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Kibzors

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I think there was another post about this floating around, but stumbled upon this article on the actual car as well as some rather top photos (unfortunately pretty small ones).

Kid's Heart R35 Wagon

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(Apologies if the article has been posted before, a quick search didn't come up with anything...)

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Stinky Rooster Grand Master

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Seen the pics before, never read the article, so thanks for that.

i now need some quality "alone" time after this little tidbit..

Kids Heart could have built this off the all-wheel-drive M35 Stagea, which comes with a turbocharged, 276-hp 2.5-liter VQ25DET V6. But because the people at Kids Heart are truly wild at heart, they've stuck with the rear-wheel-drive Stagea and look forward to replacing its prosaic Nissan VQ35 V6 with a turbocharged RB26DETT inline-6 from the previous-generation GT-R R34, making this car eminently driftable.
iamhe77 Grand Master

iamhe77

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hmm 10k for the conversion...

Wonder if they would come here to do it for $17k???

Just needs a VQ35dett :)

Interesting article, but I wonder how accurate it is...

"This project begins with the current M35 Stagea"

Nope. M35 Stagea's ceased production in 2007.

That is the 2001-2004 Stagea.

"...they've stuck with the rear-wheel-drive Stagea and look forward to replacing its prosaic Nissan VQ35 V6..."

Nope.

That is a VQ25dd...

I know, I am being anal... but I would like to think that if someone writes an article, they would get their facts straight (or do a little research).

Should be interesting to see how they mate up the RB26 and which transmission they use.

Stinky Rooster Grand Master

Stinky Rooster

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a quick notch of the firewall and it would be fine. The C34 has a dash about half the depth of a M35 so no problems there. I cant say I think the handling would be up for much though, with all that extra cast iron hanging forward of the front axle. Still, it would be good to see, in the way that the S1 drift "ute" was cool.

iamhe77 Grand Master

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lets do it

10K just for the body right?

10k for the conversion, but I guess it would cost that for the parts and shipping.

Would look bloody ace in your yellow... err I mean gold. :)

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CL11QE

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yup

most car magazines/websites are horrendously inaccurate! No one checks anything these days........

i remember when i had my feature, and i got the copy of the mag sent to me in the mail, i start

reading it and im like wtf, thats not how it went, no he didnt do that part!

It was all totally wrong but i guess they have to "edit" it to make it sound more interesting than it

is!

zei20l Grand Master

zei20l

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sounds like a car magazine!!

my mate had a car featured also, he wasnt even listed as the owner!!!! the guy that TOOK the car to the shoot they had as the owner. useless people really

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sounds like a car magazine!!

Yeh especially when they give credit to the wrong people, i get annoyed when someone plays

a big part in a build but only got a small mention or they put down that someone else did part

of the work that they didnt even do!

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