Some advice with my next car

[predator]

I think Meggala is on to something there. A blacktop SR out of an S14 would be great. I know heaps of silvia's are puttin RB's in, but i think i know of about 2 R32's with SR's under the hood. Will raise a few eyebrows i'd say. Add the usual Ricey features, a few cheap bolt on's, and Bob's ya uncle...  

Good luck with whatever you choose. (GO THE SR20!!!)

or why not just bite the bullet and go a 180sx??? everything the R32 has, and lighter... good for about 230rwkw (if you get an SR20DET model) without changing the internals.

edit: although oops, i think i'm getting off topic, the question was the GTR or keep the GTS and do something else to it :-S

[funkymonkey]

lmao... man i used to own a CA18DET 180 pulling 160rwkw with 9psi boost, with a strawberry face kit... was the 7th one in australia or sumthing. I got it 2 months after skyline imports in adelaide got one down and started pullin fibreglass versions. I got an original Bomex one off a wreck in japan.

I'm so over 4 bangers. I want something different. sumfin that'll be low hassle yet turn heads. Sumfin which will cost me little to insure, and little to run.

The reason I like superchargers is that they're clean, low maintenance, off the line fun. I was thinking of gettin an RB30+RB25 hybrid engine and putting a centrifugal blower on it. RB30+25 DETT and DET have been done... no one's done a RB30DES. No one's seen a roots blower poppin out of a R32 hood. But then again, once I start on this it'll cost me money, and keep costin me money till its finished. At least with the GTR, I pay money and its done. I dunno choices choices.

I could just keep my GTS, shut my trap, let everyone fly past me at the lights, and then once the end of next year rolls by... invest in my dream.

I will get an R32 GTR at one moment in my life. This is a promise. I might put it off for a little while, but ever since 1993 I've wanted one, even before it was popular to drive an import. This is the closest I've been to it. And as you can imagine its hard to turn my back to this dream.

[funkymonkey]

narkeh... i was thinkin about that... gettin a GTS4 and puttin a RB25/30DET in it and still satyin under a 13k budget (7k for the car and 6k for mods). Pocket GTR I guess. Get one of my mates to strip it bare and do it from the ground up... maybe chuck on a bit of fibreglass and some Air Suspension... And seeing as my old man needs a car for 10 grand I might jus get my hands on an LS400 first.

The problem is this... I've got 14k in cash, 12k in a car + 10k from my old man for his car. alltogether 36k... out of this I need to get 2 cars, one for me, one for my dad.

I can either:

• Invest 10k in cash, take the money out later and in the mean time use 4k to mod my current car, and buy my old man a car for 10k
  
• Give my old man my car, take 24k and buy a car
  
• Sell my car, and use 26k to buy a car and buy my dad a car with 10k
  
• or Sell my car, invest 10k, keep 16k for me to buy another car in the meantime and buy dad a car for 10k
  

[Guest terrance]

buy ula's gtr.

[SmoothLine]

Yeah, im the same, kinda loosing the inpiration for buying a 15 year old car that will undoubtedly have hassles to come with it.

So funky, if you can save your money up, buy a house later on, and mod up your car, it would be all good!

My thinking at the moment is;

I can get a 34 GTR on a hire purchase arrangement for $1200 a month. This is looking like the better option, because then id still be able to keep the 33 which im going to mod up either way.

Makes a bit more sense to me than having 3 cars, one of which (32 GTR) sits in the garage 90% of the time...

This way i will still use the 33 during the day/work. And have a really sweet car waiting for me at home.

I have to confess though when i was at the BMW dealer on saturday (was taking back the 328 they gave me) I was very tempted by a blue 330ci coupe... They are a damn nice car...

[inark]

get the 26k... with it spend 3k on a reasonable shitter which leaves u 23k to play with... buy a GTS4 for around the 6k mark... buy an RB30DET and dump that in it... chuck on a T04E.... big injectors, big fuel system, full computer etc etc and then chuck on a phat do-luck copy kit

[funkymonkey]

I've been thinkin of enrolling myself in panel beating workshops during the holidays make my own bodykit

[inark]

as discussed panel beating aint going to help u fibreglass a kit... aluminium yeah but glass no.

[Hero_boy]

What are these panel-beating worshops your talking about? Where do you do them???

[Al]

Don't do either.

Hold off till you find the right GTR for you.

But don't blow your money on a GTS, as you would always want the GTR.

By the same token. If you hold off for one year you double ya money. Hold off another year you triple your money, another year..................................

Basically once you find the right car JUST buy it and ENJOY it!

my 2c

[ApacheX]

ah i didn't read all of this, im too tired, so if someone has said this, i apologise

funky, u could always supercharge + turbo your gts, make it that little more intersting

[king_kw13]

Funkey

What about your discussions about the RB25DET conversion? Shouldnt be too expensive and with the Phat body kit, it should come up something spectacular.

U are wanting something slightly unique yar??

[predator]

i love it when people bring up ancient threads.. i got smooth a good one once

its even funnier when people start participating actually..

[West]

Port and polish.

Rebuild engine so you can REV up to 9 or something.

Go to SafeWay or Coles buy this ...BLUE LOOKING BOTTLE and have fun. ;)