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I would look around the market before choosing a colour. The reason being is with 2nd hand cars you wont always get your choice of colour. Look around and see what takes your fancy. Normally what happens is you walk into a car yard and see a skyline and say THIS IS MY CAR!!

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Originally posted by Devilish Angel

i like this person...

and isn't 4wd safer cause better controle too???

but the lights on the 34 look good..

argh..

dilemma!!!

No! They're not! All car's have a limit, and when you break the limit in a 4wd, it'll really let you know about it.. My old man's friend *had* a 4wd subaru liberty. Until he hit a guard rail one day and wrote the car off. He believed that his 4wd car would be safer.

It's not power that kills. It's how it delivers the power. RB25 produces it's power more linear and smothly compared to an RB26, which is pretty much all or nothing.

Also a GTR 4WD is not like a WRX 4WD. WRX's 4WD system make any driver look like a future rally star, where a GTR's 4WD seperates the men from mice.

Devilish Angel: Whats the fastest car you have been in ??

Personally i think Gt-t's, gtst's and GTS 25t's are more dangerous then GTR's espically in the wet.

Make sure this is a car you REALLY REALLY REALLY want because at your age thats alot of money which could used alot more productively.

Ok heres what you do.

As cost of car and insurance isnt the problem, buy your dream R33 GTR.

Now the only thing is the fact that other people think you will right yourself off because of the power. And it would seem you are starting to listen to this.

Simple solution is to get your hands on a Power Fc computer for your car. This allows you to tune the car for more hp. Only what you should do is before the inlet manifold place an orifice, with say a 25-30mm opening.

This will limit airflow and reduce hp, you can tune the ECU to allow for the drop in airflow. You will probably have as much hp as a V6 Commodore, and still have 4wd.

You can also but a butterfly valve in the exhaust that will choke up flow and drop off boost pressure, but this wouldnt be so nice for the turbos.

You still have to respect that any car that moves can be overdriven and crashed, so you still have to be just as careful.

Then as you gain experience and become comfortable with driving, you take out the orifice and re-tune the Power FC and, voila, back to stock hp. (actually more if tuned properly)

Hows that for an idea.

Originally posted by Roy

Ok heres what you do.

As cost of car and insurance isnt the problem, buy your dream R33 GTR.

Now the only thing is the fact that other people think you will right yourself off because of the power. And it would seem you are starting to listen to this.

Simple solution is to get your hands on a Power Fc computer for your car. This allows you to tune the car for more hp. Only what you should do is before the inlet manifold place an orifice, with say a 25-30mm opening.  

This will limit airflow and reduce hp, you can tune the ECU to allow for the drop in airflow. You will probably have as much hp as a V6 Commodore, and still have 4wd.  

You can also but a butterfly valve in the exhaust that will choke up flow and drop off boost pressure, but this wouldnt be so nice for the turbos.

You still have to respect that any car that moves can be overdriven and crashed, so you still have to be just as careful.

Then as you gain experience and become comfortable with driving, you take out the orifice and re-tune the Power FC and, voila, back to stock hp. (actually more if tuned properly)

Hows that for an idea.

You could do that

or

You could secure a block of wood under the accelerator pedel so you can't floor it.

Devilish Angel: seeing as you have been in a evo6 so you probably know the performance of these cars and you think you can handle it both from a skill side of things and mentality.

Get your GTR and come cruising :(

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