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Done two heater hoses now, been lucky both times to only happen as I was getting home and losing very minor amounts of coolant.

Looking to get all done now to put my mind at ease, trying to get up behind the starter motor is an absolute nightmare.

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Gday Fellas

There has been alot happening in my life so the GTR has been on the back burner

A mate invited me over to Sydney to help out with Motive DVD GTR drag battle and I have to say what an experience. Got to visit some cool performance shops and meet some really switched on owners/tuners

CRD, JEM, Micks Motorsport, Motor Sports Mechanical and Maatouks racing to name a few. Everyone is unique in how they do things with the GTRs but wow..... the smack talk..... that was probably the best part hahahahaha

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I was lucky enough to meet and be able to spend a large amount of my time with Kyle from 1320videos

We both spent alot of time getting ourselves lost trying to find workshops and site seeing hahahaha

On the first day there I managed to get us lost around the north rocks area after trying to find some food and a phone shop for Kyle lol

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When I returned to Perth Andrew from Motive DVD invited me to the V8 supercars to help out with the drifting side of things. That was alot of fun and I managed to meet some more amazing people

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Another great opportunity was being able to show the East Coast crew what the West Coast is all about I brought 6 copies of my good friends Magazine across for the guys to check out the name of the magazine is FORGED. This mag has a diverse range of vehicles from American muscle, JDM, Aussie muscle and motorcycles. Its a very well presented mag and if anyone is interested I can organize some copies ☺

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Hi Frostyboy,

I just ended up buying exactly the same suspension kit from Fulcrum. Thanks for letting me know.

They did not give me quite as good a deal as you got though.

Looking forward to installation, both yours and mine. It will be great to get some feedback from you once fitted

Cheers

Matt

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Hi Frostyboy,

I just ended up buying exactly the same suspension kit from Fulcrum. Thanks for letting me know.

They did not give me quite as good a deal as you got though.

Looking forward to installation, both yours and mine. It will be great to get some feedback from you once fitted

Cheers

Matt

Thats awesome mate when are you planning on fitting them up?

Righto Fellas

I'm thinking about selling the -5 turbos and going for a single setup I'm after some advice suggestions for turbo selection

I want the car to be an all rounder but I would like it to have some serious straight line speed.... I know it will make it harder to drive on a race track but for me I need that feeling of acceleration and speed

Hey Brad,

The drag orientated GTRs can certainly tempt you to chase more POWER. I was at the GTR fest in Sydney and liked what I saw on the drag strip.

Regarding suspension, I might actually end up going with BC racing Coilovers.

Matt

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Well I wanted to purchase a turbo kit that would see me onto the high Nines however there was just nothing in my budget

I found a nice 2nd hand kit in Sydney that will be suited to my needs for the time being and fitted into my budget [emoji7]

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A Precision 6262 on a spoton fabricated T4 split pulse manifold turbo smart wastegate and less than 2000kms on kit

Hopefully it was a wise decision to go 2nd hand

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Well not good news this happened

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Cooling system is completely sludged with engine oil

There is no water in the engine oil

The cooling system isn't pressurising and the oil cooler isn't bypassing either

I'm thinking cracked block

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