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haha yeah he did - borrowed a ton of parts off my brother-in-law's R33GTR Series 3 to get it off defect too And yes it is stomper - such an awesome car!

and c'mon - she is SLAMMIN' ....

hey Cara have you started sourcing parts for your build? I have a set of brand new Tomei heavy duty valve springs to suit a Neo here for sale $350. Retail $700. Else I am going toput them Ebay and they will sell for more.

Tell Glen to buy my R34 .... nice car, $20k, lots of fruit .... bargain. If he was that desperate for a manual the conversion is easily done. But once you drive an R34 tiptronic you will never go back.

That screen looks good! I am either going to use Centreafuse or Road Runner .... haven't decided yet. My brother-in-law is using Centrafuse in his R33GTR VSpec3 and loves it!

Looks good so far. I am looking at doing the same thing in my V35, but a tiny bit differently. A few questions (for Chris as well). 1). I am looking at using an Acer Aspire 10.1" lappie stored in my glovebox. I am going to connect this to a Lilliput style touch screen possibly in a similar position to you have, and have it plugged into the ODBII so I can use Nissan Datascan for gauges. So my question is, are car power supply laptop adapters reliable enough to charge and maintain my laptop, and is there software available so that when the laptop gets to X% power left in the battery it will automatically shut down? My hope is that the car battery on accessories will power/charge the laptop, and the laptop will stay on and run on its own batteries when I get out of the car (I get in and out of the car for 15 minute periods many times a day), but when the laptop battery reaches say 30% battery left, it will shut down (so I can turn it on again if I need to without car power). 2). What issues are you having with the ODBII? I am looking at buying the Blazt setup http://www.blazt.biz/products/obdii.php - looks good to me - is there a better option? 3). What brand/model number is your cruise control, and how much did it cost? My auto elec/stereo guy hasn't done cruise on a V35 yet and is having a bit of trouble tracking down a decent unit compatible with drive-by-wire. Also, maybe of interest to you guys, is the fact that I am strongly contemplating moving the factory climate unit up to a custom made fibreglass mount where my current empty monitor slot is (I will get the compact climate version that is not integrated with the Bose/stereo), and dremelling the stock fascia to mount a dual din Lilliput screen where the factory climate and half of the original stereo potition, and then mount my JVC AVX-810 dual din DVD unit/all-in-one below it where the bottom half of the factory stereo was and where the ashtray and hazard light switch currently are. I have attached a very crude mock-up of what I mean. What do you guys think of that?

ah yeah sorry Jack. I am after a stand-alone screen that I can have a fibreglass shroud built to custom mount it on a dash. Planning on plugging an EeeePC/Acer Aspire One into it to run full time consult display tools from ODBII. Resolution needs to be around 1024x600 or so, and needs to have a VGA conector (and USB connector to run the touch screen obviously).

I am after one of these too

yeah, and I am selling a black car and buying another black car I know they are hard to keep clean, but when they are clean I think they look the hottest by far!

Given there are a whole 10 or so car shows in SA every year, this is unbelievably poor planning to have it on the same weekend as EHP.

I agree with Ripper. But also, since there are like a whole 10 V35s on the road in SA, how did you think your question was going to get answered in the SA section - especially since you didn't even write exactly what you are after in the thread title? Would be much more useful in the V35 section of SAU, don't you think? I will move your post there.

haha, nice shopping list. What are you still doing up homo?

Spotted my old Enkei wheels (that I sold to Scandy and he on-sold) today on an old school Chaser/Soarer turning out of Windsor Gardens onto North East Rd near JIS .... still repping the dodgy "S" emblem stickers on the centre-caps that I fabricated lol

I am keen on one of these - how do I order/pay?

WTB stock 350Z springs and shocks in as new condition.

So, it looks like I have been lured to come on this little trip by the promise of a bed in Sled's room In my new beast of course - hopefully she will be quite tastefully modded by then

haha yeah spotted RS260 in his silver stag on North East Rd this arvo and exchanged last minute nods, then literally 500m down the road saw Craig (a bit too late, but got the thumb out the window after I went past if you noticed), then literally 30 seconds later got an SMS from Helso saying he had just spotted me and thought I was a fag beacause of the blueness on the front of my car .... I assured him I am respraying the intercooler stealth black this weekend when I get a spare minute.

ok price drop to $20,000 - time to sell this beast.

yep the ghost tour is pretty cool - there is some amazing history in that place.

I will be popping past to say hello, but have to leave at 7:40pm to pick up the wife from the airport

Wow looks great Geoff! I have always had a soft spot for V35 sedans .... nice wheels too.

yep I have Windows 7 x64 and run FAST in a WindowsXP virtual machine. Easy to do and works perfectly.

sorry Jarrad I have been stupidly busy - I will respond to your PM now mate.

yeah Luke the heater core shat itself in January this year and dumped the entire contents of my radiator into my passenger side footwell (lots of mopping up/cleaning/drying ensued) - I rerouted the pips in the engine bay so it wouldn't leak anymore, and have only just gotten round to replacing the core. The old core had split along the top tank weld line, as is quite common.

Yeah pulling the dash out of an R34 sounds like a heaps fun thing to do .... pics below of what my car looked like last weekend when I replaced the heater core Anyone that says you can get the heater core/box out of an R34 without removing the dash is so far off as to be laughable. Even if you de-gassed the a/c and removed the a/c radiator & fan boxes, the heater box WILL NOT come out without removing the fat reo bar that runs the width of the car. Not a fun job, let me tell you! But I got it all done and back together perfectly - now the heater is super toasty. My power steering was playing up a bit (= was noisy and a bit heavy), and a mechanic fixed it today for a whole $88 - turns out they are meant to be serviced periodically, and it looks like mine had never been touched in 157,000km. At least it was a cheap/easy fix - and now feels like brand new