Gts-r Is Back On The Books!

[CR34M]

Hey all just felt happy to say after all the looking around and months andeven years of reasearch, i am finally going to build my crappy 25GT non turbo 34 into the beat it should have been when i got it. RB26 conversion along with some wide panels and a few good mods here and there. should take a long while to finish the project, since theres alot of money and time involved as people know. But i cbf with buying a GT-R even though its the smarter option.

Anyhow just was happy to mention it since i havn't talked for a while.

One question though, does anyone know how the GETRAG 6 speed gearbox will fit up to a non turbo? has anyone done a conversion on anything of a similar scale??

I need to do more research on that part but other wise its a 2.8L Stroker bad boy from Tomei or HKS or the RB30 bottom end...either one or.

Wish me luck!!!!! Cause im gonna need every helping hand i can get

[bozodos]

don't you need to change brakes, suspension, diff etc etc? I'm not comepletely sure on how much different the non turbo R34 is, but on the earlier models they were also 4 stud etc etc, you obviously know this will be an extremely expensive and time consuming excercise, I'd just get a GT-R lol.

[CR34M]

don't you need to change brakes, suspension, diff etc etc? I'm not comepletely sure on how much different the non turbo R34 is, but on the earlier models they were also 4 stud etc etc, you obviously know this will be an extremely expensive and time consuming excercise, I'd just get a GT-R lol.

Haha yeh i realise, the 4 stud thing is a problem but ill get around that...i think you need the passion to want to do this, noone in the right mind wants to take this thing head on ever, so i decided fk the rest i aint gonna go buy a GT-R, anyone can buy a GT-R so ill just build it, that way ill have a car with plenty of character (my opinion anyhow, others will see it differently) But its ben done and can be done again!

And yeh i'd def have to up the brakes and all the rest of that crap, itll be a hand full but i guess if i get something like a XR6 turbo in the meantime or even a GTT skyline to get bout in while i do this up ill be alright.

[Sarumatix]

better be a 4-door or you are so wasting your time .

[bozodos]

haha well then good luck with that, it did occur to me that perhaps a GT-T might have been a slightly easier starting point, but you sound like you're pretty keen!

[VB-]

dont do it man, your proberly gonna spend 2 times the amount of a GTR.

[eeiko321]

don't you need to change brakes, suspension, diff etc etc? I'm not comepletely sure on how much different the non turbo R34 is, but on the earlier models they were also 4 stud etc etc, you obviously know this will be an extremely expensive and time consuming excercise, I'd just get a GT-R lol.

i kinda feel the same.....

an excercise that will have your car in the workshop for months and months

at the end of the day......on the outside, it still looks like a goofy GT-T

i would say just save up and get the GT-R

but its your car...your will know whats right for you

[bozodos]

Sounds like the OP knows what he is doing though, i mean you could always put a RB30S with triple Webers in it or something if you wanted to be really different lol, they sound hot!

[R34]

at the end of the day......on the outside, it still looks like a goofy GT-T

Yes and it will always be a GT when it comes to resale value.

If you've got enough money that you can afford to throw it away then go for it.

Or, if you intend keeping it forever do it

Dude couple of years ago had a 33 GTS-T with heaps of gear on it owing him like $120k.

Couldn't understand when no one wanted to to give him $70k for it when a GTR could be bought for $40k.

But in the end it's your decision and I'd be keen to see the result

Edited March 23, 2009 by R34