Silvia or not?

Website · Post by **Thecollector** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

I have heard different opinions (and we all know what opinions are like, cuz everyone has one).

What exactly is a silvia? Is it the coupe or the fastback? Or is it simply the 180sx? I referred to my car as a "Silvia" and some dude thought he would correct me by saying a fastback is not a silvia. Is this true?

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Post by **cosmo** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

The Silvia is the S13 coupe, S14 and S14-a, and the S15. The fastback is called the 180SX.

If you call a 180 a Silvia, you'll probably get *****slapped. There is a median though. A 180 with a Silvia face is a Sil-80.

Post by **Cyberkreig** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

there can be no opnion about what a "silvia" is. Silvia is the factory name Nissan gave to The S13 Coupe with (of course) Fixed headlights.

Website · Post by **Thecollector** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

Point well taken, clears up the mess.

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Post by **I H8 UR DSM** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

s13: the coupe is 'closer' to a silvia, but a silvia does NOT have pop up headlights..therefor niether is.

the 240 coupe is a silvia back half, with a 180sx front. So a silvia is a silvia, and none of the us S13's are the same

ALL silvias are RHD.

Post by **Cyberkreig** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

I dont think that S13 coupes as I H8 discribed were ever sold in Japan. Silvias with 180'faces were called ONEVIA.

Post by **MainEvent212** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

yeah, or we can call it a 240sx and stop tryin to be so damn JDM TyTe

Post by **yeswepromise** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

i dont personally know any Silvias.

Post by **Anand** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

doesn't really matter

Post by **SilviaLuvr** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

89-90 with non pop-up headlights are silvia's 91-93 were RPS-13 94-98(JDM only they had the same body as the RPS-13 but they had a FRP front bumper, sides, and rear bumper, FRP rear wing and the Type X taillights) were type X's I belive95-96 were silvia S14 97-98 were silvia S14mc99-01 were silvia S15(all cars were right hand drive and came with the SR20DE or DET motor minus the 89-90 silvia S13 which came with the CA28DE and DET motors they also came wit LSD's and other things that i rather not menchen b/c I may be wrong)

Post by **BuudWeizErr** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

I've only seen two Silvia's IRL. One S13, One S15

The rest were a bunch of fakes.

Post by **Doraemon** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

My neighbors name is silvia.

Post by **yeswepromise** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

this is for the guys with girlfriends...have you ever thought if this would happen...what if you were talking to your friend about your car but you were calling it Silvia and saying how cool it was and how much you like her and your girlfriend was behind the corner and you didnt know, and so she thought you were talking about a real girl named silvia?yeah i never thought about that either.

(i bet this post made about as much sense as this thread does.)

Post by **krazy skwerel** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

Indeed. :batman

Post by **KoukiS14** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

yes, hatchback is NOT a silvia. same car? basically. . but it's like calling a coupe a 180sx. . I mean, why would you do that?

btw. . you have a 240sx.

Post by **JeromeS13** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

Yeah. My car is a 240sx with an S13 Silvia front end. Therefor, my car is NOT a silvia.

Post by **krazy skwerel** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

It's like the ae86 the Levin Is not the same as the Trueno, but both are ae86's. :batman

Post by **IowaSilvia_S13** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

ha. I have met a silvia personnally and I like it a lot. hehehe. like they said. silvia's are silvia's. rhd only, 240sx are 240sx, one is a coupe one is a hatch.

Post by **KoukiS14** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

JeromeS13 wrote:Yeah. My car is a 240sx with an S13 Silvia front end. Therefor, my car is NOT a silvia.

Affirmative.

Post by **240SXedUp** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

Quote »have you ever thought if this would happen...what if you were talking to your friend about your car but you were calling it Silvia and saying how cool it was and how much you like her and your girlfriend was behind the corner and you didnt know, and so she thought you were talking about a real girl named silvia?[/quote]

You know what be even weirder? If she overheard you and suggested having a threeway with "sylvia". I bet you would search the phone book pretty damn hard for a sylvia.

Post by **KoukiS14** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

I wish my "Silvia" would give me road head. Then it'd be the best car in the world.

Post by **AunVoh** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

i thought that skylines were only RHD too, but then you goto http://www.toprpm.com and they have a LHD skyline, and from what i've heard from them, in Arab country's Skylines are LHD, i wonder if they got silvia's there? =)

Post by **Snoboarder793** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

when motorex imports skylines to the usa i think they change them to left hand drive so maybe it was 1 of them

Post by **AunVoh** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

no, they are RHD, try again

Post by **PROJECTRB240SX** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

MOTOREX DOES CONVERT THEM THOUGH. DAMN NOW I AM GOING TO BUY A SARD STACKER TO SAVE SPACE.

Post by **AunVoh** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

Motorex does not convert skylines to LHD, unless they have started doing so and haven't updated their site, but their site still says they do not convert them, they also state that nissan only ever made RHD skylines... so i don't know what to think of those arabs...

Post by **KoukiS14** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

Snoboarder793 wrote:when motorex imports skylines to the usa i think they change them to left hand drive so maybe it was 1 of them

there was never a LHD skyline before the current one, sold here as a G35. . That's the newest Skyline, and VERY first LHD skyline ever created by Nissan. . some crazy europeans have built previous model Skylines as LHD, but it takes a LOT of work and a LOT of fabrication (a LHD dash does NOT exist for the car). . . it was to prove nissan wrong. .

RHD cars are perfectly legal in the U.S.... I see them around all the time, as we have a Suburu / Isuzu plant here...

Post by **collk88** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

maybe im being too critical but i think most people wrongly name the 180sx also. the names specify the engine in them, therefore the your 240sx is a 240 because it has the ka24 engine. the 180sx in reality only should be named for the older ones which came with the ca18det. and the newer 180s or anyone who swapped an sr20det into their 240 should really be called 200sx. but thats just my thinking......

oh, and what would you call a 180 with an s-15 front end??

Post by **Snoboarder793** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

i said "i think" they convert skylines to LHD and they probably do for the right amount of money.

Website · Post by **Thecollector** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:59 pm

End this thread already. Question was answered days ago......

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