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Ah, just remembered... it's a Saleen S7.

Marty, it wasn't a McLaren F1, it was a low-volume American car whose name currently escapes me. It's based on a Corvette iirc. Forgetting all the rest of the crap in the movie, I actually really liked the blown drag car (GTO??) out of FnF, apparently it was a show car before those morons destroyed it. Mmm, big obnoxious V8...

Haha It rubs the lotion into its skin -> This friction in the state of the skin, that one uses l'acqua adjacent in the advanced side God damn hippies -> C'est a skin the game, that one is ugly lobby (wtf?? :alcoholic)

Wasn't someone else who uses your PC who also forgot to log you out? Just trying to think of less sinister explanations...

It'll probably take me a week, with my navigational skills

Agree with the other guys re speedos being wound back. It's incredibly common, and people seem to believe a speedo with low km's over an interior with obviously high km's?? Anyway the car looks very nice, good luck with the sale!

I've seen a few R33's with towbars, but I've never looked at the bar. An R33 would be fine to tow with, believe me, my R33 has heaps more low-end torque than some of the cars I've towed with. Just don't try to launch fast and you'll be fine. Having a turbo really helps on the highway while towing, when you get to a small hill you hardly have to move your foot to hold speed.

Haha this thread is classic

Hi guys Due to financial difficulties, my baby is up for sale I bought it four and a bit years ago with 74,000km on the clock (first Australian owner). It has ~180,000km on it now, though the vast majority of that is highway km as I was sent to work hundreds of km from home for lengthy periods for a while there. It's been serviced with full synthetic oil every 7,500km. The car was bone stock, even the stock exhaust and airbox, for nearly two years. Between then and early this year, the only mods were pod, exhaust, wastegate bleed to 11psi and the clutch. 1993 model (series 1) 5 speed manual 5 puck brass button clutch, 2750lb clamp. Still bites as hard as the day it went in (~140k iirc) Custom T3/4, currently running 9psi. Was built to run 22psi with methanol injection on a mate's VLT Turbosmart wastegate bleed Turbo timer Autometer 20psi boost gauge 3" exhaust, turbo back (ie dump). Removable section to delete cat, and replacement section that bolts on and dumps below the passenger seat (angled away from the car). Quite loud, great for trips to the track. Only used once, got it as a bit of a novelty when having the exhaust modded but liked it a lot Hybrid 600x300x75mm intercooler. Made a huge difference to top end Koni Adjustable-D shocks (less than 12 months old), Pedders Sports Ryder springs (35mm lowered, looks great but still perfectly legal) Alarm system with immobiliser, siren, remote central locking Pioneer DEH-P6050 head unit. Volume buttons worn but still works perfectly. Rear speakers are factory upgrade Bose carbon-fibre, and the fronts run off two channels of a US Audio 4x50W amp. I'm using the good front speakers elsewhere, I've put some splits in so I can listen to CDs but they're not much chop. Factory electric sunroof T35 tint all round (darkest legal) Whiteline camber correction kit in the front Nismo gear knob, Jay95R33's fantastic leather gear/handbrake boot set The car has six months rego. I have boxes for the stereo and alarm, along with all manuals etc, and a microwave module for the alarm which I never had installed. Will sell with the stock ECU (dead tacho feed but otherwise fine) and stock R33 wheels and 100% legal tyres. I have the modified items as options, but I will not separate them, as I'd like to offer them to the car's new owner. If they don't sell with the car I'll offer them for sale separately later. I have things like the stock airbox in a cupboard at home, which obviously will go with the car. It is in good condition, it has a couple of small carpark dints but is otherwise fine. The coils (ignition) could do with replacement, but the car drives perfectly ok as they are. As is (stock ECU, stock wheels): $14,000 ono Options: PowerFC with hand controller (base maps): $800 ROH DriftR wheels, 17x8", Falken 235/45ZR17 rubber. Less than 12 months old, one wheel has tiny marks from short-term storage but are otherwise immaculate. Cost $2500 earlier this year, sell with car for $1500 If you're interested in buying the whole lot in one go (ie the car with wheels and PFC) call me and we can discuss. Call me on 0417 761 243 or email me for more information on this very regretful sale.

When my bike dash initialises, it flashes up '888' for a second or so while the speedo resets. That'd have to make it officially the fastest wheel-driven vehicle, ever

Haha memories! At school, when PCs actually became affordable enough to own, mine was a really flash one, it was an XT Turbo (a whopping 12MHz out of an 8086, up from 8MHz), 640KB RAM, 2x 5¼" floppy drives and a grey-screen CGA monitor. It was the top of the range that came with CGA, the others only had text mode... It cost around $3,000 from memory. It was later upgraded with an 8-bit ISA RLL card and 20MB hard drive. It seeked so slow you could hear the heads start then stop their movement. I also whacked a VGA card in and, dispite having about half the pins sitting on a bit of foam to stop them shorting out on the board (16 bit card in an 8 bit slot) it now had a total of 256 colours available, yay! My home PC (nothing flash, Athlon XP2100, 512MB, 100Gb etc) blows away most of the servers I used to support Actually speaking of networks, our Microbee "network" at primary school consisted of 32 (iirc) workstations all connected via their own parallel cable to the back of the server. The server was the machine with the hard drive in it, around 10MB I think. In addition to that high-tech arrangement, there were 3 (or maybe 4) Apple IIe's around the school that everyone had to share (for the river crossing game, maths stuff, or really high-tech word processing/label printing). They persisted with that setup until around 1994 I think, well after I left, as I kept getting calls about it until then. But umm... I think we're getting a bit off topic here. Did I mention I got a 12?

Haha and I thought I was the only one old/nerdy enough to remember

Edit: oops, fell for it :crazy:

Yeah, "be respectful of others" is my bet (or literally "don't hurt their feelings", "try not to upset others", etc etc) I wonder if you put those translations in systran/babelfish etc, whether they'd spit out 100% grammatically correct Japanese?

Haha classic

I had exactly the same problem. The tacho output was fried on the stock ECU, which apparently is not that uncommon on the R33. I replaced the ECU and the tacho instantly worked again. I may be wrong, but I think the ECU works out engine RPM based on the CAS. From there, the ECU fires coils/injectors, and runs the tacho.

Holy crap!! Time to get friendly with someone who makes stickers methinks...

Agree - it's been said far many many moons, that the best mod you can do to your car is to 'upgrade' the driver. But yeah, just test drive until you make a decision. When I was in the market, I ended up being torn between an S14a 200SX, the R33 I have now, and a TT Soarer. Three very different cars, and in the end the Skyline won it for me because it's more focussed than the Soarer, and more comfortable and smoother than the 200SX, and I planned to do a LOT of kays. Edit: my god I'm a post whore when I'm stuck at home (flu). Sorry

He's been banned... he can't reply to give you his address. Pity.

Ditch the Supra, buy a bike

wtf @ your sig

Thank you. He was getting annoying.

IMO the Skyline is a far better all-rounder, but has a weight disadvantage if track work is your thing. As much as R32 guys like to go on about how light their cars are (or how heavy R33s are) afaik there's around 50kg between. Skylines definitely make more power stock, and (I think) a stock R33t will beat a stock SR20DET'd 180SX, but how many stockers do you see? Light mods, the SR powered 180 will win, particularly in corners. Medium to heavy mods, the Skyline will show the SR a clean pair of heels, although the extra weight will still haunt them a little in corners. Reading that back it sounds like the Skyline is a barge that doesn't turn... we're talking degrees here. Both cars handle absolutely brilliantly, and the Skyline wouldn't be far behind the 180SX, nevertheless the 180SX would be in front. Well the ones I've driven would be, anyway. I'm only going on the half a dozen or so of each that I've driven, so I'm not exactly drawing on massive experience here. I'm trying to be objective though 180SX Pros Cheap Parts are easy to source Popular Maintenance is fine, everyone knows them now Resale - not really sure as I'm not buying or selling atm, but they're already cheap Relatively light, good motors Well balanced chassis Turbo models had strong drivelines, good brakes Look good Heaps of hot up bits available Easy to get going very well on light mods Cons Cheap Popular = every prick has one Some parts are still exxy Getting long in the tooth, most have been flogged Ultimately won't keep up with heavily modded Skylines CA18 is relatively peaky Skyline Pros Getting cheaper. Some R32s are nearing 180SX/Silvia territory Parts are easy to source Popular Maintenance is fine, everyone knows them now Resale - not really sure as I'm not buying or selling atm, but they're already cheap Still relatively light, good motors Well balanced chassis Turbo models had strong drivelines, good brakes Look good Heaps of hot up bits available Better quality interior than 180SX Non GTR's also had optional 4WD (albeit only in non-turbo form in R33, unsure about R34) If luggage space is your thing, get a Stagea (Skyline wagon) Cons Popular = every prick has one. At least there are a few different model types Some parts are still exxy R32s and S1 R33s getting long in the tooth, many (though not all) earlier models have been flogged Stuff all boot space in R33 RB20 in R32 has bugger all torque off boost If you're not familiar with them, spec differences can be confusing That's all I can be arsed typing at this time of night If you're thinking of buying, neither will disappoint!

Managed 12 the first time... yay, my guesses must have been really good ones

You'd be amazed at the difference a FMIC makes. Even with the less-than-perfect pipework I have on mine, the difference in the midrange is surprising, and the top end has much more punch and doesn't get that wheezy feeling any more. To be honest I couldn't believe the difference. I've heard figures as high as 35rwkw can be gained by upgrading nothing but the cooler on a Skyline that already has the usual mods (exhaust, pod, bleed valve). The stocker is that much of a restriction. It makes me laugh when someone who's spent heaps on mods gets ****y about beating someone else who's spent next to nothing. Taken on any decent bikes lately?