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Greetings,

I recently bought a R34 GT-V skyline, 2000 model series 2 and whatnot, 4-door. I've got my full URAS body kit which I plan on fitting on but I cant drive the car properly without getting my manuals and I get them around the same time the car gets its vapor injection system installed. The car has 106k on the clock, got it for 15 grand, and it's of course manual. So here's what I'm looking at doing by mid November.

-Full uras kit

-vapor injection system

-Sound system

-lowered springs

-hid lights

These combined costing nearly 10k.

Now what I want to know is general problems which R34's tend to have, I know mines done 106k kilometers but the engine is brilliant and apparently most of it was highway kilometers and that shows but you never know. So what are they known for? In terms of breaking down, certain parts I might aswell upgrade because they're known for failure etc. Thanks fellas.

-Lots of love.

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Interesting. Personally I'd stick with premium unleaded - no spend on LPG maintenance. I've done some background reading into the vapour system, it seems the more superior system is liquid injection, either way, if you do go the LPG route you should increase your engine compression so that you will not feel the power loss or get some sort of forced induction. http://www.lpgli.com/features.html

Its a 4 door, so its not sports but yeh, i know liquid is better but the guy im getting it installed from said liquid is not as good as people think it is, apparently it has a much much higher failure rate and vapour is basically perfected while liquid aint quite at that level yet. The guy who told me this is a very experience lpg installer guy, who was the first person to introduce injection into Australia and one of his main staff used to be the head of the company which invented liquid injection back 9 or so years ago so i trust him :P

Is this a family affair or something??? Haha....Cara and her 'Impul'...Ian and his 'Uras'...Kris and his....R33....... :) hahaaaa (jks jks, i like R33's :D especially since all the 34's here are non turbo rofl!)

First reply was the only thing you need to know Ian....coilpacks...and when you get them, don't go back to Shane at Power Roads or whatever he calls himself :D He charges like 1 grand for nissan ones when you can get Spitfires for bout 7-8oo mullah installed (yes thats all 6 packs) As one of the guys that just got it replaced on here a week ago, with a R34 4 door from same place we all got our skylines from :D

Uras on 4 door looks hot. On 2 not so hot...actually its quite yuck. Veilside looks even shittier on a 2 door and a bit over the top! Then again i can't talk cause i got a Bomex kit with wide panels...

Also another problem you douche', is the steering arms themselves as i have witnessed first hand...do not fk the front end of your car into a pot hole or hit a gutter :bunny: cause you will pay for it dearly my friend :cool: ....peace be with you. Also 10K for those mods??? How much is the Vapour crap??? 8K???

Ps make sure you get the Uras eyelids of you get the full kit!

that uras kit looks really nice on the 4 door, and veilside does suck, way too over the top, and yeah when i comes to coilpacks spitfire are usually the go once they fail, and pretty easy to install em yourself if you want to save some cash

Body kits = fail... Just plain ugly and destroying factory lines! But, each to there own.

As to the gas, and "loss of performance", you can actually extract more power from gas, then you can from premium unleaded... Why? It has a higher octane rating, and hence, is more resistant to knocking.

The ISSUE with tuning for sheer power on LPG, is that LPG doesn't have the quality control that petrol does.

IE, you gas it up one day at say 114octane, but a few days later, you gas up at another place, but there gas is only 105 octane... That's an issue if you're tuned on the edge on 114 octane...

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