Off-Topic Thread...

some of you requested better pictures of the new wheels on the car. they are 18x8.5" in the front and 18x9.5" in the rear. 245/40/18 up front and 275/35/18 around back. i am going to try and get a shot of the rear of the car from underneath, just to put it in persective how wide these rear tires are. :D

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/3244/picture0069vv.th.jpg (http://img85.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture0069vv.jpg)
if you notice, my DD is in the background on this picture. it all about boost!!! :lol:
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1772/picture0073wd.th.jpg (http://img85.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture0073wd.jpg)

Where did you get the clear-sides in the rear, Jason?

Looks good, K3.

Yea, you're going away for a long time, Yaggus, but I know you'll figure it out. Packing light becomes more and more important the longer you're gone.

They don't get cool stuff in Austrailia?

just had to get the gtp in there didn't ya k3.. wheels look pimps tho.. i still say you should take em off so you don't scuff one of em up accidentally

ooo...daddy likey... (http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?car_id=183735512&dealer_id=56425832&car_year=1986&search_type=both&make=NISSAN&distance=0&model=300ZXTURBO&address=41091&certified=&advanced=&max_price=&min_price=&end_year=1989&start_year=1986&isp=y&lang=en&cardist=262)except the wing...

Looks like that hugely tall Stillen Z32 wing on there.

just had to get the gtp in there didn't ya k3.. wheels look pimps tho.. i still say you should take em off so you don't scuff one of em up accidentally
i didnt mean too. it happened to get in there and then i recognized it after i already posted the picture. eh...i have another year and a half before it will be worth trading on or selling.

they shouldnt get scuffed just sitting.

anyways, thanks fellas...i do like them, much better than the others.

you never know, you could drop a part as you're bringing it up to put in the car... anyway, as for that z31, i don't see how he's claiming 300hp with intake exhaust and a boost controller... hopefully there's more than meets the eye or i feel the pain for that motor...

dude k3 the wheels look great
and that wing on the Z31 is terrible

That wing is pretty God Aweful.

Yea...intake, exhaust and a BC can get you NEAR 300hp in a Z31 and still be reliable. He's probably exaggerating, but most people do...this should be expected. It's still pretty fast, I'm sure.

man i really don't like that color... wait... *looks at sig* oh shit.. lol... naw, i dunno it just looks weird on that car for some reason.. and he's got the DAMN huge tach in it... man i hate those things... those weels look alright tho, i'd still take mine however :sunglasse

hey guys check it out.. it's the new and improved 300zx RS-R :rolleyes:

http://www.canadatrader.com/result/detailinfo.aspx?ID=12827190&pgno=5&srt=7

They don't get cool stuff in Austrailia?

Not till about a year after its been released everywhere else :disappoin

Fuck...!

wheels looks good on the z32 man i like em....

Z32 RS-R? What the hell is that bull shit?

That Z31 is pretty nice. The only thing I REALLY didnt like was the wing, but I didn't look at the interior. Those tachs are fuckin gay-bob-central.

They think because it has an RS-R Exhaust system... It makes it a Z32 RS-R :rolleyes:

Anyway, I got my Individual Throttle Bodies for the Shitvic tonight. Larry (Top Honda mechanic around) and I were going over the tune, and what to expect.

He says, with his CROME/überdate tune, I can expect a 28whp-30whp increase on my SOHC VTEC :eek:

If I compliment that with a ZEX Stage I Camshaft... I'd be looking at close to 50whp added all together just with that set-up.

I figure until the B18 is all built... I'll have some fun with the SOHC for a while. I can't wait to get these things on :evillol:

-Wes

Wow...that's not too bad...especially for a SOHC 4 banger. That's technology for ya...

And I bet you'll still be getting 35 mpg on the highway...

huh... *runs to plumbing store, makes mbc for $15* *unbolts exhaust at cat* *pulls off air box/filter assembly* well there's 50 rwhp right there.... :D

just kidding man, that's pretty impressive for such a small engine... i'd hate to see what it'd do for a vg..

mother of god... now those are some wide tires.... anyone know who's car this is? lotsa stuff from z1 on there and the kit looks very similar to sean wagner's widebody zed...

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Nissan-300ZX-TT-Widebody-450rwhp-17psi-forged-wheels-big-turbos-new-motor-5-spd_W0QQitemZ4564920144QQcategoryZ6398QQrdZ1QQcmdZ ViewItem#mainImage

mother of god... now those are some wide tires.... anyone know who's car this is? lotsa stuff from z1 on there and the kit looks very similar to sean wagner's widebody zed...

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Nissan-300ZX-TT-Widebody-450rwhp-17psi-forged-wheels-big-turbos-new-motor-5-spd_W0QQitemZ4564920144QQcategoryZ6398QQrdZ1QQcmdZ ViewItem#mainImage

yeah it is the Z1 wide-body kit...the only difference between sean wagners and the rest of them, is that sean molded the wings west side skirts into the wide body kit. and he used a different front bumper. i forgot what front bumper he used and i dont feel like looking up a picture.

HA...I have a couple pics of that car saved on my computer! It's actually my wallpaper right now!

To make my computer a bit more unique looking, I have a program on my computer that removes all the desktop icons and another program that cycles the wallpaper every so often. I put the shortcuts for all the programs I use in a quick launch bar which is docked on the top of my screen. I have over 110 pics of various stuff saved on here...mostly cars...and that car pops up on here every day or two. When you look at my desktop, all you see is the wallpaper, the task bar on the bottom and the quick launch bar on the top. Makes it look much cleaner and the wallpaper is always changing...and all the software was FREE...:biggrin:

I'd give my right nut for that car in a heart beat. If I were to build a Z32TT, THAT'S what I'd be aiming for...

Dude... If it was a bit cheaper, I would definately jump on that. That car is Fucking beautiful.

As for the ITB's... I didn't beleive it at first (When he told me how much power they add) until I watched the video of my buddies 1999 EX Civic with the same set-up.

The Dyno'd it before, and after... 28whp added. Just like he said :eek:

He now has a Crower Camshaft, Skunk2 Valvetrain, JE/Eagle bottom end, fully rebuilt engine. After the break-in was done, they dyno'd it again. Yikes... Let's just say I'm thinking of sticking with my SOHC now :lol:

-Wes

... Fuck my face hurts...

I went and got my wisdom teeth out yesterday. My face is busy blowing up so i look like a chipmonk. The anesthetic is busy wearing off right now and now its really starting to hurt. My gums are really swollen behind my molars so i cant shut my mouth or open it properly either.

Fuck this sucks. :(

... Fuck my face hurts...

I went and got my wisdom teeth out yesterday. My face is busy blowing up so i look like a chipmonk. The anesthetic is busy wearing off right now and now its really starting to hurt. My gums are really swollen behind my molars so i cant shut my mouth or open it properly either.

Fuck this sucks. :(

Hey...at least you get some good pain killers...yummy...lol...

yeah i can't wait till i get mine done :rolleyes: it's going to be a blast

lol...I'm actually very lucky. All my teeth came in straight...even my wisdom teeth. Now...if only my eyes were as good as my teeth, I'd be good to go...I'm EASILY legally blind without my contacts...for real...my eyes are REALLY bad. lol

well i guess i was real lucky then...

i only had to get my bottom left wisom tooth pooled and i was born with 20/20 vision. suckers!!! :lol:

now if i could only get my pitching arm fixed. 80+mph fast balls, major league curve balls, and pitching 7 innings every other game at age 16 equals severe case of tendinitis...i have holes in my arm where tendons are supposed to be. :nono:

yeah i can't wait till i get mine done :rolleyes: it's going to be a blast

To be honest, mine arent as bad as i was expecting. I was fully expecting to be in much more pain than i am now. Thank god for panadine forte... But its still not exactly a fun experience

well fuck, im getting all 4 of my wisdom teeth taken out the 16th

I got mine out a while back... Not as bad as everyone said it was going to be. The worst part was that I couldn't grub down on Taco Bell for a few weeks :lol:

I hate Jello now, as well...

-Wes

lol...I'd make the best of it somehow. Screw jello...make some jello shots...lol

BWAHAHAHA :lol:

That reminds me of one joke that Ron White told

"If life's giving you Lemons... Make Lemonade. Then find someone that life's giving Vodka... And have a party" :lol:

Anyway, has anyone heard of a band called "Paint By Numbers"? They're from Portland, Oregon. They're on the same lable as Jimmy Eat World, and a few other big bands.

Well I was walking on the beach tonight smoking a Cohiba Churchhill (Long Ass day... Had to wind down a bit), I saw a tour bus parked in the parking lot, and I heard this awesome accoustic music coming from the beach.

I walked down and listened for about 10 minutes, and they finished the song, and we got to talking. They're a pretty Damn good band. Has anyone heard of them?

-Wes

not i

not i...damn local bands!!!

They're from Portland, Oregon. By the way, Jason... Check your PM.

-Wes

lol, I think you're all alone on this one buddy...

Yea guess so, haha :lol:

-Wes

so, who wants to come over and finish my car??? cash is in hand :lol:

Got in over your head, did you? :lol:

Aaaaand guess what's in the mail guys... Sparco Sprint Racing Seat with Slider and Bracket, Comp Cams Stage II Camshaft, Skunk2 Adjustable Camshaft Gear, Fidanza 8.5lb Flyhwheel, Fidanza 200hp Axels, Motor Mount inserts (Stiffen Engine up nicely, reduces wheel hop), Hoosier 14x8x20 Racing Slicks... And... VENOM VCN-1000 Electronic Nitrous Injection :evillol:

I went kind of crazy the past couple of days... But expect 13 Second passes soon.

-Wes

Got in over your head, did you? :lol:

-Wes

nah...i am just tired of working on it and id rather pay someone to do the rest of the easy stuff. all of the hard stuff is out of the way, now its just the tedious troubleshooting, wiring, and hosing deals...these are the kinds of things that make me take lots of medicine. :lol:

like i said, the only things i have left are listed:

-run all vacuum hoses (huge pain in the a**, re-check, re-check)
-splice in injector wiring harnesses
-splice new coil pack plugs
-re configure the radiator mounts to fit taller TT radiator
-install TT AC condensor
-finish driver's side intercooler piping and custom brackets
-run wiring for clutch depress switch (damn wiring schematics are impossible to read)
-re install front fascia
-install starter and slave cylinder
-install boost controller
-fill with fluids
-start the car, break in the car and check over for bugs and leaks
-take it to local track and pull 12 second passes :evillol:

as you can see...it is just a bunch of figuring out, drawing board, and tedious crap. nothing difficult or full of labor...just tired of doing it.

I'll help ya out Jason... just shoot me a PM, and I'll be down there in a jiffy, besides I need to go on a road trip ne ways :loser:

yeah man, pay for my plane ticket and convince my boss to give me the time off and i'll be there with bells on

on another note... saw another skyline yesterday... that's 2 i've seen in the flesh... it was an r32 gts-t (i think)... silver with a few mods on it... from the next province over so i'm guessing it was imported by my friends at importconcern.ca...

yeah man, pay for my plane ticket and convince my boss to give me the time off and i'll be there with bells on


I'd be there in a second, too.

how hard is it to import cars there? It's a BITCH AND A HALF here.

Damn, Wes...what do you do for a living, man? You must have dropped 10G on aftermarket stuff.

Paint by Numbers...no...never heard of them. What kind of music is it?

mmm...Cohiba...now I wanna go pick up a good Monticristo...my favorite cigar...

lol I saw a skyline too yesterday, while i was on a food run for my work... I wasn't sure if it was, but than I took a double look, and almost pulled out of the parking lot trying to see if he wanted to race, but I figured that I'd better get the guys their food, otherwise I'd get an ass kicking. It was a nice sight tho. Myabe it's just me, but does ne one else think that the acura legend's front end kinda looks like a skyline's front end???

http://www.baetech.com/Pictures/JH4KA8264RC001412.jpg

http://kaikotekisyouwasyaya.hp.infoseek.co.jp/R32sale/PC192026.JPG
r32
http://www.e-aero.jp/aeroparts/m-piece/img/R33mp01.jpg
r33
http://www.monkys.jp/e/img/600DSC0000001.jpg
r34

depends what year of skyline and legend you're talking about.... either way i don't think it's THAT similar...

as for importing cars here... it's just like buying from a used dealership as long as you go through a good company... they'll do everything for you up to the point where it's legal to register and insure in canada.. you just need to get an 'out of province' inspection done on it and you're golden...

I think the fronts of the GT-R R32 or R33 look damn near dead on the Legend...maybe it's just me. I've never actually seen a Skyline, but I'd like to. Only ever seen pics and cars usually don't look the same in person. Like...I liked the new Eclipse in pics but hated it when I saw it in person...the stance of it is goofy, but it looks killer on tv and in pics. Go figure.

I always wanted to live in Canada. In general, you guys seem more sane up there for some reason. Americans are largely crazy...gangs and school shootings and all that stupid bull shit. Never hear about any of that up there. Don't know if it's cuz I don't live there or if it's actually less common up there.

The movie "Bowling for Columbine" portrayed Canada in a good way. But...you have to take his movies with a big grain of salt, too...so...

yeah, i never really liked eclipses... but i think i've elaborated enough on that enough times... lol

yeah, canada is a great place to live, everyone's pretty cool up here... not too many nutters... weather's usually pretty good... well... if you like winter i guess :p. but yeah, i'd say it's one of the better places to live in the world... but if anyone ever decides to come here, the west is the best place to be.. preticularly vancouver if you like the big city deal.

[img]http://www.monkys.jp/e/img/600DSC0000001.jpg
r34



BAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!

thats actually a 2nd series R33 skyline :loser: To be fair it is sporting R34 wheels on it :p

If i had to live somewhere else in the world it would be either New Zealand or Canada. Hooray for the Commonwealth!!!

Australia, Canada and New Zealand are pretty similar though. We pretty much think along the same lines, we share the same sort of principals and concerns and stuff... Not to say that no one else does but to me it seems that Australian's and Canadian's seem to be more closely related.

i was thinking about moving to canada in the future. distant future...it does seem alot more calm and collective up there. nice place to settle down with a family without worrying about a psychopath bringing a gun to school or your daughter walking home from school and getting sexually assaulted. i hate the US...if it isnt the government controlling everything, its morons controlling everything. land of the free my a**...

plus you can import bad ass cars sooner...FD3S for one. in a couple years it will definitely be up for grabs. damn US 25 year law...id have to trust or travel to california just to get someone to import me a friggin 240Z.

anyways, i think i will finish it on my own...i am really on a f***ed up schedule so i work on it when i have time. which is usually very late at night. i would hate to have someone travel to help me, only to work on it for an hour or 2.

and delerious, you should have known better about that skyline ordeal...just look at the headlights. R34 got totally different headlights. i expect better now drop and give my 50, YATCH!!! :D

ehhh.. i just searched r32 then r33 then r34 in google and grabbed the first thing that came up... didn't really look at the pictures...

http://www2.uol.com.br/bestcars/carros/japcorei/antigos/skyline-gtr-r34-1999-1.jpg

there's your freaking r34...

I'd personally prefer an R32 or R33 GT-R than the R34. The R34s are great cars, but the earlier ones were a bit more minimalist...bit more to the point. I like that. How easy is it to aquire such a piece of automotive art up there in Canada? About what's it cost? It'd cost me about 50 grand to get an R33 GT-R here. I've seen GT-S Skylines for around 20 grand, but I personally wouldn't waste my time with that...I'd have to get a GT-R.

Yeah R32's were built purely to go hard. They are the lightest and pretty much the fastest due to the lower weight. They are the original Godzilla but in not too fond of the shape so much. Its not quite

R34's had the most options and were the most comfy. Their engine also the most powerful and responded much better to mods that the R33 or R32' engines.

R33's are the slowest of the 3 but they are generally regarded as looking the best.

In Aust, you can pick up an R32 GTR for ~$20K R33 for ~$35 and an R34 for $60k+ Thats in Aust dollars as well so it about 3/4 of that in US dollars...

Skylines are nice enough cars, but for those prices, there are many other cars i would MUCH rather have...

www.importconcern.ca (http://www.importconcern.ca) is the place that i would import from... awesome guys with even better prices... prettymuch if you show them a car you've found in japan, they can get their guys over there to pick it up and import it.. check out their "broker stock" for pricing. everything on there is usually 90 or older, as that's all that's legal to import... 2 years until it's legal to import a tt FD :D

That's good shit. Wonder if it'd be easier to import a car from canada to the us than it is to import a car from japan to the us...

That's good shit. Wonder if it'd be easier to import a car from canada to the us than it is to import a car from japan to the us...

i have thought about it...

in the US it really isnt worth it to import a car no matter what teh circumstance. well, atleast that is the conclusion i came too.

plus you would have to pay a registered importer in the US to do all the paperwork over again. the car being shipped to canada will then have canadian paperwork and would serve no purpose in the US.

So, if I bought a car in Canada and wanted to bring it here, it'd be just as difficult as trying to bring one from japan? I thought Canadian rules with cars were much like ours.

http://www.importconcern.ca/stock/100125/35.jpg
That's just so bad ass, though...

its not half as difficult as the US...

im just saying that you would have all canadian papwerwork for the car and then you essentially have to import it again from canada to the US. canada would more than likely just put another step in an already crazy ordeal.

if you think about it, it makes sense...

from japan to canada = canadian paperwork for the car
from canada to US = US paperwork and registration forms
from Japan to US = US paperwork and registration forms

so why not just skip canada...the only reason why i could see getting canada involved would be they may have access to higher quality cars at the auctions they go to since it is more popular in Canada to import a car.

this is what i'm thinkin for a bov now.. cheap, easy, looks like a bov, and is recirculateable.. everything i'm lookin for...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/TurboXS-H34-Blow-Off-Valve-Type-H-34-H-34-BOV-Turbo-XS_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33742QQitemZ79910494 72QQrdZ1

now i just need to decide if i want to go with the prophec b spec II or some crappy mbc...

GET THE PROFEC, MAN....lol

I thought bringing cars here from canada is easy, but I guess not. I thought importing cars from Japan to canada is easier than importing cars from japan to the US. These reasons are why I thought it might be easier to import to canada, then here. More paperwork, yes, but thought it could be easier in the long run. I dunno. This is all kinda pointless anyway cuz I HIGHLY doubt I'll ever do this...lol