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Everything posted by ras1983
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Pic of bonnet on my car: (I'll take more pictures on the weekend)
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Thanks for the offers guys but at the moment I want to see if someone has a silver bonnet first. I'll keep these ones in mind for the time being though. I want to add that I have a Carbon Fibre bonnet with Fibre Glass core which I will be willing to swap for a GTR bonnet.
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also as far as I can recall you're required to sign up with the DF for an amount equal to half the time they spent training you once you've finished your apprenticeship. These rules were put in place a couple of years ago to stop people from leaving as soon as they were qualified.
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Subbies aren't the same as a paid employee though. They usually get higher hourly rates or get paid by the job from my experience. The tradies I know don't make that much unless they own their own business and get their own jobs.
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That seems to be true for most professions. Be it trades/bluecollar jobs or white collar jobs.
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I'm looking to purchase an alluminium bonnet for an R33 GTR. I'd prefer a bonnet that is Sonic Silver in colour so that I can spare myselfe the hassle and expense of a respray but if I'm open to other colours if there aren't any silver bonnets available. Send me a PM, an email on r2assaad@students.latrobe.edu.au, or a text message on 0433 236 389. I'm located in Mlebourne. Cheers, Ray.
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I still think the Diablo is one of the toughest looking supercars ever. It looks way tougher than the Murcie.
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I'm aware of that and that's the point that perhaps I should have made.
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Dunno about the rear spoiler, but everything else sounds good! http://www.motorauthority.com/lamborghini-...sv-details.html
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Thank you Tom. Finally someone who understands what the real point of this thread is.
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Actually from the articles I've read Nissan had trouble selling the 100 R32 GTR's it imported. This is partially why they didn't import the R33 or the R34.
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What happened to having 'choice of repairer'? That was one of the selling points when I insured my car with Shannons.
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Very, very good point. I'd expect anything to do with IT, home entertainment and video games to do well in a recession. It's much cheaper to surf the net, buy DVD's and games and stay at home than it is to go out.
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Lol I can't get into any sort of serious investing as a student. I don't have the cash flow. After I finish my honours this year I'll hopefully have a well paying job. Until then I work for Insurance + petrol money lol. I agree that RE is a good investment class. I just don't think that prices move the way we're told. We'll see how house prices move in the next 3-7 years. I'd be more than happy to stand corrected and see you and other investors like you make a tidy profit. Just remember to take guys like me for a spin in your R35 when you end up making the big bucks ;-)
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Here's an interesting article that claims that housing prices do in fact double every 7-10 years. The only problems I have with it are: i - It paints a false image that property prices double EVERY 7-10 years. The truth is perhaps closer to property prices on average double every 7-10 years. These are two different statements and the latter allows for periods where house prices don't move significantly. ii - The website is a property website. This doesn't mean it's a load of rubbish, but I always consider the source of any information to be of vital importance. http://www.rpdata.net.au/news/api/api_20080111.html
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No I'm not a home owner or investor in RE. I'm a statistics & finance student at La Trobe and I simply have an interest in investing. Firstly remember that a CPI figure is meant to capture a large snapshot of price levels of goods or services. So the CPI is represenative of 'real house values'. What the REIA has done is taken values that make it look like housing values are ALWAYS increasing, which is not the case. The one thing you have to remember is that taking a value every 10 years doesn't explain everything that is happening. Even though house prices may have doubled in every one of those increments you have mentioned, what has happened to house prices in between thouse years? That's where the CPI diagram comes in handy. You have to also consider the source of the data. The REIA has a vested interest (just like any other association/organisation) in making numbers look good. You know the old saying, statistics can say anything you want them to say. Once again, I'm not arguing about whether or not RE is a good investment, I'm just pointing out that housing values do not double every 10 years. However you can make it look like they double every ten years by varying the time from which you sample the data, just like the figures you have obtained from the REIA. :-) However if you look at the median house price for 40 years you see periods where house prices do NOT grow. Now you are right about the demand for housing being greater than supply. But there are several things that will have a negative effect on the housing market in the next 3-7 years. i - the slowing economy and the probable increase in the unemployment rate. People will be less likely to buy a house if they know they may lose their job. They won't want to commit to such a huge obligation in these uncertain times. ii - the extremely high median house price compared to the nominal wage. At the moment it's sitting around 9x the average wage. What I'm saying is housing prices have grown much faster than peoples' wages. With the current economy slowing down the likelihood of the average wage increasing at any meaningful rate is very small so that means that housing values will have to stabilise and perhaps drop until the mean wage catches up.
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Incidentally Modena, house prices do NOT double every ten years. They go through phases just like every other asset class and will have long periods of stagnation after a long period of growth. Property prices boomed for 15-20 years during the 70's and 80's and then stagnated for around 10 years during the 90's and early 2000's. The timing and length of each period change for each cycle. We've had a huge boom in recent times in the Australian housing market with some values rising by as much as 3 times. The median house price in Melbourne is now around 9 times the mean wage. I've attached a document below which I made from data located on the Reserve Bank of Australia's website. It is a housing CPI index. Obviously there would have been houses that bucked this trend but for the most part you can see what I'm referring to. The Excel file is located at http://www.rba.gov.au/Statistics/Bulletin/G02hist.xls should you wish to look at this yourself.
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The question isn't whether he should get a loan. The question is whether the original poster who is a FULL TIME STUDENT with a small wage should get a loan.
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Dude, been there and doing that right now as I type. I took a loan for my GTR and I'm going into my final year of uni. I'm going to break it down for you, not to convince you one way or the other but to give you a reality check of the budgeting you'll have to consider. IMO It all depends on how much of your income goes towards your repayments. If you borrow 5-7K then repayments would generally work out to around $30-40 per week over 5 years (I'm going off the figures from a couple of years ago though so double check for yourself what the repayments will be). That's reasonable even if you're on youth allowance. BUT by the time you include petrol ($50-$70 easily), rego (~$10 a week), insurance (~$30 a week and that's a really consertaive estimate for a p-plater), scheduled maintenance (~$42 a week for 1 set of tyres @ $1600 a set and 3 minor services a year @ $200 per minor service). That puts you at roughly at $162-192 per week. Please note that I haven't included anything for emergency expenses here. Anything can go wrong on a car and you'll be surprised what sort of S*** goes wrong in life that will cost a lot of money to fix. So that leaves you with a surplus of $108-138 per week so save and live off. That might sound like a lot of money but one un expected thing will make it REALLY tight for you. My 2 cents.
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I'll take the GT too thank you very much. I'll sacrifice a little speed for sexy looks and racing heritage.
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Devostating Dyno Results For R34
ras1983 replied to scottmiller's topic in R Series (R30, R31, R32, R33, R34)
That's at the flywheel. -
How High Do You Rev Your Skyline?
ras1983 replied to Awesome's topic in R Series (R30, R31, R32, R33, R34)
2500 - 3000 rpm just about all of the time. Once or twice a week I'll take it to 5500-6000rpm to have a little fun on a freeway on ramp. Normally I'm crusing around in 5th at any speed over 60kph. -
^^ Yes I remember that article. There are a couple of scans on the internet. There was another article that compared the 2JZ to the RB26 and they preferred the 2JZ by far.
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Nissan R34 Gtr Vs Nissan 370z
ras1983 replied to Turbo Piston's topic in R Series (R30, R31, R32, R33, R34)
Has anyone driven a 370z and a R34 GTR? It's no use comparing the two if someone hasn't driven both because we only know half the story. FWIW, I've only driven the R34 and while it was a very nice car it wasn't as great as I would have expected - but it was still good enough to make me want to own one in the future. -
www.carsales.com.au is a good place to start. Go for a private sale. You'll save some money and you'll have more options to choose from usually.