Need Help Determining If This Is A Real Nismo

[maxster17]

Hi,

I'm new to the forum and asking for some help identifying if a skyline GTR for sale is a real NISMO. If it is, I plan on buying it and really belonging to the forum then.

I've looked around the forum and found a couple things I could check:

1.) the VIN (should be a BNR32100xxx) series chassis number, and there should be a special plate on the car identifying it as a NISMO edition (with # of 560). And that plate number should also match the xxx digits on the engraved firewall VIN.

2.) the body (ie. no front bumper mesh, has boot lid spoiler, etc.)

3.) possibly the options (normally no A/C, no ABS)

Now there are a couple things that make me suspicious about the car:

1.) It's white, from what I've read, they all were originally gunmetal grey.

2.) The owner says that an R34 engine was swapped in for the original.

So the questions I have are:

1.) Am I missing any other easy to use ways of really identifying this car? Ie. are there any other etched VIN's other than the firewall? I don't like relying on the plates because those can be replaced easily.

2.) Is there a way to determine that this is really an R34 engine? And also to identify the turbos as either R32/R34/NISMO-R32 turbos?

3.) Is it possible to identify this as a N1? Ie is there a chassis series of numbers that corresponds to the N1's?

Thanks for all the help,

max.

[NISMO]

Hi,

I'm new to the forum and asking for some help identifying if a skyline GTR for sale is a real NISMO. If it is, I plan on buying it and really belonging to the forum then.

I've looked around the forum and found a couple things I could check:

1.) the VIN (should be a BNR32100xxx) series chassis number, and there should be a special plate on the car identifying it as a NISMO edition (with # of 560). And that plate number should also match the xxx digits on the engraved firewall VIN.

2.) the body (ie. no front bumper mesh, has boot lid spoiler, etc.)

3.) possibly the options (normally no A/C, no ABS)

Now there are a couple things that make me suspicious about the car:

1.) It's white, from what I've read, they all were originally gunmetal grey. Yep, all were Gunmetal. There should be a colour code on the plate with the VIN, this will tell you its original colour. KH2 is Gunmetal, and 326 is Crystal white - all N1's are 326.

2.) The owner says that an R34 engine was swapped in for the original. Possible.

So the questions I have are:

1.) Am I missing any other easy to use ways of really identifying this car? Ie. are there any other etched VIN's other than the firewall? I don't like relying on the plates because those can be replaced easily. There's a thread in the general section where you can post the VIN and have it checked through Nissan Fast, try that as a start.

2.) Is there a way to determine that this is really an R34 engine? And also to identify the turbos as either R32/R34/NISMO-R32 turbos? Turbo's will be hard, but from what i know, R34 RB26's started with the following numbers, RB26-069xxx, RB26-072xxx. I think there's others, but these are the run of the mill R34 RB26 numbers.

3.) Is it possible to identify this as a N1? Ie is there a chassis series of numbers that corresponds to the N1's? Yep all N1's chassis code ends in either ZN (non VSpec N1, ie 91/92 model) or ZY (VSpec N1, ie 93/94)

Thanks for all the help,

max.

Hey mate, see above.

[BrynDETT]

regarding the r34 engine... it should have a un painted inlet manifold, plastic timing case and a black plastic case on the cas...

[Al Despo]

On the colour of the car, my neighbour has a r32 nismo in gunmetal grey but hes actually looking for one in red which I realised is ridiculous but he explained that from buying from the omori factory they do give choices on colours other than the stock colour. For example there is a Z-Tune for sale on GTR-R.com that is in midnight purple that they say is from the factory. Not sure how the process works though