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I think the better parallel is that we have FTO's whereas they got eclipses. FTO's weren't made in LHD and eclipses weren't made in RHD. Although transforming the first series eclipse to RHD isn't supposed to be hard as they're a pretty modular cockpit and can use a lot of VR4 parts. The next model of eclipse sees the FTO merged with the eclipse line. So from now on they'll be the same family of car available in both RHD and LHD.

Possible, bit of a headache though, shipping rates from Australia to the US aren't that cheap, especially for car parts. Plus you've gotta promise us you won't put our GTR badges on your Hondas. I don't see any hassle in that sorta agreement, other than organising for the parts to be sent to you, and international payments. Not many people in Australia use paypal and other US based electronic payment methods, so you'd have to rely on good old international transfers. Not really, our spare parts come from Japan, and we'd have covered the costs for getting them from there. For example, an R32 trim piece costs US$20 in japan, in australia it'll cost about US$40... by the time you get it to the US from Australia it'll cost about US$60, and if you had gotten it straight from Japan (overnight parts from Japan dude!) it'd have cost you US$40. I'm willing to bet there's more skylines on my street than there are in the whole of the US, so finding spare parts in Australia is gonna be pretty easy (just check out the classified sections). Convincing Australians to actually go to the hassle of sending parts to the US and waiting for payment from overseas is another matter altogether. We are getting the next gen GT-R. Whether they'll be as readily accepted as a replacement is to be seen. Guys in the US are hankering to buy locally sold GTR's, but we're spoilt for choice here when it comes to Skylines... so its not like everyone's gonna rush out and go buy the latest one, because they're all legal here. I think the only Infiniti's we ever got was the Q45 and the 4WD whatever it was. They weren't exactly big sellers here, to a point where all the Infiniti dealerships closed down and are now only sold and serviced at Nissan.

If you've got the older style PS2 (the big chunky one) just do it yourself, there's plenty of tutorials... that's how I did mine. You can do a modchip-less hack of the PS2, all you need is a special savegame on your memory card and a PS1 game. Don't even have to open up your PS2, and let you put a hard drive into it...

I've got some of the stagea logo's in vector format (EPS) somewhere on my website... gotta dig it up.

you've got PM

Actually they aren't D-Speeds... they're sourced from a small shop in Yokohama that does clear lenses for S13s n stuff. I can get you a set if you want... (if they still make em) they cost just over $350 delivered. The ones on Ruk's car are these: http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...showtopic=88235

they look like chloro-Q whatchamightcallits.

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Coming out in late July (27th from memory) in Japan, Shutoku Battle X's the Xbox 360 version of the Shutoku Battle series games by Genki. Its Japanese only for now, but it promises to be an awesome mix of Midnight Club and NFS Most Wanted plus it has drift and wangan runs Video preview... http://www.gamespot.com/pages/video_player...3437&pid=929265

oil change sticker from the looks of it. reading of km's when last changed, and next recommended change.

tee hee hee every time I see this pic, I have the Beachboys' Wipeout song playing in my head. Next time I'll be checking my tyre pressures before I go out on the track. Luckily the tyre only came off the seal, not totally off the rim, so all we had to do was pump it back up so it sat properly again. Lack of tyre on rim = round and round into the embankment. No damage sustained. Thank god... esp as at that stage I'd only owned that car for 12 hours.

a few of em came in under the old CPA import scheme... I remember back in 2002 or something HPI had a writeup on a black TK R34 GTt.

Aw man, another RB20 powered GTS4 at DECA would have been awesome... I had a blast in mine, but didn't really have anything to compare it to... other than rexes and the galant... but they aren't exactly the same type of 2.0L AWD.

I take care of all the IT stuff at J-Spec Imports... although I'm leaving soon to move to Sydney, and I'll only be doing server maintenance/coding for J-Spec remotely. Good job, you get to network with a LOT of people and companies in the import industry, which is awesome if I need spare parts, aftermarket parts, tuning and servicing.

fix0rd... someone's got a new avatar

the kakimoto R33 (craig's that came 3rd in RWD) weren't running semi comps it was running 5 year old pirelli P-Zero that were hard as rock BTW, me and darK have AWD cars

yeah got in nice and early and got 2 wang burgers... filled me up for the day. I didn't realise you wer there dezz. GTS4 was good. Love teh GT2530 (I think) on the RB20 styles. Needs a tune, and needs to have a decent boost controller fitted. AWD in the GTS4 was so much fun... much more than RWD in the GTS4... dosen't steer as well in RWD mode. Tyre coming off the rim was a scare in the morning, and prevented me from enjoying the long wang n short wang... but skidpanning was good. Almost beat snowy in a run too if I hadn't knocked over the cone (granted he did spin out twice). This is gonna be my last DECA (seeing as I'm moving to Sydney next month) and it was great fun. Almost tempts me to drive down to Shepp for the weekend next time its on. Some sad news, towards the end of the day my gearbox was really struggling to go into gear (causing a lot of runs to be done in 2nd gear only)... looks like the problem is still there, the clutch dosen't seem to be disengaging even when the pedal is 100% in, making it hard to put it inot and pull it out of gears. Driving around by matchin revs isn't fun, esp in traffic. Looks like it might be a siezed thrust bearing (worst case) or just not enough pressure from the clutch master (best case).

66yostagea, not really gonna sell anymore, because now there's plenty of people with it, so find one of em in your local area and grab a copy off them. Daniel... I'll send you another copy on monday. Is there anyone else still waiting on theirs?

yeah, shouldn't be a problem... we can help you import a car you've already found. Most often we can even negotiate further with the seller and help out while the car is in japan too.

I have my secret weapon of doom now just has a bad tune. The badly tuned weapon of doom will be unleashed on DECA.

Just rang nissan spares... they're $203.15 plus GST each trade price. Apparently both are in stock in Syd. Can have em delivered to the nearest Nissan dealership. Retail is $216 plus GST. Big saving

oh god... haven't seen these TWS pics in like forever... ahh fond memories

Dane only lost to a Hyundai Lantra in the eliminations

You can organise them yourself if you want, but then J-Spec organises that for you anyways as part of the service, so you might as well let us do it for you and save yourself the hassle of trying to find the best deal. Most SEVS compliancers play it by the book, so if there are aftermarket parts on the car, they will change it to stock standard ones so your car can be engineered with no issues. Whether they return the original parts is up to the compliancer, but most of the ones we recommend don't have any issues with that. All depends on the car you buy really. The more "good parts" your SEVS car has on it, the harder it is to comply and subsequently import.

what brand are your rims, if they're 3 piece the manufacturer will be able to supply you with a new outer rim of the correct size you need.