So you want to do a S13 Front end Conver. - Zilvia.net Forums | Nissan 240SX (Silvia) and Z (Fairlady) Car Forum

*ca18guy* · 05-12-2002, 07:16 AM

Well pretty self explanatory in the title. You have a nice S13 hatchback and want to do a conversion, would u go S13 or S15 Silvia. I'd be undecided, S13 is cheaper and looks real nice, but S15 also looks nice when done cleanly and looks different then most cars on the road. And no, S14 front would'nt be an option.

DuffMan · 05-12-2002, 08:33 AM

Well the S13 front would be good for that mad old skool driftah  sil-80 look, but I say be different and do the S15 front.

TheTimanator · 05-12-2002, 12:17 PM

Me, if I had to chose between those two.  I would go with the S13 Silvia conversion.  It looks like it actually belongs on the car. Also it will be a lot cheaper, and easy to install.  Sure, the S15 conv would look nice if done properly, but its not an S15.  IMO, since you have a fastback(good choice) just make it a 180SX or somethin.

TheTimanator · 05-12-2002, 01:44 PM

Here are some other reasons, not to get . I personally think it looks ugly, maybe if the lights were aligned with the edge of the hood???

EDIT: I said "when done right" now quit trying to taint the voting. -ca18guy

Kreator · 05-16-2002, 09:24 PM

Well, why would you make an s15 convo? Is there a name for that in Japan? On the other hand if you do an s13 front, you'll have a sil-080 <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='

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I don't know if you see s13 convos often. I only saw it once and never say an s15 convo (i know a guy who is doing it but he ain't finished yet). IMO, s13 convos on old 240s look much nicer than s15s on newer 240s.....

drift freaq · 05-17-2002, 01:24 AM

yes there is a name for it in Japan ichi go which sounds like the Japanese word for Strawberry hence the conversion being called a Strawberry Face or sil-1580 which is sil ichi go 80, IIRC
anyways Strawbery face conversions on RPS13's are just dope IMHO I have seen both the regular sil80 and the 1580 and the 1580 looks right because the rounded sloping hood and headlights of the S15 match the flow of the body on the RPS13. In my opinion the standard sil80 looks as wrong as the Onevia  i.e. the American 240sx coupe . the coupe does not have the body lines to support the sloped bumper of the 180sx that Nissan stuck on it because the Silvia bumper was not DOT legal and the 180sx bumper was.

anyways I think I went into more detail than was necessary. Wheres Aya when I need her?  <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'>

wherezmytofu · 05-22-2002, 12:21 AM

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Bbandit · 05-22-2002, 09:03 AM

im a bit of a consevative person i guess... i like s13 front end better... more of an old skool style  <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':thumbsup:'>

*transient* · 05-22-2002, 10:40 AM

Not only is the s13 style old skool, but the s15 front end just does not fit on an s13. It's too wide...

*Grant* · 05-22-2002, 02:21 PM

I think the S15 looks good only only on the S15, something just doesnt look right about it on the S13's. THe sil80 conversion looks nice, but for the fastbacks I think the pop up headlights suit the car the best.

wherezmytofu · 05-28-2002, 03:49 PM

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drifting240sx · 06-27-2002, 03:45 PM

i got my self a sil-80. so that is why i chose s13 font conversion. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':thumbsup:'>

SilviaDriver · 07-07-2002, 05:19 AM

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (drift freaq @ May 17 2002,02:24)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">...Strawberry hence the conversion being called a Strawberry Face or sil-1580 which is sil ichi go 80...</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
never heard of a Sil1580...from what i hear and read a 180sx can have any kind of silvia front [s13, s14 s14a s15] and that would make it a Sil80..Sil coming from the Silvia line of cars..and 80 from the 180sx. so wat do u call a 180sx with s14a headlights? Sil14a80? [haha]..so yea..in Super Street they had a 180sx wtih S15 headlights and it was still called sil80 not sil1580

Danio · 07-07-2002, 10:52 AM

If I remember correctly, Super Street called it Sil180 rather than Sil80 ("Sil eighty"). Can't rely on Super Street. Yes a 180SX with an S15 front end is a Sil1580, or just "fifteen eighty".

nrcooled · 07-07-2002, 02:28 PM

IMO the 1580 doesn't look right. Maybe I haven't seen one done right but the front looks too wide for the back. A big head and small ass doesn't look right on anything

Dousan_PG · 11-01-2002, 11:40 AM

neither!i'd go kouki bumper if i was going to spend that much money. but i like chuuki style..OLD SCHOOL! yeah..mesh wheels, low offsets...chuuki all the way!

adey · 11-02-2002, 03:13 AM

It depends on which 180sx I had. =) I'm going for the S13 Sileighty because I am in love with the non-projectors, and don't particularly like the S15 nose.

From a design standpoint, I think the S15 front end belongs on a kouki 180sx more than the PS/S13 front, which is more suited to the quad round taillights. OTOH, the PS13 front is squared and flat, matching nicely with the Zenki and chuki RPS13/RS13 taillights, which are squared and more blocked.

So yeah: S15 front if you have kouki 180sx tails, and S13 front if you have zenki/chuki 180sx tails. I like S13 non-projector front.

edit:  BUT I'm keeping my 180sx front. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='

'> I love it.

gabossie · 11-02-2002, 03:17 PM

I have to say S13, I saw an RPS13 with the S15 conv. and it just looked awkward and disproportioned. The S15 is just a lot wider, so it looks funny. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/alien.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':alien:'>

240Driver39 · 11-03-2002, 12:23 AM

I personally am a fan of the pop-up lights on the 240, i just think it gives the car very nice lines, if i had to chose between the 2 though, i would have to do the sil80, just cause despite how nice the s15 front end is, it just doenst fit the car as a whole.

wherezmytofu · 11-11-2002, 02:50 AM

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (wherezmytofu @ May 27 2002,5:49)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hmmm.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':hmmm:'> fif-eighty!</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
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05-12-2002, 12:17 PM	#3
TheTimanator Post Whore! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Nashville Age: 38 Posts: 2,535 Trader Rating: (1) Rides Gallery: TheTimanator Feedback Score: 1 reviews	Me, if I had to chose between those two.  I would go with the S13 Silvia conversion.  It looks like it actually belongs on the car. Also it will be a lot cheaper, and easy to install.  Sure, the S15 conv would look nice if done properly, but its not an S15.  IMO, since you have a fastback(good choice) just make it a 180SX or somethin. __________________ 89 S13 hatch/////98 Subaru 2.5RS

05-12-2002, 01:44 PM	#4
TheTimanator Post Whore! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Nashville Age: 38 Posts: 2,535 Trader Rating: (1) Rides Gallery: TheTimanator Feedback Score: 1 reviews	Here are some other reasons, not to get . I personally think it looks ugly, maybe if the lights were aligned with the edge of the hood??? EDIT: I said "when done right" now quit trying to taint the voting. -ca18guy __________________ 89 S13 hatch/////98 Subaru 2.5RS

05-16-2002, 09:24 PM	#5
Kreator Nissanaholic! Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: MD Age: 37 Posts: 1,975 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Well, why would you make an s15 convo? Is there a name for that in Japan? On the other hand if you do an s13 front, you'll have a sil-080 <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''> I don't know if you see s13 convos often. I only saw it once and never say an s15 convo (i know a guy who is doing it but he ain't finished yet). IMO, s13 convos on old 240s look much nicer than s15s on newer 240s..... __________________ кто болеет за Зенит, у того всегда стоит!

05-17-2002, 01:24 AM	#6
drift freaq R.I.P. Aya, always love Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Los Feliz/Hollywood Posts: 18,558 Trader Rating: (215) Rides Gallery: drift freaq Feedback Score: 215 reviews	yes there is a name for it in Japan ichi go which sounds like the Japanese word for Strawberry hence the conversion being called a Strawberry Face or sil-1580 which is sil ichi go 80, IIRC anyways Strawbery face conversions on RPS13's are just dope IMHO I have seen both the regular sil80 and the 1580 and the 1580 looks right because the rounded sloping hood and headlights of the S15 match the flow of the body on the RPS13. In my opinion the standard sil80 looks as wrong as the Onevia  i.e. the American 240sx coupe . the coupe does not have the body lines to support the sloped bumper of the 180sx that Nissan stuck on it because the Silvia bumper was not DOT legal and the 180sx bumper was. anyways I think I went into more detail than was necessary. Wheres Aya when I need her?  <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'> __________________ "Having a lot of tracks on a song is like putting stickers on a car to get more horsepower" New Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uebV1OnbRsw Buy my mounts! http://zilvia.net/f/sale-items/51531...ns-mounts.html http://zilvia.net/f/tech-talk/317539...e-mouts-6.html

05-22-2002, 12:21 AM	#7
wherezmytofu BANNED Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,873 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	i would love to see a fif-eighty in the states  <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>

05-12-2002, 07:16 AM	#1
ca18guy Premium Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Clearwater FL Age: 39 Posts: 3,226 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: ca18guy Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Well pretty self explanatory in the title. You have a nice S13 hatchback and want to do a conversion, would u go S13 or S15 Silvia. I'd be undecided, S13 is cheaper and looks real nice, but S15 also looks nice when done cleanly and looks different then most cars on the road. And no, S14 front would'nt be an option.

05-12-2002, 08:33 AM	#2
DuffMan Post Whore! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: in a cardboard box Posts: 2,517 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Well the S13 front would be good for that mad old skool driftah  sil-80 look, but I say be different and do the S15 front.

05-22-2002, 09:03 AM	#8
Bbandit Post Whore! Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Texas and now Jakarta Age: 39 Posts: 2,674 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: Bbandit Feedback Score: 0 reviews	im a bit of a consevative person i guess... i like s13 front end better... more of an old skool style  <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':thumbsup:'> __________________ ==>>TGL GARAGE<<==.. RIP! S13 coupe KA-T @ 0.5 Bar = SOLD! A31 Cefiro + SR = Current

05-22-2002, 10:40 AM	#9
transient Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 37 Posts: 2,947 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Not only is the s13 style old skool, but the s15 front end just does not fit on an s13. It's too wide... __________________ Learn everything you can, while you still have the chance.

05-22-2002, 02:21 PM	#10
Grant Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: 聖地牙哥 Posts: 2,647 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: Grant Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I think the S15 looks good only only on the S15, something just doesnt look right about it on the S13's. THe sil80 conversion looks nice, but for the fastbacks I think the pop up headlights suit the car the best.

05-28-2002, 03:49 PM	#11
wherezmytofu BANNED Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,873 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hmmm.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':hmmm:'> fif-eighty!

06-27-2002, 03:45 PM	#12
drifting240sx Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: salinas ca Age: 37 Posts: 362 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	i got my self a sil-80. so that is why i chose s13 font conversion. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':thumbsup:'> __________________ PROJECT SIL-80

07-07-2002, 05:19 AM	#13
SilviaDriver Post Whore! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: San Jose, CA Age: 36 Posts: 5,514 Trader Rating: (2) Rides Gallery: SilviaDriver Feedback Score: 2 reviews	</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (drift freaq @ May 17 2002,02:24)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">...Strawberry hence the conversion being called a Strawberry Face or sil-1580 which is sil ichi go 80...</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'> never heard of a Sil1580...from what i hear and read a 180sx can have any kind of silvia front [s13, s14 s14a s15] and that would make it a Sil80..Sil coming from the Silvia line of cars..and 80 from the 180sx. so wat do u call a 180sx with s14a headlights? Sil14a80? [haha]..so yea..in Super Street they had a 180sx wtih S15 headlights and it was still called sil80 not sil1580

07-07-2002, 10:52 AM	#14
Danio Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: SJ Bay Area Posts: 1,002 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	If I remember correctly, Super Street called it Sil180 rather than Sil80 ("Sil eighty"). Can't rely on Super Street. Yes a 180SX with an S15 front end is a Sil1580, or just "fifteen eighty".

07-07-2002, 02:28 PM	#15
nrcooled Nissanaholic! Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Turn 8 'bout to get rolled by a SC'd ITR Age: 42 Posts: 1,849 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	IMO the 1580 doesn't look right. Maybe I haven't seen one done right but the front looks too wide for the back. A big head and small ass doesn't look right on anything __________________ '91 hatch w/ SR Sold; '03 Evo Sold 401 HP; '03 MS Protege sold; '00 Evo 6.5 TME Sold 300HP

11-01-2002, 11:40 AM	#16
Dousan_PG Post Whore! Join Date: May 2002 Location: Orange County, California Age: 42 Posts: 16,640 Trader Rating: (23) Rides Gallery: Dousan_PG Feedback Score: 23 reviews	neither!i'd go kouki bumper if i was going to spend that much money. but i like chuuki style..OLD SCHOOL! yeah..mesh wheels, low offsets...chuuki all the way! __________________ Aaron Pink GodziRa www.geocities.com/pink_godzira

11-02-2002, 03:13 AM	#17
adey Post Whore! Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 3,061 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	It depends on which 180sx I had. =) I'm going for the S13 Sileighty because I am in love with the non-projectors, and don't particularly like the S15 nose. From a design standpoint, I think the S15 front end belongs on a kouki 180sx more than the PS/S13 front, which is more suited to the quad round taillights. OTOH, the PS13 front is squared and flat, matching nicely with the Zenki and chuki RPS13/RS13 taillights, which are squared and more blocked. So yeah: S15 front if you have kouki 180sx tails, and S13 front if you have zenki/chuki 180sx tails. I like S13 non-projector front. edit:  BUT I'm keeping my 180sx front. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''> I love it.

11-03-2002, 12:23 AM	#19
240Driver39 Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: May 2002 Location: Charleston, SC Age: 36 Posts: 1,076 Trader Rating: (1) Rides Gallery: 240Driver39 Feedback Score: 1 reviews	I personally am a fan of the pop-up lights on the 240, i just think it gives the car very nice lines, if i had to chose between the 2 though, i would have to do the sil80, just cause despite how nice the s15 front end is, it just doenst fit the car as a whole. __________________ 1991 240sx SE, 5spd fastback

11-11-2002, 02:50 AM	#20
wherezmytofu BANNED Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,873 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (wherezmytofu @ May 27 2002,5:49)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hmmm.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':hmmm:'> fif-eighty!</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'> <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hmmm.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':hmmm:'>

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