- All right, so if you guys
have been following along
with the Fitment Industries YouTube,
or, you know following my own Instagram
@gels.fi, you should really follow,
you should know that I picked up a 1991 Nissan 240SX
as my first ever drift car.
Now, as you can tell,
(fake fart noises)
she's a little rough.
But you know what?
We love the car, I love the car.
We actually, you just went on
to the first drift event this last weekend,
which, if you're watching this,
may have been a few weekends now
but whatever, but I had an absolute blast with the car.
And I wanna preface this video just to say that
I do love this car.
It is a great car to have
out on the track, it did everything spectacular.
Drove there and back and thrashed all day.
But with all the positive scores,
there's going to be some negatives.
I mean we're talking about a 30 some year old car here
who has seen the drift track majority of its life.
So of course, here are a few things that I dislike
or hate about my '91 Nissan 240SX.
(funky intro music)
So first things first, walking up to the car,
looking at the car.
It is a bright, pale yellow-green looking thing,
but that's not all.
we got, you know,
body panels that have different fitment,
about 30 different areas for each panel,
which of course is not ideal.
But again, it's kind of what you're gonna get, but yes,
your hood has different fitment.
I think there are some hood risers on here
which make it sit up a little higher.
But when you pair that with, you know,
the fender sticking out a little further,
the door, not necessarily lining up back here,
your side skirts being held on by zip ties,
which is also it's own thing within itself.
But then, you know, also just the bumpers
and everything else, just, you know, you got like,
just, I,
I don't know if that's supposed to do that
or if that's like a, like a drift thing,
I've, I've done it once.
I don't know.
Not to mention it also does cause a little bit
of other issues.
We got a KBD bumper here
which kind of just is, once again, zip tied on, but
(car fender shaking)
I don't, I don't, you can imagine when driving the car
at 60 miles an hour, you know, to get places,
that uh, not necessarily the greatest time.
It does feel like sometimes it is about to,
to kind of just shake off the road,
or body panels are gonna fall off,
but that's the nature of the beast.
It's a 30 year old drift car.
What else can you expect?
So, like I said before, I did drive this into the track
drove it all day at track and drove it home from the track,
no trailer in sight.
One thing that you would probably want on some sort of,
street car, I guess you could say, or car that's
being driven to events and whatnot is that, you know
you're probably gonna run into some inclement weather
every now and then.
So, you know, we got our one handy dandy wiper blade
on the passenger side.
I don't think this little guy reaches all the way
to the driver's side.
So, you know, we're just gonna Rain-X the absolute (beep)
out of this windshield, anytime we go somewhere,
because not only is there only one, but like,
it also doesn't like, form to anything?
like I, it doesn't really connect to the windshield at all.
So it's not really wiping anything.
Also, I have like hit this thing on the inside
and it just does nothing.
So I don't know if there's a fuse blown
if there's even any wires to this thing,
like I said, the other one is just gone so,
Yeah.
(slaps wiper blade)
Alright so, up next, you know,
sometimes you need to get under the hood
as, as one would do.
So, the first step is finding the actual hood release.
There's about a quarter of a dash left in this car.
So you kind of gotta, you know,
I think, that is a plug
for something that is no longer there.
That's an OBD II reader.
They even have OBD II back then?
'91?
No, it was 95, 96.
I don't know.
But finally you go in here, and
about right-
there you go.
You hear how hollow that sounded?
That was the weirdest sound ever.
Anyway, so you get her popped, you walk on over.
Of course you find the little thing and then it's uh,
(car hood slams)
There's no hood prop anywhere.
Or anything to keep this thing up in the air.
So, once you remember that, you go back, pop her open.
Once again, and then you grab your trusty piece
of vinyl flooring and you prop her open.
Or, if you wanna be, you know, bougie,
you grab your old Harbor Freight jack handle,
pop that down there-
gonna get rid of that.
You pop this down there, and that's good to go too.
I mean, it depends on, you know, how high,
you want it.
Choice is yours.
(car hood slams)
So while we're under the hood,
it brings us to our next point,
is that the fitment on these cars
is absolutely wild.
I have never really ran into a backspacing issue
before I've owned this car.
So luckily enough, the, the car is just completely cut up
and we have this nice little tube,
Marlboro sponsored front end up here,
and we just cut everything out.
We also relocated the battery and the fuse box
to somewhere in the car.
So we can, you know, just kind of, we wanted to
just really step into this thing and take a closer look.
So, if you kind of get down in here, you can see
that it gets pretty close, you know,
to the inside of the the coil over here.
And here's your wheel,
here's your coil over.
It gets pretty dang close.
That is an 18x9 +15 wheel we're running up front
and we additionally have a three millimeter spacer.
Because if you don't run the three millimeter spacer,
you're gonna hit your coilover.
That was super weird and also very loud.
And scary, because I think we chunked a wheel weight off
at some point.
So that was kind of neat.
It just was knocking and then it wasn't knocking.
And then it was kind of shaking a little bit.
I don't, I dunno what that was up about.
Yeah. Super interesting wheel fitment on these cars.
You need to run something at least up front skinnier,
its like an eight and a half, nine,
like a super low offset,
like +15 or +12.
So obviously, safety being a big thing here.
You know, we wanna stay safe on the track,
to and from the track,
like I said, we're driving this thing.
Fortunately we got the most aggressive cage setup
that I've ever seen in like a, almost 200 horsepower car.
So, we ain't going anywhere.
And you know, it's really great, really nice and safe.
But as a 6' 1", 200, some odd pound man, you know
you can imagine,
getting in and out of this thing when it's like,
you know, 70, 80 degrees.
(Gels grunting)
- Gets to be a little bit of a chore
every now and then.
We can do it, but my god, am I sore the next day?
Not to mention,
my new helmet here,
got some nice little purple marks, around here.
We're breaking her in nice and neat.
(indistinct) some of that
we got some nice purple marks on the old helmet, already.
So uh, getting put to good use.
All right.
So we're in the car.
We got the fitment figured out.
We got all that good stuff going on for us.
Right? We're we're at the track.
We made her, we're ready to drive.
Now, we got a couple different things going on here.
You know, we're missing half the interior,
actually probably three quarter in the interior,
but we got our old, trusty e-brake, which is good!
Because, you know, as you can see, we got this hydro
everyone wants a hydro in their, in their drift car.
Even though Sam told me if I use this thing,
that he's gonna smack me and disown me.
So, I'm not allowed to use this, but good news for him.
I can't even use it because it's plumbed backwards,
I believe.
So if I were even, you know to rip this thing,
it, it is actually pushing my break foot back at me.
So like anti-brakes.
I,
(grinding noise)
literally, my pedal is like coming back at me.
Okay, stop filming this.
Stop, don't put this in there.
(Gels grunting)
Alright.
So, there we go.
Those are some things that kind of hit my distaste
a little bit about my
90, 90, nine, nine, 1991 Nissan 240SX.
Now, again, this is all just to have fun
poke fun at the car.
Obviously she was a little rough around the edges.
We're gonna fix her up.
So let us know down in the comments.
If you guys wanna see us, you know,
work on this car a little bit, maybe resurrect her,
I guess if you wanna say that,
but again, this video is all for fun.
Not to shed any bad light on the car itself
or, any previous owners or anything like that.
Like I said, it's an absolutely solid car.
It rips, it's fun to drive, and I absolutely love it.
So, thank you guys so much for watching and of course
check out wheels, tires, suspension,
over at fitmentindustries.com.
And if you wanna follow along more of this
go follow my Instagram, @gels.fi.
We'll see you guys later.
Peace.
(funky outro music)