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I would go the wrx myself.

Attracts less attention and goes harder around corners.

Not to mention the re-sale is fairly good.

And being a local car your insurance company will love you.

Thats only me, i will also mention im seriously looking into a my99/00 wrx myself at the moment too.

I should have also added, a late model gtr is out of your price range obviouslly and i see an early model as going to be fairly high in cost maintenance wise, and i see an R33 GTST as just more of the same compared to what you currently have.

You obviouslly want a change or else you wouldnt be asking.

Atleast give the wrx a looking into.

My 2c is over now, this second post was just the gst content :P

cant say i rate the rex....a mate just bought one, stock except for springs and shocks and swaybars. goes hard until about 5000rpm, goes unreal through corners....but that soon gets boring...and when the tyres start to really get hot and sweaty they under steer like a pig. really boring car to drive after about 5 min.

33s are alot different to the 32s....the interior is nicer, the entire car is nicer...might not look as sporty, but overall a much nicer, user friendly car....RB25 is alot better than the RB20...good spread of torque, makes cruising nice.

R32 GTR is a different kettle of fish altogether...if you can get a clean, fairly stockish one, you shouldnt have any more problems then you will with any other car. only problem is when something does break...it will cost 3 times more than the RB20.

but then again, if you put some dished rims and a phat bodykit on the 32, put an RB25 in it, some coilovers, and some nice seats and guages. you'd feel like it was a completly different car altogether and it would be awesome too.

cheers

Linton

yeah rex's have a very low top speed coz of the stock boxer engine

R32 GTR over a rex anyday :bananaman

but if you wanna keep your 32 gts-t rather than get a 32 GTR, an engine conversion to RB30 with a few extra tricks would be awesome. You could even get an RB26 head and rocker cover setup on top of the RB30 :P, I've seen it done

-GTS-T

-RB30

-HKS GT or Garrett T04 turbo

-Power FC

-FMIC

-Boost Controller

-GTR front bonnet and grille

why goto all the effort to change all that crap to gain only 500cc ?

change the bottom end to a 3 litre, keep the same loom and sensors

prolly cost just the same, if not cheaper and its now a 3 litre instead of 2.5

why goto all the effort to change all that crap to gain only 500cc ?

change the bottom end to a 3 litre, keep the same loom and sensors

prolly cost just the same, if not cheaper and its now a 3 litre instead of 2.5

Personal choice. I would want more than $10,000 set aside for an RB30DET conversion just to be safe. There's a lot of machining and custom stuff to get the RB30 right, whereas you can almost literally "drop" the RB25DET in.

And being a local car your insurance company will love you.

got an insurance quote on your average locally delivered WRX lately? Its not that pretty..

you'd be stupid to go the r33, when you can do an engine swap and put out more power, in a better designed chasis for going fast.

R34 could be possilbe at mid-20's and feel a fair bit newer.

Anyhow, I get sick of these constant "should I??" on here.. if you don't know what you want to do yourself, why is asking anybody else going to help?

got an insurance quote on your average locally delivered WRX lately? Its not that pretty.. 

you'd be stupid to go the r33, when you can do an engine swap and put out more power, in a better designed chasis for going fast. 

R34 could be possilbe at mid-20's and feel a fair bit newer. 

Anyhow, I get sick of these constant "should I??" on here.. if you don't know what you want to do yourself, why is asking anybody else going to help?

Simple solution, stop opening the threads when it starts with should I? or vs? etc. Everyone is on here for information among other reasons, while such things might seem trivial to you, someone might not be aware of all the possibilities etc. If they don't know what they want because they don't know what they could have, what other way are they going to find out what they could have, if they don't ask someone? This information changes from month to month, you have to keep asking because old threads are meaningless (yeah get a 240z, they are great new cars with some cutting edge technology.. :)).

Depends what you want the car for?

A lot of ppl know i love the R32 GTST, and with 10K depending what is done to your car at the moment, you can have a GTST that will do low 12s on the qtr mile, lap circuits as quick as mildly modded GTRs, get +430kms per tank and be a perfectly mannered car for day to day driving.

It wont have any street cred and is a 12 year old car. The fact that you are considering spending 10K on mods suggests you are after performance, and with 10k spent in the right places there wont be many WRX in your price range that will keep up with it

Other then that i would consider keep the 10k in the bank and plod a long if your happy with the R32. There is always an awesome buy just around the corner, be it a WRX or another Skyline...just be patient and if your looking you will soon fall in love with something you come accross

r33 + mods

or r32 with rb30det

fair amount of differences tho between 93 r32 and 96 r33

:werd:

And I remember when you first got your 32 gruntn... you were heaps happy with it.. but now I guess you are bored? so its time to catch that little modding bug and mod away

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