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funny that 9 years is "old" for a modern euro car, they were sure built to last for a planned period and then be replaced by a new one. I'd stay the hell away from anything outside warranty, it would be a quick way to burn money when your $40k second hand car needs to be thrown away.

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@Shoota_77Thanks for the reply, I'd figured as much. I have been keen on one of these for a while but then decided against for the exact reasons @Duncanhas described above. Considering this one has already had $ thrown at it I am seriously looking into it.

3 hours ago, Duncan said:

funny that 9 years is "old" for a modern euro car, they were sure built to last for a planned period and then be replaced by a new one. I'd stay the hell away from anything outside warranty, it would be a quick way to burn money when your $40k second hand car needs to be thrown away.

Yeah fair point :) .  It could be worse.  You could buy a BMW and have a horrid f**king car from day one...

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36 minutes ago, admS15 said:

@Shoota_77Thanks for the reply, I'd figured as much. I have been keen on one of these for a while but then decided against for the exact reasons @Duncanhas described above. Considering this one has already had $ thrown at it I am seriously looking into it.

You will love it as long as you're aware of the downsides!  My second Audi way back in 2010 was a Q5 3.0TDI and I loved that car!  It was fast as hell and yet insanely good fuel consumption at the same time.  The SQ5 version of the 3.0L TDI engine is a whole another level of fun!  We still service heaps of them.  There's one the same vintage as the one you're looking at sitting in the carpark as we speak!

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5 hours ago, admS15 said:

Downsides you say, don't we all own Skylines... Well I have a skyline for backup when the Audi fails 😄

You're fu(#ed then if a Skyline is your reliable back up plan! 🤣🤣

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On 05/01/2023 at 12:56 PM, Shoota_77 said:

Yeah fair point :) .  It could be worse.  You could buy a BMW and have a horrid f**king car from day one...

Lol funny, I was thinking when reading through this I thought about a couple of mates BMWs when reading the "funny how a 9 year old Euro car is considered old" when I've got mates pushing late 2000s (over 12 years old :/ ) BMWs with stock almost everything harder than we'd typically not even think anything of having to replace a heap of stuff on our Skylines to be able to achieve when they were the same age.   I've got a BMW around that age and it is still farrrrr from a horrid car, best thing I've owned in every way aside from fuel consumption haha.   It's 1.5l/100k worse than my old Honda Jazz in equivalent driving conditions, but otherwise that too.

 

1 hour ago, Lithium said:

BMWs with stock almost everything harder than we'd typically not even think anything of having to replace a heap of stuff on our Skylines to be able to achieve when they were the same age.

 

Can you rephrase this? I've tried to read it a few times and can't understand if BMW is good or bad. Truthfully tho, you can't really know if a car is going to hold up to the abuse of the ages until it actually becomes old in the first place.

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17 minutes ago, Kinkstaah said:

Can you rephrase this? I've tried to read it a few times and can't understand if BMW is good or bad. Truthfully tho, you can't really know if a car is going to hold up to the abuse of the ages until it actually becomes old in the first place.

Oh wow!  Sorry, a bit sleep deprived today and I had started rewriting some of my original post and got sidetracked and managed to turn it from being hard to read into complete nonsense.   

The intention was to delete everything but the last sentence because I decided I was going too off topic, but seeing as I screwed up...  the two points that paragraph was meant to convey and got garbled:

1) I know people pushing 10+ yo BMWs with mostly stock hardware hard enough to run 130+mph traps without issue

2) When our Skylines were that kind of age we thought nothing of replacing the equivalent kind of stuff to keep them happy, and make them go quicker.  Ignition stuff, oil control, fuel bits, boost leaks. 

All par for course when playing with "special" cars - BMWs just have more sensors and flash more lights than the Skylines did when something isn't working, but helps you know something is up instead of eventually running a bearing, blowing a turbo or generally having a subpar performing setup and tends to not be a biggy if you deal with the things that need to be dealt with properly.  

Anyway, sorry - I had MEANT to make it a far more concise and less off topic post but fumbled it.

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On 05/01/2023 at 10:59 AM, Shoota_77 said:

You will love it as long as you're aware of the downsides!  My second Audi way back in 2010 was a Q5 3.0TDI and I loved that car!  It was fast as hell and yet insanely good fuel consumption at the same time.  The SQ5 version of the 3.0L TDI engine is a whole another level of fun!  We still service heaps of them.  There's one the same vintage as the one you're looking at sitting in the carpark as we speak!

This happened today and is now sitting in my driveway. 

 

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Drove it home to Melbourne from Canberra. 7 hours to get acquainted. What a wonderful piece of machinery. Smooth AF, just does things without fuss or drama. Averaged 6.9lt/100 for the trip. Not bad for a 2 ton lump.

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9 hours ago, admS15 said:

This happened today and is now sitting in my driveway.

Drove it home to Melbourne from Canberra. 7 hours to get acquainted. What a wonderful piece of machinery. Smooth AF, just does things without fuss or drama. Averaged 6.9lt/100 for the trip. Not bad for a 2 ton lump.

Awesome,  congrats!  Definitely an awesome car and you'll love it!  Wait till you see the disappointed faces of people when you leave them in your dust at the lights.  So fast for a diesel!

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Thought I'd post up some photos of my new sequential gearbox-

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Yep, the kids won, no Samsonas or PPG for me......  🙁🙁

Decided that waiting 18 months for the pool company to install my pool wasn't happening so did it all myself. Probably the most stressful thing I've done in my life. So much pressure making sure everything was perfect prior to the pool arriving.  Soooo many things to organise on the day of the pool arrival (pool itself, crane to lift it over the house, backfill material delivery, dingo delivery, water truck, guy was there getting rid of the dirt for me.  It was full on.  All ended up pretty good in the end. Not perfect but good enough!

Could have actually bought a whole additional GT-R with what all this has cost me.  Bloody kids better live in the pool for the next 5 years or I'll never forgive them.

Have done nothing on the car because this has consumed my life for the past month. Can't see myself getting back into it until late in the year once I've finished everything on the pool and surrounds. 

 

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6 hours ago, soviet_merlin said:

Holy shit, no half measures there. Nice work! The pool looks big enough you can apply for hosting the next olympics.

Yeah it was a bloody big hole!  Took 2 1/2 days just to get rid of the dirt from it!  I’m 6’8” so that gives you a good idea how deep the hole was.

The pool is 10.5m long and 4.1m at the widest point. Can’t wait for summer to enjoy it!

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11 hours ago, r32-25t said:

I can see it now, every time there’s no one in it you’ll be sitting in a dark room and looking out the window at it just filled with rage 

I’ll be sitting in the shed in my non mobile Skyline up on the hoist, peering out the window to my $90K pool completely devoid of laughing children, dreaming of the sequential gearbox that I could have been slamming through the gears on while up the hoist going nowhere….

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I need to do @Dose Pipe Sutututu and change the title of my build to something to do home renovations....

Operation GT-R pool is nearing completion.  Been a pretty full on month of hard work nearly every weekend.  Learnt a lot of new skills along the way!  Pretty happy with how it's all come along so far.  Just got the pool house put up over the weekend which was a pretty mammoth task.  It's massive overkill for what it is!  I built it with 200mm square steel posts 4m high at the front so it's monstrous!  I had to hire an excavator again to put it all up.  Putting up the front legs and the 8m long horizontal beam across the front was a bit daunting given the proximity to the house and the pool.  I had visions of dropping it and smashing the edge of the pool....

Once I've finished tightening up the frame and painting the uprights I've just got to lay the 100mm PVC stormwater pipe around the pool which will act as my drain.  It will be buried under the concrete and then I'll cut a slit into the concrete immediately above (and into) the PVC pipe which will catch the water and drain it away.  Hope it works...  I saw it on another pool but it was under tiles so they just left a gap between the tiles.  Bit trickier with a full concrete surround but I'll make it work!

 

So once that is all done, I'm REALLY hoping to get back into GT-R mode.  I know I'm ready to get back into it as I've started parts and tool accumulation again...  I had a little play on the car a few weeks ago just further working on the strut towers and smoothing them out.  Trying not to be too anal....

I keep changing my mind every 5 minutes but pretty sure I'm going full white underneath.  I've ordered the tintable Raptor this time so I can tint it matching white.  The final decision will be left till the last minute.  I've got black and tintable so can do whatever takes my fancy on the day that I get to it!

 

I've also ordered 4 metres of 4" titanium exhaust tubing....  Although it's probably going to cost me another couple of grand I'm going to redo my exhaust in full titanium apart from the mufflers/cat which are stainless.  I ordered in some titanium coupons as well to get my eye back in with the TIG.  I'm VERY tempted to get myself a new welder too.  Unimig have a new welder out now that is a proper multi use welder that does MIG and AC/DC TIG.  Still need two gas bottles but the idea of having one machine rather than 2 cluttering up my shed is pretty attractive.  Very confident I'll end up with a new one it's just whether it ends up being 2 new welders or just one.  In reality I do a LOT more MIG than TIG but still want a decent machine for both.  Especially considering the price of titanium, don't want to waste any of it because of a machine that isn't up to the task!

Another new tool I purchased which is AWESOME is the Milwaukee 12V 90 degree die grinder!  Awesome little tool.  Chews through batteries VERY quick but so much easier to use than carting around an air hose everywhere and I can use it anywhere obviously not need an air line or cord.

One of these little suckers-


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I also bought a cheap Vevor mag (magnetic) drill.  Whilst limited use (apart from all the building I've been doing) it's a bloody weapon!  It was only $325 so cheap really.  I used it to drill a 40mm hole through 20mm thick steel and it absolutely chewed through it in no time!  I'm sure I'll find more uses for it in the future to justify it's purchase!

 

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Enough of my boring waffle.  Hopefully next post is nothing to do with pools and all to do with Skylines!

Good luck with your projects guys!

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