Its been a while since I’ve bought cars, and the last few months I’ve got 2 new ones and figured I’d post em now that I have a day to do nothing.
Daily:
2013 Hyundai Veloster Base w/ 6 Speed Manual.
Bought in Arkansas on a vacation. Randomly went in and test drove one, loved it. Its not quick, but it has everything I wanted in a car, at 15k$, and no front license plate bracket. I plan on doing nothing with this car, except a tow hook front license plate mount.
After that stop - i had a hard time getting the car up to speed. But it got there. By the time i got off the 90 the CEL came on, and i could barely go anywhere. After 2 days of messing with the service at the hyundai dealer, they took out the air filter after i saw the intake pipe collapsed while putting more washer fluid in. This is what we found:
I test drove a Veloster Turbo the day I bought my GTI. They’re cool cars. Thinking back, I probably should have bought the Hyundai, I would have enjoyed the awesome warranty and gas mileage for the DD. I mostly just didn’t like the interior.
Thanks guys. The wiring is going to be easy, im not worried about that at all. If we were having a mild winter again it would probably be done already.
And I’ve been looking for a while for a new daily, and this was a nice drive. Warranty is a huge plus, but with how much I drive its not going to last long (I bought it new on 12/29 with 16 miles on it. It already has 1750 on it…) But the bluetooth/pandora integration, 3yrs of bluelink thing, heated mirrors and averaging 45mpg on the trip home made it worth it.
As for the 240, i really dont have much info on it other then what was in the sale thread, but heres what i know:
1995 240SX
repainted roughly 2000 miles ago
kouki spoiler on SR20DET Trunk
Navan front bumper and rear valences
Kouki side skirts (not attached, previous owner had navan side skirts)
FULL Polyurethane suspension bushing replacement (EVERY bushing is polyurethane with grease zerks)
17x9 Cobra R wheels with good Nexen N3000 tires
tokico blue struts with eibach sportline springs
whiteline sway bars
300ZX front brakes
DC Sports Front strut tower brace
Koyo Aluminum Radiator
Walbro 255LPH
Braided stainless fuel supply line
Corvette fuel pressure filter/regulator
Kouki tail lights
J30 VLSD with 3.90 gears
car will come with unmodified engine crossmember
rear mounted battery
2005 5.3L Aluminum V8 from a Chevrolet Silverado with roughly 60k miles
2005 4L60E Automatic Transmission with roughly 25k miles
4" Aluminum intake
LS1 Intake manifold
All stainless, true dual exhaust. Stainless long tube headers flow through V-Bands to magnaflow x-pipe muffler to dual muffler rear exhaust
modified crossmember
Once I get the wiring done I’m probably going to just drive it this year, and then look at swapping it to a manual. Ill probably do some easy stuff to the engine but I have no idea…still doing some research on whats worth the time.
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lol i’m not done with them, just done with rusted POS’s. Next one I get will be a clean car. I’m also done with the convertible awd swaps. it was fun but, not worth the money to do it again.
Cost is the only reason its not being done now. I have everything for the car to be swapped except the tranny (mount, clutch pedal, master cyl + line, brake pedal, center console). But for the cost, i can still enjoy the shit out of it this summer and if i want to swap it ill keep an eye out this summer. Id rather put that money into the engine/stickier tires then a manual swap right now
