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Hi guys,

I've came to Sydney recently. I live in Russia, but will stay in Australia for a really long time. I've got R33 GTR back at home. It is heavy modified. But a few months ago my engine has blown. Now I am looking forward to import my car with everything inside, but with no engine and turbos. Gearbox is in the trunk. What do you think is it possible? Any problems might occur? Any experience doing similar imports?

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Kozeyekan Proficient

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Hi guys,

I've came to Sydney recently. I live in Russia, but will stay in Australia for a really long time. I've got R33 GTR back at home. It is heavy modified. But a few months ago my engine has blown. Now I am looking forward to import my car with everything inside, but with no engine and turbos. Gearbox is in the trunk. What do you think is it possible? Any problems might occur? Any experience doing similar imports?

As a personal import..... might not be impossible. Provided you've had it for a year or two, and can prove it.

check out http://www.dotars.gov.au/transport/safety/.../importing.aspx for more info, or else I'm sure someone else here will know more about personal imports than me. As far as I am aware, it still needs a form of compliance (fuel restricter, fluids replaced, etc.) but it's much less than a sevs import.

check it out, and contact the road dept in your state for better info.

raz0r$harP.UK Grand Master

raz0r$harP.UK

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Personal imports only need to be roadworthy, and meet state registration requirements. So therefore it would need to be running.

Please read that link Kozeyekan provided, especially under the section "Personal Imports."

It states that Visitors, temporary residents, foreign diplomatic personnel, companies and corporations are not eligible to import a vehicle under the personal import scheme. If you are on a 457 Visa you may be able to import one personally, see the link for further information.

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If you do decide and do find out you are actually eligible to apply for importation of the vehicle. Make sure you get in contact with, i think its 'Nindri" or something like that for your yellow personal import plate. You'll need one fixed to your strut tower in your engine bay for registration authorisation.

Beer Baron Grand Master

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i'm not sure I understand 100% what you want to do. You have a 33 GTR with blown engine in Russia, but want to import it to Australia? I would think your best bet is buy/build a new engine for it, fit it and sell the car in russia, then buy a new one here. There are heaps of 33 GTR here and not that expensive.

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raz0r$harP.UK

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If you do decide and do find out you are actually eligible to apply for importation of the vehicle. Make sure you get in contact with, i think its 'Nindri" or something like that for your yellow personal import plate. You'll need one fixed to your strut tower in your engine bay for registration authorisation.

All those details come with the Import Approval once you receive it.

tourer Apprentice

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Thanks for your answers and for the link. It is very useful! It is better to import my chasis here, cause it is extremely difficult to sell GTR in Russia. The thing is, i thought there's gonna be a problem cause I have no engine inside. May be I could impor it like parts? Spares? Then duild a car here and register it? What do you think? Just want to find the best way, the easiest one :(

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you can't import a car as parts and re-assemble it here. your only choice is to apply to bring the car in as a personal import, then have it put on a ship and brought down. after that once it arrives you'll have to pay extra for the car to be forklifted/towed at the australian docks so you can put it on a truck to take it to a shop to ahve the engine put in, before you register it.

However australian dock workers are very sloppy with forklifts and can seriously damage the chassis (as they have done before with non running cars)... so my advice to you is to put the engine into the car and have it running (even if its running badly) before you put it on the ship... then once it gets here you can do whatever you want with it... there's no limitations on time or location on personal imports.

Muz Experienced

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Here is some pics :D A lot of work done with this car. 5 place in Russian National drag racing championship.

Just had another look at the pics. I see spectator safety doesn't feature high on the agenda over there. Talk about getting the crowd close to the action!

Love it!

Muz

tourer Apprentice

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Well, pictures was made on local race. National championship held in the airport. We don't have any drag strips in Russia. Drag racing becoming popular there, but not too much yet. And it is not nesessary to register my car. Just wanted to do all work with it in Australia and go for racing :D

Beer Baron Grand Master

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ok, if you want to just come racing really the only way is to apply for personal import. as long as you have owned the car for at least 12 months, and had it registered in your name, to your adress for that time then you should be ok.

it really will be better if you can at least get the car running before you try and import it here. will make so many things easier. even just put a standard motor in there.

I love the local drag race. that looks lovely with all the trees lining the track.

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yeah apply for import as a personal import, just don't register it.

altho it'd be cool if you could return it to standard even temporarily to reg it. NSW is pretty sucky though coz you have to have it re-inspected every year.

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