Uh... what happened to cs12?

I dipped out to S12Silvia but traffic there is pretty weak too. What the hell happened to CS12 in the past 3 years? Where is everyone? I was over the car scene for a while but I'm back now.
I've been focusing on school and work. Been place to place for the past 2 years after I got kicked out, so I've been on the road every 4-6months. Still unstable, but at least I'm fortunate to have work.


POS12

Is everyone still a cheapass? Why is the tech section dead still.

Andrew or DemonicS12's car is in hibernation. I hooked him up on enkei 92s. 16x9.5 +0 16x8+0. He's focusing on his career.
eightysix200sx I have no clue what happened to him
Gustavo is still slanging parts from what I know
Alex moved to Kentucky.

Edit: Sterling is slowly getting out of the s12 game. He's still in Hemet, storing some of my parts haha.

Let's see here.

Arro still owns his RS-X, as far as I know, but he's been largely inactive on the site, what with his personal life and his love for Dodge Neons
Xano dropped out of the S12 game to focus on his personal life and career. Aside from sysadmin'ing the site, he currently owns a Jeep Liberty and a bunch of fish.
Jay moved to Calumet, MI for school. He still owns his S12, though last I knew, a 17' pile of snow collapsed the rear hatch glass.
Maxpow was arrested on charges of DWI, Evading Arrest, Reckless Driving, Excessive Speed, and others. He is currently serving his sentence.
Colonel Gustard got a job at AutoZone, where he slings parts for marginally more than the local minimum wage. He strives to repair the damage to his rolled SE, and sell his daily-driver XE.
EternalSwap packed his things and moved to Indiana, to work at a Ford plant.
Silverton sold his SE to Mr. 510, and bought a Subaru. Nobody knows what became of him since then. (Except, presumably, Mr. 510)
Rednucleus still owns his bought-new S12, but is a water-skiing, beer-drinking veterinarian and family man. I don't blame him for not posting often.
Iceageg moved to Florida, where he battles the FAA on a daily basis to keep his family familied.
VG33ERGazelle? sold his S12 to somebody who wasn't me. The bastard.
Redneck can still occasionally be seen, though his car was recently stolen and returned.
Sideways_S12 sold his S12s in preparation to move to the UK with his wife.
Eightysix200SX still logs on every once in awhile, though I haven't the faintest what he's been doing.
Prolowtone works at an oil field in Canada.
Wolf Dilworth fucked off to do Austin stuff.
StephenG runs a general contracting service in Longview, Texas, and is still trying to keep his D21 running.
I_Heart_VVL sold his S12 to a needledick and got a job at a local customs shop.
DrummingPariah became a systems administrator for some big-name server company or something. He sold his S12 long before this, to fund one of many aborted S30s.
S12Prelude still lives in Florida. God rest his soul.
Everybody Else just kind of fell off the radar completely.

I assume all of the other members gave up? It seems like this site is a ghost town since everyone got permabanned. I really left when DemonicS12 got permabanned and eightysix200sx dropped off. Well when I wrecked my hatch, I was like fuck this. I ended up with that flatblack coupe with the autopower cage. ca20et with MS2. Sterling parted that car out and I ended up with the goodies. Then I bought Henry's heartbreaker s12 and swapped all of my shit over. What's left is an abomination of all s12 parts in one car.

I still own an sev6, purchased all 3 of sideways_s12's cars to help him and his family out.

Yeah, I'm still active though I'm too old for most members on this site! I actually keep my CA18ET and SE pretty stock with small upgrades for fun, no drifting just DD. I'm stuck in the 80's while the wifey has her new car...

I'm still lurking.

Bought a pretty clean S12 from TurboTurtle up in Michigan. Drove it for a while with major exhaust leaks - took it to a shop to fix that and they fucked me good. Cutting oil feed lines to replace manifold gaskets and whatnot. None too happy about that.

Car is currently at a different shop getting the SR treatment. Hope to be back behind the wheel next spring and focusing on suspension/body.

Yup. Still own the S12. Drive around in a pathfinder with a plow in winter now. Still the E30 in summer. Haven't replaced the hatch, and on the hunt for an open diff. Thinking of selling.

And, he wasn't joking. It eventually reached the roof. The car was in there.



We average 23 feet up here. The past 2 winters have been above average. My yard is flat. ;)

Wonderingraven: good stuff. I would hate to have 3 non running s12s, but then again I don't have a place for cars.

Cajun1guy: Ah I see. If you need OE parts I am getting rid of my interior lol. Because racecar.

kelso840: good luck man! let me know if you get stuck with the wiring and whatnot. If you need suspension advice, hit me up haha. I near the completion of my suspension setup, sans quality part upgrades.

Jay: I have a spare hatch with glass, from my black car. It has holes for a mk2 spoiler. Pay shipping and it's yours. I can ship from a business address via my work, or possibly my friend's UPS account. I might be able to source you an open diff. r200 or r180?

mod_mastaz on 01:30:00 PM / 18-Dec-14Jay: I have a spare hatch with glass, from my black car. It has holes for a mk2 spoiler. Pay shipping and it's yours. I can ship from a business address via my work, or possibly my friend's UPS account. I might be able to source you an open diff. r200 or r180?

How's that VG Pathfinder working out for you, Jay?

Schizo , your members update is like the Christmas letters I get in the mail every year.  Kind of cheery just like your hat!

SchizophrenicMC on 02:24:50 PM / 18-Dec-14How's that VG Pathfinder working out for you, Jay?

Im alive!!!!!!!!!!!! lol My S12 is actually getting plenty of work done here and there. i just dont post much of my updates on the forum

Jay on 03:56:31 PM / 18-Dec-14Gets the job done pretty well. Even if the VG does constantly give me problems, is gutless and severely overwhelmed. It hasn't actively tried to kill me though! Where it doesn't have power it makes up for in momentum. HIT IT HARDER!

Tranny and transfer case are as solid as a russian hammer though. I PUNISH them. Couple weeks ago I plowed 8 miles of road, 17 inches deep, pegging the gas in 2 low. I swear that shifter was swinging side to side from wheel slip a good 8 inches, the WHOLE time. (Getting to the deer camp, it's on a forest road that isn't maintained.)

Was awesome.

I got mine still, but the SR made too much power for the Sentra pistons I used and I suspect I cracked a ring-land.
I'm looking to sell, but no takers... I've had it for almost 10 years as a daily driver, I've had my fun and wanted something more modern.

High-power SRs always break things. Shoulda gone KA.

No, because then I would have broke a rod AND put a hole in the block!

It'd still be running.

I agree with mod_mastaz the s12 community isn't what it use to be. I still have my car just waiting till after the holidays to start working on it. Big plans next year.

mod_mastaz on 01:43:41 AM / 18-Dec-14I assume all of the other members gave up? It seems like this site is a ghost town since everyone got permabanned. I really left when DemonicS12 got permabanned and eightysix200sx dropped off. Well when I wrecked my hatch, I was like fuck this. I ended up with that flatblack coupe with the autopower cage. ca20et with MS2. Sterling parted that car out and I ended up with the goodies. Then I bought Henry's heartbreaker s12 and swapped all of my shit over. What's left is an abomination of all s12 parts in one car.

Nismo200sx16: nice! Glad to see you are still around. How you liking the g?

Also I think I'm mixing up peoples usernames to stories so I'm gonna reserve my comments haha. at least til I remember everyone again.

mc: How far did you get with the remote mount turbo stuff? Andrew and I always kick around ideas for his VG33 build, but after he puts more of the car together.

..every vg30 or 3.3 NEEDS to be turbo'd..LOL...especially since its a plug and play with the ECU/afm/injectors..go front mount,  if you can afford the custom manifolds or know how to weld,  or do it my way for boost done in a weekend and still keep the a/c functional!..
..anyhow, its a easy 100 HP gain and allows you to really piss off some Mustangs,Chargers,Camaros

....and headers and dual exhaust aint going to do that.

mc on 08:06:13 AM / 21-Dec-14mc: How far did you get with the remote mount turbo stuff? Andrew and I always kick around ideas for his VG33 build, but after he puts more of the car together.

..every vg30 or 3.3 NEEDS to be turbo'd..LOL...especially since its a plug and play with the ECU/afm/injectors..go front mount,  if you can afford the custom manifolds or know how to weld,  or do it my way for boost done in a weekend and still keep the a/c functional!..
..anyhow, its a easy 100 HP gain and allows you to really piss off some Mustangs,Chargers,Camaros

....and headers and dual exhaust aint going to do that.

I really like the g37s . I also liked that none were in the area. but now we have an infiniti dealer near by. now I see some from time to time. it just needs to be a little quicker. I have some small mods done and a tune which probably puts it around 300 to the wheels. I wish it pulled like the s12.

You are aware the board has quote functionality right?

yes,,LOL

Am I a clone of you with a severe split-personality disorder?

mod_mastaz: glad you're back and thanks for the well wishes! I learned quite a bit of my s12 knowledge from your posts so it would be a huge loss to he community if you had gone for good.

Im still around and.he.didnt get 3 non running s12s he got 2 the 3rd is close to.300hp with a ca18det under the hood big turbo, cams and pistons  needs a.tune and the timing redone but runs.like a fucking champ. but yes I am moving the the u.k. and will be acquiring another s12 after I get my skyline.....

Ironic that you'd leave the states and buy a Skyline, right after the R32 started to become US legal.

Yeah I said that too lol

Mod, I'll take the mirror, lmk the cost to 70448, and PayPal info.

The forums may have been Silent, but s12 owners def did not give up. I'm normally silently on the forums, gaining info on our cars. I see many s12 owners posting on Instagram actively. One day I'll add my piece of information on these cars to this forum. I've been writing everything I've done to my s12 into a notebook, like a journal...or a user manual

nismo200sx16: I say boost the G lol. It'll pull harder than the s12 ;)

8sixs12: glad I could help. I'm not posting much tech these days, but good luck with your build!

sideways_s12: I'm pretty jealous. I wanna move out of the country for a while. Would be a nice change haha.

Fire0wl: Yeah it seems social media is where everyone is at. I prefer a but of anonymity when posting car stuff, but other people beg to differ.

I still have one, but my E36 takes most of my time.

I'm pretty new to the forum but i'm still "building" my cars, very slowly due to not having a job right now. I'm not one to post build threads or anything like that and i'm awful at documenting with pics and stuff so i rarely post here.

My '84 has a S14 KA with what I believe to be rod knock that's going to get pulled out soon and then just sit until I can afford to get it fixed.

My '87 is my daily driver (bone stock aside from a welded diff) that I recently converted to 5-speed and I believe im going to attempt to turbo the CA20 for the second time lol.

Ju_S12_Turbo: YAY! I'm so glad you're still around. I'm slowly building my hatch haha. Almost done! Motor plans are next and I have a new platform I'm going to also.

S12Monkey: Good luck man! I know the struggle. Took me like 6 years to get my car to where I want it. Putting hobbies on the back burner sucks esp when work is scarce, but priorities come first! Documenting stuff is good. I tried to do as much as I can but I'm over it lol so I know dem feels.

mod_mastaz on 12:54:07 PM / 29-Dec-14Ju_S12_Turbo: YAY! I'm so glad you're still around. I'm slowly building my hatch haha. Almost done! Motor plans are next and I have a new platform I'm going to also.

I would say probably the most famous S12 picture there is.

I moved to southern New Jersey in Sept. Sold and gave away a lot of stuff before moving. I only own 2 cars now. My S12 and my CRX. Selling CRX soon. The S12 is parked at storage getting rained on. Am I even a car guy anymore?! HAHA yes.
I think the slowdown in traffic here can at least partially be blamed on how popular facebook groups are along with other social media. The downside is less info gets documented and what is posted doesnt get saved for people to see much later. I used to enjoy posting all the details of what I did to my car and how I did it but as I'm growing older I have less desire to do that. I tend to just do the things without any intention to document it and then move on. I spend more time on other things. Often not even car related.
I dont think the S12 scene is slowing down. If anything the chassis is more popular than ever. More and more non-S12ers are familiar with the car and can recognize it. The scene is just changing. The online car enthusiast environment in general is changing. Remember Car Domain? Me neither.

Well put

Still the only forum with a "Show unread posts since last visit" link at the BOTTOM of each thread.  So much win right there.

Xano on 08:04:56 PM / 24-Apr-18That's a good point, we gotta change that at this point.  That "title" is bullshit now that people post so much less frequently.  I'll adjust them soon I think.

I say, if you want new member titles, get your post count up accordingly.

Then again, even I don't post often anymore, so I'm part of the problem too.

I was just joking. Although I am flattered by the title of full member, differentiating between the members does seem a bit silly when there are about 7 people posting on the forum.

Anyway, to make this place seem a little bit less lonely, would it be possible to get rid of the unreliable confirmation email, which prevents the new members from finishing the registration, and replace it with something else? Captcha perhaps? ...seriously asking, I don't know much about this stuff.

Last we spoke, Xano was looking into a solution. The emails were implemented a while back because there were a lot of spambots signing up accounts on forums all over the interballs and it was ruining everyone's day. They worked for a long time here too, but something seems to have broken them.

I looked through the moderator tools and I couldn't find anything to manually approve users on my end either, so if that can be enabled, at the very least that would help out since I'm on pretty frequently.

I wasn't able to sign up at all, the confirmation email never came. Tried to reset my password, didn't work, tried re-sending the confirmation and that didn't work either.

Finally, I just tried to log in after a week or so, and it did work. I assume a moderator or admin approved my account anyways.

Yup thats ki da my fault I usually approve everyone but have been gone for awhile...

Do you need any help covering that stuff, Sideways?  PM me if you need a hand.

I've been a more frequent visitor on the forum side since I started pushing hard to get my SE back on the road.

Those of us who remember what this club was like in the '00s will always have a soft spot for it.

I'm on here pretty much every day, I just keep forgetting manual registration acceptance is a thing. I'll add that to my daily crawl, pick up some of the slack on my end.

am still here lost in LA with my s12