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This makes him different to most 2nd hand car salesmen how?

Someone I work with has a 'Honk if you Hate people' sticker which I like.

It'll make it go fast in one way at least, the gone in 60seconds kinda fast way.

Thumbs up for effort mate, I feel tired just looking at how you wrestled the damn thing in there!

Yeah, its pretty pathetic now after CAMS and everyone started crying about how no one was going to the races so they scrapped group A to make a dollar appealing to the lowest common denominator. Now its the equivalent of something equally retarded like NASCAR in its banality. Frankly with huge manufacturers like GMH and Ford they could have easily dumped huge amounts of money into being competitive, but no they buckled and went backwards and to think of the development that could have been passed down to domestic cars for us instead just makes me feel a bit crook really. The bar was raised to international standards, they failed to meet it and Bathurst is dead to me.

The S14's are a little bit heavier and have (IMO) a bit better suspension setup to start with so they are a very different car on the road. Guess theres lots of alternatives really if youre keen on dropping an engine in, might even be worth saving up the money for an RB25 half cut I guess if you want the extra torque and think it can be ironed out with suspension but it might be worth doing some more research. Red tops are a decent SR20DET though for the price and I guess the easiest thing about them is the loom and ECU pretty much drops in, but if you've had some experience with getting a transplanted RB20 into an S13 and making it work then thats what you know (and I cant tell you what you like!)

I'm passingly familiar with someone that managed to squeeze an 2.7stroked Tomei RB into an S13 chassis and its not mucking around. http://forum.silviansw.com/viewtopic.php?t=21253 It would be very amusing to own thats for sure. Apart from that, just curious as to why the RB20? The SR20 is usually the weapon of choice from most ex-CA18 owners that want to upgrade to something thats got some nuts and more bits and pieces than is probably sensible for getting power out of them. Just tends to make them a bit nose heavy with the 6cyl engines in them and throws off the nice balence they have

'puts teeth back in' Ahem, well living out of town so far as we did at the time it was pretty important to get a licence and some kind of car simply to get around, visit friends and root girlfriends in. At the time I was working for the folks through the last three years of high school so I mostly borrowed their cars and did sort of a late arvo courier service for them and I did look after their cars pretty well. (Because if I didnt, I'd get f**king owned so bad!) My own cars, still bring fond tears to my eye, mostly because of what I destroyed in the youthful enthusiasm of learning to drive, belting through dirt, gravel and badly tarred roads in rally competitions in things like Mini minor (blew up, rolled it into a ditch and probably still there) bought for $200. Mk1 Escort Coupe, which I did some pretty heavy duty work to it and was my first real learning experience on how engines work, dad being a mechanic helped a lot! But that Escort died a horrible death off a couple of pine trees, a large rock and a gully due to icy roads and a knob behind the wheel, but for $400, high compression tuned up motor with a webber that could suck up a small furry animal at 3ft away it was a lot of fun, cut the engine out with an axe and sold it for $800 The datto 180B SSS was a serious bit of metal until I managed to work out they didnt like being redlined and cooked the motor, same with the 1600 datto which was some really serious shit, that thing with a big twin carbie setup and extractors would do about 170km/h and silly old me sold it to a bogan for a $1000 which was big money at the time I guess and I needed to get my arse to uni somehow. Most of those cars are worth 5-8x what I paid for them now, so that mostly why I cry... Uni car, was a Peugot 504 1971 beastie with this awesome 4wheel disk brakes, handled on rails suspension and served me well all through uni, looking back on it, that old Pug was at least 20years ahead of the aussie crap in terms of technology on just the independant suspension, brakes and comfort. Ugly, gutless but no one would ever steal it and until it blew the head gasket sadly no longer. After that it was back to a whole hodge podge of cars, another 180B and my grandparents sold me a 1974 Ford Landau in mint, original condition for $2000 which I left at my parents place to age like fine wine, it was and still is a fairly remarkable vehicle in a lot of respects and features with things like an all-cow interior, front and rear bucket seats and the ol 5.8L clevo 4valve I managed to scrounge up for it out of boredom. However I couldnt drive it as even back then it was scary thirsty and in Sydney it'd get stolen quicker than a $5 bill on the sidewalk. So, I sold it unrego'ed to a collector for $5,500 and only sold it too him because he wasnt a bogan and I wouldnt have to live with seeing it painted fag-pink with a huge scoop on the bonnet or something the equivalent of. The Sil is my latest toy, I imported it over six years ago and its done me well over that time with barely any problems, like most sil's they get faster with age! hehe, but its extraordinarily looked after, hell the bastard gets looked after better than I do... Next car early next year I think will be an R34 or something or maybe an R32GTR if I havent grown up by then or petrol doesnt cost $3 a litre. I love cars, you do have to buy your own, even if its on family or mates rates to really appreciate things, it gets people out of the 'charity mindset' I call it. Where they dont spend anything, therefore it doesnt have any particualr personal worth to them, thats something I'd like to ingraine in anyone as I think its a good value to have in life.

Ah, our old brain damaging friend C7H8. I used to use it in bikes a long time ago for a bit of extra zing and run it through the Sil when I was stuck out in the sticks and there was nobody selling anything but 92RON rubbish and had to get home in the middle of summer. I'm suprised that its still on the market being sold in bulk with no background checks actually, given that with a bit of 'fiddling' mild heat, high potency nitric and suphuric acids it also magically turns into Nitro Glycerine and Tri-Nitro-Toluene, or TNT as most people know it. It will eat through lots of things, but most things in cars are fairly resistant to it for the simple reason that as mentioned before that its a fuel additive. A few other things I should warn you of though. I cant emphasise enough how dangerously flamable toluene is, it evaporates very quickly into a fairly heavy vapour that is heavier than air and with no wind or ventilation quite happily settle down into the lowest part of the area it was in. (like gutters, garage pits etc) And its got a flash point of about 4deg celcius, petrol has a flash point of 45deg celcius if that gives you any idea of how dangerous it is! 11x more... Aside from that a few other things you should be aware of when handling it is that it cannot be excreted from the body because it isnt very water soluble and has to be broken down by being metabolised and this releases a couple of very nasty chemicals in the process that will cause irreversable nerve damage to your brain. Under no circumstances have any of it around pregnant women or their kids will be born with nerve damage.

Someone aught to remind the retard that Australians have been driving around in so-called 'domestic' cars since cocky was an egg that are pretty much assembled in Australia and thats about it. Most of the R&D, parts and everything else all imported, we just slap them together, usually badly if the newer Holdens and Fords reliability is anything to go by. There are a couple of exceptions in this in terms of local cars, but by and large theyre not exactly great examples of workmanship. Find me a local product with the build quality, price, reliability and performance of a japanese car and I'll buy it, goodness knows I've spent the last 17yrs as a licence holder looking for an equivalent, think the closest I came finding one is a rebadged 323 called a laser (And that folks is just damn sad!)

I was looking at the Skylines and wondering how comparatively easy they are to live with in terms of being a road vehicle and running costs. (Did a bit of searching around but I didnt find a specific topic on it so sorry if its being a bit of a rehashed subject.) Being an old bastard I've owned, run, borrowed and used a lot of cars from Mk1 escorts to late model 5.7L commodores and I imported an S13 K's which has been my daily driver and general 'toy' to run around in for the last six years. Being both ford and holden havent made a decent product in years worth my money I'm looking at another import, the Silvia is a lovely car and done well by me so the next logical progression for something larger and slightly more modern is a skyline. Fuel costs aside, I already pay for one very thirsty, high maintenance car with spine snapping suspension and anti-social behavior I can live with My heart is leaning towards the R32GTR, late model around 93-94 era but I've not got a lot of experience in AWD cars aside from a friend letting me generously put-putt around once in his R34GTR (which is so far out of my price range its not funny) which from the get go suggested a lot different driving techniques to RWD big horsepower beasts. I've also had a soft spot for the GTR ever since it sent aussie motorsport back to the stone age so to speak. The R34GTT, in a manual with the nice Neo RB25DETT is also very appealing because it looks like it would be a fairly easy car to get used too driving and being a bit more modern less likely to have more suicidal second hand owners in its life. However like the R32GTR I'm still not sure how expensive they are in terms of parts and finding people that can service them without destroying them in the process. Not looking for a heavily modified vehicle either, mostly just that in stock configuration. cheers for any help

SR20DET internals will take 200+kw fairly easily. To make it out of a red-top engine like in the series 2 S13's youre probably looking at- Larger MAF, decent intercooler, larger injectors, high pressure fuel pump, better water pump, pod filter, upgraded BOV, a T28 ball bearing turbo (either out of a S15 jap-200SX , Garratt or HKS all make that), stage 1 cams- the Tomei or HKS seem to be popular, maybe solid lifters in the head, slightly larger exhaust manifold and a custom plenum wont hurt either and the obligatory 3" exhaust system. (Theres also a whole heap of other things like cooler sparkplugs, improved coil packs and the fact you will have to get a new ECU and boost controller which are quite expensive) Being 200kw, you will need to stop, so that often involves sourcing brakes off an R32GTR or other car which will mate up with the hubs on all four corners, the 5spd gearbox and RS200 diff are both tough bastards but you will need a heavier clamp clutch to actually put the power down. Alls said and done, its a lot easier to make 200kw out of the black-top engines with VVT in the S14 and S15 series cars, the S14, while it is a bit heavier is a much easier car to live with in terms of handling. This is big money. If your serious about making a track/drift car then expect to be sinking a lot into it either way, you can use cheap parts and they may work forever, more likely, they wont and your engine will shat itself covering your nice white paint and windscreen through those fancy back-facing vents in the CF bonnet in oil and radiator fluid when you really least needed to do it. It will in no way pass an emission test and will be defected quicker than you can dump the clutch and send it sideways into a gutter. If its just going to be a daily driver, make it look pretty as you want but running a 200kw silvia every day will quickly add up in big fuel bills, parts and it will need regular servicing every 4500-5000km, add to the fact if youre anything like I was on my P's many, many years ago, you'll have NFI what youre doing in a car and probably destroy it and yourself in the process of learning. 2L turbo silvias are a fairly forgiving beast in handling, which you havent touched on at all, you can throw 4grand at suspension, tyres and rims and still have a poor handling road car if you dont know what youre doing there. Virtually no one will insure you. Not crapping on dreams, but reality has an odd way of poking its way in a lot quicker than you can imagine.