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15 hours ago, Hella_GTR said:

Deposit placed! Stoked! Thanks all for helping me in this competitive bncr33 market here in Japan! I'll update you with my own photos in the near future! 

YES! Well done. I don't think you will be disappointing, that car looked amazing. Keep us up to date... I'd love to hear the full story if you do go ahead. :D

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48 minutes ago, BakemonoRicer said:

Hella you have the same illuminated skyline rear garnish as me lol

So at first I was confused as I use the word garnishes for food lol. So I Google'd it and does that mean our rear skyline plate illuminates when the lights are on? It looks like it's a very rare factory option. That is actually really awesome and would be an unexpected treat! Can you tell by the look of that panel? Either way now I'm more stoked to see this car in person once it gets shipped. It's all paid for now just doing the paper work here from a Kanji plate to a Y license plate is quite cumbersome. The whole process takes a couple weeks. I'm debating now to leave it alone or get some black or matte black nismo lmgt4 wheels and some suspension ?

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On 8/23/2019 at 7:53 PM, Hella_GTR said:

So at first I was confused as I use the word garnishes for food lol. So I Google'd it and does that mean our rear skyline plate illuminates when the lights are on? It looks like it's a very rare factory option. That is actually really awesome and would be an unexpected treat! Can you tell by the look of that panel? Either way now I'm more stoked to see this car in person once it gets shipped. It's all paid for now just doing the paper work here from a Kanji plate to a Y license plate is quite cumbersome. The whole process takes a couple weeks. I'm debating now to leave it alone or get some black or matte black nismo lmgt4 wheels and some suspension ?

Most of the point of the VSpec is the suspension and A-LSD. Not much else to write home about. If you do go with coilovers I would suggest the Ohlins Road & Track.

Yo Josh,


Totally know what you mean.  I'm leaning towards the Ohlins with the rubber top hat bushings (don't know if you read into my R34 JRZ issues on this forum), but there's only one distributor here in Japan.  I need to check availability.  The spring rates area  bit soft for my liking but maybe they can customize them.  Japanese dampers are easier to get here and have more support (obviously), like the HKS Hypermax.  I know they probably suck on the road though. But finding support for my JRZ's from the Netherlands here was really difficult and time consuming.  If i didn't have a horrible experience last time, I'd get JRZ's again as they're just amazing when working properly. 

16 minutes ago, Hella_GTR said:

Yo Josh,


Totally know what you mean.  I'm leaning towards the Ohlins with the rubber top hat bushings (don't know if you read into my R34 JRZ issues on this forum), but there's only one distributor here in Japan.  I need to check availability.  The spring rates area  bit soft for my liking but maybe they can customize them.  Japanese dampers are easier to get here and have more support (obviously), like the HKS Hypermax.  I know they probably suck on the road though. But finding support for my JRZ's from the Netherlands here was really difficult and time consuming.  If i didn't have a horrible experience last time, I'd get JRZ's again as they're just amazing when working properly. 

If you follow Aki's blog at all Ohlins are definitely the way to go. They are quite stiff already, there is more to suspension than raw spring rate. For bumpy roads excessively high spring rates will cause the car to have worse characteristics. Nismo uses Ohlins DFVs for their N-Attack Pack and CRS package so I think the dampers + springs are well validated.

Yeah I'm fully aware there's more to suspension than spring rates.  Have you ever tried JRZ's RS two-ways or motorsport line?  They're on another level than ohlins, but they also cost more. They're also rebound and compression adjustable.  The 3-ways are awesome too but get a bit complicated to set up.  The beauty with good dampers is you can use stiff spring rates but still have a comfortable ride.  Poorer quality dampers can't do this so they use softer rates or just give you a harsher ride.  I ran ohlins in my BRZ several years ago and they couldn't compete with JRZ at all but I believe that was before Ohlins implemented their DFV technology.  8k springs just seem a bit soft to me for occasional track use. But ohlins are probably good for bang for the buck.  I hear Aragosta's are similar to JRZ since one of the JRZ founders split off from JRZ and made Arogosta.  I don't know why I'm advocating for JRZ when their top hats made a ton of noise on my r34.  They did eventually agree to make new top hats for me but it was too late by then.

http://www.jrzsuspension.com/rs-two-sport.html

Let me check out this Aki's blog page though.  This is the first time I've heard of this.

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8 minutes ago, joshuaho96 said:

r33gt-r.com is his blog. A lot of interesting background on the R33, various mods, etc. He's currently a lawyer at Nissan so he's slowed down on the posts but it's been pretty interesting through the years.

Oh wow I did run into his blog in my google search about wheels for my r33.  Ok now I see his entire blog.  uggh I want those Nismo lmgt4 wheels but $$$.  Thanks for sharing man.

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