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  1. Pretty keen on making it legal, aren't you.

    Rasing the height IMHO will wreck the tough as stance it has. Looks shmicko in the pics, I'd leave it at the current height...

    But it will make it handle properly. Going too low severely compromises the suspension geometry on Skylines.

    Looks <<<<<<Performance

  2. Where did you hear that rot???

    Look in the thread below. Maybe you will find something I haven't.

    The stock oil pump is as good as you will need. Just make sure the pump drive is a later model, not an early one.

    And keep the GTR sump and remove the diff. It holds no oil for the sump. Do fit a filter relocator and cooler and add about 1 litre extra if you go to the track. Also, while the sump is off fit a gated oil collector around the pickup.

    All the accessories will fit but the harmonic balancer on the gtr has different drive pulleys, so get a good after market RB25 one from one of the traders. They all use the same crank nose so it will fit.

  3. ooer, lock up garage? I dunno about sharing tho... don't wanna walk in on your sexy times :D

    Main reason I don't like skype is that the protocol's insecure, and even if you're not using the program, data is relayed thru your PC for other people's call (which is how the protocol works... link all the nodes that give the quickest ping and go thru them)... which when your upload and download limits are tight, don't work well in my favour.

    Otherwise for the rates n stuff I'd be all over it.

    I should probably install it, and only run it when I need to make a call :D

    Pfft. Of course you wanna walk in on sexy times. Andy makes most of the guys in the club go weak at the knees. :P

    Shan, you may as well cut you wedding veg out and get a Mac if your that limp about security mate :)

    /short response to keep everyones attention span/

  4. Hmmm, lots of opinion here. Trying to compare with Skylines and Euro cars. To be honest I find my BA XR8 ute a decent enough cruiser, auto so great for towing a decent load like the race car and boat but certainly no comparison with the GTR for handling or performance. In fact I compared my GTR in the current improved form to a number of supercars I've recently driven 2000kms each and found it the standout against them so no local made POS is going to come close. The improvement needed over BA alone would be so huge as to be insurmountable.

    This Orion doesn't move me, and the FPV models with huge slabs of pointless grey plastic on the fronts is ugly.

    The VE Commodore is even more dissapointing especially the thing with hideous plastic moulded rubbish attached on the bonnet and guards.

    But as the old saying goes. "You can't polish a turd"

  5. After the gasket is compressed, retorquing should only be a slight backoff and retourque.

    since you have the head off then look at the valve seats, down the bores, under the head in the squish zones for damage. If nothing needs to be done get a competic metal gasket and put it back together with new head bolts if any of them are different lengths.

  6. Welcome to the fold bro.

    There are ways to get good value for money power. I prefer to build my own engines, the last being a 700hp 3.0L with 26 head that came in for just under $5K in my race car (GTS25t but twin turbo). My GTR does 500hp as a daily driver and I will kick that up to 600hp at the next tune. Parts were 3K for the computer, turbos and injectors. Good handling in a GTR is only $2500 away as well and given a GTR33 can be had for less than 25K that is good value, especially considering the Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Audi RS4 I've driven recently all don't compare as an all round performer. That is 1.4Mill worth of comparison and I'd keep the GTR anyday and flog off the others if they were a freebie.

  7. Most people haven't even heard of Skype it's still so new. But for us former executive management types it's perfect. Calls are cheap as well to mobiles and landlines. I just had a half hour video call with a mate in Melbourne. Free as an VOIP phone with video. I even have it on my E65 through an app called Fring that allows me to take VOIP calls in a wireless node like I have at home.

    IM on the other hand is complete rubbish and I shudder at the number of people that have had virus infections through it. And I remember IM and ICQ from when I was in Uni in 96.

    But if cool means using the stuff all the semi-IT literates use then yep, I must be uncool. :laugh:

  8. Nick, not exactly the GC but I have read recently there are a lot of jobs in the auto industry here in Ipswich. Apprentices are most wanted. Last year awarded the worlds most liveable large town or some such.

    3 race tracks in 1 hour drive (Lakeside about to reopen). Cheaper rent and actually not a bad place. I wasn't wanting to move to this area when I came home from Melbourne but I'm finding it good.

  9. James

    all the best mate just keep being Jamezilla. Sorry for the late reply.

    No gift, sorry. You can't buy anything for someone who literally has everything a guy could possibly want......

    :D

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