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20 minutes ago, TurboX said:

Find my old R32 GTS-4 "TURB06"  I put $50K+ into it - Although a RB20 it also had RB26 possibilities as per import VIN - lost track of it 15 years ago after selling for $11K in perfect condition...  😞 😞

 

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Ooo that’d be ace. I sold my previous GTS4 for $8k - had an HKS 2530 and some tasteful mods. Still spewing about it. I should’ve kept it.

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Always seems like the right thing to do at the time.....  but most of us seem to regret it later on by many peoples posts. I certainly do with the much modded GTS-4 out of all the cars I have sold including my Merc CLK AMG55, 996 Turbo Porsche, Bmw 6, but I have kept my most loved, 1969 AMC Javelin and 82 Mits Starion I have passed on to my son recently for his teen son. Will be keeping the Audi TTRS for a while though!

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I'd love a neat 32 as a daily... but the count is 2 attempts to steal my car. Makes me nervous leaving them anywhere these days

 

I want to find a rough ex drift shell song can go race in Super TT with Ryan in his 370Z

 

Keep the GTSt, I have spare Racepace Tein RAs, RB20 Power FC. HKS 80mm exhaust that I can almost give you...lol all these parts are why I want a daily GTSt

On 8/9/2024 at 3:36 PM, Roy said:

I'd love a neat 32 as a daily... but the count is 2 attempts to steal my car. Makes me nervous leaving them anywhere these days

 

I want to find a rough ex drift shell song can go race in Super TT with Ryan in his 370Z

 

Keep the GTSt, I have spare Racepace Tein RAs, RB20 Power FC. HKS 80mm exhaust that I can almost give you...lol all these parts are why I want a daily GTSt

Could never daily a 32. So easy to pull the window back and open the door. I only take mine where I’ll always have line of sight visibility - which is a bit sad. Plus my SQ5 goes faster and makes more power than a stock GTR so I daily that - with seat warmers and massagers.

I’ve got a full GTR front swap and so many spare bits for a 32 in the garage that I just never got around to selling - looking for a fixer upper to put them all on. The ones in oz are too expensive for what they are and the ones in Japan are too bottom of the barrel.

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  • 9 months later...

Soooo I may have purchased another car from NZ :D

It has Nissan motorsport pedigree... and if I like it, I might be selling the 32 (or my Golf) to buy another one to take IPRA racing.

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16 hours ago, soviet_merlin said:

For some reason the photos aren't loading...?!

Seller is holding the car for me with a deposit until I can fly back to Auckland to check it out.

It’s a 2L Nissan AWD ;)

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40 minutes ago, GTSBoy said:

Navara? :P

If it's a Bluebird, I might throw up in my mouth a little.

Close. Not quite. You’re on the right track. It’s a super obscure car that not many people in Australia own or would’ve even heard of.

A hint: it was developed to dominate a gaijin racing championship.

33 minutes ago, soviet_merlin said:

Huh, a racing spec Primera? :O 

Brings back memories from Toca Race Driver. Love pretty much all those touring cars. Though I thought they were FWD so maybe not.

Winner winner chicken dinner!

an Autech P11 Primera AWD wagon with a CVT and more importantly an SR20VE.

I’ll drive it around for a bit and see if I like it, and look at getting a FWD sedan to go BTCC inspired build and to get seat time in IPRA and Super sprints under the 2L NA class.

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6 minutes ago, MBS206 said:

Soit needs more turbo, and more manual. Either that or a few spare packs of rubber bands?

I’ll drive it a bit but there’s an Audi RS3 DSG kit available for it if I want to go all out - or GTiR box

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9 hours ago, niZmO_Man said:

From my youth: GTi-R clutch change is a massive pain. The gearboxes are fragile? But the car is super cool and I want one 😢 

Yeah, hard to find and a pain in the ass to change with the transverse engine. I’ve worked on a GTiR before and it’s not a job I’d ever want to do again.

theres a company in South Africa that makes RS3 gearbox adaptors for the AWD SR20 including gearbox mounts, so I could modernise it and go a dual clutch with paddles.

For now tho, it ticks all the boxes. Super cheap, can throw the kids and their junk in the back, and SR20 that I can turbo cheaply, a CVT that’s not a dog’s breakfast like the V35, and has 80% interchangeable parts with stuff I can source from the wreckers cheaply…. But it’s still unique. I love the wagon back of the Autech version.

It’s cheap enough that I can buy another stock manual FWD Primera with SR20VE, swap the gearbox to the N15 pulsar short gear ratio box, swap out the brakes to the R32 ones I pulled off my 32, register it on club plates and take it racing. $1300 shipping from NZ. Heaps of parts and aftermarket builders for transverse SR20’s in NZ.

They ran them in Oz Super Tourers too

https://www.supertouringregister.com/register/vehicle/212/

(I'm so old I remember racing with Matthew Fox)

They ran them in Oz Super Tourers too

https://www.supertouringregister.com/register/vehicle/212/

(I'm so old I remember racing with Matthew Fox)

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