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Hey guys,

Dont quite know where to put this, so ill drop it here and see what happens. I am looking at buying a R34 GT and just found out it was a 2.0L, when i thought it was a 2.5. It's non turbo, is it worth buying? Or will i be stuck with the slowet skyline known to man. Would it cost heaps to get a 2.5 converted? or with some mods will this engine be okay.

Any feedback and advice is much appreciated!

(BTW it would be my first skyline, and im a P-Plater)

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Hey guys,

Dont quite know where to put this, so ill drop it here and see what happens. I am looking at buying a R34 GT and just found out it was a 2.0L, when i thought it was a 2.5. It's non turbo, is it worth buying? Or will i be stuck with the slowet skyline known to man. Would it cost heaps to get a 2.5 converted? or with some mods will this engine be okay.

Any feedback and advice is much appreciated!

(BTW it would be my first skyline, and im a P-Plater)

If your heart is set on a R34 definetly keep looking for the RB25 model, the hassle and cost involved in doing a conversion it wouldnt be worth it. Its not too much more for the RB25DE model sometimes you end up with it being the same price or cheaper than the RB20 model. If its just the N/A skyline your after and you want to go a bit quicker I reccomend the R32 with the RB25DE it would be a fair bit quicker than the R34 with it being nearly 200kg lighter and probably better resale value when you get off your P's too. It seems the R32 RB25DE Skylines have bottomed out in price especially with the new P Plate laws.

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Thanks for the advice mate, i found a 1998 2.5GT-X, it is only 1k more also. Is there much power difference between the two? and whats the difference bewteen the GT and the GT-X?

The Power difference is the GT is the RB20 which has 114kw and the GT-X is the RB25 that has 147kw. So an extra 33kw for 1k completely legit on P-Plates sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me and better resale value to someone like yourself in the future is after the R34 NA but with that little bit more power.

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GTs come in both rb20 and rb25, the GTX and GTV are high option spec skylines. I think even though the GTX might be N/A it will still have the 4 piston calipers and twin rear, twin airbags, sunroof etc. Basically everything thats in the turbo model will be in the GTX bar the turbo.

Definitely go with the RB25, you'll hate yourself for getting the rb20.

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Correct. Would be curious to know how it got here...

i am curious to know why? it surely can't be due to a power to weight ratio as some others have implied as there would be cars with worse power to weight ratios than the 2.0L r34. the nissan cube for example. it's able to be imported and it has a much lower power to weight ratio than the r34 would. hell the r34 would still have a better power to weight ratio than a lot of ADM cars, such as an early 2000's lancer with the 1.5L engine

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oh i'm not saying that the rb20 r34 isn't a piece of shit, i'm just curious as to how some cars are able to get in yet others aren't. i was looking through a list of the cars allowed in and there are a hell of a lot that are on the list with terrible power to weight ratios. don't suppose you could say what the minimum power to weight ratio is that cuts off the rb20 r34?

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This isn't the first 2.0L r34 that has come into the country, there was a post on here a couple of years ago by a guy who only realised he bought a rb20 R34 after he had it for a while.

Edit: Can't find the car mentioned above but there are others around the place

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/R3...&hl=gtv+gtx

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