2 silvia/180 questions - Tuner-Junction

+RandomHero+ · #1 (**permalink**) March 5th, 2006, 07:33 PM

first off... what exactly is a sileighty?

second the 180sx truck......how do you build one? like is it a 180 with alot of work? or what it confuses me and i alwasy wondered if it was something that a normal person could do

kanscrx · #2 (**permalink**) March 5th, 2006, 07:38 PM

sileighty = 180 with a silvia front end

chris_s14 · #3 (**permalink**) March 5th, 2006, 08:00 PM

im not sure of how much work is put into making the 180 into a truck but you can try pm'ing this guy from zilvia. hes done it to his his 240 and is now selling it. http://www.zilvia.net/f/showthread.php?t=98712

KibaRUN · #4 (**permalink**) March 7th, 2006, 08:06 AM

...in Japan people kept smashing the front ends of their 180SXs when they were drifting... into mountains or whatever. simply put, the S13 Silvia front end was cheaper than a 180SX front so they put the Silvia fronts on as a temporary fix. this caused a craze in Japan and it was basically the look in Japan for young people. Nissan had been observing that many of their 180's have been going around with Silvia fronts, and (for an unknown reason) they built a hybrid and released it in 1994. this hybrid was known as the "SIL-EIGHTY", which is exterior-wise just a RPS13 with an PS13 front end. changes went further though, with changes to camshafts and the ECU, which gave roughly 16~18Kw more (not sure about how much more torque) than both the Silvia and 180SX. also, the suspension was tweaked for drifting purposes. Genuine Sil-eighty's are snap-tail happy, given too much power thru a corner will result in a drift, maybe a spin if you try too hard... Nissan only made about 400 genuine and documented examples, just about all were snapped up upon their release. now at auctions they apparently go for as much as immaculate R32 skyline GT-Rs

...from 200sx.org