Phatboy

Fantastic Really great to see more GTRs in Oz.

I don't understand why some of these workshops take so long??? The two workshops that I have been to and the only two that I would go to are pretty consistent with their turnaround times. If it takes them 3 days to do full tune/dyno/turbo upgrade and all supporting air/fuel upgrades for 300+awkw, I can't imagine spending the best part of a year for the same power figure. Engine rebuilds take time, sure, but surely not that long.

err... I don't think the right way to treat an addiction is to spend thousands of $ on it.

ROFL.

Painful. Princes Hwy is a trap, though.

In my experience the amount of hoon-ness at the lights is inversely proportional to age and HP. It's funny, after I got my GTR, I have had no challenges at the lights. The only time I speed off from the lights is if I'm in the left lane that ends shortly, and I know it will be a pain (as well as slow the whole lane down) if I try to squeeze my way into traffic when everyone else catches up. I actually had challenges when I was driving my old car, which was a bloody Magna for gods' sakes. About the only thing it had in terms of performance parts was an ugly stock spoiler that did nothing for downforce but increased drag and weight. Just goes to show some of these ricers with their Excels/Lancers are desperate to show their *superiority* at any opportunity.

Tarago..... Didn't think these things could wheelspin. Maybe he had feet on both pedals.

Haha, maybe he means if your neons are blinding enough, you don't need headlights.

Make sure you take it to a tuner for a mechanical inspection for oil leaks, compression test/dyno. If you're keen ask them to look at the spark plugs for signs of detonation.

Low blow, man.

Not bad. Looks very clean. Although being NISMO it will probably be pricier. I was looking for something a little more wild though, like C-WEST.

Get a garage dude. Failing that a $50 car cover - just might be too much work to get off for drunk dipshits at 2 am to want to deal with. You could put bells on the cover so that you know when idiots are trying to remove it, then just run out with a cricket bat screaming at the top of your lungs

If your mechanic lives that far away, you might as well just come with your GTR on the ferry to Melbourne, and get it tuned correctly by Ben.

I see, thanks for the heads up.

No shit! Really? By the time you got it back the depreciation on the car would be more than the value the mods add

Err, I am looking more for bodykits for an R34 GTR, not stock R34 GTR bodykits for other cars. Thanks anyway for the offer though. That would be quite a feat, fitting an R34 GTR front bar on a tiny GTI-R frame. Any pics?

Dude that's the slowest work I've heard any workshop do! What did you do? Send it to Japan?

+1

I'm just quoting from the Garrett website, but you're right, these are the power ratings the turbos are rated for, not what might be reliable for them or the engine. That's good to hear that the GT-SS (-9) would be probably slightly more powerful than the R34 N1's (-7). My impression was that around 300-330 awkw would be the sweet spot balanced between power and - response - driveability - reliability If you wanted to produce any more power the engine internals would have to be replaced/rebuilt at significant expense, and other mods like cams, fuel pumps/rails, intercooler, piping, radiator, plenums/manifolds, throttle bodies would need to be upgraded. The laws of diminishing returns kicks in as the cost rises exponentially for every kw you gain. And it would be a pig to drive on the street due to the turbo lag, unless I never leave 1st gear.

Got to say have never heard of them. They have no email/phone number/address. Must be a new workshop starting up. I will look into it. Thanks.

Dude, you do know that America is nearly half the world's economy, which is why our economy is getting screwed over by their mistakes. No country, with the possible exception of Tokelau, lives in economic isolation, by virtue of import/exporting/foreign investments.

Deserved to get pounded.

Congrats Senator Obama!

Lol petrol is the cheapest of the p's. The 4th P is never free, especially when ur married Dude, do you deliver pizza or something? Personally I find it actually frustrating to drive my car through traffic and 60km/h roads. I feel like I'm always on a leash all the time, and wasting my car's potential.

You got it