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why cant i just run into someone who happens to be an F1 pit mechanic who doesnt mind working on my car for a slab of beer in his spare time? is this feasible?

in same boat here...or rather idling in car waiting for plates/fates to align. Buy, drive sell thing could work but you would need to be pretty flexible with your selling price, be prepared to lose a fair bit if your in a hurry to get home. If your lucky you might be able to find someone you trust to leave it with who can wait till someone stumps up a fair price then wire you the money. Just make sure they aren't Nigerian royalty or the like..

hmmm damn my nest egg is about 10k short.. FFFFUUUUU!!

LOL will take that on the chin, never claimed to be good with money. I'm like the veritable dutch boy sticking his fingers in the dyke to try and stem the flow, as soon as one hole is blocked another suddenly appears, and its also me punching holes in the thing..hmm that metaphor needs work. Anyway yeah GTR32 redbook... 4WD 5sp Manual Unleaded Turbo 6cyl 2.6 2568cc Average Private Price+ $26,900 - $32,400 Trade In Price Guide+ $21,900 - $27,400 so yeah not much chance of owning one of them under my name while on the skids...let alone an R33, plenty of time to ponder though. oh and Marc, wasnt planning on having a stock GTR, wouldnt their potential with tuning, even just engine wise be much greater than the humble RB25's? or is the extra money merely spent on the badge?

LOL at me turning SAU into a personal shrink/substitute for local pub.. yeah the bankruptcy thing means no car worth over 7k redbook, so if i ended up graduating to a nicer ride before the trustee is done with me (2014) i would need to put it in my brothers name or something like that. of course admitting this on a public forum isnt too smart but at this stage its purely 'hypothetical' so not too worried. As for kids, i have experience with both sedans, wagons and coupes and IMHO i find it easier to flip the passenger sit and access him through the giant space you suddenly have than contorting yourself into the back of a small 4 cylinder sedan. I remember others coming to a similar conclusion in a thread on here about dealing with babyseats, the right car for rugrats etc., you really would be shocked at what i can fit in the back of my 2 door coupe. 10 4 EXACTLY what i had in mind..

yeah thanks guys, only have one car space (as Xalmon found out the hard way so as much as i would love to have a dual car household its just not feasible. I do have a bit of experience on the track, im no Schumacher or the like but can keep up with cars worth a lot more than mine and do 1.13s around Wakefield without a lot of effort which seems to be a decent feat for the shit box i drive Just think im ready to go to the next level and not sure if the potential a GTsT has is anything near that of an all wheel drive Rb26..stripping it out would help but i would only go as far as racing seats as i do sometimes need the creature comforts passengers crave (including a kid once he is allowed in my car again..). 8k is mostly the tax return lol so couldnt rack up same every few months but another year or so should see me with enough for a decent 33GTR..a 34 would be amazing but i cant see them dropping down to near 30k anytime soon..

ok i did assume there would be a thread for this but after six pages of bang for buck and good value threads I just found a bunch of skyline vs Supra vs 180/S14/15 etc topics but nothing specifically about Skylines only in this price range. Basically i have managed to squirrel away about 8k which i am very nervous about and dont want to blow it all on some barely noticeable mod for my almost stock R33 GTST. Now having worked out a decent turbo and the necessary extras that would need would end up costing me most of that nest egg and with no idea on what sort of power difference it will make other than numbers (550RWHP or so) im curious about the value of waiting till i have a little more money and trading up to a GTR of some description. I am aware other models like the silvias are lighter, that EVO's are probably faster and so on but i really want to stay in a Skyline so that is the only real sticking point.. looking at things like this http://www.drive.com...-987661618&pt=1 but hopefully will find one down the track that already has the big power mods, I know theres an inherent risk in doing that but once it got serious i would bring out a mechanic to have a look to make sure it wasnt two or three launches from detonating into a cloud of black smoke.. anyway is the assumption the best value trackable skyline right now a GTR33 about right?

ok i like the sound of this tunerhouse, did check the website out and googled the location, its only a short bus trip away so as much as i love the guys at F&E mechanics out in Wetherill Park they are just too far away They mention being 'good value' on the website but the place looks far too shmick to be much of a bargain. I know that Bel garage in Rockdale charge and arm and a leg while also being good. Is it a case of if you want peace of mind then you just have to bite the bullet and be prepared to shell out the big bucks?

yeah that last minute or so was quite painful to watch, he must have been having a nice old slumber before being woken up by half of Tokyo's finest. wonder if the owner would bother getting it fixed or just throw it to the auction houses?

hmm ok thanks Terry, had dealings with them? do we get an SAU members discount?

that was on kent st in the city yesterday and then this out near cronulla today,. and finally this slightly hideous R33 in surry hills the other night..anyone going to own up to it?

In and paid. looking forward to meeting some legends..and that race car driver too!

anyone know a decent tuner as close to the city as these guys were?

Reminded me of one of those Steve Erwin jobs where he wakes up a sleeping Crocodile just to jump on it and try and wrestle the thing into a truck..gotta admit this guy has some balls if not brains.. oh and why did the cops not just break into the boot or similar and disconnect the battery etc? im not much of a mechanic but surely there would be a way to disable the thing from the outside?

im confused, are we reading the same thread? from what i can see most have applauded his actions with a few just wishing more were like him..

im on the confirmed list for the track day, woot! see ya there folks..

What you found a corner? didnt show as i didnt figure there was much point with an underpowered stock R33 but it sure sounds like you guys had a blast, might have to check in on the next one. how many of these do you have a year? oh and spitting chips i missed out on a free snag

good luck on the trip tomorrow Humbla, cant wait to hear if those burgers are up to scratch!

yeah i drove a few UK hired cars around Europe a couple of years back. cops in Holland, Deutschland, Spain and so on didnt give a shit where it was from. I suppose an oz reg would be a little more exotic but i cant imagine you getting pulled up on it, it would be at the customs end of it that issues would arise..

meh im up for one tomorrow, where is everyone going after the drags and roughly what time? that cafe/bar with the cadillac on the roof near EC?>

as long as your in the pblic domain and not stalking anyone theres nothing to stop you from filming whoever the hell you want. just dont test it out at the local kiddies pool or a bikie gang meet..could have interesting consequences for your health.. as for cops, meh its up to them if they get mad but they are being recorded by their own systems so cant imagine why they would be bothered by you doubling up..

ah Sean talk about last minute! working last night and every evening till sat, up for a cruise sunday or monday evening though. anyone?

you better pay us all a visit then! put in form tonight, paid tomorrow so hopefully thats not too late to finish the process and get on the track!

^^ sounds like something i would drive right past without noticing then.. yeah im always hyper paranoid about cops, only boot it up if someone is flying along a few hundred metres in front of me, otherwise its not more than 10 clicks over. been past quite a few radars at 120km/h without raising an eyebrow but wouldnt risk more than that. anyway hope one or two cars also want the gourmet burgers!

the last seasonal event in world circuits right now on GT5 is the Nurburgring, racing around it in a 850HP Audi R8 race car is scary enough in a video game, even a car with half that horsepower would mean bringing a few spare sets of underwear... you wont forget the experience for a while though, DO IT!