the unghettoing of the ghetto240

so, as some of you may have noticed I have either been showing up to meets in my daily or riding shotgun with somebody... here's why.

My car, a 1989 Nissan 240sx coupe, had been sitting outside under a cover all winter. Long story short, I stepped on my break pedal and there was no pressure and the car didn't stop. Luckily i was going slow enough to use the ebrake to stop it. Turns out my break master cylinder failed, and I figured it was time for an upgrade. THmotorsports hooked me up with some stainless steel break lines and ARP headstuds. Among recieving these, there was oil leaking from my head (its an SR20DET redtop by the way), the rear main seal, and other places to which i don't feel like naming now. So I figured id replace all the headgaskets on it, so I stopped at touge factory and picked some up. Then, since the head was already off the car, I decide to pretty much have to motor removed, dissassembled, and looked at to make sure everything is good. Now my motor is undergoing pretty much a complete overhaul, and some welds and a wiretuck are going to be done. Anyways, enough boredom, here's some pics...

my decapitated SR...



motor removed


lotta junk in the trunk... :run:


block itself...


powerwash


before some making it pretty


primar applied


aliuminum paint applied...


purrrrrty


more pics comming, still gotta get a couple parts...

very nice, keep em comin

your car is cleeeeeeeeeeeean.

gl with the build

Cool guy. Get your shit running so you can focus on not making my eyes so sore. Haha. Good luck and for gods sake paint your valve cover while you at it.

haha, naaahhh... getting the valve cover painted didn't come to mind at all...

update!!!!


timing chain cover all painted


fail of a pic but it's the oil pan and the housing


block all painted and looking good




bling-motha-fuckin bling!!! thanks to ILLGarage!


more updates soon!

so that's who's valve cover that was... I love that gold.

Looking good buddy.

haha yeah, i sat there for 20 minutes deciding if i wanted the gold, or that forest green... went with the gold

so, stock sr's are on 10 to 13 psi right? whats the max amount of boost i can run on a stock block with arp head studs?

Stock sr is 7 psi. Its not your block thats limiting your boost, its your turbo, injectors, maf thats limiting your boost. T25 starts falling apart past 12psi. You should really go read up on zilvia or something. P.S. ARP studs are not gonna make your motor handle more power or anything, their mostly for insurance.

stock SR runs 7psi without the OEM boost solenoid (99.9% of swaps do not come with this)

10psi if you have it.

T25 maxes out around 1 bar.

your engine can handle a lot more power than your turbo is capable of...

i see, my friends said that it might be able to handle more boost, but i was wery of that... thanks

ghetto240 wrote:

haha yeah, i sat there for 20 minutes deciding if i wanted the gold, or that forest green... went with the gold

that gold is way above forest green. that picture doesn't do it justice though.

lol why didnt you guys take that fitting out before coating it.

Not really a big deal. We send it out to be coated, and he usually masks it off.

Nachtmensch wrote:

ghetto240 wrote:

haha yeah, i sat there for 20 minutes deciding if i wanted the gold, or that forest green... went with the gold

that gold is way above forest green. that picture doesn't do it justice though.

yeah i know, but thats with my shitty phone camera, and besides i don't have a sick DSLR lying around

more updates

got the head back today, everything is good on it, no flaws or anything
only problem is some bitch studs that won't come out, or are crossthreaded and have to be hela coiled.

my head


looks good




polishing it off


heating the aluminum trying to get the exhaust manifold studs out




then hela coiling the fucked up threads

update!

i talked to my friend's about the tools they were using and they told me that they wont hurt or distort the aliminum, it was just to take off the remaning old gasket... its pretty much a soft pad on an airbrush that won't cut into the metal... they told me that there friend uses the same tools, who works on airplanes, which are aliminum, which have to be absloutly PRECISE in everyway, can't be off the littlest bit for obvious reasons, so that made me feel better.

the brush


ARP headstuds




cosworth head gasket


the engine as it sits







more updates coming soon!

so fresh

good work

update... had a lotta miscellaneous shit painted... overkill? maybe so, but it looks good.





wheel welds were kinda beat up, so a little stronger metal was welded in place to replace the bent up ugly looking wheel wells



a wire tuck is also in progress...



some things missing here...



new water pump installed, various gaskets replaced, repainted and timed, pretty much ready to go, just waiting on my valve cover and intake manifold





gonna order a fidanza aliminum flywheel either this week or next week

lookin good man. im ganna clean my shit just not to that extant.

another way you could have taken the exhaust studs off was to flatten the studs on both sides with a grinder or a file, and then using an adjustable wrench to turn it off

hmm, true... but that sounds like the risk of them breaking off in the block... course maybe i'm just over exaggerating


ok, been off here for a little while because I've been very busy at work, but I got some more pixors

ordered these, Megan motor mounts







some bling added







sexy engine whoring out time









more updates to come

I love gooooooooooooooooooooooooooold!




looks good man!

thank you sir, let me ask you something... what is your opinion of ramhorns on these things?

looking good