Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Im currently with HBF on my GTSt and they are really good (and more importantly, cheap), got a quote for a GTR insured for $40000 is only around the $2G mark.

Anyhow, thats not the problem, because i imported my car it requires an evaluation done by a guy the insurance company recommended, i explained to this guy how the car was an N1 and how limited numbers were made blah blah... anyhow he reckons $30G to maybe $35G?

Reckons once i get it registered it may go up to $38 depending what i do to it. The exhaust system alone is worth probably up near $6G! Anyhow enough whinging, anyone had any experience with this and know how to get the evaluation amount higher? Theres no point insuring it for $40-45 if i total it or it gets stolen and the company turns around and says... ah we only evaluated that car at $30G.

You serious? Cause the plan is to fit a Power FC. It doesn't matter much as i'll be over east in a couple of months and HBF wont insure you over there so will have to change policies. I sent a quote to Just Cars telling them the deal, see what they offer regarding insurance

Hey, well it hasn't gotten to HBF yet, still waiting to get the car finished, may have issues with the modifications. Just got a quote from just cars, they're actually cheaper, $1700 to insure for $40000. I'd probably up that amount to say $55000 if they're going to include the mods. ANyhow the excess is the thing. Standard: $300 Under 25: $300, Policy excess: $1000, mags: $700, Mods: $400, Theft: $1000. Means if my rims and tyres were stolen (value $5000 max), then i'm up for $3700 in excesses plus take a hit for my NCB.. i might give them a call and get some more info

hahaha HBF dont have a company they recommend as they cant do that cos they arent affiliated with any car valuers.. so whoever you were talking to has sent you on a goose chase.. WE DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE AS A COMPANY... personal recommendations on the other hand are fair enuff.

go to somewhere that imports them and get a valuation from them, like C-red or Extreme Machines or Autoworx etc.

get them to do a full value.. you will find your premium wont go up by much at all for the higher sum insured..

also be very careful when dodging insurance in parents names etc. or anything along those lines.. had a few dodgies already and you gotta be careful when claiming

better not to dodge at all.

anyways go get a valuation from someone WHO KNOWS WHAT THESE CARS ARE WORTH PARTICULARLY A GTR N1

how did you get ones of these anyways.. good catch

Hey Riaz,

Yeah ive decided to give HBF the arse, they recommended a bloke to do the evaluation, he didn't really have an idea even when i explained about it being a limited edition version of the GTR ($30-35G).

As for dodging them up the whole thing is legit. I have a 60%NCB and its all in my name, when i first was after an import a few years back the insurance place said to get my own bonus up as they said that those cars (skylines, zx's etc) were flagged and the accidents investigated.

As for getting the N1, was browsing the japanese auctions for about 4 months looking for a grade 4 or better GTR V-spec in black with a few "compliance friendly" mods when an N1 popped up, few phone calls and i put the bid in but didn't expect to get it, in the end got it for less than some of the standard v-specs i'd been bidding on. Whats better is it turns up with a huge stainless turbo back exhaust, stainless manifold, HID lights and a few other goodies that weren't on the auction sheet, made getting it complied more tricky though.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • The average previous owner for these cars were basically S-chassis owners in the US. Teenagers or teenager-adjacent. I often tell people that neglect is easier to fix than something that was actively "repaired" by previous owners.
    • Update 3: Hi all It's been a while. Quite a lot of things happened in the meantime, among other things the car is (almost) back together and ready to be started again. Things that I fixed or changed: Full turbo removal, fitting back the OEM turbo oil hardlines. Had to do quite a bit of research and parts shopping to get every last piece that I need and make it work with the GT2860 turbos, but it does work and is not hard to do. Proves that the previous owner(s) just did not want to. While I was there I set the preload for the wastegates to 0,9bar to hopefully make it easier for the tuner to hit the 370hp I need for the legal inspections that will follow later on. Boost can always go up if necessary. Fitted a AN10 line from the catch can to the intake hose to make the catchcan and hopefully the cam covers a slight vacuum to have less restrictive oil returns from the head and not have mud build up as harshly in the lines and catch can. Removed the entire front interior just shy of the dashboard itself to clean up some of the absolutely horrendous wiring, (hopefully) fix the bumpy tacho and put in LED bulbs while I was there. Also put in bulbs where there was none before, like the airbag one. I also used that chance to remove the LED rpm gauge on the steering column, which was also wired in absolute horror show fashion. Moved the 4in1 Prosport gauge from sitting in front of the OEM oil pressure gauge to the center console vents, I used a 3D printed vent piece to hold that gauge there. The HKB steering wheel boss was likely on incorrectly as I sometimes noticed the indicator reset being uneven for left vs. right. In the meantime also installed an airbag delete resistor, as one should. Installed Cube Speed premium short shifter. Feels pretty nice, hope it'll work great too when I actually get to drive. Also put on a fancy Dragon Ball shift knob, cause why not. My buddy was kind enough to weld the rust hole in the back, it was basically rusted through in the lowermost corner of the passenger side trunk area where the wheel arch, trunk panel and rear quarter all meet. Obviously there is still a lot of crustiness in various areas but as long as it's not rusted out I'll just treat and isolate the corrosion and pretend it's not there. Also had to put down a new ground wire for the rear subframe as the original one was BARELY there. Probably a bit controversial depending on who you ask about this... but I ended up just covering the crack in the side of the engine block, the one above the oil feed, with JB Weld. I used a generous amount and roughed up the whole area with a Dremel before, so I hope this will hold the coolant where it should be for the foreseeable future. Did a cam cover gasket job as the half moons were a bit leaky, and there too one could see the people who worked on this car before me were absolute tools. The same half moons were probably used like 3 times without even cleaning the old RTV off. Dremeled out the inside of the flange where the turbine housing mates onto the exhaust manifolds so the diameter matches, as the OEM exhaust manifolds are even narrower than the turbine housings as we all know. Even if this doesn't do much, I had them out anyways, so can't harm. Ideally one would port-match both the turbo and the manifold to the gasket size but I really didn't feel up to disassembling the turbine housings. Wrapped turbo outlet dumps in heat wrap band. Will do the frontpipe again as well as now the oil leak which promted me to tear apart half the engine in the first place is hopefully fixed. Fitted an ATI super damper to get rid of the worn old harmonic balancer. Surely one of the easiest and most worth to do mods. But torquing that ARP bolt to spec was a bitch without being able to lock the flywheel. Did some minor adjustments in the ECU tables to change some things I didn't like, like the launch control that was ALWAYS active. Treated rusty spots and surface corrosion on places I could get to and on many spots under the car, not pretty or ideal but good enough for now. Removed the N1 rear spats and the carbon surrounding for the tailpipe to put them back on with new adhesive as the old one was lifting in many spots, not pretty. Took out the passenger rear lamp housing... what do you know. Amateur work screwed me again here as they were glued in hard and removing it took a lot of force, so I broke one of the housing bolts off. And when removing the adhesive from the chassis the paint came right off too. Thankfully all the damaged area won't be visible later, but whoever did the very limited bodywork on this car needs to have their limbs chopped off piece by piece.   Quite a list if I do say so myself, but a lot of time was spent just discovering new shit that is wrong with the car and finding a solution or parts to fix it. My last problem that I now have the headache of dealing with is that the exhaust studs on the turbo outlets are M10x1.25 threaded, but the previous owner already put on regular M10 nuts so the threads are... weird. I only found this out the hard way. So now I will just try if I can in any way fit the front pipe regardless, if not I'll have to redo the studs with the turbos installed. Lesson learned for the future: Redo ALL studs you put your hands on, especially if they are old and the previous owners were inept maniacs. Thanks for reading if you did, will update when the engine runs again. Hope nothing breaks or leaks and I can do a test drive.
    • No those pads are DBA too  but they have colors too. I look at the and imo the green "street" are the best.
    • I’m not sure what happened I told them about sonic tunes free OTS tune and the next the I know .. I was booted..   To funny 
×
×
  • Create New...