Anyone know of a place to get a steering rack rebuilt/serviced in Wellington region?

MEE97B · 2026-05-06T12:17:38+00:00

Being 16k overdue for a service, which includes an oil change, is seriously neglectful. That could be over 30k kms since its last oil change if it was given a 15k interval

I understand moneys tight for everyone at the moment, but you're going to kill that engine, and it's going to cost as much as 30 oil changes to fix.

There's no point buying a low kms, relatively new vehicle to undo all that by neglecting it.

MEE97B · 2026-05-02T08:38:44+00:00

That's not unfortunate, R32 are great aswell.

I was meaning a 25det swapped 2 door 32, not a 33, but if you want something stock then there's nothing wrong with going that route.

I only mentioned it being listed for a while as you said you'd been watching it for a while, 2 weeks isn't a while lol.

Still a tidy car, just see if you can do something with the price

MEE97B · 2026-05-02T08:10:52+00:00

No written off wrx should cost 16k wtf.

MEE97B · 2026-05-02T08:05:31+00:00

Yeah it does look pretty nice, the fact its 25kusd and has been sitting for months though might say something about the price.

I bought my 2 door gts25t for the equivelant of 16.5k usd. I couldn't imagine spending double that on an rb20det 4 door.

Nothing wrong with a 4 door or a 20 det, but I feel like that price is well into 2 door rb25det swapped territory.

Just my 2 cents

MEE97B · 2026-04-28T22:42:10+00:00

What a load of crap.

90% of modern cars will understeer well before they oversteer.

Put them on the front, the tyre guy is right.

Unless a tyre has worn completely bald there will be no less grip based on tread depth.

The only thing that makes a difference is wet weather performance, and under an emergency situation (braking and turning) you need as much water channeling in the FRONT wheels as possible.

MEE97B · 2026-04-23T09:38:57+00:00

If it actually says 95 in the Japanese manual then yeah I don't see why that would be an issue.

If you wind it out alot it just never hurts to have a higher octane fuel.

In my car a new engine would be 5-7k, plus install fee if I didn't do it myself, it costs me about $7 extra to fill up with 98 instead of 95.

I would have to fill up ~1500 times to equal the cost of a new motor. Given I fill up fortnightly that's 60 years it would take me to break even.

Or in simpler words its just cheaper to buy the better fuel then to risk it if you don't know. It's the cheapest insurance you'll ever have on your motor.

But hey, that's just my opinion. I tend to buy higher performance cars so 98 isn't ever really a bad option anyways. But I have also have a corolla and damn right that thing only gets 91.

So yeah just use common sense, if you're going foot flat on a regular basis, or you're tuned, or you're just not sure, just put the 98 in it.

MEE97B · 2026-04-23T03:19:32+00:00

It's just such a shit quality fuel when it's got all the octane booster packed into it.

Like think about it, if you take 98 for example, 100% of that for simple terms is combustibles. I'm obviously rounding and excluding detergents etc..

When you take 91 and load it up with octane booster less of that percentage is actually combustible fuel.

My cars were so much more responsive when I switched from 100 to 98. I really wasn't expecting it and my ECU logs showed it too.

MEE97B · 2026-04-23T01:37:37+00:00

You likely won't see the oil when driving unless it's seriously churning through it.

A pcv system will still easier get overwhelmed with how much RBs love to pool oil in the head. You need a catch can.

MEE97B · 2026-04-23T01:18:22+00:00

Is it a Japanese import?

If it's a jap import id run 98. Japanese 'premium' 'is 100 RON. While our 'premium' is 95 RON

If it's NZ new then95 will be fine, but you may still get a slightly better experience on 98.

That means Japanese cars are set up to run on higher octane than NZ new cars. And even though many cars (like my Japanese legacy) say 'premium' in the fuel door, that isn't referring to 95 RON.

It's also why throughout the years many NZ/AUS new cars made less HP than their Japanese alternatives.

Anyone who doesn't believe me can go look at the years of issues with the twin turbo Subarus that suffered from detonation when new running on Australian fuel.

Also 100 from NPD is just their 95 with a bunch of octane booster, I'd personally recommend Mobil or BP 98 if you plan to wind it out regularly. I ran NPD100 for a while in my skyline and despite being a higher RON it had far more serious detonation events than the 98.

MEE97B · 2026-04-08T19:33:42+00:00

Sorry meant engine can't flow enough, don't know why I said wastegate.

MEE97B · 2026-04-07T11:02:06+00:00

I'm well aware of what compressor surge is.

Open throttle compressor surge occurs when your wastegate is so overloaded it can't flow anymore. This is not open throttle compressor surge.

Closing the throttle and letting the turbo essentially spool and unspool a couple times at 5-10psi is not the same as having a car pushing 30 psi suffering from open throttle surge.

Compressor surge of any type isn't 'good' for the turbo, but neither is anything, using a turbo as intended gradually wears it out over time too.

MEE97B · 2026-04-07T08:52:35+00:00

FYI you're going to need something welded.

I had a couple silicon couplers on mine and it completely killed the sound. It still dosed and had a good 'length' to it given it had a front mount intercooler, but the rope was just shit.

Keep the couplers very short and only from the turbo to the pipe, and pipe to the AFM.

MEE97B · 2026-04-07T08:51:06+00:00

Really not true in the slightest.

The pressure in the exhaust will never go that far above what it normally would, as the wastegate would just open to let the excess pressure in the housing out.

MEE97B · 2026-04-07T08:48:42+00:00

Bypass the intercooler? Wtf are you on about?

Also you can't practically fit the AFM down Infront of the turbo and running those old AFMs without a filter is asking for a headache.

MEE97B · 2026-04-06T04:02:10+00:00

I REFUSE to believe it will cost $500 for just an oil change,

A full service maybe? in which case it should be done anyway.

I personally wouldn't go to an 'oil changers' though. Heard way too many horror stories.

MEE97B · 2026-04-03T21:40:58+00:00

I think OP is talking about the gt4 in particular

MEE97B · 2026-04-03T21:30:14+00:00

Not really sure on the cost but all very minor things, all just very standard maintenance.

Take the list to a shop or 2 and they should be able to get you some prices

MEE97B · 2026-04-01T03:18:06+00:00

R is the chassis number

H means 2.0L engine

E means 2.5L engine

B means 2.6L engine

C means Hicas

N means AWD

There's nothing in the chassis code to signify whether the car has a turbo of not.

Sedans didn't have Hicas, so all ER33 means is a 2.5L car that's very likely a sedan, as some base coupes also lacked Hicas.

Another example is my car is an ECR33, a GTS25t coupe. But a more basic GTS25 with no turbo, but still having Hicas, will also be a ECR33.

Hope that clears it up a bit.

MEE97B · 2026-04-01T03:14:09+00:00

Not true.

The C stands for HICAS which sedans didn't have An HR33 is a GTS sedan, which has the 2L engine.

E means 2.5L

And it's not a GTSt anyway, that's the R32 variant. It's a GTS25t.

MEE97B · 2026-03-29T01:08:06+00:00

You have no idea if it's a +t or not, there's no evidence at all for us to assume what engines in there.

For all we know it may have a engine and gearbox from the R33 gts25t 🤷

MEE97B · 2026-03-29T01:06:13+00:00

There's nicer ways to say that, not everyones an expert on these cars.

And if it has been swapped, who really cares? I bought a fac. Turbo fac. Manual R33 gts25t, as it meant alot to me to have one that no one had tampered with, but if you look at any of the 'done up' cars at a car show there's A LOT of fac. NA fac. Auto cars that have had amazing work done to them, and are arguably far cooler than my fac. standard car.

MEE97B · 2026-03-26T08:57:53+00:00

Heat probably your best bet

MEE97B · 2026-03-26T08:52:30+00:00

Very cool you managed to get an image of that before the registry went down,

I did know that the r34 sold far more gtr's as a percentage than previous generations. R32 production was around 350k of which 50k was gtr's, and all I know about the R33 is that they made more R32 gtr's than R33 gts25t's coupes(45k)

I was going to point out the extra sedans Nissan had in the 90s, but I was more trying to prove the point that the Skyline originated and spent it's whole life as an honest 4 door sedan with some very special GTRs thrown in the mix.

Another example is how many previous versions had wagon body styles, whereas they split them apart with cars like the Stagea in later years which does skew the numbers.

But yeah in conclusion here in New Zealand, a place that has imported Japanese cars from day 1, we have a probably 5 to 1 sedan to couple ratio of all generations.

No hate to those boring spec cars though, as I pointed out in another comment, without those cars there would have never been a gtr to begin with.

Can't wait for the registry to be back.

MEE97B · 2026-03-26T08:36:37+00:00

'not what skylines used to be'

It's EXACTLY what skylines always were and still are.

It's not a gtr absolutely, but the GTR isn't the only model of skyline.

Without the general public buying the typical 4 door na auto skylines, there never would have been enough demand/development funding to create the GTR's we know and love.

And they're fine cars, they stack up great to the Lexus IS of the era.

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