S14
Nissan Silvia, S14
SR20DET, 2.0 turbo, rear-wheel drive
Wide, cheap to run and the most drifted car in Japan after the S13. Every S14 at auction has to be read as a car that might have been used hard by somebody who did not own it long.
The zenki cars have the oval lights, the kouki cars the angular ones, and the changeover is around the middle of 1996. Auction sheets give you a build month, which is more reliable than any photograph.
Front-end marks and a B code
Drift damage lands at the front. A B mark at the front of the diagram may mean a pushed core support, which is structural, and on an S14 it is common enough to check every time.
Rear arch rust
S and C marks at the rear arches are the S14 pattern. They are repairable, and they are never as small as the diagram suggests.
Non-original engine
Handwritten 社外 notes and an odd grade often mean an engine or turbo swap. That may be what you want, but it changes the eligibility paperwork nothing and the value plenty.
Every mark named above is defined in the codes library, with what it costs to put right at US rates.
Night Line
Be told when a S14 matters
We write when the S14 clears another month of the 25-year rule, when the yen moves more than 3% your way, and once when the free Decode opens. Nothing else.