petemillis

My favourites on both Skylines and RX7s are Falken FK451s and Kumho Ecstas. Both are excellent in wet and dry. I've also got a set of F1s on a Skyline as well - and although I'm happy with the performance I think they're overpriced compared with the Falkens and Kumhos. They certainly don't perform better. Sizes 235/45r17 front 255/40r17 rear. Power not too sure but last time the Skyline GTSt was on the RR it was 250hp at the wheels. Add to that 75hp nitrous and 10% toluene in the fuel should make that higher and I've had no issues.

Cheers Sumo. Prob is I'll never be rich and I spend months worrying about every car I supply! It's bloody stressful when you want to do the right thing for people and see smiley faces. And it truly pisses me off when I seen some guys living the life of Riley purely because they take the piss, while at the same time I've developed more wrinkles on my face in the last 5 years than my grandma did in 80 years. My passion is cars though, which is probably why I do more on them than perhaps I should, so it's a good job my Mrs works as well to feed the nippers. Sometimes I think that I could skimp on buying a set of tyres at £500 and instead go on holiday, but somehow I always end up at the tyre place moments later!

again, 33 GTSt - but do I count seeing as I'm in UK? Can't be arsed with all the extra weight and drag of the GTR drive-train but if someone offered me one tomorrow I'd bite their hand off for it. Still, love mine - tastefully modded with some nice wide wheels, Bomex kit, Helix paddle clutch, 75hp shot of nitrous, Apexi Power FC, Blitz SBC IDIII boost controller, Unifilter Rampod induction kit and heatshield and more. Thank God our laws over here are so relaxed on some counts!

Bit late on this thread....but so can Optimax and most other SUL fuels - give you cancer that is. Best thing to do is handle with care.

Mate, what a cute bub! Congratulations. There's nothing to beat the birth of your own kids - not even Skylines I'm afraid! Mind you, there are moments when they're growing up when you think what a simple life you could have without kids! Still, I've got 4 of the little darlings now and wouldn't be without them for anything.

I dunno how some of these brokers seem to get away with doing nothing in exchange for vast quantities of cash. I source cars for people over here in the UK. People tell me what they want. I then do all the auction searching, get vehicles inspected, get auction reports translated and only if the person wants me to bid on a car for them do I take a £500 depo. Then I get the car inspected again before shipping and then the person pays me 50% to get it boarded. Then, they don't pay me anything else until they've had a chance to inspect the car here in the UK. If there's a good reason for it being turned down then they get their money back (so no risk to the customer). If there are small issues like cracked spoiers then I get them sorted for them. Only when they take delivery of the car do they pay the balance. The way I see it, I earn my meagre profit by being the one to do all the legwork, stump up money up front and hence take the risk on cars, and get everything sorted (new tyres and all that) for the buyer so they don't have to do anything at all to get what they want. I guess that makes me more than a broker - I'm assuming all a broker does is handle the financial transactions and take a cut?