Hi guys

I live in New Zealand and a couple of months ago I bought this beast from the east. A standard 1999 R34 GTR Skyline, nothing has been modified, I am going to keep it standard because I think it it will hold it's value better that way.

Any other Skyline owners in New Zealand on here?

 

very nice......what does a R34 like that cost over there in NZ?

 

Cheers mate, a standard one like this will set you back about $40k US. But you cant import them into NZ anymore because of it's age. The ones coming in now can't be registered for road use.

What would a legal Motorex R34 in America cost if you could find one for sale?

 

Motorex cars here in the US trade hands around $100k. The Kaizo cars were going for in the $75k range. Other than legal cars you see in the 50k ish range.

I worked at Motorex from 1999-2002, and on another note I was born in New Zealand, but lived most of my life here in the US.

 

Yeah I read about the Kaizo cars, personally I think they are legal, with the whole import the chassis and fit an engine. But that's just me. Have any of the Kaizo's been impounded?

 

My GTR is not concourse, it's 10 years old after all, it's only traveled 64,000km. Thinking of doing a few track days, maybe get another set of wheels with Toyo R888 fitted for that extra grip.

 

Three of the cars have been seized from the Kaizo offices.

http://gtrusa.blogspot.com/2009/09/k...ort-tuner.html

I was crew chief on a race team that ran a couple of ex-Super Taikyu R34's in World Challenge in 2006. I have a little bit of experience with running R34's. http://gtrusa.blogspot.com/search/la...ld%20Challenge . Tough experience,but an experience.

 

Nice R34!

 

R34 Skyline GTR is still my favorite GTR. Awesome car man. Congrats.

 

Thanks mate

 

Very nice R34. Good luck maintaining it. I hope it serves you well for years to come.

 

Thanks jaspergtr . I have it serviced my the Local Nissan Dealer, so far so good. It's cost me a $1,000 in servicing costs to date. And I did some rust proofing at home as there was quite a bit of surface rust on the rear suspension arms, I don't know if this is common or not. I will perhaps sometime in the future do a suspension rebuild, but that's only if I really want it to be in concourse condition.

Lately I've been feeling like I need to do some mods on it, just get it up to about 450hp at the wheels. What do you guys think I can do to achieve that? As far as I understand it's relatively easy to get it to make that type of power, I might be wrong though

 

I'd say you are asking on the wrong forum. Plenty of Skyline and GT-R knowledge in Australia and New Zealand.

Your major limiting factors with a stock car is stock injectors 444 cc, stock ceramic exhaust wheels in the turbochargers, stock clutch.

http://rbmotorsports.blogspot.com/20...2-r33-r34.html

 

LOVE the r34 .. what a machine .. makes the new skyline look like poop.. in every aspect !!!

question for the skyline gurus... what is invloved in making one left hand drive ? and how much would it cost ?? does anyone know ?

 

There have been some left hand conversions in the middle east. There was ONE left hand conversion done here in the US, and that car ended up in the Philippines . Couple others I have seen around the world. Most of the quality I have seen is not something I would want to actually drive.

Honestly, not worth it unless its required by law. In the US its not a requirement.