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I'm having a look for a new car and I thought I'd take a squiz at this 1992 Silvia for sale with an RB20DET engine. The car looked nice from the outside and when the owner told me that it keeps up with GTR's I was thinking "Yeah whatever"

Anyway I took the little sucker for a spin and because he was working out the back of Broady in an industrial estate I could drive a tad faster than on the open roads.

Anyway this thing is mind blowing! I thought I drove a pretty faster car but this thing shot up to 100km/h like you wouldn't believe!!

Have any of you ever driven an RB powered Silvia? What do you think?

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I can see the reason people drop an RB into an s13 (buy an old auto Q for next to nothing). But i still think its pointless if it had an sr20det to begin with, the performance differances are not that great, its not even a rare conversion anymore. I'd rather spend the cash differance on mods for the sr20. And some would argue (maybe even harder) that the differance again in price would be better spend on a ca18...

I know this is a pointless statment on a skyline forum but anyway... :)

RB20 powered sils.... Vs thier SR20 equipped counter parts are slower.

The SR20 is a better motor than the RB20.

get into an SR with the same mods as that RB20 and the sil would go way harder and have a much better mid-range

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