Help Me Build My 180Sx.

[KezR33]

Disclaimer: I do not have this car yet, I may not even buy this car, but there's a good chance that I will. Plus I'm bored and building "fantasy" cars is always fun.

Here's the scenario. I've been saving for a while now to get my turbo car when I come off my P's in 12 months. I had originally meant to get an S15 or an R34 GTT for around $20,000. However at the latest DECA I took a good look at a couple of mental 180SXs and was convinced to buy one.

My plans for this car is for it to be my daily driver for a short while, track it occasionally, and goto DECA 4x a year. However once I have a steady income I can easily see myself getting a second practical daily and turning this into a track dedicated car.

So considering I had $20,000 to begin with and I plan on buying a decent 180sx for half that. I still have $10,000 to spend on goodies. Assume the car is stock, what would you do?

Things I definitely want are:

2-way LSD

Coilovers - how much should I spend on these? $1,000 cheapies or go for a nicer set?

Racing seat.

Otherwise what else should I spend the $$ on?

Brake upgrade

Clutch

Half cage (they're street legal, correct?)

ECU, exhaust, intercooler, tune

Swaybars

Tyres

Decent rims

Turbo upgrade

E85?

I dunno, there's so much you can do. I'm just wondering what the wisest choice and order is to go about these things.

[Shazza24]

Probably buy a car already built with aftermarket goodies, save a lot of time + money. Wish i did

Edited March 23, 2011 by Shazza24

[KezR33]

Probably buy a car already built with aftermarket goodies, save a lot of time + money. Wish i did

I thought about that, but my main concern is that any heavily modified 180sx, particularly if they're sporting a 2-way diff, cage or the like is its probably been drifted. I don't mean around the streets I mean out on the track given the thrashing of a lifetime.

There are some nice 180s floating around power mods, which I might look at, but if I wanted to go the full haul I'd buy an unregistered drift pig with the works done to it and save my money for spare parts.

[RB25PWR]

Dude you get off your P's in 1 year. Who knows what will change then.

Unless you plan on building the car on your own and you really care about it... then from what I've been told its better to buy one with mods. Obviously not a cage, but just the usual power mods.

http://nissansilvia.com/ is a good place to start as there's more info on SR20's there...

How much you should spend and on what depends on what YOU want the car to do.

If it was me I'd buy one already modded and not touch it, if you're just driving on the street you don't need that much power.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

imho kez, s13 SR20det, disco potato and supporting mods, half cage, 2way or 1.5way, decent coileys, a seat and rims.

[Shazza24]

I thought about that, but my main concern is that any heavily modified 180sx, particularly if they're sporting a 2-way diff, cage or the like is its probably been drifted. I don't mean around the streets I mean out on the track given the thrashing of a lifetime.

There are some nice 180s floating around power mods, which I might look at, but if I wanted to go the full haul I'd buy an unregistered drift pig with the works done to it and save my money for spare parts.

So whats the cost of a second hand engine compared to all the goodies hanging off a pre-built car? I'll tell you, it's a lot of time and money. Unless as stated you were looking to get your hands dirty + know some people who can help with stuff (cheap parts, cheap tuning, etc).

Look either way, TAKE YOUR TIME and at least get it checked over by a mechanic you trust who knows these types of cars or at least RAA, etc with compression test and anything else they can check.

GL

[Bunta]

Our SIL80 had

Intercooler

Rocker Arm Stoppers

Boost Controller

Adaptronic E420C ECU (So cheap and great on 4cyl cars)

3 inch turbo back exhaust

Coil overs

1.5 way diff

HD clutch

We had a built 14 motor for it but you wouldnt need to do that

It was awesome fun like that and the whole thing cost us just under 7k (body was a shitter)

[Galois]

Dude you get off your P's in 1 year. Who knows what will change then.

r34 gtt's dropped 3-4k in price over the 14 months I owned one, so it could be a completely different market in a year