My New Ride...on Its Way From Japan.

[cell]

After 3 skylines I have turned to the dark side and gone for a Toyota Caldina 200+ kw turbo awd.

This is the first one in SA and the first N series in Australia.

Will be here in 2 months so say gday on the road.

Update - hmm i hear you all, here are some more pics.

It has lots of cool gear on it.

Factory recaro interior and then there is a lot of TRD gear on it.

Edited January 17, 2008 by cell

[Hillzy]

Wow that looks wild!!

Can't wait to see it tearing up Adelaide streets!

[typevu]

Awesome stuff! Whack a Corolla badge on... no one will suspect a thing!

[ISC-Performance]

Looks nice, any more specs?

Ryan

[Large]

Looks good... got a side on view?

[MissR34]

i have to admit, that is on funky looking car! i like!

[ArenaGTR]

grait succezz...........and vely nize....how much?

[cell]

Looks nice, any more specs?

Ryan

Here is the specs on them.

http://www.cars-directory.net/specs/toyota...na/2002_9/2028/

I was sick of paying to run a 6 cyl turbo skyline @ $1.50 a litre -plus having to worry about it being stolen.

This one is cheaper to run register and insure and still looks funky.

Edited January 17, 2008 by cell

[SLED]

Looks alright....little bit like the new scuby.

[GTR-32U]

nice machine....Is it true that they only come in Auto ?

[Madaz]

yeah looks good for sleeper effect remove the TRD badges

[dovla]

I like this, the front reminds me of EP3 Civic Typer R

[andz]

would be zippy around the city

quite heavy for a lil car

it'll kick a lot of suprised asses off the line

[shy_s6]

looks pretty kool pity its a heavy lil bugger n auto, i can see it getting boring really quick! but be ok for putting around town!

[cell]

looks pretty kool pity its a heavy lil bugger n auto, i can see it getting boring really quick! but be ok for putting around town!

Not hard to get more power outta these engines

Edited January 23, 2008 by cell

[Nightcrawler]

very nice mate!

BUT .... have you looked into how stock your car is? Being the first one of the model into Aus, you may find problems with little things that weren't factory, which the SEVS workshop may not have access to evidence. Pretty much EVERY import has something on it that is a different model to evidence, and you need to change them (even if only temporarily) to a model they do have evidence on. For example my headlights were a different part number to what they had ever seen, so had to bolt in another pair for compliance. My windscreen also was an unknown part number, but luckily a Qld workshop was doing evidence on another R34 with the same part number windscreen while my car was in the SA workshop, and after a 3 week wait, the SA workshop bought the evidence off them and I didn't have to change the windscreen over. I know Skylineee is going through this atm with his R34 - and for some reason he had to have the WHOLE ENGINE changed over for compliance

You might want to let the workshop doing your compliance know it is a TRD version, and you might want to start sourcing some oem parts from Japan in readiness to change over the TRD parts they have no evidence on. I know the 1st guy to bring in a V35 Stagea (and it was bone stock) went through this nightmare and it took ages to comply.

[Krishy]

^^^shiat i didnt know that...well mate for you sake i hope that your car goes through with no problems.....very nice looking car....

[mitchy_]

i looked at these when i bought my legnum, didn't like the look of them.

[cell]

very nice mate!

BUT .... have you looked into how stock your car is? Being the first one of the model into Aus, you may find problems with little things that weren't factory, which the SEVS workshop may not have access to evidence. Pretty much EVERY import has something on it that is a different model to evidence, and you need to change them (even if only temporarily) to a model they do have evidence on. For example my headlights were a different part number to what they had ever seen, so had to bolt in another pair for compliance. My windscreen also was an unknown part number, but luckily a Qld workshop was doing evidence on another R34 with the same part number windscreen while my car was in the SA workshop, and after a 3 week wait, the SA workshop bought the evidence off them and I didn't have to change the windscreen over. I know Skylineee is going through this atm with his R34 - and for some reason he had to have the WHOLE ENGINE changed over for compliance

You might want to let the workshop doing your compliance know it is a TRD version, and you might want to start sourcing some oem parts from Japan in readiness to change over the TRD parts they have no evidence on. I know the 1st guy to bring in a V35 Stagea (and it was bone stock) went through this nightmare and it took ages to comply.

good thing all the factory parts are in the car! the wheels are the exact measurements as factory wheels.

the Compliance shop has all the parts required allready scoped it all out, I expect issues so not worried.

Cheers anyway, by the way there are other Caldina GT Fours in oz just no N Series models.

Cheers anyway.

[Nightcrawler]

cool mate, I am sure it will all work out for you.

FYI it doesn't matter that the wheels are the same dimensions - they HAVE to be oem parts. No ifs ands or buts. So if the compliance workshop doesn't have evidence for the exact part numbers of every single item in your car, they will have to do the evidence themselves (= mega $$$) or hopefully they can swap them for non-N series parts.

When does she get here? I am very keen to see it in the flesh!