funkymonkey

what diffuser is that on the back? custom job?

wouldn't you be better off getting an electric HICAS rack (R33, R34 etc) instead of a hydraulic one (S13, R31, R32, 300ZX etc)? I've got a HICAS assemby off my R32 you can have for free if you're in VIC. Took it out so the rear would stop twitching.

This is gonna be a long post, so bear with me. I was in the same boat where I questioned reliability vs cost and local vs import when i had to get a car for my old man. He's not as mechanically minded as I am, nor does he have the patience to shop around or modify his car. We ended up picking up a 15 year old Cefiro, which was completely bog stock... even had the doileys and log books n all. We got it with 40,000K's on the odo (genuine too, with books and dated receipts to prove it). As soon as it arrived we did a aircon retrofit, and did a 100,000K service on it (just cos it was so old and I wanted my dad to have a car that would'nt give him trouble). In the 5 years he owned it, we had to changed the shocks cos they wore out, the sparkplugs a few times, the alternator cos it wore out and some door lining rubber that came loose. My dad chammied it every time it got wet when he parked it in the garage and topped up the battery every fortnight and got the oils changed on the dot every 5000 K's or every 3 months whichever came first. The car never gave us any grief. Then someone reversed onto the road he was driving down at 70 k's and he wrote off the front of the car. Insurance wrote off the car, and gave him a payout. Shaken up, he insisted on buying something local so he went out and bought a new commodore. I've since bought the wreck, fixed it up and the ceffy's still going strong with about 170,000 K's on the engine. In the 2 years he's owned the commodore, the auto gearbox shat itself and needed to be replaced, the fuel tank sprung a leak around one of the seals, moisture buildup in tail light, car's gone back to base about 3 times due to problems with the ECU or wiring, air con stopped working 2 months after purchase and got fixed like 2 trips to the service centre later. All fixed under warranty but WTF... I could cobble a more functional car together using my McGuyver skills, a rubber band and some chewing gum wrapper. And I knoew these problems aren't attributable to wear and tear, plus I know how well my dad treats his cars. Anyone who bleets on about aussie standards and quality can suck the big one. as far as I'm concerned the great aussie dream turned nightmare a long time ago when the bottom dollar became more of a concern over producing great cars that could withstand the average aussie thrashing. That is if you can still buy an aussie made car, seeing as half the shit peddled by Holden comes out of Korea. The only "aussie" car I'd buy now is probably a Ford Focus or Ford Mondeo. Because neither of them are engineered in australia, they're basically euro's. Needless to say, dad's gonna be buying an import when it comes time to sell the commode. Which will be soon... hopefully. The way I see it, it'll spontaneously combust about 30 seconds after its warranty period finishes. I'm working him up to a nice M35 Gloria or F50 Cima... maybe a JZX110 Varossa or soemthing if it becomes available.

witty post leading to OP shutdown... FAIL. come on mate, I was expecting a far better post out of you. dropping the ball.

lmao... same bonnet I've got on my 32. D-Max or Viva? Lookin forward to painting mine now that I've seen how sexy it looks. That's a pretty good idea painting the little slits near the windscreen black... mine were all monged up. *yoink* idea borrowed. you went to town on the front of that BN blister kit tho... looks very abflug style now. nice. looks much more race car like than in standard widebody form. and thank you thank you thank you for takin off the hektic chromies

Japan's turn now... altho not so mexican spec as the US one. Its the Raffaello GTR demo car sporting OZ SL-3 wheels http://www.oz-japan.com/products/tunersystem/sl-3/index.html lol I actually like it, bar the lambo doors.

lol some of those proton conversions are totally thinking out of the box, esp the R33 and S15 conversion kits. next time i go to malaysia i'm gonna have to go see those nutbags about some fibreglass parts. i'm actually diggin the r34 front on the ceffy... it does even up the front with the high boot... all the other r34 front conversions use the standard ceffy height for the front, and consequently end up making it droop too low. this one keeps it up high and it looks fuckin awesome. I'd do the front conversion and leave the rest of the car ceffy style tho instead of makin it a wannabe 34. i suppose in MY you could rock it, but in AU that would get you laughed at.

errr ok this is gonna be awkward... i'm gonna have to pull a no show cos my cousin just informed me of a surprise party he was organising for his brother's birthday on the same night. lol i'm free wed night or sat night tho.

well you'll probably find that you'll attract a more thought out response if you spared him the rants and tirades that make you sound like a child. just reading your replies i can see that you've gone on a tangent twice, pulled up irrelevant facts, and turned it into an emotional rant. the guy on the other end of that must be going "w... t... f... is this guy on drugs?"

fuck driving all the way to the city to get my "MSG hit in a packet".

lol shaz, think you should quit while you're ahead. If I were the producer I wouldn't even bother replying to your dribble.

chris, maybe grab the ESM that's posted here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=367UTREZ pass is "bbd72b04995f0d7a1d37835a787c14bd"

i'd smash that box anyday. why wait till thursday? anyways... in for whatever day... altho I might be goin comedy festival on friday so thursday's good for me. also, I just found out that the Chinese grocery place next to Rock Kung in glenny got replaced with some uppedy ass cafe. wtf? where am I supposed to get china brand biscuits and snacks from now?

wait... wat? R33 cake topper for your wedding cake?

yes but you also own a 350Z. That renders all arguements from you about aesthetics null and void, especially those concerning things that look like they got left in the sun and melted.

well... not much more money to spend if it already had a smashed up front, like that one.

you do realise your topic title got ccut off and it says you're offering up to $15 for em right?

V35 front end on M35 i suppose if you can't afford the R35 front, then this'd be the way to go

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Again... another reason why you don't give idiot americans access to GTR's. Seriously, maybe they should include an IQ test in the application process. FAIL... R33 GTR logo on R35.

lol melbourne is king of the privately owned pizza shops. $5.50 large pizza's all day every day, and they're proper large too, none of this domino's shit. In fact I doubt anyone orders pizza from Domino's, Pizza hut or even Eagle boys these days.

i'll be at the meeting too, so FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

Nick, if you buy it, I'll bring it down to melb from brissy for you when I drive down... sometime, as long as you're not fussed on waiting for me to drive down (could be a month or so). I gotta bring the ceffy down and bring the R32 up sometime soon once its out of the workshop.

omg... penno's still alive.

we're talking about a car sitting in japan, not your usual habib spec chinese bodykit special r34 in australia. i should qualify that by saying in japan it'd be cheaper to get an original factoy kit than a fibreglass knockoff.