strange people

[chowetime]

You get to talk to all sorts of strange people when seaching for a car the best one I heard today was from a kid that sounded like he was 18 yrs old (sorry this is not meant to offend our readers) anyway with my enquiry into his R33 which sounds like it is stock with no mods on it at all he claimed that the car which he has never taken to the motorplex and has never raced can do a low 13 or even a mid 12 second pass so I thought I would ask more power questions to our obviously intellegent friend, I asked how much power has it at the wheels he guesstimated about 300hp at the wheels, on further enquiries I find that the car is running only 5psi (I am a novice here but I thought that they come from the factory with 7psi) it has no filter no I/C....

Is it because I am a female that they think I am stupid.... or too embarrassed to admit that they don' know - just be nice if people could be honest - I understand honest - nearly everyone I spoke to all people who had cars for sale had never raced there cars and I was enquiring into some fairly modified cars

[MrMayhem]

I think you already know enough to know theres some grey clouds there

what have you found so far besides the "isnt thrashed is std but goes hard fast but never raced guy"?

[Kaido_RR]

ROFL, stock 5psi and running 12second ahahah that is classic

i might be becuase your female, and they think you no nothing but most likly its cuz they know nothing and watch too much TFATF, i know a few people with import cars that think the only differences between a gtr and a gtst is the rb26

keep looking, im sure you will find something

[teejay]

did u ring mikey?

[skyzerr33]

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[ix9]

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harris?

[miss_petepie]

i loved it when i asked a friend why their POD was packed with carpet off cuts whats it meant to do? he told me i was silly and it was to help his NOS flow better because there were bigger gaps in the carpet pieces....

i couldnt help but wonder if he was serious?

[chowetime]

well I have not found too much which is a surprise as a few of my friends have said to get a different kind of car as there are too many skylines around and they are common now - not sure if there could ever be enough skylines around to make them as common as a commodore or falcon.... there have been maybe 2 cars that have caught my attention but if I had to really narrow it down I would have to say that Steve's car sounds very interesting, I am however looking at 2 cars on friday both are 1995 and have done similar klms but 1 is auto which the dealer says that it is very quick for an auto ( I do trust this guy we have bought cars from him before ) and the other is a manual which was once a auto ? both are a grade 4

so will take both for a drive and see what is what

I phoned the gentleman in Rockingham and the car is sold

I don't care really if they have raced the car because the motors in these cars are very tough and are almost a detuned version of what they could be... but again it depends on the mods that have been done a stock skyline that has been raced is a fairly good car to buy but a fully worked beasty that is running 18psi all day is going to give me a small hesitation

[ricsvtr]

if the car has a bleed valve installed which is closed off completely the boost will be 5psi. (cos the stock solenoid would have been bypassed). this is what happened on my car but now it runs at 7psi after i wound back the bleed valve a bit.

[PHATR32]

ricstr- the bleed valve has nothing to do with it. if the wastegate has a spring in it that opens at 7psi, then itll always open at 7psi.

if you want 5psi, then you need to change the wastegate spring.

steve

[ricsvtr]

The rb25 has a solenoid as standard. before a certain amount of rpm (~4500rpm) the boost is kept to 5psi and after 4500 rpm it goes to 7psi. if u have a bleed valve installed (and fully closed off) you will bypass the solenoid therefore keeping the boost at 5psi. i also thought the wastegate spring was a 7psi spring but its not. im pretty sure its a 5psi spring, the solenoid bleeds off some air after ~4500rpm to reach 7psi. i thought there was something wrong with my car when it was only running at 5psi then i found out what the story was. if u dont believe me do a search....