probably the wrong demographic here for tips on hopping up rice burners
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Just picked up a Skyline R33 GTR Vspec
Drove past them daily for years... always had neat things sitting out in plain sight
As
Rolling_trip
stated, Z1 is probably tripling their space or more. Will soon have their 5 acre lot filled with performance goodness!
No I did not buy it from Offer up.
I wouldn't consider a GTR skyline variant a hopped up rice burner. But, hey to each their own. Different strokes for different folks.
You know from this point on, if you don’t show up in it for a trade......we are going to be very disappointed.
Update as of yesterday afternoon at 2:00pm.
Driving back from Tampa and deciding to say the heck with having a transport company haul this thing back to the Atlanta area, I decided to drive the car back (Not Rag the darn thing) at a steady pace to ensure "mechanical soundness" in my purchase. What's the worst that could happen on stock twin turbo units anyways right!? Well, I quickly found out the hard way that even running the factory stock boost levels and not even doing a single pull that the stock ceramic turbine wheels are definitely the weak link on the car. Notice l, I stated not even a single pull. No, I didn't overboost the car, didn't roll on the throttle too hard (let alone at all even once for that matter except once during the initial test drive and it wasn't even a 2nd or 3rd gear pull to redline, didn't launch the vehicle, etc, etc. Needless to say I contacted Defend Garage In Japan and was pleasantly greeted with the utmost concern regarding this most recent acquisition of mine from them. Long story short... Found coolant leak dripping from the underside of the car. Further inspection found about an hour ago as I'm told, that the Water jackets in cylinders 2 and 3 are both cracked. I was expecting this to eventually happen way down the road before I even had a chance to build this car up. However, I'm most glad that I had budgeted for a top tier build and chose this platform to have a killer forced induction setup. Anyways, my wife had luckily taken pictures of coolant leak and shards from the ceramic turbine wheels that somehow managed to make there way into the oil return feed line and trash my engine.
With all that said, I didn't want to post my first picture of this unicorn sitting broken down. But... As promised I will attempt to upload and deliver some pics or a journal timeline kind of entry style for all interested readers. This might just be a different revolving journey for not only myself, however, all whom are ready this post and staying updated on its progress. Stay tuned folks.
Driving back from Tampa and deciding to say the heck with having a transport company haul this thing back to the Atlanta area, I decided to drive the car back (Not Rag the darn thing) at a steady pace to ensure "mechanical soundness" in my purchase. What's the worst that could happen on stock twin turbo units anyways right!? Well, I quickly found out the hard way that even running the factory stock boost levels and not even doing a single pull that the stock ceramic turbine wheels are definitely the weak link on the car. Notice l, I stated not even a single pull. No, I didn't overboost the car, didn't roll on the throttle too hard (let alone at all even once for that matter except once during the initial test drive and it wasn't even a 2nd or 3rd gear pull to redline, didn't launch the vehicle, etc, etc. Needless to say I contacted Defend Garage In Japan and was pleasantly greeted with the utmost concern regarding this most recent acquisition of mine from them. Long story short... Found coolant leak dripping from the underside of the car. Further inspection found about an hour ago as I'm told, that the Water jackets in cylinders 2 and 3 are both cracked. I was expecting this to eventually happen way down the road before I even had a chance to build this car up. However, I'm most glad that I had budgeted for a top tier build and chose this platform to have a killer forced induction setup. Anyways, my wife had luckily taken pictures of coolant leak and shards from the ceramic turbine wheels that somehow managed to make there way into the oil return feed line and trash my engine.
With all that said, I didn't want to post my first picture of this unicorn sitting broken down. But... As promised I will attempt to upload and deliver some pics or a journal timeline kind of entry style for all interested readers. This might just be a different revolving journey for not only myself, however, all whom are ready this post and staying updated on its progress. Stay tuned folks.
Stay tuned for updates as things update on my end as I ensure this journey from taking delivery to the build and final product. Sorry for the delay.
