brass button clutch?

[GTS4dood]

I went looking at skylines in sydney on the weekend with a mate as he is buyin one soon. found a nice white pearl 95 R33 with some mods. its fresh into the country and the engine bay is pretty filthy.has a full 4" exhaust and an after market computer that controls boost, turbo timer, air/fuel and all the rest from a controller in the dash. its diff' locked aswell and having a brass button clutch, and has 63,000 on the speedo. He is selling for $20,000. from these mods it sounds like it was a drift car to me. the guy selling it said that because of the brass button clutch when ya put ya foot on it,it makes a "wurring" noise, and is constant til it engages a gear. does anyone else know much bout brass button clutches cause its puttin him off a bit.

cheers, adam

[siksII]

its probably a worn bearing which is the same for any clutch, as for brass buttons, they often also can be a bit noisy when engaging, you shouldnt slip them much but when u do they often squeek a bit (i have one)

speaking in general, i would steer clear of a car as described unless your friend really knows about skylines and how to take care and fix things himself.

most imports have their odos wound back so dont take the kms seriously either, just look at the condition of the car.

[xRHETTx]

I wouldn't touch a car with a locked diff, sounds like trouble to me. How are you going to turn corners when you're driving it on the street?

[GTS4dood]

he isnt all that knowlegable bout skylines i think but is mechanically good with cars. yeah i never take the km's on these cars serious. i couldnt believe it when i saw one R32 with 23,000kms in a car yard. i laughed pretty hard. also with the diff lock, would that just cause bad tyre life? in the test drive it handled pretty well. and how much is a new diff anyway?

[aurace]

"wurring" noise would most likely be the throw out bearing as siks said - possibly due to a heavier clutch.

doing any type of slow speed or tight cornering with a locked diff is pretty uncomfortable.

[r33freely]

oh man....sounds like its half written off!!!

the noise is proberly the damage to the box caused by the button clutch wich do have a habbit of destroying gearboxes

defently stay clear of that one!!

[GTS4dood]

cheers for the responses guys. stil looking round.we'll leave that one alone. if anyone finds a nice deal on a skyline R32/R33, if u could PM me it would be greatly appreciated. looking under 20G's

cheers.

[Baz]

Look around for a R32 GTR. I'm sure if you looked properly you could find one for around 20g's or just over. Either than or just find a R32 GTS-T and bomb the hell out of it :wassup: