Hey all, new member here

So I'm new to this forum and to nissans. I'm picking up my 87 200sx vg30 tomorrow and hopefully I'm in the right place when I need help with it. The car has 160k on the odometer, the rear panels are taken out and the exhaust system is only a glasspack exiting the side. The guy who had it before tried to rice it up. I already know I have to drop a good amount of money in it to be at least visually pleasing but the engine and tranny felt amazing on the long test drive. I'll be starting up a build thread as soon as I get it but for now here's what it looks like.

For the love of God please just don't swap out the vg30 with a 4 cylinder. It seems like most new members that end up with SE's first order of business is to 4 cylinder swap them which defeats the whole purpose of owning the much rarer SE. And the engine and tranny felt amazing because well they are haha. The vg30 is a great engine and all 87 and 88 s12's got the C trans which is a very solid transmission. 160k is nothing for the vg30, very common for them to go 250k+ before they start getting noticeably tired. If you don't know when the timing belt was last changed I would make changing that your first order of business as they are only 60k belts and interference engines. Welcome to the club :).

Redneck on 10:15:46 PM / 25-Jan-13For the love of God please just don't swap out the vg30 with a 4 cylinder. It seems like most new members that end up with SE's first order of business is to 4 cylinder swap them which defeats the whole purpose of owning the much rarer SE. And the engine and tranny felt amazing because well they are haha. The vg30 is a great engine and all 87 and 88 s12's got the C trans which is a very solid transmission. 160k is nothing for the vg30, very common for them to go 250k+ before they start getting noticeably tired. If you don't know when the timing belt was last changed I would make changing that your first order of business as they are only 60k belts and interference engines. Welcome to the club :).

Welcome fellow se owner lol trust me. U are in the right place if u need help.with it. Its a family affairs here lol so do some research on here and if u can't find it just ask. Me and gustard along with others will love to.help

I do not plan on getting rid of this engine at all. The only really major things I want to do to this car is stiffen up the suspension and make the engine young again. I may possibly swap for a manual. And I want to find the interior pieces that are missing.

welcome and this is def the right place for help with the s12

Welcome! And auto to Manual swaps are simple plenty of write UPS on here for that....