- I've had an '88 Turbo II, which with that, and my brother's first SR20 S13, one of the FIRST in Atlanta... We made a nice name for ourselves back when having ~300rwhp was actually impressive to people.
- This makes my 3rd actual FD. The first one I only had for about 6 months, due to some unfortunate circumstances w/ finances and blowing the motor. I decided that if I was gonna get an FD for any reason, I wasn't going to stay rotary. I LOVE the way they sound, I love how simple the engine bay is to work with, but I wanted something more reliable. The FD is the perfect sized car for me, inside and out, I love every curve of the car.
- It's funny, because when I was home on Leave in late March, I was actually looking more towards doing doing an Aristo 2JZ-GTE swap into an SC300, or going NA-T. My bro and the guys at Lethal convinced me otherwise. "So you're telling me that you're actually TRYING to compare having a turbo SC300 to one of the most renowned Japanese sports cars ever made?" in the words of Derick. lol.... That kinda made things a little more clear to me. ^_^
So here I am, now!
My 65k original mile, 1 owner, unmolested FD is being brought to me this coming Sunday from FL.
It's red w/ tan interior. Compression died from sitting for so many years. Better that, than being beaten to hell IMO....I was planning on having my bro and the guys at Lethal put in another motor and either keep it as a bone-stock DD, or just sell it, if anyone's interested. I'll probably just throw it up on Autotrader and see if I get any bites.
I'll definitely ask my brother to take some pics of it when it arrives.
I guess I can't say "Rotary powaaaaaaaaa!!!" like I used to, anymore though. lol :P