Skyline Powered Import Build

[justphil]

so my buddy justin told me about this site since he knows i love american muscle cars. long story short i always wanted a 71 challenger, but i'm a poor college student so i went the cheaper route and bought a japanese car.

ugliest oem paint. EVER.
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/03/170481886-1.jpg

to make up for the fact that my car would never be as sexy as an old school challenger, i decided it would at least have to be fast(since the car was pretty much the ugliest thing i'd ever driven. so i dropped this into it

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2.5l straight 6 turbo>2.4l straight four any day of the week
i know my engine is still coke bottle status, but it's been fun so far, even though i have the need for more boost.

i drove around for a bit with my car like that and decided that the car was way to ugly and something had to be done.

of course with a japanese car there are about 10000000 body kits i could put on but only about 2 that didn't constitute ricer status.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/03/230883556-1.jpg

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[justphil]

after that i needed some paint so i decided to go with sti black obsidian pearl, which is a glossy black with green and blue flake

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/03/292195665-1.jpg

but of course i needed to do my body work first

so i drove this around for a while

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/03/276847791-1.jpg

finally got my car into the booth at the local community college, that guy in the backround is justin aka 69camarokid.

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it turned out like this:

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/01/293355908-1.jpg

of course i can't run on 16x6.5 with puny 205's so i got some new wheels:

volk sf winnings 18x9 +17 all around

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from start to now took me about 2 years.

the next thing on the list is going to be a huge turbo upgrade something along the lines of a gt35r with a divided entry. as long as my car is faster than justin's its alllll good.

:cheers:

[nicks67camaro]

I like the 240's my freind is now building a one with the 3.5 and 6 speed out of the 350z

[dipren443]

I like the 240's my freind is now building a one with the 3.5 and 6 speed out of the 350z

I love the 240's as well. In my opinion, they are far from ugly. Fairly lightweight RWD sports coupes are becoming things of the past...

Great job on the build. I would have gone sans body kit myself, but the one chosen complements the look of the car.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

nice ride!

i know it might be common but i like those with the silvia front end..

[69camarokid]

Wow phil, thats a pretty sweet car...

in fact, its almost as sweet as that guy, Justin's 69 Camaro!
Now that 69 Camaro.... thats a mans car....


hahahah oh man, love bustin chops.
i cant wait til u get that turbo upgrade and i finish the LT1 install, thats gonna be a fun race.

oh and the new rims look sooooo much better, the old ones were **** but i really like these new ones

[bobbaganoosh]

My wife's cousin just sold his car that was very similar to that. He did the rb25 swap, but the left the body stock.

[brownz]

i love american car but if your going to do a import then go JDM clean style. like the silvia front end

[Gordz32]

i love american car but if your going to do a import then go JDM clean style. like the silvia front end


I agree

[justphil]

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/03/288527459-1.jpg

hehe, this is the jdm front end, also my old car.

long story.:guilty:

[muthstryker]

eh its not a silvia front end, those front ends came on the 97-98 models, although the 98s werent ever sold here.. really the only silvia front end swaps end up being the jdm s13 onto the pignose 240sx's here, the s15 fronts onto the 89-96 240s and sometimes the 97s, the 97 front end is the best IMO, but the 94-96s are nice also.

what kit did you go with?? VersionSelect makes some really nice clean and simple ones..

looks like a nice driver

[muthstryker]

if you go to the Versionselect website and look at the gallery

[justphil]

eh its not a silvia front end, those front ends came on the 97-98 models, although the 98s werent ever sold here.. really the only silvia front end swaps end up being the jdm s13 onto the pignose 240sx's here, the s15 fronts onto the 89-96 240s and sometimes the 97s, the 97 front end is the best IMO, but the 94-96s are nice also.

what kit did you go with?? VersionSelect makes some really nice clean and simple ones..

looks like a nice driver

uh, looks like you have been miss-informed there.

the silvia in japan came in 3 models s13 s14 and s15 the s15's were sold in 99-02 and were never brought over here. my old car had the silvia front bumper and lip.

i went with the cwest front end because it had a bigger front air dam for my front mounted intercooler.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

thats riiiiiight....

[69camarokid]

uh, looks like you have been miss-informed there.

the silvia in japan came in 3 models s13 s14 and s15 the s15's were sold in 99-02 and were never brought over here. my old car had the silvia front bumper and lip.

i went with the cwest front end because it had a bigger front air dam for my front mounted intercooler.

:spank2:

[muthstryker]

mmk

[Nessumsar]

Really like your car man. My buddy has a '71 Z with a RB20 in it. Pretty fun litte car. My other buddy does swaps and has and SR20 S13, pushing 395hp; heres his site www.shadowerks.com. You might have seen him around. Anyways, nice to see someone with something other than the "norm".

[justphil]

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha steve shadows?

i see that guy almost every wednesday in irvine.

[crazeflier07]

Looks good. I really like it.
~Jon~

[GTOnate]

nice car. been wanting to get one just for autoX but the people that got em think they are gold!

[justphil]

nice car. been wanting to get one just for autoX but the people that got em think they are gold!

hardly gold, it's only as good as you make it. there are def some good auto x setups out there, mine NOT being one of them. hahaha

[Code Red]

looks good

[justphil]

thanks!

[got_hp?]

with the turbo straight six in there, id definetly drive one.......love that engine!

car looks good too, minus the wing imo

[matdean]

Very nice.

[69camarokid]

car looks good too, minus the wing imo

hahah he tried that wing out on my 69 camaro...!

strangely enough, it didnt look half bad, kinda like it, just not wide enough hahaha