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Hmmm, might be the image host does not like you for some reason. They are on zupimages.net. Can you see them attached to my post and hosted on sau? @jibe, hope you don't mind me attaching your photos again. Otherwise let me know and I'll remove them from my post. It's a bit of a shame that random image hosts tend to disband eventually and a few years later it all ends up in dead links. Attached to the forums it should stick around as long as the forum does.

To be fair the states haven't had ~30 years of opportunity to learn those lessons. So they'll go through all of that now. I'm just hoping that more hype in the states will lead to people replicating parts that are getting rare.

@GTSBoy just to make sure everyone is on the same page: OP is doing the manual conversion on their S1 Stagea

This was great fun! Looking forward to the next one. A bit tricky for photos. Maybe it can be argued as artsy. Not sure who owned that 32 but it's chef's kiss. 10/10 would drive behind again. Makes me want to take on stupid amounts of debt to own one.

Hey @PranK, just as an aside, I'd say the how to become a supporter page points to the wrong page for the subscriptions. As in currently it links to https://www.sau.com.au/forums/subscriptions when it should link to https://www.sau.com.au/forums/store/category/3-sau-supporter-subscriptions/ as this has the actual supporter subscriptions. I was looking for them the other day and couldn't find them anymore and thought they had disappeared. Or alternatively the supporter subscriptions should be on the subscriptions page.

Clearly the big brain move here is to buy a club membership and to then get the tech night for free.

Ooo, sounds good! Will be there. Really looking forward to it after the whole flooding thing at the Nasho breakfast cruise. @Dose Pipe Sutututu would you bring out the Skyline for this? You could argue that this is heading towards some kind of meat emporium. It is also before your track day so the car still runs. @mlr what about you? The McDonald's parking lot is the natural habitat of any proper bogan cruise ship

And some either unsure or unrelated to SAU on the day. Love the race car Mirage!

Good stuff! Good call on starting early. It did get quite busy at Benzin. Some photos from the day attached. I'm pretty sure these were all SAU related. Nice weather, nice people, heaps of nice cars both at Benzin and Dural area in general. Food at Benzin was also tasty. And instagrammable if that is important for whatever reason.

I forgot all about that! That sexual tension when they tried to pull the headlight bulb out of Nicole Kidman's R32 and it wouldn't quite budge was intense. Many teenage wet dreams were had. (I'm not quite sure if you are taking the piss but I'm just going to go along with it. If you are not I'd love to hear where you are coming from)

Oooh man! It took me way too long to work out what you were talking about. I had never heard of the term boofhead before reading this thread. I just went along with it and assumed it was a special way of adjusting things. Because people used it so confidently and GTSBoy is always so educated on everything. It would have been pretty funny if I ended up asking my mechanic about boofhead timing adjustments

Some thoughts on this. a) I'd say it depends. Talk to the owner and gauge what they are like. Even though the internet says so not everyone is out there trying to rip you off. I bought my Stagea without having driven it myself and only having been a passenger. Do I regret it? No. Would I do it again? Probably also no. In my case the owner was a great guy, he knew his stuff and was super straightforward about any issues with the car. And he clearly cared at least as much as I do. Borderline OCD, really. b) Definitely take those driving lessons! c) If you don't feel comfortable to test drive yourself and don't have anyone to do it, I would consider helping out. Within reason of course. Feel free to get in touch at the time d) If you buy @Dose Pipe Sutututu's Skyline you'll be morally obliged to start a build thread of your own. And keep everyone updated on what is happening with the car. Possibly also updates on what you do with your house.

It's funny you say that. I have been dailying a borrowed 2021 3 series because my Stagea is out. Whilst driving the beamer I have started imagining driving my car and making turbo noises to myself. It's nice not to cringe on every bump and pothole with air suspension instead of coilovers and having a working sound system. But the lack of character / feedback / noise is very much a thing. Surely there must be a way. Even if it would cost a couple grand. At least I imagine it more doable than laying out $1xxk to go through a full purchase to find out. @robbo_rb180 how did you get into an M3 on track?

I feel like this needs some kind of gofundme campaign. Get enough funds together to rent an M3 for 2 weeks so that you can get a proper feel for what it is like to own one. I would hate for you to sell your shitbox to then realise that BMWs are worse. Because at the end of the day your shitbox is unique. But if you do the 2 weeks renting and still think BMW is the way to go, then by all means do it.

Man, iso is tough when everyone and everything else is pretty much back to normal. I went through it recently and it felt like a being a proper convict. It would be a serious drive for you to come up from the Snowys though for the aqua golf?

It sounds fun! Someone at work mentioned this place just the other week. Jen and I will be there. I'm pretty sure I have played golf on the Nintendo Wii once so I feel well prepared. Going to aim for nothing less than the $500 cash price.

Just as an aside, the door links in the R34 sedan and WGNC34 Stagea are not the same. I didn't look at the epc-data correctly. I must have been blinded by the glorious fantasy of having doors that actually work. See for example the two diagrams of the doors: R34 <-> Stagea. 80410M in the middle. R34 uses 80430AA000 and Stagea uses 804300V000. The doors also look nothing like each other. Anyways, I ordered a set of door links before realising so will at least have a look if it can work. I'm just glad I only ordered the links and not whole bloody doors. That would have been pretty funny in a not really funny kind of way.

Man, tell me about it. I think personally I snapped the day I had to wedge a broomstick in the door to keep it open in the perfectly level courtyard. It was ridiculous. So yeah I'm super excited about this. Looks like the Stagea uses the same bits for the doors. Just looking for somewhere to get them from. Amayama has them, but a bit of a lead time. Trust-kikaku has them in stock but more pricey. Enquired with jp-carparts as well, see what they say.

Have you tried the Google Translate app on your smartphone of choice? It's apparently pretty good at translating from photos. That sucks. Have you asked for recommendations for a good mechanic where you are? Not that I know too much about it, but I would like to think that someone with a good work ethic is always going to return the car in a better state or be up front on why it isn't and what can be done about it. Or, if it is out of their league to be up front about that as well.

Hey @Kinkstaah, what model is your sedan? ER34? I'm trying to work out whether I can fit the same door links on my WGNC34 Stagea. Going from EPC data it looks the same. On ER34 it is 80410M for the front door and 82430 for the rear door. Which matches the links on my WGNC34. Also, the 4 nuts are for 2 doors, right? So 8 nuts for 4 doors? Thanks! As an aside, there are some more details with the R35 part numbers in this thread.

This was a first for me. It was nice meeting some of the members! Hopefully next time the weather works out better and there'll be a chance for more people to come. And also a bit more driving. If anyone is on the fence about joining or attending: Everyone is really nice and welcoming. It's also very much not exclusive to Skylines which is great. Jeep, Holden, Toyota, it was all covered and I wasn't expecting that. So overall much recommended. I didn't take any photos because I'm an egg. But Jen took some.

Ooo, I like the white on gold. It looks really good! Is that a 260rs? My parents used to have foldable jumpseats in the trunk of their Volvo 740 wagon. Do you have something like that in mind? It just fit us kids and one of us would sit there facing out the back. 19 hour road trips on holidays. Fun times. Though not really to be honest. Purely space wise the Stagea should be quite similar. I found this picture on the net which looks about right for the Volvo. Don't have anything helpful to contribute though, sorry. Just curious what your plans are.

Man, is this some kind of SEO spam thing again? If not, I apologise and shall excuse myself. - First post - check - Zero relation to Skylines - check - Odd formatting because of copy pasted content - check - A bunch of other forums with pretty much identical posts by first posters - check

Is this still going ahead tomorrow? Happy to head out for some breakfast but I'm wondering how accessible the national park is at the moment. Looking at the Audley Weir webcam footage for example: https://straya.io/webcams/audley-road/ That's a big nope currently

Hey there, funnily enough someone had the same question just yesterday. See @BK's response here: