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After 15 year of discreet membership in this great forum, please let me introduce you my beloved BNR32, owned since one year and half.

Breaf history pictures:

The day I bought it. When I saw the panasports on it, and the wingless with only nismo lip remaining, I knew it would fit the spirit:

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On its way to paintshop for strip down and new skin:

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Out from paintshop:

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Delivered in France:
 
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Imperial mats:
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Key:
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Leather boot:

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Divided Y pipe:
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Engine bay cleaning:
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Carbon boot lip and Cusco coilovers:
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Hanami:

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RS*R equal length 70/80 front pipe:
 


New panasport G7 C5C 18X10 and AD08RS 265/35s

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Abflug front lip / as it sits now:

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EY0 Silica breath painted engine covers:

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Next planned is TOMEI turbo upgrade, along with Tomei manifolds + dump pipes, 700ccs injectors, Nismo AFMs and ECU

 

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I assumed it was being period correct.

Speaking of which I have some 90s period correct stuff I need to get out of my shed, need to sell it to the seppos.

Anyway, welcome to SAU!

18 hours ago, trel said:

Welcome! Beautiful looking R32. Good to see them in Europe.

Thank you!

15 hours ago, GTSBoy said:

Welcome. That's very nice.

Question. Are you planning to put Tomei turbos on because you think they are a good thing?

Thanks! I was searching for metal turbine turbos in order to stay safe while running slightly above 1 bar of boost (I currently have stock ceramics), and I had this opportunity on Tomei turbos, that basically are nothing more or less than -5s.

14 hours ago, Duncan said:

I assumed it was being period correct.

Speaking of which I have some 90s period correct stuff I need to get out of my shed, need to sell it to the seppos.

Anyway, welcome to SAU!

Thanks!

11 hours ago, PranK said:

Damn, looks awesome. Well done!

:welcome:

 

Thank you

10 hours ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

Sex spec!

Thanks!

17 hours ago, jibe said:

Thank you!

Thanks! I was searching for metal turbine turbos in order to stay safe while running slightly above 1 bar of boost (I currently have stock ceramics), and I had this opportunity on Tomei turbos, that basically are nothing more or less than -5s.

Thanks!

Thank you

Thanks!

T550Bs? The older M7655/M8260 are terrible even by the standards of relatively ancient stuff like the GTIII-SS/GT-SS/GT2860R/etc turbos.

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10 hours ago, jibe said:

Man, I dream about taking my car to Europe to drive there. Thanks for that!

How do you feel about driving a rare and clean GTR in France? My impression was that the French tend to not give a shit about cars. And if you park on the street expect it to dinged and bumped around a lot.

PS: That link points to this thread instead of youtube which is a bit odd.

I must recognize you are absolutely right.

It looks like in Australia, there is a massive passion for cars. In France there is a massive "I don't give a f*ck" for cars. I also confirm neither people take care of their car, neither do they with others cars. I park far aways from others as much as I can.

On the other hand, there is a car enthousiast community, discreet but strong, and there are tons of hidden gems in France, given tons of love and care by their owners. Some events like 24h of le mans, Le mans Classic, Chantilly concourse of elegance and so on are a very good opportunity to see incredible cars and meet the community, driven in street, on track, and given the love they deserve.

I also often get attention about people who know and love the GT-R, from 7 to 77 years old. 

... I also often get unpleasant remarks from lesson givers on electric scooters and electric bikes... but that's an other topic 😅

Yes what happened with the link is very weird!

I try again here

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53 minutes ago, jibe said:

I must recognize you are absolutely right.

It looks like in Australia, there is a massive passion for cars. In France there is a massive "I don't give a f*ck" for cars. I also confirm neither people take care of their car, neither do they with others cars. I park far aways from others as much as I can.

On the other hand, there is a car enthousiast community, discreet but strong, and there are tons of hidden gems in France, given tons of love and care by their owners. Some events like 24h of le mans, Le mans Classic, Chantilly concourse of elegance and so on are a very good opportunity to see incredible cars and meet the community, driven in street, on track, and given the love they deserve.

I also often get attention about people who know and love the GT-R, from 7 to 77 years old. 

... I also often get unpleasant remarks from lesson givers on electric scooters and electric bikes... but that's an other topic 😅

Yes what happened with the link is very weird!

I try again here

What a weird thing to scold people about. Don't decat your car or delete critical emissions equipment (PCV, charcoal canister) but as far as CO2 emissions go an old car driven maybe 5000 km a year is not the problem. It's rounding error compared to all the other things that climate scientists have inventoried that are actually a real problem.

Haha, it's not all great in Australia either. But Japanese imports are much more common which is nice.

What I like about Europe is that everything is somewhat close. So in theory can drive to events in France, Germany, Italy etc. But it takes coming to Australia to learn that lesson. Drive ten hours here and it doesn't get you very far :)

Definitely agree with you. 

The good news is that year after year people are better educated on this point and understand that a very old car that covers few yearly kilometers has no significant CO2 impact from craddle to grave compared to regularly renewed cars.

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