Well, I arrived over here in Okinawa Japan two weeks ago and though I am going through withdrawals of not having my S4R here, I have found a temp fix. I picked up this little cream puff earlier this week and waxed it friday night. Car was very well taken care of and the previous owner hated to part with it. It is a 1995 R33 Nissan Skyline GTS....Has about 86k kilometers or around 50k miles. I was originally looking for a GTS-T with a 2.5 turbo motor, but every single one I looked at was an automatic or was hammered to the ground. This one has the weak 2.0 inline 6 cyl SOHC, but was super clean and had a factory 5 speed. I have already located a rb26DETT motor with the turbos, wiring harness, ECU and tranny from a GTR. The swap will be pretty involved since it came from a GTR- R32...I have to source a 5 speed from a GTS-T as well.
Original paint and interior..
Anyway here are the pics...........ENJOY!!!!
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Some interior shots....
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Hey that looks like a 240ZX!
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Nice ride, man!
That looks uber clean & straight.
Good luck with the mods! [thumbsup]
Quote from: Randimus Maximus on August 23, 2008, 05:39:07 PM
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Hey that looks like a 240ZX silvia!
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fixed it for ya. ;D
Cool ride, looks like Camp Foster
Phat! [laugh] nice ride mang!
I now officially hate you! That thing is super clean...
I second what everyone else has said. That car looks really nice. You can tell that the previous owner really took care of it.
Nice. That is one of my all time fav cars.
Very nice. [thumbsup] Now quit fooling around, and put that steering wheel back where it belongs. [cheeky]
Nice. What base are you stationed at??
I work at MCAS Futenma....basically the Flightline SNCOIC at HMM-262. The pic was taken at Camp Foster just down the road. They change the wipers and turn signals too.....so every once and a while, I will go to turn left or right and not thinking....BAM my wipers are going nuts. Messed up once and started to take off in fifth instead of first. Gotta do a good tune up on her though...New brakes, tires and JCI is good for two more years.
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I work at MCAS Futenma....basically the Flightline SNCOIC at HMM-262. The pic was taken at Camp Foster just down the road. They change the wipers and turn signals too.....so every once and a while, I will go to turn left or right and not thinking....BAM my wipers are going nuts. Messed up once and started to take off in fifth instead of first. Gotta do a good tune up on her though...New brakes, tires and JCI is good for two more years.
There's a couple of DMF'ers over in your area. I got an offer to work at Kadena AFB this summer. Post up some more pics of the island when you get a chance to take that thing out sight-seeing. [thumbsup]
i figure if you roll in japan, you wanan show em what it is to be an American and rock a vette or something. car looks make the beast with two backsing MINT though.
QuoteI work at MCAS Futenma....basically the Flightline SNCOIC at HMM-262. The pic was taken at Camp Foster just down the road. They change the wipers and turn signals too.....so every once and a while, I will go to turn left or right and not thinking....BAM my wipers are going nuts. Messed up once and started to take off in fifth instead of first. Gotta do a good tune up on her though...New brakes, tires and JCI is good for two more years.
My dad worked @ VMGR-152 back in the late 80's early 90's, we lived on Camp Foster, looks like the photos were taken on the top of the hill near the wing HQ. Threadjack over
I always liked the Skyline, wondered why they never brought it over here, does it still have the rear steer assist? First tour on Oki? There are some real pretty areas in the northern end of the island, the peace park on the southern tip is nice too. Man I'd love to go back one day.
Quote from: CraigD426 on August 23, 2008, 08:48:10 PM
I always liked the Skyline, wondered why they never brought it over here,
too expensive and the american market likely wouldn't have accepted the dollar to performance ratio.
iirc, that only other country they actually exported them to was australia, and only to homologate them for rally racing. once they were outlawed for being too competitive, they quit exporting them.
They were exported to some EU countries I believe..
There are quite a few over in Europe
http://www.skylineowners.com/forum/
The majority of these guys are in Australia, Great Britian and a few around Europe.
I'm Nick Bollea, can I take it for a spin?
Very nice... We have plenty of R32s around Montreal, but they are all junk. I've never seen one that was clean or unmodified. You will never find one that doesn't have big rims and a fart can. The importers only cater to ricers and dumb people who pay ridiculous money for crappy old export cars. It's a shame because I'd love to have a clean, stock Skyline for a reasonable price.
R33s will be eligible for import soon (15 years old).
Quote from: bobspapa on August 24, 2008, 07:09:35 AM
I'm Nick Bollea, can I take it for a spin?
Hard to drive while in jail isn't it?
Quote from: NAKID on August 24, 2008, 11:01:04 AM
Hard to drive while in jail isn't it?
shhhhhhh....dey dont noes i be out
awesome.
I'd still love an r34. The twisted tale of the pre-r35 skyline in america has more drama than the soap network. [roll]
Quote from: sqweak on August 25, 2008, 02:46:12 AM
awesome.
I'd still love an r34. The twisted tale of the pre-r35 skyline in america has more drama than the soap network. [roll]
Amazing what fanboy hype does. I've read about the importer scams, shady deals and cars constantly threatened with seizure if they do make it through.
Really I don't see what all the fuss is about. They are ordinary cars. Pretty plain ones at that. I'm sure they are nice to drive, but so are plenty of other cars that cost a lot less and don't have the import headaches and shady backgrounds. If you saw the kind of shit that comes through Canada you would probably not want one - they are truly bad examples going for astounding prices.
I'd be happy to get a clean 240SX, if I were really keen I'd import a JDM motor and stick it in. A lot less trouble than importing a whole JDM car, and a lot cheaper.
Sometimes import makes no sense. One of my cousins has a JDM 300ZX TT. I'm not sure why, because it's not very different from a North American ZX aside from LHD, and then you have to worry about the whole import deal and JDM-specific parts.
Quote from: NeufUnSix on August 25, 2008, 09:23:30 AM
Amazing what fanboy hype does. I've read about the importer scams, shady deals and cars constantly threatened with seizure if they do make it through.
That's the current reality in the wake of Motorex melting down. Importers bring them over as "kit cars" (rolling chassis + seperately imported drivetrain = greymarket "kit" car) There was a very brief period of time when all generations (r32-r34) were being legally imported and federalized here in LA. But then it all went bad. Spend some time Googling Motorex and you'll see the rackateering, kidnapping, extortion, breach of contract, etc that caused that implosion.
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Really I don't see what all the fuss is about. They are ordinary cars. Pretty plain ones at that. I'm sure they are nice to drive, but so are plenty of other cars that cost a lot less and don't have the import headaches and shady backgrounds. If you saw the kind of shit that comes through Canada you would probably not want one - they are truly bad examples going for astounding prices.
For a small subset of the gearhead population that really cut our teeth on Gran Turismo, they are the best of what was never available here. The Lancer Evo and WRX/STi occupied the same hallow ground but were eventually brought here.
The draw is in that the GT-R has a severely underrated drivetrain that's nearly bulletproof and takes very well to modification. A "gentleman's agreement" abiding horsepower rating of 280 was *extremely* conservative and it's not at all unheard of to push 5 or 600 horsepower without touching the internals. 1000 or more came with a nicely built block. Combine this with a smorgasbord of technology (awd, aws, vehicle dynamics computer, etc) and you've got easily the best platform for actual performance coming out of Japan. The hype is/was deserved.
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I'd be happy to get a clean 240SX, if I were really keen I'd import a JDM motor and stick it in. A lot less trouble than importing a whole JDM car, and a lot cheaper.
Sometimes import makes no sense. One of my cousins has a JDM 300ZX TT. I'm not sure why, because it's not very different from a North American ZX aside from LHD, and then you have to worry about the whole import deal and JDM-specific parts.
While the 240/180 is a great platform in it's own right, it's got a wholly different driving characteristic than the AWD Skylines...
The ATESSA AWD system is really phenomenal. squeak is right, the car deserves the hype. The 280hp gentleman's agreement was the best part. Cars were imported over here with no mods and where dynoing at 300-320+ to the wheels...