Pretty Hate MACHINE

There’s a very clear rule when it comes to swapping non-Japanese motors into Japanese cars: don’t. Just don’t. It really irritates people.

Or at least, that’s what some bores will tell you. But who cares what the purists think? There’s clear evidence splashed across these pages to suggest that the idea of shoving a vast American V8 into a slippery and sylph-like S15 Nissan is actually a bloody good idea. Just look at it. We can feel our awesome-o-meter bursting at the seams and threatening to fire its trembling needle clear through the glass and into the dartboard over the other side of the bar.

Yes, of course we’re chewing over the relative merits of LS-swapped drift weapons in the pub, still eddying in the turbulence of Ade’s stellar shoot. Because the pub is the natural environment for zany ideas like this one: the notion of hoiking the trusty SR20DET out of an S15-gen Silvia