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most 3 piece Work wheels can be custom ordered to any width and offset you want (or you can buy regular ones cheap, take them to a shop, have them taken apart, and put wider outer bands that Work sells separately on them, to bring the width to perfect fitment). That's how I got my 18"x12" with -22 offset on my widebody. Perfect fit, no spacers.

counterfieting has been around since long before any of your ancestors would've even known what a car was. In fact, the press (ie newspaper) was actually born out of the need to mass counterfeit documents, then adapted for more legal and useful purposes. As for your JB/HMV example... The only reason these companies struggle against piraters and counterfeiters is because they are not up to date with the latest market trends and needlessly cut themselves off from their target market (think iTunes selling a track for $0.30 vs HMV trying to push a whole album of garbage just so you can own one track you need for $15... which would cost them about $0.30 to make anyway, because of the quantities they produce them in... no wonder iTUnes is making a killing). At the end of the day, a large corporation is disadvantaged only by its sheer size, having to pay each person involved in the process each step of the way, including management and administration. Then when it comes time to revise a model, make a change or sell a product a certain way there are processes that need to be followed and a time consuming bureaucratic juggling act to endure. Counterfeiters on the other hand change strategies on the fly and structure their business that there's not that much loss in administration. At the end of the day they may spend less on development, but everyone knows they compromise on quality. If you can justify yourself to the consumer that you have a product worth spending money for, or the difference in price is negligible compared to counterfeits, then you'll have NOTHING to worry about. However if you have a one trick pony product that you charge stupid amounts of money for, expect to be run out of business the moment someone reverse engineers your product. For example... given the choice between Rotas and real TE37's, I'll spend the extra coin on real TE37's because the product justifies its cost by superior quality and finish. Ask me to spend lots of money on a genuine gear knob from Trust compared to a knockoff and I'll have bought the knockoff before you even get to finish your sentence... why? Because I know as an educated consumer there is sweet fuck all difference between the two. The days of dumb customers with brand loyalty are long gone. Retailers and manufacturers need to embrace this truth and realise that they need to convey worth not just by saying "real JDM, not chinese"... or "real Origin, not a copy". The old "oh no they steal our ideas and sell our product at 1/10th the price" whinge won't work in this day and age because if someone can replicate your product for 1/10th the price with lower quality materials AND outsell your product, then you haven't come up with a good marketing plan or product life cycle BEFORE you invest time and money into the product.

ffs pulled the radiator off and it turns out theres also a crack on the top of the rad. gah... gonna have to get another one.

doesn't look like any structral damage, most of those parts can be unwelded and replacements from a donor corner cut stitched back on (rad support etc) or pulled straight (inner guard). Replacement guard, lights etc and paint. If you get a dodgy job maybe 2 to 3 grand, if you get it done properly maybe 5 to 6. guesstimate tho, don't take that as gospel. surely you must have a panel beater... i mean... the guy who did your paintjob.

Yup, just found out the part number for the bottom hose... 21503-72L00... which is the same as R32 and R33 GTR/GTSt. Upper hose on the other hand is specific to teh Cef. Bought the R32 silicone hose kit from JustJap after talking to Trevor there. The Mackay Automotive Hoses code for the lower hose is CH3214. Although their fitment guide has an RB20 A31 ceffy with a CH3237 top radiator hose as well, which is the same top pipe that an R32 uses. Will try and fit the top one in as well, I'm fairly confident they're the same, but just have a minor difference in clearance with the radiator, which the aftermarket silicone hose shouldn't have a problem with.

Lads... came home today and pulled into the garage to the sweet smell of hot steamy radiator fluid. Looks like the lower rad pipe has a crack in it... do you guys know if the stock R32 pipe fits? I might grab the JustJap silicone hoses if they do. Can anyone confirm/deny? Otherwise I'll have to get the Gates hoses... anyone know who stocks em in Brissy? Only one i could find was these guys: http://www.tweakit.net/shop/product_info.p...roducts_id=5571

i got my car a set of wheels... and a new radiator fan. piece of junk that keeps breaking shit.

hamish that car in your avatar looks dangerously similar to an R33 GTSt with a GTR bodykit that was in HPI many many years ago.

tub much? or peanut butter tube frame time.

a bit off topic, but who's Hypno the Rapist?

tell him to put in a 3.7L engine out of a V36 skyline instead.

yeah, seen a blue camaro on the back of a truck... was with a red mustang... so it can't have been a factory owned car, I'd say it was for some sort of testing. nothing on the SEVS list though, only the old gay spec 2002 model.

OK having never owned an auto before in my life, I'm now in the position where i daily drive my dad's old ceffy. Tempting as it is to change it to a manual, I really CBF. So the autobox died and I found a decent one for about $350, and swapped it in. Now this has brought about two problems: As soon as the car is turned on, the power light blinks and then goes out. Ceffies have a power, hold and normal mode for the auto (I've got no idea what skyines and other autos have)... with the old gearbox a quick push of the accelerator pedal puts it into power mode, and hold seemed to stop it from revving too hard. With the new gearbox, none of these modes seem to affect anything, the gearbox just changes thru the gears as per normal. The gearbox is out of an R32 GTSt, so it changes at different RPMs etc to the old gearbox, which doesn't seem to be matched too well to the stock standard ceffy's RB20DET. Is this controlled electronically or physically by gears or something? and if it is controlled electronically, where? Is it adjustable? Thanks for your help guys... goddamn automatics.

good son of rajab... that yellow car looks like it has hemorrhoids... and not the fun type either. If you have an R34 GTR and want to do that to your car, then save yourself the trouble and money and just take to it with a sledgehammer. Its give you results which are just as shit. Just remember kids, it may be fun in photoshop, but in the real world its called scraped tyre walls, a tonne of bog, and fender lines that belong on some crazy ass japanese vanner with a mural on the side of some kawaii schoolgirl.

so i borrowed Tower Controller off a mate at work... WTF, EPIC FAIL OF EPIC PROPORTIONS... its so fucking boring. you can't even make the planes crash into each other.

LS3 engine weighs about the same and makes more power... why would you want a VR38? what sets the R35 apart from other cars is the chassis and the bits that connect the engine to the road... putting it in anything that's ancient defeats the purpose. lol by those calculations its cheaper to buy a new R35 and sell the gearbox to the US and keep the engine instead of buying one out of Nissan JP. Maybe fit an RB26 into the shell that's left over?

lambo parked in front of work in the disabled spot with a disabled sticker on the dash... numberplates "COMPO". nuff said.

NONE of the GTRs were. PC10 came out before the KPGC10 GTR, R32 GTS came out before the R32 GTR, etc etc. The R32 GTR's design for example was finalised AFTER the R32 GTS had left prototype stage and was about to be produced. they all took an existing platform and made a race sedan out of it. The R35's the first GTR that's not based on a sedan... which is why they dropped the Skyline moniker. It was designed to be the stallion in Nissan's stable from the get go. Besides, there's a world of difference between a gutted out rattley stiff suspensioned billion fuel pumps buzzing slick wearing race car and a road going sports car.

i dunno how much more racing soul you want other than a bespoke design supercar that's designed from the ground up to give the shaft to other supercars. all that compared to a homologation model of a family sedan (C10 GTR thru to R34 GTR)... I'd go as far as saying it had more racing intent than its predecessors. Its like saying the Falcon has more racing soul than a Ford GT cos it competes in V8 Superbarges.

hawtness. hows the CF affect the weight distribution compared to standard? aren't the alloy fenders etc pretty light to start with?

there's a burgandy R32 that's parked at the house on the T intersection on high st and benson st.

meetup at laksa hut and we can drown our sorrows in MSG if you want

finished Red Alert 3 as the russians and as the japs... now I just have to do the americans and I'll have the campaigns out of the way. I can't believe how much more smoother the game renders than the old Tiberium Wars, Kanes Wrath and Generals... all on the same hardware. Fucking epic.