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1988 Nissan Sentra

July 22, 2025

The Story

I've always wanted this car growing up and this is actually my second B12 gen. Sentra which I bought 8 years ago on the very next day after selling my first one. It was all stock and with the engine burning oil and the transmission popping out 5th gear but in okay conditions outside of that. It has been my daily ever since. I put around 10k miles on it each year and it's still rocking the original paint! With as much paint restoration as I could do to it. After an engine and transmission rebuild that same year I bought it I started messing with it to make it my own. The B12 Sentra's aftermarket support is almost non-existent so you end up either make things yourself, adapting parts from other cars or looking for surviving mods from the 80's/90's. Even some vital engine sensors needed to keep it running are only available in the used market like eBay and junk yards. As an example the coilovers, which no company makes for the B12 Sentras but they do for the B13 and apart from the brake line brackets not lining up at all they bolt right in haha. It's got a neck braking 70hp lol according to what was advertised when new. So it is not fast but I love it for what it is :) A fun fact is that Nissan actually made and sold NISMO versions of the B12 coming out with different suspension settings, more horsepower, some turbo versions, 4WD, bodykits, instrument clusters, and other little things. Available in a 2 door, 4 door, and even a 3-door tiny thing all flying the NISMO badges, as well as a very small portion of the 2 door sport coupes being sold with a Digital dash!! but... Of course, Japan kept all those fancy models for themselves and only sold them in Japan... So good luck to anyone looking for all those unobtanium parts, I know the pain. Anyways! Here's my 1988, 1.6L, 2 door, Nissan Sentra build!

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