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My '88 GTS HR31 with ~30l of fuel was 1440kg. My '88 GX local R31 with ~30l was 1280kg. All the extra bracing, big doors, electric stuff, sound deadening, IRS rear end, spoilers and the fact everything seems to be that bit plusher than the local one (ie plusher dash padding, door trims, much nicer seats etc) all seems to add up. Since I'm not stripping it out to go faster, I'll just have to get more power

I saw a green R32 there the other week, I think it was a GT-R (looked like an RB26). It was slammed, pretty stripped out, emerald green, on deeeeeeeeeeep dish Volk 5 spokes, and had a crazy looking body kit (full guard and quarter panel replacement, GT-wing, vented bonnet, big front bar etc). Looked pretty nuts but I didn't go over it. Had a heap of "Yanack Aero" stickers.

also note: just as many worse dickhead drivers in Tassie persist in doing well above the speed limit, tailgating, flashing lights and generally being a nuisance on that highway. Devil or the deep blue sea, really...

Ah, why bother with an RB? Do an L28 with six throttles, big cam...Maybe even the 3.1l bottom end with the LD28 crank...

RB20DET Redtop computer - is it for ECCS or NICS? PM me please.

Could you find out if there is a Zero-1 suspension kit for a HR31 Skyline GTS/GTS-X/GTS-R?

So you were on some panel? I still call BS to 90% of that. Revenue my arse. If you think the cops are actually making money from all the pissing about with defects, then I think you're deluded. I don't care whether drag racing kills or not. I care that some f#cking wankers think that its fine and ok to do it on the road! How the fark are we going to fix these people? chemical castration.....lobotomy....I have no idea which wire is crossed in their heads. The cops are doing something good by discouraging it, but its still the wrong thing. It should be discouraged by people realising its a dickheaded thing to do, not by them going "oh noes da pigz will defekt my sik car or impound my sweet whip y0, *** da pigz".

Haha, I can imagine, mine already has major squat related traction issues and its probably only making 170kw at the fly, if that... Bit of a design flaw that.

well... all that driving around doofing "Urban" music surely has to convince a few fully sick lads that they're fully gangsta y0! and out comes the guns

So are R33 GTS-T, R32 GTS-T and R32 GT-R rotors all the same offset?

Hmm, hadn't considered redrilling wheels.... But yeah, cool, thanks for the info.

Ahh I reckon mine is selectors wearing out/breaking. But yeah, all of your symptoms sound familiar. Couldn't be bothered checking it though, then I crashed it, so I haven't checked.

Anyone know someone who would be able to redrill some front and maybe rear hubs, and rotors? They'd possibly have to engineer approve the changes (if necessary). To change some HR31 hubs from 4 to 5 stud basically, I may have a need to do so one day soonish.

someonestolecc, may be the clutch, may not.... My R31 developed some masty selector problems and I started losing gears one by one - 5th, then 4th and 3rd - basically felt like it locked out of them, to begin with they felt kind of "non-positive" when you put them in, like they were stiff and you didn't really feel a click. Took a lot of effort to select and deselect gears. Also the lever wouldn't return past the neutral next to them, as in sideways- it would sit in the neutral between 1-2. I got it to loosen up and kept having issues with top jumping out, then that seemed to clear up.... Finally I reversed into a car park and it jammed into reverse/neutral space above it, and refused to go up/sideways to select the other gears. I had to drive about 3kms in reverse to get home.... It stayed like that for 2 months then one day I was sitting in the car cursing its capricious nature when I punched the lever and it loosened up, lol... Now it works ok, but when its cold sounds like something is being spat around inside the box, like a loose chunk of something. Nasty.

Looking at buying a cheap HR31 which has an RB20DE in it. I'm guessing the RB20DE redtop won't set the world alight performance wise, anyone got any ideas how difficult it will be to change to the redtop RB20DET (I can get one cheap). Also, its a GTS-X, any idea whether it would have the front struts with the larger caliper mount spacing like the turbo models? Or are the non turbo HR31 GTS's only equipped with brakes like the aussie models? Also, aside from the gearbox, diff, engine, basically I'm wondering if there are many big differeces in the turbo/non turbo cars. Doesn't look to be....

Slightly OT, but that yard in particular - many (most?) of those cars are substantially more expensive than their aussie available counterparts. I don't know about you but $12k for a 1989 Hiace, or $11k for a 1989 740GLE volvo (which you could easily get already here for ~$6-8k) is crazy....

Points to conveniently ignore are: ---IMPORTERS have been trying to sneak the 4x4's, trucks, assorted locally available cars and shitheaps through without due consideration for the fact the laws were designed for enthusiasts, not tightarses who want to save a couple of thousand. ---The abuse of the 15 year rule goes against its original intention. ---Though of course Japanese cars are nominally cleaner/equal to similar age aussie ones, the fact is they were tested at much lower loads and would register considerably higher in Australian/US testing. As for safety, its a moot point. ---Given that the decision makes sense and only disadvantages the backyard car importers and others profiting off bringing in the 4x4's trucks and so on, is there something sinister going on behind the scenes ? Are we going to see campaign donations to the labor party so that joe 15+ importer can continue to make quick dollars abusing the system? --- Many thousands of people who jumped on the 15+ bandwagon will be affected by the changes, some will lose their businesses (which they setup as soon as profitable cars became available under 15+) and a significant number of people will be directly and immediately put out of work because of something we have seen coming for years but, hey, we continued to milk it so now the shit will hit the fan in 3 weeks. ---Risbey shifted a bloody lot of cars under the 15+ rule, and hey, he stands to lose a fair bit of dosh from a mess anyone could see was unfolding. Say goodbye to cheap rusty S-cargo's and light trucks folks.

Haha, silvias in a club called "limited edition". I hope they get the irony of the name.

Well.... It had to come to an end. You know what? I think if everyone had emailed/hatemailed/snailmailed/telephoned as many importers/brokers as they could and tried to convince them to stop bringing in Trucks, campervans, four wheel drives, NA 300ZX's, Eurotrash, celsior's, S-cargo's - basically the sort of stuff that was never intended to come in under the rules - it would have had more impact than any of the lobbying on DOTARS. I mean basically for however long the debate was going, we had car enthusiasts writing dotars saying "let us keep bringing in the enthusiast/sporting models", and DOTARS presumably saw this and compared it to the importers bringing in all the other shitbox trucks, vans, landbruisers and so on - hmmmm....I wonder what was going to hold more weight the fact that people want some select cars, or that the import industry was exploiting the shit out of the loophole? Its an own-goal.

I say GT, or like the R31, sporting sedan. HOWEVER....In a historical context its most definitely one of Japan's muscle cars, the power, handling etc see to that. Particularly modified examples, a DR30 with period big turbo upgrade, rock hard coilovers, 15" watanabes etc is every bit a muscle car (in the same way a Falcon with a modded 351, fat rims, slammed suspension etc it) - fast, but a definite handful.

I would say GT from the poll, but in actuality, Sporting Sedan (yeah, IMO the coupe can be called a sedan anyway, 2 door sedan) would be my description. The GTS-R is a homologation special.

I'd love a DR30, unfortunately my cashola will not stretch that far so HR31 coupe it will have to be instead.. ahh well...

I think R34 GT-R rims would look extremely alluring. R33 ones look cool on a 32 too. Personally, I don't think there are many rims or bodykits that look better on a GT-R than what Nissan intended - the styling is so "right" from the factory. My favourite wheels are magnesium RS-watanabe RS8's, in either gold or charcoal, the one piece super light ones - but not really the look for a GT-R.... Followed by Work Meister's and R34 GT-R wheels.

Generally they won't sell to you unless you are in Japan or have a contact who can both speak Japanese and has a Japanese contact address. If you can get someone who lives there to make the arrangements, ship the item to them, then ship it here. A friend of mine does just that with his car parts, he's brought in rims, grilles, lights, badges, mirrors etc for his TE37 Levin corolla that way.

So is 15+ finished or what? seems like all the carping on about its possible demise has died down, what's the current status of the scheme?