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Love the purple accents in the car! It all comes together really well with the cage, boss kit and other little bits. Nice work all around! What colour are you thinking for paint?

Out of curiosity, what's the reason for converting? I think @R3N3 might have the Frenchy's kit in the R33? I somehow think of you as the ambassador for realistic and clean street-driven setups nowadays

Does the high temp fluid degrade any different over time compared to normal one? That's one thing I've always been wondering. Because a track car is going to get the fluid flushed probably way more often than every two years and will see less kilometers driven. I would think the requirements are different. I'm running Motul RBF 600 in mine. Was recommended by my mechanic before a trackday and I've stuck with it since. Hasn't seen the track since but I've kept buying and using it for servicing anyway.

Holy mother of downforce!

Haha, the appropriate response to the question "Is this new?" is "I've had this for a while.". With the unspoken small print that a while may be the time since this morning or five years ago And to be fair I learned that from the best, i.e. my wife. Because it goes both ways.

What makes it worse is that Nissan made keys in the same style, for example R34 and Stagea, but they work at different frequencies or something like that. So they look the same but the remotes are not interchangeable. I learned that from some guy selling aftermarket blank keys.

Does your door chime work when you have the key in the lock and open the door? I've had that disabled because it's f**king annoying and it is one thing that messes with the pairing. Because now the car doesn't detect key in ignition anymore and the slide-key-in-and-out sequence does not trigger the pairing mode anymore. The service manual has a section on the various bits involved in doing the syncing. I presume it'll be similar between Stagea and R34.

Which one did you buy? I have always wanted a decent inspection camera but have been unable to tell whether something is cheap junk or cheap junk chunk sold at just a bigger markup

The one door lock not working intermittently sounds odd. But for the other issues I'd suggest to clean the contacts and everything on the little board inside the fob. I had the same issue with unlock working but not lock, and that solved it. It brings such a quality of life change to be able to lock and unlock the car like a normal person

Hmpf, won't be able to make it after all unfortunately. Next time.

Takes up so much less space that way!

What about mounting the number plate higher so it covers the holes?

This is coming up on Sunday and at current forecast the weather will be good. Looking forward to it

Ooo! Would make me go "nice wagon!" seeing it on the street. I'm surprised it's slow. But inline 6 so it sounds nice at least? I do agree though. E34 would have been amazing. My favourite BMW wagon. Though I imagine borderline unobtainable as well.

@Sleepergm, weren't you looking for genuine pods? I vaguely remember this coming up.

A Brumby would probably fit a big metal toolbox in the back... this is how it begins

Hah, fair enough. Hence the need for a time machine to spend the hugely inflated money from now back then.

Man, I'd love to buy a brand new GTR for $50k. If someone invents a time machine please let me know.

I mean, what's the concern here? Higher fuel consumption? FWIW my idle sits at around 800rpm or so as well. And yes, it runs fine, idles fine and there are no issues as far as I can tell. I don't quite see the problem.

Just checked in first post and you should be able to bring it home November this year, right? I'm amazed you made it through four years of this. As hard as it feels now the rest will go by in a breeze in hindsight, I'm sure.

How slightly is slightly? I wonder if we have different thoughts on what slightly turning left means. I just tried this out and on mine you can turn the wheel somewhere between 45 to definitely less than 90 degrees before it cancels. Though I have to admit it feels much slighter in my memory than it is in reality. See dramatic reenactment below. VID_20250126_143110.mp4

No idea about Neil's steering wheel, but I have the same behaviour in the Stagea. I doubt it has ever been messed with so might be normal. Indicating to turn right at a roundabout and correcting even a little bit to the left to go around will cancel the indicator. Never considered it an issue other than it being a bit odd.

Oh wow, it's easy to forget how cheap these can be. Probably the cheapest way to travel. Though people in cars here tend to be morons and I would not feel very safe. Were scooters ever big in Australia? It used to be the thing growing up in Europe ~20 years ago. 50/70/125ccm Peugeot or Yamaha and some others. Utterly obnoxious Polini race exhausts. Kick stands that slant as much as possible. So loud. So much noise for really not moving very fast at all. But it felt cool at the time. Not sure where I'm going with this, but there is an aftermarket for mopeds! Though I'd have pictured you more for a Goldwing kind of guy after growing out of the Harley.

Haha, the big brain move is to buy a second set of headlights to clean up or retrofit. I definitely don't have one sitting in a cupboard that hasn't been touched since it arrived. Just have to ignore the intrusive thoughts that suggest the second set is not quite as good as it could be and to buy a third set that the job would definitely get done with