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Originally Posted by Jeffblue
the 8 series bmw.... parts are asrtonomically expensive... did anyone see that top gear where clarkson bought the 8 series bmw and spent like 3x what he paid for it within a month.
300zx: be ready to drop 10k on the car on top of what you paid for it. honestly if you really want a 300zx try and find a really good chassis and assume the motor is shot. don't expect to get much life out of the stock motor in a 100k+ mile factory twin turbo, especially since you'll want to mod it that will only decrease its life.
supra... you'll pay a huge premium to get a supra... best bet would prolly be get an NA and buy a 2jz and do a swap.... a good alternative is getting a lexus sc300 and doing a 2jz swap. a factory TT supra will probably cost you more than those ferrari's you were thinking of.
if you are willing to spend some cash and know you are going to put the car under the knife, do a proper 240sx build.... get a clean chassis, put in an sr20 or an rb25/26, s14 kouki front end. Would be a fun car. a lot of them end up looking like crap because people dont want to put the money into them they need. but dont bother getting one if you are just going to keep the KA motor because it's slow as sh1T.
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I'd agree on all points except the 240SX. 240s usually look beat because they are beat. It's the most popular drift platform, and that's what the majority of them are. Also, for the price of an SR and for much less than an RB, you can take the stock KA and have it completely rebuilt w/ OEM water and oil pump, OEM gaskets, forged rods and pistons, and a decent turbo kit. 300whp is easily achieved, and you'll have a zero-mile 300whp turbo car. I prefer the KA-T route because parts for a KA are more common than for an SR and the SR is the fanboy route. Plus, 0-mile engine built by a good shop sounds a LOT better than some 140k mile engine that's been beat to crap by 2 or 3 dudes in Japan, then shipped to the US and beaten on by who knows how many people.
Based on your original post, the only 2 I'd consider would be the RX-7 or Supra. If you're not talking about Mk IV Supra and FD RX-7, then it comes to just the RX-7. FC RX-7s look awesome, but I'm not a big fan of Mk III Supras.