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autronic any day of the week i am going a sm4 in may car they will be the best money you will ever spend, a good ecu will save your motor with out safety features pressure sensors and data loggers you have no idea what is really happening and for the sake of $2500 to save a motor it is a small cost for piece of mind. in no discredit do i meen this but just about every owner that walks through a shop door and spends money will all ways say it is just as good as the best or it is better because they have spent money on it, thats just the way people are i see it all the time. its like those turbo fans in the intake.

So this is the build of my shit can 33, i know some people wont agree with my thought or taste or the way i like to do things so if you got nothing positive to say dont post your negative crap as i dont care what you have to think. anything positive or any questions please feel free to post up and i will answer anything i can. these are some of my other post's pulled from other sites as i cant be arsed retyping everything so please excuse any double take on some things.. so around the end of 2009 i decided to ditch the FWD Toyotas and move up into my first turbo RWD car. i never really liked Nissans and i hated skylines as every man and his dog owns one and i still think the same today but i drove a mates R33 one day and i had a small soft spot for it that i never told any one about as i was such a avid skyline hater. but as my search continued for a new project something made me remember how much i liked to drive his skyline, even though i thought it was a heavy, to common, and lazy i still though i would have a look. any way after a few hours of looking around i found this one Skyline and in the description the owner had lost his licence for DUI and was looking for a Corolla SX which is what i had at the time, so after some negotiating and a swap with some cash i was the owner of a skyline that you could tell was bought from Liverpool. i had it around a week and had been doing nothing but putting it back together as it was ratted and half arsed finished when i bought it, and it also had a set of these horrible white sunken crap wheels on it so i very quickly decided that they had to go. so after a call to my friend Phillb i was the owner of a pair of Sparco meshies in 17 X 8.5 & 17 X 9.5 with the new HSD coil overs i ordered from otomoto it look something like this. So after driving for a few day with it set at mega low i got over the novelty and though i would like to set it up properly and have some fun in it at the track. As the car stands it has: HSD Coilovers Kakamoto Cat Back Exhaust Sparco Rims Mines ECU after my first track day in the skyline at Oran Park it became very apparent that the HSD coilovers where a bad choice of suspension as they had next to no dampening adjustment and just felt rubbish to drive on over all. I even put new spring rates in to try and solve some of the issues but they where no help. after the track day i had a few things i wanted to get onto strait away, first was the Mines ECU was coming out as it was useless on our fuel. So the Mines ECU is great in Japan or England but not here in Australia as our fuel is crap and they run allot of advance and they have a great tendency to ping there head off and can cause bad detonation in engines leading to a dead motor. So that in mind a standard ECU went back in and all those rattling issues went away and my fuel economy went back up and the rpm limiter came back down to 7000 rpm. i also decided that it was time to give it a bit more up and go so i started to do some research into boost controllers, was quite a learning curve because there was so many on the market and i picked the Greddy Profect II Found some GTR seat for a good price so put them in to give me some more stability while driving. I did not like the feeling of the Hicas i found that you would start driving it to the limit and once you got the slightest bit of 4 wheel slide or the rear end would start to walk the hicas would kick in, it changed the feeling of the whole car and would make the inside wheel start to spin at higher rpm. So to solve that i did some shopping and found a hicas lock out bar. I had no air box or heat shield by that point so i decided to make one to help the car breath some cold air, and move some of the heat the the under side of the car. The tabs on the back follow the dump pipe down to direct all the hot air from the turbo and manifold down to the underside of the car. I went to my first motorkhana after that it was allot of fun had to borrow some old second hand tyres that had been lying around for a few years of my mate because i had no rear tyres so bald tyres where better then radials i guessed. I had so much fun i placed 2nd in the pairs and 14th out of 43 over all which was super exciting, here are some pics from that day. After that i thought it was time to sought the suspension out and i started with a new pair of coilovers so i bought BC ER Series coilovers. BEST MONEY I HAVE SPENT WAS ON THESE! And i bought some arms to try and fix the camber issues i had with the car. Now i have heard so many people bag out ebay controll arms but after recieving these in the mail i was quite surprised to there build they are the same as the high end jap ones but are just made out of a thicker materiel ans run a different brand rose link in the end. i have run them for close to 14 months and have never had a single issue with them so i dont care what any one says to me they are good value and i trust them on my car for track work. so by that point the car had slowly started to transform into some thing more my taste and i did a few drives with it and even had a good friend MitchF1 do a photo shoot on it.

this went off last time we are expecting another great turn out!!!

All About Stance is inviting all SAU members to come along as this should be a great meet,There will also be a give away during the day by our sponsor Fix Me Garage.

All About Stance is inviting all SAU members to come along as this should be a great meet,There will also be a give away during the day by our sponsor Fix Me Garage.

well if any one is keen i am keen for a drive pm me fuel to chew and snow tyres to burn

i am keen where and when??

wow so no one has a time for there r33 gtst for wake field park in the last 2 years???

Hi guys and gals. i am wanting a gauge of what time have been achieved in the last 2-3 years at Wakefield park in r33 gtst's i am looking for un opened motors and just name you bolt ons and power figures that helped you achieved you the times i.e coilovers ecu turbo etc etc. cheers

hawk pads are quite a cold pad you will need to heat them up to get them to work, depending how cold they are you might have to really boil them to bed them in.

dude go go to midas they are rip off merchants if it is a heavy metallic grinding noise you have a very high chance that it is metal on metal i would hurry to get them done befor you f**k the rotors by gouching the crap out of them with a metal pad backing

it also depends on the tyres that you put on, like if you were to put a re001 semi tyre it would be no good for a emergency stop at reguler street driving as the tyres have so much surface area and are no where near driving temp at normal driving levels. i would be going more for just a good street tyre like a yokohama A drive R1 or dunlop 9000A or direzzas if you can find them as when it comes to braking tyre temp plays massive role in braking. the stock sumatomo caliper off the 33gtst is designed off the brembo and i have driven on both and there is not a great deal of difference what so ever, i run ebc yellow stuff pads with castroll srf brake fluid and braided lines and i have zero fade at the track. i have run ebc green stuff on the street but am finding that i am sheering massive layers of pad off due the the pad getting to hot from the cars weight

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climate control unit???

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I have a mines ecu from a series 1 r33 gtst turbo manual i am looking to swap it for a stock ecu with some cash my way looking for around $200 but i want a ecu out of s1 turbo 25 1993 model

shit was the out come that bad from the other night.

bumpy

MIdnight_33 : HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOUR SO FUNNY YOU ARE LIKE OMG SO FUNNY 600 FOR BRAND NEW COIL OVER THAT COST ME 1300 JUST AVER A WEEK AGO HAHAHAHA OM MAN I HAVE A STITCH FROM LAUGHING SO HARD. NO LOW BALL THANKS.

bump $1300 both sets tein and hsd + postage or pick up brookvale.

they are good quality and they have a nice smooth ride but i changed my plan for the car and am now after a firmer coil over for track / drift people have said change springs but i want another set of bc's as i had therm in my last track day car and i have already done all the home work with them so it is easier for me. and the teins came out of it when i did the hsd's so that is why i have them.

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