S13 Coupe or hatch ?

[SE-Rious1]

ok so i have a 91 s13 SE coupe i love the car but i also love the hatchs and i have this thought where i think i may wana trade for a hatch is this a good idea or bad ?

[Nyteryder]

I own both and I used to like the hatch better but now I am all about coupes

[SE-Rious1]

I own both and I used to like the hatch better but now I am all about coupes
yeah i had an all black hatch SE before and i loved it but i just cant draw the line

[BuBBa DRiFT]

ill trade for a coupe. i have a hatch but want a coupe sooo bad now its not even funny.

[SE-Rious1]

ill trade for a coupe. i have a hatch but want a coupe sooo bad now its not even funny.
isnt your hatch a Hicas ?

[R32Dragon]

Coupe, nuff said.

[MattB]

+1 for the coupe. nothing against the hatch, but I think the coupe looks better

[TheDarkRacer]

depends on witch front end... lol well with me id say its 50 50.. but if i had to pick on stock looks, id get a 92hatch....

[Kyle]

Coupes look A LOT better IMO, and you see fewer of them.

[SE-Rious1]

depends on witch front end... lol well with me id say its 50 50.. but if i had to pick on stock looks, id get a 92hatch....
well i used to be a huge fan of the pignose but now i have my coupe i like the nose on it bt hell its about the body lines and style to me and ceratin things about the hatch is hott butt the coupe just sits right:crazy:

[S II K]

idk dude id keep that coupe.
they are more rare you see hatch's all over the damn place



coupe>hatch.

[BuBBa DRiFT]

my hatch is not hicas anymore, solid rear subframe and swapped the power steering pumps, its now a SE with ABS and VLSD :D

[bigdare23]

coupe>>>hatch!!! :goodjob:

[b16ftw]

i'm not much of a nissan guy. but i'd go with a hatch.

[SE-Rious1]

one thing i love about the hatch is the koukie tails u can use there sweat

[Elbow]

Coupe hands down

[Joelow30071]

hatchbacks all the way dude. The power to weight ratio plays an important role in developing a fast car. The smaller the better.

[bowdown201]

The coupe looks so cleaner with S13 conversion. I used to have one..Miss that bitch

[BuBBa DRiFT]

thats one reason i want the coupe!!! and hatches do drift better imo, and those kouki tails are bombin, but s13 front end ftw

[bowdown201]

This is just my opinion of course but the hatches only look good done a certain way. I would just go with the coupe :)

[Doppelgänger]

i like the 240 body style that looks like a taco..... lol

[GaGen2Teg]

COUPE!!!

[Andy_013]

hatch but the coupe looks good from the back

[Humphrizzle]

pickup truck version

[homemadeS14s]

hatchbacks all the way dude. The power to weight ratio plays an important role in developing a fast car. The smaller the better.


hells yeah ....... i'd go with hatch:yes:

[Humphrizzle]

i change my decision to the taco shaped one.

[Kevykev]

180 conversion - Coupe

no-conversion - Hatch

Best results ever- as of now 50/50

[Kalifornia087]

and hatches do drift better imo
wtf? Have you drifted both??

I have. Coupes are lighter and more rigid. IMO they look better too. But im biased towards coupes in most every model of car.

What really matters, is which one you think looks the best. Both can look great. Its all about personal opinion and taste.

Austin

[SE-Rious1]

well i was playing around in my coupe today for the first time outside a hatch and it did pretty damn good i mean i was surprised lol

[OurOnePassion]

It's all about which one makes you get that funny, stingy feeling in your chest/stomach... I'll take both, please. ftw

[Benefit]

hatch = probe
coupe = sentra

[FoolsDrifFWD]

wtf? Have you drifted both??

I have. Coupes are lighter and more rigid. IMO they look better too. But im biased towards coupes in most every model of car.

What really matters, is which one you think looks the best. Both can look great. Its all about personal opinion and taste.

Austin

That is true me and my buddy put our cars on a scale he has a hatch I have a coupe. His car was 2726lbs my car was 2610lbs

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb284/theundersteerking/cdd40ef8.jpg

[BuBBa DRiFT]

i have drifted both. hatch is way better imo

[OurOnePassion]

Weld your diffy and you'll learn to drift anything(rwd, of course). Whether you like it or not. And after you've hit enough ditches on wet mountain roads that one time this spring; hatch or coupe won't matter... getting the dents out will...

So, especially if you intend on drifting, keep what you have. You can get used to it... so go get some zip-ties and duct tape and have fun.

Do you have any sort of non-stock suspension?

[VooDooXII]

I like coupes.

[SE-Rious1]

Weld your diffy and you'll learn to drift anything(rwd, of course). Whether you like it or not. And after you've hit enough ditches on wet mountain roads that one time this spring; hatch or coupe won't matter... getting the dents out will...

So, especially if you intend on drifting, keep what you have. You can get used to it... so go get some zip-ties and duct tape and have fun.

Do you have any sort of non-stock suspension?
yeah i learned to leave wet roads alone.
and nah i dont have any other suspensions around non stock

[Echonova]

one thing i love about the hatch is the koukie tails u can use there sweatOrigin coupe tail lights FTMFW!!

[OurOnePassion]

Origin coupe tails are, in fact, teh secks.

[cactusEG]

coup for sure

[VooDooXII]

I like Sileighty conversions...but I'm starting to loose my interest for them. I think the JDM front end just looks better on the coupe.

[Imth3king87]

nice

[tron]

coupe all the way, it just looks better the lines just flow. the hatch just looks funny to me

[mikespeed95]

That is true me and my buddy put our cars on a scale he has a hatch I have a coupe. His car was 2726lbs my car was 2610lbs

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb284/theundersteerking/cdd40ef8.jpg

are both cars completely stock with the same wheels and tires? if so that comparison might not be 100% exact.

btw

coupe >> hatch.

[spacelion]

coupe, easily.

[cdhtang]

I want the coupe, because i want to do the s13.4.
If you have the coupe, stick with it.

[bRiAnMcIvIcS]

The coupes look the best! IMO.

[nvmysrt]

coupe love baby....all the way!!!!

[Leekor12]

i'll say the hatch....

[chituntang]

Just get both. This solve the problem. When I had a hatch, I wanted a coupe. When I get the coupe, I wanted the hatch back. Now I own a S14, and I wanted a S13 back...

I would say coupe cause they take care of the exhaust noise a bit better.

[wesolayo]

Coupe for looks,
Hatch for practicality.

You cant fit anything in a coupe, seriously. I can haul just about anything I need to in my hatch.

[Kaiser]

are both cars completely stock with the same wheels and tires? if so that comparison might not be 100% exact.

btw

coupe >> hatch.

Do you perhaps mean the comparison would not be 100% exact if they were NOT both stock with the same wheels?

Wheels would not contribute to more than 50lbs of lightening on a 4-point scale, I have never seen wheels on a car that weighed as much as to make new wheels reduce the weight as much as you're implying. Also, if you put wheels on one, you put wheels on the other to keep the comparison the same, the difference decreases dramatically. The coupe is lighter because of the support for the back hatch. There is a significant amount of frame around where the hatch drops and along the rail to hold it up. The hatch itself is also quite heavy, starting with doubling the weight of the glass of a coupe's back end. It's similar to the idea of why a convertible weighs more than it's non-convertible version. Despite the fact that there's some material removed, the material added to reinforce the area neccessarily will weigh much more than the original material itself did. The exceptions are of course cross-framed Roadsters such as the Miata and S2k.

The Hatch does indeed weigh more in similar configurations than the coupe, but the difference is not enough to make a decision soley on it. I personally prefer the coupe because I would want to do an S13 front end and an SR swap. YMMV but if you're really having a hard time deciding you may be best off to try and find a way to have one of each. Wish I had the space to store two.

[deerock]

i drive a hatch so im with the hatch group!

[kingkong]

coupe FTMFW!!!

[Logan]

coupe for sure.

SO much better looking.

[-S Double C-]

well if your keeping the oem usdm front end hatch all the way! But with a s13 front end coupe all the way! I love the s13 front end but i would never put it on my hatch b/c IMHO it doesnt look right and is ugly. But too me a clean usdm front hatch with some sick wheels and kouki tail lights out does a s13 front coupe any day! I will be looking for a coupe sometime soon to DD and do the s13 front.

[Jecht]

Nothing looks better than a pignosed hatch slammed on some wide, low offset wheels.

[Kalifornia087]

Nothing looks better than a pignosed hatch slammed on some wide, low offset wheels.
Except a coupe set up the same way! Hahahaha

[87 Turbo II]

I'm a coupe person with all cars (although the trunk on a convertible Rx-7 is hideous next to a hardtop hatch so a true coupe in my body style might actually suck a bit). I say coupe easily.

[Thighs]

The exceptions are of course cross-framed Roadsters such as the Miata and S2k.

.

no such thing as a hardtop miata/s2k.

[Ronsam2006]

The coupe looks so cleaner with S13 conversion. I used to have one..Miss that *****


Thats soo true. The s13 conversion has boxy headlights which perfectly match the tail lights of the coupe. I used to love the hatch at first...but for some reason, I just like the coupe a lot now. I have never owned one..but i was thinking of buying one. PLus i think the reason is that coupes dont look that fast, but when someone fast gets beat by a slow looking coupe...it just makes me wanna go :goodjob: to the owner.lol. U know what I mean...lol

[rednblack]

I think it's more a matter of the profile of the car. The hatch looks right with the pop ups because the car is filled with curves, the coupe better w/ the Silvia front end because the lines on it are all angular. I'm a coupe fan myself.

[seanrg1116]

um yea hatch all the way


S13.5 FTMFW

http://gallery.azzido.no/albums/S13-5-Silvia/s13_silvia_11.sized.jpg

[cdhtang]

coupe...they look cleaner than the hatch and with less problem...

[dsm3g]

Ive driven both, and ridden in both, the hatch was always a little bit more fun

[FoolsDrifFWD]

240's suck

[90_ACCORD]

yeah i used to be all about the hatch
but i have come to realize the coupe looks a lot better

[wantboost]

240's suck
truth.

[TehHakingS14]

i like the hatch if your gonna keep the stock front end, but the coupe if your gonna put a silvia front on it......

[j0natell0]

hatch hands down - period!! .

[Kckouki]

Coupe with sil. front, slammed = sex
Hatch w/ popups, kouki tails, slammed, chuki front = sex

Both are hot imo.


But, S14 kouki FTW !

[bRiAnMcIvIcS]

S13 COUPE(its gotta have a silvia frontend conversion though).:goodjob: I thought about buying one its gotta be black or white though...

[DrAE86Toreno]

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