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I think it looks pretty good really and borrows a bit from the new Camaro, except there's something about the back wheels setup which just seems a little bit odd and not quite with the rest of the car.

I don't know much about the Chaser's, they're a rare car over here, especially if they're a manual. Engine and driveline in them have a fairly good reputation but I've no idea how it is as a driving package. The Galant and Legnum VR4's are rockets, even in stock form they're doing around the high 12 to 13sec mark 1/4 mile on road tyres, which is none too shabby really! Pretty much everything you'd find in a Evo models of the same era ended up in those cars but with a different engine, of which is a very powerful and compact piece of work. I've said it before that they are not the most enjoyable engines to work on, but like someone else pointed out, not a lot of the really modern cars are very much fun to fiddle with! To the best of my knowledge neither have anything particually 'grenade like' about them

Yeah I'd go through Alex again as well. Basically he doesn't bother with the heavily modified stuff and sticks to just mostly stock and working well vehicles, he's pretty fussy about what he brings over.

Well if the year continues the way it has they'll be running in wet conditions, which should favour the GTR a bit as far as traction and handling goes. Actually driving the thing and getting used to it could be interesting though, the bastards as wide as most tasmanian roads.

The consensus of most long time owners (myself included) of SR20DET's is that the engines biggest point is its monster mid-range torque between 3500 and 7000rpm, under that, its a mild mannered grandma and after that its a wheezy grandpa I found it fairly easy to live with a mildly tuned up SR20DET for over 7 years and no real complaints for that purpose around town as it functions perfectly well in a light car of 1150kg and running between 2000-4000rpm. I don't have a lot of experience with the RB20's, but like most 6's they're usually much happier on highways where they can just roll around on low rpm at legal speeds with much less effort than a 4cylinder. Things like the weight of the car, mostly your R32's (while they're certainly not heavy, but still around 200kg more than a Silvia of the same era from memory) isn't that much of a factor in your fuel consumption as it is in stop-start traffic.

rofl Now I really have seen everything on SAU...

Well, they're Americans. Mostly kind of 'special' when it comes to cars

I'd probably agree with him, I had an LS1 V8 VX for a little while and it had a slight drop and 18rims and it was horrible on corners, the slightly older version V6 (Supercharged) roughly the same time I was driving on and off running on regular suspension was a much easier car to live with in terms of balance and handling. Neither I would consider 'remarkable' in terms of power for what they where and how they managed to put it down which was clumsier than a teenager grabbing their first boob. The V8 does have good amounts torque and it doesn't take an awful lot to get a lot more power out of the engine with some very cheap mods. Aside from that I find it very hard to praise much else about them apart from the price (which is quite low) and the list of things which sucked was very long...

Try the Car Security/Audio forum here on SAU. It tends to get a bit more traffic than this one

No, they would have been a factory option General rule, no. Unless someones been busy writing a flash for the system, in my experience that any of the in-car GPS/Nav systems in a JDM imported car are unfortunatly propriatary to Japan. (I guess they figure 'why spend money' on something which is never intended to go outside its local market) They're diversity antennas. Not for GPS, mobile phone, radio, CB or anything else- only a TV It's possibly the TV tuner which runs up to the display via all the other bits and along with sadly all the other stuff, it's mostly completely useless in Australia. Not real easy to tell from the photo

I always preferred Herpes Simplex Vehicle because apparently 1-10 people have one.

I caught up with an old friend over xmas that had spent his spare time squeezing a twin turbo supra engine into a 3rd gen Celica, don't know what was funnier? The fact that it looked like it 'belonged' there and was quite well done, fully engineered job, or imagining the looks on some rural V8's getting owned (...by that I mean, "horribly raped") by some ugly as a dogs bum, kind-of-red, stock-shitter 1980's hairdressers car.

I don't particually like a lot of the well, for a lack of a better term 'invasive' technology which is in cars, the Anti: Yaw/sway/stability, traction control and so on really doesn't do much for me at all. It has it's place I think and the 'engineer on weekdays' side of MK's brain acknowledge it's very clever and benefits some aspects for some people, but the 'dumb as a hammer bogan' part of MK says I'm just not one of those people. My current car is about the extreme limit of what I like to be technically comfortable with all it's multiple LSDs, transaxel, AWS, AWD, twin turbo V6 ridiculousness and it's had a lot of the "options" ripped out of it to make a bit more of a pure drivers car. I'll never own an automatic transmission, which these days are getting more and more clever as well because I don't want it thinking it knows how to change gears better than me either. Maybe that's vanity, maybe just stubborn, dumb pride but after 20 years of driving I'd like to think I know a few things which a lump of silicon, gold and semiconductors hasn't quite figured out just yet. When alls said and done, if they do figure out how to make every new car which is better than me as a driver in every single way, it'll be a very dull drive and I'll go buy a go-cart or motorbike to amuse myself when I do drive. It's sort of a shame a lot of people seem to consider driving such a boring activity they feel the car should do things they would normally do so they can do 'what' exactly in the car while they sit in it? Because ultimately when you're behind the wheel of a car, you are there to drive it. You're not there to sip coffee, go to work, whack off or talk on your mobile phone, your job is to drive, if you're not getting behind the wheel to drive, then catch public transport with all the other people that aren't drivers.

I'm not the fattest V6TT in Sydney anymore.

Yes, lately out of the box they're fed a lot of angry pills or something before each shift to build up their confidence. After the first serious arse kicking on the job, most of them find out they're not bullet/fist proof and settle down.

Ah yeah, I know who he's talking about with 1 guess... very pushy and very full of shit. I don't expect sales folks to know 'every' thing about their product inside out, but these jokers are like talking to a know it all dipshit teenager and just don't understand "no", they do however understand "f**k-off-ee"

Congrats on the R35. There's tons of non/ex/wannabe/defected off the road skyline owners here (I think they still let me post here because I used to own a Nissan...)

Midgets Minibikes Whisky Empty pool Video camera It'd go to youtube #1

If it's only plastic you might be able to find a bit of piano wire in that gauge from a hobby store, heat it up with a blowtorch until its yellow and pierce it though. Otherwise it's not going to be real easy, jewellery store supplies 'might' have something like that for metalwork too.

Yeah, but it's a fun kind of crazy.

AWD platform transaxel set ups aren't exactly unknown in the era of the R32GTR either, in Japanese performance cars. Think in the end of the day, there's only so many ways to re-invent the wheel when it comes to cars most of it comes down to budget really. The fact you'll be getting an $80-100k car able to stick it to many cars twice it's price and scare the crap out of a couple which are three times or more, is testimony to mostly one thing. "Just how much is a 'badge' going to cost you in some marques?"

That one you've probably got a good chance of getting torn up by just going to the local station house and having a polite word to someone in charge of around sergeant rank- provided you where not doing anything wrong or didn't have any real defects, it should go away. (With a good chance of whoever issued it getting a huge chewing on) Yeah I think everyone's ended up at that point at some time in their lives and it is extremely uncomfortable.

Least no one would steal it

no, I don't like it... not at all.

Was impressive to see so many cars... so many! Didn't get to meet as many people as I'd hoped, but I did get to see some I hadn't caught up with in awhile. (and lol at the knob-end kids at the lights)