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So under my ownership some light mods where made, consisting of an RS tuner fastchip flash tune, bov delete, hf filter, some DBA rotors to replace the well worn originals, Remsa or trw brake pads and penrite 10 tenths fluid. The idea behind buying the Megane is that it could be a good daily and also do track days. Obviously skyline values has skyrocketed and I thought if this could do the track work the skyline could be preserved. I did take it out to Sandown where it did quite well for what it was. I believe it was a low 1:29. Not bad at all for a largely standard car on cheap brake pads and the cheapest zestino 07 tyres, 280 treadwear ones. With more seat time, it had an easy 1:28 in it. Also did a haunted hills Sau day in it. It went quite well there too. Definitely more suited to that track than a skyline.

Yep, Faux Nissan. No mine didn't have the scoop thing but seemed ok and made it to 210k km under my ownership without issue. It is common though and some models have the scoop and others don't. The French are weirdos.

So where were we. After driving the blue mini around for a while, I got a bit bored with it all. I had made plenty of money from the whole Mini Cooper experience as a part time wrecker. Effectively the Mini was a free car and plenty of profits on top. It was decided that a Megane RS MK3 would be a nice step forward. A 2013 RS 265 CUP+ was procured from Gumtree. Was a little rough body wise but mechanically solid. The Mini was then returned to stock and promptly sold in under 24hrs, people where actually lining up for it. The Megane was now also effectively a free car and there was still some change. There's good $ to be made wrecking cars. Some of the Mini specialist wreckers where not too happy about the competition. I also got sick of dealing with Gumtree and marketplace people, so it was a good time to get out. Enter the Megane RS

Shh, you got me😉 but that's how I know BMW's are crap, lol. For a bloke who bags euros so much, particularly vag products I don't know how I've owned so many and currently own 2 Audi's. I think I'm broken..

A trip down memory lane. If we go back a few years, this was the backup family hauler. JDM yo. Was a good thing. Was then replaced with this Audi Q7, somehow I don't have a proper pic. Background will have to do. Thanks google photos. FYI the Q7 is still in the family and is much loved by everyone. So comfortable and versatile. It's like driving your couch around. At this point, the 33 was still a daily driver. One Saturday evening while having a few drinks and scrolling through Gumtree I come across a cheap Mini Cooper S. The Mrs always had a thing for them, so we bought it and she was meant to learn manual. Ermm, that never happened, gave up after 1 drive. This then became my daily. Shortly after I found a stacked Mini with a heap of go fast fruit on it, so I bought that and started swapping bits over and parting it out. The parting out turned out to be quite lucrative. A 2nd mini to be parted out was also purchased, my wife kept finding them and I kept buying them. Sorry no pics of these, I deleted them. The grey one after some swaparoos. Ended up with ATI harmonic balancer, 4 into 1 headers, 2.25 inch JCW exhaust, 16 X 7.5 genuine bbs rims with ad08r, JCW grill, larger JCW GP intercooler, smaller charger pulley running 16psi, larger injectors and a tuned ECU. I estimate around 140 fwkw, wasn't bad at all. A little while down the track the Mrs finds yet another bargain Mini. This one wasn't running but all it needed was a new harmonic balancer, common failure on these. I contacted the seller straight away but didn't hear anything till the next day. There was some difficulty in finding a suitable time to pick it up and he started talking about someone else who had contacted him. To avoid this I offered to buy it sight unseen as it looked so good in the pics. After thinking about it for a bit he accepted. I rocked up the following day with a trailer and the trusty q7 and towed it away. The car looked even better in person than it did in pics which never happens but did on this occasion. Only bad thing about it was there was a stench inside coming from the boot area. I think owners dog took a pee in there. Said Mini, a little ghey just like previous owner. It also had a 50cm radius white circle sticker on the doors with number 44 on it. Too ghey, first things removed. This Mini had 240k km on it, the grey 1 had 140k on it but the blue 1 was in much better knick and much better specced. I did the unthinkable and decide to keep it and get rid of the grey 1. So the process of swapping everything over to the blue 1 and returning the grey to stock began. Blue mini after Blue 1 also had a closer ratio gearbox so was even more zippy. At some point it needed a clutch and the old, while we're here phenomenon occured. Ended up doing clutch, sump reseal, found broken timing chain guides, replaced them only to find some Kent already replaced them but left the broken bits in the sump as that was too hard to remove (kunts), then supercharger service, water pump etc. FML, looked like this. To be continued...

Interestingly, I was cruising with the family in Mornington Peninsula, coming the other way was 2 R32 GTR's followed by an M3 and an M4. Good to see the bmers knew their place🤣

Not much been happening with this, a few trips to work and back and a couple of runs along my test to sort the wastegate arm adjustment to get back to 1.3 bar. Car will be going back to Trent for a couple of pulls on the dyno just to make sure all is as it should early to mid March. Since there's not much happening with this, may as well post about my new daily and maybe cover the daily's of the past few years. The new current daily has been mentioned in other threads but here it is for this one. Me the day I drove it back from Canberra in 38 degree heat.

Looks OEMish. Approved 👍

No need for an M3 anymore then... Did you chop the Evo?

That bloke has balls of steel the size of a planet. 1170rwhp and no holding back. https://youtu.be/a-eYQlkMXrc

This is a skyline forum, I can't talk you out of it. Just do it

I just let them come along for the ride. Drove mine yesterday for the first time in about 3 weeks yesterday. There was evidence of webs inside... Didn't get bitten thankfully.

If that's the case and you read what Greg (kinkstah) wrote. You may as well go full retard and put a gearbox worth spending $ on, slap a zf8hp in it.

That looks freaking hot.

Don't know about that bar man. Chinese parts on an otherwise unmolested Audi. I wonder what the fit would be like. Low km examples do command a decent price still.

Add Samsonas to that list brah.

Have been looking at kufatek but my wife is wrestling me for the car, lol. How's your experience been, any issues come up and how many KMs are on it?

A bit of both. Happy to have sold it quickly but sad to see it go. Was a fun car to drive, reasonably quick and surprisingly comfortable.

Bye bye, you served well for the 20 odd months I had you. Aurevoir

Handles pretty damn good for what it is but there's no getting away from the fact it's an almost 2 ton SUV. I'll report back once I've driven it more, will be getting registered at the end of next week. Was great driving past probably 50 speed cameras without number plates. Thank you unregistered vehicle permit. What's been a stand out so far with this car is how it just effortlessly piles on bulk speed.

This happened today and is now sitting in my driveway. Drove it home to Melbourne from Canberra. 7 hours to get acquainted. What a wonderful piece of machinery. Smooth AF, just does things without fuss or drama. Averaged 6.9lt/100 for the trip. Not bad for a 2 ton lump.

I did a thing. Don't know yet if this is the best or stupidest decision I've ever made but it has 2 turbos makes 230kw and 650nm. Let's see what the future holds.

Fixed

Or LS

Hi Neil, if you don't mind responding publicly to the above post from Bruce, I and probably many other captains would also be interested in your insights. Cheers Bill