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Like really shiny? On a serious note, sounds good, he seems to be getting a good rep. I wouldn't worry about the flames unless you are prone to driving like a twat around town.

Don't stress, theres more black R32 GTS-Ts than commodores down here. Just don't tail cars and trucks, keep a good distance and you should be ok.

I hear they're sexy too.

I gather you wouldn't want to split them paul? I could use the rears, haha

I'd agree with that - given that the DJR sierra hosed the then fastest touring cars in the world, then the GT-R hosed it, I would say aussie ingenuity had a lot to do with it. In Japan, the HR31 GTS-R dominated everything; but it seems the competition weren't up to much - when sierras are being blown away by the R31 something is wrong!.... Heck, when the GT-R arrived over there it was one hell of a big fish in a small pond, out here they dominated but had it nowhere near as easy. I think in the late 80's and early 90's the aussie Group A field was probably the best in the world.

Lay off the crack. Alan Moffat's group C RX7 pretty much finished off that category, hosing the V8s in what, 1983.... Then came group A Volvo showed in 1985 that they were a chance, then hosed everyone in 1986...Then the HR31...Sierras... Gee, those dinosaur cubic inch heads sure didn't know what was coming when the GT-R arrived, I bet they sAfrican Americaned at it... Thats as stupid as the constant "GT-R's killed group A" old wives tale - not like group A was buggered from worldwide abandonment and plummetting crowds....

What a load of tired old crap. I'd love to see the data that suggests a typical skyline is any safer than its equivalent local product. If you're talking R34 vs a VL or a similarly pointless comparo then maybe its true... More people died because more people crashed; the newspapers will happily push for the car bans to sell papers, and happily publish nonsense speculation of the opposing view when it becomes clear that people are sick of hearing about the evils of performance cars.

A HR30 is a GT or GT-ES. DR30's came in RS-Turbo and RS-X (later with intercooler).

Ben, how bad is the recaro? Suitable for use as a drivers seat (as in knobs and shit in the right spot?)?

Holy shit, you could have had one of the jap brand kits for that sort of money! Must be good...

I'm after a set of stock turbo water lines from an R32 RB20DET or R33/34 RB25DET , and the matching banjo bolts. Anyone got a set? I need some fairly soon. I tried to set up a home made system but the fittings are too close to the block ($110 worth of fittings later!) X( so I need factory ones. And in Hobart preferably.....Unless you can think of a way to post them without wrecking 'em.

I hate taking this position, but honestly, someone's botched conversion is hardly the same as a 1-of-800 Group A homologation special!

I'm building a model of the group 5 R30 Silhouette racer, I need as many good pics of it as I can get. Anyone got any links or whatnot for me?

It has been for sale for about 3 years, goes down about $1000 a year. I want to wait until 2020 and buy it for $1000, it will probably still be for sale. GTS-R's don't have an autospoiler, the intercooler and split aircon preclude it and the fixed spoiler they run is better for aero. However, I have a HR31 GTS which was robbed of its autospoiler at time of importation 10 years ago, if you are hoping to sell yours please PM me.

You don't rebuild, you replace. I would run a genuine pump, mine is actually a genuine holden RB30E item (so Nissan in disguise)... There is a suggestion by a few people that the RB30E pump will cavitate and not cool efficiently with sustained high RPMS; however personally I think the RB30 one is much better at say 1000-4500 rpm which is where you spend 95% of the time, it cools my motor much better than the original pump did. The N1 pump is the ideal one. I belive it is a straight bolt up. If you can get one at a good price, then do it.

Bingo. That footage makes me go every time. This is also cool, Japanese group A racing from 1989, watch the Calsonic GTS-R hose the field. http://drinkbar.ddo.jp/r31/Gr-A89.rm Listen to the Calsonic car take off after the pitstop

If its that car in the attachment, its been for sale a LOOOOONG time.

Haha, well that explains an article in a Nostalgic Hero "80's Special" that I bought. It was hard to see what the fuss was about without the video!

I think we need an MS Paint drawing to illustrate how the accident happened. I can't understand how the R31 ended up with so little damage and the R33 destroyed, unless there was a major f**kup after the collision. Someone explain?

I just want to slot together some water fittings for my VG30DET turbo (late model OP6 one) ; I'm fitting it to an early HR31 redtop RB20DET which runs smaller banjos and bolts compared to the silvertop and RB25, as such I need to adapt water lines to suit. Have had no luck getting R32 or R33 water lines so am going to adapt what is there. Just wondering which size fitting is the go, JIC -6 or JIC -8? Plan to run the JIC fittings, with barbed end to JIC swivels, then hi temp water hose clamped to cut-down original water lines. Hoseclamps and away. Plan sound fine?

I think those big scooters are a bit lame, but seem practical....Nowhere near as totally homosexual as most 250cc learner bikes - especially the four cylinder sporty looking ones which are the lamest of all. Little scooters are fun. Our shop hack used to be a Derbi 50cc, with a ported 65cc barrel kit, high comp forged piston, thin head gasket, bigger carburettor and tuned expansion chamber with carbon fibre muffler. Happily wound out to beyond 80kmh which is no mean feat for a scooter with a 100kg bloke on it. With sports brake pads and rotors, and sticy rubber it also had unreal handling. Plus you could jump it over/off stuff and bunnyhop it etc, do nose wheelies, just a total pisser of a bike. The BP100 race fuel and motul oil was a little exxy, but then it ddn't use much either.

Well, go the modded L28 route then, stroker if you want big power...Can't find a better sounding motor, haha.

L28 and turbo LD cranked 3.1l NA L28 I'm all for keeping something resembling the original motor...

Erm, not sure what you call this...Its not a vector, I just removed the backdrop, used the colour tool to make everything black and white, then replaced all the surface textures with solid sections of grey using the lasso and paint tool. Original: Its only the same small res as the original, my main purpose is to "rasterbate" it into a wall feature. Might try using it as a T-shirt print too.

So all R31 owners have to kowtow to them and pay the prices.... I'm not judging either way, but when I saw the R31house prices I thought two things - that is they were either; -Testing the water to see just how high they could price things (or leaving additional margin for discounting), or; -Buying them at R31house retail THEN adding markup Personally when I priced a set of decals and it reached the $250 mark, considering only a couple were genuine nissan ones, I was happy enough to pay $54 for a set of visually identical local reproductions. I suppose if you want the parts you have to pay their price. The prices seem high, but if they are sole distributors, do all the groundwork etc etc well fair enough, its their choice to set what price they feel is appropriate. Prices aside the service is friendly and knowledgeable and I can't say I've heard anything negative.