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Yep, it happened on Friday. A Grade 4.5 96 R33 GTR V-spec came up at a Japan auction, had the VIN checked out to ensure it is a genuine V-spec, and now it is mine. Now I just have to wait for its arrival. The next available ship leaves Japan on the 16th of January and arrive at Brisbane on the 28th of January. So if everything goes to plan I should be driving it buy early-mid Feb!!!!! How hard is the wait going the be! Can't wait! I only have the auction pics at the moment but should have more sent to me by the end of the week. It is stock, bar the exhaust. I really wanted a 97+ GTR to get the Xenon lights and other upgrades but this one was too good to pass up.

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Thanks guys, I definately know what its like to be waiting by the phone waiting for 'that' call, and the wait is already killing me!

I ended up going through Direct Imported Auto Brokers, otherwise known as 'PRIMO' on these forums. He was real easy to deal with.

Out of curiousity how do you plan to comply this car??

There are a few workshops are ready to do 33s under RAWs at the moment, early next year there should be some doing 32s and 34s. I can't remeber the name of the workshop at the moment but it is down the Gold Coast.

Final cost should be around $45k possibly a little more. The new scheme is definately not as cheap as the old one, but should keep quality and maybe resale up (fingers crossed). Grade 4 V-specs are around $44-50, non V-specs about $40k+. You can go cheaper with lower grades but then you run a compliance risk with the tuffness of RAWs.

Probably could have got one cheaper locally but after looking for the past 4 months the choice wasn't out there, especially for genuine v-specs. Alot of rough examples.

looks great...with the Xenon lights you can usally find them at some importers.

I will look into that, xenons would be nice. I will also try and get the series 3 lower lip, they look more aggressive.

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It really sucks having to wait

When i imported my car it seemed to take ages, but it is worth the wait

Do you or have you have been told if you have to change the exhaust back to standard?

If you have to put a standard one on for compliance, do you get to keep the old one?

I was told by the company that complied my car it has to be distroyed once removed. you do not get to keep it

The new rules are really tuff

Even window tint has to be removed.

Cheers Guys!

It really sucks having to wait

When i imported my car it seemed to take ages, but it is worth the wait

Do you or have you have been told if you have to change the exhaust back to standard?

If you have to put a standard one on for compliance, do you get to keep the old one?

I was told by the company that complied my car it has to be distroyed once removed. you do not get to keep it

The new rules are really tuff

Even window tint has to be removed.

Checked with the compliance workshop and they said they have a standard one they will fit for compliance then just put the other one back on. There is no way they will be destroying it, even if I have to take it off as it comes off the ship!

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Checked with the compliance workshop and they said they have a standard one they will fit for compliance then just put the other one back on. There is no way they will be destroying it, even if I have to take it off as it comes off the ship!

That's great if they let you keep it.

there seems to be alot of mixed up stories going around regarding the new rules.

I suppose it is up to each compliance workshop whether they want to risk loosing their licence.

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