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well... officially launched... http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/NEWS/2007/...71024-01-e.html

its started.

technically fibreglass body panels are illegal unless they show similar crumple and crash absorption properties to the original metal... but you'll only have to deal with that if you are getting it engineered. R34 xenon headlights are non auto levelling, so are illegal. CF bonnet is just a fibreglass bonnet with a layer of CF on top to make you look cool, so other than running the risk of getting the wrong attention, its the same as having a fibreglass bonnet. There is a transition year (which I can't remember) after which its illegal to have fibreglass (or fake CF) bonnets but R32's should be before that date so you should be OK. Have fun trying to explain to the copper that pulls you over that your "CF look" bonnet's not real 100% CF, and therefore semi legal though.

dan always settles for the fat ho's that do special rates.

Prank's the only one with access to the donations listing etc, so there may be a delay in you getting your status update. Got your PM too, but I can't help you with it... sorry for not getting back sooner.

Jizzay, validated your account, so you should be able to use it from now on... can you please check the email addy you used in your profile options to make sure its correct, and/or upir junk mail cos sometimes forum emails end up in there.

local mobil's out of 8000 (their 98 octane stuff) fuel as well. local BP seems to have Ultimate still though... might go fill up a full tank, just in case.

can't you run two electronic throttle bodies like on some cruise control units, and trigger the solenoids using a switch that activates on desired boost or throttle level? Wouldn't you be in a whole lot of trouble if both those valves closed at the same time for some reason?

simple things like cosmetic looks will no doubt be the first to be altered by bodykits and such, so if nissan doesn't make it look "tough" in standard form, then it can be changed. That said, for some reason the toughest looking R32, R33 and R34 GTR's have all been standard Nissan V-Spec or Nismo editions. reminds me of a jeep wrangler interior... esp those vents and HUD.Talk about information overload though... all those gauges and buttons... and guys never read the instruction manual so it'll be a month of windscreen wipers goin on when you want to change the track on your CD.

importing from NZ is no different to importing from japan... same laws, same restrictions. The only catch that might get that car in is if it was either manufactured in 1988 (and you can prove it) or if it was manufactured in Australia, which means it'll already have australian ADR compliance plates on it, and all you'd be doing is reimporting it.

will look into it

well on the trackdays I've been at I've noticed that ATTESA only sends power to he front wheels when the steering is relatively straight, ie not when the wheels are turned, so its not like you get AWD around a corner. But what I dd find with HICAS on say motorkhana days where you do a lot of turns was that the back would start swinging out around a corner, which is normal for a RWD car, but then HICAS kicks in twitches the back wheels, and makes it really hard to control. Took the HICAS out and I could countersteer and feed the throttle and control the oversteer... which meant that I could get the steering straight quicker, and therefore get on AWD between turns... instead of simply fighting the steering. HICAS is great for day to day driving, highway driving etc, but on the track, and in the wet can make things bery hard to predict.

with HICAS in place it makes it really hard to control or rather predict the car's steering response, and with it removed its basically RWD oversteer. i found in the GTS4 it definitely helps during spirited driving, as half the fun of ATTESA is keeping the foot planted and steering straight when things get a little wobbly.

lol yeah was with those foo's on friday night. clean as singapore? have you been to the "little india" part of singapore? its really little india, including the sanitation level.

89 GTR was released in 91 in australia... doesn't mean its called the 91 GTR. Nissan calls it the 2007 GTR, so meh :\

if you vote for the greens, it'll default to labour.

an ideal world would see Rudd as PM and Costello as Treasurer... but that'll never happen. As much as I like Rudd's charisma and authority on issues, I don't think he'll be able to bring Australia to as strong an economic standpoint as Howard/Costello. At the end of the day the standard of economy is what determines my paycheck, my mortgage interest rate etc, which are my major concerns atm. That said, Howard telecomm infrastructure reform (seeing as australia is in the dark ages of telecomms and IT infrastructure) is a pipedream tailored to the common bogan who lives their life thru a current affair and today tonight... all hype, no thought. Rudd's is better thought out and realistic, however being a 10 year plan, there's no gurantee he'll be around to see it thru. coincidentally, i'm still registered to vote in Sydney in my home suburb... and my local candidate for liberal is Howard himself this election has me torn... Rudd has my emotional vote, Howard has my logical vote.

Yeah I called this section 2007 GT-R as that's what Nissan's been touting it as since announcing it in 2005. Most of the american sites call it the 2009 GT-R as that's when they'll be getting it.

there's also a green R32 sedan with an R34 GTR frontend done by a drift crew... the build article is in Skyline mag (yes there's a dedicated magazine for skylines, and another for GTRs)... i'll scan it up. r32's with 34 conversions would be cool in canada where no one has an R34 (well legally anyways) but you'll find that outside of there it'll mostly be on drift cars and other cars which are generally trashed about and have had a frontal crunch.

dude... f**k the gloria... we just foind a GC10 coupe for 18,000!!!

just a reminder that those are RAWS, not subtitled episodes.

you can use an L28's linkage setup and put it on an RB25 with some modding... I read a japanese article on an M3 beating like RB25 tune that had this. I'll see if I can find it again.

shane? lol so u want me to go ahead and get em for you? it'll be about a month before it gets here (with seafreight n all).

use double sided tape with self tapping screws, that's all you need. anything more than that is overkill. we just spent 1 full day grinding a car back to bare metal with a grinder cos some retard thought it'd be a brilliant idea to superglue his "widebody" kit to his car. some adhesives don't sit well with metal and fibreglass and hot australian summer