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Dont know if you guys read ASM (I Do) but I noticed a purple (9 Second) R33 GTR featured this month! Not only that its flying the flag with a couple of Skylines Australia stickers on the quater windows!!!

And then in the special thanks at the end he drops the website address and a little message. NICE...

David lee is the blokes name I'm not sure what his name on here though.

Have a geez anyway lads/lasses.

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SKYLVIA

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i read ASM all the time, id get a subscription if i wasnt a poor bastard! but yeh saw the 33, nice piece of machine and he got that 9.something with everything still in his car like back seats etc... didnt take anything out to get that time. seems like a nice bloke but i dont know what his SAU name is...

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hmm you sure supafly

maybe i am wrong then :)

http://members.optushome.com.au/leewah/index2.html

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ighlight=leewah

just that they are all greyed out now so i cant prove it :) though i swear it had RH9 on them :D

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RH9 were the plates on the purple R34 Vspec 2 in Sydney owned by 1 of Mario's friends. The car did a 10.8 on 2540s.

My car is a R33 midnight purple GTR with a custom Garrett high mount turbo and all the goodies to go with it. The best time so far was a 10.47 with 446rwkw. The car now has 617rwkw and we may go racing again after AutoSalon in April. My custom plates are RBDETT but I don't use those plates on the roads anymore.

As to whether it will run 9's, I don't know. We'll get out there and try at some point but I'm not really fussed anymore. The car is for sale so whoever buys it can go for it if they like.

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lol like sinista said yea if you can get that power to the ground and get a nice reaction time i cant see why you wouldnt be able to get it into the 9's. anyways gl dude its a top car.

Thanks mate. Reaction time makes no difference to the ET when we race. I could wait at the green light for 10 secs before launching and the only time which would be counted would be after I've broken the beams.

The reaction time only matters when it's a heads up race.

I just need to work more on the 60' times to bring the ET down. We have the MPH but now it's about the launching technique. It's no longer a case or rev to 8500rpm and drop the clutch. With power comes complications...

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lol 8500rpm i think my stock redline is set to what 7.500 or 8,000rpm :wassup:

Thanks mate.  Reaction time makes no difference to the ET when we race.  I could wait at the green light for 10 secs before launching and the only time which would be counted would be after I've broken the beams.

The reaction time only matters when it's a heads up race.

I just need to work more on the 60' times to bring the ET down.  We have the MPH but now it's about the launching technique.  It's no longer a case or rev to 8500rpm and drop the clutch.  With power comes complications...

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thanks for clearing it up Leewah, BTW awesome car!!! completely changed my view for r33's(except yours leigh :P) its also interesting that (in ASM) they said you bought your R33 GTR not only for power but for a comfortable and well seated car, i was suprised that you didnt buy an R34 GTR? what made you choose the R33 over the R32 or R34 GTR's?

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When I bought my GTR 3 years ago, a R33 GTR was still in the high 50k mark. The R34 GTRs were priced well over 100k.

I didn't want a 32 GTR though because the interior was lacking in comfort and the car was somewhat outdated internally. Of course the RB26 would have been the same.

I only decided to get serious on the car after reading so much about RH9 cars and I wanted to do it here. The 32 base would have been better for a race car (drag/strip) but I already had the 33 so I went with that instead.

At the time, I was essentially choosing b/w a R33 GTR and a TT Supra. I went the R b/c of the 4WD, 4 seats and a decent sized boot coz I play a fair bit of golf.

I still drive this car to golf on Sunday mornings :P

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