Buying R33 for $53,000. What do you think?

[RazorGTR]

[quote=legalr33]I like freshalloy.com, its quaint, and there's not many dreamers, its US based, people are mature and have skylines:
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Most of them over at Kidalloy are complete tossers. While there are a few such as Sean Morris, they are few and far between. Skyline owners ? LMAO, if you want to learn about skylines head over the skylinesdownunder forums.

What cracks me up the most is people who've MAYBE been around these cars for less than a year at best are frucking experts!

[legalr33]

[quote=RazorGTR]

Originally Posted by legalr33

I like freshalloy.com, its quaint, and there's not many dreamers, its US based, people are mature and have skylines:
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Most of them over at Kidalloy are complete tossers. While there are a few such as Sean Morris, they are few and far between. Skyline owners ? LMAO, if you want to learn about skylines head over the skylinesdownunder forums.

What cracks me up the most is people who've MAYBE been around these cars for less than a year at best are frucking experts!

You are so wrong. www.gtr.co.uk is the site with GTR owners. There's nothing but GTS owners at SDU. Plus, there's more little kids in the US section of SDU then anywhere else. More US Skyline owners at freshalloy then any other site.

Fresh alloy and GTR.co.uk would be way more suitable for this potential buyer than SDU. If you want to learn about GTS than go to SDU. If you want to learn about GTRs than go to GTR.co.uk. If you want to chat with fellow US Skyline owners go to FA.

[SkylineUSA]

Originally Posted by legalr33

You are so wrong. www.gtr.co.uk is the site with GTR owners. There's nothing but GTS owners at SDU. Plus, there's more little kids in the US section of SDU then anywhere else. More US Skyline owners at freshalloy then any other site.

Fresh alloy and GTR.co.uk would be way more suitable for this potential buyer than SDU. If you want to learn about GTS than go to SDU. If you want to learn about GTRs than go to GTR.co.uk. If you want to chat with fellow US Skyline owners go to FA.

Wrong! You really need to go to all the sites listed. Good info on all of them. Skylinesaustralia is very good as well. I know Razor has it out for freshalloy, not sure why, but there are few guys on there that are from japan, that are pretty knowledgable, beside Mr. Morris.

Don't stick with one site, move around. I frequent about 20 different sites, and gather data from. Some of it will conflict, that is why you go to more sites. Never take the word of ones site, bump that info by using the search engines from all the sites. Lord knows I do engough of that.

I mean there are few guys that I know I can take their word, but very few. Razor is one of them.

Razor,

Sorry to hear about your move, man. Good Luck.

[legalr33]

Originally Posted by legalr33

You are so wrong. www.gtr.co.uk is the site with GTR owners. There's nothing but GTS owners at SDU. Plus, there's more little kids in the US section of SDU then anywhere else. More US Skyline owners at freshalloy then any other site.

Fresh alloy and GTR.co.uk would be way more suitable for this potential buyer than SDU. If you want to learn about GTS than go to SDU. If you want to learn about GTRs than go to GTR.co.uk. If you want to chat with fellow US Skyline owners go to FA.

Wrong!!!! You're missing the point. This guy is in the US. He wants to buy a US GTR. He doesn't care about prices of GTRs in the UK or New Zealand. Duh!!!

[RazorGTR]

Usually it takes quite a few posts of stupidity to get on my nerves but leglr33 you're already there.

I've just browsed the freshalloy forums and 90% of it is bullshit with people trying to sell crap.

As far as the SDU forums being full of GTS owners you're wrong mate. Most are turbo owners, but most of the bullshit posts are by people who don't even own a skyline ffs.

There are also a lot of VERY knowledgable people on those forums, who've been around, worked on, built and own skylines longer than anyone outside Japan. Considering they were sold new here from the R30 range, and outside of Japan, New Zealand has MORE Skylines than any other country.

Its the arrogant US tarts that give the rest of us a really bad name. Shape up or ship out.

[SkylineUSA]

Originally Posted by legalr33

Wrong!!!! You're missing the point. This guy is in the US. He wants to buy a US GTR. He doesn't care about prices of GTRs in the UK or New Zealand. Duh!!!

I am talking about information posted about the cars, not just cars to buy. He already has a car lined up to purchase, not to shop on another forum

[Gtr2.7L]

I can't believe you all are arguing over which website to go to.

Go to all of them. If you are in the U.S., speak to Sean (tyndago on almost all the sites mentioned).

The R33 was indeed legalized in 2004 (as I mentioned in SDU in November). I saw Sean working on that car in January over at RB and he can give you all the information you want about its condition.

[legalr33]

Originally Posted by legalr33

Wrong!!!! You're missing the point. This guy is in the US. He wants to buy a US GTR. He doesn't care about prices of GTRs in the UK or New Zealand. Duh!!!

The guy wants advice on what the car is worth and if it sounds like a good deal. US buyer, buying a US car.

You're still missing the point.

[Beauespirit]

Well guys, I drove both the stock & modified R33 today and you guys will be glad to hear that I decided to purchase the stock R33. Tough deicision though because the car was in the same price range as a 993TT, Vipers, new M3, etc. I'm all about JDM though so let the good times roll!

[SkylineUSA]

Originally Posted by Beauespirit

Well guys, I drove both the stock & modified R33 today and you guys will be glad to hear that I decided to purchase the stock R33. Tough deicision though because the car was in the same price range as a 993TT, Vipers, new M3, etc. I'm all about JDM though so let the good times roll!

It looks like I see springs in your future. Go HKS with the stock shocks, unless you want to spend big bucks on some Teins, HKS, etc coilovers. I will say the car looks to be in very good shape, 170 across, engine is strong.

Nice buy, a little on the pricey side, but you can blame the US gov't for that.

[Beauespirit]

You read my mine. I'm going to start off by replacing the steering wheel, wheels, and putting on some down springs or coilovers. I don't think I'll would do much adjusting if I had coilovers so the down springs probably would work better for me. Any recommendations where I should get this stuff, used parts maybe.

[SkylineUSA]

Try

www.takakaira.com

www.rinkya.com type in skyline

www.greenline.jp

I run HKS springs on my GTR, very nice ride, and almost a 2" drop all the way around.

[Beauespirit]

Thanks, these are great sites.