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  1. Bottom - always think complete/street interiors look silly with stripped out looking steering wheels
  2. A genuine Nissan oil branded created in modern times was not conceived specifically with your 20 year old gearbox in mind. It's no more suited to your vehicle than it is a Mitsubishi or a Holden - just an oil with an additive package that Nissan approves for use in their vehicles. It's therefore no more special than any other quality 75w90 mineral oil suitable for your application. I find with Skyline gearboxes, mineral oils are king - the synchros don't seem to like synthetic as much - something about glazing them. As for Redline shockproof - only use this in a racing application or when you're trying to get more life out of your already worn synchros. It's expensive and will offer you no real benefit over and above a mineral 75w90 in a perfectly healthy gearbox. In the diff, if you're running a 1.5 or 2 way clutch LSD, then Penrite's LS 85w140 I've found to be the most street friendly, resulting is less clunks during low speed turns. If you want more bite in your diff once it's heated, then you can run a thinner oil like the 85w90 they tend to come with. Engine oils - most RB20/25/26 will run just fine on a 10w40, even occasionally tracked. If tracking often or your engine has had a long and/or wearing life, you might want something thicker once it's heated, so 10w60 or 25w70 etc. My personal pick for the street cars is Penrite's ten tenths 10w40 full synthetic. RB25 feels very smooth with it and I change at intervals of about 7500-10,000km - engine still running strong at 200,000km+ (an obviously wound back odo too). As a rule of thumb...mineral oils in sports/performance cars should be swapped out at about 5,000km, semi synthetics can generally get 7-8,000, whilst a good full synthetic will allow you a 10,000km interval presuming it is not too filthy. If oil comes out black (but not burnt / broken down), this is a good thing! Oil's primary job is lubrication, secondarily cleaning the engine. If your oil comes out clear after even 1,000km then it's not cleaning anything out of the engine. Unless freshly built, RBs loooove to produce carbon build up. Source: used to sell oil and gearboxes Hope that helps!
  3. "I'll lowball someone with 6k who will tel me to f**k off but then eventually sell it to someone else for 6k"
  4. I'd say the attitude is more "I want an R32 GTS-T, do I have a spare 16k?"
  5. Hey pat Hey pat Pat Hey pat
  6. You own too many and people wanna cut you down Start stealing them off you and shit
  7. Gentrification of the classics ala GTR
  8. Buy an R33 GTS-T
  9. Oh look it's that topic where everyone recommends cars they own/owned or would buy themselves based on their own tastes/needs, meanwhile OP buys something completely different disregarding all.
  10. I'd put that decrease in viewership for the day down to sexless marriages getting their once a year evenings together - or couples making an effort to spend time together instead of doing their own thing perhaps?
  11. Congrats on the purchase - these things are only going up in value! I believe it's a 10mm ride height difference and this should be in the springs themselves. No reason they can't be swapped between the two and any 33R suspension will fit it.
  12. Now who's car has the ETA
  13. Sage advice! Why are all the evil microbes rod shaped?
  14. Going on sat for a visit, wanna cruise up?
  15. Agreeing with Birds?
  16. Flat organization hierarchy = little opportunity for career progression besides standard payrises. When a teacher gets to ten years, if they don't secure a role in admin there is no further payrise based on their experience/growth, only indexed payrises. It comes down to unions and strength in numbers = greater leverage. Most all humans feel entitled to what they can get and would do the same shit if we all had unions telling us we can get more / are worthy of a pay rise if we band together and do x. People don't like dealing with confrontation by themselves and there is a greater risk of losing by putting your single job on the line, having to negotiate by yourself, rather than hundreds/thousands at once. Teachers, like nurses and paramedics also have a unique leverage in that an organisation can shut down because of industrial action and pick up where it left off when it finishes. Children with career parents can't be babysat easily and patients in need of care need just that. My problem with unions is it averages out the skill level into a single representation and assumes that all of them deserve a uniform pay rise including shitkickers. If individual office workers tried to negotiate by themselves the shitkickers would get laughed out of the room. Google the "better than average effect" for interesting psych studies on teachers where most will say they are better than average when this is literally inpossible.
  17. Damn what a great starter for someone looking to get into racing! Worth it in parts alone. If only I had the space... GLWS I'm sure it won't last
  18. Well good
  19. Why would a teacher's salary be relative to that of someone in the IT department?
  20. I think the theory goes - if you have a passenger you won't be doing the kind of silly things that necessitate such instrumentation
  21. Haha I just acquired a second job, so I have a back up plan if things go pear shaped on the spec stock front No risk no return, bring it on!
  22. I really hope it doesn't get there - I already bought in too high with low 4s Hopefully the well being successful spud will give us a little lift I think between now and drilling results will be the last chance to get in before the big make or break. We'll either come out the other side broke as f**k or beyond 10c IMO
  23. Awesome! I'm in 88E for the long term now - shares locked away until the next big leap. About to head into the second well - exciting times ahead!
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