Hello.
My name is Paulo and as a Portuguese guy, I've never been worried about skylines because of their RHD exclusivity and because I though there weren't any in this end of the world.
However there is and luckly it's for sale. It's about 27000 euros 100.000 km.It's an R34 RHD and gorgeous.
Of course this made my head shake and I need your opinion.
He says he has an exaust, a turbo timer and what he calls a giant intercooler.
Well after searching back and forth in this and other skyline forums... I still have some newbies doubts.
I want this car for 90% road use and the others maybe track days...but mostly road. My aimed hp target was 650 hp.
Here are the troubles I encountered:
1)-Really have no clue if this is safe on pump 98-100 gas (no detonation?)
2)- I dont quite know about R34 reliability issues however I think and read that for this kind of numbers I would need new forged internals(?).
3)- Is RH driving in LH country a pain in the ass?
As we all agree - Portugal isn't a tunners dream thats why I would need you to help me with your knowlegde on a rock solid build that can withstand 500 normal hp and 650 hight boost regularly. This point is very important because there are no specialists around and all the work has to be done abroad like uk or something so I dont want problems afterwards because the outcome would be desastrous.
Please be kind enough to enumerate what you recomend me.
Probable things I need:
-5s twins (or similar?)
-MAF
-new ECU
-clutch (maybe)
-fuel pump fuel injectors
-...more for sure...
To finish this endless post if you could give me a roughly estimate of this kind of tuning I would be much much appreciate.
Thank you all
Paulo Neves
PS: sorry for possible english mistakes.