De-Rice a car?

I have been looking at some used Nissan Spec V, I would love to have one, but I keep running into a lot of rice. I am probably going to sound like an old man(maybe 32 years old is old), but I hate hood scoops, no thanks on the exhaust system, I don’t need to sound loud to be fast with the ebay exhaust, the crap ebay springs,hack fix jobs, and Crap electrical work with fog lights. So far from what I seen there seems to be a lot of hacking and improper fixing of items. Is it worth it to buy these cars to customize them back to stock? or is it more cost effective just to buy one that is stock?

The completely stock ones also get the bonus of normally seeing their scheduled maintence......which is mostly deferred on ricetastic ones.

The bonus of buying one like that is that you can trade the parts and get the stock parts +cash from the ricer who wants them. You end up with what you want plus some MONEY!

The downside is maintenance - has it been done?

In reply to NGTD:

Also the downside is OEM parts can be expensive.....much more so than the ebay crap most ricers use

yamaha wrote: In reply to NGTD: Also the downside is OEM parts can be expensive.....much more so than the ebay crap most ricers use

I was saying that you get the stock STOCK PARTS +cash from the ricers, in exchange for the aftermarket parts. I know that the OEM parts often cost more

As someone who has bought a riced 2002 Spec-V last year, I would advice against it. It was cheap, but I spent the first month of ownership fixing it, and by the time I was done with everything that was needed, I had spend as much as if I would have bought a stock car. Kept it for a few months, and sold it for a lost.

Don't do it.

I would be seriously tempted to just get vanilla spec Sentra stuff out of the junkyard and REALLY derice it.

why would you want to de-rice something? i'd take care of any maintenance and make it look even more stupid...

A riced car might be highly abused as well and had berkeleyed up installations budget maintenance among other things.

De-ricing a car is like trying to make that one girl with the tramp-stamp that says, "Let Go My Ears, I Know What I'm Doing" and turn her into the girl-next-door housewife. . .

The damage has been done.

phaze1todd wrote: De-ricing a car is like trying to make that one girl with the tramp-stamp that says, "Let Go My Ears, I Know What I'm Doing" and turn her into the girl-next-door housewife. . . The damage has been done.

"Turn a ho into a housewife; just don't act right" - Ludacris

Unless you get said car for stupidly cheap, like say... $100, it's not worth the time. I've spent a lot of time de-ricing my CSX, uncovering the once-cool car underneath.

It's also not running and still in need of repair, and I've owned it for 3.5 years.

I've finally learned my lesson and will no longer buy a car that I have to de-rice. It has to be stock or damn near it. So many hours spent fixing horrible hack jobs the PO did. Ugh...

I would worry if the wiring was hacked up. (And I don't mean an add-a-circuit and fog lights; that's not "hacked up.")

If the wiring harness was hacked, you'll never get that car right.

The guy is firm at $2k, it has a 3inch exhaust, straight pipe, tinted windows, and black tinted lights. The car is miss firing and throw codes for 02 sensor. I would probably take out the tinted lights and the driver and passenger tint. Will defiantly have to replaced the exhaust and chase down the miss fire, perhaps it is a TB. I did confirm it is a Spec V. Worth it?

Wait, what generation spec V? the roundy one or the boxy one? Roundy ones kill engines IIRC.

yamaha wrote: Wait, what generation spec V? the roundy one or the boxy one? Roundy ones kill engines IIRC.

1st gen 2003

In reply to trigun7469:

So the ones that hate life enough to ingest their own catalysts to kill themselves? (On that note I see nothing at all worrysome with a misfire and o2 sensor code..... )

yamaha wrote: In reply to trigun7469: So the ones that hate life enough to ingest their own catalysts to kill themselves? (On that note I see nothing at all worrysome with a misfire and o2 sensor code..... )

Yeah yamaha is spot on. Steer clear of this particular car. Keep looking for one in better shape.

Those are also the ones where the screws in the TB are ingested by the motor...

In reply to clutchsmoke:

Preferably one that has already had the catalyst issue fixed for good.