What Is The Best Course Of Action?

[scathing]

You said that you wanted to build a 4 door GT-R. Genuine, factory built, GT-R sedans are almost impossible to find.

My point is that doing it yourself by getting a 4 door chassis and transplanting the engine/driveline from a GT-R coupe into it is going to be a massive job with lots of custom work from whichever workshop you eventually get to help you with it. The end result is more prone to failure than a 4 door car that left the factory with an AWD drivetrain, and OEM levels of engineering and testing behind it.

If you're talking about just dropping an RB26DETT into a sedan chassis then it should be relatively simple, and reliability will come down more to how you treat the car than anything else. But, to be quite blunt, the GT-R is defined more by its advanced drivetrain than its engine so that car wouldn't be a "4 door GT-R" any more than some ricer who sticks badges on their GTS-t.

If you intend on having the GT-R's ATTESSA (which is different to the GTS4's ATTESSA) fitted as well as the engine into a sedan, which would make it more worthy of the title, then you're going to need deep pockets and people who really know what they're doing. Even then, I'd still be worried that things had to be kludged to fit/work, which means it's more likely to break than a car that was designed to be that way in the first place.

[Ding]

I see.

What would a guesstimate be on the cost of such an operation?

Also I'm assuming getting a GT-FOUR isn't going to help because it's still not a GTR drivetrain so the GT-FOUR drivetrain will be replaced regardless?

[iseekool]

Check out these threads.

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/98...Gt-t297401.html

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/R3...ld-t280439.html

My opinion:

If you are going the R34 N/A route - Keep the 4 door as "daily spec" - With minimal mods. High flow panel filter, extractors and a decent sounding stereo (not the full DOOF DOOF stuff - adds so much weight and takes boot space) and some nice alloys. This will also enable you to get parts from the nissan dealerships.

R34 non-turbo are not quick cars (on par with your typical n/a aussie 6s), however they do keep pace with the "majority" of cars out there - so they are not underpowered by any means. I'd put them as VERY average. Only real advantage of the n/a R34 is the better handling and the good looks (majority of people out there have no clue between the bread and butter GT/GT-T to the GT-R).

When you save up enough you could probably end up having 2 cars R34 4 door as a daily and a GT-R for the weekend/having fun...

[Tangles]

I just picked up a R32 sedan gtst with Rb26dett conversion

plenty of mods done to it, upgraded brakes, tein suspension, 750cc injectors, ecu, gtr fuel pump, etc

they are around, need to be quick tho when they pop up

about to strip it into a track biatch

unless you want it for 10k

[Tangles]

dbl post sorry

[paulr33]

buy a POS first car cheap as chips

save as much money as you can in the mean time

when off p's buy an ER34 GTT and youll be fine

ER34 GTT to GTR conversion is stupid, pointless, not worth the $ and a waste of time

the money youll spend all up - you could just buy a GTR R34 for the price they are now

the converted ER34 GTT to GTR will be worth nothing in comparison to what you spend

[KezR33]

I don't know what it is about the GTR either, its just so much more aggresive looking than the GT/-T. The guards, the nose, etc. A Black R34 GTR is one mean looking car.