The Old School JDM picture thread.

[PFCRayB]

i like boxy cars, what can i say a 73 510, 76 02, and a e30......

[Jand3rson]

the DR30 was the best skyline ever!!!!

R32, IMO. But the DR30 was pretty rad.

[Kershaw]

badass little car. and you put a badass little drivetrain in it too.

[PFCRayB]

my 510

here is my old 510, i put a redtop sr20det with a t3/t04e turbo, fmic, and some other stuff, it was a 400hp dyno proven tune.....damn i miss that car.

[PFCRayB]

the DR30 was the best skyline ever!!!!

[Jand3rson]

A couple more DR30 Skylines:

[dirtysix]

What the FUCK was Holden thinking, slotting in a non turbo RB20 between the struts of the VL!?!?!

Obviously never had the pleasure of driving the 202 ha.
It was a decent motor in mid eighties.

[Iain]

Thanks. I'm a 27 year-old curmudgeon who is drunk most of the time, so I have a habit of ranting quite a bit.

What the FUCK was Holden thinking, slotting in a non turbo RB20 between the struts of the VL!?!?!

The Rb30 is a great motor if you chuck on a '26 head, but man, I think at this stage of the game i'd prefer a 2jz powered 'line. Possibly like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI_CSxo9GFk

I don't know. They must have been drinking bong water that a bunch of retards had been spitting in.

The 25 head can be made just as good as the 26 head (with time and money) and is how more people are going over here when building off-their-tits 3.0L DOHC turbo RB motors.

A JZ would definitely be my pick, though (or a turbo LSx - know a bloke with a turbo LS1 GT-R and its way better than quite a few of the RB26s I've driven)

[machined]

If I can save one person from an RB20, it's worth it.

It is the automotive equivalent of a puss and scab-filled waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles.

I agree. His posts are always enjoyable.

[Ray Smoodiver]

If I can save one person from an RB20, it's worth it.

It is the automotive equivalent of a puss and scab-filled waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles.

What the FUCK was Holden thinking, slotting in a non turbo RB20 between the struts of the VL!?!?!

The Rb30 is a great motor if you chuck on a '26 head, but man, I think at this stage of the game i'd prefer a 2jz powered 'line. Possibly like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI_CSxo9GFk

[Iain]

If I can save one person from an RB20, it's worth it.

It is the automotive equivalent of a puss and scab-filled waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles.

[JasonC]

I like how Iain tells you how he feels about stuff :-D

[Iain]

A DR30 GT-S? I've got a friend with a DR30 RS-Turbo and it's not too bad in a dodgy 1980s way. He's also got a UR Quattro and I've got to say the DR is faster in a straight line, but way worse for handling and reliability. Horrible lag, too. His brother has a Sierra Cossie RS500 and its a WAY better car for a RWD piece of GrpA turbo history.

R32 GTS-t can be had really fucking cheap out here, but there is a good reason for it: they're complete and utter shitboxes. The RB20DET deserves to be thrown into a flaming pit and pissed on by a thousand HIV-positive whores with urinary tract infections. It is a nugget motor with no redeaming features apart from the fact it's reasonably easy to stick an RB25DET or an RB30 into it.

[Jand3rson]

He wants a GT-S, something RWD.

[Iain]

R32 is a much better bet from a driving point of view. Problems with them are common to all Dattos, though: rust, interiors fall apart, most of them left in Japan have been beaten to shit or are stratopsherically priced.

Tell him to lift the rocker covers on whatever cars he looks at - had too many friends buy low-km cars/engines from Japan only to find that while they've only done 80,000km they've never had a change of oil and sat idling in traffic for thousands of hours without going anywhere (meaning the engines are fucked).

If he's buying a GT-R, get one thats had its engine already rebuilt. Or buy one from Australia/NZ. Not as crazy as it sounds as there are some fucking nice ones out here (for not that much coin) and shipping to the US from here isn't too bad.