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thanks guys! yeah its very depressing when you think your done then another hurdle, but o well.. i have learnt to do so much to the car, turbo swaps, engine in and out, manifolds, gearbox etc. heck i even did a gtr turbo swap with mate in my driveway 3 weeks ago! so hasnt all been bad!

22inch rims on a 33? oh wait wrong thread! my bad!

yes please

R32 build! In 2004 I bought my first import, 1993 r32 gtst m-spec. It had lowered suspension, gtr front bar (fibreglass), gtr wing, vg30 turbo, eboost, turbo timer, 16inch avs model 6’s and a gtr FMIC. I kept the car pretty much the same for prolly a year while I was on my P’s. Car looked like this….. so from here I found out a bit more about skylines and what can be done with them. So I pulled out my lowered suspension and bought some height adjustable cusco zero1’s I also bought new wheels, starcorp impuls 18x8.5 and 18x9.5 I know they are gay! I also removed the gtr rear wing as I wasn’t a fan of spoilers. Looked something like this… so as the car was sitting lower and has wider wheels I got attention from the cops! Which meant a DEFECT! Awesome. This was my first ever and had no idea what it was LOL. So I chased up stock suspension and chucked my 16’s back on and booked in for an inspection. Back to looking like this… my inspection didn’t go down to well, side indicators weren’t orange enough, bushes worn blah blah blah.. so double defect it was! Even more awesome. I didn’t know how to do any of this stuff so I got a workshop to fix everything that was listed and went through a second time and passed! YAY! About a month or so after my visit to regency I was driving to drop my GF off at lacrosse practice when I saw in my rearview mirrow a MASSIVE white cloud. I freaked! Didn’t know what it was so I googled it on my fone and found my turbo seal was shot.. So I jumped on SAU and sussed out a stock rb20 turbo for the time being. Got that fitted by a workshop and drove it around like that for a while (rims and coilovers back on). I also bought a bn kit (I know what was I thinking! But I had to do it atleast once! After a while I was getting bored. Next came more money and mods!!! I purchased of SAU a apexi ax53b70 p25 turbo, rb26dett power fc , z32 and gtr injectors. This was the time where I said f**k it time to learn how to do shit myself. So I tackled the turbo swap! Was very painful but I got it! I got the workshop to install my injectors, afm and pfc and tune it. The car was tuned to 18psi and made a nice 220rwkw. Unfortunately coz of the nice rb20 it was fairly laggy! But was still fun. Drove it like this for prolly 6-8months then BAM defect AGAIN! So off it all came! Got the car cleared from defect after the second inspection. Once it was cleared I said stuff this its bigger engine time. I was told to chuck a rb25 into the 32 as it was a pretty simple and effective conversion. I picked up a rb25det s2 and a rb25det gearbox for $2500. Chucked that in with a set of splitfires, the z32, apexi turbo and the power fc. Got it all tuned and made a nice 250rwkw @ 15psi!! Man this turbo on the 25 was a billion times better I sold the gtr core as it had seen better days and replaced it with a cooling pro tube and fin. Next I sold my starcorps and bought myself a set of lenso D1r’s before they were popular!! 18x9+15 and 18x10+22. FITTMENT! Had these on the car for about 2months. Also removed the gtr front bar as it was cracked due to gutters and stuff so I chucked a stock r32 front bar on! Looked cleaner and I like the stock kit look. I swapped these rims to a mate for a set of TE37s in 18x8.5+30ish and 18x9.5+30ish. JAP RIMS! I sold the turbo, power fc, injectors. Chucked all stock gear on it to try pass it through regency with the 25. This never happened. From here the car wasn’t used as much of a daily due to cop heat in Adelaide being super gay! So my interests turned elsewhere for a while. After about 6-8months I finnaly decided to drive the car daily again so I took it to work and back for about 3 weeks where I keep getting too many looks from cops so back off the road! In the mean time I bought a ke70 rolla with a 4age. Had coilovers. I chucked a ca18det into this and smashed some wheels and drove this for abit. I took this to Mallala for the first time and had a ball. But once again on my drive to work, BAM defect! So this took a seat on the front lawn and didn’t drive it again! So I sold it defected as a trackcar! Since being on Mallala and having cash from the sale of the rolla I decided to get the 32 out there! I went shopping!!!!! Brand new Garett gt3076r .82 ext gate Turbosmart 38mm wastegate Stock manifold with wastegate port welded onto the merge collector Nisstune 740cc hiflow stock injectors z32 afm oil cooler and relo kit rb26dett rocker covers with mines cam baffles I also sold my cusco coilovers a while ago and bought some isc coilovers with dampner adjustment. Got this all fitted (myself and mates) and got it tuned to a nice 300rwkw @15psi (hub dyno) WOW this was slippery! Time to take it to the track! so this track day wasn’t too fun! Smashed piston rings which caused my catch can and engine pay to be full of oil! So a call to paul @ redRracing to build me a rb25det! Got my engine back from paul and opened the box and yum! Forged goodness! from here I bought a plazmaman plenum, highmount manifold and moved the afm to the cooler piping. I also bought a external bosch pump and surge tank to run e85. Got myself some nice defi bf guages (oil temp, water temp and oil pressure) I also sold the te37 for some r34gtr wheels painted black!! the engine was in and running again to off for a e85 tune! car made 282rwkw on 15psi on e85. Slightly low I power I thought so I asked the tuner a few Q’s. what afr’s is it running (11.5) apparently that’s my problem. I once again sold rims and bought a set of cst hyper zero1 in 18x9.5 +15 all round and chucked some feddy ss595. Guard work was done! got this all fitted and not rubbing and then it was off to another track day with sau-sa! This track day once again wasn’t the best. I found my turbo to manifold gasket was screwed! My water feed that sits ontop of the turbo was touching the under bonnet lining and caught onfire causing some wires to be burnt. So I called it a day. Car and engine itself were really strong and performed well! Which brings us to around now! I have bought a bride seat, takata harness, craig helps highmount steampipe manifold, synapse 50mm gate new 4inch intake pipe and looking at roll cages! Car will be getting all these installed ASAP and tuned at willal on a nice 25psi! HOPEFULLY the car is set and I can start chucking down some lap times and enter more events without cutting my days short! Ill be out at Mallala on april 11th for sau-sa 3rd track day! PRETTY excited to see what power it makes and finally enjoy driving it like it should! Sorry for such a long post but it has been a long, fun, painfull, annoying, enjoyable rollercoaster. Some days I have wanted to ditch it and some days I have sat there staring at it non stop! Blood, sweat and tears have gone into this thing and not just mine! I would like to thank all my mates, family and anyone else who helps along the way and who have put up with me and my car ☺ Stay tuned for more progress!

haha no chromies and decals. have a look at my 32 (wwu532) and see if its cool to swap if its not full thanks

hey billyE, christian, if its full can i swap my entry from the rolla to the 32?

damn

entered the 32 also. track spec WOOOP

r32 gtst front drivers seat. mint condition no rail. $40? otherwise its going to the dump!

yeh i wont be out to sit on limiter. its more of exiting a corner and losing traction.

engine was fully balanced, grub screwed etc. safe to keep revs ~7500rpm?

well funds arent permitting me getting a nitto pump right now. i have a built 25, ross metal jacket, jun collar. whats a good way to protect the N1 pump? car is grip raced. cheers

your on a winnar steve

all i know is as im running a plazmaman, you need to look for injectors to suit. as its similar size to a factory plenum.

yep true!

also u need to work out if u have a greddy plenum or stock one. as u need a rail/injectors to suit.

ahhhh, can these be removed and blocked? would i need a hicas lock bar?

why does rb25 only have inlet and outlet on the reservior and rb20 has 3? and the rb20 one is huge compared to this!

rb25 power steering reservoir. dont wanna pay to much! cheers

dunno if its mentioned, what oil pump u running? also what fuel? and what size is the garrett equivalent?

sms sent

hey all, well i recently went to wash my car and got water in the alram black speaker box in the engine bay. it started making weird noises so i cut the wires going to the unit. now i found the battery dies daily. would this cause it? how hard is it to remove an alarm but keep the keyless entry? its a viper BTW

dont wanna split the boost guage?

thats awsome to hear!