***Motors Chat Thread*** Round 1

MetzgerMeister

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

best thing for keeping a side skirt on lads? would tigerseal take the paint away if i ever wanted to remove it?

You would be better off using 3M double-sided foam tape. Anything like glue will either stay on the back of the skirt or on the body of the car and will be a nightmare to get off.

Marlow

Nissan doctor wrote: »

:eek:I missed a post about a Skyline:eek::P


I prefer R34 saloons with the factory option Nismo lip kit.

Personally, I'd prefer an Autech Stagea I WILL own one at some point.

/M

MetzgerMeister

Marlow wrote: »

Personally, I'd prefer an Autech Stagea I WILL own one at some point.

/M

The new one:

Marlow

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

The new one:

That's actually pretty damn tasty. But even the older ones keep their price fairly well. They're rare as feck.

/M

MetzgerMeister

I would say so. I never heard about them until you mentioned it there nor have I ever seen one until I googled it!

Marlow

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I would say so. I never heard about them until you mentioned it there nor have I ever seen one until I googled it!

The Stagea is a well kept secret. The Autech one is basically the standard Stagea with the GT-R drivetrain shoehorned into it (when we're talking R32, R33 Skylines). Normal Stageas only came in 2l n/a and 2.5 l turbo, both RWD. Essentially GT or GTST. But the Autech one is the GT-R equivalent with all that comes with that.

And because of it's slightly different looks to the normal Skylines, people don't realise that it is the estate of Skylines.

Nissan started building the Stageas to compete with the Legacy Estates.

/M

Ardennes1944

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

You would be better off using 3M double-sided foam tape. Anything like glue will either stay on the back of the skirt or on the body of the car and will be a nightmare to get off.

any idea where id pick it up in cork? driving to dublin airport wednesday and dont want it hanging all the way

MetzgerMeister

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

any idea where id pick it up in cork? driving to dublin airport wednesday and dont want it hanging all the way

It's usually available from any motor factors. When you have the skirt stuck on, apply heat from a hairdryer (or heat gun if you have one) and try to get it to hit the tape if you can. This strengthens the bond of the adhesive.

Marlow - why call it Autech and not Nissan? Again for covert reasons? When I saw what you were talking about, I was sure it was a Japanese manufacturer like Mitsuoka!

Marlow

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

any idea where id pick it up in cork? driving to dublin airport wednesday and dont want it hanging all the way

B&Q and the likes might have that sort of stuff actually.

/M

Marlow

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Marlow - why call it Autech and not Nissan? Again for covert reasons? When I saw what you were talking about, I was sure it was a Japanese manufacturer like Mitsuoka!

It's a Nissan Stagea Autech. Autech is a very renowned Nissan tuner. Nissan didn't do a GT-R version themselves of the Stagea.

/M

Marlow

Has to be a WC34 for me



/M

Ardennes1944

while were on cool cars guess what i saw today? its usually seen in the colour red and its model name is mostly made up of a popular honda...

CianRyan

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

while were on cool cars guess what i saw today? its usually seen in the colour red and its model name is mostly made up of a popular honda...

I really don't understand the last part, at all.

Ardennes1944

didnt think it went well for me alright! the model name of the car ie. focus. is half made up of a honda....

**** it sure.....

CianRyan

Now I see, Integra. I was sitting there trying to think of cars with either Hon or Da at the start.

Marlow

Legend of a car.

I came across another picture tonight.


Funny thing is, I've got the european version sitting in my garage

/M

Ardennes1944

It was minty looking too! First time seeing one in the flesh.so retro, so cool:cool::)

dar83

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I would say so. I never heard about them until you mentioned it there nor have I ever seen one until I googled it!

Someone clearly never played enough Gran Turismo when they were younger. :P

Ardennes1944

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

It was minty looking too! First time seeing one in the flesh.so retro, so cool:cool::)

I drove one around the grand parade car park years ago, don't think i've seen one since.

Ardennes1944

There was a nice lancia dedra at that cork meet last year actually! Except YOU didn't go, jeez if I didn't stalk your house I'd never see ya

MetzgerMeister

dar83 wrote: »

Someone clearly never played enough Gran Turismo when they were younger. :P

You're on the money there dar! I was more of a Doom/Duke Nukem/Quake kid

dar83

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

You're on the money there dar! I was more of a Doom/Duke Nukem/Quake kid

I used to love a nice blast around in my Canary yellow 4WD Nismo Stagea. The weight distribution was lovely for some Estate sliding.

Still prefer the Saloons though, before a certain Avant fan pipes up. :P

Doom/Duke etc... I played also, but I much preferred console gaming back then for the Multiplayer element, and still do actually. ISS64, Mario Kart, Goldeneye and then ISS Pro Evolution and Gran Turismo 1/2 were teenage years well spent while drinking with the lads.

Ah grand turismo, i just remember tuning the hell out of a GTO twin turbo and being able to get 928hp out of it.

Marlow

dar83 wrote: »

I used to love a nice blast around in my Canary yellow 4WD Nismo Stagea. The weight distribution was lovely for some Estate sliding.

Still prefer the Saloons though, before a certain Avant fan pipes up. :P

Haha. The Audi isn't doing bad at all. Diff-lock on, sideways

/M

Nissan doctor

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

The new one:

Thats a custom modified one...they don't look like that unfortunatly.

Marlow wrote: »

The Stagea is a well kept secret. The Autech one is basically the standard Stagea with the GT-R drivetrain shoehorned into it (when we're talking R32, R33 Skylines). Normal Stageas only came in 2l n/a and 2.5 l turbo, both RWD. Essentially GT or GTST. But the Autech one is the GT-R equivalent with all that comes with that.

And because of it's slightly different looks to the normal Skylines, people don't realise that it is the estate of Skylines.

Nissan started building the Stageas to compete with the Legacy Estates.

/M

Its not so much shoehorned in...the Skyline and stagea are exactly the same car under the bodies so any skyline engine and drivetrain can go into any stagea.

The same is also true of the latest models which use the skyline/350z etc platform and 3.5/3.7L engines.

Marlow

Nissan doctor wrote: »

Its not so much shoehorned in...the Skyline and stagea are exactly the same car under the bodies so any skyline engine and drivetrain can go into any stagea.

You're taking the term "shoehorned" too serious. If you read my previous posts, I made it clear, that the Stagea and Skylines only differ by name and a bit from the looks.

But as mentioned before, Nissan didn't bother with the GT-R drivetrain in the Stageas. You had to go down the Autech route for that.

/M

Ardennes1944

OSI wrote: »

Escudo Pikes Peak Edition. Could get 1700hp out if it Was damn near impossible to steer, but it didn't matter when you could do 450Km/h on most straights.

i was about 10 playing that, my brother would enter into a free for all 200lap endurance race for a load of credits, ask me did i wanna play (i was delighted of course and thought he was doing me a favour) he'd feck off then and leave me bored playing it for hours. didnt matter that i crashed at nearly every corner, the speed of it meant i lapped everyone multiple times anyway

Chuck_Norris

First round interview done and dusted. Second round next week. Hope it goes OK. goin nuts at home. Only so much Forza 4 you can play!!! And I never thought I'd hear myself say that.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

Oh god,

awake now, way too early to be up....

now that sounds silly but i start work at 8pm tonight and finish at 4am

yup, brand new opening times and theres gonna be sweet FA to do but sit down and scratch me sack.

so im putting this out here, if anyone is in the D1, D3, D7, D9 areas of dublin (basically north dublin + city centre) and feels like their hungry for pizza after midnight, drop me a PM or a call to the shop and i'll work out a discount for you ! ( a very good one too) and hopefully we wont be as dead ! :cool:

MugMugs

166man wrote: »

Ah it's good to be back and no longer banned.... Car related the 159 needs a wash so gonna have to find somewhere as I don't have the time.

But they might use a sponge :eek: