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im in melb airport waiting for my flight home...

had a stag sus on the net and found this..

i havnt ran it threw fast yet but yeah...

the following dont line up for me...

all autechs have a rear fog on the drivers side in the reverse light, the tacho goes up to 10k, the front bar doesnt appear to have a 260 reo behind it... it doesnt stick out anything like mine... sits flush like an rs4,

u can also see the hack instal job of the guages.... the rs4, and rs4s? dont have the same mount set up in the dash...

it appears to be fake, and with that cluster in it im guessing fake KM's....

just a heads up to any buyers!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/1998-Nissan-Stagea-...id=p3286.c0.m14

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Either a nice RS4 or a butchered Autech.

Yeah looks like an 'old parts' bin. Good pickup RBPOWA - that's a series 1 auto dash. Pic' of a series 1 260RS dash, which Adam would be very familiar with too no doubt :)

Rear bar doesn't look like an Autech one to me? Got at the very least an aftermarket lower lip at the front. Doesn't have Autech wheels. Surely that steering wheel's a defect (no airbag). Are they aftermarket rear-view mirrors??? ;)

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Alarm bells are ringing for sure... the gear stick surround looks like a hacked auto job, but in saying that the seats look 260, the door skins also do, its an Autech wing and sideskirts. I would say seeing as its a new front, has no drivers airbag, and some other very hard to come by parts are mising like the cluster and gear stick surround that its been in a good front ender, scrapped someone took some bits off it and someone else has got some parts together to make it go again...

Either way STEER WELL CLEAR... even if it was really cheap, don't risk your life in a car thats probably been stacked

My 2c :)

This car looks to be a genuine Autech

just the cluster and Kms may not be genuine.

"all autechs have a rear fog on the drivers side in the reverse light"

not all that ture, just the stagea's that come from the mountain parts of japan(By there law they need 1), which is y some do and some don't.

"u can also see the hack instal job of the guages.... the rs4, and rs4s? dont have the same mount set up in the dash..."

Its just that- Hack install of the DVD,heater,guages and fold out screen, 4 things trying to fit into 3!! (seen this in a few jap cars)

The only 1 to get anything right was M I K E

"that looks like a standard series 1 manual setup to me?"

PS. This is not my car! just telling the facts!!

PPS Yes it is a joke of a Autech 260RS

I'm intrigued by that centre console: it's nothing like the one I bought from Nissan... Were s1 and s2 manual centre consoles THAT different?? Fo instance, the handbrake in that one comes out of the console top: my console has a moulding on the side, so the handbrake lever sits next to it...

i saw this stag arrive at Japlink Motors on the back of a tilt tray a couple of weeks ago, they had a hell of a time trying to lower it down off the tray, its front bar was ridiculously low

No 260rs on the back either that is tatoo'ed into the paint.

Mine doesn't have this.... should I be worried!?? Definately agree it looks sus.. and maybe, just maybe the people selling it have no idea.

easiest way to tell i reckon is look for the recessed area for the vacuum booster for the clutch, see if it looks factory (same as gtr's). Going by the pic it does look as per autech which is pretty hard to do unless u either have an autech lying around or a 32 gtr etc to cut the peice from. Though the pic is hard to see properly

does it have hicas?

measure the rear wheel base as wheel and get offset of the wheels and u can tell if its an autech cradle or not.

i assume it has brembos? what about the autech brace under the trans tunnel?

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