Iron Chef

If it's pre-89 then no probs, but options are fairly thin on the ground for the early stuff.

I'm a second-hand car salesman, you can trust me! *flashes gold tooth* lol

You could always ask a broker to look for one in Japan for you....just sayin'...

If it wasn't for pirated copies of FAST we'd all be in trouble I reckon. Thanks to another journo (who's no doubt stalking this thread ) we've amassed a decent amount of info about N1s of all kinds to put onto a website at some point... Just for a bit of added trivia, the built split on V-Spec Nur and M-Spec Nur was 'about' 750 and 250, not even Nissan seems to know the real number. If anyone is a gun computer geek and can crack FAST so we can do searches for build codes, I'm happy to pay to get it done.

I've been sniffing around Daihatsus a bit lately, because any of them are eligible under SEVS. Chris is right, Kei cars traditionally never had to meet normal crash testing requirements in Japan, which made them virtually impossible to bring here under SEVS, but that has changed in recent year with car manufacturers building and testing them like regular cars (even if the Japanese govt treats them lik oversized motorbikes). But the short term answer is no, there's not much to choose from available through SEVS currently.

The problem is that so very little is truly known about them. When I bought mine, I actually thought it was 1 of the 45. Many people don't even know V-Spec II N1s even existed.

Will do when I get some spare time - does 2015 work for you? lol

The book is wrong - There were 45 V-Spec N1s built right from 1999 when the BNR34 was first releasted, although from the chassis numbers we've uncovered so far, they weren't built in one consecutive run. 12 were track-only (for N1 racing obviously), the rest were mostly sold to workshops and some private buyers. The Mines R34 was one that was an N1 base car, and TRIAL Osaka had an N1 at one point too. Of the 33 road-going cars, many of them were later sent back to the track for racing duties, so at a rough guess only half of them still exist. The V Spec II N1s were not a set run, they were built to special order once they had batches of at least three. Common consensus was that there were less than 20 built, and a figure of 18 has been mentioned in a couple of Japanese encyclopedia-style R34 GT-R books I've got.

CRMIN-4 indeed...lol

As far as WA quarantine are concerned, WA is another country...

The Genesis got a gong in my Top Ten Cars We Never Got article - copy and paste... Hyundai, in a rare stroke of brilliance, decided to make the Genesis rear wheel drive. Care to name an affordable Japanese RWD sports car released in the last ten years? No? Neither can we. Then there are the engines: there’s a two-litre 4 cylinder turbo engine producing 157kW, which sounds a bit pathetic until you realise that its bottom end is shared with the Mitsubishi Evo, but with even more strengthening measures taken. If there was ever a motor screaming out for 25psi worth of boost, this one is it. Then there’s the rorty 3.8 litre V6 atmo engine pumping out 228kW, widely considered to be a worthy adversary to the VQ37 engines in the 370Z. Still not enough? The sedan has a 4.6 litre 287kW V8 stuffed under the bonnet, and rumours have persisted that this motor will eventually make its way into the coupe, although whether it would upset the coupe’s balance is anyone’s guess. Add Brembo brakes, a Torsen LSD and a six-speed manual in a neatly styled car that undercuts its rivals on price by a good margin, and you have a winner on your hands. The Genesis has genuine street cred in the US too: Rhys Millen was the first to jump on board, building a 550ps Genesis drift car for the Formula Drift series with the V6 engine taken out to 4.1 litres and a Turbonetics huffer, closely followed by HKS USA who built a show car based around the 2.0 litre engine with a GT2835 bolted on.

Correct, if you are the highest bidder, you have the option of negotiating with the seller after the car passes in. Minimum offer is 30,000 yen over what your highest bid was. The seller can then come back with a counter offer, or accept the bid, or knock it back outright. Highest bidder always gets first dibs, but they only have 10 minutes after the car has gone through to get their offer in, after that it's opened up to anyone who wants to negotiate. It makes for fun times at auction

John, you have the exact same problem as me! Mine has 25,000-odd km on it and has been doing less than 1000km a year since I bought it. Alkatraz is indeed correct - for some reason, Japanese locals haven't really twigged to the rarity/collectability of the N1s, and they've been disappearing out of the country at relatively bargain prices. Yours is the second V-Spec N1 I know of in the country, there's actually a third on its way (see the link in my sig) too. There are also 3 V Spec II N1s (of only 18 built) in Australia too, so we certainly have our fair share of R34 N1s.

I'll soon tell you - send me the chassis number, PM it if you prefer. There's no build plate identifying it. The build code in FAST will have --L-- for the last 5 digits. Actually send me the chassis number anyway - a mate and I are keeping a register of all N1s.

+ an export certificate showing the mileage

You've read the feedback on the forums already, and you want feedback?

Hahahaha high 5, Nick!

I can tell you I nearly considered selling my very special GTR to buy the aforementioned NSX-R, so I get the concept

There was a genuine personal import NSX-R here in Adelaide for private sale a while back for $75K - ended up going back to Japan

Haha that's what happens when I get on here on a Saturday night after a few beers To answer the question a bit more sensibly, even if you could bring one in as a personal import, they're actually worth more in Japan than they are here anyway, so financially, it makes no sense to bring one over.

Import an NS-X?

Get it registered in Vic first. That is all.

Pfft that Iron Chef fella....COMPLETELY over-rated!! lol shoot me an email if you like (see my sig), but I'm not sure getting one out of Japan is necessarily the 'cheap' option these days.

For the record, turbo timers are illegal (unless you're a primary producer), as is leaving your car running and unattended in general.

Quite possibly - you'd need a local LPG fitter to sign off on it as meeting our requirements for registration.