Japanese imports *cars*

[deebo]

previous rides were:

01 liberty - owned it for 1yr before binned the standard running gear and replace with wrx running gear
96 gtr33
92 landrcuiser
91 gtr 32
91 liberty with full 02 sti running gear, gab coil overs, bond cage, alcon brakes etc
now an 07 hilux.....

cars are mor of a money pit than snakes!

The last car I imported I never even drove before I sold it - s14 with JUN 2.2, T88-34D, HKS sequential box, digital dash, full cage, HKS coil overs etc etc.....

Working in and owning a business that imports stuff from Japland you tend to lose your excitement for cars and are constantly wondering how much you could part them out for not how nice they would be to own.....

One day ill get myself another rice burner but I still the nicest was the GTR33 for a daily drive.

good luck with it mate and they are fun to own but can modifying them can be a costly exercise and track days become a costly exercise when you constantly wanting to go quicker.

http://www.aussiepythons.com/forum/chit-chat-39/new-race-car-anyone-140452/

 

[Skelhorn]

Silvias aren't all JDM imports, there are ADM Silvias and there were ADM R32GTR's. There's a reason the R32 was banned from bathurst mate, they were a street car with some boost and they raped the falcons and the commodores, they even put a weight penalty on them....

Remember when the Subaru and porches and all that ran the bathurst too haha and they beat all the H&F and one other thing when the Subaru WRX first hit the aussie market and got popular back in 94-96ish the police force had to buy a couple as their conventional Holdens and Fords were unable to keep up with the Subies! Yewwwwwww

 

[leighroyaus]

heres my r34 gt-t, 2002 model series 2, first australian owner, cleanest import ive had,not a single dint or scratch engine was in immaculate condition etc.

nismo coilovers, nismo full stainless exhaust, custom dump, return flow blitz intercooler, few otehr minor mods, enough to not draw attention to it, sorry for the iphone photo, i have a movie of it too we made bored one weekend, but has the numberplates in it, if you want it pm me

thinking about selling in the next 6 months tho

 

[bracey91]

heres my r34 gt-t, 2002 model series 2, first australian owner, cleanest import ive had,not a single dint or scratch engine was in immaculate condition etc.

nismo coilovers, nismo full stainless exhaust, custom dump, return flow blitz intercooler, few otehr minor mods, enough to not draw attention to it, sorry for the iphone photo, i have a movie of it too we made bored one weekend, but has the numberplates in it, if you want it pm me

thinking about selling in the next 6 months tho

Looks really nice leighroy.. Love it! Will upload some pics of my 33 later in the week when I get off my *** and get the camera out!

 

[JungleManSam]

I will have my P's soon, I wanna get a good car but not too expensive. How much does it cost to import a car? How much u going to sell ur car for Leighroyaus? Just curious

 

[kawasakirider]

I will have my P's soon, I wanna get a good car but not too expensive. How much does it cost to import a car? How much u going to sell ur car for Leighroyaus? Just curious

Don't get an import on your p's, a non turbo skyline isn't worth it.

heres my r34 gt-t, 2002 model series 2, first australian owner, cleanest import ive had,not a single dint or scratch engine was in immaculate condition etc.

nismo coilovers, nismo full stainless exhaust, custom dump, return flow blitz intercooler, few otehr minor mods, enough to not draw attention to it, sorry for the iphone photo, i have a movie of it too we made bored one weekend, but has the numberplates in it, if you want it pm me

thinking about selling in the next 6 months tho

Nice man! Very, very nice. YGPM.

 

[JungleManSam]

A non turbo skyline is legal though

 

[kawasakirider]

A non turbo skyline is legal though

They're legal but they are slow as and have crap brakes and diff. Seriously dude, get a 5 speed falcon or commodore on your p's, that's about the most powerful and fun thing you could drive, you won't get picked on by cops too much and you won't have a skyline that gets killed by a hyundai i20

 

[JungleManSam]

They got highish prices compared hyundai i20's too it is so hard to find half decent cars with lowish kms and still half decent motors. All the good cars from the last generation have been flogged. It would cost more in repairs than the car its self would

 

[SA_Goannas]

but what did you drive? Same car time and time again?

No, first track car was a R32 Skyline, then a MY05 STI (was also my daily), now it's a Cosworth powered RS2000 Escort.

There's a reason the R32 was banned from bathurst mate, they were a street car with some boost and they raped the falcons and the commodores, they even put a weight penalty on them....

Yes I'm well aware of the R32's potential

You can't argue that a HUGE long wheelbase family car will handle better than a light, small jap car.

I wasn't arguing, nor am I favouring the V8's at all, just indicating that in my experience you don't see the riced up (the ones with a milo tin angled muffler/s, chinese takeaway on the doors, bling everywhere) grey imports on the track, you'll generally find them racing Hyundai's off at the traffic lights... & based upon many of the posts in this thread, I imagine the majority of you fit this category. At least many of the 'performance' Commodore & Falcon owners (I'm talking GTP, XR6/8, SSV, HSV etc) actually take their cars to the track. You'd be surprised just how well a Falcondore can go around corners.

FWIW, I'm only mentioning the track because of the ridiculous claims that 'this car handles better than that car'. Most of you have no idea how to set a car up to handle well, you read far too many car forums looking for some ideas on 'street cred'. Get off the 'net & take an Advanced Driving Course at a track, it'll be the most fun you've ever had, you might even learn something. Then just maybe you won't end up on the six o'clock news...

 

[leighroyaus]

I will have my P's soon, I wanna get a good car but not too expensive. How much does it cost to import a car? How much u going to sell ur car for Leighroyaus? Just curious

Prolly 20k ish. Prolly put 22.5 on it

 

[kawasakirider]

No, first track car was a R32 Skyline, then a MY05 STI (was also my daily), now it's a Cosworth powered RS2000 Escort.



Yes I'm well aware of the R32's potential



I wasn't arguing, nor am I favouring the V8's at all, just indicating that in my experience you don't see the riced up (the ones with a milo tin angled muffler/s, chinese takeaway on the doors, bling everywhere) grey imports on the track, you'll generally find them racing Hyundai's off at the traffic lights... & based upon many of the posts in this thread, I imagine the majority of you fit this category. At least many of the 'performance' Commodore & Falcon owners (I'm talking GTP, XR6/8, SSV, HSV etc) actually take their cars to the track. You'd be surprised just how well a Falcondore can go around corners.

FWIW, I'm only mentioning the track because of the ridiculous claims that 'this car handles better than that car'. Most of you have no idea how to set a car up to handle well, you read far too many car forums looking for some ideas on 'street cred'. Get off the 'net & take an Advanced Driving Course at a track, it'll be the most fun you've ever had, you might even learn something. Then just maybe you won't end up on the six o'clock news...

1: There are a hell of a lot of tracked imports man, the reason YOU personally don't see them is that, as you know, each car club arranges their own track days. You won't find many falcons at a skylinesaustralia texikhana or a wakie track day, nor will you find skylines and silvias at an all ford day.

2: I've worked on bikes and cars my whole life dude, you can't come in here with a generalisation and say that most of us wouldn't know how to modify a car correctly.

3: Street cred is BS. Rice rockets with shopping lists down the side of their car, neon lights and stupid wings are disgusting. Plus, if I was looking for "street cred" I'd get a VP commo, chop the springs, put a mini spool in it, slap a VZ maloo front bar on it even though it doesn't fit, top it off with a chev badge and call it a day.

4: I've been racing motocross all my life, one thing it has taught me is to recognise my limits and only push them in a controlled environment. Plus, for the past 4 and a half years, I've been driving over 100 km a day on one of the worst stretches of road in Australia. I know how to drive safely on a public road, I have avoided major collisions and I have no intention of landing myself on ACA.

Just because someone is young doesn't mean they don't know how to drive. It also doesn't mean we don't know how to work on a car and it certainly doesn't mean that we are incapable of driving safely, whether it be on a track or on a public road.

 

[bracey91]

I also absolutely hate those ricers, the first thing my dad did was put me in and advanced driving course up at eastern creek, I have also done the drift school there... Both were amazing and I learnt a lot.. People can generalize all they want and can call me a hoon, but I'm not some P plater drifting with 'all da boyz' on a Friday night.. I take it seriously and go to the track.

Although on my P's when I was 17-18 I got the old commodore smoking back in the day.. But that never hurt anyone

 

[JungleManSam]

I have 1 skid under my belt. It was the first time driving on the road too

 

[Erebos]

I have done plenty of skids. I have to soak my jocks in nappy sand and good skids don't come out either.


Cheers Brenton

 

[kawasakirider]

I have 1 skid under my belt. It was the first time driving on the road too

If you're gunna drive imports like an idiot, you're one of the reasons it's so hard to own and modify one without getting picked on. Keep it to the track, or at least out in the sticks where the only person you're gunna hurt is yourself and you won't be seen.

 

[thomasssss]

Yeah boys!! My Landcruiser troopy is a Toyota and its got a turbo and bald tyres so I get a bit of a drift up around wet roundabouts. And oh yeah the 4.2 1HDFTE has heaps of power, you should see the torque I get out of low range!!!
Got off my 'p's around 27 yrs ago.
Its a 3 door....is that ok?

im with you here i got my toyota 4runner its the 3L and i supped it up with turbo diesel should see me driftin in the mud

 

[JungleManSam]

No no, I think you misunderstand. It was my first time driving and didnt know what I was doing, it was an accident. I was in a Honda Jazz.

 

[thomasssss]

If you're gunna drive imports like an idiot, you're one of the reasons it's so hard to own and modify one without getting picked on. Keep it to the track, or at least out in the sticks where the only person you're gunna hurt is yourself and you won't be seen.

relax i did the same thing my first time driving was in a holden barina and i kept stalling it and after a while i gave it a bit to much with the combination of the drop of a clutch on grass its the recipe for a wheel spin maybe junglemansam did the same

 

[Erebos]

I reef the handbrake up on my 1.2 liter Toyota paseo and do sick skids bro. lol


Cheers Brenton