baron25

I like the idea of extending the headlight line further down, but the rest of it looks like it came form NFSU2

Agreed, but it's JCI need a token effort before they'll get involved. Or take the hit on your rating and make a claim.

Just watch out for those three honda civics with spoon engines......

I went through a similar thing, call JCI again. Get some quotes from two-three repairers, then give them to the guy that hit you, if he won't come to the party, then get him to sign a letter stating he had no cover at the time of the accident. In the highly likely event that they refuse, call JCI and get them to do it. Like the deceitful insurance company that they are, they'll call him and try and trick him into verbally confirming that he has no cover. After that they'll sort things out with getting it repaired (they might ask you for the quotes, i lived so far away from anything that they don't have a preferred repairer nearby so they went with the cheapest quote i gave them). I was quite paranoid that it would stuff my rating, but they assured me that it wouldn't. And as for they guy that hit me? No idea, they probably took his house. I haven't seen/heard from him since JCI took it out of my hands.

Full comp on market value was about $1500, or $130/month. That's with the car registered at the parents place out in the sticks (fringe benefit of having a term address at uni). The price difference would still be similar being kept in the city though.

You're right in that sense that there is a point, but my contention was that going straight for a turbo and winding the boost up as far as you can go is naive. And that there's a lot of fun to be had from an NA, and you learn a lot more as a driver from taking a lower powered car as fast as it can go, rather than curing a lack of ability with a surplus of power. If you want to debate NA v Turbo, PM Eug. He'll give you a full list of FI cars he's beaten around the track in his NA.

JCI - Just upped it from $5 to $10k recently, but market value on my NA is probably less than that RACV - $5k for the loss. The other difference though, JCI have excesses totalling about $1500 odd if your foolish enough to make a claim, whereas for RACV excess would be $900. Seeing as full comp is affordable with RACV, if i pay it monthly, it's tempting to go that way.

Yeah, i part with ~$550 for the pleasure of JCI, but RACV quoted me $270 odd.

Just as a public service announcement, for those of you who don't know, RACV will cover skylines now! I know this won't matter much to you older folk who can get on with Shannons and the like, but those of us stuck with Just Cars massive fees this might help. I just got off the phone with them, and their 3rd Party Fire + Theft quote undercut JCI by about 50% and full comp is actually affordable! *this may have been happening for awhile and i'm just slow, but when i got my car back in '05 i was politely informed that RACV wouldn't touch me with a 10ft bargepole

If you're changing based on fuel consumption, is going to a more powerful car a great idea? I know i'd be well tempted with the knowledge of what's waiting underneath my right boot.....

In all honesty, you're better off just waiting until a suitable NA pops up, then selling it when you're ready for a turbo. Once you start pulling apart an engine, unless you're building up it lets all the gremlins in.

I'm not suggesting it's a better package, rather that it's not a worse package either. It's easy to go fast in a turbo, just screw boost into it and away you go. It's a lot more challenging, and you learn a lot more, trying to do the same in an NA. NA's are underappreciated, mainly due to the ragging given to them by the turbo boys addicted to BOV noise and neck snapping boost transition. In reality, they're not as bad as the reputation would suggest. Sure, they're no GTR, but then again, a GTST is hardly one either. and for the record, yes i've never driven a turbo, but i love in the middle of the great ocean road and the otway ranges, so the screaming six and twisty roads are more than enough fun for me. *puts on flame retardant suit*

Try Here Or Here I've never seen that wing in Aus, good luck. I'd probably make the trek to brisbane to get it fixed, DMD should be able to do it.

If you want one that will fit, powerplay imports can get a genuine east bear one, but be prepared to pay for the privelidge.... Alternately, if you just want the look you could take it to topstage or similar and get them to fill the toop with glass to make it flush (as a bonus you know it's going to fit) Powerplay Imports

Go for it, everyone telling you it's a waste of time/money drives a turbo. The sticking point for an N/A (and something the turbo boys forget) is that skylines handle really well. A twisty road and a screaming NA six, you'll be in heaven. While they boost into 1985 at 88mph, and then into a pole, the NA steers around it, and sounds great doing it.

GT3 RS on Fitzroy St

Type-M skirts?

Everyone slags off FnF films, but really, why do you watch them? To be entertained. If i watch a film, and walk away entertained then the movie's done its job. Some entertain with engaging storylines, others with cars explosions and tits. FnF falls in the latter category, but you still wind up being entertained. FnF4 will be more of the same entertaining explosions and tits.

Try UAS in sydney, i think they may have arch flares of some kind. UAS Website

Maybe you could try MacGyver-ing a set from a silvia J's (bottom spec) to fit?

Got any pics of the skirts/pods?

Wow. test car, nice. I don't know why they bother camouflaging them anymore - transformers was kind of non-inconspicuous in terms of surprise.

Incredible. But surely doubling the standard power output would destroy any semblance of reliability? As soon as you go past 4k, the ensuing failure of everything would create a black hole vortex destroying the planet.

It'll look pretty much the same as any of the plethora of GTS with no wings. Keep it, GTR's a sports car, and sports cars look better with wings IMO.

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