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Old 03-30-2005, 12:48 AM   #31
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i like both as it is 240
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Old 03-30-2005, 12:54 AM   #32
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My vote is for Zenki. This is my opinion on it; almost every kouki I have seen is beautiful, and washed often, with pretty paint, or a drift car. Zenkis for the most part are well-driven cars, some with battle damage and some w/out.

This is I guess the point.
Zenkis = driven hard
Koukis = Clean, kind of a show car.

This is of course a generalization of what I have seen, and I'm by no means implying that people that own Koukis drive like little girls, and zenki owners drive their cars like sports cars should be driven.
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Old 03-30-2005, 01:01 AM   #33
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i rock the zenki!

at first i wanted a kouki... but then the more i looked at zenkis the more i loved it... Koukis are over raited IMO... everybody wants the kouki...

from this pic... i dont see why people like the kouki more... the zenki front end fits the body lines of a s14 a lil better i think.



(i did not take this pic... but ty for the person who did and the owners of these cars)
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Old 03-30-2005, 01:20 AM   #34
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My vote is for Zenki. This is my opinion on it; almost every kouki I have seen is beautiful, and washed often, with pretty paint, or a drift car. Zenkis for the most part are well-driven cars, some with battle damage and some w/out.

This is I guess the point.
Zenkis = driven hard
Koukis = Clean, kind of a show car.

This is of course a generalization of what I have seen, and I'm by no means implying that people that own Koukis drive like little girls, and zenki owners drive their cars like sports cars should be driven.
so far, i have seen the same. this applies to the majority but not all that i have seen...
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Old 03-30-2005, 01:34 AM   #35
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I like both.... But I drive Kouki, and if I had to buy another S14 I'd try to get a kouki, but Zenki's can be hot too... Turbo or no turbo matters more to me.
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Old 03-30-2005, 04:06 AM   #36
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I own a zenki and a kouki.... at first i thought kouki was the ish but now my zenki with a lip changed my whole perception of the car. There both nice cars, kouki does in fact get more looks because of it being rare but as most ppl say the front of kouki dont really fit with the rest of the car. Zenki with rims and body kit compared to a kouki with similar exterior mods, the zenki would look nicer IMO Its really hard to choose between the two cause both possess different styles.
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Old 03-30-2005, 06:24 AM   #37
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I honestly have no preference.

I have a '98 Silver Moss 5spd LE (so Kouki), which is a fairly rare car, but I didn't really seek it out. I just bought the first S14 that I could find that was in truly incredible condition (which was the most important thing).

Had I found a Zenki in a more common color in such condition, I'd have bought that, which I probably wouldn't have paid through the nose for quite so much.

I really like Zenki's with Eyelids though. They retain the square nose look without the headlights looking bulbous.
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Old 03-30-2005, 07:07 AM   #38
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i used to be all about the kouki, but then i seen the zenki with the glass headlights or clear headlights for that matter...i was sold after that...

Zenki > Kouki
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Old 03-30-2005, 08:00 AM   #39
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my opinion on all this is that a zenki doesnt look good stock while a kouki looks hot stock. the other thing though, is if a zenki had hot aero then i think it looks much hotter then a kouki! with the right aero, the zenki follows the body lines reall good!
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Old 03-30-2005, 08:03 AM   #40
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kouki looks slick with stock jdm aero.

and zenki looks right. hell u can rag on a zenki, if u wreck it u can go another front end, its all plug and play biach!
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Old 03-30-2005, 08:50 AM   #41
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either is fine, but i have always wanted a kouki so I converted mine
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Old 03-30-2005, 08:53 AM   #42
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i'm on my 2nd zenki front end...guess which one i like more? lol
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Old 03-30-2005, 09:08 AM   #43
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Zenki's for 100% sure, just matches up better with the rest of the car. I hate Kouki! But I don't really care either way, I have an S13, haha.
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Old 03-30-2005, 09:33 AM   #44
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I think stock Zenki need something to look just as good or better then a stock Kouki. With out that something, stock Kouki looks better. I got a zenki because it was cheap then a kouki But I think Zenki has a nice charm to it.
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Old 03-30-2005, 10:46 AM   #45
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Well, they're not called "kouki" aero are they?
Nope, they're called optional aero as they were an option on both. They aren't "zenki" sides...

I like both, but US kouki bumpers are ugly as hell.
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Old 03-30-2005, 11:19 AM   #46
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yeah, the guy at nissan that dropped the jdm bumper for the usdm bumper should be shot. Twice.
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since this is the zenki vs kouki topic....

there was a fellow zilvian, that told me the kouki chassis was a little stiffer than the zenki.. and if you looked at the differences in the frame you could see..... i responded "WTF" when he told me that... arent they the same damn chassis???
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They are the same chassis.
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Old 03-30-2005, 12:32 PM   #49
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I definitely Rock the Zenki look through and through. Never Would change. The only thing I plan on adding body wise to mine is the greddy front lip, Zenki Aero sides or Nismo 270R sides, and Zenki rear add-ons or Nismo 270R rear.

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What did you do to your headlights??

They are just the JDM ones almost brand new!!

And the guy who said it's a girl car can go tell that to the Drift King who used the Zenki in the Drift Bible!!!!!
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Old 03-30-2005, 12:45 PM   #50
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i love kouki. Its looks best with JDM aero.
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I agree that the USDM Kouki bumper is ugly as hell. I like Zenki because it flows with the rest of the car, but right now I have a Kouki front end because I love the JDM stock body and I wanted projector headlights.

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since this is the zenki vs kouki topic....

there was a fellow zilvian, that told me the kouki chassis was a little stiffer than the zenki.. and if you looked at the differences in the frame you could see..... i responded "WTF" when he told me that... arent they the same damn chassis???
The chassis is alittle stiffer around the T/C brackets and I believe the front brake calipers are a tad better.
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i gotta say ZENKI not just cause i have one but i think it flows more with the way the body is i mean the kouki looks great i gotta say but from my opinion everyone wants to go kouki i dont wanna spend some cash and switch over to kouki when i can spend that cash on something more worth my penny like on performance or handling other then just that look of the kouki's headlights ...

ive seen people with zenki's just spray part of the headlights to make it look like the shape of the kouki style and some just use electric tape to cover parts off too
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Zenki for me too.




love the front
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I think it's so easy to get on the bandwagon and do the kouki conversion, that you just forget to look a little harder at the zenki and see what it has the potential to be. I've changed my mind about kouki now, and I intend on making my zenki look better with nice aero
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Kouki owns all period. I mean why are there so many Zenki owners who do Kouki front end swaps? I rest my case. And plus, everywhere I go people look at my car. Zenki is too bland for my taste.
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(i did not take this pic... but ty for the person who did and the owners of these cars)
I've seen both of those cars in real life.. Very nice cars..
IMO the more I look at my Zenki front end the more I love it.
Flows better I think... Just looks right..
Zenki <3
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Old 03-30-2005, 06:36 PM   #58
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I mean why are there so many Zenki owners who do Kouki front end swaps? I rest my case.
See, I told you all altezza lights were hott. Why else would everyone be doing it?
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Old 03-30-2005, 06:38 PM   #59
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i'd go with majority of taste from people, KOUKI
simply becoz i loved kouki so i bought my car back then 2001. Still like it a lot.

But zenki has its own clean taste when well modified moderately.
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In US trim the zenki looks better IMO.
But with the JDM bumper I think the Kouki looks better, and flows just as well.
Comparison of all 3...... (someone should photoshop mine black)




But damn everytime I look at that pic I like that black zenki more and more....
Zenki conversion time?
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