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I drive my R33 GTR everyday. Now my car has had a few more mods than your everyday Skyline out there. The only thing I find a little annoying (but not enough to take the car off the road) is the twin plate clutch in peak hour traffic. Besides that, all is well. If don't fang it everywhere, fuel consumption is still pretty good.

Hey Turbomad, We don't actually dyno every Sat but if you can organise a few cars, we can set one up for you. Give us a call on 9512-7591 for pricing if you're interested. Cheers.

R33 GTR AFMs Carbon fibre piping from AFMs to pods K&N Pods AU$900.00 for the lot plus shipping and insurance if required. Excellent condition. Changed due to different turbo setup. This is a private sale, not through Ice Performance.

Bloody hell!!!!! Since I've posted and notifed ppl I'm running, I've been inundated in email requesting rides there I think the car is full now and the people who've made the cut was: myself SirVrooommm RedR32 and Wardest Mac This should be enough ppl to push the car should anything unfortunate happen I hope that everything will be sorted out by 24 Nov and I maybe able to run some boost. If not, I'll still run in current spec. BTW, who do we pay and when? I've got bout 6 spectators who wanna watch this.

It looks like I'm running I didn't get told this until this weekend when I was at DECA Should be a good day had by all and as long as I have everything sorted out in my car, I should hope to get some nice runs in. BTW, Brendan, my name is Dave

ex-static, You gotta come to Ice Performance. The details are in the signature

Hey blx and funkymonkey, If you are in need of a service or upgrades to your car, give us a call at Ice Performance. We're located in Dissik St, Cheltenham (all the details are in the signature). We've service and modded many Skylines (GTS-GTRs). Cheers.

Besides the stock gauges that come with the car, Ie. speedo, tacho, fuel, etc I personally don't think you need that many gauges unless your doing circuit racing. If you're simply running on the strip and the occasional squirt on the street, I'd suggest a boost gauge and more accurate oil temp. I only run a digital boost gauge attached to my timer. The only real reason I've got it is for tuning purposes. I wouldn't really use one any other time as the Autronic combined with the wastegate controls the boost quite well. I don't even have a boost controller in the car.

I reckon that Kier's car is Australia's 1st recognised RH9 car. He was road registered, had streetable tyres, what else do you need? He drove it in, ran and drove it out again. As mentioned above, Mario had the record but ran full slicks in a fully stripped car putting him in a completely different category of ProGTR. I'm hanging to see that car run a "real" time for the amount of HP it's claimed to have (exact figures have never been published). Congrats to Kier and his crew for making a mark in the Aussie Jap car history books.

They suck coz they have a false conception that we all believe what we read when the more intune people know exactly what's going on. Read it as humorous and be well.

If all goes well in the next couple days, I'll be there. I have to sort out a few problems with the car at the mo and having the fuel pumps installed on Thursday which means that tuning is required before I head out there. Ie. If I can get the fuel system sorted out and my brakes are on and the car is tuned, I'll be there. :uh-huh:

Hey Richie, I think you'll find that the HIRISK white 32 has now been sold and Shaun is puttering around in a different vehicle these days. Although still 4WD, it has no turbs Hey Schmeddo, I was wondering what happened to your posts. It was a little confusing after you changed your handle. I only recognised it after I read your tag.

As for purple R33 GTR with the white Volk Challenge rims, it's not a VSpec. How do I know?? It's my car!!! It'll be there again this Sat possible doing a run.

It's a good chance it was my car if it looks like the one in my avatar The panel actually came from another R33 GTR currently at ICE. I believe the owner before the owner at ICE (SIRVROOOMMM) replaced the standard black panelling with the silver. From what I can tell, it wasn't simply the original panelling but painted. It looks professionally done.

It's a good chance it was my car if it looks like the one in my avatar The panel actually came from another R33 GTR currently at ICE. I believe the owner before the owner at ICE (SIRVROOOMMM) replaced the standard black panelling with the silver. From what I can tell, it wasn't simply the original panelling but painted. It looks professionally done.

I actually removed all the plastic panelling and replaced it with some plastic in a silver. Looks horn. I can post some pics of it next week as I don't have the car until Tuesday.

1GTR2GO, I see your point, but also why do they take 3 morons in Jap cars and not also chuck an Aus car in the mix. Eg. A 300 Kw GTS. Not the easiest of cars to tame as it is RWD and has a considerable amount of power. Also the weight of the car doesn't help when sideways action is involved.

I am quite disturbed by the reputation which TodayTonight has now put on import drivers and have sent them the following email. I suggest that if people feel strong enough about how people perceive us import HPI vehicles, you also write to them and state how you feel. --------------------------------------------- Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing in regards to your story on Monday 9 September regarding "The need for speed". Not everyone who owns a Japanese sports car a hoon on the streets. You have painted us all in a bad light when it is simply a few irresponsible people giving the rest of us a bad name. When I saw your footage of the cars doing 200km/h+ and the bike doing nearly 300km/h on public roads, I found that to be very disturbing and realise why you were doing the story in the first place. The truth of the matter is that you have singled out 3 individuals who were overly confident in their driving skills and turned them into a stereotype which people will now associate with myself and fellow Japanese sports car drivers. I spend a lot of my leisure time around people who own Japanese sports cars, some stock, some modified and to this day, I have not seen any of these people break any more road rules than you would find an average person breaking on any given day. I am also a partner in a business which works on modifying, servicing and upgrading Japanese sports cars and all of our customers are 'clean' members of society. Although they may drive very fast cars, none of them brag about their driving skills like the people you had doing the training course with Ian Luff. Those 'hoons' as you describe them are simply ****y people who are too arrogant for their own good. My friends, business partners and associates spend time in this interest circle for the simple fact that we find these cars interesting and have visions of improving our cars from standard form, whether it be visibly or performance wise. I am also questioning whether you made a mistake when you stated that the man who drove the Nissan Skyline 'Godzilla' (assuming it was a GTR) had 500 kilowatts. Are you sure you didn't mean 500 horsepower. Very few road registered cars in this country have that kind of power. I only know of one of these cars in Victoria. Although my car doesn't quite have 500 kilowatts, it has been on a dynometer and measured 360 kilowatts at the wheels. After estimating drivetrain loss, we came to the conclusion that I had 470 kilowatts at the engine. 500 kilowatts although obtainable costs a lot of money and man hours to achieve. It is not something that all high performance sports cars would have. The only times I have really given my car a flat out push was at Calder Park drag strip during one of their legal off street drag meets. I believe that it is a good idea to encourage driver training for people with high performance cars and there are many places in Victoria which people can partake in training courses such as the Jim Murcott Driving School and DECA training days. Maybe if you publicised this kind of training, not so many people would be having accidents due to lack of experience and training. ---------------------------------------------