Advice On First Import

[Mr Eps]

Haha :-)

I don't understand the euphoria that soarers don't handle...

Like any car, coilovers, swaybars and you're all set stock soarer suspension is soft and luxurious obviously but yeah, to say they don't handle well aka "like a boat" is a bit far :-p

[dirtyRS4]

lolburneps

that is all.

[don.]

Since posting this ive seen a lot of soarers around and love the look of them. But because im still a student and my bank isnt huge, im thinking of maybe a non turbo silvia, for the sheer entry-levelness of them. Manual of course. My mate used to have one and even though it wasnt the fastest thing in a straight line it handled on rails, it was setup for drift had everything but a turbo pretty much.

[don.]

Since posting this ive seen a lot of soarers around and love the look of them. But because im still a student and my bank isnt huge, im thinking of maybe a non turbo silvia, for the sheer entry-levelness of them. Manual of course. My mate used to have one and even though it wasnt the fastest thing in a straight line it handled on rails, it was setup for drift had everything but a turbo pretty much.

[Hank Scorpio]

Don't forget to weld the diff

[don.]

hah one of my commodore loving mates welded his in a ute and it only lasted 2 weeks

[PIG_31]

The ute or the diff?

[Mr Eps]

Fact:

If it looks cool and sounds cool

Who cares?

It's drive ability will come down the track

I got my yellow sticker off my soarer yesterday and today I lowered it

40mm ground clearance. Shit is driveable as fuuck now man.

Why?? Because I know it looks baller. That's why.

[xALmoN]

Haha :-)

I don't understand the euphoria that soarers don't handle...

Like any car, coilovers, swaybars and you're all set stock soarer suspension is soft and luxurious obviously but yeah, to say they don't handle well aka "like a boat" is a bit far :-p

it does feel a little boatish... didn't like winton very much.

or maybe its just those worn front lower control arm bushes and rack ends.. just maybe. my supra control arms will arrive some time mid next week...

[Mr Eps]

^^^ serries one

<<<< series 3

[don.]

Yeah i'd love like a 97/98 vvti soarer but theyre just out of my reach at this point. The black interiors look so much better than grey/blue i think. I know a guy with a series 1 TT and hes having troubles getting it to handle properly without having it sitting on the ground

[Mr Eps]

It's real easy to be honest,

Teach your friend about the art of the magical camber bolts.

Teach your friend about magical damper adjustment. Supra bushing and supra sway bars :-)

Win

And if you buy from over east for 10k series three is not out of your budget at all.

But here out west series 3 is a rarity

People here prefer to get A 1991 TT one and spend 10k doing

Kustom airbrushing with joker clowns and wolves and thunderstorms n shit yo

[Mr Eps]

And yes, soarers come standard with magical camber bolts.

But yeah. WA soarers are 99% driven by jerks and assholes who don't lower their cars and don't go bigger wheels than 17s because they're worried that it will "ruin the handling" (translate, too stingy to buy decent shit so just get cheap)

[don.]

I'll try and tell him about it all but hes not the sharpest tool in the shed so he might not understand or have heard about this before. Anyway back to me, what are peoples thoughts on a non turbo manual S13?(despite the fact im on skylines australia) Any reviews i could watch from the early 90's or something?

[meat]

This is more a community for JDM rather than a community for skylines specifically (as far as I've seen).

I'm very keen on the JZX80/90 but I like the people here, so I stay here.

As far as what you should do.. Go for whatever your heart desires. I'd personally jump straight into the turbo man S13, but that's me.

[don.]

Yeah i'd love to go straight to a turbo car but being a student with not a massive income kind of restricts me for price and fuel consumption. I suppose it depends more on how you drive than what you drive though.

[meat]

I remember someone on here saying and I quote "it's heavily affected by the right foot"

[don.]

This is true, if not obvious hah. What kind of money would a bog stock turbo manual s13 bring? given i could find one in the first place

[meat]

This is true, if not obvious hah. What kind of money would a bog stock turbo manual s13 bring? given i could find one in the first place

Should be easily under 10k.

But I'm not the most knowledgable here. I'm fairly noob myself.

[10 4]

I wouldn't pay more than 5-6k for one and I'm yet to see a S13 that hasn't been crashed / molested in some way :\

Get a S2 R33 GTST, nice standard 1998 one on gumtree for 8.5k.