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that's true... i was just reinforcing my point that nissan seems to make a habit of using the GTR to deliver technologies reserved exclusively to high end supercars of their time, in cheaper, mass produced packages.

meh... rat rods in the US were also an abomination, frowned upon by society, most often associated with organised crime, ie. a stigma and look at it now... people pay thousands for a properly done rat rod, and the kind of words people use to describe em aren't exactly negative. There's not much about them that is practical... a very similar situation to this practice of stretching tyres and tucking wheels.

you need 10mm to 15mm spacers to achieve teh flush just sayin that said... somoene who has drifteks and bags out people who rock stretched tyre tucked wheel fitment is kind of throwing rocks in a glass house. bah people who follow one school of thought will not understand the other, and it always turns into a shitfight. the fitment we're talking about is form over function as far as traction is concerned... but its far from impractical.

even though lamborghini's ran a similar system a couple of years beforehand

sorry dude, didn't quite get what you meant. yeah ADR's are federal, but in addition to complying with ADR's your car must also comply with state vehicle standards guidelines to be registered. its the state guidelines that fark ya up re seatbelts in QLD and NSW. its the same guidelines that say a pod filter is OK in VIC, but not in WA.

what is this sentra you speak of? lol we got pulsar hatches n sedans here. think the closest we got to a sentra is a bluebird a long time ago.

are you saying out hot pink with 20" tempe tyres chrome wheels sydney style modding is any better?

VIV's can also be required if the numbers on the car was forged at one point etc and its identity needs to be thoroughly checked. doesn't have to be crashed to need a VIV.

hehe i've got a set of BBS's that look the same on my ceffy... they look worse with the caps off... they don't look like VS-XX's with em off

its all fix0red... hopefully juz picks it up tomorrow.

they were hot shit back in 1990. now they're not hot any more... you work out the rest i'm sure you could convince some super drift touge superstar that they're the coolest meshies on the earth with sickkkk dish and get a lot for them. Otherwise they're probably only worth as much as stockies.

Chris @ D1. w00t.

hehe thought of cable tying it to my ABS lines as well... the heatshield that was on it was so brittle when i tugged at it a little it just crumbled... so I went for a ghetto solution.

minor defect's pretty easy to fix, just fix the items specified on the defect notice, get a RWC and take it into vicroads. its all done over the counter n takes about 5 mins.

ohh... bkc's from kuwait. now I know how japanese shops must feel when people from australia send them messages translated from english to japanese using babelfish.

or just harden the f**k up and deal with the fact that R32's and vents were never meant to happen.

15 year old compliance is different from state to state. My Ceffy is registered 100% legitimately in VIC with no seatbelts having to be changed (front or back). In NSW where my dad is, its required to have the seatbelts changed to ADR approved ones (aussie A32 maxima seatbelts are the easiest to source). I really couldn't be f**ked jumping through the hoops of NSW's arcane registration system, so the ceffy's remained with VIC rego, even though it lives in NSW for most of the year. So Mr Eps, regardless of what goes down in WA, it doesn't apply in any other state. All signatories in each state are instructed to follow the state vehicle standards guideline. unfortunately this guideline varies from state to state. You can negotiate all you want, but you can't change the state law... not unless you go thru a long political process or court process anyways. SEVS on the other hand (non 15yr old imports) are a national set of rules and laws so all states must follow the same rules.

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VIV inspections aren't exactly easy to pass. option 1 for sure... even if option 2 had a gajillion killerwasps.

uhhh... you guys know there's seperate departments that give you on the spot fines on the road and respond to callouts right? its like branding sensible skyline drivers who follow the rules as idiots with overpowered cars with no regard for other road users... hoons if you will, based on the actions of one or two misguided people. god forbid that happens and you bunch start crying foul.

ugh... we sell the copies of the kit for $3500, fitting and painting really depends on how much prep work you want done... if its a matter of doing it ghetto (bog and rivets) then it'd be cheap... but the way we do it is to take the panel back to metal to allow the fibreglass to bond better, then prep and paint. here's one we're doing atm: the owner originally went to some bodyshop that did a really shocking job of it... when we got it there were more ripples on that kit than a pond on a rainy afternoon... so a lot of time was spent getting it smooth and ready for paint. Its a little different in that its getting an R34 front... but he's using the R32 wide guards, rad support and front bumper... which looks a little wierd as the R34's front is usually a lot higher than an R32... but hey, what the customer wants, the customer gets.

OK before you get your hopes up they didn't review it, but just announced it in the News... called it "THE most exciting car of 2008" anyways... clip:

PC danny. Too broke for a PS3 atm

welcome to the forums check the events section, there's always something going on. there's also the club meets and events you can attend (mostly track days and social meets).

had a drive of a couple of cars we installed the copies of my kit on... and they're not exactly what you'd call streetable. at the end of the day if I put the kit on my car I wouldn't be able to thrash it around like I do now, and I'd hate to be forced to baby it around for fear of ruining it. Probably OK for a show car that'll sit n look pretty or a drift car with a workshop/sponsor backing that can afford to throw it around... but for me the impracticality kinda won in the end.