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Thats typical Japanese bidding..drives me insane. Bloody kamikaze ninja numbnuts thinking if they wait until last 10 secs they'll get it.

I just chuck my max bid in from the get an be done with it.

What are you going to use to run it ??

232,000yen. Didn't wanna spend anymore then 230k to be honest but like u said I hardly see them on there. This one was the best condition one I've seen on there.

I think you got a good score mate. yeah the bloody time extensions on yahoo auctions shits me. I've been buying off yahoo for over 10 years and lost many nights of sleep back in the early 2000s when auctions would re-extend for hours and hours. ending time would be say 8pm and they'd bloody go until 2am with tiny little bid increases every time extra time was about to finish. drove me insane.

When I was staying in Japan early this year my mate mentioned you can actually use a site to bid at the last 0.001 of a second to win the auction. Found that out after I lost the bid on a GT500 RRR block which went for around 5,500 :(

When I was staying in Japan early this year my mate mentioned you can actually use a site to bid at the last 0.001 of a second to win the auction. Found that out after I lost the bid on a GT500 RRR block which went for around 5,500 :(

Waste of time and doesnt always work.

Just work out max you want to pay and throw it in at the start.

Watch it and if it goes past your bid and you want to pay more then throw more bids on.

10 years living in Jappa another 8 on top of that going there on travel business and visa hopping, I learnt a long long time ago not to waste time or energy on dumb stuff the Japanese do.

If you do you will be banging your head against a wall for a long long time.

The Motec 800 will run the V-cam no problems.

Also Midori Seibi have been doing setups with a custom Power Fc that they reset.

Screw the GTR's go a big single..

Autoselect Yellow Shark with V-cam

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Big single would be to laggy on the 26 for now, and means my ARC twin entry cooler would be useless :(

Just wanna get the thing running already. I'll be going either Tomei 2.8 or Brian Crower 2.9 later on.

Now to save some funds again for a front diff and a whole heap of Nissan parts.

Big single would be to laggy on the 26 for now, and means my ARC twin entry cooler would be useless :(

that was just my point mate. response from the -5s is the key for the track. note kaido_RR build, he's done alot of sensible work. :thumbsup:

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