Anyone in USA using Skyline as a daily driver?

I figure most guys just buy these as a weekend toy, but I can only afford one car and I am VERY cusious about a Skyline R33. Howver, compared to the new M3 (which I am currently on the waiting list for) I can at least rest assured of reliability and dealers to solve most problems. Any thoughts on this, guys?

I've talked with MotoRex and they've assured me it could easily be used as a daily driver.

If ya buy an M3 over a Skyline, I'll shoot ya :bandit:

The R33 would make a great daily driver! For a start it is Japanese!
The straight 6 is nice and torquey and the gear change positive! It has no problems pulling fomr low in the rev range!

Go for it!:D

Great for daily drivers......except they run hot. Problem solved in my car by getting a Trust/Greddy Oil cooler and remote Filter kit....700 US. I'm running almost twice stock horsepower and have no problems with overheating. You might also want to consider gas consumption and upkeep...both very expensive.....seeing as 65 MPH is somewhere between 3000-3500 RPM....it's a noisy highway ride.....and just about everything on the car is expensive to replace.

I live in Jamaica , and my r33 gtr is my daily driver with no problems. I currntly run full exhaust, intake , 1 bar boost and ecu.

you live in jamaica! that is so sweet

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Originally posted by gang$tarr
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OMG! I think that's the funniest "smilie" I've ever seen.

wow, you gotta be the 2nd girl on AF :D

I wish I could be the first girl here to have a GT-R, though! Would I be? Wait, I won't get a chance to have one--I live in Oklahoma, this state would probably impound the car because nobody had ever seen it before.:bloated:

BTW--I'm glad I found AF. I've gotten to read a lot about the GT-R in the past few days and I'm glad I get to "cyber-meet" some GT-R owners. They're wonderful cars.

Lauren

GTR2.7l, you say that parts are expensive to replace. Do you mean expensive relative to domestics and popular imports, or expensive like maintaining a Porsche? Would maintenance be comparable to, say, a TT 300ZX?
for jagtr: did you have to import the car to Jamaica yourself? Are they popular there?

Medici78, Gtrs are not real common here in Jamaica, I know of around 6 or 7 r32 and 33s. Most if not all were imported used from Japan thruogh used car dealers.
Like most places I guess there are huge amounts of evos and alot of wrxs.

Hey JAGTR! Fellow Caribbean man!

I live in Barbados, and though I can't (yet) afford the GTR my GTS-t R32 is my daily drive, through traffic and all. After two years it only overheated once, due to a radiator fan relay not coming in (loose connection) but it didn't shut down, just got real hot.

Maintenance is fairly cheap, since it's as reliable as any Japanese car. My only expenses are regular services and the occasional performance modification. Watch out for automatic boxes, though - they don't like extra power. Of course, GTR's don't have that problem - go 5-speed manual!

Originally posted by medici78
I figure most guys just buy these as a weekend toy, but I can only afford one car and I am VERY cusious about a Skyline R33. Howver, compared to the new M3 (which I am currently on the waiting list for) I can at least rest assured of reliability and dealers to solve most problems. Any thoughts on this, guys?

I have used my R32 as a daily driver since I sold my beater. Only thing is I work ~200 yards from home so I don't get a lot of miles on it. I'm getting another beater today so I bet you guess what I'm about to say.

If you can't afford a second car but are serious about getting a R33, I would have to say get a R32 and buy a decent beater with the money you just saved. R32 is not a step down from a R33 IMO, some would say R33 is a step down (now, R33 owners, no reason to get upset really ;)). You'd be still getting a GT-R with low mileage and this way you could keep it that way.

96SECHICK i live in Tulsa and ive seen skylines here. U just have to look hard enough. Ive seen 2 of em on memorial. Id take a Sylvia over a skyline...Call me crazy...

Its SILVIA :mad:

i know it silvia. I like Sylvia better. If i ever got oneit would say Sylvia. Then id trade it for a ford probe se...jk
Or am i......?

If you where to trade a silvia for a probe I would shit my pants. I mean you do not do that at all.

Its SILVIA...well...you dont desrve one anyways :D

Originally posted by Dorikin
Its SILVIA...well...you dont desrve one anyways :D

I understand that spoon feeding info to the general public is a bother man. Hell i wish that I had a trick car but right now I can't with the funds. But you should be happy taht people are taking interest in the import scene. But I understand that people tend to use the import scene as just a trend and it is a pain when people think they know everything because they read how NOS works in an engine.

Read my sig....

I don't know about the USA but I know for here that I've noticed a few Skylines (R32,R33) as daily cars. One of the regular cars is GTR, I don't think the others are, but remember it's colder here.

I'm in Tulsa myself, and have seen 1 GTR here... But I am not sure if it was a 'resident' or just passing thru, as it had Cali plates.

I've never seen any with OK plates, but there have to be a few around in OKC and Tulsa. Too many folks with cash here who would be into them not to have a few around.

The ones you saw on Memorial, were they 'kids cruising' or adults that just happened to be on that road?

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Sorry but i have to butt in, i live in Australia, call me nieve but American roads would be somewhat similar to ours here?

I have a gts-t (had a GTR badge that i soon removed) and she is my daily driver...[ran 13.9 @ 101mph and 259rw/hp]

I don't see any problems with a skyline being a daily driver over there (cept for parts availability).

Thanks for reading, hehe.

Welcome to AF!:smile:

Some of our roads here in the State might be similar to your roads in AU, but it really depends on what state the driver lives in. It might even vary depending on the area of a state a driver lives in.

For example, I live a few miles west of Houston, Texas, and the road quality is great. The concrete roads are noisy, but smooth, and the ashphalt is great. If there are potholes, they are taken care of rather quickly. Travel about 20 miles farther west, however, and the road quality takes a steep dive. You have old asphalt roads that are too narrow to have a dividing line, and potholes galore.

Again, it all really depends where a person lives.

Originally posted by VQuick
For example, I live a few miles west of Houston, Texas, and the road quality is great.
Then don't come up to Dallas, the roads suck here! In general the roads in Europe are much better than in USA, can't say anything about Australia as I have never been there.

Road quality aside, I'd be mostly concerned with insurance and upkeep costs/repairs on a Skyline as a DD. but, if you compare it to say, an M3, it should be similar in terms of month-to-month costs shouldnt it?

Originally posted by teamdeadbunny
Road quality aside, I'd be mostly concerned with insurance and upkeep costs/repairs on a Skyline as a DD. but, if you compare it to say, an M3, it should be similar in terms of month-to-month costs shouldnt it?
Insurance isn't a problem, I'm paying way less for my R32 than for my beater, '98 Audi A4. The problem isn't the cost either, it is the part availability. Something breaks and the car will sit until the parts come from Japan. You need a second car, or a bike.

i'd take a silvia over a skyline too, and I own a skyline. That's just because so many damn people have skylines over here it's annoying.
This is what my boss told me when I told him I just got another skyline:

"whoo hooo, a nissan skyline. I'm real original. Let me go out and get in my car, wait.... which one is mine?"...."C'mon man, why'd you have to get another skyline?"

Yes there are THAT many skylines on Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Japan. I'd say that 1/10 cars on this base of about 40000 people is a skyline.

Those new silvia's look great.