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Often as not businesses/individuals buy the car at auction and specify what kms it should have when it arrives out here. I can't cite a link or recorded conversation or anything but it is what can and does happen. After all, the inspecting mechanics who are engaged by many importers really do know the cars inside and out... Never read the odo, always read the car.

Frankly rust under the mirrors is probably the cheapest and easiest rectified issue you will find on C34 stageas. I'd be much more concerned about the mechanical side of things. And LOL! EVERY dealer buys EVERY car from city areas/southern Japan....Nobody ever buys from mountains/north....haha. Don't believe their bullshit believe what you see. Go off the car, not their stories.

4:35, GTS-R wolf pack surrounding the Commodore, awesome!

Eeew is that an RB20ET? Who would bother!

Import or Aussie type struts man?

Yeah look, I'd agree with Twins, probably worth mildly built RB26 money really. Bit anachronistic in that they can't really go into anything newer than '88, and most people building a racecar wouldn't be running a 20 - not for $10k - anyway. But for that person who could and would use it, that seems realistic. Then theres the question of hang ons though... if it came with all the electronics, electromotive ecu gear, dry sump pump and reservoir and on and on that would surely pump the price above and beyond that of a long motor and hot side package.

Throttle body is (apparently) bigger. I dunno if the cams would be much different if at all, ECCS redtop cams are already the biggest lift and duration of anything in an RB, except RB26 ones.

The motors themselves aren't worth any more than a regular redtop RB20DET, I see motor packages with all the GTS-R accessories regularly pop up on Yahoo Japan for slightly more than the GTS-R manifold and turbo usually fetches, so say $1600 or so (probably $2k by the time it gets here I suppose). A RB20DET-R minus the hot side was for sale for probably 6 months on there with a circa $100 start bid.

RB20DET on a mini pallet skid.

HPI is definitely wrong. The GMS header they pictured is certainly not cast, and neither is the factory GTS-R manifold (they're clearly of welded construction in sheet, tube and plate).

Doubtful. Sand bent most likely, tube ends sealed, tubes packed with sand, heated and bent around jig/formers. Much same result as mandrel bends but more labour intensive, more your craftsman method. Mad082, reconsider your facts, Jim Richards won 3 rounds outright in 1990, and two rounds were in the HR31 GTS-R as the R32 GT-R was nowhere near sorted until the end of the year. Personally, IMO that means the HR31 'won' it. The Beaurepaires entry also placed in the top ten at a few rounds, in fact out placed the GMS cars at the GP support round and Bathurst. George Fury won Winton in the '89 season, although that year saw lots of cooling and gearbox issues for the 31s. The Japanese Calsonic team won almost every round of their season in '89. Anders Oloffson ran well in late '88 and '89 WTCC rounds in the Ricoh backed car. Alan Grice/Win Percy had considerable success at selected ETCC/BTCC rounds in '89 in the Nissan Motorsport Europe entry but did not complete a full roster. The ex-group A cars were highly successful in mostly group A mechanical spec during the pre JGTC years of the JSS (up to '93 or so). I would say the RB20DET-R actually has considerable provenance as a successful race engine.

$14,500 worth of front end panels? For serious!?

Yeah little R31house foil decal on the drivers side of the boot. Fronts I haven't even rolled the guards, rear guards are rolled flat but not flared, side strips are trimmed to half depth and the metal behind them is folded to half width down to about 3" above the sills; biggest issue was rubbing in the front of the wheelarch around where the trim is. Have close to 1" clearance to the suspension inwards.

You would have to be an absolute spode, or have serious mechanical issues, to get beaten by an R32/R33 GTS25 in any 3.5l+ 90s onward Magnafalcodore.

The GMS cars were pretty robust; they were the 1180kg cars. Bolt in caged NME/Jap cars at the 1115kg end. Very little custom milled alloy suspension in the R31s though they did run cast mag front uprights and heavily modified standard arms in the rear and tube front LCAs (can buy plenty of that stuff off the shelf for R32) . When you consider they were also running additional coolers and pumps for the diff, box, turbo, engine oils, full steel panels, an enormous fuel cooled ECU unit, onboard extinguisher, dry sump and pump, big turbo on an enormous steel manifold etc it doesn't seem that unrealistic to me. And shaving 180kg isn't all that much (assume cage is 60kg), not compared to 265kg.

Or not, I mean you could buy all the same stuff, good standalone ecu, or Nistune for the stock ECU, and make the same power with the original head for the price of a couple of psi more boost. $6k won't get you an RB25 head swap and good support parts, but you might squeak it in with the SOHC head.

There will certainly be a code on the build plate. Take a clear pic of it and we should be able to identify it.

Why would you bother with an L20ET? Just bung in an L28E and associated turbo gear (yank ebay would be your friend for stuff like L28ET manifold and injectors, afm, ecu etc). Will end up about 1,000,000,000,000x better off than modding the L20. Simple maths, 40% more capacity is going to make a massive difference.

17X9" +16 17x10" +4, 215/45 & 235/45 rubber.

I think for a track car it would be relatively easy. You can pull out a lot of bolt on bracing and stuff you wouldn't need, trim bumper reo bars, pull out lots of shields and covers and trim, wiring, electronics, sound, interior lighting, climate control... As an example Group A HR31 Skylines were 1115-1180kg, and off the showroom floor a HR31 GTS-X is 1450kg. I reckon 1320 -> sub 1200 is well doable.

$300 Shipped to your door.

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Fixed.

Still here, $350 shipped.

Front end repainted and refitted finally, car drives now, lots of little things to sort but 90% big stuff done. Mechanically just need to fit cooler and tune. Anyone got a stock R33 GTS-T cooler? I need the pipes off the back of one so I can fit my 34 GT-T cooler up.