jstein77 wrote:JoeyM wrote:I don't know what you guys have against Jewish American Princesses.mw wrote: Can someone edit the title so it's less racistI changed it to "Japanese." I wanted to use "Nipponese" and sound all Bruce Sterling/William Gibson/Neal Stephenson, but decided that I'm not cool enough to pull that off.
Nothing at all....I wish there were a few of dating age in the area who were madly attracted to guys with rusty old datsuns.
old_ wrote: FD. Drive it till it blows then drop in a real engine
No, you get one that is running and then strip off the turbos and junky stock intake manifold (throw them very, very far away) get a set of 9.7 rotors, some bridge port templates, a Holley throttle body and any of a number of 13B-REW/Holley 4bbl intake manifolds, and turn it INTO a real engine. Turbos are for trucks, you know.
That said, I'm going to say SVX.
FD is the best car, there are no reliability mods for apex seals. Last I read, gauges didn't work with LSX, but if you're looking, buy now, prices are going UP on this E36 M3.
Supra TT will decimate all if you overnight parts from japan, BRO. Haven't seen a good one for 15K, but admittedly I'm not looking for the rest of my life.
Z32 TT, hope you have a garage. T-tops FTL, plus you might get one with Super-HICAS, which can't be cheap to fix.
A 335 with about two mods will be as fast as most of this ON THE STREET, and a crap ton more useful if you get the E90 and not the coupe. It will also absolutely blow away the others in terms of comfort and DD-ability.
Please post the results.
J308 wrote: FD is the best car, there are no reliability mods for apex seals.
I just detailed them. Take the turbos and throw them far, far away. N/A rotaries are nigh-unbreakable.
Ring up Defined Autoworks. If he can get near 500whp from an N/A 20B, he should be able to top 300whp from an N/A 13B. He just about made that much at the crank from a street ported 13B (RE engine, from Cosmo) and now he's playing with semi-peripheral engines.
Just to be contrarian:
GC Impreza 2.5RS with full STi drivetrain (e.g "RSTi")......and have $5k leftover.
Um, why not this?
'bishi Eclipse GSX
At least its no N/A Integra
irish44j wrote: Just to be contrarian: GC Impreza 2.5RS with full STi drivetrain (e.g "RSTi")......and have $5k leftover.
You can get a legit GC8 STi-R on a boat cheaper than a swap would run you. Buddy of mine has one.
FD or NSX
phillyj wrote: Um, why not this? 'bishi Eclipse GSX
That's not a halo car, that's the car daddies bought their daughters for their 18th birthday.
SlickDizzy wrote:yamaha wrote: I still think it depends how it was used.......although this butthurt is what eventually led the n-word to mean a racial derrogative instead of an ignorant person. I still believe that this whole "I'm offended" personality is the real problem.I used to think the same way until I had some corporate training with a dude named Hiroshi last year. We had a big Harley rider type in the group as well; one night we were out drinking as a group and he made the huge mistake of saying something to the effect of "you're an alright guy but I'll never be seen on one of those Jap bikes of yours." I didn't think anything until Hiroshi hit the guy in the stomach so hard I think his eyeballs popped out of his head a little bit. Then he told us his great grandparents (US citizens) were interned in WWII, how they were made to feel ashamed of being Japanese and disgraced as Americans. He said that it took until his parents generation to regain a shred of pride in their Japanese heritage, and that even casual use of the word "Jap" brought back the feelings of shame and disgrace his family had finally overcome. So, I'd venture to say that most Japanese would disagree with you...just saying.
What happened to them here was wrong, and it has been a dark yet overlooked time in our history, but to be offended by the term "Jap", if it is used as an abbreviation, is about as pointless as a photo of a cat inside a jar.
Ladies and Gentleman of the esteemed jury, I present exhibit A:
As far as back on topic, wait a year and snag a '99 type rs or rz FD rx7. Or patiently await an R34 skyline to come along.
phillyj wrote: Um, why not this? 'bishi Eclipse GSX At least its no N/A Integra
Because it was built in central illinois?
In reply to yamaha:
THIS
Out of curiosity, only because I've never looked, are grey market NSXs cheaper then buying one local? I think current USA NSX prices are ridiculous, you can't buy a halfway ok driver for under 20k, not even a 91.
Is it legal to import a car from overseas if that model was also sold in the US? I remember seeing something about that in the "So, you want to import a car!" docs. Canada gets a free pass because their regs are almost entirely cribbed from US.
I think it's one of the clauses that was put in thanks to Mercedes trying to fight people buying cars from Germany and shipping them here for less than Mercedes NA selling them.
I've had an FD for the last 10 years. 160+k miles on it now. Far more reliable than any BMW, VW or Audi that I have ever owned.
Mostly stock with bolt ons - intake, high flow cat, cat back, intercooler, PNP standalone, radiator.
Buy a good one. Do all the deferred maintenance. Learn to properly mod it or don't screw with it and it will give you many years and miles of smiles. 
In reply to Knurled:
Now they all charge you more for european delivery.....
I don't think there is a wrong answer.
The Z32 - you might be able to buy a TT swapped slicktop (which is every Z32 fans wet dream) for $15K. Even a normal TT, as swank said, for $15K has the potential be nasty fast compared to the other options in this price range. Just for the fun of it, go to some Z32 forums and check out the power these things make with simple bolt-ons. Its tedious to work on, but isn't a maintenance whore, nor is it unreliable.
A nice V8 Swapped FD would be awesome if you could find one clean enough.
I'd totally go for the Supra... if you could find a clean turbo in that price range.
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