From Australia, BuzzPuppy's JDM Super VR-4 Legnum 8G
G"Day Everyone,
Just wandered in over "teh interwebz" and spotted this site, and the photo gallery here is a good mix of Diamantes and Galants (google up Magnas and 380's for the Australian equivalent). I used to own a 1995 Magna Wagon (Diamante) and she looked like this...
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A very slow auto with a carbied 2.6L Astron Motor... more show than "go" but Seth (the car's name, not the Admin!) hauled around the mountain bikes and guitars/amps for a number of years.
Until one day in June 2007, I was flicking through the 'web and saw this for sale:
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-In Japan, at the docks after the Auction.
1998 JDM Super VR-4 Legnum
-1 of only 800 made Pre-Facelift (Series 1) model with factory bodykit
-6A13TT engine (2.5L V6 DOHC with TD03 twin turbos)
-260bhp
-INVECS II (semi auto) transmission
-All Wheel Drive with AYC (Active Yaw Control)
-Recaro/Momo interior (factory option and with VERY red carpets!)
-Factory "privacy glass" and tinted fronts
-Japanese Pioneer Carrozzeria head unit (some fiddling to work with Aussie radio station frequencies)
-A'pexi RSM to do my logging
-Turbo timer (aftermarket)
-57,000km
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-interior
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-the reason why it was cheap.
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-Driving behind the girl, who's at the wheels taking it home after it arrived in Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) via Brisbane, Queensland (2,000km trip on the back of a truck!) where it originally arrived on the boat. She got to drive it first whilst I trailed behind in the Magna wagon :)
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-In my driveway after a quick wash to remove months of dirt from sitting around the docks in Japan
Ok, so the work had to begin to get it road-legal and running!
-The repair of the door and respray of the bodykit.
-Immobiliser/alarm
-Rewire audio for Australian use
-Rewire tiptronic shifter so pulling towards you shifted UP a gear, and pushing for DOWNshifts (felt more natural to me).
-Colour-code the car
More photos to come...