11-26-2002, 11:43 PM
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What It Is To Burn!
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Easton, Pa
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skyline=popular?
Is the skyline the most popular body style? If not, what is?
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11-27-2002, 12:31 AM
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It's super useless!
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Alameda, CA
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Its a car I'd like to drive around my high school. Wait no, that means I have no friggin life if I join the losers with the mustangs who patrol the school trying to get some girls.
http://motorex.net
Love em' R32s!!! I wish I could get one, I would be on top of the world, well, kinda, its not my ultimate wish, if it was, I would probably be out of my mind.
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11-27-2002, 01:50 AM
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the "too many tires" guy
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: San Jose, CA
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its kinda popular
it's basically a japanese vette, so its just natural to have the amount of peeps drooling over having one...and hey the r34 body that 90 percent of clones (and tomy) uses has very nice geometry. I noticed a big difference in cornering compared to my lancer body, prolly due to being a bit wider than the lancer, and qiute a bit lower when mounted to a chassis.
The lancer would flip under the kind of high speed turns my skyline can do, although with some serious tilt action going on 
The rx-7 also sits about identical to the skyline...i have yet to see how it likes flying across linoleum sideways with a 3.0 under its butt 
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Stage 2 drag motor
Blue springs rear Yellow front
ball bearings, 1.5 tie rod
Hard tread Tires
NiMH batteries
Grease packed rear ball diff.
Yellow Skyline RWD
Stage 2 Drag motor
Yellow springs all around
4.5 Tie Rod
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11-27-2002, 03:15 AM
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www.d1gp.com
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: TX
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Quote:
Originally posted by d00kie
Its a car I'd like to drive around my high school. Wait no, that means I have no friggin life if I join the losers with the mustangs who patrol the school trying to get some girls.
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oh damn, i hear yah maan....they always lookin at you, wanting to get some attention..i usually dont even bother...
im pretty sure this happens all across america
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11-27-2002, 10:36 AM
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Corolla Power!
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Vancouver, BC
Posts: 802
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Are you kiddin? I hate vettes! W00t '86 Hyundai Pony all tha way!
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11-27-2002, 10:39 AM
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TinyRC Pro
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Coventry, UK
Posts: 43
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w00t indeed... bet that baby really moves...........!
ah, snow, so pretty
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11-27-2002, 02:24 PM
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accord master
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: newnan, GA, USA
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vette is a waste of 40g's
never buy from motorex they over price by $60,000...yes $60,000
a brand new r34 gtr v-spec II was only $28,000 over on the big island, and for shipping your looking on only $500-$2,000 depending on how much weight your wanting to ship
motorex = sh!t
there are better places that bring em ove for what their worth ya know...
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11-27-2002, 03:06 PM
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It's super useless!
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Alameda, CA
Posts: 642
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Do you think I ever will if I had the money to?
I just thought that was cool that you could get Skylines down in LA and I just stumbled into the website too
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11-27-2002, 03:40 PM
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I'm 1337 r/c'er :)
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Oakville, Ontario
Posts: 191
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Quote:
Originally posted by carb0
vette is a waste of 40g's
never buy from motorex they over price by $60,000...yes $60,000
a brand new r34 gtr v-spec II was only $28,000 over on the big island, and for shipping your looking on only $500-$2,000 depending on how much weight your wanting to ship
motorex = sh!t
there are better places that bring em ove for what their worth ya know...
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but i thought motorex legalizes them (crashwise) some how, so it would be technically illegal to import them yourself. Am i right? (the mind of a 15 year old speaking, i know not enough so i might be wrong)
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11-27-2002, 04:31 PM
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TinyRC Pro
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Coventry, UK
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i like the bit about emissions testing, you HAVE to be joking, US cars have to be the worst for pumping out emissions..........
as for crash testing, i'm pretty sure a Skyline will have a decent crash system in it.......... sure if a bloody 6 ton escalade crashes into it it'll fall to bits but then your average Sherman tank would too if a friggin' heavyweight smashed into it!
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11-27-2002, 09:32 PM
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I really should change my title...
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: New Orleans, LA
Posts: 101
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You have no idea what it takes to get a JDM car US-legal. Motorex had to crash right around 10 cars to get crash certified...not to mention all the CARB and emissions stuff. If you import a Skyline (or any other non-US car) yourself, it will NEVER be legally titled or registered. Sure Motorex is overcharging...but they're a business and they can. How else would they make money?
Think before you start talking **** carb0.
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11-27-2002, 09:52 PM
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the "too many tires" guy
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: San Jose, CA
Posts: 131
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here's why motorex charges so much/
EPA certification... the cars pass CARB requirements and EPA, but since it's not a car intended for sale on us soil, the EPA does not intend on keeping records of this model of car. \
So here's the bad part.....You have to get each one individually EPA certified. Which means it has to go through their tests....and certs cost loads. THe parts are cheap, but the cert is prolly 15k+ of it easy. Its somehting around 30k to get a skyline EPA certified (according to j-garage, another skyline importer). SOme importers (j-garage) just sell you the car, you have to do the customs work, EPA cert, etc yourself. Those guys can get you a 93 gt-r for about 15k, but after certs and tariffs itl be more like 45k. my guess is motorex tacks about 10k on top, which considering hte rarity of this car within hte us, is a small price to pay for a car like that.
Just to give you the idea of how bad certs are, take my job...we had to UL cert a modem......2500 dollars a day.....a day! It took 3 days and 20 modems to get a UL certification. so for a 80 dollar modem we threw 7500 dollars in cert fees alone, then another 1600 in hardware costs.
Motorex wasnt for the guy who doesnt want to deal with things, just wants his skyline, if you don't mind doing hte details, just go to the smaller importers anyways the small guys usually bring other cars in too, like evo 4's and stuff
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Xmod White Supra RWD
Body Kit
Stage 2 drag motor
Blue springs rear Yellow front
ball bearings, 1.5 tie rod
Hard tread Tires
NiMH batteries
Grease packed rear ball diff.
Yellow Skyline RWD
Stage 2 Drag motor
Yellow springs all around
4.5 Tie Rod
Soft Tread Tires
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11-27-2002, 10:07 PM
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Toy Collector
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Seattle
Posts: 144
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hmm ... I would like to get my hands on a r32 someday 
but for EVO fans .... it's coming next yr USDM so is the STI
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Calsonic R34, R34(WHT), Evo VII(YLW)
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11-27-2002, 10:10 PM
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I really should change my title...
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: New Orleans, LA
Posts: 101
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Quote:
Originally posted by Blue Bit
hmm ... I would like to get my hands on a r32 someday
but for EVO fans .... it's coming next yr USDM so is the STI
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You can buy a JDM-spec EVO VII now if you wanna pay $40K+ for it.
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11-27-2002, 11:34 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: So-Socal
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if you got the cash
you can by a skyline off ebay for 10000$
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