funkymonkey

more pics:

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.

blind-elk on the forum owns an RB25DET powered GTS4 and a couple of guys own RB26DETT powered R32 GTS4 sedans (coz they're cool GTR sedans) R32 GTS4's are good fun in their own regard... I own one, light mods, still an RB20DET, plenty of fun in AWD mode and RWD mode (you can very easily wire in an override switch for the AWD) GTS4's share a lot more common parts with a GTR than a GTSt, like the chassis for example, and the control arms etc. Swapping in GTR parts is pretty simple. I run aftermarket R32 GTR shocks and wheels on my GTS4, and even things like quick shift kits, control arms etc are interchangeable, which is awesome. That said it s a bit of a pain in the freckle to sit there and bring a GTS4 up to GTR spec, when you can just spend about $5000 more and just buy a GTR in the first place. So maybe rather than trying to make it something it isn't, use it without modding it, when you have enough saved up, sell it and upgrade to a GTR. That's my plan anyways.

man... they should introduce these monkey's to the concept of chi... what happened to the good old days when all your shit opened in the same general direction? Agreed with post above... maybe for its next trick it'll fold itself into a swan? And the rims... oh the horror... they're not even VIP... they're just the type of stuff you see on Excels in sydney.

nice one alan... I can see the pics properly. Its got yellow lungs too... cool! Stick a capa blower on that and you're in business

can't you use a standard secondhand clutch for the day? and then rebuild your existing one later?

aww maaaan... I went through there and noone was around... pfft. Although I got stuck at the workshop for a while though, and could only go after 6.

Basically to get the most out of your N/a you need to make sure it breathes better. So that means: Intake mods... don't be fooled into thinking a ram pod is the answer, better flow into a standard airbox will do for an N/A. I had a secondary air feed into my box with a Blitz filter and it worked well. Exhaust mods. On my N/A I had a set of fujitsubo stainless steel extractors, which were mandrel bent with equal length runners... flowed like a mofo. Also got tuffy's mufflers in epping to make up a 2.5" exhaust with a good resonator and muffler for me, so it wasn't loud, but flowed well. Get a good set of spark plugs, and have the car tuned on a dyno. Other things like regular service, oil changes, oil filter changes etc make the car run better. At the end of the day if you're restricted to an N/A... power to weight is king. Get yourself a nice VTEC CRX or civic or a corolla (maybe the classic AE86 if you absolutely need a RWD car or an imported AE111 Levin if you don't mind FWD) with VVT 1.6 N/A and you'll have a faster car than a heavier skyline, even if the engine is smaller. And with the fuel prices these days, a smaller engine is actually a good thing.

anything yet daniel (oxford1327)?