Huge engine problems Please help!

[adamk]

Im selling her people!!!!!!!
 
I have come to the decision that I must move on from my Rex!
 
Ill be very sad to see her go, but Its time get the car I have always wanted! a Lovely totally standard R32 GTR. (spit spit I hear you say)
 
I know this may sound very silly (and you shall all spit at me again LOL) but the rotary engine concept scares the **** out of me!
I just need a car with pistons again!!! .
With Just this tiny fault I totally **** a brick!!!!!! and this just further confirmed by feelings towards my car.
I love them so very much the looks are second to none. When you sit in it its like being in a MIG 29!
Its just that black magic rotary engine I can\'t even start to understand,  and with major items have never heard of!
I get a daft a feeling that its going to cost me BIG money at any time! even tho I always pamper the car with money and maintenance.
 
But I suppose thats why we love them ey!
 
Don\'t get me wrong the FD rotary is unlike anything I have ever (and prob will ever) drive, so smooth and such an great power delivery and the sound is just unreal!
 
I just need to move on, shame cos i\'m bloody well attatched to the car!
 
Maybe ill get another in the future! a 99 spec! (yum) when the prices come down (if they ever do).
 
Thanks guys you are a truely great bunch of people, probably the best,  most helpfull and freindly owners club I have been in.
 
But Im not going quite yet tho!!!
Not untill I sell the car, Please check out my add if anyone is interested.
 
Again Thanks to everyone!
 
Adam

[adamk]

£4600:3gears-lh :3gears-lh :3gears-lh :3gears-lh

[AshRX]

dont do it, i had a 33 GTR and a 34 GTR and believe me the FD beats them hands down. I went the same way as you and sold my FD and went Skybus route and missed my FD everyday.

Up to you what you do mate but i bet your miss the FD the day you sell it. Plus parts for the liners are more experience and are not as bomb proof as everyone thinks

[adamk]

LoL,
 
I must do it mate! soz

[Draco]

shame to hear adam was just about to offer help about your water leak after all that. just replace the AST cap. its prob not holding the pressure anymore. I had hte same amount of water leak and it was that!!!

Dont really matter now does it lol

[Nik da Greek]

A " lovely totally standard R32 GTR" ? Is there such a thing left in the country? Strange. It\'ll be older than any FD you could buy, and no more likely to be reliable. Shamefully neglected and abused by at least two out the  five or six owners with varying degrees of talent, knowledge and budget, including one scruffy teenage M"x P*w*r reader who bought it cos they\'re only four grand now and he wanted to practise his drifting skills like wot they does in Fast an Furious, innit, feel me? Until he "drifted" into the railings outside the McD\'s one night showing off to his mate(s) and then covered up the damage with a genuine "On a Mission" sticker from Halfrauds. Yeah, good luck with that, dude! I\'m sure it\'ll be lovely and reliable!

[T11MNM]

As far as i was aware the R32\'s in particular have about the same rep for engine rebuilds as the RX7 but cost twice as much to rebuild. The same can be said for Impreza P1\'s.

[AshRX]

Its all to do with the heads on them, they can crack very easily and that was the leak link in the RB26 engine. If you are going to get one please make sure you get new rad, thermostat, oil cooler etc. Cracked head is mega £££££££

[T11MNM]

I read that they spun bearings quite easily as well?

[AshRX]

Yeah they can do, but Nissan put a fix in on the R33 to stop it happening as much. Even the R34\'s suffer from overheating as they are the same lumps as R33.
My engine rebuild on my 33 cost close to £9k and that was only changing to uprated pistons and a few other internal things. 9k on something that only produced 600 bhp is the same as a 400 - 450 bhp FD

[Nik da Greek]

Don\'t forget the perrenial Skyline feature of the rear pot overheating and eating its piston. Or gumming up the ring land with carbonised oil so it sticks the ring out, chews it up and mangles the bore in the process. What I said above was slightly tongue in cheek, but its a truism nonetheless there just aint no such animal as a cheap, reliable performance car. The newest R32 you could get would be , what, \'94? That\'s a fourteen year old car. it\'s gonna have issues!

[adamk]

Bloody hell I think Ill get a Ford focus D!! LoL
 
There are bad and good points on all cars! I suppose its just down to personal taste. I like the skyline more than the Rex however I do love rex\'s!
 
But why would a skyline be thrashed and not a RX7 ?? thats like saying a 205 gti is less thrashed than a 5 turbo?
Can\'t any car be abused and not looked after?
Thats a stupid comment!
 
Thanks for your pointers tho everyone,
 
Ill go see what the guys on the GTR owners club think! LoL LoL
 
May be keeping it yet, I have had no interest!
 
Any Thanks Ill have a look at my water cap (cheers)

[adamk]

A " lovely totally standard R32 GTR" ? Is there such a thing left in the country? Strange. It\'ll be older than any FD you could buy, and no more likely to be reliable. Shamefully neglected and abused by at least two out the five or six owners with varying degrees of talent, knowledge and budget, including one scruffy teenage M"x P*w*r reader who bought it cos they\'re only four grand now and he wanted to practise his drifting skills like wot they does in Fast an Furious, innit, feel me? Until he "drifted" into the railings outside the McD\'s one night showing off to his mate(s) and then covered up the damage with a genuine "On a Mission" sticker from Halfrauds. Yeah, good luck with that, dude! I\'m sure it\'ll be lovely and reliable!

LoL
 
Oh you hate them skyliners!!! LoL

[adamk]

Bloody hell I dont know what to do now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rzla]

Rx7 is the best skybus is not it is the fact of life


Had to break it to you lol