sentra for a performance car??????????

xher0 · Apr 3rd, 2003, 02:10 PM

I bought this car cause it was a nice looking car, with a 5 speed, but since i've been on the net i've been realizing that people actually put time and money into sentra's to make them high performance street racing vehicles. From your guys opinions, do you think it's worth it to spend that money on this car or would i have better luck buying another foreign car to make high performance...

I got a friend who has a trans-am 2002, running mid 13s i beleive, and he's always bragging on how he can beat this and that. I want to beat him so bad, but i never thought a sentra could run 13s, but i realized it and it's not going to be long before he's running 12s, so it's basically a matter between me beating him and me winning without spending my arm's and legs to do it. I have a choice between spending a lot of money on this car or getting another one, if i did what would it be in the foreign world. i'm new to import cars, although i have a mercedes that's a slow car.

I often thought about the rx-7, supras cost to much, 3000gt's are nice but i don't like them very much, skyline's are my favorite but that thing is way to costly. what should i do?

B13speed · Apr 3rd, 2003, 02:37 PM

I'm new to the board too but I know a few things about nissans. First off do you have an se-r or another model.
If you have an se-r you can easily swap the engine for a turbo engine that you can probably find for a reasonable price if you do a search. Try searching for a pulsar gti-r turbo engine, those will definitely get you into the 13s and they aren't that expensive. If you don't want to go turbo you can swap in a nissan VE type engine(similar to a honda VTEC but better). If you just want another car I personally like the Nissan 300zx twin turbo, I have found a couple of those for about 6k.

blairellis · Apr 3rd, 2003, 03:07 PM

buy a 240 sx and do a swap or get a sr20det and throw that in your car.

what trim is your sentra btw? is it a se-r or one of the ga16 powered cars?

xher0 · Apr 3rd, 2003, 03:07 PM

mine is a le, 2dr 5 speed, it's just the regular model.

AZ WHITE SE-R · Apr 3rd, 2003, 03:23 PM

Trade it in, If you don't want to spend any money on a sentra. There is not any real potential with the GA16DE motor that is in the model sentra you have. To get it running low 12's you will most likely spend over $10,000. You will need an SR20DE(T) engine and will need to spend a lot of $ on a turbo kit if you get a NA SR20, or spend more $ upgrading the turbo and fuel system if you buy the already turbocharged version, the SR20DET. On top of that, if you are not real experienced with working on cars you will have to pay out the a$$ in labor.

XtremE · Apr 3rd, 2003, 03:24 PM

well...humm can u beat him without spendin money hummm....NO
but u can always make fun of his ass when he is gettin 10mpg with gas prices over $2

B13speed · Apr 3rd, 2003, 03:46 PM

Your best choice money wise would be to trade since it seems you have an older model GA16.
"blairellis" 240s are great but if he doesn't want to pay an arm to do an engine swap I say the 300zx twin turbo. Twin turbos are the s#!t and he wouldn't have to do much to beat his friends a$$

toolapcfan · Apr 3rd, 2003, 05:10 PM

Swap a supercharged 3800 into that beretta, at least that way he can't call you a ricer.

Go to www.beretta.net to find out more.

xher0 · Apr 3rd, 2003, 07:53 PM

ha, yea that beretta would be nice with that engine in it, well that's great to kno you guys aren't biased, how about keeping this as a daily driver, i mean how many miles can i expect out of it before it starts dieing out? i could just drive it and maybe throw a few minor things on there to satisfy the craving to sound fast, and sound loud. hahaha.

GA16DESentraXE · Apr 4th, 2003, 01:41 AM

It's not uncommon to see well over 200 thousand mile and still be running strong.

It's not really that hard to get a GA powered car fast either, regardless of what AZ says. =) Nitrous, hardcore fuel system.

And yeah, throw a 3800 SC in your Beretta... I almost did that with my Z24, but instead just built the hell outta my 2.8L that was in it. =)

xher0 · Apr 4th, 2003, 03:49 AM

damnit if you guys don't stop talking about dropping that engine in my beretta i'm going to mess around and do it, and keep the sentra as my other car to drive while i'm doing that. oh my god, you guys suck, a 3800sc would be so freaking tight in my car. i kno yall saw my beretta site,

www.sounddomain.com/id/mrlong for the beretta
www.sounddomain.com/id/mercem for the benz

GA16DESentraXE · Apr 4th, 2003, 04:17 AM

BTW, here's some pics of my Z24... I can't freaking find any engine pics though...

2.8L 60* V6
Custom ground camshaft (gave it a NICE poppy idle)
Hypertech stage 2 chip
Custom ram-air
cat-back exhaust
ported/polished heads
5 angle valve job
etc etc.

http://www.geocities.com/ga16desentraxe/Z24/z24.html

xher0 · Apr 4th, 2003, 04:23 AM

yea man that's a nice car but damn that hydroplanning stuff, that's messed up.. i hope you get it fixed. i'll have that beretta up and running a few months after i get the sentra where i want it though, so after i get the sentra running to my specs i'll fix the beretta back up. and the benz just needs a paint job and some rims a little detail and maybe some tv's hahah.

Apr 4th, 2003, 04:40 AM

or you could sell all 3 cars and get a skyline. you should get enough money from them that the skyline wont put you to far into the hole j/k lol

xher0 · Apr 4th, 2003, 12:03 PM

OMG!!!!i don't kno though i heard they got a r35 or r36 coming to united states in two years or so, i could just save up for a downpayment haha, or even that pontiac gto, that's going to be really fast.