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Hey guys im looking at purchasing this gtr from wa and was wondering if anyone has seen it before or knows anything about the history of the car.


http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/Nissan-Skyline-1999/SSE-AD-2550427/?Cr=19&sdmvc=1

For the people that cant be bothered clicking the link it is a 1999 white vspec with a ztune conversion and the bonnet is carbon fibre and the plates on the car are ZLR.

Thanks Con

"I had big plans for this car with almost everything being completely replaced internally and externally with the engine rebuilt at 86,000 Kms."

I'd be asking why it had a big rebuild at 86,000kms ;)

This was his reason as to why it was rebuilt a second time but it might prove a little hard to find out why it was the first time. looks like ill have to give apc a call and see if they can provide me with any details


I purchased the car from a CEO of an accounting company in Brisbane (his toy car) in April of 2009 with roughly 68k 'genuine' Km's on the Odometer.

At the time the engine was already built by APC performance (http://www.apc-racing.com.au/showentry.asp?enid=72) however in November of 2010 (20k Km's later) I discovered the harmonic balancer was not tightened enough and came loose.

Consequently the crank was slightly bent at 86K Km's and so I replaced the crank with a new R34 GTR crank and completely replaced the bottom end. The engine was also retuned by Aaron at In Tune Performance.

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