Midnight x

just payed for my car and it lands in brissy on the 8th of feb apparently how long is compliance going to take, the usual ~14 days?

wow thats a bit of a kick in the nuts hopefully the standard auto takes normal fluid.

sweet, i was wondering where you were, thought you must have been on holiday or something, look forward to hearing from you

so may as well replace the whole lot with a 3" or 3.5" system? have you had a look in the way of intercoolers yet? i was wondering if it is necessary to go the aristo style one that isnt as high as the 600x300x75 general core.

thats pretty good, only problem is that im 21 and i have heard that insurance is difficult to get through shannons when under 25, worth a shot though if its that cheap. whats the excess like and is that with mods?

thats pretty good, im 21 and live in the outer suburbs so it shouldnt be too bad. my mate has an aristo and he pays $900 a year for full comp with a written off car on his record and he is 22 so im hoping it will be similar to that or just a bit more because i have no crashes or speeding fines on my record

so when are you going to have your car Kristian?

fair enough, might be too much mucking around then. at least there is space for 7 cd's do you mean all the japanese on the console and the steering wheel controls?

is there a din slot next to the cd stacker in the glove box? might be able to stick it in there and just splice it into the speaker wires or plug in a beatsonic, just a thought anyway cos i want to get my ipod hooked up. thats a bit disappointing that they still have the ceramic turbine... chances are its a free to air sub like the aristos have which is pretty hard to get a hold of, hopefully not though for our sake. might just be easier to get a normal voice coil sub and build a bit of a box under the parcel shelf. do your cars have air purifiers? im looking forward to more pictures, i have heaps already but i've looked at them heaps already...

well Ben, my car will be joining your collection in the near future i have already started buying cedric bits for it to give it the vip touch, just bought a chrome thing that goes above the rear numberplate. if either of you two wants to trade lights and grill let me know when installing an aftermarket cd/mp3 player do i need to get a beatsonic like my mate had to for his aristo? we also need to find out how much boost can be run safely with exhaust and intercooler.

i found some on yahoo japan the other day and yesterday i went to give you the link and they were gone. they were something like 19 x 9 +24 19 x 10 +26 they were hot

yeah he has been sending me cars that are going through auction for the last 5 or 6 weeks. im leaning towards the standard auto because if i mod the car a bit the CVT might crap itself, and as a uni student i wont be able to fix it. the only extra bits the vipz has is the cvt, power rear seats and the telescopic steering column as you mentioned above. the only things i would change on the blue one would be the grill and taillights swapped to cedric ones and of course a dumping on the 19's

im pretty close to giving Kristian the ok to import the dark blue Gloria that Phil has at Direct Imported. 1999 Gloria Ultima 50,000km Dark Blue 19" Wald rims Auction grade 4.5

its good to see someone doing some research on these cars, i am currently looking for a late model Gloria in Japan with the help of Kristian from iron chef imports. the thing i am worried about though is how the CVT will hold up with increased torque... the only things i will be doing to mine for a while is exhaust, rims, coilovers and cedric taillights because im not a fan of the altezza ones on the gloria. what model is the silver one you have? i have my eye on a 2002 gloria Ultima Z at the moment which is just being checked out. mine will be a test car so it could take a very long time before i get it on the road i will follow this thread closely to see what you find on these cars

engine covers are for ugly engines, under the cover is a mess... the late model engine cover looks a lot better

they have the new LEV VQ30DET which is supposed to be very efficient and eco friendly specs say it gets 10.3 L/100km

i have 144 pictures of this car on my pc ha ha its very nice i was thinking about getting it as a test car but the owner had already applied for import approval. a cedric went through auction today that my importer was bidding on, havent heard anything back yet though