Intro and a few Q's

[mike d]

Hey all, I'm the newest junky on the boards so I figured I'd drop a line and say whats up. I'm up in Northern California (near Sacramento) and have been slippin and slidin for a few months now in a '95 Mirage LS. I"ve gotten pretty good in parking lots and country backroads but, according to everything I've read I need a FR machine to partake in some truelly rightous drifting.

I wanna be down with that!

I'm savin my $$ up (trying to anyways) for another ride and have been browsing cars online a little. I really like the Silvia's but can't find jack in my area, let alone in the west coast. I've thought about importing one but I don't wanna deal with the steering wheel on the wrong side BS. I'm thinking of doing the whole 240 with the conversion thing, any advice?

[nissanguy_24]

Hey man.

Just some advice, you could purchase a S13 Silvia for about 2 or 3 thousand from a engine importer, but its going to cost you something around 10k to try to legalize it.

Get your self a 240sx and convert it at your leasure. Unless your a rich mother and you want to buy a new S15, legalized i've seen them go for like 30k or so.

[ACDSupra7]

I don't see how you can't find an S13 on the west coast. Are you looking for a coupe or something? They're really common around LA.

[nissanguy_24]

Yes be lucky your on the west coast, this is import land. S13s are not hard to find. Coupes can be abit expensive, but not too bad.

[mike d]

guess I need to look harder

I've been looking in places like autotrader.com and such and I haven't really come across anything. Any tips on where to look?

[nissanguy_24]

everywere. Autotrader has tons of S13s, autotrader.com is a good resource, search for 300 miles. Check around town, Ask people you know. ect..