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Just gotta check - you're not planning to buy a reasonably priced 80s Japanese coupe, hop it up on the weekends, and drive it to work/school during the week, right? You need to budget for another car to actually drive while your babby is leaking something all over your driveway waiting for parts. And then you will end up wrenching on your DD too so your project car will move even slower.  AI thug lyfe
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Seriouspost: NA z31s can be pretty fun to drive if you refresh the suspension, do the intake and however much of the exhaust your local emissions allow, and advance the ignition timing. There's not a lot of HP there but the torque's good. Problem is that a couple of the suspension refresh things, namely replacing worn-out rubber bushings, are a fair bit of work. Once that's done, though, a z31 is at least as nice a drive as anything similar from the era. There's a fair bit of performance aftermarket available even if there isn't a lot of choice (the notable lack is a bolt-in intercooler kit, z31 intercooler piping is  .) And if the car is purely for nice days/hooning around you can remove a ridiculous amount of stuff from it and simplify your life, too. I have owned a handful of z31s now and getting and keeping them running is not hard. The motor and all of the transmission choices are pretty bulletproof unless you don't change the timing belt, you need one or two vacuum lines and a very few sensors to run the car, important parts are easy to come by, and they are not at all prone to overheating unless you do something really stupid or you don't know how to bleed a cooling system after working on it. Down side is that a lot of the ancillary electrics, like the headlights and climate control, can drive you nuts. In all likelihood a previous owner will have done something incredibly retarded attempting to install a stereo, electric fan, or HIDs and broken something. The power steering is designed to rust-proof the engine compartment and a lot of things in said engine compartment are designed to be serviced from under the car. Also, it's a Japanese car from the 80s, so rust.
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