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Jan 18, 2025, 11:48 PM
#7141

Originally Posted by
pacifico66
A manual conversion RS6!? SICK!
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Jan 20, 2025, 11:12 AM
#7142
I'm digging that Alpina. What a collection of cars.
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Jan 20, 2025, 02:56 PM
#7143
https://carsandbids.com/auctions/3gg...utm_campaign=n
Now, how do you think they managed that? The GT-R was never sold as LHD in any market and the designers said it was take an extensive redesign to make it work.
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Jan 20, 2025, 09:01 PM
#7144
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Originally Posted by
happyscrappyheropup
I'm digging that Alpina. What a collection of cars.
I just looked up that particular car it's extremely rare and very cool
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Jan 24, 2025, 08:34 PM
#7145
Gave the engine bay a little clean
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Jan 29, 2025, 11:21 PM
#7146

Originally Posted by
Raza
Like everything some people have far more money than sense. This has been the case for a good long time. When I was in college working summers as a mechanic we had a guy pay us a boatload of money to take the diesel engine out of a Nissan truck and put it into a Nissan 200SX. We then put the 200sx engine into the truck. Both were fuel injected and this is not a direct swap like a Fox chassis Ford or between any GM product with a small block V8. We had to fabricate everything including the oil pans, mounts, hoses.... It was fun but took working 7 days a week to complete both. He was still driving both ten years after we finished the pair. I think he could have bought a new S class (which they had a diesel then) and a BMW 5 or 6 series for what he spent.
At least the GTR was a expensive car to begin with, but they probably paid for it three or four times to convert it and make it look correct. I think that was the only way to have one in the US since the 25 year law was not in place. How much is a 2-3 year old newer one. While I like that this has an inline 6 the current V6 makes double the power, better suspension, brakes and tech.
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Jan 30, 2025, 02:50 PM
#7147

Originally Posted by
Samanator
Like everything some people have far more money than sense. This has been the case for a good long time. When I was in college working summers as a mechanic we had a guy pay us a boatload of money to take the diesel engine out of a Nissan truck and put it into a Nissan 200SX. We then put the 200sx engine into the truck. Both were fuel injected and this is not a direct swap like a Fox chassis Ford or between any GM product with a small block V8. We had to fabricate everything including the oil pans, mounts, hoses.... It was fun but took working 7 days a week to complete both. He was still driving both ten years after we finished the pair. I think he could have bought a new S class (which they had a diesel then) and a BMW 5 or 6 series for what he spent.
Yeah, that’s insane. My buddy works with a shop and they have some weird requests sometimes, but nothing that weird!
At least the GTR was a expensive car to begin with, but they probably paid for it three or four times to convert it and make it look correct. I think that was the only way to have one in the US since the 25 year law was not in place. How much is a 2-3 year old newer one. While I like that this has an inline 6 the current V6 makes double the power, better suspension, brakes and tech.
You could have them legally imported and still be RHD, I’ve seen plenty like that. But I have to say, I never really warmed to the newer models, once they moved the V6. It just didn’t have the character, and of course, making them automatic only was a big L, as the kids say (I think they still say that). The R34 is one of my favorite cars of all time, the R33 probably my second favorite Skyline gen, if I had the money, I would totally get one. Don’t think I’d go for an LHD conversion unless I had extreme confidence in the work.
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Jan 30, 2025, 03:14 PM
#7148
Apart from the engineering, how do they fabricate reversed dashboards and consoles? Or are they already available from other markets?
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Jan 30, 2025, 05:32 PM
#7149

Originally Posted by
tribe125
Alpert from the engineering, how do they fabricate reversed dashboards and consoles? Or are they already available from other markets?
If I remember correctly this is the base chassis for the Z car and the G series Infinity. There may even be a Renault that was the same chassis or one of their spin offs. They may take the dash from one of them to build it. The steering plate can be cut out and welded in which would include the pedal mounts. The one good thing about modern cars is that with economy of scale very few cars share 50% or more with others cars in the family.
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Jan 30, 2025, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by
Samanator
If I remember correctly this is the base chassis for the Z car and the G series Infinity. There may even be a Renault that was the same chassis or one of their spin offs. They may take the dash from one of them to build it. The steering plate can be cut out and welded in which would include the pedal mounts. The one good thing about modern cars is that with economy of scale very few cars share 50% or more with others cars in the family.
That is true of the V6 models, but the I6 models developed long before then. The interiors are completely different as well.


The GT-R model, the one where they dropped the Skyline name (which at the time was the Infiniti G35), was on a modified FM platform, same as the 350Z, G35, and FX35.