URAS-Kitted Bayside GT-T

1998 Nissan Skyline GT-T

Fountain Valley, CA

Asking price $59,999

Mileage
75000
Transmission
5-speed manual
Engine
RB25DET 2.5L turbo I6
Exterior color
Bayside Blue

Modifications

8 documented

Engine & Drivetrain

Wheels & Tires

Body & Paint

Interior

Electrical & Tuning

Price Breakdown

$9,500 est. spent on mods

Build Breakdown

Bayside Blue With Period Street Aero

The R34 GT-T is the Skyline the street scene actually bought: rear-drive, the RB25DET up front, and none of the ATTESA hardware that makes a GT-R heavier and dearer to keep. It outsold the GT-R several times over in Japan, which is why the good ones still look like this, a car somebody used and garaged rather than turned into a drag project. Bayside Blue on a residential street at golden hour is exactly where these cars live.

The URAS front and side pieces are the period-correct street aero for this chassis, and they sit against the factory panels rather than fighting them, which is the difference between an R34 that was built and one that was assembled. Behind the bumper the intercooler is squared to the opening with a bar-and-plate core, and that is the one piece here aimed at something past looks: heat on a stock turbo rather than a power number. The doors shut on even gaps, the paint holds one shade down both flanks and across the rear quarter, and the Recaros still have their bolsters, which is the first thing to go on a car climbed into daily. The Japanese export plate and the white marker on the glass corner say it landed recently, so it is mid-transition: imported, titled, and not yet finished being tidied. What the photographs do not give you is the engine bay and the underside, which is where an import of this age says the most; what they do give you is a GT-T sitting at stock height with the road still ahead of it.

Soopd Scale

38

Class 2 Enthusiast

URAS aero, a bar-and-plate intercooler and Recaro buckets on a stock-height R34 street car.