I got into the 240SX back in 1999 when my friend from school bought a 91 hatch for $2,500 for a beater. We hadn't even heard of a Nissan 240SX only knew what a 300ZX is. (Which was out of our price range.) After driving the little rear wheel drive import I began to really love the car and started hunting around for "upgrades" which as far as the engine was concerned = none. I dunno if old school is considerd 1999 but if any of you were up on surfin the net for car/import stuff like me. I came across this website called speedlab.com, this place was the takakaira of today. I saw crazy body kits for the 240SX and tons of suspension items. Then I saw all the engine upgrades for some engine called a SR20DET?? I went on the forum on speedlab and read about people doing this swap and talking about the JDM motor being imported. Back then almost no one knew what an SR20DET was and awhile later I stumbled across the SR20DET install page for a hardbody Nissan truck. Saw the black 240SX on the site too and it was love ever since.

My outlook on imports in 1998-1999 was pretty poor because the honda people were spending large amounts of money. They were barely getting 200HP if that out of a front wheel drive car. If you want to go fast you need to start with something that is fast IMOP. A V8 mustang can be bought cheap and run 11s without robbin your ass. When I compared the SR20DET being able to run 12s with just a few little mods combined with a 240SX weighing less than a mustang. THAT WAS IT! An example is if both cars have 450HP, my car will win 4 sure granted the driving skills are there. I'm sold on this 240SX not to mention they handle awesome with a few suspension upgrades.

The reason for people all of sudden going for the 240SX and SR20DET is because of the main stream exsposure. Esp recently, you have sport compact car doing main articles on their silvia conversion.. You have super street which exploites the hell out of SR20DET/240SX, even back in the day they had a SR20 install article which was done at Vspec in CA. It has been made out to be a cool thing if you have an SR20DET lately. I kinda wish the magazines didn't make it exsposed like they have. I along with Mark and some others enjoy being differen't and I've almost thought about moddin a diff car cause the 240SX is now pop music. I still stick with it because you get the most for your money. It's like COCO Wheats, It can't be beat!

Now don't any of you go using this for a school essay, cause you'll fail.

 

i got a ka-t and it cost me $1600
no its not in yet but soon, should keep up with a basic swap.

congrats mark. i'd buy your exhaust or springs if i had the money for those, but im going all go with no exhaust hehe.

 

wrong ! he want even one of the first 10 . as a matter of fact , he wasnt even the first 5 in fl.....


oh ,and just for the record ... 99 is not old school ... i got my first 240 in 93 , had it modded out by 95 and my first sr in 97 , a whole year before ralph ......

 

yes, actually he was.

before that all of the sr20dets were running on jwt distributors off of silvia q's.

 

nope sorry matt ... first in fl with dfi would be mike from down south at speed demon racing .... the actual first , i think was v spec in cali ... then shorty after him was wayne (phase 2 motor trend), eric naal in texas had 5 running on dfi before ralph , then there was a few assorted others, then was mark , who i gave all my direct fire and stock ecu stuff to for his dist and jwt ecu , and the know how to put it in. this was 97, and I WAS THE FIRST SR IN FL , before ralph and mike , but i was running jwt . shortly after that mark gave me the wiring info, while ralph was still being a dick and not getting any help, and mike was running on marks info . eventully he figured it out on his own ( big props), but by then i was dfi ,my boy kevin was dfi , and there was 3 others running around down south. i think there was running dfi rb25 before ralph was done with his sr ....ralph was the first to post the info for free , and opened up alot of avenues , he was an early pioneer , but he was far from the first ... not even close... you can check me on this if you wnat , ask asad or wayne , or slidesqaudmark .....

 

actually martins car was originally an sr ,and when i saw his i was on my way to my 3rd .... circa 99-00..some where in there

 

Wow mark so what we can plan on you getting an SR for your self in like 3 years? cool ill be waiting....

 

yeah martin had sr way before ca18 but even that wasnt taht long ago.

honestly, who really cares who was the 1st "swap" in tampa, or florida, or the us, or the world. let's not take mark's post 5 spectrums off topic.