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It looks suspiciously like what they do cars that have been written off

They strip everything, then cut the shell

Does it have tags?

What does your local rego joint say about it?

Is it even able to be registered again?

I went and check through everything at the department of transport and it all comes back clean. The other shell I have had been written off. And yes I will weld the roof at some point. image.thumb.png.905bdedf6098028413669a2f5396e72b.png

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I dont really care about if it cost more than a good condition one. I have everything planned out with costs and everything. Plus I get to make it how I want it, not how someone else likes it.

I reckon you have at least 1000 things to buy for at least $ 50 each and let's say 10 things at 500 each. That's being very wishful and imagining you can do all the labour yourself.

How does that match up against your cost estimate?

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On 08/06/2022 at 5:06 PM, PerthR33GTST said:

I dont really care about if it cost more than a good condition one. I have everything planned out with costs and everything. Plus I get to make it how I want it, not how someone else likes it.

Sounds rational.

What's your current calculations and plans for the build?

On 08/06/2022 at 5:57 PM, dyl33 said:

 

Sounds rational.

What's your current calculations and plans for the build?

Would cost me around 30 grand all up (Maybe a bit more).

Plans are:

Performance:

Built RB25 or Rb26 (Still deciding) 

HKS Turbo 

HKS Exhaust

Rays Wheels

6 Speed Manual Box

Exterior:

Top Secret Body Kit (Probably a replica as it is impossible to get original)

GTR Front End (Hood, Bumpers, Wings ect.)

Interior:

Standard apart from racing seats and Sparco Wheel.

 

On 08/06/2022 at 3:49 PM, Ben C34 said:

I reckon you have at least 1000 things to buy for at least $ 50 each and let's say 10 things at 500 each. That's being very wishful and imagining you can do all the labour yourself.

How does that match up against your cost estimate?

I think that if it was that expensive I would just buy a donor car. And I have rebuilt a subaru wrx from the ground up before so nothing I have not done before.

 

On 08/06/2022 at 8:54 PM, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

Man getting PTSD seeing that R33 in pieces, reminds me of my shit box.

I hope to see a twin scroll single turbo, with twin gates, and a Samsonas.

Yeah maybe

On 09/06/2022 at 5:38 PM, PerthR33GTST said:

Would cost me around 30 grand all up (Maybe a bit more).

Plans are:

Performance:

Built RB25 or Rb26 (Still deciding) 

HKS Turbo 

HKS Exhaust

Rays Wheels

6 Speed Manual Box

Exterior:

Top Secret Body Kit (Probably a replica as it is impossible to get original)

GTR Front End (Hood, Bumpers, Wings ect.)

You're off your head mate....

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On 09/06/2022 at 5:10 PM, BK said:

You're off your head mate....

Ok. I will be more realistic then.

RB25 DET With Mods - 10k

Interior - 1k

Body kit - 2k

Paint - 4k

6 Speed Manual - 3k

Other bits - 6k

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On 09/06/2022 at 6:49 PM, PerthR33GTST said:

Ok. I will be more realistic then.

RB25 DET With Mods - 10k

Interior - 1k

Body kit - 2k

Paint - 4k

6 Speed Manual - 3k

Other bits - 6k

It gets better with every post👌.....

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The parts alone, from a very quick guestimation will be a huge bill, the car is a shell, and unless you are building a stripped out race car without a RB enfine, dash, interior, AC, window glass and powersteering the car will end up costing current GTR money, or more, and you end up only having a tacked together GTST

Me, I would sell the panels and csll it quits

Actually, that is exactly what the previous owner did, after stripping all the good bits, till all that was left was a chopped up shell

Step back and have a good think before you drop a house deposit on it

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I'm with these guys.

There is no merit in this plan. You will go broke, and you will go broke repeatedly trying to achieve anything with this car.

The costs that you think are realistic, like $1k for an interior, are just laughable. You cannot even find most of that stuff these days, let alone all of it in one hit. Anyone who has all of it in one hit only has it because they have it in a car that is too far gone to be saleable as a car. ie, it's all f**ked. And they will still want to sell the interior bits for >>$50 each, totalling $5k. And they will be all scratched up, faded, broken and f**ked. Did I mention the f**ked part?

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Alright guys you really have no hope in me but I do agree with what your saying. I will just build up the body (All panels ect.) and Build up subframes. Then I will go from there (Either selling or continuing the build)

Man, the time to build up a skyline from a shell was 5-8 years ago when the parts where plentiful and cheap. Anyone selling anything these days thinks it's made from gold.

5 years ago I bought a complete good condition R33 interior and boot trims minus front door cards for $50. Good luck even trying to find that stuff now.

 

Anyway, please post updates and can we get an ETA of when we will see a skid vid. Thanks.

 

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