paulR32gtr

Yeah I wasn't even aware r32s ever came out with this glass. Weird it sounds like it should have been a mistake of the 80s not 90s! Drivers windows are at 33% black tint so I'll match that and hopefully it's dark enough to hide it.

Same here. They fall down a bit once you have gloves on though.

Yeah for sure I should have qualified that statement - single bar is just no so good when you add trees!!

No good - people were not joking telling me the change in deck height causes major headaches! Looking good though and getting close - will be worth it in the end.

As per the title - trying to work out what paint code this is - doesn't look to be a standard R33 colour. Can anyone confirm / deny? Cheers.

Yeah we did targa with a full bolt in cage, of which the side intrusions were removable - although I wouldn't have trusted them in a decent impact - was just a single bar. I guess it wouldnt be too hard for them to make a side intrusion like mine, and just have it bolt on in four spots, and the rest of the cage welded in. Wouldn't give quite the same protection but it would still be pretty good I would think.

I think the only real registration problem with having a full weld in cage like this is the side intrusion in relation to ingress and egress ADR's. You could make the side intrusion a bolt in piece and remove it when driving on the road. If you remove the back seats you need to re-register the car as a 2 seater - i.e. go over the pits. Brown davis have photos of one they have done (think Racepace look after the car - grey R32 GTR) - full weld in cage, then the rear seats stuffed in behind the bars, and Vicroads is happy with it - this car is completely road registered as a four seater - you just cant sit in the back! Another consideration is compliance with seat mounting - you can have an ADR approved seat (like the Velo GPT-2 - my passenger seat), but not sure about mountings - if you can retain the factory mount as well, then you could just drop your standard seat back in while driving on the road. With regards to interior - you really want that roof lining out if you are taller (I am 6'2'') so the bars can run as high as possible. Once you have a helmet on, and you have padding on the top bars, you are likely to be resting on the padding. Otherwise its really just a matter of convenience - getting to trim panels with bars in the way is likely doable albeit hard, you might wreck them in the process I guess.

Yeah very happy. I know its the latest craze to bend the front legs in several places and weld them straight to the A pillar, but I think this way is more compliant with CAMS rules saying there should only be one bend near the dash level or something (read in Risking's cage thread I think). Looking forward to setting up a seat and checking how the bars sit visibility wise - I am pretty picky about being able to see where I am going!

I missed this update yesterday - looks horn. N1 front bar makes such a big difference - I was lucky mine came over with one from japan.

Does anyone have a shot of bronze tinted R32 quarters windows? Sounds horrible! Apparently grey is no longer available from nissan.

Updates will be pretty thin for a while as the car is completely stripped and taken back to bare metal. Will pop some photos up as they become available. Australian weather has taken its toll on all the seals etc, so I have ordered some brand new quarter windows, door frame and external weather strips from Nissan jp. As much as I like to support business in Australia, the price is roughly half of what Nissan Oz will charge you for the privilege of importing them for you... hmm

Well that is good to hear. Don't post up which branch this was in case Nissan HQ comes down on them re: JDM R35's!

LOL love the RB20 badge - "its the standard motor officer i swear" What was the deal with engine mounts - did you make those up custom? And the heat sheilding was easy enough with the clutch and brake booster?

Did PITS put the engine in or did you do the conversion yourself?

Ill get you to move it out to Racepace once its closer. Always good to have someone sympathetic to skylines loading it on and off trucks! Man you're not thinking of selling up though - you got the giant alcons!!

Same Jack that moved my car from meridian this week?

What did you end up deciding on building Andrew?

Hehe girlfriend and I are worried about that exact same problem!

Cheers Matt - stoked with the way it came out - Andrew @ Meridian is a gun if I haven't said it enough yet. Picked a darkish silver for the respray today - girlfriend reckons it's got some hints of purple to it but I am bit colour blind so I dont care!! Black for the front bar lip and insert, and same for the 34 wheels - should look hawwt.

Stop drip feeding us Roy haha!

Cage is finished and I couldn't have hoped for a better job. Now for Mike to work his magic - hopefully a little less stressful than working on R31's. Having major withdrawals from not being able to drive this thing... these car's are an addiction. Andrew has nicely sorted the rust in the floor - bloody rust!

Nice one look forward to seeing more.

Love this car - no shortcuts, looks like you really do everything properly and it shows in the end result.

Yeah not sure - they will be putting the extra bits on like the rear cross so should help. No doubt I will be testing it for durability with my head many times before it ever sees any action.

Dropped in at Meridian this afternoon. Cage is looking rather good - check out that tig work. Andrew said he needed to mig the cage to the body at the boxes as it's much more forgiving working with older weathered metal.