hahaha i got my car back today... everything works again, but i dont have power steering, which is actually kind of nice, i find the car alot nicer to control without it. apparently one of my springs is broken too, but its not a serious problem and i can drive on it until the spring... at which point il probably drop the car on some Tein H-Tech's, hehe lookin forward to it
yea, Pulsar GTI-R, not very pretty imo. N1-spec, probably not an original N1 but nevertheless, BBS LM, R34 Nur-spec engine, 3.0L stroker kit, Trust T-88, oh tuned by Saurus Garage-what? *poop! laptop battery dying* T1-ers, warning lol, abusively huge image.
yea, but doesn't come cheap. Might wanna consider to trade your IS for a GTR? It probably is in the shape condition and same mileage. (meaning those cars are show room condition) Regina Canada? There's that JDM shop called JDM connection. Nice ppl but their taste is not like me... oh, to the FD3S fan, 20B engine is very nice when it's running properly . When it doesn't, I hope you have lots of cash in hand. I'm not saying RB's are easy neither. Probably less painful from behind. Then again, I know little about rotaries. Question: Does any Canadian brothas here own a JDM car? I am about to jump on a R32 GTS25. Any things to look out for? GTR Canada forum ppl are meh...
naw, im gonna stick with the IS, im feelin luxury > JDM power at the moment. and i would hate to worry about the maintainence on a 600 + hp twin turbo car. however, im definitely going to consider importing a silvia when im completely done with school as a summer car.
damn thats one nice and clean engine bay!! *drools* i only haf an n16 series 1 pulsar not really mine tho... lol
oil change every 5000 km and trying not to open up your machine will keep her healthy. Silvia S13 or S14? USDM or JDM? Gotta admit owning an imported is not easy. OT: your sig is totally helping me study... lol... edit: PA could proably get a new cars thread or Japansese car exclusive thread and a thread dedicated to pics, no chatting and spamming, only pics. I have huge amounts of Skyline pics to share, enough to jam some of the best internet connections lol...
actually i want the S15 lol... which means id probably have to wait like 6 more years before its importable. i guess il just start saving now and yeah, my sig is awesome, but it that reminds me that i should go back to studying my comp sci lol
S15 when due to be imported will be around the cost as the S13 now. It's a mere 3k per year for 6 yrs worth of savings. Even a high schooler can do that lol. S15 is too modern for me haha, i like those old school stuff fitted with high tech stuff. Like a blend of two tuning mentalities. 20th century design with 21st century electronics. Just like the new-ish RB26 head by HKS, Variable Cam Timing, Mine's crazy ECU tuning. Nissan engines don't make power on a wide powerband, usually only at unusable high rpm. HKS's VCT makes the RB26 peak the torque from 4500-ish rpm till redline! That's massive acceleration! Mine's GTR mind you still run 550bhp on the stock restrictive airbox. Their ECU tuning is crazy good. If you older folks recall Unisia Jecs back in the early 1990's. *slaps myself* goes back to study.
I second dim8sum. Top S is more or less the same as HKS. http://www.tomei-p.co.jp/inf/pdf/41_ae_Letter.pdf The RB28 I was talking about in the previous pages. The full Tomei Phase 2 goes for like 15k$ And the variable cam i was talking about too. The full HKS version goes for only 28k $
lol i dont think either of those can compare to the bugatti veyron engine... (although i do love Top Secret... imo they are the ultimate japanese street car tuning company)
shit ferrari's working on a low gas emission engine that can pull off 700-900 ponies... just think of it.. you can be a hardcore environmentalist, while still having that shit load of power under your green ride... lol
lol probably only like a 10% emissions decrease... its not exactly going to make put ferrari in the same green league as say.. the prius
actually apparently when you drive normally, im not sure how much it decreases but it decreases a lot more than 10%.. but when you actually floor it, it becomes the gas guzzler we all know lol
The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover in the world today. The Aioi Works of Japan's Diesel United, Ltd built the first engines and is where some of these pictures were taken. It is available in 6 through 14 cylinder versions, all are inline engines. These engines were designed primarily for very large container ships. Ship owners like a single engine/single propeller design and the new generation of larger container ships needed a bigger engine to propel them. The cylinder bore is just under 38" and the stroke is just over 98". Each cylinder displaces 111,143 cubic inches (1820 liters) and produces 7780 horsepower. Total displacement comes out to 1,556,002 cubic inches (25,480 liters) for the fourteen cylinder version. Some facts on the 14 cylinder version: Total engine weight: 2300 tons (The crankshaft alone weighs 300 tons.) Length: 89 feet Height: 44 feet Maximum power: 108,920 hp at 102 rpm Maximum torque: 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm
I royally f***ed up my front suspension and power steering. I was late for school so I was doing a little more then usual. I saw that the green has been on for a little too long so I accelerated, then I saw a huge pothole , I didn't have the time to react, I ran over it... Went to the garage and the subframe is dented, nothing serious, but some rods on the front right wheel is bent. And my power steering oil is running like water... Now i'm stuck with a big ass car with no power steering. This is not the time for stupidness like this... I am saving like a madman for the Skyline... end rant...
Goddamn...this road I take to work everyday, I've ran over the same pot hole for 2 days straight in my family's new year old Mazda6 wagon. Today, I remembered to dodge it. But it was a huge one. Damn ghetto city. Anyway, slapping a LSx in a RX7 should solve all problems? It has a wider torque band than any rotary can give, and it's one hell of a bullet proof engine. It'll be sex on wheels. I hate the sound of the 20B anyway. I heard it in car on a best motoring video, and it sounded like a fricking weed wacker.
