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Welcome. I will give you are warning though, once you have gotten used to a turbo, driving is a chore without one....mmm turbz

Welcome and great build. Holden with a Nissan engine - love it!

Welcome! Great pair of cars you have there. Targa tops, hatchback and torque steer - the NX sounds like a ton of fun

Fair enough Glad you like it. PS.Thanks Luke

Welcome. Gotta love the R32 shape Out of interest what makes the Skyline better than a 180sx?

No worries mate. Yeah you will have to let me know when you get here and I will take you to some ramen shops. I wish I remembered to take my camera on my bike trip today. Went to Akihabara and saw an R34 Skyline - Otaku spec, big anime wrap covering the sides. Wouldn't own an Otaku spec myself but I do like the look of them.

No worries mate, it is great to know someone is interested. I love ramen, cold ramen in summer is the awesome. Tonkotsu is my second favourite of the 5 standard ramens (tantanmen, tonkotsu, miso, soy sauce, salt). In Aichi I had a tonkotsu-tantanmen ramen, it was gazmo, wish I could find it in Tokyo. I have also had tantanmen with milk in the broth - also delicious. On Monday I had a vinegar tantanmen, also nice but not in the same league as some of the other tantanmen derivatives. A couple of months ago I had a tantanmen with really thick noodles, that was fantastic too. In Gifu there is a great little shop that sells my favourite chashumen (lots of meat). I think they roast the meat for a long time then refridgerate it before reheating it - so amazingly delicious. I even love the cheap ramens - tantanmen from Sugakiya, Lawson 100 cold ramen (105yen FTW). Hmm I didn't realise I had so much to say about ramen... Edit: I am just going to keep recalling more ramen now. Latest addition - another great shop in Gifu that sells Goma (sesame seed) based ramens. Amazingly good.

I live pretty close to the Tama river (Tamagawa). It is the border between Tokyo and Kawasaki and has been nicknamed the Tamazon because a lot of aquarium fish are released by their owners there. The tropical fish can survive the winter due to the warm water released by water treatment facilities. I have heard it is not uncommon to find gar fish over 1 meter in length in the Tama. I actually took a few photos when I went for a ride yesterday. There is a small man made pool next to the river which people use for fishing. I am pretty sure that someone just releases buckets full of fish in there and catching a fish is about as difficult as putting on a pair of pants. Some poor fish that was angled out of the aforementioned pool and then fed (alive) to one of the areas many cats. The cats are "owned" by some of the many homeless people that live in shacks alongside the Tama river. Some of the shacks seem pretty nice - like a sort of beach house I guess. I have only shown the bad side of the Tamagawa. It is actually a pretty nice place especially considering the amount of nature there is. Keep in mind that this is in the middle of the most populated metropolitan area on the planet. The river used to be pretty polluted but the government/councils got it cleaned up so that a variety of bird and fish life has returned to the area.

If you could take a picture of the gauge face and post it we might be able to help out. It doesn't have to be with the engine running just a picture of the gauge at rest would be helpful. You didn't list it in the mods but do you know if the car has a boost controller fitted?

Do you regret ever getting rid of it? My old man had a Datsun 1000 wagon which I guess would be much more common than your Datsun and I really wish he never got rid of it. I would love a 1960s 2 door Japanese wagon to play around with now...Harder to find one in Japan than it is in Australia and they almost never come up in Australia for sale.

Yeah it looks pretty cool. However, to be honest, I am much more interested in the white wagon you have in your sig. Please tell me what it is, I don't recognise it.

No worries mate. Good luck with it.

I did a bit of research on these before and it seems like if you keep the series 8 near to stock then they are a great car. If you go for an early series FD then there are a few things that need to be modified to make even stock ones reliable. Although by now, after 20 years of use, I imagine even the early ones would be sorted out. At the end of the day if you do blow a motor you can get a kit from the US to stick an LS1 in there and they only weigh a little bit more than the rotary. Just make sure you put NO2 bottles in a secret compartment under the seat so that for 10 seconds or less you can be free

GTR in Black - awesome. Great buy mate and welcome to the forum. Thanks for posting pics.

Welcome and thanks for posting the pics. Looks great!

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Welcome and good work on getting a GTR.

Always a pleasure to welcome a new wagon owner. Good luck with it and the forums.

Coming home from work I saw this festival a few minutes from my place so I popped in and took a few photos. Sadly the photos were terrible. I always love taiko though.

Welcome, good luck with it.

I don't have any warnings and I don't have much insight into the system but it seems unfair that if someone gets warned then it stays forever. Fair enough mods haven't got time to review them all but surely some kind of statute of limitation thing is in order. For example warnings last for 2 years and then are automatically removed.

I love black 32GTRs especially when they are on grey volks....awesome buy mate.

You are probably going to be a lot better off asking this question on calaisturbo.There is a wealth of VLs with 20/25/26 and SOHC/DOHC 30 knowledge there. Another thing to keep in mind with a DOHC 30 is that not only do you have more power potential with an unmodified head but you don't have to worry about warped/cracked SOHC heads. In addition if you get the VCT working on an RB30DET the torque is improved all over the rev range. I would twin cam mine but it is a reasonably rare car and I don't want to mod anything that can't be undone with a minimum of fuss. To do a twin cam it is probably better to move the idler pulley which involves drilling the block for the bolt - simple enough and not entirely necessary but I don't want to risk blowing the engine by having the timing belt fail, nor do I want to drill a hole in the block of my relatively original car.

What people tend to ignore are the packages that are negotiated by the Labor party in order for the money to be handed over. The current $275 million that Terry was referring to was given on the proviso that GM injects $1 billion dollars from America into the Australian manufacturing industry. That is a great economic outcome for Australia. So as long as Labor continues to negotiate packages with Holden that provide an overall benefit to Australia I think we should definitely continue to support Holden.

Welcome!