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grats on the car man! looks awesome :(

i had the difficult decision of 33r vs 34gtt... went gtt cause it was newer and i liked the style ;) (regret not having a gtr though!!!)

also like the way you write about the car lol, such poetry!

Congrats mate, very tidy specimin of a GTR. I know EXACTLY what you mean by getting a giddy feeling every morning when you wake up and get to drive to work, then drive home from work etc. Hell, it's not the best on fuel economy and just cost me $3200 in some repairs (don't mean to scare you off or anything hehe) but I prefer driving my GTR and my missus around rather than her drive me around in the Echo hehe. Hell, I am usually the first out the door and down to the shops during work if we run out of milk/coffee/something :cheers: I just love it to bits! (Travis you'd better be reading this too hahah)

All this, and I've owned mine since May this year. I've had some issues with it, but nothing you wouldn't expect from a 20yr old car, and nothing that has made me want to say "stuff this, I'm selling it...". It's a force to be reckoned with, they are bloody fast, very enjoyable and absolutely awesome value for money.

As for mods, I'd recommend what people have said thus far, that is go with supporting mods first. First major one being the exhaust, because the RB26 motors LOVE to breathe, and getting a larger exhaust will remove some restriction, hi-flow cat is a good idea aswel. Then start looking at things like ECU (you really want to get a full ECU solution like a PowerFC or the like, having multiple modules for different things is a tuning/troubleshooting nightmare), after that start looking into things like FMIC, injectors, adjustable cam gears and the like, but take your time and do it right.

-Chris

Congrats Karl, seeing as were telling you how to spend you hard earned heres my recommendation.

The first thing you should do with it is put an oil cooler on it and some decent oil...Redline is my choice, then go through the suspension looking for worn out gear.

Then do...

Apexi pods or if your worried about a defect go with an ARC airbox with a quality panel filter, they come up second hand a fair bit on SAU

Exhaust, front pipe and dumps,

PFC, timer and controller

Cam gears.

Dont worry about the intercooler until you go with bigger turbos

Then buy a beater/daily driver.

As already mentioned, there are plenty of places to spend money on a GTR.

There are some good factory bits on it already so you avoid needless cost and backwards stepping by leaving them in place. Things like the factory airbox (it's not a power restriction, so no gains changing it and keeps police happy) and the factory BOV's. The suspension on a stock R33 GTR isn't that bad and only a mild drop in height and mild spring rate increases are necessary for road use. There are some good suspension threads about setting one up for whatever you like but, factory stock they are an excellent handling car.

A good tip for you to keep the motor alive is to keep the factory turbo's at 12psi and avoid the temptation to blast them to 1bar/14.7psi. They die. And when they do they may like to give one of the piston bores some of the ceramic fragments from the exploding turbine. It's engine rebuild time. Easy to avoid however.

Up front, dropping all the fluids and changing them is a smart idea. I wager about 80% of the car owners on this forum have never changed diff or gear oil without there being a pre-exsisting issue. It's worth doing and according to factory reccomendations, just like engine oil.

Ah, also, how close is it to 100,000 now? Some very sound advice is to invest in a timing belt service. Take her to Xspeed if need be, they'll do one for $900, belts water pump etc whereas C-red will try and sting you for $1500 for the same job.

There are some good factory bits on it already so you avoid needless cost and backwards stepping by leaving them in place. Things like the factory airbox (it's not a power restriction, so no gains changing it and keeps police happy)

Get a good POD for a cool induction 'whoosh' sound.

Don't listen to this guy. :)

Edited by Tony de Wonderful

im not talking about race cars with specially designed air ducts, ask anyone with experience, pods on a gtr get heatsoaked very quickly as compared to the panel filter, u need to design a cai t o run pods but stock airbox with k and n panel filter is the best bang for buck wen u compare it to a 300-400 dollar pod kit

Convert it to RWD then it will be as chuckable and driftable as the GTST. :D
Get a good POD for a cool induction 'whoosh' sound.

Don't listen to this guy. :)

Do any race cars run stock airboxes?

If he wanted Rwd he'd buy a GTST

How certain can you be that pod > standard air pannel?

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