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R32 Gts 4 Door, What To Look For When Buying?

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Hey guys,

I used to have a R32 GTSt and swaped it for a SR 180sx, anyway the 180 spends 99% of its life in the shed and only gets driven on the weekend...if that!

Currently i have a daily R31 Silouette, and im looking at selling it and getting a R32 GTS 4 door, RB20DE i have one lined up and im going to look at it on the weekend!

Anyway my questions are:

1) What to look for when buying a 4 door, are there any "common" rust areas like the 2 doors (down the sides of the boot)

2) The 4 door im looking at is a Auto RB20DE and i was considering putting a manual box (and all appropriate things to go with it), whats exacilly is needed, do i need a manual ECU etc...obviouslly clutch cylinders and pedals, what about tail shaft length???

3) Do i need to run it on Premium unleaded? and what sort of km's should i expect from it out of a tank???

4) Also i have my old SR20DET brakes off of the 180sx (due to 5 stud conversion (S14 hubs n rotors, R32 GTSt front calipers), are these an upgrade for the R32 GTS's?

5) And how to i tell a GTS from a GTS type S???? my understanding is the typs s has hicas and turbo steering wheel.

6) what sized rims can i get under it, i have my old 180sx rims, they are 17" x 9's on the rear 8's front, sorry not sure on offset...but they fit on a S13! (the rear runs 235 width tyres streached over abit)

7) Sound...will the RB20DE sound cool with a turbo exhaust on it (3 inch) or will it be too drowny??? Or will it be over kill and loose power due too the exhaust being too big?

thanks very much

- Luke

PS...i just miss the RB note....damn it i want that sound back again!!!!

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ahh yes the sound of an rb, good to hear!

Haven't got time to answer your other qns, but always run it off premium it will drive/feel much better, you'll notice. i tryed mine on normal unleaded once and never again, it felt slugish to say the least.

i've got an apexi a1 exhaust system on mine, sounds great.....get something jap

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3inch will definately make the car much more sluggish.. on my GTS i have a 2 1/4 cat back with JUN BL cannon, no mufflers in the line... straight through..I must say that i noticed a small decrease in low end torque believe it or not.and a very mild increase above 5000rpm. I get nothing but good comments about my exhaust note being sick nannas,best RB iv heard etc,etc..not that im bragging at all..

you will get slightly better fuel economy than a gts't driven mostly off boost.expect around 420-450km's o a tank around the city.. on the open road expect around the 600-650 mark if your not driving against the wind..

iv run my rb20de on normal pump fuel heaps of times... ran ok, untill my timing was advanced a few degrees then i found it pinged on very hot days...it does run best on premium.. iv found 95ron to be fine..

as far as the brakes you have, yeah they are definately an upgrade form stock GTS brakes.. GTS are single pot calipers... same size front discs though to the gts't.280mm. unless you have m spec brakes..

My understanding of how the models run isthat you can get a gts type s ( standard gts steering wheel,generally no hicas,blue background on instrument cluster,roundish front bar and no sideskirts etc) and a gts m-spec with pretty much all the same parts as the gts't just no turbo.

my wifes 4door gts't type s is practically identical to my 2door gts type s GTS..

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