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I love Gran Torino, brilliant movie.

But you end up with something pretty unique. Basically a GTi-R in a much more attractive body.

The music just makes it funnier

Negatory, I'll be in the US. But I went to Tokyo Autosalon this year and last so it made up for it and then some

Welcome back. Ohnoes, if you've got the flu I've had it for three weeks and only just gotten over it with sinusitis and bronchitis to boot. It's going around!

For the love of it Shan. It's a hobby, and it was my first car. I didn't even sniff at the last round of mods early this year - manual conversion, hydraulic clutch conversion, straight cut gearset, Nismo 1.5way LSD cost me ~$8800. Yes I could buy two stock N15's for the cost of the conversion alone but meh, it doesn't phase me. See that's okay with me, because I'm not under the illusion I'd make much more than 20% of the money I've spent on it back. Realistically the car would sell for between $12-15K, more if I parted it. You don't mod cars for resale value - which is fine, because I don't intend to sell it and I'm not strapped for money, it owes me nothing. I currently have three cars.

N14's yes. There's two options; graft GTi-R floorpan firewall back onto an N14 shell, extend rear floorpan slightly or use the existing floorpan but modify it to suit 4WD tunnel, diff cradle, etc. The first option is more common, there's somewhere between 3-4 running examples in Australia, and some unfinished projects. Can be engineered. N15's - not impossible, but harder. There were 4WD N15's overseas, but they were 1.5L diesels and the drivetrain is small and weak. It'd be difficult to engineer a floorpan conversion in Australia on an N15. There's 1 4WD N15 currently being made in Australia using a GTi-R floorpan with extensive modifications to lengthen it width and lengthwise (the N15 is larger than the RNN14 & N14.) The U13 did come in AWD SR20DET, I don't think the drivetrain is the same as the GTi-R though. Much like GTS-4 vs GT-R running gear in Skylines. The Bluebird is not a Pulsar in that series. The only time the Bluebird has been the same as the Pulsar was in the N16 as CrispyFries pointed out. Our N16 sedan is a Bluebird Sylphy in Japan.

Two cars is nothing to anyone involved in the process - the freight company and the compliance workshop definitely won't care as two cars is nothing to them. You won't get reduced fee's importing two cars.

I think I'm queen of breaking that rule. Over $80,000 on a car that cost me $10,000. But I've had it for a long time.

FWD loves you.

I've wanted a Cube for a while, so I bought one

That has a ring to it.

You think?! I saw it last night and was ready to walk out 1/4 way into it.

Even if you could you wouldn't want one. Keep saving. Plenty of nice examples of 25GT's already here, and plenty of nice examples available to import. But your budget isn't high enough as others have already stated.

haha

Lucky you.

ETA for Sydney is early September. Woot!

Yah. hehe. People should be able to get through to him, he's been emailing me today.

I have permission from Ben to give his personal email address out. Anyone wishing to contact Ben @ J-spec please email: [email protected] No ETA on the site as yet.

I'd avoid them if possible. Especially if you get the Indian guy.

Nah, probably not. I'm too conservative.

That's me! Yours was the white '33 pulling out of Kimberley Drive? I posted a few posts ago Would you believe I haven't washed my car for a couple of months? It just always looks clean from a distance.

I've emailed Ben for an update on the site. I'll let you know when he replies

Probably Watanabes. See the first post for an example of how it'd look. I want it exactly like that.

White R33 with white wheels and SAU stickers pulling out of Kimberley Drive in Chirnside Park at about 8:30pm.