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does anyone have any connections or places they use and were happy with? I'm after sizes in 16" - 18" Any contacts.. Northside is preffered.

I know you are staying with your GTR rims, but would you be interested in a straight swap of your 17's for some 18's?

why do you have a full cage and side pipes on a Proton GTi?

Firstly, the 1600 has many many years of rally championships under it's belt. the KPGC-10 GT-R has racing heritage. the special edition GTR's (V spec, nur, N1 etc) have low number of builds and racing heritage. in 25 years time and evn now, a perfect condition one with low km's would be worth a mint. but the point that I and others are trying to get across (unsuccessfully) is that your perfect condition skyline is a run of the mill gunmetal grey 1993 R33 GTS25T with non standard and non limited edition modifications. and therefore, is not a classic. it is not rare, and never will be. It has no racing history. it has no "special" anything apart from "what could have been" documents. again. don't take this as a put down of your car. I'd love to own it. it is a beautiful, and tastefully modified R33 GTS25T. You say the insurance figure of your car is between you and your agency. and yet you started a competition so others could guess at what it is worth. with hints that it is a rare car and therefore worth shit loads. was this just for attention? or are you going to reveal what it is insured for? and what the reason is for it's value? My R33 GTS25T of the same year as yours is valued at a massive $13K. my agency asked for specific photos to cover me for that amount as it is apprently high for this type of car of that age. I sent the photos, and they agreed it was clean and straight and worth that amount. so... are you going to reveal all the secrets?

what is the result when the cars numbers are put in to FAST? what is the model details on the rego papers? I must be stupid. I just don't understand why it's insurance value is higher than others (apart from being super low km's and in perfect nick) I understand this: it was 1 of 3 that were pulled aside for "development". they were "going to" put different bits on it. it was "going to" be a 450hp car. "If" it went all the way through to production, it "would have" had some different parts labelled NISMO/Omori or whatever. Instead, you got a stock'ish R33 GTST which was parked somewhere different than the others in the production line that day, some papers/ideas were drawn up, someone forgot their broken GTR intake plenum in the boot essentially, it is like this. some guy gets the house to himself, decides to have a wank. shuts the blinds, gets his lube and tissues (takes a few tissues out to catch - this is your broken plenum) pants off sits in front of the PC strokin his wang while trying to load the webpages he needs. gets himself half a mongrel, but telstra bigpond is not working properly. he reboots and tries again but still no good, then he gets the shits. pull shis pants up, opens the blinds, throws the tissues that he took out in to his pocket (your boot), then goes and does something else. it was a great idea. had heaps of potential and even some documentation (cookies file and tissues) but it never eventuated. So would you say that he had a good old pull and blow his load? No. But he was going to. doesn't mean he did. it never happened. same as your car. I'm curious which insuranec agency has insured it for the figures you are hinting at. and why? how is the replacement value higher than any other Stock GTST which has the exact same parts as yours? it is not a rare collectors item as it never existed. at best, if it were possible, the insurance value should be the price of a Brand new 1993 GTST (back in 1993) + the cost of all the parts that you have purchased for it + the cost of labour to install and tune etc. and 100% of these members know that insurance value NEVER increases by $2000 for a new plenum and install (eg) if that were the case, Deren (check the guy rebuilding his R32 GTR from ground up , new bolts and all in the Maintenance section) should have his car insured for $120K (original price back in 1992) + all the new parts his bought + fitting etc. what was the reason you gave insurance company X for the value of the car?

yeh the car sounds awesome on the DVD. but I don't like the look. can appreciate the time/effort/money involved, but don't like it. one of the best money pits around though.

are you as good with manual as you are wif english? if so, problem found you have. Why are you suprised that your 14-19 year old stock car lost to a 4 year old car with same/similar power?

well that was a farkin let down.

YaarB25DETT pirate engined Lada.. I remember some really really good looking guy posted those links before..

at 3000rpm though? even with the cheater gas, is it possible to have enough exhaust power to spin whatever turbo he used to make 300awkw at 3000rpm?

It must have been $10K fire and theft, minus excess. which essentially makes it a bad choice in terms of insurance. sure it's better than no insurance like so many others, but still. $7K is not turbo skyline money. hard luck mate. Do you know if the thieves were hurt in the accident? hope so.

Deren - speaking of income ( a few posts back), have you seen this thread in QLD.. http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Wa...ic-t218571.html not sure of your income or if that's a good wage in the land of motor mechanics.. but it might help you financially. anyway, this car is coming along very nicely. congrats on the baby and keep up the good work.

RB's don't have a boost cut. the cut is Rich and Retard. it describes what the computer does the the mixture and timing. it does not happen at any particular psi. stock turbo seems to make it happen at anything above 10 psi and more so at about 4500rpm as this is where max torque is produced. a larger turbo will make the same torque figure at a slightly higher rev and different boost reading due to how much air it can move. The larger turbo doesn't need as much boost to ingest the same amount of air that the stock turbo does with higher boost. Long story short, you'r ecu needs to be tricked, modified or replaced. take your pick. tricked is via a signal bender like SAFC etc. modified is re-flashed/tuned/chipped (Yes Toshi in sydney or Dr-Drift in melbourne can do this) replaced is well just that. replaced totally with an aftermarket stand alone ecu - eg Apexi Power FC, Wolf V4, Haltech, Autronic etc etc.

D'oh. What are second hand 17" tyres worth these days?

you and your friend were hanging out at a lookout? together? in my day, lookouts were for fornicating. that's why you were told to leave the area. you were taking up fornication space while not fornicating.. or... were you?

holy crap.. is that even possible with an RB of any kind?

also, if you are hitting your exhaust on speedbumps, maybe you should sort out your obvious ride height problem first.

those are your bulk problems? spark plugs, coil packs, loose exhaust/manifold studs/bolts Under $500 to fix all those. and that includes buying new coil packs, spark plugs and gasket kit and studs/nuts/bolts

I believe it needed to rev to 37560rpm. had 3 T51 SPL turbo's It was a little laggy like most RB20's.... but once he got the revs up to 35400rpm, it was all smiles.. are my figures correct Roy?

how much life left on the tyres?

are they worth "alot" more than R33 gtst seats? not sure what they look like? are they more like GTR seats?

Skylines need more middle eastern appearenced owners. then they would "ALL" be stopped and checked, and I would feel less discriminated against for not getting hassled. should I wear a cap? a white one? and have it backwards or something? should I leave facial hair in strange designs? Can those of you lucky people who get pulled over all the time give me some clues as to what I should do to be with the "IN" crowd?

you need to look at NUMB3RS (like the show) to work this out.. eg. Roy = 260rwkw ($600rb20fromwreckers+TD06-20Gkit) x 20psi + (Fuel/tuningtime) if you apply this formula, you'll see that a forged rebuild of rb20 is not required. see vid in sig

20 odd psi no doubt?