(upbeat music)
- If we look back, some of our favorite movies, right,
that hit home are from the nineties,
our favorite video games, most of them,
kind of from the nineties,
and a lot of the cars that we love today
are from the nineties.
The nineties hold a soft spot in our heart.
When we look back then,
the roots of drifting was moving from
the mountain roads of Japan to the circuits.
Until eventually we saw the first round
of the D1GP take place in the year 2000.
One of the cars that was widely used during that time,
and is still used today, is the Nissan 240SX.
Popular still today among people looking
to get into the sport,
and those who have been in the scene their entire lives.
The S chassis has captured the hearts of many.
And today, we are lucky enough to take a look
and get behind the wheel
of this Eastern drift-styled Nissan 240SX.
♪ What if we start over ♪
♪ Get a second chance ♪
♪ Rough my kiss with autumn ♪
♪ And the tack was his defense ♪
♪ Come with that fear ♪
♪ Love without remorse ♪
♪ Your life in my hand ♪
♪ And mine in yours ♪
♪ Well on my way ♪
♪ To the promised land ♪
♪ I get what you feel ♪
♪ But I hear you say ♪
♪ Tellin' me to stay ♪
♪ Stay ♪
So this is Jacob's 1995 Nissan 240SX.
And if you can't tell by the look of it,
there's been a lot of work done to this car.
Now this is a very special car,
not only because of the amount of work
that has been done to it from the front to the rear
and everything in between,
but how it was done.
This is a very specific setup to this car,
which we'll get into in just a bit.
So Jacob picked up this car pretty much bone stock.
It was the green color.
It had the other engine.
And as you can see,
ditched it out, pretty much instantly,
for an SR20 out of an S15.
So this is an S15, SR20
with a bunch of goodies added onto it.
Just to name a few,
we'll give a quick rundown of the engine mob list here.
Here we go.
We have a Greddy intake kit,
an ISR downpipe, HKS blow off valve,
equal length manifold,
A'PEXi exhaust control valve,
a Tomei 256 pro cam, Walbro 255 high pressure fuel pump,
and much, much more.
Honestly, we will just list
the parts list down in the description
because it is like, this long.
There is so much done to this car
that it is absolutely insane.
We could probably spend the entire day talking about it.
So there's under the hood.
That's the heart of the beast as it sits.
Let's go ahead and take a look at some other aspects
of the car, like the body, the wheels, the tires,
the suspension setups,
and other custom things that have been done to this car
to make it what it is.
So moving onto the exterior of the car.
Outside of the engine baby,
we got the Car Modify Wonder body kit,
a very sought after kit.
It looks absolutely amazing.
We got Glare 30 millimeter front fenders,
we have a Glare rear bumper,
a custom GT wings.
So the Koki side plates are actually, you know,
only M side pieces and they custom modified this wing
to be more like a GT style wing.
So they 3D printed these brackets for this wing,
and then cut them out of carbon
and did everything that they needed
to make this fit with those end plates.
So it's completely a hundred percent custom.
And I think it looks absolutely killer.
And it's just one of those touches to the car
that like kinda might go unnoticed, just at first glance.
And honestly, a lot of this car might do that to you,
but like this is one of those pieces
that's just super unique to the car.
And it just adds that nice touch to it.
We got the Glare rear bumper as well.
We have the Charge Speed rear overs on the rear.
A little bit of other aero pieces here and there.
Aftermarket hood, some eyelids,
pretty much everything that could be touched
has been touched, and then custom painted,
and then given a livery,
paying dedication to the Masa Lux drift team from Japan.
That's why you have the tribal design on this side.
Just the text on the other side.
You'll notice that the text on this side
to the other side is mirrored.
It's not actually,
you can't actually read it on that side.
It looks backwards.
But that is just how they do it.
Moving on to our trusty wheels, tires and suspension.
You know we got to hit on that
'cause that's kind of what we're all about.
So we got the Work Cr Kiwami's
all around here in the bronze.
I think that compliments the pink pretty damn nice.
But you might notice, right,
we got the Work Kiwamis up here,
you can see a bit of a spacer in there,
we got the 30 millimeter flares upfront,
and then you look at the rear,
a little bit of like a different setup.
We got a good amount of camber.
We got no camber, little lower, little higher,
which we'll touch on in a bit
because that is very important to the aspects of this build.
But we got the Work Kiwamis,
we got Stance drift coil overs up here, all around.
We got a whole bunch of aftermarket bushings,
solid sub frames, whole nine yards of suspension pieces.
Just to name another few here, like I said,
we've got the Stance XR1 drift grip coil over,
Stance solid sub frame and differential bushings.
Keep Micker knuckles,
we got the Voodoo13 billet arms,
rear traction rods, front tension rods, and camber arms.
Pretty much every suspension piece
you can possibly imagine is on this car.
So if you couldn't tell by now,
obviously this car gets, you know, used and abused.
But in the best way possible,
Jacob does drift this thing regularly.
This is a very Eastern drift setup.
Now what I mean by that is that there is a difference,
if you look in the entirety of the drifting scene.
You have the Eastern, like the Japanese,
original drifting style to that.
Which this car is based after.
And then you have the Western kind of style to it as well.
But this car is very Eastern.
And what I'm talking about is,
if you look at the front of the car
versus the rear of the car,
I talked about the difference in the height,
the difference in the fitting a little bit.
Well we will be accustomed to this like hey,
why is that fitment so much different?
It's because of the purpose of it.
This car isn't making a thousand something horsepower,
like a lot of like the Formula D cars over here.
But that's the thing,
this car doesn't need that much power
because of the way that it's set up.
If you look at the difference between the front
and the rear suspension,
you'll notice a good amount of camber.
You'll notice that it does sit higher in the front.
Whereas the rear,
there's no camber and it sits a little bit lower.
That's due to the jacking that is done on the car
with the wider scrub radius, with the new knuckles,
all that sort of stuff.
Because when you're driving this thing,
that's how you're able to swing this thing around the track.
You load up the rear suspension to kick it over.
Once you kick it over and go full lock,
the outer wheel is going to be at zero camber,
even though it does have a good amount of camber.
Now it's all super specific for a specific reason.
The Eastern style of drifting is all about style.
It's all about technique.
And it's all about the line.
So hear me say when every inch of this car
has been touched for a specific reason,
to do a specific purpose,
to match a specific style.
Believe me, it has.
So enough talking about this gorgeous car,
let's go ahead and take it for a drive.
So luckily enough, our boy Jacob
is a big boy just like me.
So I fit in this thing.
It's actually almost like set up a little too big
'cause he's taller than me and these seats don't move.
So we are in here. We're good.
We got the Recaro seats, Sparco steering wheel,
we got a bunch of Speed Hut gauges
and other things that I'm not exactly sure what they do.
But here we are. Let's take her for a ride.
There's something about these purpose-built cars
that are just, obviously they're so much fun,
but they just, they feel so-
(car engine revving)
(laughing)
What the (beep).
I can tell Max likes it.
He's havin' it.
Holy (beep) this thing is wild.
It's so loud.
Oh my God, this thing makes all the right (beep) noises.
Holy (beep).
So, like I said, this is a very Eastern drift style build.
I don't even know like the best way to say it,
but it's based after like how they build
and drive their drift cars in Japan.
So like I said, not a ton of horsepower, but just enough.
They want to be able to use every inch
of the car when they drive them.
So you won't see a massive hydro,
you have just your e-brake here because
they're not relying on that.
They're relying on the style of driving
to get the car to do what they need it to do.
And that is with the jacking in the front.
It's with loading up the rear quarter
of the car before you get into,
you flick it into the turn.
It's absolutely almost terrifying when you ride
with some of those guys,
because you see the corner coming up
and they clutch kick it to the left to go to the right.
And it's very intimidating,
but it's a very specific style of driving
that takes a lot of skill and a lot of practice.
Check this out, look at these guys.
(car engine revving)
They're havin' it, they're havin' it.
So we talked about kind of like the difference between
the Eastern style and the Western style, comes down to,
you know, don't kill me here.
Like I'm still really new to all of this.
Like I'm trying to learn as much as possible
and thanks to people like Jacob and like Sam who,
you know, we work with,
have really gotten me involved in like,
in this entire different aspect
of like motor sports and cars.
And I've absolutely fallen in love with it
and want to learn as much about it.
But kind of what I've seen and like understood is that like,
the Eastern style is all about that.
It's about the style.
It's about how you drive the line.
It's about how you drive the car, how you push the car.
It's very unique and it's very Japanese.
Like that's what I would expect out of that.
Like in all honesty.
I think Jacob did an absolutely amazing job with this car,
getting everything like, just correct.
Everything is done correctly and it shows.
And you can feel it, you can hear it, you can see it.
And it's like, it's just an experience
which I think is what it's all about.
I don't really have much more to say.
I think we should just listen to it.
Just drive it.
Oh my God.
(car engine revving)
God damn.
It's so angry.
I never thought I would drive something like this.
So this is just, I'm just enjoying it.
I'm just taking it all in.
I love it.
All right, so, getting my heart rate
to calm down a little bit here.
Final thoughts on this 1995 Nissan 240SX,
holy (beep).
This thing, I love it inside and out.
Everything is done so perfect.
It felt so crazy.
Like the whole thing, like I said, was an experience.
You look at it, it's very proper.
Everything is proper and done to a T
and for a specific reason.
And for that, I absolutely love it.
So, thank you guys so much for watching.
I'm super happy we got to take a look
at this Nissan 240SX.
And I'm glad we got to share it with you guys.
Thank you so much for Jacob for letting us
borrow his car for the afternoon,
to take it for a drive and talk about it
and really showcase a little more.
If you want to follow him, we'll link his socials
down in the description as well.
So you can see him drive this thing,
keep up with the car if you really like it.
And of course, wheels, tires, suspension,
fitmenindustries.com baby.
And let us know what you want us to cover next.
I am gonna go get in my sub 200 horsepower FRS
that doesn't make any cool noises like this thing does.
And it doesn't look nearly as cool as this thing does.
And I'ma go home.
We'll see you later.
Peace.