can anyone give me any advice about getting a custom targa top installed. anyshops that may be able to help me any pictures of anyone whos done it or tried before.anything would be appreciated.
TARGA top 240sx
can anyone give me any advice about getting a custom targa top installed. anyshops that may be able to help me any pictures of anyone whos done it or tried before.anything would be appreciated.
Buy a sawzall and do it yourself. I did it with my old 240 and it turned out great. Let me find the pictures.....oh wait...they're in the file under THAT IS THE BIGGEST WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME EVER.Originally Posted by driftspec240
Buy a convertable 240 if you dont want a top. Dont ruin one that someone else could do better.
there are a few shops around that are willing to do it, but it will cost you as much as your car did or more. it also makes the car so amazingly weak it is rediculious. my advice is much like the other advice you will get, dont do it.
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I don't know why everyone is telling you not to.
They're just jealous because you have a great idea to be original and different. Wait....you have a 240? Oh...well atleast you're trying to be original and different....you have a 240?
Oh....buy a MR2..or a trans am or something.
ITs possible...i say try it. Wont be easy to do safely..
Get ready to add about 300+pounds of bracing to get the chassis as stiff as it is now. If you hack the top out w/o bracing you will have the illest handling weakest chassis around. Can you say chassis flex?
Not to mention how hard it will be to do without leaking all over the place.
i can't say don't do it, its your project, i just wouldn't recommand it.
accord.
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Thats pretty bad ass- anyone know how much that cost? Probably a good penny...
Man you can do it regardless of what the haters say. Back in my mini trucking days just about every truck had either a targa top or completely removable hardtops. I would expect to spend a lot of money through somebody like UAB, but I would look around the mini truck scene and check out some of the work done to them by other shops or individuals that do it on the side. Just my $.02
The XUV !!!
It'll still be ugly as sin.
mini trucks have frames , he is using a unibody.
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mini trucks have frames , he is using a unibody.
Put in a cage for purpose as well as show.
Wow this car would just get worse and worse.
A bone stock 240 with a targa ghetto cut in the roof and then a rool cage for no other reason than to keep the car together.
That is hoodrich right there.
I vote for no. And if you decide to go with it, donate money to me since you obviously have waaaaaaaay to much for your own good.
-91 240SX -- CA18 Power...SOLD, now terrorizing the streets of Alabama
WE have a class A hater right there...
I think most ppl want u to do thius to your 240:
get a sr swap
silvia front
big front mount
some offset wheels
expensive ass jdm stuff
and look like the rest of them...
I SAY DO IT!!!!! AND DO IT THE RIGHT WAY
i would suggest T-tops before targa.... the only reason is because when you go targa you lose TONS of stiffness that the hardtop provides.... if you were to go targa you would have to put a FULL roll cage in just to keep the car from splitting in half....
my 2psi
If You Aint Blowin You Aint Goin!!!
"So, Lone Star. Now you see that evil will always triumph...because good is dumb."
Would someone detail the differences between a T-top and a Targa top please? I am kinda lost....
T is a bar in the center of the car and 2 pieces that come out, targa the whole center section (about 2 feet or so wide) lifts out.. know what i mean?
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Aww how cute. You know how to post a photoshop.
You're a fucking douche. Face it, you will never be as cool as me or Jay.
You wouldn't do shit if we said shit to your face. I saw you at the drift event while you kept spinning out. You weren't shit. So don't think you are.
And these FWD cars would bust the ass of your RWD ugly ass piece of shit 240.
So seriously, die.
Yea I was on the sidelines. I'd look over and see you while you watched your car get drifted. Then you'd get in it and spin out around every turn.
I'd have rather been on the sidelines. Drifting isn't my cup of tea. I owned a s13, way cleaner then your ride. Sold it tho.
go for it it will look hot
Well in that case....i guess not. Whats P11?
it's the newer model g20, which most people wont buy and tear the motor out to put a turbo motor into it. Most people that mod g20's do the p10 which is like the poor man's g20.
i know its the newer model, the nice models, like what 98-00? Whats in it Bluebird? Those top mount motors?
not a bluebird, and I have no fucking clue what a top mount motor is. Must be a mazda thing, but nissan's motors are mounted on the front of the car and not the top.
Weird...youve never seen a motor with the intercooler MOUNTED on TOP? Isnt there a nissan 4cyl with a top mounted Intercooler?
The pulsar GTIR motor?
Last edited by JITB; 06-06-2005 at 01:28 AM.
Weird...youve never seen a motor with the intercooler MOUNTED on TOP? Isnt there a nissan 4cyl with a top mounted Intercooler?
The pulsar GTIR motor?
I have a WRX...so yes i have seen a motor with an intercooler on top.
Bluebirds and pulsars had top mounted intercoolers.
The avenir had a sidemount, thats the motor Jay has.
Is the aavenir a different motor? IOr just a variation of the sr20?
It is a version of the sr20, comes with a sidemount intercooler and a different type of t25. It is a newer motor.
Nothing wrong with 68 posts. It means I have something else to do. Go wrench on your car instead of posting and youll have something to show for it.
My car is pretty common. I see alot of 99-02 g20s turbo with 5 speeds.
What I dont see is is too many proteges.....running.
Chill out, I was just offering my advice which is dont ruin the car.
AAAAHAHA OK..i dont where u get yoru info from. About proteges breaking down alot. but you sir are very misinformed. GO wrench on my car? INstead of posting..i mean when u are a member on a forum for 5+ years u tend to accumulate alot of posts. Im sure your a regular poster on your g20 forums, especially with the "rare" p11. Your a REAL funny guy...i guess i agree i havent seen to many v6 proteges myself locally..
ANYWAY....ARe u gonna do the targa top?
AAAAHAHA OK..i dont where u get yoru info from. About proteges breaking down alot. but you sir are very misinformed. GO wrench on my car? INstead of posting..i mean when u are a member on a forum for 5+ years u tend to accumulate alot of posts. Im sure your a regular poster on your g20 forums, especially with the "rare" p11. Your a REAL funny guy...i guess i agree i havent seen to many v6 proteges myself locally..
ANYWAY....ARe u gonna do the targa top?
is your quote on the bottom of your sig, trying to make fun of me...or about how you said top mount motor instead of top mount intercooler, cause I think those are two different things.
Yes it is
You did forget the key word in that phrase which would be intercooler.
By saying a top mount motor you aren't implying an intercooler. A lot of things are mounted on top.
Ok wow chill out, u all are constantly tryin to cover your asses over nothing....BUt if u say Top Mount Motor..first thing I think of is a top mounted IC. you guys are "supposedly car guys..
When you say "top mount motor" the 1st thing I think of is a motor that is mounted on top. Since well that is what you said.
Now if you said a front mounted motor, I'd still think a motor mounted up front.
You see what I'm saying? Just because you are talking about where the intercooler goes doesn't mean that it can't be mistaken for something else, especially when your post didn't make sense. And then the fact you thought you could try and make fun of something because they called you out on it is just funny to me.
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