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Yeah I sold it to a mate for $1000, I had no where to store it.. lol I believe it became a drift car.

Another GTT And the $400 Silvia shell.. lol

Just some pics I found, have some old HDD's full of pics somewhere.. lol..

Always wanted a stag. They are currently better value than an R33 gts-4 and turbo. R33GAS - I am getting that itch too. R33 GTR are good value, but I've always wanted a maroon R32 GTR ever since Gran Turismo 2.. lol I am not sure what I want to buy..

I have a few cars and shells that I think I will restore over the next few years! Nothing gets me more excited than seeing skylines with club rego these days.. lol

Been a really long time since I have logged in. I had so many great mates on here and this was where a large portion of my spare time was spent! I can't believe it has been 20 years since I joined. I feel like it's only fair to share a few stories from my love of Skylines. I was originally a long time member of Calaisturbo.com as I know many members here were also and I was reluctant to switch over to SAU as much my VL and skyline days were overlapping. So I didn't join for a few years while I was playing with import RB's. I feel like we really lived through the prime of the import scene in Australia and I am so grateful for that opportunity. I owned so many skylines I can barely remember them all. I would have owned 10+ R33's an R32 GTR, 5 or 6 R34 GTT's. Often owning multiples at a time. I built and raced a dedicated track GTS-t at Winton in the sprints and 6 hour race. (Well I still have that car) And we also built an R32 GTR with an N1 engine into a Winfield replica track car. I had a mate with a genuine Tommy Kaira R32 GTR and a Gts-x built into a Gibson replica with a genuine GTS-R engine fitted to it.. So many mates owned imports and if you went to other town you were forever seeing and hearing them everywhere. We built several early Rb30 twin cam engines when little to no information was available. Back when we were getting gates GT2 industrial belts cut down for timing belts and still exploring the ideas of using multiple tensioners and relocating idlers. Matching head gaskets and having water galleries tigged up and coming on here seeing what other people were doing for oil restrictors to stop the heads filling up with oil! I remember buying an "R34 wreck" for an engine in 2003. The RB25det Neo in the wreck was a 2001 model series 2 engine with 7000km on it!. Back then no-one even distinguished R34 as S1 or S2. When I got to Ballarat to pick up the "car" it was 2 crashed half cuts rejoined together. One half white and half black.. I can only presume what become of the other two good halves... This was at the tail end of the wild west of imports with limited regulations before RAWS and SEVS. I remember buying an R34 GTT sedan for $2500 one afternoon from Bendigo that had a minor hit in the rear. Another time I was on Facebook one afternoon and brought an R33 GTS-t sedan with blown motor for $800 from Wagga, I actually drove it home 3 hours running of 5 cylinders and blowing smoke. or a straight as a dye ca18de S13 rolling shell I picked up for $400 or $450. These were literally the best days. I remember going to Shepparton and picking up a manual turbo GTT with a blown motor, but it had a power fc and heaps of bolt ons for $4500. I had another motor back in it and it was registered in less than a week. They were still selling for $15k at the time. I actually brought another R34 wreck the same colour just to get panels and interior pieces just to neaten up the car. Sometimes you got burnt, there were a few of us on here that got ripped off early years buying body kits from eBay that never existed and I remember going to buy an R33 rolling shell in the early days (early 2000's) and getting down to Melbourne to find it had the body number cut out. I had already paid the guy, hired a trailer to pick it up. But there was no way I was taking it. And he was nowhere to be seen.. Another time I brought a complete RB26 with covers intake everything for like $800 on ebay. Cost me $1000 delivered from Adelaide. Was one of those poorly listed once in a lifetime scores.. I didn't even think it would actually arrive but I had to take the risk.. lol.. 2 weeks later and engine on a skid arrives and guess what it was an RB26.. I open the lid up and it had one piston and Rod disconnected. But no damage to the bore and block. I think I parted that engine out and made 4x that back by the time I sold the hotside, intake, covers, head, external oil cooler etc. My first 33 was $16500 they had just came down from about $30k the year before as R34's began getting more common. A fresh import with 56,000km's. Loved that fresh import smell that they all seemed to have in the interior.. or the hours spent polishing the discolouration film from the headlights. I later started a website called webbersrbguide.com which you can still see on the Wayback machine. I would compile technical articles showing pictures are part numbers of components and give aftermarket parts numbers for equivalent parts. I had an engine number register for RB20/25 and 26 engines for people trying to date their engine block to their production year. I gave wiring diagrams for AFM upgrades and injector latency and voltage settings for most injectors on the market so you could start to setup your own tune for those of us who didn't live close by a dyno. Probably the most popular page would be where I measured up and gave all of the generic bearing numbers for the GTS-t boxes and compared the part numbers of the R33, MX7 and Z32 boxes. I took measurements of input shafts etc and compared them. I loved my Skylines, I loved my parts and I loved the strength of the community. There was always someone that could answer a question you might be stuck on. As Skylines were becoming available to import and register in the US, I would have a look at many of the cars forsale in the US were Australian complianced vehicles and I still see people selling and exporting them to the US now. With all of the damaged and written off vehicles we had out here.. and those vehicles exported. We will never see the Australian scene like it was in its prime.. I sometimes wonder how many of our clapped out and thrashed cars made it to the US with lower KM's to live out another lifetime. I always knew price would turn around as the US came online for cars.. but wow.. look at the prices now! Just curious if any other early members wanted to share any stories of the wild west of imports in Australia. I haven't even touched on the stories I could tell. We had a mate who was importing and complying cars down in Melbourne and the bargain parts we'd score would melt your minds.. I often think back to some of the missed opportunities I let go.

Funny story, I never sold this and still have it stored. Might be time to put it back together! Celebrating 20 years of membership this year.. wow...

Sorry guys inbox is cleared, will get pics taken this weekend.

Forgot to add: will accept crypto or cash

I have an R34GTT project that I brought many years ago. Has original Rb25det engine and manual gearbox with HD clutch to go with it. Car had been modified and previous owner stripped aftermarket turbo and performance parts to sell car and never put back together. So engine needs stock injectors and turbo put back on (pretty sure I have all of this) and engine and box put back into car. Pretty sure almost everything is complete to reassemble, clean mostly complete interior car had 145,000km at the time it was taken off the road. Needs front and rear bars painted(lower Altia kit) , has been stored for at least 6 years that I have owned. Fully complied and clear title. Being sold as Is where is. Will be getting some pics in the next few days. From memory it had tanabe coil overs, nismo sway bars and a few other bits and pieces that I would have forget about. Probably missing a few bits and bobs from being stored in pieces for so long. Want $7K on Stockies or $8k with a set of genuine 19" volk CE28 19" gold rims but open to offers. car is located in Deniliqun NSW 3hrs from Melbourne, 7.5hours from Sydney, 6hours from Adelaide. Strictly pick up only, no delivery. Not interested in organising freight as parts are bulky. Judging by recent 34 prices if someone is prepared to put in the work could end up with a nice cheap genuine turbo manual GTT These will be the next generation of collectable car like the genuine mx7 plated vl Calais turbo I don't come on here much but pm me I'll check it over the next few weeks

Looking for either of above, preference for Altia, but happy to take a good quality Impul set

Long, gone sorry.

Bump!

Have a set of Rays Volk CE28 Rims in 19" in Factory Anodised Bronze, with tyres at about 80% Unfortunately they suffer from reasonable gutter rash on all of the rims, (front passenger being the worst) (occurred prior to my ownership) I have looked into having this repaired. However the real only solution would result in a machined finish on the lip. or a matched bronze paint around the lip (as the original coating is anodised not painted). Either way the price of these will reflect condition. Import Monster has sold repaired & repainted sets for around $3.3k without tyres. I would be interested in a set of R34 GTR stock rims in good condition with good tyres + Cash my way. or offers around $2500 ONO Which is about half price of new (without tyres) I am currently waiting on a price to have them repaired and re-anodised by a reputable repairer, who told me they have matched the Rays Bronze closely before. Otherwise I was considering getting them done in another colour. I had been previously quoted $130 a rim to repair and powder coat any colour, however after a bit of research I was concerned with the baking process effecting the hardness of the Rims. I had them on one of my R34 GTT coupes with an awesome fit (no mods or scraping), i have fitted them on my Mrs sedan for a pic of how they sit, no scraping in wheel well or on guards. They were fitted on an R33 GTR when I brought them (didn't actually see the fit), and told they fit V35 with the use of 25mm bolt on spacers on the front. Come with Genuine Rays Dura aluminium nuts and limited edition centre caps worth $250.. PM is best contact. Can deliver to Melbourne for right price. Also Mrs is selling her sedan If anyone is interested in Auto GTT 135,000km (on stock wheels) for cheap PM

Yeah sorry mate, sold for $10k. Cheers

Can a mod change my title to $10.5k ?? Cheers

Bump!

Damn E-bay, car was brought by someone who was hacked... They also purchased 197 other cars. If anyone wants it $10.5K Come and get it!

bonnet... i wish, i have had trouble getting one this colour since i got the car.

lookin for a little more, thanks

Cheap enough to spend $1k and tidy it up, and you'd have a neat 34...

OFFERS?

BUMP!

$11k

bump!