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What FWD shitbox is that based on?

Keep searching Yahoo, thats where all the obscure stuff ends up at some stage or another. I know how hard it is to find Langley/Liberta Villa parts...

I realise you can only go by what people tell you as far as whats common is Japan and what isn't, but regarding the Axis Stageas... I wouldn't say they were rare by any stretch of the imagination. Heres an example: Iwent walking to a near by airport in Kobe, Japan yesterday, and the distance probably would've been 2.5km. Within 500m of my house I saw this: ...and then 20mins later at the airport I saw this: Not sure exactly of the spec but I'd say they would've been Axis/Axis S 2.5L's. I didn't go out looking for these, I just happened upon them as I was taking a short cut through a carpark. I remembered this thread and took the pics. Anyway, I guess the moral is that you can't guage whats on the road in Japan by what comes in at Auction. Theres thousands of cars that get sold privately daily. But as far as Axis models in the entire Stagea line up, yes, obviously they're less common.

lol thats what I was thinking... theres no substitute for low weight.

It's just 21 pictures of the same stationary SS cop car ... wheres the drifting?

Well the guy in the h4.dion.ne.jp link got a max output of 292.9hp on the dyno with the Impul CPU, tweaking it everytime he added a new part such as bigger FMIC and switching brands of mufflers. He had a peak torque figure of 51.1kg/m (!) on his second dyno run, but he says that was a freak occurence and must've had a problem with the readout or some other fault. At any rate, the Impul ECU isn't a full computer, so they're suited to light mods only. This chart here: http://freeplanets.jp/~skyline/Sky_Power.htm gives a good idea of the power gains to be had from the Impul ECU when installed in R32 - 34 Skylines. The furtherest 4 columns to the right go from right to left: Manufacturers Data for Power, Manufacturers Data for Torque, Tuned data for Power, Tuned data for Torque. You can see in at the top (My R34) that the Impul ECU nets about 320hp @ wheels on average up from the manufacturers claim of 280. If you clink on the links down below you can see all the dyno charts. Btw, the Impul ECU also carries a 2 year/50,000km warranty... that would explain the price a little.

Anyone who uploaded attachments or linked from the SAU gallery should re-upload them if they want to see them again... I was told the problem was being worked on but I wouldn't hold out for it anytime soon.

This is the view from my back balcony. It's my first ever panorama attempt... lol Kobe Gakuin Uni Port Island campus. ...and another of the Uni's 'Harbour Wing'. It was only just completed earlier this year. Portopia Hotel. When you read the English sign, you think 'Por-TOE-pee-uh', as in 'Utopia'... but the locals say 'Poooooorto-PEE-ah' which actually was supposed to mean 'Port Pier'... there was an Expo called 'Portopia '81' held as a grand opening of the island in 1981 hence the name, but any remnants of that are long gone and has made way for an extention to the island itself so yeah, it's in name only now. All pics were taken with my Sharp 910SH mobile phone.

I only hope that 34 started life as a 2.0GT with the shitty RB20E in it... if thats the case then yeah thumbs up. But I still don't think Toyota hardware should reside in a Nissan...

It's merely a styling package with alot of the optional equipment offered in usual Stageas (depending on model) as standard, as an example, the only options available for Axis models were floor carpets, 'neoncontrol' (those little pop up antenna things that help you judge where the left front coner of the car is), and plastic side window visors. Nothing... it's not a performance variant.

Yes I do, I've known him (and his nephew) for 7-odd years.

It's on the 31st line down on the pricelist. Having never looked through an Axis grille I can't say for sure either, but having said that I'm not sure if the ARC 'cooler is centre mounted or off to the side, or even in the original postion... it's not a sportscar so frontal air flow was probably pretty low on the agenda with the Axis design. Yeah basically the same, like a full ECU unit swap to a 'pre-programmed' factory style unit with slight tweaks for air cleaner and exhaust (maybe slightly higher boost) a la IMPUL. They're only really made for retaining 'factory style' drivability and emissions while giving a noticeable albeit small increase in power/torque. The guy using the HKS F-Con iS on his M35 has the adaptor harness for the VQ25DET, so thats an extra that you'll need if you want to go down that route. I suppose you're either going to spend quite a bit getting all your parts from Japan, or having to trailblaze a bit using locally sourced stuff and the asssociated hassles of people saying 'I'm not touching it, I don't even know what it is'...

Out of all the M35 Stageas, only the Autech AXIS 350S came in manual from June 2003 to July 2004. Like has been mentioned there are many different types of AXIS models from 2.5L to 3.5L, RWD to 4WD, turbo and non-turbo, with varying equipment levels. But the Axis 350S was the only MT variant from new.

July 2004 was the last of the M35 turbos.

Yeah these are the new ADF personell carriers that make downforce at standstill. Very nice stuff.

Apart from the fact that the hole looks like it's been cut out with a wooden spoon...

Which wharf? I might go down and take it for a 'test drive'... haha Yes the M35 Stagea was the only one that got the VQ25DET, and since 2002 has been played around with by a few guys like this: http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~lucino_s/m35_vq25det.html to varying degrees of success. The IMPUL Hi Power control unit http://www.impul.co.jp/products/HPCU.htm seems to be the ECU of choice for light tuning going by what I've seen in Japan, and as not many VQ-Ts are getting about, it's hard to find many examples of guys who do more than the usual exhaust/ECU setting/boost up/air cleaner combo of mods which usually net around 300 -350 at the wheels. ARC do a front mount intercooler: http://www.arcinter.co.jp/arc/products/int...san/nissan.html but you could probably get a generic Ebay one and make that fit for half the cost. Hell, theres even an Oil pan spacer http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/220510...8590/parts.aspx available if that kind of thing turns you on. Actually this guy seems to have done a fair bit of work to his M35: http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/220510...rts.aspx?page=1 - just click through the links down where all the thumbnails are and see what he's done... 'custom' GT-RS install, full exhaust, front mount, HKS F-Con iS... couldn't find a power figure though... whould be def over 350ps @ 1.4bar.

http://www.app-top.co.jp/ Yep, top quality. Their brake lines and cooling stuff is probably most common, they also make very nice 6pot brake set along the same lines as Endless and Project Mu

You don't mean 'APP' do you?

Concrete info will come out at it's debut launch. Obviously from the hundreds of N/ring photos flying about you can get a very good idea of what it'll look like, but as far as FACTS go... what you see is in those photos is all thats available until either Nissan bring out a press release or the damn thing gets launched at TMS... whichever comes first. Theres *heaps* of speculation going on (alot of which I posted on here 3 - 4 years ago) but has never been substantiated since. The mags here in Japan just regurgitate the same stuff over and over again, only they up the capacity of the engine 0.10cc every month. Even the whole 'e-4WD' thing has lost momentum so the hybrid sports catchphrase they were using back in '04/'05 has a big question mark over it. I've tried to bring some more 'Next GT-R' news to the table in recent times but each time I go to put something together, it gets contradicted by yet another (Japanese) source claiming something else... so it's like forget about it... just wait till launch. About the only things you can be sure of is that it'll have 4 wheels, some seats, a bigass navi LCD screen and a wack roof line/A pillar treatment... aswell as some other stuff.

Where they taken with your DSLR steve?

Ok, here are all the R34 models available in 4WD, starting with sedans: Series 1 (5/1998 - 7/2000) 25GT-X FOUR - Auto ONLY 25GT FOUR - Manual and Auto 25GT-FOUR L Selection - Manual and Auto Series 2 (7/2000 - 5/2001) 25 GT-X FOUR - Auto ONLY 25 GT-FOUR L Selection - Manual and Auto ----------------------------- And Coupe: Series 1 (5/1998 - 7/2000) 25 GT FOUR Manual and Auto Series 2 (8/2000 - 5/2001) 25 GT FOUR - Auto ONLY ----------------------------- So you can see, only the Series 1 and 2 25GT-X FOUR (sedan) and Series 2 25GT FOUR (Coupe) were only available in Auto. It shouldn't be too hard to avoid these models as they're pretty scarce here in Japan anyway.

Thanks Steve... just like you said you would I can't imagine how much that convertible 2000GT is worth.. Some nice Z's in there too

Wait till ACA gets a hold of that. I hear Youtube is where they get all their 'hoon' footage these days.