Beer Baron

nah, reckon webber will get up this weekend. yeah boy! better go put some money on him for pole.

d'oh! it was still active an hour ago when I saved the pics. but just checked again now and it's no longer available. gooooone. maybe the owner decided to take it home and wipe off 300,000kms so he can get that extra .5 to bump it up to a grade 4.... hell maybe he can hide all the dead ciggy buts in the ashtray and spray some air freshener and try and turn that interior C into a B? In reality I'm guessing it probably sold somewhere else or maybe it broke down. lol. I wonder what it would have sold for otherwise? I'm guessing some exporter would have seriously bought it and put in a new cluster. pretty sad for some poor bloke buying his 80,000kms GTR that really is nudging 400,000kms... I don't think I've driven 400,000kms in my whole life of all my cars put together!

oh, and I've just made the choice. fark watching at spa. I'd rather fang something around the 'ring instead. I may even forget going to the monza gp too and use the money for another day of ring and then just watch it in a bar in italy somewhere. very excited about doing the ring. just need to decide what to drive?

if i was born on a farm, and retarded then it might impress me. but I wasn't. so it doesn't.

if you can turn passenger laps in that thing for $99 count me in. in other news I will be in europe later this year and currently deciding between Spa (end of aug) or Monza (early sept). Monza will be easiest as it already tees up with some plans and I'll be in italy at the time. But Spa is just another level all together but it would mean having to reschedule things a bit and mean going to belgium which is a bit of a punishment really. lol. anyone seen "In Bruge"? lol. currently leaning towards monza. it will be cool to see all the tifosi out in force. I wonder if any of them still have love for schumacher? on the plus side if I do monza it means before it I can scoot over to germany and get some laps in on the nurburgring. yeah baby!

good man. yeah I might be keen to see tas again some time. or just sit in a room somewhere and get pissed....

lol, definitely headed for parramatta road with 60,000kms on it. it's actually not too bad a looking car with no accident history and with that many kms probably a one or 2 owner car. the guy probably drove a shitload to work every day or something. if it's had lots of long trips then it's not that bad really. I'd say it's probably in similar condition to a city car that has 100,000kms city, short trip kms on it. having said all that.... it is an awful lot of kms on a GTR. still if it goes cheap it would be worth it as a daily as long as it's been looked after (which I'd say it has). pics for you hungry hungry hippos.

cool rig mate. looks good. are you going to run some kind of flywheel brake? and I guess you will be plumbing up the intake side with an intercooler as well? should be fun running it on the rig.

was watching top gear on tv last night and they had coulthard farking around in a 05 RBR car and man they look and sound great. I do miss the old V10 days. they were a sweet engine. The car looked great too. the cars look a bit cheap these days by comparison.

lol. so did I. depends on what we are talking about importing. sometimes yes. sometimes no. given the bloke hasn't posted again I'd say he's happy with the response. it would have been a bit easier to give a more useful answer if we at least knew what type of car he wanted.

could not agree more. 100% spot on. big launches wont be the problem. if it's got real big power it will eventually just peel the teeth of 3rd. no matter how you launch or how you shift. I mean you are still going to use full throttle in 3rd right? in the big power cars it's hardly the launches that kill boxes. it's just the power. at launch all you get is a bit of wheel spin and off you go. launch it.

you leave the stock heat exchanger and filter mount as it is. the new oil cooler take off plate just goes on in place of the oil filter. so yes, you need to leave the stock heat exchanger/filter mount alone.

just buy the 32 GTR troy. you know you want it!

I have even had a full on aus customs investigation mounted against one of my cars where they flew up investigators from melb to syd to poke and prod the car and take pics etc (was an R35 and nissan was putting pressure on them to find something wrong) and even then I think it was delayed a week and I might have had to pay 1 or 2 days of the storage if any. usually the hold ups are caused by not having the customs entry or AQIS done on time. if you know what you are doing and have a good customs agent then these things can be easily avoided.

priestley's advice is spot on. do not just buy a car from an exporter without having someone physically inspect it for you. to organise that the best idea is to use a broker. a broker will work hard for little money to get you a good car. they will also help save you time and money with organising compliance, customs clearance, and any other stuff you need done. as he said you cannot comply a car yourself. to become eligible to comply a car under the SEVS scheme you need to be a RAW. to be a RAW you must be an ISO 9001 certified automotive workshop and even then you must add each model of car you want to comply to your schedule of vehicles. we are talking 10s and 10s if not 100s of thousands of dollars of investment here. again, best bet it to go with a broker as they will most likely have friendly deals with one or more compliance workshops and will get a price much better than you could just coming in there cold.

toll or ceva are quite good. there are lots of others too. but sadly syd to perth I'd say $1300 is about right.

I would give the t618z 10cm2 a go. they would give some mighty big top end with a good engine, your big cams and don't forget to run them at 25psi+.

agree with that too. it's another way of cheapening the sport. and I don't mean keeping the cost down... it makes the sport look cheap. F1 is supposed to be the bloody pinnacle of motorsport with boundless spending on useless crap. I want to see engines running a bees dick away from exploding every single lap and at the end of the race they take out that molten smoky engine and put in a nice new fresh one for next time.

I reckon that answers it nicely. get the 9.5s and rip the stickers off and tell everyone they are 10.5... lol.

yeah they love the little pulsars in the UK. should be lots of nice ones there. This is the one for you troy. GTI-R track car in canberra:

yep, last season was pretty good. lots of different winners. championship down to the second last race. webber won a couple and a few podiums. plenty of crazy moves to keep things interesting too. things are looking pretty dull this year with no real hope in sight.

and for some reason the 32 v-spec (brembo) master costs shitloads more than a 33 GTR master even though theoretically they are the same thing.

yeah I guess so. certainly lap time wise the evo is probably better value. BUT the GTI-R does have the novelty factor of being a bit different, and the GTI-R SR does have a great sound (unlike every other SR made, and evo's sound rubbish), and there is the fun of surprising a few people in a car most don't consider. you're right in that for quick times on a budget it's probably not the best choice and for fun action a GTST or silvia is probably better, but for the money they are a good little thing, and one with the right bits, and a decent driver will certainly surprise a lot of people with lap times, that's for sure.

yeah before the race I was near 100% for a quick trip down to melbourne for next weekends GP, but after watching the race I think I'll stay home and watch it on TV. I was planning to do singapore later in the year too as justin is there now, but not so sure any more.

they are not as bad as many (who have never driven one) will have you believe. as the guys above said their AWD system shares practically nothing with a GTR. it's basically a FWD set-up (east-west engine with FWD style box with a transfer case sending drive to the rear). they use a centre diff to apportion drive and the torque split is very close to 50/50. the boxes are also not as bad as most will have you beleive and there are a few affordable box options if you want a better one (around $5K installed or less for a PAR or PPG). with a rear LSD they are pretty lively, add a front and centre and even more so. parts are pretty cheap for them, and the SR20 they have is the ducks nuts. better oil pump and oil system than most. better block. solid lifters, bigger factory cams, 440cc injectors stock, quad throttle intake, nice big turbo that is steel wheeled and plain bearing (can run 20psi no prob for around 200awkw). get one, chuck out all the interior, get a carbon bonnet (stock one is bloody heavy), get an ARC top mount IC (don't want more weight on the nose), move battery from engine bay to the boot (any weight you can move back will help). if you look smart you can get one of the RB models which came with very basic interior and most importantly came with a very nice close ratio gearbox and diff options (not all have the LSDs but some will have front, centre and rear mech lsds which is a big bonus), some have factory nismo cage etc too. great little car and dirt cheap these days.