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Hey everyone,

I just bought a series 2 r33 gts-t and during my routine first checks of the engine bay I noticed that my skyline has at some point attempted to eat some poor small bird! I guess bird strike can even happen at ground level with cars too... :rolleyes:

Has anyone else found anything weird like this that a snorkel/airbox combo has swallowed and found later on?

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Interesting Nick,

God_speed hit a rainbow lorikeet the other day. Shell servo attendant put the stunned bird in a box to then call WIRES.

But your one must have been on the nose?

Interesting Nick,

God_speed hit a rainbow lorikeet the other day. Shell servo attendant put the stunned bird in a box to then call WIRES.

But your one must have been on the nose?

I'm guessing that the poor bird that left this surprise for me had a very near miss with the snorkel on the car at some stage.

To be honest I thought that it was a decomposed bird but it was only feathers, no bones so hopefully the little daredevil made it through that chicken (heh) run and lived to tell his buddies about it.

I also expected someone to have made a crack about the turbo trying to suck wildlife off the roadside by now... Lol

When your turbo is this big it's bound to suck a small bird in some time.... or an emu!

yeah- and you clean it by throwing walnut shells into the compressor face... and steam to clean off the carbon stuck to the turbine before it becomes a few tooooo many kgs out of ballance.

Got flow?

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My track GTR ate one of my HKS mushroom filters, went straight past the afm and was never to be seen again, thats about the same time I stopped using HKS mushroom filters.

My track GTR ate one of my HKS mushroom filters, went straight past the afm and was never to be seen again, thats about the same time I stopped using HKS mushroom filters.

What a coincidence, almost like it was meant to be......

My track GTR ate one of my HKS mushroom filters, went straight past the afm and was never to be seen again, thats about the same time I stopped using HKS mushroom filters.

That would've looked epic for someone following behind you. Spraying fluro green or yellow foam all over the shop, would've looked like some sort of James Bond car weapon.

my car had one of them filters, when i looked at it, however, as it wasn't boxed in, it wouldn't pass RW, so the guy removed and placed the standard box in.

A little off topic, but the K&N Apollo CAI systems, are they good?, and are they legal, as in if i was to sell it, i wouldn't have to replace it with the stock box again.

airbox didnt suck it in, but i was fitting extractors to a vt commodore the other day and there was a spoon wedged down inbetween the engine mount and block.. wtf!!!

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