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cheers for that info - so with all that you have said I should not be put off buying a car because it has had the engine rebuilt... I suppose it is best to ask the right questions and see the relevent paper work in regards to the rebuild... Also with a rebuild costing so much (even $6k + ) why not just drop another engine in there instead of a rebuild... or is the cost involved in a new/secondhand engine and availability similar cost kindest regards

I am again on the search for another car... but have noticed in a large amount of for sales that people have rebuilt the engines in there cars and most are opting for forged/strengthened internals... now from what little I know about forged internals they do have a few down sides to them and was hoping that people can help with providing more accurate info on how these affect a Skyline R33 Cold start - is it difficult to get them to turn over first thing, example do they have a tendency to stall before being able to hold a steady idle? Are they noisier on idle? When the car has warmed up do they idle slightly higher than a factory car? What is the lead cause for having to get an engine rebuild (I did do a search and it showed that most seemed to have problems with the pistons and rings...) what causes this to break down at such low klms 100kklms? And if an engine needs a rebuild at 100kklm will this need to be done every 100kklm there after and lastly - what sort of dollars are we looking at for a engine rebuild ? thanks in advance for any help that can be given.

SCAR33Y R33LCAR Thing is personal plates you want them to last your lifetime of driving so they will have to mean something about you more than just the car type you own today - especially if it is from the parents to you as a gift.

Yes you need a special vinyl spray paint and you absolutely must have all waxes out of the original vinyl other wise the first warm day it will lift off.. also becareful with white as it can reflect alot of extra glare

Best products I have ever used and will continue using is the Mothers Clay bar, Mothers Scratch/Paint sealer and Mothers Canubra wax - I must admit the other half gave me the Mothers wax system with a orbital polisher and the key to this is that it distributes the wax evenly over the car so you use much less product and much less effort is required to apply and remove takes me about 2 hours to wash and 3 stage wax my car total cost for the polishing kit including the orbital polisher $150... money well spent

there is still a few things that can be done and it will cost but it is usually worth it... a hi flow cat is always good much less restrictions how much extra hp is unceratin but anything that creates less restriction has to be good a larger T.B and while there get the intake mani port and polished - again these will only give you maybe 10- 15hp but will make the car more throttle responsive then look at what N/A cams are available and tuning a greddy e manage is a very cheap unit to buy these days and they work very well also look at your suspenssion does not give hp but helps make car faster on launches

You know what I bought a Turboed R33 and it was a very nice car to drive and I wish sometimes that I still had it, but after having driven N/A cars for the past 20 years I wish now that I had gone for a nice straight non turboed R33 and just done some of the basic mods like bigger exhaust cams T/B and intake, because every car that I have performed these mods to I have always gotten a very nice driveable car that is cheap on fuel and very easy to drive and very forgiving if you do something stupid - turbo cars are not so forgiving if you do something stupid or even not so stupid BTW I think you could do far worse than a N/A R33 - great choice

I have heard that there are problems with the GReddy Ultimate... and that GReddy had prematurely released it before fixing some of those problems.... just check with AJ at speedworks before puttingit in he should be able to confirm this or not as I know he does tuning for them as well... the GReddy Blue is still supposed to be the best one out there but I am sure I read somewhere that there was a gold one as well not 100% sure on the differences between them thou...

lol.... sorry I did not know that they were closing it down... thats bloody typical.... as far as reading newspapers no sorry I don't newspapers are so full of bad news and crap the only thing that I read is the cars for sale adds in the sunday times and autotrader but I guess you can't call that a newspaper. Surely they don't hold concerts at the Perth convention centre... that place is so badly designed plus you can't have smoke machines without setting of smake alarms...

I can't understand why they don't have it at the Dome in Burswood I am sure they had it there several years ago... but with all the stuff ups that were at the Perth Convention Centre I am not surprised and somewhat pleased that they are not having it there... the Centre management changed the rules and enforced so many changes on the day that I think Lloyd was probably unfairly targeted as to being at fault... I am sure that there must be more venues in Perth that could cater for 150+ cars and large crowd numbers maybe the answer for the organisers is to go back to the begining and keep it a bit more simpler like make it a 1 day event instead...

Just curious will the seats for the series 1 swap over directly to the series 2.... or is it a different fit

when building your new CAI keep this in mind for every bend that the tubing has to get to the T/B subtract 7% of the power... this is how much the bends slow down the volume of air.... a simple way of testing this out is watching the way water moves through reticulation systems (half cut versions) but if you must have it coming from behind the front bar have a section just before the T/B that has a larger diameter than the rest by about 20% this will allow for the loses... hope this makes sense Also look for a bigger T/B and a port matched intake for better flow Try chasing up some better cams this will give better top end and then of course a really good well made mandrel bent 21/4" tuned length extractors and management to even out the air- fuel ratios

If it is good enogh for brakes then it should be good for covers... i picked up a spare set of covers and going for the rice look - chrome ) I had ultra chrome in ossie park do my previous car and the chrome after 2 years and 100kklm later did not yellow or go dull in perfect condition they quoted me $192 per cover if that is of any help to anyone

what ECU are you using to run the MIVEC

I am checking out a few things for a friend and came across a car yard in Perth Auto Japan - my question is has anyone bought cars from them and what sort of quality are they the main reason for asking is that there prices are quiet good and I am a firm believer you get what you pay for.... When I compared there prices to say John Hughes there seems to be a big difference in cost