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It's a shame that there so expensive and hard to find because I would snap one up at the right price similar to the GT2530

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The R33GTS-T and R34 GT-T would have very similar similar running costs. They both run the same motor which is identical except for the different engine mangement they run (I think?). Servicing is the same for both vehicles at the same intervals. Insurance would be more expensive in the R34 solely due to the fact of the higher value it has to be insured for. Other than just the initial cost of the vehicle it almost exact. The only issue with the R33 is that being an older vehicle, not as well engineered and refined as the R34 and the fact that they would in most cases have travelled alot more km's than the R34's on the market they would tend to have more of a risk of things going wrong with them in addition to the cost of servicing. Also consider the resale value of the car you are buying. Selling your car modified you won't get anywhere near as much money back for what you paid for the car plus the cost of the modifications. R34's could also depreciate in value over time but being far less common it wouldnt be as bad. On a general level people choose between the models by two aspects. Buy an R33 for a cheaper peformance car or buy an R34 for better looks, better interior and being a newer vehicle. However different people have different opinons. My opinon for example would be for you to stay away from S1 R33's and consider importing a vehicle yourself if you are interested in buying a stock(ish) clean vehicle.

Ill take a PM too. Would like to know

Should be interesting to see if Officer Holland replys to my post

Well there arent any ADR approved remote start alarms in australia even though most of them are better than the low grade crappy ones most people put in there cars. So if your car gets stolen its by by to insurance

I don't think those laws have been enforced in WA but I heard about it being enforced over east. Apparently if a banned car was registered in your name before the laws went into place, you would still be able to have the car licensed in your name. It's all a load shit these new laws coming in, a fact of the blind leading the blind

I agree with what is being said above, but that said they are two different situations. Anyone who acts like an idiot deserves to have there ass handed to them. But monitoring forums, following cruises and baiting (mind you which is illegal). I don't have sympathy for cops who go out of there way to target a group of people who haven't done anything wrong and are generalised by a small majority of people who do the wrong thing. As for defecting I have seen so many pieces of shit on the road which don't deserve to be on the road. They should be defecting cars rusted out through there ass with hundreds of oil leaks rather than defecting pod filters and BOV's as an excuse of them being "unroadworthy". That being said any cop who isn't a traffic cop that I have met have been really nice, considerate and doing the right thing. Unfortunately we can't generalise because we don't actually deal with any other sort of cops other than the traffic cops so it makes it hard to come to a conclusion.

I have just been thinking about the introduced "hoon" laws for some time and I think most people will agree with me about how ridiculous in different aspects that they can be and how blatently they enforce the laws. The laws are in place to hit back against people who drive dangerously but I don't believe that they are actually preventing dangerous driving but are just capitalising on a problem with huge media backing behind it. But are they actually changing peoples driving habits by doing so? I doubt it. Sure it's a good way of punishing people who aren't driving correctly but it's not fixing the problem. For example in a hypothetical situation, I am a beginner P plate driver who has a Skyline and wants to drive it beyond his limits and capability. I get caught for drifting my car gets impounded and I lose my license for 3 months. The thing is, is that in most people's line of thinking its a harsh slap in the face but you can make do for the 3 months that your without your license. By the time the 3 months is up your so ethusiastic that all you want to do is hop back in your car go driving again and you will continue driving in the same manner that you did previously with the same driving habits. I think a better thing to do would be to introduce a law in more minor cases (where the laws would be enforced) where a driver would be put on a good behaviour bond which would basically mean that they could still drive but for a period time where if they decided to break the law again, then at that stage they would lose there license instantly. Having a system like this in place would then allow people to make them realise how much responsibilty comes with driving a car and allows them to choose how important there license is to them. This would then change there driving habits due to the fear of losing there license. Basically the way I see it, the hoon laws are a slap in the face and a system in place like this can and would change the terrible driving habits in the minority of us, for which the hoon laws are in place to target, who drive irresponsibly to be more up speed with the likes of us. I think that would be a far more effective system which would change people's driving habits. Just speaking my mind. Cheers,

Interested, Pictures to [email protected] Thanks

Unforturnately the VQ35 doesn't come turbo charged standard

The LM1 looks like my sort of thing I am after. Where did you buy it from and what sort of price am I looking at for one?

I'll need a pit crew

How did they steal it? Did they break into your house and steal your keys or steal it by breaking into it?

The key problem people should be noticing here is that vehicle alarms aren't the issue with car thieves these days. The old days where people used to break into cars, disable there alarms and hotwire the car are long gone. Cars are just much too complex these days as you would have to pull the dash to pieces to find the wires required. 3 things that car thieves will do nowadays 1. Smash windows and grab everything they can inside the cabin 2. Jack your car up and steal your rims (buy a tilt sensor) 3. Break into your house and steal your keys and steal your car. Take some simple precautions to keep your keys in an unobvious place for them to be taken easily. Too many people I know have the habit of leaving them on the front table near the door (looking through the front door shows them easily or on the kitchen bench) which makes it far too easy for thieves looking for an oppotunity. I keep my keys in my bedroom so it would take a fair bit of guts to steal them in front of me while I was sleeping. Generally the only sort of people capable of disabling alarms and hotwiring cars are people who install alarms and autoelectrians. So don't leave easy oppotunities available and the odds of you having your car stolen are far lower. My opinon anyway

I stand corrected

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Time for drifting action

Don't mean to Hijack the thread but on the topic on aftermarket rims... Does anyone know if R34 GTR rims fit well into GTS-T guards. I am unsure of there offset

Buy yourself a R32 GTR rear swaybar for yourself and you will be surprised at the difference. Makes a substantial difference if your on a budget. A larger rear swaybar promotes oversteer. Cars are built with understeering in mind as understeer is safer to control than oversteer. Hop under your car and have a look at the size of the GTS-T rear swaybar. It's bloody tiny! The GTR one is a direct bolt in, takes 5 mins to do and cheap to buy. GTR one is about twice the thickness easily. Whiteline kits are an option but the front sway bar is not as easy as the rear to replace and are pretty expensive. If you haven't already, buy coilovers for your car rather than spending money on a whiteline kit.

Latest issue of HPI has a review of the z-tune R34 GTR

Has anyone had any previous use of an 02 wideband sensor installed on there car? Basically I am looking at the use of a wideband sensor in my quest to learn how to tune cars myself and the use of one of these would be an optimal way of doing so without the need for a workshop/dyno. Can the O2 sensor be setup to allow the ECU to still recieve information to allow it to still operate in open loop function? Or will it have to be disconnected once monitoring the A/F ratio to the origanal sensor? I'm basically looking for an O2 sensor which can log A/F depending on RPM rather than just display the reading, so I can then tune the fuel/air maps after logging the data. I am guessing this would be achieveable at a cheaper price by hooking it up to a laptop to log data. Also I am looking at the option of replacing my ECU soon with an aftermarket one and I believe some support the use of wideband O2 sensors but am unsure which ones do. I'm relatively new to how wideband O2 sensors work so all information and experiences would be appreciated. Thanks,

Likewise, Just made payment via dd after speaking to darren at just jap. Can't wait. Cheers

Titanium exhausts are overkill IMO and are only good for vehicles trying to attain an exhaust that can withstand massive amounts of heat (ie. in drag, track vehciles) and wish to lighten there car. It will only lighten it by about 2-5kg over stainless steel so I wouldn't bother. Save your $200 and spend it on something else.

Put me down definately for sure. The event was originally booked out before was it not? Because I looked into this a couple of months back when it was first announced and could not find a spot because it was booked out completely. If there is a spot available I am in. PM sent