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I'm planning to take my '95 R33 GTST down to Canberra on the long weekend from Sydney. I am not too comfortable on taking my car for a long trip, worried something my blowup on the way, given it is 11 yrs old car. The car has done 103K, and I believe it's never been rewound back. I had the car for nearly 3 years, travelled around 10,000 ks as it's a weekend car and so far has been very reliable. But, I've been hearing people blowing their turbos, etc, etc, after or during a long trip.

Anyone has similar experience or comments?

Thanks in advance for your advice

DD

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hi i havent owned mine for long 6 or so weeks now but i had a r31 and i drove it for 7 or so years never smooth or slow and its stood up very well the only thing i dont do is burnouts , but drifting and gerneral hooning has shown me these R series skyline are good stuff and everyone i have spoken who knows about cars to reckon they are great so as with any car check your fuild levels ,tyre pressure if you dont think theres anything wrong with it drive on bother :spank:

Your not serious are you?

I'm planning to take my '95 R33 GTST down to Canberra on the long weekend from Sydney. I am not too comfortable on taking my car for a long trip, worried something my blowup on the way, given it is 11 yrs old car. The car has done 103K, and I believe it's never been rewound back. I had the car for nearly 3 years, travelled around 10,000 ks as it's a weekend car and so far has been very reliable. But, I've been hearing people blowing their turbos, etc, etc, after or during a long trip.

Anyone has similar experience or comments?

Thanks in advance for your advice

DD

Don't do it man. It's not safe.

I don't drive mine more than half an hour from home because I know it will break down if I go further.

Take the bus.

Are u kidding...i drive mine every day too and from work, 45 mins each way...y have a car if u dont drive it

lol i think he is being sarcastic :D

Neways take it! I drive my skyline from Perth to Kalgoorlie quite often, holidays, semester breaks, and thats a 600km trip+. Ive taken this journey like bout 6-10 times now, so 4 or so times there and back.

Lol abo bob was joking..

No one knows your car better than yourself.

So you be the judge!!

After owning it for 3 years shouldnt you know how your car handles preforms etc etc??

if you that worried, then why dont you take a break every hour??

Nothing will happen unless your car isnt running right.

gdluck..

LOL..

I drove my 89 r32 from Sydney to Brisbane.

Why you would think it’s going to break I can’t understand..

If anything, it gets treated better on long freeway driving.

It gets to sit at 110km/h, no load, just cruising..

Instead of boost, off boost, boost, off boost., change gears, brake, accelerate, brake, sit at light’s and heat up in traffic. Etc..

At 110km/h and 3000 rpm (roughly), it gets fresh clean air, perfect revs for economy, no load etc.

And Canberra is what, 280km from Sydney?

Thanks guys.... at least I am more comfortable now... not that I don't trust my car, it's just the fact that the car is 11 years old that bothers me a little bit...

I always think my car as a 'hard worker' in Japan and came to Australia to retire & being pampered by the new owner... not sure if this is an accurate anology, probably the first owner was a middle-aged business man who drove no faster than 40

Cheers,

DD

I drove a nissan silvia n/a (sr20de) from adelaide to brisbane and back again - no worries at all.

Later we sold it and bought a '92 turbo silvia (SR20DET) and then last year we did the same trip in that - adelaide to brisbane for a holiday and back again. The car had 150,000+ kms on the clock too, but still ran beautifully. Whilst in brisbane we probably clocked up close to 1000km driving all over the place. Nice hot weather 35+ degrees almost every day!!

Not a single problem. Oh, and this was running 10.5psi on the stock turbo (3" turbo-back exhaust incl hi-flow cat).

Pretty sure you wont have any problems. The nissan imports are pretty tough.

Just let it idle for a minute or two when stopping for petrol etc. - just to let the turbo cool a bit after doing 110km/h for hours on the highway.

And earlier this year we flew to the gold coast to buy our stagea and drove back to adelaide in that. stock boost and everything but had no trouble whatsoever. :ermm:

lol GT badges stand for what kids?

ive driven mine a heap of places, only interstate place its been so far is sydney and deniliquin. but its been pretty much all over victoria lol

and nothing has broken on a long trip... yet lol. if anything it breaks when im jst driving around town :D

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