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Heya everyone :D

I bought my first Skyline R33 (First V6, and first turbo for me) a few weeks ago.

She's stock as a rock bar the exhaust. I know very little about cars to begin with,

this is all a little beyond me :)

I've been asking around everywhere for quotes on things like remote alarm+install, CD player

install (put a Kenwood in, but radio not hooked up *sigh) , putting in new 6x9's and

new 6's (The speaker holes in the back have weird brackets over them that one person

says is for a baby seat and another says is for rear strut) Autobarn wanted to charge

$198 to put the 4 speakers in, price didn't include 6x9 spacers or the 6" bracket.

Also she blows a fairly rich petrol smell when warming up, it just hit 100,000km so

it's due for a major. One place said $1k, another said $750 not including Water pump.

Basically, can anyone reconmend a great place in Adelaide to go that won't try and

rip me off because I'm a newb?

Need speakers put in, full service/tune, pod filter, good alarm with Immob + install,

Turbo timer + install, boss kit + install. Also after a set of 17" rims, basic 5-6 spokes

would be nice. Hell on the cheap though lol :)

Also looking to replace the GTR wing with a lower spoiler, does anyone know if i'll need a new boot aswell?

Thinking i'll get the bonnet, boot & spoiler sprayed black.

So just want it finnished already lol, it's been such a head f**k simply trying to get the cd player

put in (blew the 5amp tlight fuse grounding the CD player) and a front strut (1 nut was stuck on,

used every tool under the sun to get it off inc hydrolic nut splitters.. ended up using an angle grinder)

I really love her heh, especially after driving a 4c 1.8 Calibra for the last year and a bit.

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Hi awsam & welcome to SAU.

To help you survive these forums, have fun, get some answers to your questions and learn about the joys and agony of owning a Skyline I'll give some advice/direction:

You should have started here: Newbie Introductions

You should use this whenever you have a question: Search Function

And you should read these: SAU Guidelines

But to answer some of your questions most here would recommend Boostworx for a RB25. Inputting +recommend + workshop into the above mentioned search function returned this result. As you can see there are many threads covering this topic. Have a read.

For car audio you get 10% discount at Autobarn Mile End & Ministry of Bass if you become a member of SAU-SA. (That was a plug for SAU-SA & the sponsors not a recommendation for or against).

I have heard good things about the audio work that SAU member Jack88 does but have never met the guy personally. I would suggest you PM him when you have enough posts.

DamageInc Grand Master

DamageInc

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Hi awsam & welcome to SAU.

To help you survive these forums, have fun, get some answers to your questions and learn about the joys and agony of owning a Skyline I'll give some advice/direction:

You should have started here: Newbie Introductions

You should use this whenever you have a question: Search Function

And you should read these: SAU Guidelines

But to answer some of your questions most here would recommend Boostworx for a RB25. Inputting +recommend + workshop into the above mentioned search function returned this result. As you can see there are many threads covering this topic. Have a read.

For car audio you get 10% discount at Autobarn Mile End & Ministry of Bass if you become a member of SAU-SA. (That was a plug for SAU-SA & the sponsors not a recommendation for or against).

I have heard good things about the audio work that SAU member Jack88 does but have never met the guy personally. I would suggest you PM him when you have enough posts.

Top bloke :banana:

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(OO Black 33 OO)

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Welcome and have fun with the skyline.

As for the 17s i have some and want 18s, would recommend you get some put on your car first to see otherwise you will be disappointed if you don't like the 17s and is costly to buy more and headache trying to sell 17s.

GTR wing is quite expensive so don't give it up for nothing, lots of people would want it. I have one on my car and wouldn't swap it personally, i like the look of it. As does Mitch ^^

DamageInc Grand Master

DamageInc

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Welcome and have fun with the skyline.

As for the 17s i have some and want 18s, would recommend you get some put on your car first to see otherwise you will be disappointed if you don't like the 17s and is costly to buy more and headache trying to sell 17s.

GTR wing is quite expensive so don't give it up for nothing, lots of people would want it. I have one on my car and wouldn't swap it personally, i like the look of it. As does Mitch ^^

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GTR wing > All

Madaz Grand Master

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Welcome aboard mate

as David pointed out the in my opinion best place for major/minor servicing is boostworx always happy to chat about your pride and joy and explain mods to you and why you need them

Ric @ Auto Perfection main north rd looks after the skyline boys nicely

Marvey Tech will hook up your sound needs

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welcome aboard, for places to get stuff done,

Mechanical - i have been using Fours N More for the past 5ish years, built, put in, tuned and everything else you could imagine they have done to the RB25 in my r31 drift car. 82602011 is their number and Brenton is who you want to speak to. Tell them Luke that drifts the R31 sent you and they should take care of you. They do alarms too.

As for audio, Jb's at modbury have a really good installer if he is still there, havnt worked there for about a year now so not sure if he still there, but did alot of custom work and basic installs too, they can sort you for the alarm too. If you head in there talk to Pep or Kahul in the car sound section and again tell them Luke that used to work in the games section sent you in and they should help you out.

Best of luck with it all, sounds like your gonna turn it into something nice.

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Inline 6

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welcome, sorry but lol at the v6 comment :/ first good piece of info from sau u have now recieved

inline 6 cause we like to keep things straight round here :) except for krishy watch out for that 1

ull note if u pop your bonnet the engine looks kinda skinny n long, then go pop the bonnet of say a holden commo and youll see its engine is a lil shorter n wider.....like the drivers rear end.

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DamageInc

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welcome, sorry but lol at the v6 comment :/ first good piece of info from sau u have now recieved

inline 6 cause we like to keep things straight round here :) except for krishy watch out for that 1

and that twink guy, avoiding chicks n what not...

heslo Grand Master

heslo

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marvey tech workshop next to morpowa is up for lease, not there anymore.

You sure Craig? There's two buildings there, one with John from Marveytech in it, then one that Morpowa use for storage. That's the one up for lease I beleive

awsam Rising Star

awsam

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GTR wing is quite expensive so don't give it up for nothing, lots of people would want it. I have one on my car and wouldn't swap it personally, i like the look of it. As does Mitch ^^

Yeh i've had a look on Ebay and they sell for quite a bit more than the regular low smooth spoiler you see more often. I saw what a friend said was a drift spoiler? Only a couple of inches high, barely noticable.. but squared off the boot nicely.. I quite liked it.

Hey dude welcome, hope you sort your stuff out. everyone here is pretty helpful smile.gif

Did you get mats with the car, i have mats, you want mats? tongue.gif

Yeh, has all the official "skyline" mats, front, back.. even one in the boot :)

welcome, sorry but lol at the v6 comment :/ first good piece of info from sau u have now recieved

Ha! Well I am pretty new to it all, didn't think there was a difference *facepalms LOL

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