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You have 2 main laws to consider - noise and emissions. Noise is 91dB IIRC, and emissions you "basically" have to have an ADR approved catalytic converter. If you can get under 91dB with a cat and one muffler good luck to you.

I'm far from an expert but to try and answer your earlier question on how "incomplete combustion" can occur if your AFRs are correct, the only thing I can think of is that with insufficient ring tension you may have been getting oil into the cylinders which wouldn't burn completely. What was your oil consumption like at each service?

Do *not* buy an auto car and try to convert it to manual later. That's money down the toilet, you'll never get a cent back for it and it'll never be as good as a factory manual. Don't even consider it. If you decide to get the R33 that hasn't had its 100k service yet then put the screws on the dealer for price. You should be getting $1000 off the car straight away because the car hasn't been serviced. Or in other words purchase price + $1000 = the going rate for other cars similar mileage similar condition. Get a very thorough inspection in either case to make sure general servicing hasn't been neglected. State Roads did a written 5 page report for me which was great peace of mind.

Truth. Also anyone who fits "SLEEPR" plates or similar deserves a kick in the gentlemans' region so they can't father children. The only sleeper in this thread so far has been the R31 Silhouette, very nicely done. One of my mates had an old white Toyota Crown with a 7M-GTE in it, and that thing was awesome. It left people dumbfounded that they just got chopped by a "stock" crown!!

that's how I felt about my R31 some of the time.. and how a mate with an S14 felt about it when he kept losing to me free bump GL with sale

and with 363 days to go this thread will go places!

do they come with centre caps? what offset, do they rub on full lock? what tyres?

R33 GTS-t Let's see.. well there was that time I couldn't arm the alarm and my interior door light stayed on for 3 weeks. But that turned out to be the monkey who serviced my car had put the washer bottle back in on top of my bonnet pin wire and it eventually shorted. Then there was the time I got an oil leak - and that turned out to be the same monkey who serviced my car hadn't done it properly. I had about 2 months worth of squealing fan belt, took it back about half a dozen times they kept saying it was the power steering belt, retensioned it and eventually replaced it and nothing helped. Eventually I got the shits and took the PS belt off, started the car and it still squealed.. BIT HARD TO SQUEAL WHEN IT'S SITTING ON MY BENCH YOU F..N MONKEY. Tightened the alternator belt, problem solved. Now that I think of it, everything I hate about my car has been because some dropkick mechanic couldn't turn a spanner if it was on a merry go round. If anyone is thinking of getting their car serviced in Balgowlah NSW make sure you PM me first to make sure you're not using the same crowd. If my timing belt lets go I'm sending them a bill. The only thing it does that vaguely annoys me is a rather loud ticking noise that comes and goes, around 3000rpm on light or no throttle. Some days it's there some days it's not, kinda weird. Would love to solve that one. Besides that it's great - everyday performance fun handling great turning circle can service it without even jacking it up and everything that opens and shuts and turns on and off does as intended. HICAS doesn't bother me, seems to work fine. And my car's nearly standard so I never get pulled over. What more can you ask for when you're paying under 20 grand for a car!! If it came with wider rims standard it would be perfect.

aww waffles, aww. got me all excited about the idea of finishing off some of my tyres the 9th you say.. what's doing then? probably can't go but i'd like to!

sell your sports car and buy a crumpledoor and then it won't matter that it's slow and handles like crap cos there is a huge sub box in the back seriously though yeah I'm sure you can remove the boot lid but then if you get the box in, you need to somehow bolt the boot back on with the sub in there. and reverse the process to get it out. why???

$4.50, you drop it off and bring a slab of beer with you. that's my final offer

I guess some lessons are learned the hard way. Also I can tell it's school holidays.

http://www.1010tires.com/tiresizecalculator.asp lets you compare standard size to your size in a snap. R33 tyres are 205/55/16 or 225/50/16.

Rear fill - 6 or 6.5" woofers, whatever will fit the standard mounts. You don't have to bridge the front channels if you bridge the rears, I would run your front splits off the front outputs and bridge a sub across the rear outputs. 6.5" woofers will not come close to a dedicated sub, the size of the woofer is a general indication of how deep it can play. 2 x 6.5" woofers will only be a bit louder than 1 x 6.5" woofer, it won't play deeper bass. I've just completed my stereo and have the same priority as you - it's a driver's car and I didn't want to give up my boot space to put a big heavy sub box in. I used loftyfang's custom fibreglass sub enclosure, here: http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Ma...Bo-t204315.html - see if he has any left. I mated it up with a Peerless 822008 subwoofer, it sounds phenomenal. And I've still got virtually all of my boot space left. I'm using a 6 channel amp so I went from speakers powered via head unit to speakers powered by amp (more volume and a touch more bass) then threw the sub in and it was a huge leap forward. With lofty's sub enclosure you'll need to choose your woofer carefully, look at the speaker's parameters. Use a sub with the lowest Vas (equivalent volume) you can find. Like I said the 822008 simulates perfectly and sounds amazing.

funniest thread I've read all night. I keep forgetting my loooooow ramps though, can I use the scissor jack for an emergency lift when my bro whips out his camera to photograph my ride? Once I went on myspace by accident and I heard it's all about the angles.

nice trailer, very nice rims pete. I can think of a few things besides wanker i'd call you if you put those rims on the trailer tho

Considering putting "sleeper" plates on a sleeper defeats the whole purpose, I'm sure you'll have much better success in whatever direction you have chosen

are you able to take some pics, especially close-ups of the gutter rash? what about the tyres that are on it? (brand, how much tread left etc).

It has oval "40th Anniversary" badges on the C pillars, similar fabric decals sewn into the front seats and a smug sense of self-satisfaction when driving that you own a "special" model

awesome photos

no safety goggles... baaaaad. I always wear goggles when i'm working on my knob, you never know what might happen

just to give you a headsup, don't build a petrol powered rocking chair.. that one's been done

keyboard warriors who think they know stuff but talk out of their arse amuse me. good luck with the sale, they sound like quality tyres and I'd be keen except I'm in Sydney and shipping is too much of a pain.

Yep. No refuelling, no changing your engines, no fun of any kind OK!! Meh. F1 is supposed to be about pushing the envelope not making engines last several races and gearboxes last a season. I miss the random blowups.

oi. Competing with me for wheels again Sam? I PM'd about these not even 2 days ago