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There seems to be a fair bit of interest in Stageas, I have received about 20 PM's and many emails about our new one. So I was wondering how much support there would be for a Stagea section on SkylinesAustralia. That way we could all exchange information, most of which would be Stagea unique.

Wadyareckon?

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I guess you could say our RSFour is just an automatic GTR (4wd) waggon with an RB25DET. It's the only 4wd blocked RB25DET (R33 GTS4's are RB25DE). Pretty unique in a number of ways and there are heaps of things I would like to know, stuff that a Skyline owner may not be interested in. What size wheels will fit? How do you upgrade the brakes? What shocks (are they GTST, GTR or GTS4)? Do they have HICAS? Ours is a "34" but it doesn't have a Neo. Where did you get your towbar from? What's the towing capacity? What brand and number of cross links on the roof racks?

It would be simply a place for the Stagea owners to talk about stuff that may (or may not) be unique. :D

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well I'm of course interested in info on the stageas, but I don't think a seperate section's a good idea.

There's already too many forums to keep track of, lets just have threads in the various section.....

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SK - I think you are a mind reader !

All the questions you have listed have been on my mind... Are you sure your not a Jedi Master ? :D

But seriously, even though the Stagea's have a lot of things in common with the R33 GTS-t's, there is still alot of unknown's as well.

Maybe there isn't enough of a demand for a seperate forum, but lets see if we can change that :)

J

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