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Cheer dude. Yeah it was a bargin, especially because it still had WOF and rego. I'd been looking for a long time tho and the car was pretty rough, if you have a look at the thread on SDU you'll see.

Good luck with your search for one.

BTW, mine owed me $2K nz by the time I got it to it's first trackday.

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Agree with alot of what you have said, but it is ill advised to tell people not to worry about a cage, as previously stated, safety first. and a molly cage only weighs about 80kg.

Club level motorsport?

Above posts are good, but i would say overkill in some instances

Radiator will be fine if you duct it up and not making stupid power. An NA engine wont stress the cooling system. Im making 230rwkws and mine is fine after realising that the std setup can be improved two fold with some simple guides. Oil cooler would be good, but dont waste the money on a radiator, just use a big thermo in the std shroud. Even thats only for redusign agro on the engien with the clutch fan...not froma coolign perspective

Rip the weight out of it, and R33 GTS25t brakes all round will be fine with only 1100kg to stop. Its tyres and suspension that stop the car quickly and help with consistant lap times. Big dollar brakes look horn but do little for lap times if your susp and tyres are on the money.

Seat would be good, so would a cage. But dont go overboard with the cage as the std body is pretty floppy and jsut worry about safety. The weight of the cage to get the chassis stiffened would be expensive and beyond what a club car needs

Just had my car resprayed and more then ever looking at a 4k shitter GTSt to play with rather then my road car. I already have a sensible but dreamy GTSt track car budgeted out. An 1100kg + driver GTSt with about 200rwkws in a sorted chassis would be quick, fun, cheap and reliable :thumbsup:

Good luck with it...ifs a club car go crazy with the weight side of things, but keep most of things as per Nissan and spend all your money having a ball in it :)

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I am about to build a new R33 GTS-T for circuit use only. A loit more serious than i have in the past and will include complete strip out, Breg, comprehensive cage etc.

In the past (2003) i won my class (over 4,000cc road reg) in the WA Speed Event series in a R33 GTS-T. 9 trophies for 9 events in 2003 and some others that we collected along the way.

This was my daily driver road car as well.

All we did was put in a fire extinguisher, harness (only for the Track), king springs and bilstein shocks 25mm lower front and 28mm lower rear.

increased boost to 13psi (note standard intercooler used), K&N filter, sticky bridgestone tyres on standard rims, un plugged HICAS on track days.

This car was dynoed at 297hp at rear wheels and was not the fastest, but often featured in the top 15 outright and embarressed $80k V8's.

One thing we did find out much later with this car was that it had a R33 GTR standard computer in place of the GTS-t one. We have wondered with out proof or research if this helped improved performance!!!

Forgot to add that we also had a turbo back custom 3" exhaust with hi flow cat.

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Its worse than that....you've only bought the first set of tyres....1,500-2,500 a set it really adds up.

On the race car I get through about a set every year (2 years with the number of rounds I miss lol). But I race people who run new tyres every race meet.....1500 a weekend * say 8 meets a year. Ouch.

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makes go-karting seem so affordable, $240 sees two full meetings.

Its worse than that....you've only bought the first set of tyres....1,500-2,500 a set it really adds up.

On the race car I get through about a set every year (2 years with the number of rounds I miss lol). But I race people who run new tyres every race meet.....1500 a weekend * say 8 meets a year. Ouch.

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