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Hello friends! Just signed up again because my old profile might be dead or too complicated to restore. I am an old user from 2000's back in the hey day. I sold the S15 and fell off the band wagon.. now back again after buying my forever 34. Proud owner of a fresh import R34 GTT. So now the build begins.

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Thanks buddy, so happy to be back! Managed to pickup a Unicorn R34 completely stock and clean. Looking forward to adding some goodies to it and posting one here. I'm shocked that so many forums stopped. If you could find my old profile - I'd love that if its possible. My old account was JET200GT. My email might need to be fixed too. To use this one. I think it was the same though..

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I bought it for a forever car bud. Was really lucky. It's one owner and kept fully serviced and immaculate. Kills me to modify it but will keep it to the engine and GB only. Body will stay stock and intend to keep all the parts. It's a Silver with factory Altia kit. My mate and I are building it together in the garage. It's currently an auto and just bought new manual GB and parts from Michael at Kudos. They've been great. 

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On 19/05/2025 at 7:10 PM, Shizu said:

I bought it for a forever car bud. Was really lucky. It's one owner and kept fully serviced and immaculate. Kills me to modify it but will keep it to the engine and GB only. Body will stay stock and intend to keep all the parts. It's a Silver with factory Altia kit. My mate and I are building it together in the garage. It's currently an auto and just bought new manual GB and parts from Michael at Kudos. They've been great. 

That's awesome. Fully serviced/full log book history for one of those cars is super rare from what I know. With JDM's like Skyline's, Supras, are quite hard to find one with full log book history. S15's seem to be somewhat of an exception, at least the spec s australian delivered models.

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On 12/05/2025 at 6:25 PM, Shizu said:

Hello friends! Just signed up again because my old profile might be dead or too complicated to restore. I am an old user from 2000's back in the hey day. I sold the S15 and fell off the band wagon.. now back again after buying my forever 34. Proud owner of a fresh import R34 GTT. So now the build begins.

Welcome back mate ,I also joined in the early 2000's , since then I have been in and out a few times depending if I had a skyline in the garage.  I have the another one now , so signed up and back with the SAU team.

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On 19/05/2025 at 7:10 PM, Shizu said:

I bought it for a forever car bud. Was really lucky. It's one owner and kept fully serviced and immaculate. Kills me to modify it but will keep it to the engine and GB only. Body will stay stock and intend to keep all the parts. It's a Silver with factory Altia kit. My mate and I are building it together in the garage. It's currently an auto and just bought new manual GB and parts from Michael at Kudos. They've been great. 

Did you pick up a manual cluster to remove the position indicator? 

(Pretty sure the 34 has the gear position in the cluster, but it's been a while)

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20 hours ago, The Bogan said:

I haven't owned a Skyline for probably 10 years, but I still frequent here to babble about wasting money on other cars....and stuff

Good times

I mean, most of us just love cars.

Doesnt necessarily have to be a skyline.

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I havent bought a manual cover for the dash yet and no cluster change, won't bother me too much, I just need to get that auto box gone, manual in! I miss my manual. 🤪. We started last weekend and managed to get the box out. Planning to start putting it in this weekend and then order a single piece tail. We were super careful to take time and not damage anything. It's my first time working under the car.  With my S15 mainly worked in the bay. This time, it was a headache because of three or four bolts only. They simply didnt want to leave thei homr and the one securing the tailshaft, another above the GB, and the one securing the lipstick was a shit. Mates mate, Davo caught fire 🤣, nearly opened his chest up with a grinder 🤦🏽‍♂️ and both mates nearly had a plate from the box land and slit their head open. Fun times. We all survived. Not the easiest working with limited access on jackstands. As I'm sure we can agree these are the memories which make us love our car. For all three of us, was an awesome weekend and Sunday 3.30am before tools down was a fantastic effort. I need to upload pics, but looks like it needs to be via Url now. We used to be able to just upload pics back in the day. It's been that long! 🤪

Im currently spraying rustoleum under body, not because it's rusted. It's super clean, but just so it's protected for the next 10 years. There was a few surface rust spots. Which pretty much wiped off with a 3M scourer. 

Really impressed with how well the previous owner maintained it.

Bank account went down so quick! Service, then GB - managed to get a spanking new 34 genuine box from Nissan. All the rest of the conversion parts from Kudos. 

Went with a Nismo short shifter. New pedals and Exedy Clutch and FW.

Ordered the Prp Rear Main Retainer kit which should arrive Friday and my first engine mod part just like I did with my S15 will be the Tomei Expreme Turbo Outlet. Already on order. It'll likely sleep next to me on a pillow during the coming months. 🥰

Last build was on my JET200GT profile and on SAU and Hardtuned I had documented the build. Planning to try to do that again.

Brands feel scarce now. Wish we still had ARC and Apexi parts readily available.

Exhaust - need some advice on this. I had an Apexi exhaust on the S15 and loved the tone. My mate had a HKS HP Silent on his 33 and suggested I go with that to avoid drone. I can't remember hearing an RB25DET running that so will likely need to wait for a meet or something to hear it. 

Not after big power, just enjoy building it, and drivability with minimal negative attention.

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5 hours ago, Shizu said:

I need to upload pics, but looks like it needs to be via Url now. We used to be able to just upload pics back in the day. It's been that long!

Nah, new members can't post pics until they reach a certain post count. If I get a chance I'll promote you to full member, if @Prank or someone else doesn't get there first.

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1 hour ago, GTSBoy said:

Nah, new members can't post pics until they reach a certain post count. If I get a chance I'll promote you to full member, if @Prank or someone else doesn't get there first.

Thanks buddy. I thought it was a server storage thing. 🤣

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1 hour ago, Shizu said:

Thanks buddy. I thought it was a server storage thing. 🤣

Nah its a server spammer thing :) Although, now that I manually approve all the accounts I can probably loosen up some of the restrictions.

 

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