phatjo911

Where do you get all the OEM 240SX front bumpers? I like how they look... eBay?

( Talking about the ones that look rounder and more smoother )

Thanks. Sorry for being noob... again.

o.g.darkdrifter

That would be a chuki front bumper (or more technically a USDM kouki bumper). The other one, zenki (older model), is more commonly reffered to as pig nose. I'm not sure if you can still get them from nissan but I'm sure you can find someone selling one on pretty much any 240 forum in the for sale section.

Maybe ebay.....

phatjo911

OK thanks.

Biggamehit

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Z Junk yard and or forum... some noob is always performing a silvia front end conversion before suspension and other important things.

Ayuaddict

i sold mine for around $30, and that seems to be the going price.

check around on local for sale listings and forums.

MS!3

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Just to bust your ***** snoddy. The correct term would be usdm chuki.

Ayuaddict

really?

since chuki means "mid" i always though it was only able to be used when there is both a "zen" and a "kou".

o.g.darkdrifter

^^^ Yuta is correct. We never had the japanese version of what the kouki is, therefore usdm only has a zenki and a kouki s13 model but no chuki because there isnt a mid model in the US. So our kouki is the japanese chuki. Which is why I said "technically a usdm kouki bumper".

MS!3

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well isnt kouki after 93? we never got those models. I always refered 89-90 "zenki" and 91-93 as "chuki"

i dunno now. lol

jaronervin

89-90: Zenki
91-94: Chuki
95-96: Zenki
97-98: Kouki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/240SX

I love wikipedia!

o.g.darkdrifter

Yes kouki s13 is after 93. But I'm only talking about in the U.S., not in Japan. If the literal meaning of kouki means late model and we only had two different models in the U.S. that makes the later of the two models a kouki. We have no mid model in the U.S. so like I said "technically" what everyone refers to as chuki is actually a kouki s13 in the United States. Generally it's referred to as a chuki but we would have to be talking about on a world wide scale, where other countries got three different models of the s13. We are in America, we did not get three different models of the s13, so it is a USDM kouki s13 bumper. But in all reality more people associate it with a chuki so they respond to it as a chuki.

........I guess Yuta is the only one who gets what I'm saying.

P.S. Wikipedia does not always state fact.

" The first generation of the 240SX can be divided into two distinct variants: Zenki ("early period" in Japanese and commonly known as "pignose" to US 240sx enthusiasts) and Chūki (translated to "middle period" in Japanese)."

Case in point: if there are only two variants how the **** is the second one the middle period (the definition of chuki) when there is no final period after that? Also you cant really argue about "well in japan" because they are clearly talking about the 240sx... which wasnt in Japan.

MS!3

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ahh, i didnt know there was kouki for US and Japan. I If i knew chuki meant "mid" i guess i coulda figured it out. lol

where just talking about s13s

k_wakasugi

I've got an aftermarket front bumper that I'll sell you for really cheap if you happen to be from socal. PM me if you're interested.

phatjo911

lol... sorry I'm on the East Coast. MA to be exact, probably the farthest place from Socal in the US.

jaronervin

Does the literal definition of the term really matter, or what we associate it with? Did the native Spanish speakers really think that the Chevy Nova wouldn't go? Yes, "chuki" means middle period (Wikipedia got that right), and maybe that is technically a misnomer (if you don't know what it means, wikipedia that), but regardless, late model S13's are chuki's.

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