RobMz

Hi all, I am chasing a R33 GTR genuine front bumper bar. Must be genuine plastic. I do not require the lower spoiler or reo bar. Indicators would be nice but not essential. Must be willing to frieght to Albury N.S.W 2640 Please contact me via PM Kind regards, Rob

Hi all, We have a bitsa in our garage. It is a R33 GTR 4 door Autech replica. Started life as a gts but has been converted into a R33 GTR Autech 4 door. It is currently fitted with a fibreglass 400r GTR front bar. We are looking to replace the tired front bar with an original GTR front bar. By original I mean plastic, not a FRP bar. Can anyone identify from the pictures below if this is a series 1 GTR front end or a series 2 GTR front end? Was there a difference between the series 1 and 2 bars when it comes to fitment? Also if anyone knows where I can source a genuine bar please let me know.

Hey Lads and lasses, As much as I'm keen to meet eveybody do people realise it's Chryslers on the murray this weekend. http://www.chryslersonthemurray.com Venue is more or less opposite diamond park (well its at the Gateway Lakes/ski club but close enough). I'll be heading down to check out the yank tanks so will probably catch you all at a later date. Cheers, RobM

I've got a black 33 it but it's far from a flutter'er. You'll pick me out cause I have no paint left on my front bar. One day I'll do something about that . . . but not today.

Evening Lads and Lasses, I've been an Alb'arian for years, recently moved back from a three year stint in Canberra. Always up for a drive. There is a great SAU community in Canberra, hope the same can be found here. Look forward to meeting you. Rob M

Mmmmmm loooooooooomy. So this is the back of the 31 dash. Decided to remove all the unnecessarily loom, radio, a/c, foot well lights, trip computer etc. For those asking, 'why would you bother,' I can only say, I don't know . . . I guess I get bored.

G'Day lads and lassies, Just a quick one today to announce that my time in the Capital has come to an end. I've finally manage to crawl out the shift work mine shaft and have landed a nice new day job back home in Albury. I'd like to thank everyone who has helped me out over the years here in Canberra and it was a pleasure to meet all of you. I'll still be trawling around the forums and I'm sure I'll be back for an event or two as well. I'll keep updating the progress on the 31 and hopefully now that I'll be living in the same state as the car some real work will start to get done. Until next time, I'm out, RobMz

Saw a prime exmple of Japanese car styling today. It was a four cylinder turbo charged vehicle. Good to see they've displayed the name cause from the body kit you'd never be able to tell.

SIT REP. Well, like it or not we all know, and have to abide by the basic laws of physics. What goes up, must come down. Gravity is a constant. And every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Likewise we all have to abide by the basic rules of tuning when it comes to our cars. At the forefront of these is Newton's third law, 'red goes faster.' So if we apply 'red goes faster' with 'every action has an equal and opposite reaction,' then we can hypothesis that 'red stops faster.' And thus we widen to reveal two R33 gts-t front callipers with all new seals and a fresh coat of stop fast red. As far as other interesting things we've been working on, well there just isn't all that much that's actually interesting. We pulled the rear callipers off to re condition those as well, and thought whilst we were at it we'd get some braided rear line too. However in trying to undo the brake line all I managed to do was round the nut off. It was a proper round too, destroyed, and I was even using the correct sized flare nut spanner too. Oh well, win some lose some. So we took all the solid line off right back to tee piece and flexi line that goes from the diff to the floor pan, got some braided line being made up for that section too whilst we're at it. So still waiting on a few more front end bits, mainly front rotors and front braided line and we'll have a moving vehicle again. Super keen to take it down to Winton with all the suspension and brakes done, but with the NA RB30 auto. I envisage giggles to be had by all.

Thanks MAG86. Been over to the 31 club a fair bit. They have a good wiki. Thanks for the link.

Well i'll be working here in Canberra this Sat so will miss out on that one. The point of the build was to give my father and I something to play around with so we would stop playing with our road cars. It hasn't helped. Have a safe trip.

Would love to have people come round and take a squiz. The more knowledge the better. Unfortunately the car is in Albury, southern NSW. I work in Canberra and play back home. Thats why she's taking so long to build (well that and a lack of funds). Too much work, not enough shenanigans. If anyones ever down their the same time I am it would be all cheese and crackers. Would like to meet some of you 31 aficionado's at some point too.

Hey guys and girls, Dragging this one out of the vault again for sit rep and to field a few questions. So the 31 project is slowly moving forward, even if it is at snails pace these days. We've re-bushed the entire rear end, new sway bar, adjustable pan-hard rod and boxed up the lower trailing arms. We were tossing up whether or not to shim the diff up but decided not to waste our time. A kaaz centre will make it's way in eventually but that's down the parts list a fair way at this stage. The axles also got sent round to the local engineers shop and re-drilled to a 5 stud pattern. The rear guards got some hammer love and the lip rolled up. (That one surprised me too. It was quite easy to fold that edge up with only very very minor deformation in the paint). Some S13 cusco coilovers slotted in, and we changed the tops to a cusco pilo ball import r31 hat so we didn't have to do the dodge drill extra holes in the top of the strut tower. The hats and shocks assembled together quite neatly however the 31 hat spring seat was approx 2mm larger diameter than the s13 springs but a quick machine back of the spring seat and it was all good. In the end there was only really the thickness of the powdercoat in it. So apart from the guts of the diff the rear is sorted. Some r33 gtr rims tuck in nicely, the rear brake callipers now need to be rebuilt (mainly for my piece of mind), and some new rotors and pads. So on to the questions. I know there are a few guys on here playing around with 30's and 31's and was hoping for some first hand experience. The rear brake rotors (on the AUS 31) are solid 10.4mm thick. Can you get a vented disc in this thickness? Seems a little thin to me but to be fair I haven't really looked into this yet. The front end is getting a s13 make over as well. I've got some r33 gts-t callipers that will be apart of this set up. We will be running r33 callipers up front and stock 31 rear callipers. I'm not entirely convinced the r31 brake booster and master cylinder are up to driving this combination. I had thought something along the lines of r33 gts-t booster and master. My concern with this is that there may be too much bias to the rear doing this. So the question hidden in here is, has anyone who has done the r33 calliper on a r31 done anything about the booster or master? If so how was your bias? Keep in mind this car will never see public roads again so I have no problems running a proportioning valve if that needs to be done to address this issue. Anyway if you've gone through that conversion I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter. On a side note, I made it out to 'Friday night not at the museum' for the first time. Was good to meet some new people and catch up with everyone else. I'll leave you all with mobile phone pic's of the 31's current status. Cheers, Rob

Thought I'd drag this thread out of the vault rather than start a new one. Latest things to be done to the R31. A couple of weeks back we got 10 kg of dry ice and set to work removing the sound deadening. It was probably a little bit of over kill to get that much but we got a nice layer across the whole floor pan. We let is sit for about half an hour and then instead of beating the hell out of the floor with a hammer I took an air chisel on a very sedate psi to it. It worked better than I ever could have hoped for. The stuff came off in chunks, and I mean big chunks, no slithers anywhere. I was quite surprised and very happy with the results. All in all it took about 2 hours from go to woe with all the obligatory beer stops in the middle, so time well spent me thinks. I also bought some S13 front lower control arms from another forums sponsor to kick off the suspension conversion. They are OEM replicas, nothing flash, but appear to be a reasonable bit of kit. Decided whilst they were new and shiny to box them up. I've never done it before but my suspension bloke recommended that at least the inner bush be boxed up. So off to a mates workshop to weld them up. Rough job but effective. The inner side is done as well but you can't see it in the photo. A quick lick of paint and all sorted. Not sure if it will achieve anything or not but provided entertainment for a few hours.

All items sold except for door cards. LEFT AND RIGHT REAR DOOR CARDs STILL AVALABLE