i dunno, i must be wrong then... here's what i've concluded.Rezlo wrote:Actualy the mass majority of S13 coupe's had the same front end as the hatch, very few had the sil80 style head lights, it was a common swap though for the guys to convert to sil80 look because the parts were way cheaper (till the yanks wanted to be like the japs and then became one of the most expencive)
i thought it was the other way around. i thought the silvia had only fixed headlights and a bootlid, and the 180sx had flipup headlights and a glass hatch.
hence i thought the sil80 was named because of the combination of front end of a silvia (fixed headlights) and rear end of 180sx (hatchback). so its SIL from the front of Silvia (and therefore literally from the front of the word), and 80 from the rear of 180 (and literally from the end of the word) = SIL80.
its also why the one-via is named as it is. cos its the popup lights from the one80 and the coupe bootlid from the sil-via.