Hay all,
Just bit about me, my names Scott, I’m new to the world of jap cars, I live and work in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. I’m an apprentice spray painter start my 3rd year in a few weeks, but I’ve doing full resprays for a while now and I love it, I work at a prestige joint so I manly work on BMW’s (a lot of the M range) Merc’s, Audi’s etc. so I don’t deal with jap cars really. I love my cars and have always loved the R32 GTR’s but I’m only now just getting the chance to own one.
Abit about the cars I’ve owned, 1st up was a 1994 Ford ED, I got it off my grandparents and wasn’t a bad car looked ugly as sin but it was 11 years old and only had 60,000km’s on it so it was like brand new, I put a massive audio/video system in it but it only lasted a few months until I sold it.
After that was my 1996 Audi A4, it was a 1.8l turbo Quattro and was a nice car just had a chip and bodykit but was bloody expensive to fix and it was abit of a lemon, when I decided to cut my loss’s on it, it decided to overheat all the time and I lost a fair bit of cash on it but it looked good
When I sold the Audi I was carless for about a year but I was working in the city so I didn’t really need a car but I got bored and started looking for a R32 GTR but all the ones for sale at the time had a lot of rust issues and all the subframes we’re way to rusted out so I decided to get something newer and go a 2000 Holden VT SSII it was good, I dint have any problems with the gen3 like most people do but I went though some rear tyres pretty easily until I got 19’s on it.
I also resprayed it because it got keyed the 1 night I left it outside so I resprayed the whole car the same colour but added abit more of a red pearl and it looked good but I’m pretty sure I know who keyed it so I sold it so it wouldn’t happen again
Now I’m back looking for a R32 GTR, just deciding if I should buy privately locally or import one, I’ve got a mate who’s an importer and is looking for me so if I import one I’ll probably go through him rather then a major company but I’m still not 100% as places like j-spec seem to have some good cars I’m just worried about rust issues especially in the subframe so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I know about the timing belts and rust of corse is there anything else I should be looking for?