nissan pulsar engine questions

[jonxs]

hi there guys.  

with hope i reckon you can help me out. 

the story is there's this guy at work whose son bought a pulsar last month, supposedly its one of 13 on the road or something it is an import one sorry if the info is a bit vague but he doesn't know much about these particular cars, so he asked me as ive had like 5 cars since ive worked there and only started in December . So the turbo shat itself a week after he had it which wasn't great for my friend as hes had to pay for a rebuilt one

but last week the car just 'died' apparently. hes checked it over and the engine has seized, the oil sup has a big split in it. 

what he/i would like to know is as the cars quite a 'rare' one in what I'm lead to believe immaculate condition. would it be worth getting the engine rebuilt for originality purposes? swapping the engine for another? or selling on as is?

the thing is he knows hes going to loose around £1000

what do you guys think/advise?

[fireflyspeedshop]

Aug 27, 2014 17:49:33 GMT jonxs said:

hi there guys.  

with hope i reckon you can help me out. 

the story is there's this guy at work whose son bought a pulsar last month, supposedly its one of 13 on the road or something it is an import one sorry if the info is a bit vague but he doesn't know much about these particular cars, so he asked me as ive had like 5 cars since ive worked there and only started in December . So the turbo shat itself a week after he had it which wasn't great for my friend as hes had to pay for a rebuilt one

but last week the car just 'died' apparently. hes checked it over and the engine has seized, the oil sup has a big split in it. 

what he/i would like to know is as the cars quite a 'rare' one in what I'm lead to believe immaculate condition. would it be worth getting the engine rebuilt for originality purposes? swapping the engine for another? or selling on as is?

the thing is he knows hes going to loose around £1000

what do you guys think/advise?

Need to know if it's a limited edition.. All this '1 of 13' on the road is too vague..

Imports are more common than UK now and all round better.. Due to much less rust. But still rusty.

.. So IF it's a rare edition, it's worth a bit.. Moreover .. IF it's truly immaculate... dare I say, 'rust free' it COULD be worth a fortune.

.. If it's neither, punt it on as it is.

[retrowrongun]

What colour is the car op







Green by any chance ?

[jonxs]

Sept 1, 2014 22:16:05 GMT retrowrongun said:

What colour is the car op







Green by any chance ?

the car is a graphite grey colour.

Now that he's actually back at work, I asked him for the vin no to see what edition it is. He's coming back to me tomorrow with it, he said its got 'nismo' plaques on the car so I think its pointing towards the Special edition ' version maybe.
Sorry that the info's been a bit vague but he's an old boy so he's not massivly interested/in the know so to speak.

[oscare30]

Nearly every one in the uk has ebay nismo plaques on it lol

[fr€$h&m1nt¥]

I guess it depends on what makes it "special" - it might be a limited edition due to having an engine tuned to a spec that was JDM only so if the engine needs replacing then all additional value has gone really.

[retrowrongun]

It will either be a ra version (lightweight) homologation car , come with god awful Boggo seats etc , or a factory nismo version only a handfull confirmed to exist and lots of heresay over those too but usually have a special different vin
i also asked if it was green because there were also believed to be around 25 emperor green coloured gtirs madero commemorate a previous emperor of Japan's birthday apparently ?  although exact no,s made not 100% confirmed

Either way get some pics mate great cars