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Nismo engineered this car to the best of their ability. Why would your Dad want to change anything on it at all?

I'm calling BS anyway.

Hey Snowman, has Ben at Race Pace worked on the Z Tune before? Nice guy BTW. Did he get rid of the purple R33 GTR and buy a white 34 GTR?

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PS: i think u will find the people who brought the car into AUS (powerplay imports) a better source for info on parts and what is actually in the car. those guys know it back to front.

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im a boilermaker apprentice, and a guy from trade school, his boss' owns the z tune

plates [ZTUNED]

showed me pics of it parked out the front of his work

aparently his boss sucks ass at driving it, and sent it back to japan to get more shyt done to it

(i dont know if that parts true, im sure theres a misscummunication... i think he sent his 34 gtr to get a full ''Z tune")

anyway i cana sk him and see fi civic is talking crap

i believe him thou

i know his boss wanted to sell it

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yea, Im going to go with General consensis. You do not need (nor would want to) change anything on the Z-tune, especially ecu. as it is already a mean mutha as it is. and has been extensively tested and tuned to what it is now.

Only reason to change ecu, (which would require retune), would be if you were going for more power!, and in that case ;) thumbs up. But even saying that, whats been said already about the Z-tune, is that its already got Immense acceleration, so more power might not really be required.

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I think a few of you are missing the point here....

The Z-tune is an extremely rare car and I feel should be left exactly the way Nismo made it. Sure it COULD be made to go faster, but why would you bother? Do you think that the Phase III GT-HO being auctioned off by shannons (Sydney Motor show) would be worth as much if it wasn't original and someone had done their own backyard mods?

If you want to build a monster GTR buy a run-of-the-mill one (if there is such a thing) and mod that; the Z-tune should be left as is.

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I think a few of you are missing the point here....

The Z-tune is an extremely rare car and I feel should be left exactly the way Nismo made it. Sure it COULD be made to go faster, but why would you bother? Do you think that the Phase III GT-HO being auctioned off by shannons (Sydney Motor show) would be worth as much if it wasn't original and someone had done their own backyard mods?

If you want to build a monster GTR buy a run-of-the-mill one (if there is such a thing) and mod that; the Z-tune should be left as is.

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I call bullshit, there is no way an enthusiast would pay over $200k on a car and then mod it when its status is that of its engineering, authenticity and integrity....

Absolute bulldust, someone would not change a major mod like that expecially when there is only one in the country... If you tried to sell it later on you would have buckleys chances of selling it as all enthusiasts would know the issues and loss of authenticity.

Now one buys a z tune to mod it, as it is at its peak of class and 'special' manufacture.

Its like saying, i bought an Enzo so i could put tempe specials on it!!!!

WTF?!

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I call bullshit, there is no way an enthusiast would pay over $200k on a car and then mod it when its status is that of its engineering, authenticity and integrity....

Absolute bulldust, someone would not change a major mod like that expecially when there is only one in the country... If you tried to sell it later on you would have buckleys chances of selling it as all enthusiasts would know the issues and loss of authenticity.

Now one buys a z tune to mod it, as it is at its peak of class and 'special' manufacture.

Its like saying, i bought an Enzo so i could put tempe specials on it!!!!

WTF?!

hhhmmmmmmm he hasnt been seen in this thread for awhile either....maybe it is load of shit

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I call bullshit, there is no way an enthusiast would pay over $200k on a car and then mod it when its status is that of its engineering, authenticity and integrity....

Absolute bulldust, someone would not change a major mod like that expecially when there is only one in the country... If you tried to sell it later on you would have buckleys chances of selling it as all enthusiasts would know the issues and loss of authenticity.

Now one buys a z tune to mod it, as it is at its peak of class and 'special' manufacture.

Its like saying, i bought an Enzo so i could put tempe specials on it!!!!

WTF?!

I would not call bullsh!t based on that reasoning.

People mod F40s all the time, people have put rims on an Enzo, people with a lot of cash spend more on the car, but still want to toy with it. My Uncle bought an F360 Spyder new, but had to lower it and put an exhaust on it straight away. These people have the same idea as you, but they are spending more on the car in the first place, simply because they have more to spend, but that is the basically only difference.

Get some pics of the Z Tune please mate. :D

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I love muscle cars and having owned a new Monaro I especially like them. But the 427 is a modified car and may actually look standard from the outside. :D Regardless I'd like to see pics too.

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Hey Snowman, has Ben at Race Pace worked on the Z Tune before? Nice guy BTW. Did he get rid of the purple R33 GTR and buy a white 34 GTR?

Yes he has worked on it. When John (Original Z Tune owner here) brought it down from Syd to Melb he ran it in the 06 Dutton Vic and whilst it did ok it only ran 1.22's at Sandown which is good but not special. I spoke to him during Dutton and he took it down to see Ben afterwards. After Benno tuned it it was a much better car. You should see the before and after dyno graphs!

Also Ben never owned a purple R33 to my knowledge. He's always had the crazy white R33 and for a short time he also had a really nice white R34 with white CE28's as a street car - but he sold that about 12 months ago.

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Also Ben never owned a purple R33 to my knowledge. He's always had the crazy white R33 and for a short time he also had a really nice white R34 with white CE28's as a street car - but he sold that about 12 months ago.

Geoff's purple R33 GTR spent a fair bit of time at Benno's getting tuned n stuff. Might be referring to that.

back on topic, if whoever buys it retains the original parts, toys with it, then puts them back on when reselling, I'd consider that fair. Its the old arguement in the classic car community where some people will ONLY put correct period parts in their cars, and others will rejuvenate the older parts with better items, but still maintain the car's heritage and appearance.

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Geoff's purple R33 GTR spent a fair bit of time at Benno's getting tuned n stuff. Might be referring to that.

back on topic, if whoever buys it retains the original parts, toys with it, then puts them back on when reselling, I'd consider that fair. Its the old arguement in the classic car community where some people will ONLY put correct period parts in their cars, and others will rejuvenate the older parts with better items, but still maintain the car's heritage and appearance.

Agreed, so long as it can be put back to standard easily then fair game for history's sake.

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