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Last weekend myself and AdzMax went down to Meridian Motorsport http://www.m-msport.com.au and negotiated an SAU discount for all you punters out there. The knowlegable blokes at Meridian are prepared to give 15% discount to any SAU member on a single buy (1x) or 20% discount on a group buy (5x +) All kits can come with either pushlock hose or braided lines. A 19 row sereck oil cooler and speedflow fittings (see pic) These are a generic kit and I assume will fit all model skylines. Only thing that may vary is the hose length.

Oil Cooler Kit without remote filter (Pricing based on enough hose to mount in drivers side front bar. More suited to GTST or GTT)

Blue Pushlock Hose: Retail $550, 15% $465, 20% $440

Braided Lines: Retail $650, 15% $555, 20% $520

Oil Cooler Kit with remote filter (Based on 3.5m of hose. Mounting in left side of bar. Suited to GTR)

Blue Pushlock Hose: Retail $935, 15% $800, 20% $750

Braided Lines: Retail $1025, 15% $875, 20% $825

If the car is going to be/is modified & will be used on the track more than occasionally suggest owners go with the braided line as it is far stronger & the braid will cope with more abrasion. The blue stuff does the job fine thou. Just ask Snowman. This kit is on his R34 GTR and keeps the temps under 110 all day round the track.

These kits can be easily installed yourself, but installation can be negotiated with Meridian if your not the handy type. I will be going down to Meridian on Friday or Sat morning to get the rest of my kit.

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SAU NICK...NAME...CAR...COOLER REQUIRED...PRICE...PAID

1. Scotsman, Chris, R33 GTR, Remote, Braided, 3.5m, $825 Yes

2. GTTR34, R34 ?? , Remote, Braided, 3.5m, $825, No

3. macattack, Peter, R33 GTR, Remote, Pushlock, 3.5m, $750+20 (Freight), Yes

4. AdzMax, Aaron, R34 GTT, No Remote Filter, Pushlock, 1.5m, $440, Yes

5. Bass Junky, R34 GTT, No

6. Trust R33, R33GTST, No Remote Filter,Pushlock,1.5m, $440+Frieght, Pay Meridian

7. R31Nismoid, Ash, R31, ??+Fitting, No

8. Al, Alan C, R33 Gtst, No Remote Filter, Pushlock, $440, Yes

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Excellent. Thanks Chris, I spoke to the guy at Meridian Motorsports today.. I'm down for one of these kits for sure.. I'll get the filter relocation kit with the braided lines.

What about a thermostat? is that an option?

:cheers:

Was wondering what is the shipping cost to get it down to Sydney?

so with all the discount and if a group buy goes ahead, its $825

and thats for the oil cooler braided lines etc correct?

Hey guys - just my 2 cents in here. Meridian did my set-up at the start of the year (with remote filter) and it's been working great. I'm using the blue push lock hose and fittings. This stuff isn't your average garden hose style stuff and would fully recommend it to everyone. If anyone is in Melb I'm more than happy to let you check out my set-up but honestly for what this is doing braided line is a huge over kill IMO.

Oil temps come up to the mid 80's very quickly but even after 30min flat out track session oil temps are staying around 110.

Ah great work Scoty. Was very impressed with the kits and I'll put my hand up first for a kit for my GT-T.

For all of you who are wondering why the GTSGTT kit does not use a remote filter it's becuase when we were there I trial fitted a kit to my car to get an idea where everything would go. With the location of the filter and the oil cooler mounting position there really wasnt much use in a remote filter as it offered no advantage except for a very small increase in oil volume because the factory filter position and the remote filter location would be so close. The GTS and GTT install is a LOT easier than the GTR as the cooler can sit on the same side as the oil filter so less hose is used and this shows in the kit price.

End the end it's up to you though it you want a remote filter simply add it in. I think they said it was round an extra $50 plus maybe a couple of fittings. Maybe Scotsman can confirm this?

These prices are for complete kits as we both had our cars there to work out all the partslengths needed.

A thermostat is a bit of overkill IMO as temps here unless your living in the snow arn't going to be a mojor issue plus the R34's have a heat echanger setup right before the oil filter that is used to bring it up to temp.

Any chance of seeing some photos of the engine bay?

I can arrange it - but as far as this topic goes all you will get out of the picture will be a look at the remote filter which you can see in scotmans picture anyways. The hoses come out of the bottom of the block and run under the intercooler and my oil coolers is located kinda behind my front bar on the passenger side.

You can't really see anything from the engine bay to do with the oil cooler!

Ok Q & A Time.

GTT R34 - If you definately want a thermostat then organise this with Toby @ Meridian. I think it can be done, just requires two extra fittings and the in-line thermo.

GTshorty - $825 will get you the cooler, braided lines, all fittings and remote filter.

Will find out prices for shipping to Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane.

Ferni - Fitting is not in this price, but can be negotiated with Meridian. They are expecting to fit a few for us, but would not give me an exact price for all members, because they havn't fitted one to a skyline before. Which is fair enough. But they do fit their coolers to all sorts of race cars and do have the experience to do the job. Installing the cooler is a simple job and I recommend everyone gives it a go.

The GTST/GTT people can also use the remote filter if they wish, and can even mount it in the left side also to increase their oil volume. Like wise GTR people can have no remote fileter also. The kit is customizable and is a generic. Where things are mounted and where lines run are up to you.

Just had a response from them; thought I'd post it. For the $75 extra I'll go full kit with braid. Subject to pricing on inclusion of thermostat (I may go back to Canberra which is f* cold in winter) and price on remote only (highest priority) then I'm in.

I closed the other thread. :cheers: John

One thing the gtr is really begging for is an oilcooler! I don't know why Nissan in

their wisdom failed to fit one!!!

Being in a rather hot part of Australia I would suggest you fit one - especially if

you plan on taking your car out onto the track occasionally as they will literally

cook the oil in no time!

(I can also supply engine parts - full gasket sets, rings, bearings etc)

Braded line is certainly stronger & tougher (and not prone to any road debris like

other unshielded hose is) than the blue gat hose - but it is also about twice the

price! - hence the reason I did the prices for the 2 kits.

As I told (SAU) I an uncertain on the individual hose lengths as we

have not recorded them in the past when doing a kit, but if we kit up his car I can

then cut the hoses to length. Otherwise I can ship an uncut length of hose which you

have to cut to suit your install. (this is assuming that the layout & mounting

positions for the oilcooer etc will be identical or at least very similar to his r33

gtr of course!)  

Freight via aussie post is not an issue. Express post probably the best way as we

can track it - regular post you cannot.

The oilcooler we use is a UK brand SERCK by oxford oil coolers - very well known.

The hose fittings & hoses are all aussie made speedflow. The remote filter blocks

are ones we get made ourselves from cnc machined billet 6061 t6 alloy.

The prices I did with are as follows:  

Braded line kit to suit GTR:

Retail: $1025

SAU single buy: $875

SAU Group Buy (5+ kits): $825

GAT push-lock hose kit to suit GTR:

Retail: $935

SAU single buy: $800

SAU Group Buy (5+ kits): $750

If you require any additional information please don't hesitate to ask,

Regards,

Toby Hunt  

Sales Manager  

 

Factory 7, 1-7 Friars Road,  

Moorabbin, Vic. 3189  

[email protected]  

ü m-msport.com.au

 03 9553 4200  

 03 9553 4270  

 0411 566 690

Who wants to be in a rb25det buy with me.

I imagine that being an RB2x block that the parts would be the same only the hose lengths would be different (longer for GTR). Seems to be the only difference with the units UAS sell.

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