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I did do a search, but I've got a couple of different question and couldn't really find an answer for them all... I'm not even sure if this is the right forum. So admins; if you want to move it (or just point me in the right direction), it's all good! Here we go - Anyone know what this is? - It's under the parcel shelf next to the battery (if you know what I mean) in the boot space. Is it associated with what was here... ...what was here? I've seen a few pictures in threads with a box in the middle there, but I assume it got pulled out prior to compliance... probably because it's registed as a 5-seat car as opposed to 4-seat? Something to do with the stereo? - those speakers look old, so I'm guessing they were factory clarions? Here's a more obscure one... What do you think was here? I know it's a long shot, because it could have been almost anything... but it's right in the middle of the dash just over the vents (as you may have guessed). Lastly, anyone have or know where I could get and english manual for this; Not a good picture, I know. It's an Eclipse E5510CMT - 6-disk (+1 MD) CD/Tuner. I did look on the Eclipse site, but obviously it's superceded stock... and googling for it only gives me japanese manuals. Anyhoo... thanks in advance for any help you can give me. You know how it is; I can't stop myself from wanting to go out and play with it, find out what everything is and does on it...

That's true, but Mazaratis can be so expensive... as can the M3. Much better value to buy a Skyline. To be honest, if you were looking for an import in WA the choices are likely to be Skyline or Soarer... I guess maybe Supra, but I had a sh!tty Celica (RA60) and it put me off Toyotas. Who can go past the originaly V8 muncher?

Well, maths has never been my strong point - that's why I failed engineering. All I know is that I pull-up, put the nozzle in, run it until it stops... then a little bit more. The bill comes to between $60 and $70 - which would make sense for ~65L (or just under as I don't run it dry). I reset the tip-meter and off I go again. Usually it reads just under 500km before it's time to fill-up again (if my wife has been driving mainly - it's more like 450km if It was mainly me). I figure that's normal economy for an unmodified RB25DET with an automatic box.

Yep - mine has a new placard in English underneath the Japanese one. It's pretty simple, it just reads; R33 Skyline - 225/(I forget all these bits) 32PSI Front, 32PSI Rear And of course the kPa values too...

My bog standard R33 GTS-T gets almost 500km to a tank... less if I'm driving, but about that when my wife has it. - I forget what the fill volume is, but $60-$70 at $1.3L = ~45L That's mainly city driving although it does get ~4 45 minute Hwy trips a week (out to the folks and back). It's worse than my Lancer, but better than my Laser (although that may have been pissing fuel out of the pump so it doesn't really count).

To be quite honest, I didn't want a turbo-timer in my car. I don't drive that hard, neither does my wife - it's not a screaming drift machine. However, when I got the alarm installed it came with a timer set at 90 seconds - so most of the time the turbo timer runs for 90 seconds... either that or I just turn it off with the remote. My wife doesn't like to leave it going, so she almost always kills it.

I doubt it - you're in queensland, I'm in Perth...

I've quoted the wrong person - sorry... In Perth - my R33 is getting a Autowatch 456RLI put in it at Autoworx... while I'm waiting for the compliance plates so it can be licenced. I don't know what the RRP price is, but I'm paying next to nothing for it because they have a special on - "free immobiliser with every car sold in October". I think he said $475 installed, but he's taking the cost of the free immobiliser off it. Anyway, I only wanted an immobiliser, but Paul seemed to think that this was the best alarm for a skyline and that linking existing TT to an alarm/immobiliser was asking for trouble when you could just have one built in. He seems to think it's the duck's nuts of alarms and says that he has the same one on his 300Kw monster and his wife's too. That's my 5c worth.

Yeah, I really wanted a Stagea... but I settled for an R33 sedan instead. There's just something about a turbo station wagon...

How's the spitrire panel filter? Much cheaper, is there a catch? What about HKS? That at least is a brand I can recognise...

Ah... yes sinistagtst, now that I've registered and had a closer look, I find that you're right - a lot of what I was asking has been covered before. I appologise to you all for that. I guess the biggest problem with the exhaust is that it has just been replaced/updated (I'm not sure exactly) for RAW compliance so I can't justify immediately changing it again. Maybe it's allready got a better than stock exhaust... I'll ask at the import place exactly what they put in, but I'm sure it's a new cat at the least. All I was really looking for was something like "while the unifilter gives you better filtration, you don't need it for road driving. You'd be better off we the better flowing K&N." or "the K&N and Apexi pannel are about the same, but the Apexi is much better value." or better yet; "sponsor XXX has those on special - have a look at this thread" - all the deals seem to be 5-months out of date though which means that eBay in the USA is the cheapest source at the moment. I also now understand that messing with the BOV is pointless if you're still running stock boost, and that the solenoid mod is one of the most simple and effective ones to do. Please don't misunderstand me though; I really DO appreciate your advice, and the fact that you've taken it easy on me for asking stupid questions and not having done the required back-ground reading first! I promise that I have been reading the FAQs and how-to guides now. My only excuse is that I'm used to vBuletin forrums and found this one a litte harder to navigate, but I've got it now!

OK - so I've managed to conince my wife that we should buy a skyline, and while it's waiting for compliance plates I've been looking at things I can do.... first join SAU, next research mods. Before anyone gets excited with extravigant suggestions, I can't justify to her buying a new exhaust/turbo etc - I can justify buying a few cheaper improvements. Now, I don't want the noise of a pod and I'm told that the factory CAI on a skyline is fine so my question is this; If I was going to replace the stock panel filter with a better one, what should I choose? In the past I've gone with foam, but I'm concerned that the oil might upset the AFM and I don't intend to get too much dust in the engine bay (which would warrant the superior filtration). Paper? I might just as well stick with the OEM part. Cotton? Are the K&N filters cotton? What about the Apexi? Oh and because I'm a newbie, please feel free to point me in the right direction if this is in the wrong spot... and thanks in advance for you advice!