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Delvance wrote:Good point brad_gpx..ima look that up!

I have also decided the r33 needs new shoes..am looking for some semis. Thinking r888 or 595rsr hrmmm

Delvance wrote:Thanks for the heads up guys. I will look into it and go from there. The car being a toy thing.. i'm not concerned with tire life, just need lotsa grip.

Was putting around on low boost just tonight, and it still fries the rears with 1st and 2nd if i'm not smooth with the throttle, and that's part throttle for second even. Currently has 235 marangoni mythos f/r which are supposed to be very good tires already

Delvance wrote: and i wanna sell my unit

Delvance wrote:Wait a sec, lemme grab my flame suit!

Yes yes..Delvance sold a sky.line only to buy....another sky.line!! /Smack

As some of you may know, i recently sold my v35 sky.line due to expecting my first child in december! I'm quite excited but that's besides the point..

I had a couple of cars in mind as a cheaper weekender/toy car. The top ones on the list were either an eg or ek civic with a motor conversion - i wanted either a b18cr or a k20a. 32/33 gts-t's were on the list as were other oddities/rarities like older corolla's with a 4agze/worked 4age/4age silver or blacktop conversion, FTO's, pulsar gti-r and maybe a couple that i don't remember.

So criteria was:
FAST, handles, plenty of mods done already as i won't have time/money to do it myself when the baby arrives, not too shagged chassis lol and if it was gonna be a Big Ugly Soap Box Racer, a rebuild of some form would be preferable with enough km's to know the rebuild wasn't dodgy.

Trolled carsales and various car forums for about 2 weeks then came across an r33 gts-t owned by a mechanic. Owner was relocating overseas giving me a good bargaining point keke..

Soo, called the fella: not owned by a hektic, check. Ok sweet! Seller proceeds to tell me about the car and it's got enough of my interest to organise a meetup. Met up and got the full low down on the car, got horny, bargained, and placed a deposit and bonus, he used to work at autotech engineering!

Soooo.. it's an r33 gts-t series 1.5 that curiously has a series 1 motor lol. It's had a rebuild 65xxx ago with new nissan parts, gaskets/hoses, o/s 0.05 pistons and bore to 2.6L. All support mods (blahblahblah) along with a responsive turbo setup and head port/trimmed guides. Dba4000 f/r rotors with p.mu pads and braided lines. Hks springs/bilsteins. Also has a full boston system and the car has been fully dynamatted (interesting...first car i've owned with a decent system but i like it). Oh, and a really loud horn



It was his daily so i have had to spend some time tidying her up. Did an ok paint detail and cleaned/dressed the interior a bit. Got a service done for oil/filter/brake fluid and replaced a leaking p/s hose. I then replaced spark plugs and put some new coilpacks on as the old ones were shagged causing spark blow out/misfires. Just had another exhaust put on today as the old one was cracked around the welds. Also bought and installed a pod enclosure to keep things lower key. It's coming along well

Have now decided to get an ae112r corolla as a new daily.. soo if you know anyone selling one at a decent price, lemme know

Delvance wrote:Hey KJ,

Thanks re the front bar! I've been trying to track down the origins of it since i purchased the car as i haven't really seen it on anyone else's line. Would you have a link to your mate selling the bar or something similar ? I quite like the bar, looks nice and smooth.

Uhm, i haven't dyno'd it in my ownership but previous owner said it's 240kw on a very conservative daily tune at unigroup. I'm planning to tune for e85 soonish and make it more aggressive seeing as it's a weekender. It's got oodles of mid range with a gt2871r which is what sold it for me.

Yeah those 34 gtt wheels aren't the greatest but it'll do for now. Such a shame my old set of gramlight 57s wouldn't fit .. the rears were 9.5 +22.

No tc/abs on this one either and the lsd has been shimmed/changed from what i can feel. Definitely fun driving a 90's jap rwd with ok power.

How's your r33 going ? Haven't seen you around here for awhile.

Delvance wrote:Don't tell me she's gonna park the porsche at the train station though! That's just asking for trouble, well i dunno for melbourne but would imagine it's the same.

Not a fan of euros myself but can appreciate it none the less. Does that mean the r33 is going to be gone too ?

I looked for Mavriv on Soap Box Club and found the banana bar sale thread. From what i can see in photos, my bar is a definite match for mavric's banana bar. Happy about that.. i liked the look of it when i saw the photos of the car on carsales and finding out it's not some ebay bar just makes it even better