Originally Posted by
mewantkouki
Sweet, it's the rhd counterpart to a car they sell here. Hatch + SR + aero = 180sx. If you think the car is worth 5X more than something you could build here then that's your opinion. Nowhere in this thread did I say anything comparing an s14 to an s13. You're looking for something that isn't there. However, if you want to compare apples to oranges in the form of opinions.
Flip up headlights look dated and remind me of Back to the Future.
90% of s13's are old rusty beaten to death shitboxes.
If the s13 is so great then why are s14 subframes, 5 lug from an s14, front lower control arms from an s14 and a myriad of other things on nearly every s13 owners
upgrade list?
Not to mention the weight balance of the car changes noticeably as the gas tank empties.
These are my opinions and I'm entitled to them. Yes I realize that an s14 isn't much better and poses a marginal improvement over an s13 but if this thread were titled: Legit s14 silvia.... what's it worth? I'd be echoing the same thing. "It's a fucking s14!!!" RHD, JDM, OMG, TAX, Japan, shouldn't be selling points for a car unless you're a faggot that wants to drive around and have fanboys swing off your nuts because you have a "Legit" 15 year old grey market car.
You're usually echoing the "its a fucking s13" with the air that 14's are so much better.
The differences are minute, and cost squat, the car in question being a 97-98, produced right alongside the 97-98 S14's shows that it wasnt so piss poor that nissan dropped it, with the release of the new awesome S14.
FLCAs and 5 lug are about the ONLY things on any sort of list that would be "common" upgrades taken from an S14, and then enough S14's came with 4 lug as well...
Its a very clean 97-98 car, its pretty common for kouki S14's to go for 5-8k here, then an SR swap, etc rhd, the value of the car isnt what you can buy some shitbox for and a clip, getting all of the parts to do it, and do it properly will cost more than that, let alone actually being able to do the conversion properly.
Value is what someone is willing to pay, for some this is a low figure because they dont know what they're looking at, for others its outrageous because they get suckered.
Figures below 8k on this are generally derived from the first half of that...