The Nissan 240SX continues to become completely unobtainable to the modern drift enthusiast
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This is a Nissan 240SX S14 and you can't afford it. And even if you can, there's a million other platforms that would make a whole lot more sense for a modern drift car than this ancient tin can. Don't do it, it's not worth your time, it's not worth your money, do not buy a Nissan 240SX. Flat out there is no redeemable value here and nobody should have ever wanted one of these things.
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Every notable 90s Japanese sportscar is becoming/is unobtainium. The ones that haven't skyrocketed in price have caveats, like the 3000gt.
I'm fortunate enough to have messed around enough to experience most of them and I share the same sentiment. I haven't owned a NA1 NSX yet but for what they're going for these days, even with rebuilt titles, a 6 Cyl Cayman or other cars with parts that aren't also unobtainium start to make more sense for similar money.
nah its fucking everything, the new import laws in the states have made the prices of shit like non turbo starlets shoot up 3x , a glanza-v is close to 10k now
im happy americans can get stuff now but fuck it has fucked shit up
@@mhtate3626I mean, you can buy a first gen R8, have money left over for a project car and a truck, or you could buy an NSX.
I want a 3000gt but parts are hard to find for older mitsubishis I’ve heard
I recently watched their Prelude video and yeah, that's just the market for Preludes. The cheap ones are junked out projects nobody ever got to. The really nice ones are museum pieces that you wouldn't even want to drive around. And the ones with around 120k and don't have any problems have tons of really stupid mods. I imagine things aren't too different for Celicas.
Buying a modified 240sx is about as good of an investment as the stock market in 2007
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Get the feet ready
She has left. Only the bros remain.
@@Khan.WrathOf💪
You don't have a babe what are you talking about?
Tell them do the worst Miatas they can find it literally never ends, there's so many of them.
I will always wince at passing up all the 240sx's I could bought for $800-900 back in the early 2000s.
I wanted one so badly back in HS (early 2000s) but my dad made the executive decision and snagged me a $4k car that would be fun to drive but not have enough power to easily get myself into trouble anytime I mashed the gas...a 91 318is. Fortunately I still have that car and have skin in the 90s prices surge game. Still want a 240 though lol. But dont want to pay 11k+ for any remotely clean example with a manual.
you have to be a mechanic or fairly well off to go drifting
(don't tell this to the lunch table committee)
Mostly well off
Or in copious amounts of credit card and auto debt
OR fairly well off? Bruh, it's 90% being financially well off. The other 10% is *everything else*
I fully understand the hype behind wanting to own a clean 240, and would love to get one someday (I won't). But, there's something I just can't wrap my head around. If you have a low budget, and just want a cheap drift car, that you can beat the shit out of, why would you buy a clapped out rust-bucket 240 over literally anything else? There's countless better/cheaper options, that will serve the exact same purpose, and won't go bust on you almost immediately. As a bonus, they can actually be used as a daily if you must. There's literally no reason to buy a 240 over a 350z, sn95, or 328i, if all you want is to have something to slide around on the weekends. Cloutchasing is a hell of a drug I guess.
Because they're the shit in drift world and 18yo's who havent worked on cars think it'd be easy to buy a clapped out beater with the interior ripped out and get it up and running because their favorite youtuber did it.
Because you have young people running on hype getting into a project that is more than likely way over their heads in skill level
I love how the new Facebook marketplace strategy is to upload a montage of you beating on the car you’re trying to sell, really smart 💀
Always haggle the price boys, these buckets are not worth what these clout chasers want to get out of them.
facts. I almost got a 155k original 350z for 8k bu the owner bailed.
@@prodyung829 that sounds really high to me tbh
@neo-filthyfrank1347 it kinda is but the market is terrible for em everyone is crashing em.
@@prodyung829 I've seen ones for about that mileage for like 5-6k tbh and nothing overtly wrong but who knows. I'm not hugely interested in the 350z so did not investigate in detail.
If I had a dollar for every 240 post you guys made I would’ve spent it all on hot Cheetos by now.
Think they've got a recurring 240 video every week. Spend it on the tangy chili fusion flamin hot cheetos, those are bomb.
As someone who's been tracking 240 prices since I was in middle school I'm glad I didn't get blinded by the hype and buy one now that I can finally drive😂
Im hoping they fall down here in Europe. It's been one of my dream cars since childhood, Mostly because my dad used to own one (1990 200SX Pignose). That and because of Need For Speed Undercover and Prostreet, your starter car is always a 240SX.
Anyways, the market for japanese cars here in the EU is fucked, 99% because of the JDM trend in the US. I've seen a few of the big names drop in price, but the SX always stands tall. Clapped out ones start at around 9000 USD. Just picture that for a sec. 9000 USD for an unwanted project/beater 200SX. Yeahhh, no.
@@ThatTurboProbe Hey man I'm also in Europe and feel kinda the same as you! My first experience of the S13 was NFS Undercover lol, it's crazy to see someone else who remembers it from that game. I love your Probe btw, I have a GE 626, if you know your Mazda's it's pretty much a 4 door MX-6/Probe GT.
@@SomeOne_86 Hell yeah man, love the 626s aswell. I think the GE didn't recieve the Turbo F2T from the Probe GT/MX-6, but I might be wrong on that. It doesn't really matter though, the F2/T is pretty much bulletproof, seeing as it's derived from a Mazda lorry engine. I have never had any engine/gearbox related problems, but only electrical issues such as the AFM burning up, the entire cables melting and so on.
Anyways, keep it, enjoy it and don't let it go. If you know anything about that series of Ford + Mazda collaborations, its that they are rare and hard to find in good condition. I've noticed that in Europe the MX-6 and 626 are much rarer than in the US, with the opposite for the Probe.
@@ThatTurboProbe I have the later GE IV, but it's only a 1.8 FP lol, I want to get a KL into it at some point but my country's laws when it comes to engine swaps are straight a$$, so I'll probably have to wait until I finish my education and move out of here. I've had some crazy electrical issues too lmao, at one point my wipers would randomly turn on if you had the left indicators on, I went to 4 electricians and nobody could figure it out, turns out it was just a ground lol. My biggest issues have been with rust, my example is pretty bad and will need extensive work since the former owners did REALLY bad repairs on it. Since it's an old car, registration costs on it are cheap so I can just keep it forever even if I'm not driving it often, so I'm not thinking about selling it, like you said-They're pretty rare.👍
@@SomeOne_86 Im gonna keep it honest, if you love that 626 and you wanna pour money into it to make it absolutely perfect, even if it requires moving away, absolutely do it.
It was my plan with the Probe. I wanted to completely restore it and later on in life RWD swap it and throw in the V8 from the Terminator Cobra. Also, the previous owner was so fucking retarded that I can't fathom how and why he bought it in the first place. Let me throw you some examples:
• He threw away almost all of the plastic clip buttons and screws and just used bath tile silicone to hold the interior trim together
• He used the same silicone to hold the rear left headlight in place
• He left the interior dirty and smelling worse than a rats ass (pretty sure he once vomited in it and didn't want to clean it up, so he bought a small plastic tub bubblegum airfreshener and just stuck it on the dash)
• He let the car sit in the sun unprotected for years and even let that air freshener sit in the car all that time with the windows closed. Yummy. You can't begin to imagine the absolutely disgusting smell in the interior when I first stepped in it.
• He didn't do basic maintanence and left the F2T with a lifter tick from not changing the oil and banging it arounf nonstop. I'm also pretty sure he drove it hard when the engine was still cold.
You can see why I wanted to save it. I felt so sorry for the car being abused by an absolute dickhead and knew that it deserved better. I bought it for €2500 with a lot of spare parts and never looked back, even if my entire family (apart from my parents) ragged on me for buying an abused victim, and a powerful one at that. I had to hear "Its too powerful for you, you'll crash it" and "It'll be unreliable, you should've bought a Golf" nonstop.
Unfortunately, they were right about me having an accident in it. My Probe was totaled on December 25th 2022.
I don't want to get into the specifics but basically someone was overtaking on the opposite side and came into my lane. I swerved to not hit him and ended up hitting a ditch, sticking the front end into the dirt and catapulting me into the forest, hitting multiple trees whilst flipping and ending up on my roof. Of course, the asshole that caused it ran away and I had to be pulled out of the car by my best friend. Walked away from a crash that should've killed me with a dislocated shoulder and a few cuts from the glass. And my first words to my friend?
"Is it bad? Is the car alright?"
I guess I cared more about the car than my life lol. I was rushed to the hospital and got out a few days later. Then I saw the Probe for the first time after the crash in my driveway.
The roof was caved in. The A and B Pillars were completely bent. The front glass was penetrated by a tree on the passenger side. The trunk section was completely caved in. I cried for days on end before I finally sold it to someone with, you guessed it, a Mazda 626 GT. He took the car apart, saved the mechanical components like the engine and gearbox, and scrapped the chassis.
I miss my Red Rocket so much, but Its time to move on. Decided Im gonna buy a V6 Firebird and wing it from there, since my country had no Probes for sale and importing one in from Germany again is too complicated and expensive for me now since Im a student.
Maybe later in life, I'll get one again and finish what I started. Just wanted to gush out a bit and tell you that you should enjoy every waking second with that 626, because you never know when someone or something will take it from you. Take care of yourself and drive safely.
I think 240sx owners had their brains rattled by going sideways so much.
I was watching the pontiac vs mercury video earlier and came back to it after leaving it open for about two hours. I went onto the channel page and you guys went from 35.5K to 35.6K. This channels going places keep it up yall🤙
50k before the end of the year for sure
Keep up the great work, boys! I swear, some people must be smoking crack with the prices they put out on legit garbage.
Crack smokers is what I like to call those people. They're out of the minds thinking a rusted death trap will fetch them 10k
@@Ru2stee "I know what I have!" 🤣
They’re ahead of the curve ironically, regardless if they’re morons
In early 2021 I saw a bone stock USDM S13 (manual) for sale on CL - under 80k on the clock, in a well established neighborhood...for $2,500
I can only imagine what that guy's inbox looked like. The prospective buyers probably had a deathmatch in the driveway.
I'd have loved to buy that and just keep it stock, but then I'd have to always worry about it being stolen.
Prices for used are set by what people are willing to pay. Stop paying so much for trash people lol.
I can buy a "clean" FRS/BRZ/GT86 chassis for less than most of the 240's I see now. The cheap and easy to build days of a quick drift missile are over for the nissan scene sadly. It's not even worth getting one "super cheap" unless you've been stacking parts for the past 15 years. Just getting "decent" parts now has become its own headache
I got my clean 2017 86 for 22 and seeing these s14's listed for 24 and 26 is insane
It's funny to see the same cars I saw about a month ago still for sale at the same price. No drop at all.
The "1.5J" Is not as hard to do as you think. The 1J and 2J even share some parts together. Its not hard to mate a 1J head to the 2J block because even the deck is only about 3cm difference and its very good for drifting because a 1JZ GTE head flows better and has better port velocity than trying to turbo a 2JZ vvti GE head, allowing you to spool faster and more efficiently. Also mating the 1JZ GTE vvti head to the 2JZGE's block can get you better compression and the 1J vvti GTE head can take more power stock for stock. The 2JZ GE vvti overall is actually worse for making power stock internals because of the bad flow in the head and weak rods in the block.
Mating the 1J head to it doesnt necessarily "solve" this issue, but it helps a lot and is a cheap way to reliably turbo the worst series of the 2J, and considering 1J heads arent too hard to find or expensive compared to trying to find a 2JZ-GTE non vvti head id say that 1.5J's have a legitimate reason to be a thing. You can find plenty of people to work on them as well, if someone can work on a 2j, they can more than likely do work on a 1j too.
New copy pasta just dropped
Talking nonsense the GE head flows better than the GTE head
@@lieutenantdan8170 💀
@@fyfoxx listen here furtard on the exhaust side a 2J GE head out flows a GTE head and way out flows a 1J head, while on the intake 2J GTE out flows GE and GE outflows 1J. Only reason to put a 1J head on a 2J is if you already have manifolds and cams for the 1J and want a bump on displacement without having to spend more money.
@@lieutenantdan8170 💀
Excellent video my dudes!
Thank you editor for fixing that stupid horizontal mess.
As someone that's into drifting and has a 1.5jz (1jz head, 2jz block) they are easy to work on. Lots of info online, or you can take it to most tuner shops, no problem.
The quote I heard once sums it up great though (Think it was rad dan, dont quote me on that.) "The only reason you build a 1.5j is that you are either too broke to build a 2j, or you had a 2j and dont have the money to replace the head you blew up"
@@nolo2484 whoever said that is mad about something, trying to be funny or just a f boy.
@@modthesollowk insane to run a JZ drift car and not know who rad dan is but go off young pharaoh
@@hydro5168 Didn't say I didn't know who rad dan is. nolo said he didn't know who said the quote so I just said "whoever" That does sound like something rad dan would say though. Thanks for being cute young pharaoh.
None of these I would buy, tried to get a shell, didn’t end up getting it, but the guy was selling a rust free coupe rolling shell for 2k, and a partial s13 front end swap, so mad it got away from me
If someone was smart enough, they would rwd swap a Ford Probe. Jdm fan boys aren't smart enough to tell the difference between that and a 240 anyways
I've watched a few of your guy's videos, you're pretty awesome. I always manage to get a good laugh, and learn something! Keep it up ♥
Instead of making a callous, jaded comment about 240's I'll direct it to youtube and complain about constantly being unsubbed. Also, Demuro aggravates me to no end but I do understand he (somewhat) flanderizes himself to get more attention.
yt on that hater sauce ong
That's my millennium jade example! I appreciate the lack of a roast 😂 $26k was what I was asking before CnB, which....God that after auction was a NIGHTMARE. Local sale has been equally as rough ("ah man I can't finance this with a 480 credit score and go to takeovers??? But MuH ClOuT)
She's a great ride though, and I appreciate the words 🙂
2 bucks and a container of garlic salt
@@codyn8086 I do love garlic salt...are we talking a $2 bill or?
Beautiful car, very well done! Did you sell it or is it still available?
I gotta say, the LS swaps confuse my brain lol. My brain expects a Japanese car (or whatever, Yugo, whatever smells, drive feel, sounds) but then you get an LS, as if you're hooning a Camaro. Very odd. Biggest question is...do you go to JDM meets, or American Muscle meets? Very clean and well done though. A rarity these days.
@@carfriendsimulator9981 thank you!! I finally have two buyers. One way or another she's leaving soon!
Just discovered you guys today, this channel fucks and no one on it even knows what sex is 👍👍
Ive worked on the dealer end like puchii and its so funny to see what people will put up with in the 3rd party market
I wonder if any of these tools wanting to trade for a 350Z are ever successful at that. You'd have to be an idiot to trade your Z for one of these.
I had a decent '92 240SX that I bought from a guy in the AF for $800 around 2009. It had the rubber grommet missing from the clutch pedal and he couldn't get it started. He was super mad when I started it right up after tossing him the cash. Stupidly, I sold it so I could buy an AW11 w/ a silver top 20v 4A-GE. That was a dumb move.
The guy with that pink s14 tried trading for my 32 skyline lol
Dawg I live on a small island in the Caribbean and I passed a s14 and was shocked to see one of this in a country like mine
LOLOL I immediately knew where the first purple S14 was. Great place to get food, coffee, and catch a cars an coffee!
You guys are hilarious, earned a sub😂
Loved the 240sx owned 2 in the past. Been there done that. But I refuse to pay over 1k for a clapped out Nissan 😂
I sold my s13 in my profile picture for 5 grand in 2018 and it was a super clean car with some quality parts on it. Pretty crazy what people ask for these things now.
Bro the screen rotation to keep the vid up right 👏👏
Shout out to feed for flipping the video for us!!!
10:00 1.5 jz isn't actually that hard to work on
all the 1jz valvetrain and electronics up top
just the bottom half needs things like the 2jz water pump, timing cover and a 2jz timing belt
In Japan, they are going for classic car prices, but they were never treated like classics. They have been beaten up till the day they became classics and were continued to be beaten up. If you think about it, the biggest MVP's are the guys that write for Japanese car mags like Option. Unlike American car journos that always have new stuff to write about, they've had to write about the same 7 Japanese cars for the past 30 years while still trying to keep people interested.
thunbs down for negative netgear
Driftcars are the Gucci Glocks of the car world.
2:20 honestly, if I was in Houston, I’d pick this up for a beat up, track, car and drift learning thing
In 2008 i bought a complete 92 hatch with a dual cam swap, and a 91 coupe shell together for $1000
Man I remember when I was like 19 years old and I'm 37 now so this was like 16 years ago there was a sick s14 at the end of my road for like 5 grand. Just sucks I didn't have the money for it back then I was working some shitty factory job.
Beesechurger
As a Challenger guy...that Boss kit is an affront to the senses.
I would say its a cope because they cant afford one, but between the cost of a nice S chassis car, the parts and labor, DUDE, just get a Challenger WB. But keep that one stock. Dont go modding the Apache engines. Hellcats are more open for mods but you gotta know what youre doing. Theyre temperamental engines. Even oil changes are quircky, and people do them wrong ALL THE TIME, and then wonder why the engine blew up.
As an australian I think it's hilarious, coz we have commodores and falcons sitting on every single street that can be brought for next to nothing. And they're all rwd and much more powerful than s13s and foxbodies.
If only they were sold in NA. We got the G8 and Chevy SS but both are fairly rare.
@@person.w9780 I'm glad they weren't. you guys would have made it cringe
We went front-wheel drive then all wheel drive starting in the early '80s panther platforms like Grand Marquis or scoffed at because their grandma's car
Holy shit the S Chassis with the Boss conversion was photographed at the strip mall by be. I know the Foot/Ankle place and the gun store.
$25k for all three cars were a deal If you ask me
big difference between the LS2 and LQ9, one is a performance engine the other was in almost half the trucks and vans gm made at the time
So one you can find at a junkyard and actually do on a budget and the other one you can't
The lq9 is better than the LS for turbos due to cast blocks
Me in my 11th gen Civic Hatch EX-L: oh no, anyway… also this is a great podcast because it doesn’t endorse Bert Kreischer or Brendan Schaub
The pipes really hittin
you should see the ones in nz/aus they ask 30k to 40k some aren't even road legal for that price
I’ve actually seen that one from Seattle on the road. It looks horrific and it’s loud in all the wrong ways.
"kill an NB Miata. They'll never be worth anything. They're too many of them"
We thought that about the NA.
I had so many nice S14's back in the day and I do miss them in some ways but definitely prefer my M cars now
I got 1997 240sx in 2008 from one owner $2500 because needed new head gasket and hail damage on the hood. All easy fixed but sold it 2012 triple my money however regret selling it!
25k will buy you a r32 gtst, which is just better
i wish 300zx's would go up in price, people buy them for cheap then clap them out and sell them for even cheaper then repeat the process
Can’t speak on gas Frankenstein engines but it’s super common for diesel engines to use different blocks and heads like 12v block 24v heads or lb7 block with lbz heads and you can take them to performance places
edit- after thinking about it some, you can use ls parts on vortex engines but thats a no shit since its pretty much the same engine
Literally EVERY 240SX has had like 8 owners buying one in 2023 is such a bad investment. There's other cars
Wonder how long it will take for 350 and 370 zs to be all drifted into walls and be scarce?
Not long I'm afraid. When Feed said why don't they just ruin an SN95 Mustang because no one would care, I thought to myself maybe we might live to see the day when people start doing dumb things with them and every RWD car becomes scarce.
@casualgamers3369 I think you're right. It's only a matter of time. I'll have to take a look at the production numbers.
@@casualgamers3369 At a certain point all of these tuners will start building their own cars from scratch. I already seen this at my last track day where more and more people are building their own space frame race cars instead of modding. So for drifting we'll probably see this. In highly modded drift cars there is barely anything left from the original car anyway except the frame, half the body panels and the dashboard.
11:25 Not knowing SSR MK3s in the year of our lord, 2023 is kinda crazy ngl
YOU GUYS SHOULD DO ONE ON THE CAPRICE PPV
The prices in Canada are even more crazy people are asking $45k for junk boxes.
shit's fucked here bruh
A CCF video a day keeps the soon cars at bay
This is the reason why we can't get cheap JDM cars in New Zealand any more I had a s15 spec r got for 15k back in 2017 now they are like 30-70k over here
You could buy a rhd s14 cheaper then most of these. And all original too (which is a good thing to me)
Just waiting for the VQ35 cars to start going up in price.
Got to take location as a factor too
I don't get it. Are the 240s and S chassis things fast? To me they just seem like less nice 4 cylinder Lexus SC300s
No 240 but I did just purchase a 5th gen maxima with 182k for 3900
Maybe the drift scene will just die off. It's these guys that have ruined car shows and culture as far as I'm concerned. Don't care if they all fall down a well.
The S model Nissan cars look amazing at Japanese car meets in Japan. You don't see the style or touch that the Japanese have here in the the USDM scene...
How does CCF feel about Xavier Wulf and his s13?
Don't like his car, and he is doing the community a disservice by legitimizing cringe builds for zoomers
Man I do love being 16 and seeing cars that were 3k are now 15k like why does it make more sense to just buy a older 911 rather then a shitbox Nissan
this seems cheap compared to here in Australia even when taking currency conversion rates into account
You guys are the shit thanks for the honest assessment of all these 240s lol
6:40 lmaooooo because of tiktok and Instagram
i bought my s13 sr20det with Silvia conversion/vertex body for $4500 in 2010, its time to retire the s chassis from drifting and use more common and affordable platforms imo. also i believe strongly in holding onto 90s jdm because new cars will not have the same rawness as manual trans go extinct and traction controls police your behavior these older cars will be more and more sought after every year. collect them while you can.
Nissan 240sx: I like the idea of performance but I'm not actually into cars or maintaining them or making them look good.
Nice
So how do afford these cars if you cant get loans on them?
I don’t even want to drift. I just want one in reasonable condition that’s automatic and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
The 240s are turning into the civics from the early 2000s, everyone bought one and modded the shit out of them and made them look like crap.
I bought a clean title clapper 240 all rebuilt nice n shi for 8500$, got it stolen with no insurance the same month 🤣
remember everyone only completely stock cars are cool ❗️
if you own a drift car its junk 👍🏻
No, the millennium jade S14 is a perfect example of a well modified car, keep seething tho
@@carfriendsimulator9981 your correct 👍🏻
website update soon?
11:23 Those are ssr mk3 if I'm not wrong.
Blame the community for destroying a good amount of them.
there are 392s and mustang 5.0s in good condition from like 2015 for 25k
imagine paying 25k for a 240 today
wtf i live 3 mins away from the parking lot at 7:00
Mine needs body and metal work still my daily though
HVAC hood scoop LMAOOO
Road_Atlas is really Jim Florentine
I really want this car... This is hurting me 💀 imma drink and drive to this one
these cars will be gone in 5 years. 10 years from now people will be restoring them like classics
Here to expose myself as an owner of a 35k s15
the deal was the running and driving LS1 kouki for 6k i sent yall
11:03 couldnt continue watching after this :D