Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

no idea when i rang they said yup we have sorted it and gave me the details saying the correct car. then said its will be $600 and said what thats 100 more than what my bill said.then she yes but the 608 is for the whole year. :D they its cheaper now cause u have turned 25 since your last renewal and your ncb has gone up.

so if you've turned 25 since your last bill before you pay the next one ring them and make sure its in there system that your 25.

  • Replies 49
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

When I transfered my insurance from my old bomb to my 1994 r33 gts25t with RAC I was 24 and had a 55% NCB. When I re-new it in march next year I'll be 25 and should have a 60% NCB, so I'm hoping its nice and cheap. The only thing I hate is that there is no market value so you have to put a value you want, plus adding any additional mods to the insurance list is a pain as they dont like it. Anyway, it cost me like $900 for a year as a 24 year old with 55% NCB. I'm glad I waited till I was older before I got a performance car, screw paying $3000/year just because i'm only 19 or something. I dont think people that young should have performance cars anyway, too much power for someone with a small amount of experience, unless they have a CAMS license :)

Rob

I am currently paying $2500 per year for my R33 GTS-4 with no claim bonus( reacently got broken into but since then I got new window and sounds system, MB qurtz plus piooneer from factory)

only paid $250 acess

I think I am paying too much.. I am with RAC!

cheers

Joe

I just renewed with RAC and they wanted to know if i wanted to insure my stereo I asked how much to insure and she said well standard you get $750 worth of insurance on your stereo so any more $$$ than that it might pay you to insure....:eek:

I was never told that we get $750 of free insurance on the car stereo when i made me annual payment until now!

Have you guys been told that aswell? where you aware of that? i certainly wasn't they kept it pretty quiet from me! hmm maybe i should have checked my policy harder but i would have remembered sumfin like that though!

Okay this is the go as it was explained to me many a time.

The R32 GTR was released locally. Hence it's insurance is cheaper than the GTS. Why ? Cos at the time you couldn't get parts locally from Nissan for it.

Now that Nissan do carry R33 parts I think things are a changing.

The people on the phone generally don't know the difference beteewn a Hyundai Excel and a R33. All they see is that it is not listed on the computer and tell you to nicely rack off.

I have also been explianed why it is extremely difficult to get non bank finace on an import but that could get me into trouble for telling... Oh and I found this info out through the RAC and GE Auto and Fleet 'cos we did the outsourcing IT work for them and I asked some managers.

I'm having problems getting insurance for my R31 if it had a RB20det in it.GIO,HBF,Weatern QBE,Fai Allianz,RAC and SGIO have all said no coz i'm 19:shake: .I'm thinking about 3rd party coz it's cream to start with and she's not to hot what yous reckon.

i shopped around all the companies too

all my other sh#t is with HBF they told me NO at first

but i said i'd take my business elswhere a few calls later they came to the party. they told me mine changed the way they looked at these cars and it came in at $836..@ $15000

R31 POWER:

i'm only 20 and have a hr31 gts with a 32 rb20

rac cover me for $1540 per year, which i think is reasonable.

i rang everyone in the yellow pages, even brokers, and rac were the only ppl to give me a quote.

that premium is with 30% ncb and alarm discount.

originally it was $2445.

I have just been on the phone with the RAC and they not only dont want to insure any more jap imports they are going to send a letter to each policy holder at the end of the term to explain how they thankyou for you business but we are no longer can supply insurunce for your vehicle.

They say that they are looking into the feasability of going through each car one buy one and checking on the availability of part. But they are starting with the non turbo silvia then non turbo skyline but they dont invisage looking to their turbo charged brothers. Shit news hey! So you guys with RAC insurance dont leave it too late and find out that you only have a few weeks insurance left.

Hope that some car importers can get together and provide a good base of spares or i feel other insurers will follow suit and will put the life of the beloved Skyline at risk. :)

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now



  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Dang. I love the little 'oil used' bingo card on the side.   🤣  Well, now they can use a box and an oil-filled goon.
    • Many many moons ago, I was chatting with Andy Wyatt, about his auto ignition tuning. One of the HUGE things he said to me, when tuning for power, right where you hit peak ignition timing for your max torque, dramatically increases NOx emissions. He was finding in testing, particularly on engines you could advance timing beyond peak torque, that backing the ignition timing off a couple of degrees only made for a small drop in torque (compared to if you keep backing it off further the same amount of degrees) but dramatically reduced NOx emissions. I'd say targetting for 14.7, and he's even mentioned in some scenarios going slightly leaner, and pulling a few degrees of IGN timing will help pass for emissions quite a lot. However, who tunes an RB for emissions
    • The main stuff from.Vibrant I see is more their intercooler piping, and everyone raving about their clamps, but when I looked it was about $150 per clamp... I was a bit   I also thought the public price SP had up was high. As Mark said, a normal exhaust shop can fab them. It was many years ago that I had a full exhaust built, but for a full turbo back exhaust, and 2 custom built mufflers, plus a high flow cat, was about $1,100, and that was fully installed, drive in, drive out. I believe SP was about $900 for 2 mufflers, just supplied   These days, I just buy the material and built it myself, because I need to stretch my $$$
    • I'm pretty sure if it's considered a gasoline powered vehicle you have to do certification against a fixed, very expensive certification fuel.  If you add two precats and then replace the main cat with two cats back to back you can get an RB26 to do 0.24 g/mi HC, 1.6 g/mi CO, and 0.3 g/mi NOx on the FTP-75 drive cycle. Found this out courtesy of California's laws at great expense. Divide by 1.61 to get g/km. So even with extra cats + precats you're blowing past the NOx limit by probably 2.3x. Probably the only way to get an RB25 or RB26 to meet euro 4 purely from an emissions per km standpoint and not durability/OBD2 requirements is retrofit at least intake side VVT, clearance the pistons to allow the full 50 degrees of advance so part throttle EGR can be maximized, and change the wastegate control from conventional 7 psi spring for example to one that is always fully open if the wastegate line is at 1 atm or higher and only close it in response to vacuum. See BMW's N54 engine as a reference for how this works. You would need to find space for a vacuum tank to function as an accumulator in this system. That way you can avoid any heat loss to the turbine as much as possible during cold start to heat the catalyst faster. Then find some way to eliminate as much as possible cold start enrichment to light off the catalyst rapidly. Maybe secondary air injection if there's no way to avoid cold start enrichment. Close coupled catalysts in the downpipe are probably necessary. I would also probably swap to EV14s, pick something with the correct spray targeting + dual cone pattern for the intake manifold you're using. EV1 style injectors to pass anything resembling modern emissions requires a very annoying air assisted injector system to break up the droplets at part throttle/idle which still doesn't work that great compared to just having smaller droplets from the injector to begin with. Realistically, you're probably going to be financially ahead if you just pay the fines instead. Or don't drive it into the city center. There's a reason why Nissan never bothered to even attempt certifying an RB for CA/US emissions. The VG30 needed external EGR on top of NVCS to pass in the 90s. Doing all of this work is also distinctly expensive and you're going to struggle to find anyone who is remotely interested in helping. 
    • I remember those, people use to steal them to make bongs.....
×
×
  • Create New...