1988 Nissan Silvia K's from UK and Ireland - Comments

Nothing.

Modified exhaust, K&N Air filter approx 180Hp. Performance approx 0-100 7 sec.

Great turbo punch. Handful in the wet, easy to tailslide. Excellent handling.

Seats not very comfortable. Weight effects performance dramatically.

Superb Japanese past master.

Is this the engine with 8 vents and 8 sparkplugs?

What have you done with the car to get an extra 60 horsepower?

There is not an extra 60hp. The Silvia S13 K's has the CA18DET turbo engine which produces a little less than this stock. Later models (PS13's) were fitted with the 2 litre SR20DET which produces more like 210bhp.

They were never (as far as I know) sold outside of Japan officially. The European export version for example is called a 200SX and has a different body style. Confusingly this fastback type body was also available in Japan but was called a 180SX.

I would assume the 180SX was called that because when it first came out it had the CA18 engine, 1.8 liters = 180SX. The stateside model having the limp KA24, 2.4 liters was called the 240SX probably for the same reason.

Why the euro version was called the 200SX? Maybe they ran out of numbers. They should have used that name in Japan when the SR20 2 liter came out.

Nissan codes their cars with the engine first available. As such, in Japan it received the 1.8 liter ca18det 180sx in 1988. America got the KA24E in the 240sx in 1989, and Europe later received the SR20det 200sx. In the US, the SR20de was available in a piece of crap FWD version of the Sentra known as the 200sx. The coupe was available in the US, but with pop up headlights of the 180sx, and also had the 2.4 liter ka truck engine. The coupe in Japan was the silvia, had fixed projectors, and was never officially released outside of Asia, though greys can be found throughout right hand drive markets including Europe, and conversions using the left hand drive 240sx coupe and silvia front ends are now popular in the states. The 180sx hatchback body style was so popular that it was produced until 1998 in Japan, but was dropped in other markets after the switch to the S14 body style in 1994.

The sr20de actually first appeared in 1991 in the Sentra SE-R. It produced 140 HP with 132 lb/ft. of torque. A base model SE-R came with power sunroof, rear spoiler, AC, cruise control, alloy wheels, and a couple of other goodies. The base model SE-R came in weighing a few pounds shy of 2500 lbs. The 0-60 ft. time was 6.8,which is very far from turd like. It is also a very easy swap for a j-spec sr20det from a Bluebird.

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