How much is your budget? Or you are planning to put more as you go? Because I have done a S14, and with basic upgrades (turbo/engine swap, suspensions), you are looking at around 4-7k (DIY or pay someone else). So you are looking around 10k to have the car done nicely. On a S13, there are tons of swapped ones selling around 5k with nice mods. Within 10k, you can get a 300whp S13.
Never owned a FC, but you can get a T-II for about 4k, then some upgrade will put you at about the same price as the S-chassis (Sorry for FC fans, I was going to buy a T-II FC, but the power that it gives is just not what I expected. That guy told me his FC has about 220whp but it really feels slower than my S14 when it was stock. I guess torque has a lot to do with it...).
E30 BMW are nice, my ex-boss had one 325 2door. It is an auto so it feels really heavy. I am pretty sure a manual swap will solve it along with some kind of power upgrade.
Not going to talk about AE86.
Over all, I will still pick a S-chassis because of the interior. There is not wrong with the others, but S-chassis's interior just is not in the 80's.
S13
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