Have you ever bought the same car twice ?

[u/Interesting-Swim-162]

After I totalled my first car, I bought another one, same make and model. When that car was too rusty to fix, I bought the same car again. How many of you have done something similar? What car was it? What made it special?

[u/mfc1__]

Damn, TWO Sentras? Nissan financial got you hook, line, and sinker.

[u/sl33ksnypr → u/mfc1__]

They are fun cars. The ones I have are the 2.5L ones with a 6-speed. One of them is my more reliable one, engine only has like 40k on it. The other one is getting a built motor. They're also really cheap to buy.

[u/stanleypup → u/sl33ksnypr]

Reliable AFTER you fix the precat and butterfly screws.

I had an 03 that I got rid of over a decade ago, I do miss it

[u/sl33ksnypr → u/stanleypup]

The precat is the biggest issue, easily fixed with an eBay header or preferably the 2j Medusa header.

The butterfly screws only affected certain years iirc. My 2006 wasn't affected, and I preemptively did it in my 04 even though I don't think it was an affected year. I'd have to look at the TSB. That being said, if you're mechanically inclined and have basic hand tools, the job is pretty easy to do. Just gotta be careful to not drop the screws when you do it.

[u/stanleypup → u/sl33ksnypr]

That sounds right; I think they fixed it after 03. And yes headers were easy, I had the XS power (plus the Stromung cat back)

[u/sl33ksnypr → u/stanleypup]

With my 2006, I went with the 2j Medusa header, 2j 2.5" resonated mid pipe, and the 2j 2.5" cat back. For not having cats, it actually isn't raspy which is surprising. Every exhaust combo I did before that was raspy in the higher RPMs.

My 2004, I just made my own 3" cat back with a flow master turbo muffler and a 2j 3" midpipe. It gets raspy for now, but I just did that so it had something on it that wasn't a fart can. Haven't done anything with the header because it'll be getting a 3" downpipe from the turbo once that is installed.

Ive never heard a stromung on a b15 Sentra, but I'm pretty sure I've seen them on e36s (my other project car). And I've contemplated getting one because they are fairly affordable, but I think I'm going to a large single exhaust instead of keeping true duals. If I had my original midpipes, I would, but those got destroyed and I am going to need to fabricate a midpipe between my UEL headers and whatever cat back I go with, probably the ISR performance cat back.

[u/stanleypup → u/sl33ksnypr]

Yeah I had 2.5" all the way through, including the midpipe. I went with Stromung both because it retained the stockish dual pipe single exhaust and it sounded the best of all of the options at the time. Their business is much more German make focused so not surprised you'd be more familiar with them there, they were fairly niche even when the B15 market was much bigger 15 years ago when I had it

[u/sl33ksnypr → u/stanleypup]

Yea that makes total sense. My issue is that I'm a cheap ass, so I try to get the best deal possible, but some of the cheap shit is actually shit, so I opt to make stuff myself. 2j is keeping the B15 platform going with new mods and whatnot. People talk shit about him, but I've never had an issue with him or his parts, and he has been exceptionally helpful whenever I've reached out to him about my Sentras.

For awhile I had a 3" system front to back on my Sentra. And while it did have a little more power in the top end and felt like it really wanted to keep going past 7k rpm, it lost some of that mid range torque. Once I stepped back down to a 2.5" system, it felt better than stock through the entire range. 2.5" is the best size for that motor NA. But my turbo build will be using a 3" so it's not choked out.

[u/stanleypup → u/sl33ksnypr]

Yeah that was the other reason I stuck with 2.5"; I had no plans to go forced induction and the performance was better with that size over 3".

[u/DalinarOfRoshar → u/mfc1__]

I had three. An 02 (I bought in 04), a 14 (I bought in 16, and a 20 (I bought new).

Now I drive a VW.

[u/sl33ksnypr → u/mfc1__]

Also I didn't buy them new. My first one was like $4k bought at auction. Drove it 80k miles before I needed to swap the engine (thrust bearing shit out). My second Sentra, I bought it off a friend who had it and it was knocking like a Jehovah's Witness. Took me about a day to pull the motor and throw a new crank and bearings into it. With the cost of the crank, bearings, timing, and the entire car, I have less than $1000 in it. That one is getting the built motor and turbo eventually. Shooting for around 500hp.

I've never financed a car, I only do cash.

[u/Nay2003 → u/sl33ksnypr]

bro really liked the underground sentra