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Well, my 2000 C34 Stagea finally arrived in South Australia yesterday after 2 months of waiting.

It's a Bayside blue Series 2 Dayz edition.

Auto with only 57000km on the clock.

Dual electric sunroofs, Carbon fibre mirror covers, Carbon fibre 'd' pillar covers, Carbon fibre front lip insert. Full Dayz bodykit.

Nismo 3" exhaust and blitz pod filter, 18*10" rims (Yes officer, they do sit inside the gaurds)

Car goes really well and i'm very happy with it.

EXCEPT.... it has already developed a missfire, very slight at idle but it feels like a fuel cut once you get up to 5000rpm (it still accelerates all the way to redline, just missfires from 5000 thru to 6500), so it gets new iridium plugs on Monday and maybe some coilpacks(hopefully just the plugs fix the issue).

So here it is

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GratZ

Very Nice still look like the day I saw it down at the shop

but still cant understand why it took so dam long but look at it this way you have it now and its good to see more smiles

Enjoy

very nice, and nice colour too, i had the same colour stagea like your and i just bought it 2 weeks ago in Melbourne, but i have AUTOTECH front and MASA side skirt and rear bar. i also got the 18x8 rim , is come with the car. Any chance you can find out what size of the tyre you use? 245/40/18 or 255/40/18? what offset of your rim?

very nice, and nice colour too, i had the same colour stagea like your and i just bought it 2 weeks ago in Melbourne, but i have AUTOTECH front and MASA side skirt and rear bar. i also got the 18x8 rim , is come with the car. Any chance you can find out what size of the tyre you use? 245/40/18 or 255/40/18? what offset of your rim?

i'm running 235/40r18 tyres stretched onto the 10 inch wide rims. don't know about the offset, the rims have a jap sticker on them but i can't read it for some reason. they sit fairly close to the struts and still hang out the guards on the rear. i'm prety sure that they'd suit a GTR rear end a bit better

very nice

you'll need a nistune ecu to get rid of the :"rich/retard / fuel/boost" cut thingymajigy

upgraded coilpacks wouldnt go astray one day, sparkies use Ngk BP6RE copper .8mm v-gruve, $20 for the 6

then it'd be tuned nice and responsive

all in good time

EXCEPT.... it has already developed a missfire, very slight at idle but it feels like a fuel cut once you get up to 5000rpm (it still accelerates all the way to redline, just missfires from 5000 thru to 6500), so it gets new iridium plugs on Monday and maybe some coilpacks(hopefully just the plugs fix the issue).

So here it is

Don't waste your money on the iridium plugs, just use standard ones for $12-14 a set and change them a bit more often

Cars that have iridium plugs that sit around for a few months esp in car yards or waiting to be exported, the plugs get fouled up due to running for short periods of time due to being very rich when cold. Gap them to 0.8mm

Don't waste your money on the iridium plugs, just use standard ones for $12-14 a set and change them a bit more often

Cars that have iridium plugs that sit around for a few months esp in car yards or waiting to be exported, the plugs get fouled up due to running for short periods of time due to being very rich when cold. Gap them to 0.8mm

i'm a mechanic, so iridium plugs are cheap for me anyway.I always run them in my vehicles. they made a large difference to fuel economy and throttle response in my Suzuki GSR600(plus they were a pain to get to every service) I even run them in the wifes car, they last alot longer than stock plugs. probably have to order some yellow jacket coils on monday if the plugs don't help out.

i'm pretty sure its not rich and retard, cause it misses like crazy at idle sometimes, and it's alot worse when driving in cold, wet weather(it didn't happen in sydney when i test drove it in 30'c weather). plus i'm pretty sure that it is tsill running standard boost. there's no sign of a bleeed valve or anything under the bonnet.

i popped the coil pack cover off last night and gave everything a good coating of silicone spray and it seemed to get a bit better for a little while. hopefully it is only the plugs and coilpacks tho, i've got other stuff to spend my hard earned cash on rather than fault finding on this car.

Edited by gsr600guy

yeah hopefully there will be another stagea cruise coming up soon. i've already used a tank and a half of fuel cruising around and its been washed twice already(damn wet weather)

took it out for a run today to the Mount Alma Mile hillclimb event for a look then looped back thru victor to do a delamere road run home.( i think i may have to remove the speed cut) these things pull really hard up top, even with my missfire issue the car pulled really strong.

now my plans for this couple of weeks are

- plugs, maybe coils

- alarm and immobiliser (so that Just cars will actually cover my insurance)

- remove dodgy jap spec remote start system

- fit my 7 inch dvd touch screen so i can actually listen to the radio

- remove standard speakers and fit some decent splits

- get sa rego

- order new number plates

- get front windows tinted

- remove compliance cat and get hi flow unit fitted

- get power run on the dyno for a baseline for future mods

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It needs a bit of lowering in my opinion, but otherwise looks great! Congrats!

yeah it needs to be dropped a bit, prob can only go 1 inch lower tho, the rear rims hang out the gaurds and i don't rally want to wear thru the sidewall of my tyre.

robbie, can you help me please? my stagea is same colour as your, i need a colour code , but from my engine VIN plate siad my colour code is KR4 is my colour code, but people here told me KR4 is sliver colour, so i believe my car was respray in different colour from japan. Can you find out for me what is your colour code please? because i bought a parts from auction yahoo and they want my colour code, thanks you.

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robbie, can you help me please? my stagea is same colour as your, i need a colour code , but from my engine VIN plate siad my colour code is KR4 is my colour code, but people here told me KR4 is sliver colour, so i believe my car was respray in different colour from japan. Can you find out for me what is your colour code please? because i bought a parts from auction yahoo and they want my colour code, thanks you.

colour code is TV2

Bayside blue

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