Yo! Quick intro, my name is Jeremy, I live in Las Vegas, and in my grubby mitts I've got a 1984 Nissan 200sx XE. I bought the car in February of 2011 from a famous local S12-er Waylon(aka IggyEguana). He had recently bought the car in California, but decided he'd prefer a lower optioned car that he could modify the heck out of without feeling bad. Anyways, the car has an interesting history, an Indian man living in California bought the car new in '84 and owned the car up until 2011, putting 160k on the car. He then donated the car to a breast cancer charity, who proceeded to sell it at a raffle event or some such thing. The winner of the car decided to sell it, and that's when Iggy bought it and brought it back to Vegas. I had been frantically searching for an S12 locally for a few months, and got into contact with him, and boom! A deal was made.
So, I finally had the S12 I'd been searching for, and I loved it. The car ran ok when I first bought it, some vacuum leaks and some ignition problems, but I drove it regardless and fixed it little by little. Eventually the starter died, and I was broke and going to school, so the car sat for a while. I work in the summers and go to school in the fall/spring, so now that summer is over I've got some coin and time to put into my car, and was waiting until shit got real to start a build thread.
As for goals, honestly I love the car as it is, I just want a 5-speed behind me rather than a slush box. Now, I did go through a phase when I wanted a ca18det/sr20det swap more than anything, but this past year I've decided that I want to drive my car with a ca20e and a 5-speed. My motor is good, reliable, efficient, and it just matches what I want my car to be. I'm not a speed demon, 100hp is alright in such a light car. Handling and classic styling is crucial. I want to be able to walk outside to my 84 200sx and cruise the country, through rain, snow, heat, whatever. And I'm looking forward to when I can, so here I go, wish me luck.
Here's the car the day after I bought it, man was I stoked, it was unreal. Note that my car has turbo ground-effects installed, but is missing a turbo hood, and is not actually a turbo model. Interestingly, my turbo kit was dealer installed, pretty neat. Also, the spoiler on the hatch reads "200SX" and not "TURBO" like a true turbo car would, I wonder if others like this one exist. Clean car, eh?
The car was awesome, and I did some maintenance to keep it running, like a full tune up as well as running some new vacuum lines and whatnot. An interesting thing to note is I could never get it to run on both sets of spark plugs, the intake side fired well enough to run it just fine, but that is something I'll need to address in the build.
The interior of this car was AMAZING, perhaps just to me, but it's in really good shape for it's age. I had taken a sort of photo-shoot of the interior after I had bought the car, and the photos I took turned out pretty cool, check 'em out.
I also quickly bought this neat-o silvia decal from a clubs12 member, Keith. My original 200sx decal was covered up by the spoiler at the dealer, so I needed a decal on the back of my car anyways. Looks rad!
Stay tuned for more, as I'll need to get up to the cars current status eventually, coming soon.
Sep 28, 2012, 12:40 am · #1
