Howdy Guys
Hey Guys.
I just joined the forums today, I've been reading other forums for awhile and just found out about these today. Currently i do own a car, but i believe she is done for. A 1986 Nissan Maxima, 185,000 on the old girl. She's seen better days and now I think her time has come. The car bluebooks at less than $500 and there are so many problems with it, three mechanicsm not including myselfm couldnt even figure out what was wrong with it. Obviously it's having engine problems, which to say the least arent really "worth" fixing. Beyond that, the heater core ruptured in May and i live ay 7,500 ft and we are already getting snow and low temps of 24 degrees, going without a heater is pretty drastic, especially when you have class at 9am some days and work at 10am. The suspension was shot since the day i got it, dash ripped apart, no exhaust, smoking. She's done. Well before her, I really wanted a 240, my neighbor had an s13 with the now typical sr20 swap, ginormous HKS intercooler, that could eat a child and some nice wheels. all in all it was clean, and dyno'ed at 340 something at the wheels, nice car. But i really liked the s14 better. Back when i started driving, i had the option of a 95 240sx automatic or a 91 mr2 standard transmission. I, being the dummy took the mr2, later to find out that working on one is the biggest bitch in the world. I later sold that and begun my long era or car shopping, sleeing crashing, modding, and whatever else you can do with a car. Im almost done with college, and through college i drove a 92 bronco and now this 86 maxima. the bronco gets 12mpg, so i go broke driving it, and the maxima got about 25mpg, but now shes just not worth the effort. Of course when i went to start looking at/for 95-98 240s, i found i couldnt even find one in my own state. (AZ) There were 2 in the autotrader, both modded with sr20s and a handfull of other things, one guy wants 14,500 for one and 17,000 for the other, which is in PRIMER paint.. geez. so i started shopping around. I cant find a 95 SE 5spd for less than 6000 that hasnt been abused or tricked out by someone. Im not money bags so i know ill be driving on the KA for awhile before i take on a swap of some sort, so i dont want one that's been abused, but thats probably not gonna happen, since the ones i did find were $6,995 and $7,200. For a car that goes for 4,500 blue book. well to wrap up my mini rant, im now in the market for a 95 240 SE 5spd, which i hope i can find by december.
*end rant*
we'll see how it goes and im sure you'll see alot of me all over this forum.
