No Crust Racing

I'm against filling through the shifter due to the extra difficulty in measuring the amount going in and the risk of getting that stinking crap in the interior. Get a breaker bar on to the filler plug, mine was tight as a... well it was very tight and a breaker bar was needed to get it off. I then used a $10 pump bottle from supercheap to get the oil in. I also did a write up of this process if you need further info. Cheers

Yep it's factory, so what you think? PM if you want details on the car. Cheers

Actual K's and any service history? Consider trade for clean SII? With top up of course..

To continue this awesome week... a chick backed into my car while I watched her try and park tonight... thankyfully only very minor scratches that will cut/polish out so I told her not to worry about it but still WTF?!

Dude that's no good, least no-one seen mine Must just be us bogans from Wodonga who can't drive, lol

Came home from work early today, crook since the weekend. Checked the mail expecting a package that was supposed to be here, no show. Thought that's odd and checked the neighbors as we often get his mail and vice versa (2 townhouses on our block) voila, mail receipt to go to Aus post and collect my parcel. Now, to get to the neighbors mailbox you gotta move the gate (I just reach through it to get to mine, his is a bit further away) so I had moved the gate maybe 15 degrees away from being in line with the driveway, jumped back in the car and totally forgot about having just moved the gate and proceeded to back up whilst not paying much attention (big mistake and I wear that completely, was making dumb mistakes at work all day, hence coming home). Bashed the gate, stopped and said a few expletives then got out to assess the damage thinking, at that speed surely it'll just be a scratch and for the car that was indeed the case... As you can see, not enough force to really doo too much damage beyond paint work. I was surprised to see this however.... The gate is made out of the crappest light weight steel and the gate post had not been built such that it was actually attached to the ground properly. I was a bit shocked to say the least. Luckily I'm a friendly fellow and I help people out when they ask so I'm owed a few favours and can get the car, gate and post fixed for materials only which will save me a few bucks. So yeah, not the greatest day today.. it was only made better by getting one of Mr_Crust's air boxes which look very slick so at least there's a positive to take out of the day, oh and no-one was hurt </story>

Added heat shielding foam inside and rubber edging on exposed metal bits.

Received mine today, putting it in tonight. I also grabbed 2meters of rubber edging for like $6 and edged any part that may come in contact with the paint. I'm also putting in heat shield foam on the inside. Good quality product and great value considering what others are charging.

Listed on eBay as $1 No Reserve, includes box, drivers, and two licensed games. Click and BID! Any questions, just ask Cheers

Yeah found that and bookmarked, cheers

Randy,m did you end up doing this process? I noticed my other indicator has started taking on water now too. Time to do something about it I think.

Any clear lid ones going?

Pic of front bar?

Hmm.. pod or not it's not going to change it being un-roadworthy. I might give vicroads a call tomorrow about it.

Cool, let us know when you're here and I'll introduce you to some other skyline owners, might make the stay less boring If I go the pillar option, I want it right down the bottom near that vent, surely that should be OK?

Ahh, I'm on the VIC/NSW border so that matters but I was gonna mount mine right down low near the vent. Where the pillar meets the dash area.

You can get defected for a guage on the pillar? y?

That's pretty fancy, bit skilled for me though

I'm not that hardcore but pix would be good

I theaded it in s far as it would go then but the small seal part in backwards to test it, sucked on the hose to create some vacuum then sealed it with my tongue and it didn't drop so it's sealing, crisis averted. Now the question becomes where to mount it. I can't use a pillar mount as I wanna put it right down low on the pillar near the vent, Otherwise I was thinking on the steering column blocking the factory guage, thoughts?

It's an autometer guage and the hose is factory. I I can press the hose into the little seal up to being flush with the end of the smaller end of that little seal but not any further, given the way the seal is shaped I need to push the hose through the large end and out the small end then thread the whole tube through as the tighter end is the end that faces the outside of the nut, get me?

Just got a boost guage and noted that during shipping the vacuum pipe that goes through the nut on the back to the guage, was damaged. I removed the nut and found the little seal inside that the vacuum hose goes through and removed the severed piece of pipe from within this seal. I need to now thread the vacuum tube back through that little seal but the seal has a larger hole on one side than it does the other and I'll be stuffed if I know how to get it through, with it being so tiny it's hard to get a good hold of it to force it. Any ideas?

I'm with Nick, R33's in general dislike tight corners where sudden changes of direction induces nose diving. This can be tuned out but it is far easier to deal with understeer as opposed to massive oversteer, which while fun, easily gets out of hand much faster. You can get super duper suspension setup and sway bars etc to deal with it, but you've said on numerous occassions that you want a compliant ride which means that your suspension mods will be a bit tamer and as such you'll get a little understeer. I came from a FWD car so it's natural for me to deal with, go have a trash late at night on a deserted section of road to get a feel for it if you're uncertain. Also, in the time you've spent posting here and PM'ing me, you could've tested all this for yourself Just buy the damn wheels and post pics!

I have those wheels and wider rubber at the back (235 vs 265's). Understeer is only a problem if you have stock suspension and take a poor line into a corner. Skylines are a heavy car and don't like to dive into corners in the same fashion as a lighter car would, a smoother trajectory (more like slow in fast out) and better suspension will help. I have the height adjustable bilstiens from the group buy, they did wonders, now for some sway bars .

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