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Looks more like a customer car?? You're right, it's probably been raced at some stage - drag or circuit. But I've never heard of Auto Position and a preliminary seach came up with nothing... it could very well be a small operation with a group of strong supporters or customers.

I replaced my switch because of the exact same problem... with a genuine Nissan switch setting me back about A$150!

LOL... good call.

Seriously, the Japanese guys do EXACTLY the same thing in the pits as what they do in AU. Theres not magic or wierd sh!t going on... Having said that, I don't have a drift pic, but I've got a circuit time trial event? Would that suffice?

I guess it all boils down to: *not* teaching English is a gross misallocation of skills for a foreign Native English speaker in Japan ( lol), so all other avenues other than teaching English are in the 'good on you if you can' basket.

You could hand out flyers... LOL. Seriously, theres **minimal** IT work around Osaka, but generally it's nothing more than a month or 2 month stints then onto the next job (provided there is one). In fact, if you can't speak/read fluent Japanese, you're pretty much screwed from the start. Theres one American dude here doing all the IT work for our English School and we've employed him for the last 3 months part-time... he can't really speak or read Japanese... but then again, we don't NEED him to. It'd be way different in any other workplace. Eeeerm, modelling work? (no joke)... or being an extra for short film or TV commercials? Like Andrew akeenan said, you can work anywhere if your Japanese skill is good enough, but that opens up the 'damned if you do' element where you're treated eeeerm... 'like a foreigner'... because you're not Japanese. No acceptance is bad in the workplace in a Japanese company just ask Evo_Lee

Yeah, $400 is by plane I'd imagine... It *might* be $50 - 100 cheaper if you send it by ship, but then you'd have to wait 2 - 3 weeks for it to arrive, maybe more. But at the end of the day you're still paying at least $100 or more for the exhaust, then at least $200 odd dollars for shipping. Save yourself the hassle and drop $100 on a car dealer willing to let you 'borrow' their GT-T exhaust for a day or two... it's just for compliance isn't it?

You didn't see 'M-Spec' you saw 'Type M'... the only 'M-Spec' available is for the R34 GT-R M-Spec. ALL R33 GTS25t's are *Type M* (it's R32 GTS-t Type M too).

I posted this in the Photo Diary, but I thought they might get lost up there... so: Here we go... I got the trusty Nikon D70 out again: This night shots is a bit vouyeristic... a young lady waiting for the train. A 300mm zoomed shot 30 sec exposure at f22 with low fluoro lighting white balance adjustment. Oh... it's a HotWorks Factory 1/24th scale BNR34 Nissan Skyline GT-R Z-Tune. Good timing eh? Hankyu trains passing each other on the Kobe line about 100m east of Hankyu Ashiyagawa station. Random shot. While I was taking the train shot, these choppers were circling overhead... Some nighttime shots from the 6th floor roof of my apartment building. Try and guess the scale of this Calsonic Skyline GT-R JGTC race car...

Your problems gonna be size/weight. It might cost in the region of A$150 - 200 to get it to AU (by EMS or similar)... then theres the eeerm... $50 - 100 fee that I'd need to source an exhaust system then package and lug the thing down to the Post Office. It's not the type of thing you can just 'do on a casual Sunday arvo' you know? Can't you find one in AU? They must be a dime a dozen down there. Alternatively you could put it in a container full of other cars/parts and pay nothing, but I don't have a container going to AU anytime soon

What do you mean they get 'butchered'? Do you mean that when they comply the car they remove the HID's??? If thats the case that is bloody crazy. Talk about backward.

^^^ 'M-Spec' is for R34 GT-R versions only. R32's are 'Type M'

Manual here... I can't drive automatics because I only have a manual license

Beeeep! Wrong. The Type M was available from May 1989 to July 1993. I've PM'd funkymonkey to change his post.

I just went back and re-read the 'Getting out of Japan' thread and...well... I feel a bit guilty of 'sensationalizing' the bad situation I've been going through. Let's get one thing straight: I haven't grown to despise Japan. Far from it. It's just that some days you really wonder what the hell you're doing here. But thats far from the whole picture, and thats what I want to do with this thread - give a balanced view and start focusing on some of the nice things about the place. A total about face from 2 weeks ago (I know trust me) but I don't want to be seen as someone who's come here and just made a mess of things and gone home with just a bad view of the place. Some nice things that have happened in the last week: [/size] - An old Japanese salaryman walked into an elevator and pressed the button to go up while I ran from about 10 meters back to catch the same elevator. Just as the doors closed I tapped the button to open the doors - which they did amazingly - and as I walked in the old salaryman said in broken English "I'm so sorry, mienakatta... I dodn't see you". Cheers muchly mate - It cost me a total of 7,700 yen (A$91) to get a new battery installed, 5L of oil, Oil filter, with the oil and oil filter changed AND a full mechanical check all in 20 minutes flat... at SuperAutobacs Sunshine wharf in Kobe. - I got a postcard from Okayama prefecture from one of my old students who came with me to Perth last year for a homestay at my parents house saying how she missed taking my class and she thinks about the trip to Perth every day. She drew a picture of the Perth city skyline which (if you know Perth) has the 'Bankwest Tower' included next to 'Central Park Tower'... very sweet of her to do something like that. - My boss has helped me out. Not going into this but lets just say it's like what 'Hansel' said on Zoolander: "changed my whole perspective on sh!t..." - My mother-in-law passed the 'Jistuyou Eiken' (practical English) test at level 5... way to go mum... hahaha SHE bought ME a present for it aswell :confused: don't I feel special Theres other stuff too, but the point is that theres good and theres bad and I'll never be so negative about Japan ever again. If I offended anyone out there, please accept my apology. Anyone else got any positive stuff about Japan to add?

ありがとう　；） いつもＳＡＵのメンバーは俺にたくさん通訳の質問している。だから一人だけに質問をぜんぶ答えることができない。 *Yakuza voice* よろしく～！

On the other hand, you could get a hold of some FRP GT-R rear fender copies... then attach them to the original fenders giving you the GT-R wide look, but still with the real fenders underneath albeit cut back to take larger diameter and width wheels. This mod isn't so much a cosmetic change, it's more for legality.

The top one is a (quite rare now) R32 GTS-t - not Type M - with optional factory alloys. The brakes on the black GTS-t are rubbish, especially for a turbo car. For this matter alone I'd go for the Silver GTS-t Type M (I've got one - see sig). BUT - a couple of things: **The Black car looks like it's in overall better condition. This is something you should really take into consideration, as R32's are getting long in the tooth now. **The Silver car has the extra Type M goodies - 4-pot brakes, viscous LSD, GT-R style interior etc - but as with 99% of Type M's... it looks as though it's had a hard life. Expect to replace clutch, LSD, suspesion components; fix rusted out rear wheel arches (around the body kit), and other minor mechanical things. Having said that, if you want to play it safe, go for the black car. If you don't mind fixing lots of stuff (but end up with a better car), go for the silver car.

'Steer Shift' means buttons on the steering wheel that change gears, like this:

You can still get similar front lip spoilers from Yahoo Auctions Japan, and CHARGESPEED make a similar one, although I don't like the shape as much as the BoMeX one. Btw guys, I really don't have a clue about photography, in fact a goddam chimp could've fiddled around with the buttons and gotten a better result... I just did some different timed exposures and loaded them up in 'The Gimp' editing software and shapened and brightened them up. Thats all... no tricks.

Hey Masahiro, thanks heaps for your posts, much appreciated (from a forum point of view).

Yes, Masahiro... that was a very good job mate, please hang around this forum

I'm not sure about shipping yet, but as stated above, it'll probably be around $200+

Hehehe... reminds me of my friends old Honda City turbo. The turbos were tiny on those things and not easily upgradeable, so the only alternative was wind 2.0bar into it

lol... yeah you're right Andrew but some of the replies were about the next GT-R so it's kinda 50/50.