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I wish it was my house! Its the highest house in Cairns, on top of the tallest hill closest to the coast. Probably 10Mil worth easy. Funny thing is that nobody lives there. They just pay to have the place maintained like a millionare would. So its always made a great photograph place.

Yes indeed, both sets are R33 GTR, but also fit an R34 GTR and R34 GTT. The setup pictured on the right is the sydney kid setup with the 4/3kg springs The shocks on the left are the unknows that can be used as cores for a rebuild/custom dampner setup. No springs on this set though as you can see. When you go custom the springs need to match your valving anyway so you'd buy new springs to suit what you would have done to the shocks.

Hi all, Cleaning out the last of my R33 GTR parts and I have 2 sets of shocks for sale. First off is the Sydney Kid R33 GTR kit. I had this in my R33 GTR for about 4000km, but the new owner of the car wanted the price lowered so this came out and in went an R34 setup instead. Spring rates are 4/3KG and are valved as per Sydney Kids group buy kit. Handles great as many will agree with. Paid $1500 but will accept offers around $1000 and will negotiate/swap for parts and cash depending on what you have to offer. The second set of bilsteins are of an unknown valving configuration. They are pretty firm but are re-buildable so for anyone wanting to make a custom set they are a cheap starting point. $150 ono. Parts are located in Cairns, North Queensland. Will freight anywhere. PM or call me on 0434 147 478 if your interested. Cheers, Ian .

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Cairns, North QLD. Im on the edge of the city/industrial area.

Im sending the lights back to Richard once I swap them out to help him re-claim some costs. Yes it was a little under 50K but id rather not say exactly. Ive got a mate that is a spray painter by trade that has showed me quite a few tricks with getting a show winning shine. Here is the work he did on my other car. Blocked back with an alloy hard block and 2000 grit wet and dry. Polished. The colour is called Atlas Grey and is from the Porsche careera GT and 997's. This was done with the PPG system 1 polish. Im going to get the same polish job done on the gtr after I get a few flaws in the front bar and boot taken care of... so 6-12 months (its a daily driver after all). Yeah I do! Im going to try get a prestiege number plate for it and will change my name to match once I work out what I want to get.

Aint that the truth! Good question. Ive been thinking about this quite a lot and having now driven R32's R33's and now the R34 GTR's I can say the R34 is the best yet. The R32 felt like a responsive smallish car, fast with great handling but not really as stable at speed as my R33 was. The R33 was extremely stable at high speed but it felt slower in the corners than a R32 did. The R34 is like driving a car that takes the best of both of its predecessors. The extra gear is great as well. 6th is a little taller than 5th was on the 32/33, but the extra gear and the close ratio spread of 3rd, 4th and 5th make accelerating awesome. The Nismo suspension is a huge step up from my bilsteins as well. Its easy to understand why it is twice the price of the bilsteins. Im planning on keeping this car for a long time.

Yeah ive heard you can polish them out too. Supra's have the same problem. But considering ive got new lights, im not going to complain. Maybe i'll get lucky and they have updated the plastic materials so it wont yellow anymore.

The roads were pretty good for the most part. A lot of road noise on the freeways leaving sydney, and parts of the roads south of rocky, north of brissy were rough as. The driveway access at service stations was an issue in ayr, and was even more disapointing when i discovered they were out of 98 octane. The bar is a little over 100mm off the ground, so legal, but borderline impractical. My 33 gtr was 100mm off the ground with its series 3 lip but that was higher at each side so it made driveway entrances on an angle a lot easier to do.

Richard had supplied a pair of brand new lights, so as to replace the yellowed ones that are currently in the car. Doesnt look too complicated to replace them though. Will give me something to do tomorrow evening.

Ive recently aquired an R34 GTR (from Richard). Richard made the purchase process the best ive ever had when buying a car. I think a big part of it is that my purchase was from an enthuesiest that actually knows alot about the cars capabilities. Ie, not a guy that drives the car because its fast with an R badge. Richard was up front about everything with the car and was great to deal with. The car was purchased in Sydney and then driven 2800km to Cairns in 2 days. The first day I left Sydney at 7am Friday morning (got lost in traffic for 2 hours), but made it to Brisbane around 6ish(QLD time) and on to Gympie at 10pm or so where I stayed for the first night. I then left Gympie at 8am and made it to Cairns around 12:30-1am in the morning, Sunday. It wasnt my intention to drive right through like I did. I was going to stay at townsville, but finding a motel that has access for a low car was impossible. So in the end I said stuff it, bought a can of V and drove home to Cairns. The drive was great. I listened to 26 albums saved to the hard disk in the fancy stereo that is in the car. If anyone read Richards forsale thread, the majority of the music was Japanese pop music, and japanese covers of some english songs as well. It was wierd listening to music that I couldnt understand, but I knew it was that 1970's song "Oh Mandy". I listened to a lot of rap music as well. Richard must be quite the fan of the pissed off black american rapper. I was going to take pictures of the sights along the way but between having a crap camera, having crap photography skills, and occasionally busing out a rap about how pissed off I am about the rap music industry I just forgot.... I did get some good pics though. The porsche dealership in sydney. I rarely get to see cars like this, and when I do they are standing out in a croud of commodores. Cairns prestiege cars are not seen in public too often. There is only one techart enhanced 997 up here, but thats not seen too frequently. Envy Imports A customised T51 spl for some dyno pig project 600kw R34 GTR One of Richard's toys, an Rz RX7 twin turbo. Amazing car! Buy it now, may need new rear tyres. Definatly needs a holy shit bar or some racing harnesses. The road trip back. A very sweet R34 GTR spotted just south of the border (in NSW) rolling on 19x10's Another skyline. With a driver that needs to learn about not flicking cigarettes out the window in a high risk fire time... not to mention that I didnt apreciate having a lit cig bounce off the front of my car. I cant remember where this was. I think it was south of Rocky. The road went on for ever and was dead flat. No I didnt do a top speed run... Plus I think the car still has the 180km limitor in it anyway. Wouldnt have minded driving the veilside R34 on this road though. South of Rocky South of Bowan, another road thats dead flat and boring as hell. South of Air. Make a not to never visit there. The town sucks ass. They dont have any 98 octane at any of their service stations either. I visited 4 and then left town. Come nightfall as I was entering Townsville around 8:30pm Saturday night the amout of bugs in the air was insane. The front of the GTR was covered in a layer of bug guts that was unbelievable. I had to stop and clean the windscreen every hour towards townsville. I'd also collected a frog at speed, that had managed to somehow fit itself in between the front bumper and lower grill (where there isnt a gap). He didnt come out in one piece when I was cleaning the car (no pictures of that). I cant thank Richard enough for his help with the car and making my brief stay in Sydney a fun an interesting one. While there he showed me all of his expensive toys, chauffered me around in his Rz RX7 which had a slight sideways problem, the porsche dealership, an import tuning shop (Envy Imports) to seeing some more expensive stuff. He also arranged my accomodation at the Mecure hotel. He gave me a checkup phone call on Friday and Saturday nights to see how things were going with the drive and the car. The The only thing he didnt do was buy me a $2000/night call girl, but he did show me where the brothels were. So I am very happy with the car, and love the Nismo suspension. I spent 1/2 the day today cleaning/detailing the car. Below are a few pics of it as it is at the moment. I will be fitting the new headlights tomorrow night, ran out of time today. Now dont go and buy another one! Finish the R32 and buy a VW diseal as a daily driver. I'll be in touch. Cheers, Ian

Thanks Paul, Is that a GTT R34 or a GTR? Lots of RB25 references in there but no RB26. The plug layout is completely different to the R33 GTR too, and I was lead to believe it was the same... ? Cheers, ian

Hi, Im chasing the R34 ecu pinouts so I can work out the diferences between the R33 and R34 loom. So far all ive found with the search is that other people also wanted this information, and how great having an R34 section might be. On the GTR UK site i found a mentioning that the ignition coils on the 34 GTR have a built in ignitor module, so they fire diferently. There was also a mentioning that the CAS sensor is wired diferently although there were no specific details. Any help would be apprecaited. Cheers, Ian

It should go a long way below 0 at idle. Youve definatly got a split hose there, and at idle its sucking air in the split, lowering the pressure signal at the gauge's map sensor.

if you found the map sensor up under the edge of the inner guard, next to the brake booster... disconnect the hose from it and start the car. at idle it should pull a vacuum that you can feel on the end of the hose. If the vacuum is there... sensor/wiring issue. If there is no vacuum trace the hose back and see where its broken or split. Infact check it anyway... Its seems that hose from factory was never good quality. If it were nobody else would have had this problem!

Hi Everyone I have for sale one Genuine Nismo R33 GTR 400R front bar. It was imported from Japan with the intention of doing the full 400R update on my car but ive sold the car instead so this has got to go. It cost $4300 landed here and has since been prepped, sanded and sprayed with Standox 2k surface primer. The quality of this bar has to be seen to be believed. It is very thin vacuum moulded fiberglass that has been CNC machined and fitted with thread inserts. The primer after it was sprayed on didnt sink into any porosity holes in the bar anywhere. Its perfect. There is little cardboard mask inserts in the bar that protect the black grill mesh from overspray. The kit came with these templates... Japanese think of everything. There is a few bags of bolts, spacers, mounting plates and a couple of packets of instructions that are all in Japanese. Off the RHDJapan website they are selling for $4362.21 AUD. http://www.rhdjapan.com/jdm-low/Nismo-400R...line-GT-R-50566 Im asking $3300 ONO + freight. (that doesnt mean low ball offers). Due to the size of the box I'll be freighting it with NQX, and can send it anywhere in Australia. Im located in Cairns, Queensland. Mobile number is 0434 147 478. Cheers, Ian.

The options work out to be as follows: 2.8lt high deck, 1.75:1 ratio, sr20 rods, 28mm rb26 pistons, 77.7mm crank = 14.7mm spacer 2.8lt high deck, 1.75:1 ratio, sr20 rods, stock rb26 pistons, 77.7mm crank = 16.7mm spacer 3lt high deck, 1.75:1 ratio, sr20 rods, 28mm rb26 pistons, RB30 crank = 18.35mm spacer 3lt high deck, 1.75:1 ratio, sr20 rods, stock rb26 pistons, RB30 crank = 20.35mm spacer Im also considering using the chevy 5.4, 5.5 or 5.6 inch rod sizes as this provides more options with the rod ratio's. 1.61 - 1.67 is possible. Plus Chevy rods come in sets of 8 and are cheap as chips, were as you would have to buy two sets of SR20 rods otherwise. Chevy rods also support a larger gudgen pin bush so you could then use VG30 87.5mm pistons with 22mm gudgens and get a little more displacement. All this is just calculations on paper and a few autocad drawings so far. Im a long way off making a prototype at this stage and am too busy with the rebuild of my other car and work in general.

I totally agree with you that the race pace method would be the best approach for ultimate performance. The problem is that all that custom work and parts puts the price tag up so much. There is no middle ground with RB26/gtr modifications, and there needs to be. Its either keep it stock stroke and go to an 87mm bore, or throw three times+ more money at an engine rebuild project and step up to a 2.8. RB30 bottom ends have their issues as well. Mounting external accessories and that welding and re-drilling of the gearbox bell housing to acomodate the spaced sump adapter. Plus the height issues of the RB30 block, vs an RB26 spaced to use SR20 rods. Spaced/sleaved blocks would be used by everyone if they were just a cheaper.

Yes ive seen that thread and it is very impressive, although out of most people's price range I suspect as well.

It would make sense to use Sr20 rods. Common size, good rod ratio (1.75) with the 77.7mm crank. Im going to have a go at building one of these engines in about 6 months once other projects are out of the way. Custom sleaves and an open deck spacer plate fitted to a standard RB26 block for starters. Im not chasing huge power with the project. I want response and drivability so I figure an RB30 crank/Sr20rod combination for starters. 9:1 compression and a limit of 8000 RPM will be fine. Probably GTRS's and a 1.5 bar tune. If it works well im contemplating making a cheap kit to allow someone with a blown RB26 to turn it into a 3lt relitavely cheaply.

Interesting to know... the pic was off my '96 vspec r33 gtr. Maybe someone had replace it at some stage, who knows. My tyre/rim size was 2nd from the bottom.

Sounds like your well out of your debth. Take it to someone that knows something about the car that can give it a good check over.

Well I've sold my R33 but dont get paid for it till the end of Jan. If your car is up for grabs still then its at the top of my list.

Yep there's your answer then.