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  1. superspark is the chinese "version" of splitfire which are made in japan for the extra 120 id just go the real deal
  2. it boost was deliberately tapered off at the top end to stop the turbos over spinning and killing their frail 14 year old ceramic insides very impressive result given its a basically stock 32gtr! have you had a chance to try launch control?
  3. you would think given the price of gt-8s now a wrecked one will be dirt cheap to get a gearbox out of not going to fix a design/component fault but would get you back on the road
  4. fibrevision sources many of kits from local sources which many others use also so its all about the same
  5. probably looking at 1000-1200$ depending on what painters are avaliable to do the work
  6. front skirts and rear , last one wont be able to do again at that price . monkey warehouse kit so fit and quality is very good
  7. have 1 only m-sports series 1 r33 kit left , super special 900$ crazy drift action!
  8. thats how insane things are at the moment , what should have taken 6 months has happened in a week 57y for a dollar just now
  9. Aussie Dollar May Drop 25% on Commodities, CBA Says (Update1) By Lukanyo Mnyanda and Candice Zachariahs Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The Australian dollar, headed for the worst year since a currency peg ended in 1983, may drop a further 25 percent through March as a slowing global economy saps demand for the country's raw materials, according to CBA Europe Ltd. The currency, which slid 17 percent in the third quarter, may trade as low as 50.45 U.S. cents, the weakest since Dec. 21, 2001, according to Divyang Shah, chief strategist in London at CBA Europe, a unit of Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The currency, which was at 66.85 U.S. cents at 11:19 a.m. in Sydney, has tumbled with equity markets as investors dump high-yielding assets for safer holdings in the U.S. dollar and Japan's yen. ``Given the deteriorating outlook for commodities, the Aussie is going to remain under pressure,'' Shah said in a telephone interview yesterday. ``Extreme risk aversion is another factor that has weighed on the Aussie.'' Commonwealth Bank is Australia's largest provider of mortgages. Australia's dollar, also known as the Aussie, slumped in the three months through Sept. 30 as the Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index, which tracks commodities futures, dropped more than a quarter. The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of shipping costs for commodities, plummeted more than 66 percent. The country relies on shipments abroad of materials including iron ore, crude oil and coal for about 17 percent of its economy. Risk Appetite The VIX volatility index, a gauge reflecting expectations for stock-market price changes and risk aversion, rose to a record 70.33 on Oct. 17. The S&P 500 has extended its 2008 retreat to 39 percent, poised for the worst yearly performance since 1931. High-yielding currencies including the Aussie, the South African rand and the Brazilian real have also dropped as concern the world economy is headed for recession makes so-called carry trades unattractive. Investors in such trades borrow in countries like Japan and the U.S. where interest rates are at 0.5 percent and 1.5 percent to invest in higher-yielding assets. The benchmark rate is 6 percent in Australia, 12 percent in South Africa and 13.75 in Brazil. The risk is exchange-rate fluctuations can erode profits. The Australian dollar has declined 24 percent versus the dollar in 2008, the fifth-worst performance of major currencies after the rand, Norway's krone, the South Korean won and real. The currency, which reached a 25-year high in July, hasn't lost more than a fifth of its value in a year since it was allowed to trade freely in December 1983, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Forecasts Slashed Shah expects the Australian dollar will be worth 59 U.S. cents at the end of the first quarter of 2009. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, which revised its forecast for the Aussie on Oct. 17, expects the currency to recover to 64 U.S. cents by June 30 and then to 75 cents by the end of 2009. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. said Oct. 21, it expects the Aussie to drop in each of the coming quarters and reach lows of 60 U.S. cents and 66 yen by the end of 2009. ``We are now forecasting below trend growth through to 2010,'' wrote Tony Morriss, a senior currency strategist at ANZ in Sydney. ``We now expect the Reserve Bank of Australia to cut rates further over coming months -- towards a cash rate of 4.5 percent.'' Craig Ferguson, currency hedge fund manager at Antipodean Capital Management in Melbourne, yesterday said the Australian dollar may drop to 55 U.S. cents. Interest-Rate Cuts The Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to cut its benchmark lending rate by 0.5 percentage point to 5.5 percent on Nov. 4, according to a Bloomberg survey of 16 economists. The rate stood at a 12-year high of 7.25 percent in August. Traders expect the central bank to lower borrowing costs by 168 basis points over the next 12 months according to a Credit Suisse index based on overnight swaps trading. The Aussie, together with the rand and the Mexican peso, was one of the currencies described this week by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as undervalued by more than 20 percent based on inflation, productivity and terms of trade. To contact the reporter on this story: Lukanyo Mnyanda in London at lmnyanda@bloomberg.net Last Updated: October 22, 2008 21:12 EDT
  10. open it up and have a look probably just a remap for basic mods/remove limits
  11. you may have knocked off one of the balancing weights on the wheel , or as brad said its not centered properly. get a wheel ballance and alighnment first , its never a bad idea anyway to get one semi reguarly
  12. a nice clean r33 gtr is nothing to sneeze at midnight purple series III with some big rims . yum!
  13. pearl white looks quite nice . im over black i really like the red , gives it a euro sport feel
  14. its not all doom and gloom . its mostly doom and gloom but theres a splash of non doom i saw an evo 8 go for 850fob and r34 gtt man turbo go for 550fob on tuesday at the current rate thats approx 13000$ and $8500 which is cheap the downside is very few cars actually sell as japanese sellers are in the same boat going WTF is going on and would rather sit on the car than dump it for a crazy price . after all to them its 850,000 not 13000$
  15. this is just a guess but I would say a speed sensor thats the common component of tcs and hicas get someone to put it on a diagnostic and see what error code you get
  16. this is exactly what dotars will think unfortunetly . their primary concern is rebirthing which smash repairers and painters are often involved in so their unlikely to take anything onboard from your spray guy. can you produce the old "voided" plate , if he peeled it off. That will help a lot as they will know the location of the old plate. Your next best bet is to contact the compliancer and try and get him to confirm the identity of the car and get involved. re-issuing of a new plate is not as hard with the raw if its close to the issue date , say if it was lost on arrival or put on the wrong car. but getting one issued to the public after some time can be very difficult. I also think the painters story sounds a bit dodgey , i dont like your chances in this unfortunetly
  17. turbo 25 stockers generally run out of puff right at the top drop your exhaust if you think thats the restriction but i think you will find it will be roughly the same
  18. in the last 5 years or so of fitting hundred + sets of splitfires we have had 1 s15 coil pack die. just 1 .
  19. have you tried removing the paint ? i have gotten spray paint off before , not as much as you need , but it wasnt too hard to get off if your careful
  20. production has already started . Hopefully a couple of weeks away.
  21. 15 G sensor power supply 2 or circuit http://tyndago.googlepages.com/gt-rattesainfrormation before everything else remove the switch and return to standard lots of info on this if your search
  22. autoworx

    Fmic

    plugs or coil packs most probably coil packs . gap your plugs down to .8 or lower but it will probably only help temporarily . then buy some splitfires
  23. my series 1 gtr had this , its not a series thing or a vspec thing . it seems to be a factory option . atleast it looks very factory and clearly not standard equipment on any r33 gtr variant best thing about the series III gtr , 1 red fog light on the back instead 1 of the reverse lights . some compliancers may have had to remove this though on the ones in australia love that fog light!
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