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I could speak VOLUMES on this car, but just to make it simple....
Get the car.
Please, Speak volumes ! I'm always a fan of extra knowledge.
I owned one, but wasn't nearly as talented as I am now with auto work. The 5th gear pop-out is now only something I've heard described as "Having a fix" for it, and I remember my new mounts did the trick.
In all of these pics, I can't see if the windows are power or not. I'm not sure they ever came with power windows (Mine had every option, except it seemed, power windows... which is odd)
Any differences in the 93 to the 91 ? Did they finally get the foglights right ? Is the plastic still cheezy ?
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnddddddddddddddd go!
ok so to start where you were, 5th gear pop out in the 1.6 had to do with the syncros in the trans, in MOST other nissans it has to do with mounts and linkage. Its VERY rare however when it does happen its a pretty easy fix, but not really a quick thing.
Motor mounts. Nissan doesnt make decent motor mounts, I dont care what anyone tells you, they suck like a crackwhore thats been on a high for a week straight, HARD. Nismo has direct replacements that are a lot better. And several other companies make stuff
are you planning turbo or NA. I seriously could dry hump an allmotor sr20de till the day I die. 180fwhp is the end of bolt ons, but in those cars you are well into 13s. there is a guy on Nissanforums.com that did an overbore and sleeves and ended up with 210 and I am pretty sure he ran a mid 12. However cool all that is, these cars were not designed for anything straight. they like to turn and certain parts of them have little weak links that need to be fixed.
suspension. WHEEE! now we are talking. konis and groundcontrol custom coilevers and call it a day, 300lbs up front and 200s out back and your car just became the corner carver it always wanted to be.
the 4x100 wheel pattern goes out to almost every import car made in the late 80s early 90s so you have no problem with wheels .... 205-50/15s are BAMAZING on these cars are a very comfy fit inside of those wheel wells.
Brakes. to put this into perspective, the abs 2.0 NX is the best braking car nissan produced for 45 years. I talked to a guy that just removed the abs and he thinks its stopping a lot better. pads, lines, fuild its all gravy, just remember.... brakes... not exactly the weak spot of these cars.
Sway bars. whatever you find I want to know about.
and I could go on, but this is just parts
Now how about the car.
the Nx was the follow up to the pulsar of the late 80s. It came with 2 different motors. the Ga16de and the Sr20de. the Ga makes about 45mpg and the sr20 is nothing close to that.
forget about burning anything up internally. forged rods and crank make the bottom end VERY strong, in both motors the only downside is the pistons, but seriously... if you see over 600hp I think you would have already done something to the pistons.
heads on an sr20de arent exactly the greatest. Nissan never truly figured out what port velocity meant and never got a head that was all that great. Anything you do to a head is going to be a MASSIVE upgrade, and the reason that the SR20 relines where it does, is because the head wont flow enough air to keep going, past that the valvetrain cant keep up, and finally your bottom end comes apart at about 9500.... so.... yea.... do something to the head
the ttops, just like all nissans, are going to leak, you can fix it 2 ways
1. build up the seal on the top itself with black caulk
2. buy new seals to go around the top.
the rear hatch's pushrods like to stop working about 20 miles into their lives. a quick trip to oriellys or your favorite parts store fixes this one.
headlights, I have seen a kit to make them flush mounted, and it kind of makes it look like a ls1 camaro... take that as you will.
foglights, no. plainly put, they rattle and dont really work, you are better off getting some off the shelf at a parts store and mounting them securely
all of the plastics in the interior is almost exactly the same, the only thing that I think changed is the color.... but I could be wrong on that.
power windows didnt make it into nissan until 95, so if you find a NX with power windows, I wouldnt buy it.
by far the greatest part of this whole thing is an slogan that nissan had in 1990, something about light and go... I dont remember
anyway. the car weighs in at 2400lbs... so you can imagine, the light part is there, now all thats needed is a good checkbook or a nice piece of plastic to make the go part..
and if at any point you have questions, I have worked on 3 B13 NXs and 5 B13 sentras. so I hope I can help you out.
