"Case Modding" a Nissan Sentra 422
Lawrence Person writes "Given all the interest Slashdot has shown in casemodding as of late, I thought they might be interested in an extreme "casemod" of a Nissan Sentra, turning it into a lean, mean race machine! Emphasis on the lean part..."
Yes but... (Score:4, Funny)
/. News for Nerds (Score:2, Insightful)
stick to actual
I case modded my sports car too. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I case modded my sports car too. (Score:2)
Do you think saying "Do you think saying that makes you cool?" makes you cool?
Pretty much confirms... (Score:2)
Umm... (Score:5, Funny)
let's see
Re:Umm... (Score:2)
Good case airflow, sort of
Re:Umm... (Score:2)
Obvious? [geocities.com]
nice magazine, throwaway article (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:nice magazine, throwaway article (Score:5, Informative)
Re:nice magazine, throwaway article (Score:5, Funny)
Re:nice magazine, throwaway article (Score:2)
A lot of people don't realise it's the torque in a tank/truck/train engine that's the important factor, not the horsepower. A car engine that makes around 100hp will make around the same amount of torque (lbs ft). A large diesel engine will make at least 3 times as much torque as hp. The larger the engine, the more torque is produ
Re:nice magazine, throwaway article (Score:2)
400hp sounds a bit small for tank engine though, very small actually, considering that t72's (6td-2, multi-fuel diesel, ie will burn just about an
Re:nice magazine, throwaway article (Score:2)
Re:nice magazine, throwaway article (Score:2)
Re:nice magazine, throwaway article (Score:2)
Bah. I'm waiting for Koenigsegg [koenigsegg.com] to come to the U.S. It's a sexy transformer [koenigsegg.com], even just sitting around. The website claims it's the fastest car in production, but I don't care, because I'd never drive it 1/3 that speed. It's just the kind of thing that makes you realize that Ferraris and Porsches are boxy and swollen, and that you don't have to give up the dreams about cars you had as a boy.
It's a freaking super-sized
Re:nice magazine, throwaway article (Score:2)
How about a Caterham? Even crazier power:weight, and it has the added geek angle of building it yourself.
Re:nice magazine, throwaway article (Score:2)
Awesome (Score:4, Funny)
This is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
I paid a stripper in Florida to do something similar once, but it turned out that even without all the exterior parts a lap dance still took two songs.
'86 econobox (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:'86 econobox (Score:2)
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Old News If You're Into Imports.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Old News If You're Into Imports.... (Score:3, Interesting)
I was lucky enough to have worked a few saturdays with an editor of SCC on his project car. He showed me to a few of their cars and said something interesting. They don't own them, they are special liscenced with the auto manufacturers. This is true with their WRX and Sylvia and others. Its one of the ways they get around smog restraints.
I'll have to ask him if this was one of those cars, but it sounds like when the lease expires they are supposed to trash the car. What a way to go...
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Where's the Neon? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where's the Neon? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Where's the Neon? (Score:2)
Re:Where's the Neon? (Score:2)
DUCT TAPE (Score:5, Funny)
What an overweight turd (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What an overweight turd (Score:2)
Granted, anytime you see a ricer cut apart, always puts a smile on my face.
Re:What an overweight turd (Score:3, Insightful)
Given that there's no frame to which everything is bolted, you wouldn't be able to take much out of the floor without having it crumple up. Hell, it's a bit of a wonder it didn't start sagging when they popped the roof off.
(Anyone else notice the similarities bet
Re:What an overweight turd (Score:2)
Re:What an overweight turd (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:What an overweight turd (Score:4, Interesting)
The next time I see some idiot motoring down the street in a riced out 4-cyl. with a giant aluminum rear spoiler, glasspack muffler, "blackout" or clear polycarbonate head/tailights, 3cm of ground clearance, tires that belong at Indy, and decals for products the owner is not paid to endorse (and are probably not present in the car), I will remember this article. And then I will laugh.
Re:What an overweight turd (Score:3, Interesting)
Agree completely with what you're saying - but I would like to add a note about downforce and drag. They can and do have an effect even under mere street/highway-racer speeds. Drag in particular is apparent on a straight highway where max speed is all that matters. My extremely (for a sporty car) un-aerodynamic trans am gets drag-limited at around 160mph on the highway, with plenty left on the gears (good luck redlining 6th
Re:What an overweight turd (Score:2, Funny)
They ripped all that off the car and it still tips the scales at over 1700 lbs??? That engine must have a cast lead block or something.
That was with Cowboy Neal behind the wheel! ;)
Case Modding? (Score:3, Funny)
Then again should help them avoid overheating. Tell me what engine is the equivalent of an AMD?
Re:Case Modding? (Score:2)
Interesting, but... (Score:2)
Of cours
Re:Interesting, but... (Score:2)
News for nerds... that doesn't necessarily restrict you to PC nerds, but also engineers, etc.... this article was about a bunch of car-geeks who thought they'd take the principle of weight reduction to the extreme and see what happened.
*shrug*
Just a different class of Nerd/Geek thats all :)
smash(Nissan SR20DET 180sx Driver :).
Can't believe it took this long... (Score:5, Insightful)
Its also a great way to actually learn about how cars are made and produced.
Re:Can't believe it took this long... (Score:2)
Go someplace else if you want to talk about cars.
Here [google.com] is a start.
but it's irritating (Score:2)
Re:Can't believe it took this long... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Can't believe it took this long... (Score:2)
Re:Can't believe it took this long... (Score:2, Interesting)
There's no accounting for taste, but most [ricecop.com] of the mods are total crap. Double-bookshelf wings on FWD cars, ugly bodykits that add an
Re:Can't believe it took this long... (Score:5, Interesting)
I guess it really depends on the goal, but if I were trying to lower my car for better handling, I'd do it by replacing the springs rather than cutting the springs I already have. Sure, it costs more money, but then I have springs that were designed for lowering the car rather than springs that have been cut. Same with bending struts for cambe. If I can't get enough camber out of the suspension components I have, I'll replace them with more adjustable components. Once you start bending and cutting stuff, I'm loathe to assume that those components are still structurally sound, and that's the last thing I want to worry about out on the track.
Personally, I wouldn't worry about cars with drag tires on them, because I don't drag race (my car is not a drag racer, even if I wanted it to be). As well, the car may be fast, but if the guy is challenging me on the street I just shake my head and ignore him (like some jackhole in a MB C35 AMG tried to do today on the interstate -- he was driving like a maniac, and tried to race me and an S2000; we both ignored him, so he sped off like a moron, endangering the lives of everybody on the road).
When I see that, I usually assume the goal was to fit wider wheels on the car than stock. Useful in a RWD car to help reduce understeer/increase oversteer, since most cars have understeer dialed in from the factory. Pretty useless on a FWD car except for the larger patch of rubber, but then it's usually the rear tires these guys do, anyway, which gives absolutely no benefit. Personally, I might be tempted to put 10" or 10.5" wheels on my car (my rears right now are 8.5" fronts and 9.5" rears, with 205/17s on the front and 255/17s on the rear), but most likely I'll stick with the wheels I have and put 225/17s on the front when it comes time to change the rubber (soon). I certainly wouldn't go any larger than that, especially since I'm in a rainy area, and wider tires lead to more pronounced hyrdoplanning.
Nissan is Mhz not Ghz! (Score:5, Funny)
Kind of like buying a $200 aluminum case for a 486.
Re:Nissan is Mhz not Ghz! (Score:2)
What I want to know is, where
Re:Nissan is Mhz not Ghz! (Score:2)
anyways.. some other poster said that it was from some import car magazine 2years ago, the joke goes a bit over the top but that's what makes
Re:Nissan is Mhz not Ghz! (Score:2)
Better with a beetle (Score:5, Interesting)
I did this about 10 years ago with an old VW Beetle that a friend and I bought for $250. Here's the only picture that I have of it:
http://www.michaelchaney.com/beetle/beetle.jpg [michaelchaney.com]
We removed the body, then welded a small frame for the steering column, and used duct tape to attach the speedometer. We welded on a battery holder, and I screwed the voltage regulator, an on/off switch, and a start button to another plate. The gas tank was simply a two gallon plastic tank that we ran the hose into. (not recommended) The last mod was welding the seat to the bottom of the unibody, we didn't bother to add a back, a fact which made driving it a bit more difficult.
Anyway, it's the same idea as this article. My friend and I were going to build a really fast go-kart, and we actually started welding one together. We had an engine, but when we started to buy parts to finish it out, we realized that it was going to cost another few hundred dollars. I decided that it was worthless, since we could buy an old Beetle for less and just remove the extraneous parts.
I personally topped the speedometer out (85MPH) with this configuration, the wind was difficult to deal with since I had no seat back. The acceleration was great, with the extra weight gone it was incredible. Dumb as hell, but incredible. Funny thing was, when my friend and I finished, his father admitted that he'd done the same thing 20 years earlier.
Michael
Re:Better with a beetle (Score:2)
Re:Better with a beetle (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Better with a beetle (Score:2)
It almost made me sad to see that picture. I really loved my '72 beetle. It crossed Snoqualmie Pass (not huge, but big enough) on 3 cylinders -- maybe two, but that seems unrealistic. When I took the distributor cap and spark plug wires off to see what was the matter, one wire burst into a cloud of blue powder and another was coated with white.
My '72 beetle always got me where I was goin
Re:Better with a beetle (Score:2)
Re:Better with a beetle (Score:2)
Ugh (Score:4, Interesting)
Add ~200 lbs of steel bumber, and another 100 lbs of re-bar inside the fenders, and my rust bucket Mopar with a 383 stroker still pulls low 14s on a bad day. Those hopped up go-carts are worthless junk IMO.
Re:Ugh (Score:2)
My first car was a 1960 Dodge Dart (Phoenix, the two door) which I loved. It had the old-school "B" block 318, and a 650 cfm carter carburetor. Something like 240hp, 340ft-lb. I loved that thing, but I love my '89 Nissan 240SX more. It doesn't have anything like the
You people pay for this?? (Score:2)
(Friday)
Really.
This is a little bit funny but that it. (Score:2, Insightful)
First, the thing probably isn't legal for any sort of competition now. Nobody would let you race this thing, It's too dangerous. What if it rolls?
Second, it's "fast" but it's not that fast. Why not put all that effort into making a car that already a little fast, go really fast? You can buy a car that does 0-60 in 5.8seconds, and we're not talking a Ferrari either.
I
Re:This is a little bit funny but that it. (Score:3, Funny)
"Cat back? No, I don't allow animals in my car."
Re:This is a little bit funny but that it. (Score:2)
Make sure you slober some quick setting JB Weld on it so it's in there for good!
Re:This is a little bit funny but that it. (Score:2)
I agree! I'm getting really sick of having to waste these retards w/ my Mustang GT every damn day. Although they usually give up once the glasspacks start roaring and i'm 80 feet ahead of them in a couple seconds
Why this is funny. (Score:4, Interesting)
To put it in computer terms, these guys took dual pentium 2.5 ghz with a raid 5 scsi array and 4 gigs of RAM and laid out all the pieces on some blocks of wood to make fun of people who put a pentium 150 with an old ide drive and 32 megs of RAM into a chrome case with a window and flashing neon lights inside.
Re:Why this is funny. (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:Er, or just get a real car.... (Score:2)
While I'm all for trashing cars. . . (Score:3, Insightful)
More like 'removed altogether', thus reducing a car into a go-cart.
But who am I to judge? I used to get my kicks. . . Well, actually I never got my kicks doing anything even remotely similar. Or expensive. But whatever.
Oh! I thought of one! I thought the Phantom Edit was cool idea. And Guerilla Advertising. That's sort of the same; taking post conusmuer idiocy and restructuring it so that it becomes something equally ridiculous, but which satisfies the male need to tinker with things and thereby stamp some sort of individuality upon pre-fab nonsense.
People are funny that way. It's how you avoid gazing into the void to face your ultimate aloneness. It's much easier to pull apart flashy consumer junk, feel self-congratulatory for no good reason, confuse your girlfriends, and say, "Cool" a lot with your buds.
When playing that game finally fills you with nausea to the point where you start wishing for death, you're probably 75 years old, and nobody cares what you think at that point anyway.
Cheers!
-Fantastic Lad
Re:While I'm all for trashing cars. . . (Score:3, Funny)
Original Article (Score:5, Informative)
from SportCompactCar magazine. It is in print in the August issue from 2002.
Had to be done anyways (Score:5, Informative)
clearly you didn't read the article (Score:2)
If you had bother to read the posts, you would have know it was a Nissan...
easy shot, but somebody had to take it.
14.Xs quarter mile? (Score:4, Insightful)
But if somebody wants to destroy a Sentra to give me a laugh, okay.
Re:14.Xs quarter mile? (Score:4, Funny)
this is lame (Score:2)
Thinking of Little Blue *sniff* (Score:5, Interesting)
It leaked like a seive, when you turned the wipers on, the left turn signal came on, it beat voltage regulators to death in less than 24 hours. The steering was beefed up - 3/4ths turn lock to lock. The suspension was stiffened - drive over a cigarette butt and you felt it. It could hit 120mph before redline, turned on a dime (and gave you 8% interest!), and ran on regular gas. I even, once, push-started it by myself, *up* a slight hill. It was *very* light
I really miss that car. It used to destroy pressure plates and clutches with great frequency, and the last one I put in was a Kennedy Racing 1800-pound pressure plate. Even with that, the clutch was starting to glaze, just before the pedal broke. The idiot who was driving it at the time just gear-jammed it all the way home, destroying it utterly.
I really miss that car. It had more spirit than any car I've ever had, before or since. I'm glad to see a story on
Ok rice boys, it's about time (Score:2)
here
And It sounds like a freakin' car, with power, not some bottomed out lawmower.
I blame the Gas crisises of the 70's for the crap that people seem to be doing to there car. Its like the era of economy cars cause a generation to be raised that didn't know anything about cars, power, and speed. so now there kids are trying to do it and failing miserably.
Yeah, I've gone to the show and have taken a look at what is supposed to be the best, and it was hard to stiffle a ya
Synopsis for those who don't find the humor (Score:2)
This is easy with Minis (Score:4, Interesting)
Doesn't make sense (Score:2)
More Molested Cars... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:um... (Score:2)
this is nothing new... it used to be a quality rag to read daily, but in the last 2 years it has gone down hill what with all the dupes posted, that reminds me...
this should be reposted in about 3 hours so we can all have this same situation all over again
Re:um... (Score:2)
I still read it, though.
Re:um... (Score:2)
Frankly, I usually only come back here for nostalgic reasons. I don't actually find a lot of value here anymore. YMMV.
Re:um... (Score:2, Flamebait)
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Michael to be out with a woman...
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Look at the topic icon. (Score:3, Informative)
The 'This ain't right dept' (Score:2)
Personally, I think he should turn the site into a non-profit porn/goatse.cx page.
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Is it just me... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:i don't get it (Score:2)
Sure they probably paid for it... but I bet they aren't going to be throwing away money like that in the near future
Not after they (Sport Compact Car) ran the Cobb Tuning project WRX into a water truck causing $22k of damage!
See the April 2003 magazine for a shot of the car on the front (and inside for the accordian version) and also see http://www.projectcobb.com/conebasher/ for the car. *425hp to the wheels!*
Re:i don't get it (Score:2)
2) They didn't destroy the Cobb WRX, the owner did.
HAND.
Re:Riceboy... (Score:2)
and
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Re:You've *got* to be kidding. On Slashdot? (Score:2)
Re:Stop before you hurt yourselves.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Stop before you hurt yourselves.. (Score:2)
yeah yo can say that (Score:2)
Screw the ration, I want my cars to see mid hundred without rattling, smoking, and then siezing.
Would look like this (Score:2)
http://www.autocarpartsdirect.com/about/images/DS