Here is my little time line/ build up of my 240. I bought it stock with just an intake and test pipe welded in where the cat went... And I just kinda went from there. They say pictures are worth a thousand words... well I have probably about a million words worth of pictures coming your way...
Here it is from start to current:
Then I started modifying it, starting w/ suspension. I got some tokiko blues w/ eibach springs for $100.
After that I started auto-xing. My driving experience up until then was go-kart racing.
After about 4 auto-x events I went to my first drift event in Michigan at Drift Battle where I taught myself to drift. Open diff and all lol.
I then moved to Tennessee and went to a few parking lot events.
I bought some SPL Tension Rods followed by inner and out tie rods w/ spacers and then spl rucas.
A few more events and my ka started leaking valve seals. So I got a new "rebuilt" one... It was rebuilt but a small rock had fallen into one of the cylinders during the rebuild... which I found out later...
I got another open diff and had it welded. After that I bought my Enkei 92s.
Then went to a drift event where the little rock that was impeded into my piston had created a cold spot I guess and my rings blew on that cylinder.
Got the car home found out the head was good... don't know how but I wasn't complaining. So I used the head from that motor and the block from my first and put together my current KA.
Shortly after that I got myself some Stance GR+ Pro coilovers and went to some events.
Then I got a stage four competition clutch and flywheel.
Went to play in atlanta
And a piktar
Then I put on the ISIS straight through race exhaust and ss powers steering line:
And here is a video:
I only took it to about 2-2.5k rpm because I didn't want to bother the neighbors. The video doesn't do it justice.
I am SUCH a cool kid haha
Went to a drift event
Car was doing great. And wound up going to another event where I hit the wall and bent my header and ripped the hangers off my exhaust and sent on hanger through my gas tank and scuffed my bumper up. Not really bad damage considering I hit anywhere from 35-40mph. I patched the gas tank and went out again open header and had a good time.
While driving home one day, my clutch fork pivot sheered on me and I had to pull the trans and I replaced it with a forged chromolly pivot. I also replaced the ripped trans mount with a poly race mount from peak performance.
Trans out
Broken pivot
New mount
Got the car together and went to the event sunday. I noticed my car was low on power on the way there and my first run confirmed it. It felt like I was driving up hill in fifth gear driving down the straight away. I had terrible runs all day because my car couldn't get out of it's own way. I think my maf went out and it started dumping fuel because I was running rich as hell. Shortly there after it started running horrible and I am pretty sure I bent some valves... there were loud pops and a few booms and lots of fire balls...
The car is now at my shop and I am going to tear the motor down tonight to figure out what exactly went wrong.
Now I get to decide what I want to do motor wise...
WOW that is a long post...
Here it is from start to current:
Then I started modifying it, starting w/ suspension. I got some tokiko blues w/ eibach springs for $100.
After that I started auto-xing. My driving experience up until then was go-kart racing.
After about 4 auto-x events I went to my first drift event in Michigan at Drift Battle where I taught myself to drift. Open diff and all lol.
I then moved to Tennessee and went to a few parking lot events.
I bought some SPL Tension Rods followed by inner and out tie rods w/ spacers and then spl rucas.
A few more events and my ka started leaking valve seals. So I got a new "rebuilt" one... It was rebuilt but a small rock had fallen into one of the cylinders during the rebuild... which I found out later...
I got another open diff and had it welded. After that I bought my Enkei 92s.
Then went to a drift event where the little rock that was impeded into my piston had created a cold spot I guess and my rings blew on that cylinder.
Got the car home found out the head was good... don't know how but I wasn't complaining. So I used the head from that motor and the block from my first and put together my current KA.
Shortly after that I got myself some Stance GR+ Pro coilovers and went to some events.
Then I got a stage four competition clutch and flywheel.
Went to play in atlanta
And a piktar
Then I put on the ISIS straight through race exhaust and ss powers steering line:
And here is a video:
I only took it to about 2-2.5k rpm because I didn't want to bother the neighbors. The video doesn't do it justice.
I am SUCH a cool kid haha
Went to a drift event
Car was doing great. And wound up going to another event where I hit the wall and bent my header and ripped the hangers off my exhaust and sent on hanger through my gas tank and scuffed my bumper up. Not really bad damage considering I hit anywhere from 35-40mph. I patched the gas tank and went out again open header and had a good time.
While driving home one day, my clutch fork pivot sheered on me and I had to pull the trans and I replaced it with a forged chromolly pivot. I also replaced the ripped trans mount with a poly race mount from peak performance.
Trans out
Broken pivot
New mount
Got the car together and went to the event sunday. I noticed my car was low on power on the way there and my first run confirmed it. It felt like I was driving up hill in fifth gear driving down the straight away. I had terrible runs all day because my car couldn't get out of it's own way. I think my maf went out and it started dumping fuel because I was running rich as hell. Shortly there after it started running horrible and I am pretty sure I bent some valves... there were loud pops and a few booms and lots of fire balls...
The car is now at my shop and I am going to tear the motor down tonight to figure out what exactly went wrong.
Now I get to decide what I want to do motor wise...
WOW that is a long post...
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