hardsteppa

Congrats on getting a skyline, they are a good fun car and fairly easy to work on, alot of cheap parts around for them too. There's tons of threads already with good info on what you've asked, best to do some searching and narrow down your q's first.

You need to search more. And yes.

pretty sure that's what I ended up doing too from memory, just ground out a little from the elongated holes to make them a little more elongated, just enough to get it on to all studs and then it went back on just fine.

If i were you, and clearly i'm not, i'd buy the most expensive and fancy one with the most options, so you have covered all bases. Plus chicks are impressed by colorful flashy stuff so will be wowed if they ever ride in your passenger area. I found the gizzmo one hard to use, and easy to lose a setting cause the buttons aren't that responsive. Go blitz or hks. I think we both agree, money is no object so don't even take that into consideration.

while I have advocated use of spacers in posts above, I'm not a fan of bolt on spacers, or spacers of any significant width. In fact I really only advocate use of hubcentric slipon spacers no more than 15-18mm thick, with extended studs fitted. For the reasons - Bolton spacers create twice as many nuts that can work loose, especially the ones underneath securing the spacer to the hub that aren't accessible to check and keep tightened. Going to a wider spacer also creates the excessive strain on suspension components mentioned by other posters; I don't believe that stock hubs and wheel studs are designed to such fine tolerances that even a slight change of track width is enough for things to start breaking....from what I've seen of the jap engineering they over-engineer too much for that to be a factor... but start pushing it with a much wider spacer and the risk grows.

agreed, they are the Santa Claus of the tarmac. I would ignore the Porsche too...in fact I do, plenty of 'em round these parts, only every now and then does one of them really catch my eye if it looks beefy enough.

Agreed...do you have a pic of the well made item you're referring to you can put up instead?

already a big thread about this, and will say again, the thing is you're claiming a title that's not been earned. You say you're studying to be a doctor...but you don't go around telling people you're a Dr yet do you, cause, you're not. You may well be one day and you can enjoy the success of having earned it then. Same deal with wearing the name-badge of a GTR.....

thanks fellas, and I think gtsboy might have a possibility with the accidental tune bit too, it's just weird that if I leave it in 2nd and run it all the way to redline it won't come in with the same kick, only happens in drive and around 100k....on full throttle at that point busy watching the road but seems seems around 100 every time. Bit more background, there's 3in bellmouth dump/blitz exhaust, 100cell metal cat, fmic, apexi pod in custom airbox, 3in metal intake pipe, td05 turbo running off wastegate only at 13psi with greddy profec B for spool assist only - no duty cycle, exhaust cam retarded 2deg, tomei fuel pump, good state of tune with even comp across all cylinders, splitfires, injectors cleaned, iridium plugs. Safc neo being tuned at moment (which is why i'm now asking about the stock ecu tuning thing, covering all bases) and no bagging out the safc lol, it's doing exactly what I want at this stage, minor little touch ups on the afr...I can certainly see the limitations of it now after having played around with it firsthand but on the other hand am even more convinced it's good for minor tidying up, the low throttle/rpm has picked up nicely) with aem wideband gauge. Afr's are around 11-11.5 between 5500-6500 with 1% adjustment on the safc so nothing really needed there, maybe it is just the stock ecu hits the 'right' point then?

fluid is fresh as can be, I'm using Penrite full synth. Have a fairly decent B&M trans cooler on it too. I recently did a valve body upgrade (twice, cause one of the separator gaskets had a slight leak the first time) so it has well and truly been flushed out and fairly new fluid. It doe still flare a lot on the 2nd-3rd change though so you could be right, maybe the 3rd gear lockup engaging at around that speed?

so r33 with basic usual mods. It's auto and I still have stock ecu - have found that it's average performance wise, until it hits 100k's, then it's like the tune comes alive and it starts pulling hard. Doesn't happen like that at any point below 100k, and I had a search but can't see this being discussed anywhere. Anyone know if this maybe something tuned into the stock ecu for overtaking ability or anything like that?

Yeah they are the sort that work loose and kill people. Cause there is no longer anything to centre your wheel.

There u go, thats the spirit, searching will def reduce flamage your way when you do ask q's

and I have plenty of smartass answers...feel free to fire away

Thats just a new form of wastegate porting, similar to VTN. Garrett is developing it right now, i swear. Ballbag. See...?

thank you. My advice is to type it as 'spacers' and not 'spacer's'. When you say 'several' that doesn't sound like a lot, otherwise you would have said 'a lot'...? If you had been a career person in the automotive trade and they were a big problem I would imagine you would have seen 'a lot'. Could you give a specific number, like 5? And how many vehicles did you see with wheel-stud issues of some sort during your career that didn't run spacers? I would imagine, a lot...? I can think of 3 stud issues I've known of personally, that had nothing to do with spacers and it's not even my trade..

Mozzmann how many failures did you get to see firsthand over the years?

easy done son, glad it fitted for you too.

My apexi pod bolts straight to afm. Justjap only had a cpl different models, one was listed for skylines so got that one, fits grand.

I fail to see the connection between enjoying the sound of an rb25 unrestrained, and enjoying the company of penises. Maybe you're hearing what ypu want to hear...

I will also add unless you're getting it very bloody cheap, go for a hg hiflow. Effectively a brand new turbo for what, $875 or something?

My r33gtst could be available, for the right price...few panel dents n dings, nothing photoshop won't fix. How many of the bridesmaids are single?

alright i'll say it...you're lucky that 100-shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake. but I know nothing about drag racing sorry, I prefer corners, all I know is in a street race, always launch on the count of 2.

does remind me of something actually... 'you have your accessories....silencer, loudener"

I love the way this OP thinks. Metal intake pipe helps with loud induction noise. I have a worn out Blitz nur spec exhaust, frequently get told 'why is your car so loud" and alot of dirty looks, alot of approving looks too cause it sounds sweeeeet and is straight thru. Would recommend.