project rally silvia

[Dark]

I'm still waiting for my visa and have no idea when i will be able to return to the United States. But i found a silvia at a used car dealer near where i live. i beleive i can get it for cheap $500 maybe less since it's right hand drive i can't drive it on public roads but i can drive it in the desert as a rally car.

I don't know what i need to do to set it up for rally duty but the car is going to be a fun project nothing more. So what do you guys think?

[KiDyNomiTe]

Do you actually want to make it a rally car, or are you looking for an excuse to bring it here.

I didn't really know people used them for rally. Except that S11 or was it S10, the one with a 2.4 (FJ24??). I would rather pick up like an EVO 2 or 3 or sumin, but to each his own. If anything you sould look for an official Rally site, and look at the rules, and see what your car should and should not have to become a rally car.

Or maybe try e-mailing J's Garage (http://www.j-garage.com). They deal with bringing cars over herem they might be able to help. They knwo how to bring cars for offroad use, but I think its only for AutoX and Track racing.

[Dark]

I just want a car that i can play with nothing more. I have a 240 hatchback in the United States the problem is i can't enter the country untill my visa is renewed. I have a lot of time on my hand and would like to build something that i think is unique. I could get a 93 180sx from japan with a left hand drive conversion but local laws allow me to have the car for one year only. so what's the point of me importing one if i can only have it for a year. which is why i want a silvia rally car. RWD sport cars are scarce and expensive the car just happened to be there that's all. i don't see the point in shipping it to the states when I allready have my 240 waiting for me.



here is a picture of another silvia i found it's an automatic turbo ca18det asking price $1600 cars are cheap where i live the problem is in registering them hence rally silvia.



Silvia (http://www.rizubi.com/gph/8951.jpg)

[Loren]

and where do you live?

[AKADriver]

Competitive rally cars have to be street legal.  They drive on normal, open public roads between stages.

[Dark]

I apologize if i have been vague but this project car will at no point be sent to the United States for official rally racing nor any form of official racing anywhere in the world. i just wanted to see if this project has any potential that's all. I was hoping for some tips or words of encoragement that's all.

That being said I like the EVO2 sugestion I will look into that the question is how much will that set me back &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/crazy.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':crazy:'>

[sykikchimp]

I saw a mustang and a camaro, and a Truck (like 18wheeler without the trailer) running up the pikes peak hill climb.. &nbsp;If they can do it, I'll be damned if a 240 can't. &nbsp;I think taking a beater, and turning it into a sweet as desert "Go-kart" would be a BLAST! &nbsp;no idea where you would get rally suspension peices though.. sorry.

[ca18guy]

Just ask Meowth what he is using for his off-roading suspension &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/eh.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':eh:'>

[basemies]

uh, i suggest a 1st gen rx7. &nbsp;you can't do shit with 200 hp rwd on gravel unless you're really really good.

[mbmbmb23]

Just import something that is a "limited edition" (180SX type X?) and strip everything down off it, and transfer it to a US 240sx. &nbsp;That way you can register the US 240sx, but still have the limited edition items (ground effects, seats, tail lights, etc). &nbsp;Also, unless you're in Cali, you can swap in the SR engine and get it registered.


-m

[240meowth]

the rally edition was the sweetest thing ever, too bad i never got to take my car off road... it's too pretty to do that, all i got was the mountain twisties, and that car does not handle well on the twisties w/ positive camber.

let's have another look @ the ledgendary limited edition rally car:
http://mrclam.com/jeremy/Picture003.jpg

[srJOEYdet]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (mbmbmb23 @ Aug. 26 2002,9:37)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Just import something that is a "limited edition" (180SX type X?) and strip everything down off it, and transfer it to a US 240sx. That way you can register the US 240sx, but still have the limited edition items (ground effects, seats, tail lights, etc). Also, unless you're in Cali, you can swap in the SR engine and get it registered.


-m</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
When I looked into the legalities(is this a word? <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hehe.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':hehe:'> ) of an Sr swap, I had concluded that it was illegal nationally, because the DOT (department of transportation) has never run the engine through the vigerous testing they do on all engines never before used in the states. I belive the cost of this testing is in the 5 digit figures, which is nothing for a car company, but everything to us. Someone let me know if I am way off or somethin. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'>

P.S. I am not trying to shoot you down, or say you're wrong. I just want to know for sure which is right.

Joey

[switchback_600]

If you dont mind being a little shady you can just get the vin off of a US 240sx and put it on yours thats how half the guys in Rally America have their evo 6's and such made street legal for racing

[TheTimanator]

um, this thread is 4 years old.

[ThatGuy]

Damnit people, pay attention to the post dates!

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