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i agree that they should put driver training in schools. i did it in year 11. my school made every year 11 class do it. i think they need to be careful about what they teach and don't teach though. the one i did was mostly about braking without locking up, and braking while turning. which is what i think is the most important things to know. if they go out and start teaching kids about how to control a car if it gets sideways then you are basically teaching them to drift, which will boost their confidence and they will go do it on the road.

then you look like a fool, unless you are doing it to get extra momentum so when you hit them they go flying into a gutter, jump 10 feet into the air and land in the back of a track carrying hay and no-one gets hurt...... well thats how it goes in the movies.

from a handling point of view i think the v8 would unbalance it a bit. just due to the extra weight over the front wheels. i think the car is hot, and the idea is hot. as for a rotary into a commodore, it would have to be an early model commodore, which is nice and light (lighter than a skyline in fact) because i don't think the rotary would have the torque to pull the later models weight. my father-in-law has a vb commodore that is no longer registered and just sitting in the yard that i want to put either a nissan v8 or a 1jz into. rb25 into commodores has been done to death, and the cost of a 1jz halfcut is about half that of a rb25 (even though it would be an auto, but it would just be a daily driver).

something that the younger people should know is that back in about 1998/99 the rules for getting your licence changed. under the old rules, during your test you were allowed 3 minor mistakes. then they changed it to 7. this made it rather easier to get your licence. i think even just going back to the old licence testing would make the roads a bit safer. a girl i knew got her licence under the new rules on the 2nd or 3rd attempt and got about 6 strikes (only just scraped through). about a week later she was driving along the highway with a friend in the car and said "double lines means i can overtake doesn't it?" now that passenger never drove with her again, and admittedly the driver should've read the learners book a bit better, but she was a bad driver either way. and there are more and more out there on the roads. i know a few other girls that were really bad drivers that still got their licence. they either turn too sharp at intersections then have to straighten up halfway round a corner, or turn too late and barely make the corner. its not only girls though. and a lot of these people end up have minor crashes due to poor drivers, but there is nothing done about them (because they weren't confident enough to go faster than the speed limit and no-one is usually killed). there is 1 simple and easy way to make the roads a bit safer without bringing in all this crap where you have to do a certain amount of hours driving before you can get your licence (although i think that is a good idea, except for the fact that some people won't have the money to afford it). make the licence test harder. if the test is harder then there will be less young people on the road, and the ones that are will be better drivers (even though they may still do stupid things).

it is probably lotus doing market testing on how well their air con compressors last.

i did that on my push bike, but since this was about skylines i didn't want to brag.

i won't hop in a car with someone i know who is a dickhead driver. if i don't know what sort of driver they are and i go with them and they are a fool i get out as soon as possible. but since i drive 99.9% of the time this isn't an issue. as for the death tolls, imagine what sort of restrctions they would bring in on p platers if a semi hit a full bus and there was 2 months death toll in 1 accident....

i had access to an airstip (before it was closed down) and got up to 6500rpm in 5th gear in my 33. thats somewhere around 230-240kmh. i think it would be safe to say that anyone that has run down the 1/4 mile should've got to atleast about 160kmh.

can i post even though i have an r33?

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thats the human race for ya.

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i've already got it on aussiemagna.com but most of the people on there already have magnas. not too many people on there that go looking for cars. i'll give fastmagna a try, thanks.

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the front grill is painted black, thats why it looks like it's missing. it is getting painted back to silver since whoever painted it did a crap job.

Woops, I should have read the policy in regards to "posting for a friend"

just go to a locksmith and get a key cut for about $4

according to his profile he is in his 40s, so that explains the low premium. postcode plays a big part of insurance costs. someone in a big city is more likely to be in an accident that someone in a small town. also in the big city you have more chance of your car getting stolen. and of course some suburbs are worse than others.