stupid street

[camppain]

just let me borrow he said it had a drifting article. in it they are talking about how nissan made the s13 coupe the s13 fb and then nissan made a hybrid of the two a sil eighty?! which has the coupe front and the fb rear or vice versa?<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'>?

wtf am i missing here? i thought sil eightys were custom not made by nissan i know im not wrong. also a fb front and a coupe rear is a............ 240sx which they bash it for being american and then go on to bash the ka also calling it a truck motor!

sigh..... idiots i say

its the june 2000 issue has a blue m/c s14

[AceInHole]

the popups and trunk would be a one-via. &nbsp;The thing about sileighty's is that I've seen the rear fastback quarterglass with &quot;SILEIGHTY&quot; written on it.... &nbsp;it looked #### factory to me... although I thought that sileighty's were custom too....

[LanceS13]

I use to think the same thing, but apparantly Nissan made a limited number of SilEighty's...like 500 or somthing.

[camppain]

hmm well i guess they are right then? gulp? whats the world coming to when they get somethings correct?!

[BadMoJo]

I have read that as well. Nissan made some sileightys. It goes (if i am not mistaken):

Silvia = coupe w/ non-popups
180sx = fastback w/ popups
SilEighty = Fastback w/ non-popups

but the majority of SilEightys that you will see are custom I bet.

[Danio]

From 200sx.org:


The &quot;Sil-eighty&quot; or &quot;Sil80&quot; which was largely an S13, but with the rear end styling from the PS13 180SX. &nbsp;This is what one correspondent had to say:

&quot;...in Japan people kept smashing the front ends of their 180SXs when they were drifting... into mountains or whatever. simply put, the S13 Silvia front end was cheaper than a 180SX front so they put the Silvia fronts on as a temporary fix. this caused a craze in Japan and it was basically the look in Japan for young people. Nissan had been observing that many of their 180's have been going around with Silvia fronts, and (for an unknown reason) they built a hybrid and released it in 1994. this hybrid was known as the &quot;SIL-EIGHTY&quot;, which is exterior-wise just a PS13 with an S13 front end. changes went further though, with changes to camshafts and the ECU, which gave roughly 16~18Kw more (not sure about how much more torque) than both the Silvia and 180SX. also, the suspension was tweaked for drifting purposes. Genuine Sil-eighty's are snap-tail happy, given too much power thru a corner will result in a drift, maybe a spin if you try too hard... Nissan only made about 400 genuine and documented examples, just about all were snapped up upon their release. now at auctions they apparently go for as much as immaculate R32 skyline GT-Rs&quot;

[camppain]

good info danio that provided much needed insight and lent much more light into the topic. i wonder what they did to the suspension