Jump to content
SAU Community

G T - R Magazine In Town --- Article On G T - R Popularity


Recommended Posts

Well done Terry!

And yes, +11ty to Bob's idea of obtaining english copies & back issues too if possible :)

I'd be more than happy to pay for a yearly subscription if that's what it takes to secure English copies.

I've looked on Ebay (worldwide)....... Googled it and NOTHING! Can find an English copy anywhere.

Cheers.... Bob.

every single car was absolutely pristine!!! I felt slightly out of place amongst such royalty

12 of the nicest gtr's Ive ever seen!

This makes me think Liz, "What did Yamazakisan and Masudasan think of our cars?"

I would have loved to have eavesdropped on their conversations on their way back to Narita.

I guess we'll find out soon enough...

I've actually asked Todd and Kristian to locate for me, a Lizterry 'er a Kenmeri - lol

DATSUN.jpg

I wonder what Yamazakisan would think of that!

I had trouble explaining to him what my 1977 240K was!

Through two translators, it was still so difficult!

How did other people's interviews go?

  • Like 1

I've actually asked Todd and Kristian to locate for me, a Lizterry 'er a Kenmeri - lol

DATSUN.jpg

I wonder what Yamazakisan would think of that!

I had trouble explaining to him what my 1977 240K was!

Through two translators, it was still so difficult!

How did other people's interviews go?

Hi Terry, I think Mr Yamazaki did understand what you mean, but obviously he wasn't really digging in that line, he was like "ok then, how/what about xxxxx", I think he was more interested in your relationship with R32,33,34,35 and ofc our SAU community. After we told him what you said he simply just moved on to next question and you were still evaluating your answer for the previous one and this happened to some other questions as well and that's where things were getting a bit difficult. I think what happened was your answers were way over Mr Yamazaki's expectation since most interviewee answered each question in less than 25 words.

Of course I'm not saying you did anything wrong Terry, I think you tried to explain everything in every detail possible and it was beyond what Mr Yamazaki needed due to the length limited for each interviewee and Mr Yamazaki was very happy about your answer he just didn't expect you'd talk in such details. BTW I think Mr Yamazaki's English is quite good he need two of us simply because I know a bit more about car stuff so anything related to tuning and car parts were translated by me, and sorry we are not professional interpreter so there might be some miscommunication in between.

For anyone else I don't think there was any big issue since most people were very shy and only answered questions in very simple way, such as "what is your car?" "R34 /R32 GTR vspec1/2/nur" "why you like it?" "it looks tough / I like the look of it" "Why you choose 34/32 out of 32-35?" "I can feel the car more and I can feel everything through the wheel and seats. /I like it's originality/history" and ect. You'd be surprised how similar people answered those question on the day and I think it was not a bad thing since it can give a very good understanding of how and why Australian GTR owners love their car and the differences compare to Japan side.

Hope this can help clear the things bit for you Terry, I noticed the miscommunication on the day and sorry I couldn't help you out.

You did indeed help out heaps Jun and thanks for that.

I think from my end, I couldn't read Yamazakisan's non verbal cues as much as I would have liked. That's the language barrier I suppose.

I could certainly see when he was thrilled though and I was most happy with that Jun.

Thanks again :)

Australia was the only country in the world that got the R32 GT-R outside of Japan.

I wonder what they would think of the 100 ADM's we have/had here and whether they even know about them?

Loved to have asked that question.

Bob.

Kinokuniya has the GT-R Magazine Issue #119 at the moment

Malaysia apparently reprints GT-R Magazines in English in abbreviated form - not official it seems.

Perhaps deongster can enlighten us in the future as part of his research - thanks in advance for that.

Well done Terry, Liz, Bueller and all involved.

Looks like an awesome collection there :)

Will also try and obtain a copy!

It's supposed to come out between December and February Chris.

  • 2 weeks later...

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



  • Latest Posts

    • Another question sorry, what stainless do u use in the turbo external WG plumb back piping? Is it 321, 316 or 304?
    • Right, its been a while for updating this car, but I made some small but important progress today. In the end I bought an Ecutek dongle from the Australian distributor Tunehouse (for local hardware support) but have gone with a remote tune from Racebox in the US (because they have done millions of these, and I could not find any tuner where I could access the tune anyway as they are all password locked). The App is reasonably easy to work with, but the PC software reminds me of Haltech's ECU Manager that you need to use with the Plat Pro ECUs, it is a nightmare.  Anyway, I sent the details over, got back a tune file and a request for data logs. I finally got a chance to access a private test track today as they want redline logs in 3rd and 4th, and have sent them back for the first round of reviews. The main difference in the tune is going from 1.0 (stock) to 1.3 bar (19psi), although I'm sure is a lot of other stuff in the background. Keeping in mind this is a dead stock car with 125,000klm, this is what the App's performance test claimed: Before After Interesting to note that both 400m tests had the same terminal speed (158klm/h) but different ETs. And no, the speed limiter seems to be higher than that at 186kl/h. Summary of the key logged parameters for the 3rd and 4th gear runs were: Those little turbos were certainly whizzing at 200,000rpm+.  Also I'm really not that excited about oil pressure 55psi at redline so I think I'll go thicker than 5w30 (nissan recommend 0w20....) and see if that improves it. Other than that (and the big boost spike....) everything looks good as a start to me.
    • Just one more post to show the final result and the original "janky" solution for a laugh. Everything feels really tight and no wobbling at all, very pleased 🙂
    • After drying a few days, time to put her back together 
×
×
  • Create New...