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Hi all, recently decided to purchase a GT-R, as to me it just seems ahead of its time, and is a great car to drive. Anyway I found one that is a great one, and can't wait to finalise the purchase and get on the road. Pics are on my profile, if you see me on the road wave to me.

Hi all, recently decided to purchase a GT-R, as to me it just seems ahead of its time, and is a great car to drive. Anyway I found one that is a great one, and can't wait to finalise the purchase and get on the road. Pics are on my profile, if you see me on the road wave to me.

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Hi guys,

As you can see i'm new here. Been on nissansilvia.com for ages and was told this was the place to come for your excellent Classifieds section lol.

Moved to australia almost 8 years now and was surprised to find that cars are so much cheaper compared to where i come from. Just have a s13 track project car atm, no skyline as of yet thanks to the sad sad economy.

Anyway, i look forward to getting great advice from you guys and might see you on the track sometime soon! I hope.. lol cheers

Hi all, recently decided to purchase a GT-R, as to me it just seems ahead of its time, and is a great car to drive. Anyway I found one that is a great one, and can't wait to finalise the purchase and get on the road. Pics are on my profile, if you see me on the road wave to me.

welcome,

always wanted to buy that car too.....

you beat me to it.

Hey guys,

I'm Tony.

Just picked up a Skyline V35 350 GT8 on Wednesday.

Insane car. Absolutely love it and the power.

Ohhh the power!!

Not sure whether I should mod it or not.

Seems like a beautiful executive style car.

So if you see a gunmetal grey V around Garden Cityon stock plates, that'd be me. :)

Haven't seen very many of them up here which is a shame.

Sure to see you gents around,

Cheers,

Tony

Hi guys,

I am Fjaan

Been on nissansilvia forums for quite some time now but don't own a silvia lol

I actually got a Skyline R33 GTS25T...

Its been in an accident and i am kinda lost in parts for it...

So i decided what better place to go to then skyline forums.

The car's at my dad's shop in coopers plains medow ave (opposite to asian star lol)

If anyone would b kind enough to help me please leave me a msg here or leave ur email or how ever.

Looking forward to having a good time here.

Thanks heaps

Fjaan

Hey,

My names Matt. I've been the forums for a while but haven't owned a skyline for like 3 years cus of my gay apprenticeship making me sell my 32 gtst.

But now the hard yards payed off and I bought myself my dream car, a 1993 V-Spec II 32 GTR with only an exhaust fitted from the turbos back. Since then I have uped the boost and fixed a miss fire at full boost due to a bad spark plug earth and too big of gaps. with the upped boost and preforming right, managed to slip the clutch so thats getting done as well as cam gears, cam belt, harmonic balancer, water pump, vipec ecu and split fire coil packs been dropped in as soon as they arrive by Mark at Godzilla motorsports and then its dyno time. not sure what it'll put out but hoping for 300hp at all fours with the lightened flywheel. :D

Its gun metal gray and pretty much gets around everywhere lol I'll post some pics shortly and if you see me around or know of any good events in the brissy/sunnycoast or the goldie let me know. also any good meet spots around to meet new people and have a chat. Cheers

Also anyone who knows anything about the vipec can you let me know. would love to learn more about it

Hey,

My names Matt. I've been the forums for a while but haven't owned a skyline for like 3 years cus of my gay apprenticeship making me sell my 32 gtst.

But now the hard yards payed off and I bought myself my dream car, a 1993 V-Spec II 32 GTR with only an exhaust fitted from the turbos back. Since then I have uped the boost and fixed a miss fire at full boost due to a bad spark plug earth and too big of gaps. with the upped boost and preforming right, managed to slip the clutch so thats getting done as well as cam gears, cam belt, harmonic balancer, water pump, vipec ecu and split fire coil packs been dropped in as soon as they arrive by Mark at Godzilla motorsports and then its dyno time. not sure what it'll put out but hoping for 300hp at all fours with the lightened flywheel. :D

Its gun metal gray and pretty much gets around everywhere lol I'll post some pics shortly and if you see me around or know of any good events in the brissy/sunnycoast or the goldie let me know. also any good meet spots around to meet new people and have a chat. Cheers

Also anyone who knows anything about the vipec can you let me know. would love to learn more about it

Matt,

I have a 32GTR also (Traditional Grey) and had a VIPEC installed during a birthday the car had recently.

They are supported by Mark (Godzilla) and Trent at Mercury Motorsport, so i guess the support is available here in Bris for tuning ETC. Overall i beleive they are a good unit, with the ability to have multiple tunes set up on your laptop (98 octane and E85) with an easy reflash if you need to swap at say a track day. Talk to Mark, i am sure he will be able give you a heads up. Get Mark to check your ignitor (feeds power to the coil packs) and make sure its ok.

Anyhow, your on the right path - great car - happy driving.

Adam.

hi, i'm luke just recently got my r33 and am happy to be back into a rear wheel drive again, saw you guys at baskin last night was gunna stop in and say hi but had to work early, i'll come down next time and am looking forward to meeting some people on sunday.

custom pod flter box, (jim berry clutch) awsome, front mount, standard boost 172kw

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