LarZ's Kouki 180sx road car (image heavy)

[LarZ]

Early days yet for this, but i've decided to scratch my long term itch for a kouki 180sx. It's probably going to be a fairly long journey. I managed to pick up a 1997 kouki shell which many of you know as Martin Lenane's drift car. For a drift car it's in surprisingly great shape.

Here's the vision (what i'm hoping it will look exactly like when finished):



But, the reality is, here's what it looks like right now:









So on the plus side

1. All the locks match up to an original nissan key
2. There were Nissan Prince Fukuoka mats with it which are awesome
3. There was a non smoker box with it
4. It's period correct
5. There's a complete loom already plumbed
6. It has lots of stiffening. a pillar braces and seam welding

All in all it's a great base for an epic road car. I have all the bits there to slot into it so it should take too long, especially as i'm just getting someone else to do the work for me.

Plans are:

1. Get it driving/running
2. Kouki Kit (plastic)
3. RPF01s (gonna run viennas on it til i can afford the enkeis)
4. origin +30mm overs on the rear
5. spray it black
6. Drive it before the summer starts (famous last words)

[LarZ]

the 3 amigos...

[NoelB]

Looks like a wicked clean shell Larz. Best of luck with it.

[Hachi]

That's an awesome base you have to start with. There shouldn't be any reason why you couldn't have it driving for summer.......overnight some parts from Japan :P

Can't wait to see how it progresses

[subzero]

think marty would have least took the idc stickers off ha ha.

great shell, was only down there last week.

[LarZ]

I've almost got a full interior for it now. Some minor bits left. I have some nice kouki bits coming from jdmdistro soon. I was toying with the idea of over fenders as the arches are cut on the shell. But I just can't warm to the look of them with a kouki kit so I'm exploring options that would allow me to run standard arches.

[SiR_GTR]

Vision looks sweet. Best of luck with it.

[steve320]

absolutely love it

[lady89]

very good, finally a thread!!

[LarZ]

Also got these badass mats. Not sure whether i'll use these or the kouki mats i've ordered. #fwp