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Btw Troy, this friday be at Shinsaibashi OPA store (you know the one right?) at 5:30pm ok? Xmas bash @ Triangle Bar strictly invite only k?

There you go... learn something new every day. The RS-01 wasactually the ZZII (the same car) but Tommy Kaira developed the car further to meet Tommy Kaira's customers standards (read: luxury interior, driveline refinement etc), so the 2 cars are actually the same... but Tommy K licenced the ZZII for use in Gran Turismo games whereas ASL weren't interested. Tomita-san (Tommy Kaira) and Sumino san (Autobacs Seven) are very close friends and produced this car together so I found out at Response.jp

RS-01?? I've seen the rest of those pics mate... it's TK ZZII. You can also tell by the destinctive dual air intakes on the roof that are there for the rear mounted 'cooler.**Edit: below are the rest of the pics... yes you have to wake up earlier

look at the way the engines facing... the rear wheels of the ZZII match up in the exact same place as the 'front' diff on the RB26... gearbox is backwards... I just kidding, thats ZZII is an amazing engineering feat.

I'd gladly rape a Tommy ZZII for it's engine and driveline. Btw, I hope everybody knows that the ZZII is FWD until the fronts break traction, then becomes 4WD...

I can only read a bit of that article because the scan isn't so good, but the car aparently used a GT-R floopan cut to fit the S30 shell using the multi-link sus that came with it. The car also uses an air-shifter 'box, and the engine is sans-air flow meters using FCon V Pro. Total custom job, but judging by the engine position, I think they left the front dif as is and mounted the engine to line up with the wheel arches.

Absolutely the best shots I've seen on this site... brilliant work!!! I wanna do the same but with cars here.

This is the way definately

... I actually have to turn sideways in the ****pit before I stand up to get out...

Dave finally posted up the test day pics ... you guys don't realize how hard it was to source that super-size NACA duct!!! :hellpisd:

Informer: check the ECU... you might be running a re-programmed one.

Yeah... how'd you know I had only 1 friend in the whole universe?

Thats not a disadvantage mate! Skylines are in another league... Racing Skylines shouldn't come into the equasion for this young lad anyway right?

Yeah right, I just want something newer... and not a whale! This is the problem, I don't want to go the extra for an R34 because for that money I'd prefer an FD3S, which leaves me with a late model R33. I just don't dig the whales... and R32s are too old in Japan terms as Ikeri told me last Sunday... *sniff*

He wishes...a limited production car! Just hand it over mate...You KNOW the first thing I'd do is karate kick those stock mirrors off, then karate chop that back wing in half and sell it on Yahoo, then get some decent black rims and some decent black aero mirrors

A Skyline at that...Tourquenstein, seriously, if you want a Nissan, go for an NA 1.8 Silvia for the 1st 4 years... learn how that car handles on the TRACK, then move up to a Skyline... it might just save your life.

Yeah time to move on.... it's like being a kid in a candy shop here though, so I think 1 year max before selling and buying smething different!

Talk about killing 5 birds with one stone! What a great idea!!!

Evo's look mad slammed...

... and this pic we took after Troy had finished getting his car ready for cruising down da Gold Coast...

I bought a present for you already Troy...

One thing I will say against the Evo's are their FF bias... tendency to understeer etc. Troy's already quietly shat himself twice while I had the tail out in the R32... the 4WD kinda desensitizes you to tail out shenanigans. I'd definately set an Evo up like a FF circuit racer ie: replace the rear sus with iron bars and dump the front and jack the tail end up sky high.

One of the biggest things I've found with Evo's (any of them really) is that they can't be complied in Australia (the Evo 6.5 and 7/8 were sold there so you can't bring in the same body shape - direct competition to locally sold models AFAIK) so that means instant street cred if you have a III, IV or V, add to that their ability on the track, the 4-door convenience, the ENDLESS amount of tuning parts and most of all... the fact that Troy has one. I wanna be like Troy

The setup I could pull on an Evo 4/5/6/7...

Track weapon...