FruitBooTeR
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Case you didnt know 
Made by - http://www.kaizoindustries.com
'Contrary to what your eyes are telling you, this is not a Skyline. It's not even a Nissan, for that matter. It's a kit car, made of the Nissan R34 Skyline GT-R chassis, imported by Kaizo Industries, and given a Nissan RB26DETT engine swap. Its a Kaizo R34 GT-R'
http://forums.streetfire.net/showthread.php?t=33822
http://blog.cardomain.com/2009/03/20/fast-furious-r34-skyline-stunt-cars-a-mixed-bag/
Spec on car -
http://picsbite.com/2009/03/22/the-cars-of-fast-furious-part-2/
[Edited on 11-04-2009 by FruitBooTeR]
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*JonnyG*
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Sweet..
That blue one. 
[Edited on 11-04-2009 by *JonnyG*]
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DaveyLC
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From reading those articles it sounds like one of the cars used for stunts a custom job, tubular chassis and a rear mounted engine.. The ones used in crash scene's were non turbos.. Nothing about a 'kit car' ?
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FruitBooTeR
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Well there not official off the shelf nissans are they?
Kaizo industries manufacture the replica shell and supply it as just that 'a shell'
You can then put what ever eninge you like in it...
Its too late and im tired so im just gonna copy and paste loads of crap because i cba to explain it all.. 
'And for that money, what Kaizo delivers is a right-hand-drive Skyline GT-R body with a full interior and all the expected DOT-approved glazing. But there isn't any lighting and only a big hole under the hood where an engine should be'
'Theoretically, you could take your Kaizo-certified body home and make a coffee table out of it. Most buyers will, however, eventually want to drive that body'
Registration Nation -
"It's no different than building a dune buggy," "And they register in most states as 'specially constructed vehicles.' It's the same process they use to bring in the Noble M400."
'Whatever state, it's unlikely that a Kaizo GT-R will register as a Nissan. When the body shell arrives here, it comes with a Manufacturer's Statement of Origin (MSO) that rebadges the car as a Kaizo, and that's likely how it will register in whatever state it finds itself plopped down in'
'Beyond that, it will likely register for the model year that Kaizo fortified the body, not the year Nissan originally built the car'
[Edited on 11-04-2009 by FruitBooTeR]
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DaveyLC
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Surely they are Nissan shells they have bought and are re-selling as 'kits' and its a loop hole to get around the import legislation?
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mattfiesta
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quote:
Originally posted by DaveyLC
Surely they are Nissan shells they have bought and are re-selling as 'kits' and its a loop hole to get around the import legislation?
thats what it reads like to me, especially after it says this on the kaizo site:
'Each unibody is handpicked by the most demanding eyes, being scrutinized even prior to the remanufacturing process before undergoing a comprehensive 100-point inspection.''
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DaveyLC
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Its probably been done here a few times.. If you cant get the model report for a car you want to import then the ESVA is literally an impossibility so that would be one way around it..
They used to do something like that in sweeden (I believe it was sweeden anyway) the import laws meant hefty taxes so they used to buy high end models abroad say for instance an M3 then buy a 316 locally, chop off one 3rd of the car (normally the boot) and weld that onto the imported car, the imported car could then take the ID of the locally sourced car and the massive import taxes were avoided.
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DaveyLC
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And I cant spell sweden!
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richc
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CBA to read  ....but incase anyone didnt realise/know, the gash orange e39 m5 isnt an m5. They are just 540i with manual boxes kitted up
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sand-eel
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why did the M5 have a v10 sound to it 
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daymoon
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quote:
Originally posted by sand-eel
why did the M5 have a v10 sound to it
they had one real m5 and 8 ( i think) normal 5 series
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sand-eel
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that shape M5 has a V8, quite a deep rumble. The one in the film sounded like a high pitched new M5 V10 note to it.
[Edited on 12-04-2009 by sand-eel]
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