funkymonkey

been driving an aristo twin turbo around for the last few days, and it makes me think why in the world anyone would buy any other sedan. its comfy, its spacious, its sold as a lexus overseas, got more power than you can poke a stick at (and if you don't want to be hassled for having a turbo then get the V8 or straight 6 N/A, both of which are powerful enough to drive around daily). The TT version I'm driving does 600km to a 70L full tank (just tested it on a drive from syd to melb) and is so smooth and quiet on the road. Its around the same price as an R33. The choice between an R33 sedan and an Aristo is pretty easy.

It was done at Testarossa in Shizuoka, invoiced on 19/9/2000. http://www.testarossa.jp

the car's already had an inspection, and it passed everything, cept I couldn't pay the rego as I had just paid the rego on the cef and was $50 short. How embarassment. Then I went to syd for interviews n stuff, so left the R32 here. Now I'm back to get my car, I rang VicRoads and the guy asked me if I had already rego'd it under my name, coz the VIN and my details were already on it. So lets hope they're a lil more leniant as it's already been inspected with that engineer's cert. I've got a current roady, so it shouldn't be that much of an issue, unless they're real diligent. Otherwise I might have to extend my stay in VIC for a lil while until the engineer's cert's gets redone.

moving to NSW. gonna become a sydney person for the near future. I'll be back tho... sometime down the track.

How about an older Lexus GS300? 4 Door Sedan, comes in the option of V8, 2JZ twin turbo and 2JZ non turbo. The V8's are AWD, and CAPA and a whole bunch of companies in Australia can fit ADR tested and approved supercharger kits for the 1UZ-FE. You can have em imported, complied, registered and in your driveway for about 15k to 20k. I'm seriously contemplating upgrading my old man's car from the ceffy to this.

w00t. more the merrier. dare I say it's gonna be my last SAU event as a Victorian. I am hanging onto my VIC license and rego tho. I refuse to assimilate fully into the land of the endless pothole.

wow... thanks guys... i can feel the love Gonna borrow Kaz's sometime before Wed arvo as she's not far from my place (just worked out that its 3 left turns and a right turn). I'll see you all on Sunday morning for brekky tho. Hopefully with my newly registered car. Altho I just found out the engineer's cert I had expired not long ago and the engineer who issued it is in New Zealand atm lets hope they accept the older one.

i didn't know they made the VG30DET ones that early. the only ones I can think of being made in 1988 (which is eligible to import still) was the VG20 one.

done deal. I don't need it held down... just needs to look right. and you're in my area too... w00t w00t!

Hey guys, the time has come to road reg my R32, so I need to find a stock airbox. It's roadworthy right now, but I'd rather not take any chances with the rego as I'm only in town till friday to do the rego and getting a second appointment could take forever. I just need an R32 GTSt airbox (apparently the GTS one dosen't line up properly but I could be wrong) for the rego check and I'll have it back to you as soon as I'm done. If anyone has one lying around I can come and pick it up anytime before Wednesday. Cheers, Shan

J-Spec Imports employee carpark Widebody Kakimoto R33, 4 Door Impul R33, Widebody Yakuza VIP style Lexus LS400, highly modified RX7 with T88 turbo etc, Manual S1 Stagea, and a Sky80 (180sx with R32 frontend). Plus we love lepaking around with magazine people

I should be in town this sunday... and my R32 should be road regged by then. sounds good to me.

yeah sorry guys, just got into melbourne yesterday for work... so I don't think I'll be able to collect the order from this group buy till later this week... so no reason why I shouldn't extend the deadline for putting orders in a little later. Those of you that have recieved PM's you can put the money in now, or hold onto it till the new deadline... totally up to you. I haven't receved any payments yet, but I'll let you know as soon as I get anything. If anyone needs their kits sooner, then please let me know, and I'll work something out for you guys. Till then, group buy extended till Sunday the 1st of October. Mr Void, the light comes to $31 incl GST. Let me know if you want it, and I'll add it to your order.

you can import a Evo VII these days for under 30K on road including compliance, an early R33 GTSt will set you back 10k on the road... and that's under the regular SEVS import scheme, so it'll be cheaper as a race import. If you want give me a budget and minimal requirements and I'll fish out some potential race imports for ya. We just brought in an STi as a race import a couple of weeks ago... don't really list em up on the website unless something special comes up... like this R33 for example. We only look for race imports on request only as you can import nearly any car that is FIA approved (or permitted by CAMS in a motorsport they sanction).

saw an S13 rock up and thought it was you.... but noooooo his sauce was stronger than yours. You are of the weaksauce kind Liz.

new section now open. get cracking fellas.

not yet.... they are sevs eligible, just need to find a workshop willing to crash test one and then start complyin em. I'd go the gloria over the newer laurel tho. tops idea will set up members rides section now.

loading 6 people in a coupe then driving that fast is stupidity, nothing to do with whether its an import, or the gender of the occupants.

and a GTR, yes you can take out the front driveshaft, which is the safe way to run it in RWD, pulling the AWD fuse out is still a bit of grey area. I wouldn't pull it out and do a full trackday on it. Its OK for a small blast. Most drag GTR's who wanna run RWD just drop the driveshaft.However, the drifeshaft only accounts for a small amount of wheight of the car. The chassis of the GTS4 is different to a GTSt, its actually the same as a GTR. The weight comes from the added assemblies which are hard to take out and put back quickly/easily.

hmm wouldn't using radar be deemed illegal in some countries tho?

kissing point park's like a walk from my place. never seen a rope thingy there.

wasn't too bad. think 3 supras in the end and about 10 skylines (?), an evo, a libery, a cefiro and a 3 silvias from memory.

who knows... all we know is that SAU VIC jacket > SAU NSW jacket.

tryin to catch me ridin dirty?

you have a point. no members of the forum born today. fine... thread can stay.