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Need Your Advice To Buy A R33 Gtst

BlueDemon

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Hi Guys,

I was planning to buy a R33 Series 2 GTST in another 2-3 months and kind of looking around at the moment. I do not have any idea about the skylines and was wondering if you guys can help me out with some advice. i.e. buy it through private or dealer, what to look for, stuffs like that. What I want is something stock and not tampered in anyway. Also if you guys know any mechanic who would be a specialist on skylines that will be great as well. Hope you guys will be able to shed some light..............Thanks in advance.

Cheers.

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Hi Guys,

I was planning to buy a R33 Series 2 GTST in another 2-3 months and kind of looking around at the moment. I do not have any idea about the skylines and was wondering if you guys can help me out with some advice. i.e. buy it through private or dealer, what to look for, stuffs like that. What I want is something stock and not tampered in anyway. Also if you guys know any mechanic who would be a specialist on skylines that will be great as well. Hope you guys will be able to shed some light..............Thanks in advance.

Cheers.

To start you off - there is a thread by Merli - its a sticky and has all the stuff u need to look for when you go to buy a skyline -> here . Next, go to SSV in Oakleigh and have a look at the cars they have there. Cars there are excellent. Speak to Mark, he will help you out. And finally, i take my car to RE Customs (springvale) for its service and mods - Ray is a member of sau (SXR), and he will make sure your car is running without any problems.

Got my R33 from Wayne at GTAuto Compliance in croydon - he does the compliance work for the cars that come through the J-spec guys i think. You can talk to him as well, he will give you good info. He spent heaps of time going through the ins and outs of buying an import. Def worth speaking to him as well.

My advice is to look at both dealers/importers and private sales as well. Private sales, you can get some mad cars with heaps of work done for a good price. There was a white r33 with heaps of mods, and went for 23k or something (series 2). Im pretty sure the guy who owned it is still a member here - he has a celsior now i think.

Dealers/Importers give u the 3 year warranty - not needed if the car is in great condition - but useful to have in any case.

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Ruffels

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One piece of advise.............

STOCK = WASTE OF TIME

You WILL get board, and you WILL want more power......you WILL waste money on mods to get there then think, I should have bought a Mod'ed car.

Take if from those who know :(

i think there are many advantages of buying a stock car

- You can modify it how YOU like, not how someone else liked to do things

- If you get stung for a defect/epa you have all standard parts, rather then having to source/borrow/buy stock parts

- If you start modified... you'll get bored also and want more then more.. but its VERY expensive to modify past a certain point

- Buy a stock one and feel the power levels increase with your hard earned modifications, will make you enjoy the car more

what do they say? "Built, not Bought!"

just my 2c

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i think there are many advantages of buying a stock car

- You can modify it how YOU like, not how someone else liked to do things

- If you get stung for a defect/epa you have all standard parts, rather then having to source/borrow/buy stock parts

- If you start modified... you'll get bored also and want more then more.. but its VERY expensive to modify past a certain point

- Buy a stock one and feel the power levels increase with your hard earned modifications, will make you enjoy the car more

what do they say? "Built, not Bought!"

just my 2c

stock is waste of money. Be patient and buy a good one for only a little more.

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i'll strip mine back to stock...an the parts can come with the car.....you can put em back on one by one & feel the progression.....lmao ;)

Best of luck BlueDemon.....there's heaps of stock 33's out there, so you can be as picky as you like an get exactly what your after

Cheers

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Ruffels

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this has quickly turned into a "buy mine" thread hasnt it......this is why there hard to sell....we're all selling them

you were the first person to say "buy mine" so you can hardly talk!

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