My S14

"Note: In response to why is it a "Silvia": First, the Silvia, even in Japan, is available with multiple engines, so it's the chassis that makes the car, so the 240SX can legitimately be called a Silvia, and I like the name better anyway. Second, and the real reason I put "Silvia" up there, is because, uncreative as it may be, I named her "Silvia"."

1) "Silvia" isnt the chassis code Brother... S14 is your chassis.
2) The KA24 was not one of those engines that was avilable in Silvias
3) No 240SX can legitimately be called a Silvia. Look at what your title says, or your auto insurance. Silvia is the name of a vehicle, while S14 is your chassis code. You can freely call your car a S14, but calling your car a Silvia would be like calling your car a Dodge Viper, they're both wrong.
4) Please dont be a poser man... It's unbecomming of 240SX owners when they try to play off their car as something it's not.
 
hey fp, you have a 240 or a silvia?

and i like the s14 dude, its cool.
 
See my signature for the link to my S13. Before that I was in Japan at Yokota AB, where I purchased a 180sx (used cars are cheap as dirt in Japan), sold it before leaving. Before that I owned a S14 w/SR20DET which was wrecked last year while on leave, hence the reason I have my 240sx coupe now.
 
Originally posted by flohtingPoint
"Note: In response to why is it a "Silvia": First, the Silvia, even in Japan, is available with multiple engines, so it's the chassis that makes the car, so the 240SX can legitimately be called a Silvia, and I like the name better anyway. Second, and the real reason I put "Silvia" up there, is because, uncreative as it may be, I named her "Silvia"."

1) "Silvia" isnt the chassis code Brother... S14 is your chassis.
2) The KA24 was not one of those engines that was avilable in Silvias
3) No 240SX can legitimately be called a Silvia. Look at what your title says, or your auto insurance. Silvia is the name of a vehicle, while S14 is your chassis code. You can freely call your car a S14, but calling your car a Silvia would be like calling your car a Dodge Viper, they're both wrong.
4) Please dont be a poser man... It's unbecomming of 240SX owners when they try to play off their car as something it's not.

I did not say silvia was the chassis code. I said both cars share the same chassis. And I happen to like the name Silvia. So that's what I call her. I don't call her "a" silvia, her name is Silvia (or Sylvia, if you want to spell it that way).

Hovever, I don't want it to say Silvia at th etop. But the name won't go away.

Oh, and those aren't rims, unfortunately. They're some crapass wheel covers I put on there! But they look all right, for th emoment, and I'll be getting my Gram Lights in the near future.
 
Originally posted by Takumi Fujiwara
I don't call her "a" silvia, her name is Silvia (or Sylvia, if you want to spell it that way).

lol... Dude look at your signature block. Here I'll save you the time:

"Proud member of the Silvia Fan Club, and now a Silvia owner."

Or look at your car domain page:

"Note: In response to why is it a 'Silvia'"

Before, you were just being a poser (which is understandable, there are plenty of Silvia wannabe's out there), now you're just lying. Well whatever, you forked out the cash for you car, so you can pretend its whatever you want. Me, I perfer reality. My car is either called a S13, HS13 or a 240sx, nothing other than that.

Your car looks like its off to a good start. If drifting is what you want to do, the HE is some good stuff. Before you do anymore upgrading, I'd give some serious thought about what you're going to do about your motor. Turbo kits for it are available, or the SR is always an option. Either one you choose will be pricey, so no time like the present to start saving =)
 
I'm not going to be doing anything to my motor. I'll likely be selling the car next summer, and I'll be using the money for one that already has an SR20DET in it, stock.....

(If all goes well, I'm going to be teaching english in Japan, fall 2005.)

And, OK, I'll change my sig to reflect that the car is a 240SX.
 
:O hell yeah

let's hear about it sometime when you are shopping around once you leave.





flohtingPoint or whoever said that should check out my introductory post to the Silvia Fanclub thread to help undestand why there is this dissent over opinions.
 
@Omnis, it would appear that floghting point is disagreeable to varying degrees.

Here is some information that I mussed up when I tried to copy it over (REMOVED)

Read the Silvia thread right next door for more detailed explanation, or do a search. :D

And yes I find it ironic too that owners of Japan's stock Silvia are always quiet but these people complaining up a fit over someone not having a "Japanese" silvia don't actually own one themselves. =\
 
Originally posted by Silviagato
@Omnis, it would appear that floghting point is inaccurate to varying degrees.


Here is some reliable more accurate information to be exact:

"it's common slang to easily refer to a car and its year without having to give a drawn out explanation. "The S13 refers to the RPS13 SR20DET Nissan Silvia (Japan only) made from 1991-1998."

S13 is short for RPS13 SR20DET the engine is the "stock" motor made in Japan only silvia's that Takumi-San mentioned and and comes turboed.

S14 mid style cars were introduced in Japan in 1994 and in the US a year later

No, I'm not incorrect Brother. S13 is the suffix to any 180sx, 89-94 240sx, or late 80's/early 90's silvia or euro/aus/nz 200sx. My car is an HS13, which meant that it came stock with a KA24E. I gave an explaination of chassis codes in the Silvia thread.

An RPS13 is NOT a silvia, its a 180sx =). R = Hatchback P=SR20DET and S13 = chassis. That quote you have on your post is seriously wrong. Do some reading Brother, it would do you some good if you are interested in Nissan S series chassis vehicles.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?postid=1048530#post1048530 Look at that post for more info.

PS. You're also wrong about S14's. They were built in 93 in Japan (I remember seeing 93's while I was car shopping there). Like I said Brother, do some reading =)
 
FloghtingPoint your're completely right about the 93 's Japanese S14. The only reason I brought that up was because I just has read that Japan saw the s14 a year ealier then the US. And the US saw the s13 convertible instead of the new s14 I think.
Also I made some aggrevious errors by terribly misquoting my source. :banghead:

It doesn't even make sense to me now that I'm looking at it and it doesn't match from where I quoted it from. My cutting and pasting was extremely out of whack. But the page I quoted it from IS acurate as it appears to match all of what you said about the specs and model years. I just got sloppy/tired and just really messed it up last night in here going on no sleep. That's the best explanation I can offer. I'm kind of in disbelief, that is such an elementary mistake.

I've been reading about it for days straight and must have got a little distracted and pasted it all backwards. And all that after being so carefull to get all my information straight in the Silvia 240SX thread. I can't even remember why I wrote that you were wrong, I know I didn't mean you were wrong about your chassis codes and stuff, I was just saying the other guy wasn't wrong or "unbecoming" :O because of how he reffered to his car in the short-hand lingo and that it is somewhat of a disagreeable ordeal. I think I was just coming down off of a "rush" or ownage high where I was was responding to a person in the other thread who was being way too harsh towards Fusion2000 and actually need some correcting. Anyway, as far as I can tell that stuff I pasted in that you pinned was the only time I blatantly posted erronious data and you were really awesome with the posts in the other threads I read. I really didn't mean to say you're **** wasn't straight and I acknowledge it. =->








If I used quotes on this page that were innacurate it was due to my errors in inputting the information although there is nothing wrong withg the source themselves as I would like to take responsibility for that myself. I had previously referenced them in the Silvia & 240SX thread a similar line how it's common to refer to the different cars and years in in shorthand slang. Their information I posted over there is solid since I was totally alert when I first posted in the other topics... But one good thing is it seems a way to get the right information out hands down fast, I'd apologize more already but I got to take a break. ~_^
 
Weve all been caught by the ctrl-c ctrl-v demons at one time or another. I've done it a couple times on NICO, especially when I'm tired =) One time some guy was asking me where I got my catback system for the S14 I used to have, so I pasted him a link, but by accident the link was to some bittorrent site instead of phase2motortrend.
 
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