did you go with the two jigs why didn't you go with the nets are why did you go with an RV why did he go with an LS and actually out of all the flocks out there the LF is most practical lot to do in a 244 much Bart bang for your buck is through the roof and it works for the most part but I already had him on so far regardless do you hate my mother gar or not I had him up the car at a VA car I wanted to do an import another little kid it was time so I got my favorite import motor of all time and here we are and do I think I did the right thing yes because I get in them updating they get the 240 and even though they're about the same power the completely different experience that's what I was going for this is the Dominator of the mountain that one just like a cruiser and can go past of time that's how I look at it the first pair wheels I had on this car we're handed REO to and they have an REO dude I really liked the look of I thought they were great but they're just a little too big for what I was going for so I went with the dot flow four wheels which I absolutely loved it was a game changer for my car not only was a bit mid way better I also downsized the tire as well and that is what gave my gardening a whole new plug so when I finally figured out I couldn't do this car by myself and then I was making a big change I was moving to Atlanta Georgia I needed to go to somebody I could trust and I went to evolve tuning it was a brand new shop they had just built their own offices it was really cool of idea I ended up becoming president because they treated me so well in any time as far as a problem I can call them be like hey dude I need a little bit of help because I might have a film shoot I might have to travel I can drop this thing off and by the time I get it back it's big and a lot of people are going to argue build off blah blah blah I don't care you know what the important thing is I'm driving and that's what I wanted to do in the first place am i a little sad that he didn't do the whole car myself a hundred percent but you know what I'm totally with admitting and taking away from my pride he'll let professionals help me out because it made my life so much easier because this car would have never been done without a vault in himself the thing would be sitting in my garage for like six years so huge big to them and I can't think do it up they've been amazing to me out of all the people I think so far though there's one important group of people I really need to make and that is you with you guys watching my content for so long you guys gave me the ability to build this dream car and I can't be more thankful for you guys I'm so happy you guys are them my livelihood you guys let me eat and have a roof over my head let alone build a dream car so I all of you to thank for this wonderful experience I'm embarking on today and driving this car I've been dying to drive this July of 2015 no let's have some fun haha whoa give them the food so so bad the best thing to do is with the car and third or fourth year but in third right now it just cutting ease around and the car loved it my parents supported me my friends supported me my friends would help me on all the time in the car they would drive 40 minutes out the moody's virginity to help me on this car I waited to bring into a place that's beautiful in the Sun awesome Georgia back road you like this car it's like the combination of all my favorite things about Japanese cars good handling lightweight great engine that's reliable when you do it right reliable turbocharged good chassis great suspension and just fun that's the key it's just fun so once again I want to thank all of you for letting me live my dream and let me have this far and I'm speechless this car handles so good it's on Rails it's fast it's balanced it's great and I can't be more than full so thank you guys so much for watching this video take it easy don't forget to subscribe and I will see you guys next time have a fantastic day my 240 made it to the top of a button without breaking I can't believe it\n"