SKITTLES

will it fit a Series 2 R33?

You know... I really don't like you. Just putting it out there.

Like I said, performance is not a concern. All work I'm thinking about doing is geared towards the end product which is turbo charged. 3" exhaust on a turbo charged engine isn't too bad Sounding like a jet engine doesn't appeal to me... hm... I'll have a chat to a couple more performance shops. Thanks for correcting me, Socrates. People have been telling me "compression" so that's just what I've been saying. Not too sure how back pressure helps N/As with performance but i'll do a bit of a google search Have had a couple engine problems start to happen recently... gotta work out wtf. Visiting my mechanic to have a chat tomorrow. Thanks for the replies guys

1. What is your name and where are you from? Jacob, Parramatta region. 2. What is your occupation? Full-time Systems Administrator, paintball referee. 3. What is your date of birth and blood type? Not giving dob, nfi about blood type. 4. What are your hobbies? Paintball. Driving. COD ;] 5. How many years have you had your license and what license type are you? Just over a year, P2 (green ps) 6. How many accidents have you had (your fault) and how many traffic violations have you had? One at fault. Zero traffic violations (on record). 7. What was the car you owned before your current one? 2000 model Hyundai Excel. 8. What is your current car and it's mileage? Nissan Skyline, s2 R33, GTS25. 152,000KM 9. Is the car Auto or Manual? Manual 10. What part of your car is unique that no one else has? Me as a driver. 11. Do you own a motorbike? No. 12. Biggest trouble/problem you've ever had with a car you've owned? Engine is currently stuttering. 13. Do you have an in-car navigation system? Yes. 14. Do you have an e-tag/electronic toll unit? What are your thoughts on the system? Yes. Good, but expensive. Not keen on having to send snail mail to people to pay for tolls I couldn't pay for. 15. Do you have a particular route or road that you enjoy driving on? What is it? Yes. There are the roads going out to Springwood, NSW and a few out near woolongong. 16. Do you have a meet point that you prefer? What is it? Third Av maccas or Norwest maccas usually. 17. What petrol do you use? Why do you use it... Brand, Price or Convenience? 98, contains ethanol. I went between different servos and found this one was really good. Not only that but they are 5 minutes from my house, so days when Im waiting for cash to come in, it's not too dangerous to run my car close to empty when on my way home. 18. What is your favourite engine oil? No idea. 19. How often do you change the oil in your car? Every 5k. 20. What make is your tyre, and what size is it? 205 dunlops iirc. 21. How much tread is left on your tyres at the moment? 90% i guess. 22. Do you use winter tyres? No. 23. How often do you wash your car? When she's dirty. 24. What magazines do you read/subscribe to? None. 25. What music do you listen to while driving? Alot, depends on mood. 26. Do you listen to the radio in your car? If so what station and/or show do you prefer? No. 27. When you are stuck in traffic, what do you do to pass time? Wink at cute girls. Day dream. Text people. 28. What products can you simply not be without in your car? Phone, head deck, petrol (dur) 29. Do you prefer to take the highway or the scenic route to places that are between 50 to 100 km's away? highway. 30. Does your significant other prefer to accompany you on your drives in the passenger seat? Yes. 31. What is your preferred tuning shop? None yet Looking at Castle Hill Performance Centre. 32. What is your preferred second hand parts shop? Pick and payless. 33. When you see the sticker "Baby On Board" what do you do or think? I ram them nice and hard. Nah, I just think "psht okay then". But i Know they kinda help with trucks who like to nudge cars. 34. Do you like the Nissan models that have been released since Carlos Ghosn took over as CEO? Nfi. 35. Although the R34 Skyline has been replaced by the V35, do you consider it a valid successor? No. V35s are more luxury, R34s are more sporty. 36. What are your 3 most favourite Nissan models, excluding the one you own? 350z, Navara, ceffy. 37. What are your 3 most favourite non-Nissan cars? AE86, RX7, RX8 38. If you were to buy a new car now, what would it be? R32 GTST with sunroof, black. Deck it out with the rest of the money. 39. Although its not Nissan, do you like Rotary Engines? Yes, love them. Amazing torque. 40. What quality do you feel your car lacks? Performance. 41. What generation is your Skyline? 1996 42. Is your car RWD or AWD? RWD 43. Why did you choose to buy your car? It was clean, and I fell in love when I drove it. I've wanted a skyline for 12 years, and this was it. There weren't many other decent ones out at the time, and I was very impulsive. 44. When you chose your car, what other models did you also consider? Everything. Test drove an AE86 and a luxury Series 4 RX7 45. When you bought the car, what condition was it in? Normal or needed some work? Great. Didn't realize it had been in a rear end tho. 46. How many times do you drive your car in a week? more than I can count. Try like, 4-6 times daily. 47. If you had to coin a catchphrase for Skylines, what would it be? nfi. better then any other car 48. What car would you say is a rival model to yours as far as features are concerned? A lot of cars smash Skyliens in features, but it's not about them. 49. What is in your opinion, the best features of your Skyline? The fact that she's mine, she's clean, and that it's simple, comfortable and has a decent amount of pick up. 50. What parts of your car don't work like they should? The engine... haha. And my GPS gives me the shits. 51. Have you ever dreamt of your car? Give an example. Yes. Lots. HAHA worst one was hitting a median strip and doing barrel rolls in the air. Other than that, too much to list. Generally just cruising, drifting on the track. 52. What do those close to you (family, partner etc) think of your car? "Oh God, do whatever you want, just hurry up and calm down with it" 53. What spec would you class your car as? Drift, Drag, Circuit, or Cruiser? cruiser. I'm going for a bit of a drifter soon. 54. Which is more important to you about your car? Appearance, Performance/Power or Comfort? Performance. 55. What seats and steering wheel do you have in your car? Sports steering wheel with boss kit. Standard bucket seats. 56. What brakes does your car have? (Including disc/hub) Standard. 57. What exhaust does your car have? Standard, getting 3" 58. What headunit/stereo is in your car? Kenwood, getting something better in the future maybe. 59. What gauges does your car have? standard. 60. What aftermarket suspension parts does your car have? None yet. Getting adjustable coil overs 61. What structural reinforcement parts does your car have? none 62. What intake/cooling parts do you have on your car? none 63. Anything else you have replaced on your car? short shifter and hids. 64. How many km/l do you get out of your car on average? 10 65. Do you think you'll be driving the same car in 5 years? Depends how this latest bit of work goes ;] 66. Would you purchase the car you own if it was new? (ie you'd be the first owner of the car) YES!!!! 67. If you were given the choice between your car and your partner, which would you choose over the other? Please don't make me make that decision.... 68. If the Skyline you own did not exist, what would you be driving right now? Hyundai Excel... or maybe a 32 GTR or I would have found another skyline. 69. A lot of Skyline owners are changing to Evo's, what do you think of them and would you change? I wouldn't change. I like the smoothness of the skyline and the street appeal they have. Evos don't have that appeal to me. 70. Which headlight do you prefer, projector or non projector and HID or regular? projector with HID 71. If you were to respray your car, what colour would it be? Champaign 72. What is the first mod that you would do on a stock version of your car? Suspension 73. Is there a mod in particular that you would like to never see done to a Skyline? Too many to list. Just no more ricers please. 74. If your car is RWD, is there any time when you wish it was AWD? Or if your car is AWD, is there any time when you wish it was RWD? YEs, frequently, I'd love to have that extra power / etc. buuttttttttt RWD will do me fine 75. Have you ever considered your car awkward or uncool? Why? Yeah whenever I go to cruises, it's all stock and slow. 76. Do you have any brochures for your car? Where'd you get it from? Nope 77. Do you have a service manual, log book and owner's manual for your car? Yeah, dating back to 1996 and written in japanese. 78. How do you feel about the price of Skylines on the market now compared to the price you paid for your car? It's a bit of astretch to get what I want 79. If money was not an issue, what tuning mods would you make to your car? What I'm about to get a quote for soon. 80. Would you upgrade the hub assembly of your car? (eg 4 stud to 5 stud) Yes! 81. Would you upgrade the air-con system in your car? (eg manual to climate control) Already have it. 82. Have you made any parts for your car, or any DIY mods? No. 83. Do you own any spare parts for your car that aren't needed yet? Yeah haha new head unit. 84. If it was feasible to own a second car identical to yours, would you? I wouldn't need it. Maybe if I had one as a weekender which I modified and one as a daily which had suspension / exhaust. 85. How much have you spent on repairs to your car? >$1500 in 7 months. 86. If you see another Skyline which has been modified differently, do you pick faults in it? No, I admire his attempts. 87. Have you ever watched Initial D, and do you think your car would have beaten Takumi? YES! No. He is the most amazing driver ever. 88. Would you buy a scale model of your car, and how much would you be willing to spend up to on it? HAHA hellas yeah, wouldn't wanna pay too much tho. 89. Would you buy a remote control model of your car, and how much would you be willing to spend up to on it? Yes, probably like $30. 90. Has your car ever been in a magazine? If so what and which issue? No not yet ;] 91. Have you ever participated in a cruise or attended a meet for Skyline owners? YES HAHA R33 Club <3 92. Is there any other forum members' car that you idolise or was very impressed by? Yeah, Matty Flynn has a fair bit of power and his car is soooo nice!!! 93. Would you do a face swap/upgrade (ie R34 front on R32, C33 front on A31, etc)? Not unless I had some awesome ideas for the car. 94. What would you consider the locally produced equivalent of your car? I have, and here I am 95. You are offered to pick straws, one straw will get you free mods of your choice and track time to test them, the other will see your car returned to factory standard. Would you pick straws? Yes. 96. You are to attend a track day, however your car gets damaged, and have the following choices: - run the same model as your car, but with a fully tuned RB20E engine. The car has done 150,000kms, and the engine has done 50,000kms. - run the same model as your car, but with a RB20DET auto. The car has done 500,000kms, and the turbo has done 60,000kms. - run your damaged car What would you do? Run my damaged car depending on the damage. However I'd probably go the same model but with the RB20DE for lulz. 97. If you were to grade yourself as an expert on Skylines, what would you be out of 100? 30 98. What is the purpose your car serves in your life? it is my life. 99. One word that describes Skyline owners in the country and the rest of the world? Awesome. 100. Other than "that was long and tiring" do you have any comments? I wanna go home.. this was supposed to take me longer than it did

Does it feel like it's mis firing? My engine does something like this. The only way I can describe it is the feeling of a spark plug failing, but I have brand new spark plugs and apparently there's nothing wrong with my coil packs If you figure this out, you're one up on my mechanic.

Or if you want to service it, repair it, etc. Go buy an N/A R33 in Silver. Check out the For Sale section, there's an awesome one this really cool guy called "Skittles" is selling Do you want speed? Cornering? Get a silvia or 180, they're really nice. An n/a 180 smashed me in a straight the other day. Or N/A Skylines are pretty awesome in terms of a general car to drive. Not the greatest on fuel but they're really comfortable and fun to drive. If you want to spend 20k then you could get something like that black 32 coupe and get work done to it? $5000 car, do exhaust and suspension. Clean out the car, spend a little dosh on car care products, get a good service, replace all the globes etc. New wheels. Exhaust = $1250 fitted (cat + cat back, just had it quoted). Suspension = $1500-2000 fitted (just had an estimate of 2k quoted, though I'm gonna try pull him down). Car car products = $200 ish. Wheels = $1050 non fitted, give or take, depends what you want. We can't have a 300kw+ car, it's depressing. Might as well buy something that makes you smile when you drive it. What car do you feel best suits you? Do you have a car you've wanted to buy for ages?

Assuming you mean RB25DET and RB25DET NEO? That's easy; one dodges bullets. Less emissions, better fuele co, solid lifters, different camshafts, different manifold, smaller chambers, gtr spec con rods, larger turbo, awesome silver plastic on top of the motor.

Post some pics and I'll consider it.

Say I wanted to get... http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Catco-High-Flow-Racing-Cat-Converter-S13-R32-R33-Z32-/180612132100?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2a0d526d04#ht_1438wt_907 And http://cgi.ebay.com.au/JDM-Performance-Catback-Exhaust-System-Skyline-R33-GTST-/150547490786?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item230d5467e2#ht_1242wt_907 Are they any good? I'm assuming they will go together, but will they fit on my bog stock RB25DE? Edit; I know it's a 3" and it'll loose compression, that's not of a concern. The concern is whether it'll fit or not. Car proposed is an R33

I'm going to put this out there... my RB25DE get's 500km roughly from just less than a full tank of fuel. I go to a united petrol station, I use the 98 octane, but it's got a little ethanol in it. It costs me $60-65 per top up, and I'm probably filling up 5 times a month. I'd recommend finding a place that has good fuel, and sticking to them. If their fuel gives you problems, you can complain about it. Not only that, but I concur with what's been said; stick to the 95+, don't ever put low-octane + ethanol (e10, 91 + ethanol, etc.), you'll feel the difference. Get the thing looked at by a good, reputable mechanic. Make sure he goes over the computers and if needs be, try get a tune for it.

AHH haha I saw her at the servo No worries mate, I'll flick you a wave sometime

My bog stock, n/a Skyline just wiped the floor with a pulsar q running an SR20 with full exhaust + probably other stuff. I've driven an SR20 powered Pulsar. It was bleh. Dunno if the turbo ones are much better...

No problem mate. It's a nice car, I'll let you know when I'm in the market. Also, you absolutely MUST let SAU know when that covered up car is going to hit the tracks ;]

I'll message you when I charge my phone, you're than welcome to come for drives and shit, Caleb Cars still for sale, I've got a bit of interest outside of SAU and Carsales, but ehhhh. Price is neg, lemme know what you're thinking. Even if you THINK you might be interested, just at a lower price, come have a chat / test drive. I don't mind if SAU members want to come have a drive/look.

HAHAHA OHHHH sooooo tempted mate, trust me. I'm gonna have another chat to my grandmother tonight, if no luck then I'm unfortunately not going to be able to buy the engine

New phone number: 0478 102 060

Just making sure i have a place to store it now

Okay, as discussed on the phone I've got a quote to get it shipped and I'll be discussing with my mum/bank about getting the funds for it. I'll chat to you tomorrow or the next, depends when I can get ahold of my banker.

I want so f**king badly. Do you know how much it would ship to Sydney, NSW for? Ringing TNT now.

Sorry mate, I got a new number yesterday and I didn't have your number saved. My cars up for sale atm, if this cars still for sale after mine sells, I could still be interested. I'll let you know, sorry to have wasted your time a bit. For anyone interested, it's a very clean GTS, and it's f**king cheap for what you get. There's a small ding on the back right quarter panel, around the diametre of a tennis ball but very shallow, nothing big, nothing of concern. No paint broken, it can be fixed very easily, quickly and cheaply. Nice very noticeable either. Car is nice and clean underneath, only had a quick look but I couldn't see any holes in the exhaust. It sounded fairly decent for a stocker too. The cars got a couple light scratches on the surface, but it's still better than my 33 which is 3 years younger and doesn't get garaged at all. Yes, the engine bay is that clean IRL. Yes, it looks really well kept. The interior looks much nicer IRL than in the pics, too. I didn't even notice that tear that's in the pic. Seriously, considering most P-Platers are buying pulsars (and the like) for the same price, I don't know why noones snapping this up. If my kid wanted a car, I'd be seriously considering buying this for them over a freaking Hyundai.

I've got a silver R33 n/a up for sale atm.

Goddamnit I wanted those plates!!! hahaha (rb25de). I've seen a few cars around, too many to recall... I drive a Silver 33. Some memorable ones; black R34 on showy White, modded, R33 on showy Black 32 GTR ripping up the Airport a month or so ago. (stared him down, then said hi. He gave me the biggest smile, it made my night!) Of course, I see Luke in his white R34 and white CF bonnet frequently! We've got to catch up again! Btw; thanks for all the waves to those who do. It makes my night when other skyline drivers wave back

If only that was manual, I would have traded you

You know those annoying angled gutters in Queensland? The ones that kinda look like this... I've seen a lot of people putting big thick ropes along it where they drive so they don't scrape their cars getting into their drive ways. The same theory could probably help you If that doesn't work, I saw a lot of people doing the metal trick. If you've got a really nice house and you're looking to keep it looking awesome, just pour some concrete into the gutter and make it flatter ;] Also, the commodore drivers have some interesting fixes on their forums... tips for driving a lowered car Edit: http://www.carguygarage.com/singlecardrivew.html Again, rope does the same thing. Edit: something a guy on ozmps posted...

It feels bad doing this.... but I have to sell the car I've wanted so bad for years now. It's a clean, non-turbo R33. Perfect for a P-Plater looking for a nice, clean car to drive around. It's only just clicked over 156,000KM, all genuine. It was my daily driver, and has taken me from my house, to my girlfriends place, to work, and back without any issues. I'm it's second owner since it was imported three or four years ago. Comes with all original japanese service books, logs, paper work, and the original book it keep it all in. Haven't dynoed. Haven't gone to a track day in it. My mods include 10,000K HID bulbs. Previous owner put an apexi thing in it, which I've taken away from the shifter and have put in the glove box. It doesn't do much other than tell you your RPM and speed.... The only other mods are a sports steering wheel and a short shifter. The short shifter was apparently done in Japan, and I've had a couple of friends tell me how nice it feels. Tires are new-ish, they got put on in August roughly and have heaps of tread. RWD. RB25DE engine. Stock exhaust. Clean interior, comes with Kenwood head unit (cd player and aux input). Depending on sale price I may leave the sub and amp in the boot. The only problem with the interior is a bit of wear on the drivers seat where you get in/out, which is fairly normal. Reason for selling? Regos up and it's served as a harsh reminder that I can't afford to spend more than half my paycheck on repayments for a car when I'm trying to save to buy a house on junior wages. I was going to sell it to my friend, but he's not looking to buy for another year and I can't afford to own the car for that long. Because rego is up, she'll come with 6 months rego. Consequently, she's hitting the mechanics and is getting a service and look-over. Asking $13,000, but I'm negotiable. Car is located in Old Toongabbie, inspections are welcome. No test pilots, only people interested in buying the car can come for test drives. Hopefully a SAU member buys it, so I don't have to pay $60 to place an Ad on carsales Also, more photos are coming this afternoon. Sorry, my phone number is 0412 651 823 Edit: I forgot to mention there's very slight damage on the front bumper in the corner. There's a little bit of paint missing, nothing massive. Would be cheap to fix, I just don't have the money at all. I've buffed out most of it. Had a minor accident in a carpark with a fellow employee