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Hey guys signed up here so i could learn a little bit more about skylines. In a few months i'm going to be buying a new car (read: most probably importing one) and recently i have been considering a skyline as this possible car. Im only a fan of the r34's and in particular the GTR's, however from looking at some GTR's they will be stretching the budget to the limit so i need to arm myself with as much info as i can find on them and then see if its worth the money. If anyone is wondering the other cars im looking at are: Jza80 RZ supras and Evo's, now i know a lot of people are going to flame me over the supra but its been a dream car for a while and a lot more affordable than the GTR with room for a mod budget straight out, same goes for the Evo (prob a 7) but many people are saying spend the money and buy a GTR. So yeah will be kicking around here learning as much as possible and asking a lot of dumb questions probably!

Now for the first one, how possible is it to daily an r34 GTR? not that i will be, the BMW will stay in that role but its a good indication of how driver friendly a car is for me.

thanks guys

andy

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Hiya Andy & welcome, :)

For a while I had both the R34 GT-R (still in my possession) and the E46 328Ci (also a manual).

As a daily, the R34 GT-R is quite acceptable, since it's not too hard on the bum.

It's probably a waste of a clutch if you have to drive in peak hour traffic.

To buy a good one, I'd keep $43K as a budget; with $37K buying you one that would have high Kms or uncertain history or risk of problems. Yes, importing one will save you $$$.

Try several before you buy and look them over for service history/damage/rust (which can be checked for Japanese prefecture origin through VINS Fasted thread on this forum).

If you get a good one, it's an extremely potent race car disguised as a street car.

PM benro2 on SAU here for pros and cons of a supra since he has a skyline too and is familiar with their idiosyncracies

The Supra is in a totally different price bracket than an R34 GT-R though.

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Thanks for the reply, ill keep looking around as the funds wont be available for a little while (prob closer to the end of the year). I like both cars but for totally different reasons, the gtr appeals as the best you can possibly get; quick, as well as being a very good track car outta the box, while the supra is a lot cheaper and i do like the look of the supra, esp the inside which i find quite lacking on the r34's. Also if i go the supra route im looking at half the price for a clean RZ and then enough money to go single and look at 700-800 horses which is very very tempting, i guess it comes down to if i want to be able to go around corners or not.....

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Well I don't think you'd regretting procuring 2JZ. Their conrods and pistons are stronger/bulletproof. They're ergonomically sweet inside as the driver is totally catered for.

The R34 is so brilliantly upgradable and still not break traction on launches & sweepers.

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