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Thanks guys yeah I did forget to put that in didn't I. It's a Trust/Greddy oil pump and already in there. I sort of steered clear of N1 oil pump on the recommendation of a friend and the trust pump came up on here pretty cheap so I got that instead. Just paid for some Xforce dumps off a member on here today so hopefully they'll turn up this week and I've ordered my turbo's just need to pay for them then that's the hot side sorted well other than piping but gotta wait for the engine to go back in to make them up.

Na mate it didn't come with any which I'm rather happy about as I've never liked them lol. Well I put the Vin into get fasted and it came back as a Vspec1.

So you should have bigger wheels and calipers... which VSpec's from 02-93 onwards got... being a '94 you must be on the cusp of having a VspecII ? Well it had the bbs wheels on it but not the brembo's but I think being an ex track car and not an immaculate example of a Vspec that they were stripped before I came across the car. I know it definately had the longer crank and they were trialing all the stuff in the later model 32's that made their way into the 33 GTR's but my engine builder didn't say anything about the block being an N1 and I think it was stamped 05U but I'll have a look. Thanks anyway for all the research man I just wanted to be sure it was a Vspec as someone has been questioning it. Cheers Brodie

Nice work man my friend has the same turbo setup on his r33 and made 350rwkw on a stock engine 3 years ago............ it's still running! Admitedly it's gone from daily to weekender/track car and if anyone knows what their on about its R31nismoid, especially as it really is only just starting to work within it's efficiency range, but it's still got some mad power. Nice build and look forward to seeing it running your in for a bit of fun thats for sure.

I'm currently going through the same thing as you with my GTR. From what I've heard they're the go. As for price they're new out of the states for $690 free postage so if they're new you save a bit and a wait.

Hey Randy thanks for that but have I given you the wrong code should I have given you the Vin number instead of the model number? Just want to know whether or not it's a Vspec? Using the model codes identifier it is but just wanted to be sure. I'm not sure how to read the attachment. I noticed that the only difference from the one below is mine says GTR.17 in one of the boxes. My Vin is BNR32-307500 cheers.

Hey guys just wondering if someone would be able to look this up for me KBNR32RBFS AA thanks in advance.

Ha ha yeah you didn't get a chance to wreck the gearbox or diffs did you although you sure as hell tried lol. Na it is a good base it just needs a bit of time and effort spent on it. I need a bloody shed down home so I can work on it every night for the rest of the year and get it done and then we can go racing!

Cheers cant wait to get it in the car. Still saving for turbo's first though. I'm actually going to have to sell my R31 I reckon. It's an awesome car but while I've got it I'll keep spending money on that instead of the GTR plus it would go along way to get this thing running. I forgot to mention earlier that I also got a Trust oil pump for it off a member on here and I bought a Power Fc from Trent at Mercury Motorsports. I went and bought 2x275/40/17s and got them fitted to two of the rims so I can pump/roll the guards out to cover them before I start the bodywork but I'm going to have to wait till I get the engine in so it's got the weight sitting properly. Massive tyres it will look fairly chunky with 275's all round but I'll offload the 595's and get some semi's cause the sidewalls dont look real flash on the fedrerals. Basically as long as I make any room under the guards now that I could possibly need in the future I'll be happy. Also just a pic or two of my 31 incase anybody's looking for a really clean, tidy, dead straight 31 Ti.

Yeah mate well as sure as I can be with the limited info I have at my disposal. I have a zoom magazine somewhere with an article that gives you the meaning for the codes on the VIN plate and using that I've worked out it's a Vspec1 not a Vspec2.

No gtr fan I didn't bother asking about the brembo's when I bought it like I said the car was as is where is and I dont even know if it came into Oz with them on it or not. No massive drama as I'll upgrade to some aftermarket 6 pots or something later on. I'm not sure Sir_RB I know the ones I pulled off had ceramic rear wheels and the rear housings were a slightly different size than the 34 ones I bought but I'll have a look at the numbers on tuesday night and post them up maybe someone will know. Not that it matters now anyway lol. Anyway back to it after a chat with Matt at Tas Engine Reco. I decided to only do a basic freshen up with the engine plus fix a few inherent problems. I'm not ever going to get in to the power race as I know I cant afford it lol and I figured if I go all out on a $20,000 rebuild and something goes bang I wont be able to do it again in a hurry. The engine is basically as follows: Ross forged pistons Nitto rods Acl bearings Oil restrictors External oil drain Hi octane sump extension Basic head reco with New valve guides and stem seals,heavy duty valve springs ready for poncams and cam gears later on Nothing too fancy but enough to handle some reasonable power but with longevity more the main goal. I mean nissan knew what they were doing when they built these things so not alot really needs to be upgraded to be able to make respectable numbers. Also being a late model R32 I was lucky enough to have the longer crank in it and I got the full rotating assembly balanced. Along with my engine I also got a Jim Berry Full Monty single plate clutch as he reckoned my nismo Gmax twin plate wouldn't be any good even once rebuilt. So heres a few pics of the engine once I got it back to the shed I've got some custom stainless low mount manifolds being made for it at the moment by Capel Motorsport here in tassie he was making a few sets up one of them for TWOOGLE and said he'd make a set for me at the same time. I'm going to run -5's and the car came with a straight through 4inch system and stainless y-pipe and I'll hunt for some aftermarket dumps as well. I've removed the hicas unit but left the hard lines under the car as I'll convert them to feed lines and use the current lines for returns? Not 100% sure about the plumbing for that but I'll work it out later. The car already had the battery relocated to the boot so I dont have to worry about that and the car aslo came with solid rear cradle and gearbox mounts, Tein coilovers, hicas lockout bar and Nismo 320km dash. I'm going to do a few things like get a custom catchcan made by Ryan Capel and I'll much around myself with a custom carbon airbox and a few bits and pieces like that. When i got the engine back I decided to paint the cam covers and timing covers. I had just helped the apprentice at work paint his bike in candy orange and I cant recall seeing anyone with that on their GTR yet so I thought it was the perfect colour and wow it looks good cant wait to get it back together properly. I sat them on the engine when I got them home and took a few pics.

Lol no problems man and don't get me wrong either I'm not complaining at all. On the contrary thats EXACTLY the reason why I bought a cheap GTR. I love working on cars and I'd rather spend 3-4 years building and perfecting my own car than to buy someone elses car. That was one of the deciding factors in getting this car over the other ones that I looked at. All 32's need a rebuild eventually no matter how kind you are to them and this way I started off $8,000 in front. Plus at the end of the day it's a Vspec. I know that they dont have alot of extras over normal GTR's (especially as they stripped the brembo's off of it) but there was a limited number of them and in my mind it's a point of difference over other GTR's. Anyway it doesn't matter now as the engine has been pulled out stripped down, cleaned, tested and rebuilt and is sitting in the shed next to the car. I was pretty pissed when I tried to upload all the photos of this stage off my phone and ended up deleting them all. not so much for the engine removal photo's as I'm sure we've all seen them before 100 times over but I had beem fabricating my own carbon fiber splitter for the front and lost the photo's of each step along the way. But back to the progress I started pulling everything out of the engine bay ready for removal and decided to pull the head off while it was still in the car. It was about then that I realised what the problem had been with the smoke out of the exhaust. I had swapped to ball bearing turbo's without putting restrictors in the oil feed lines! I'm sure that is what had happened in sydney too. The more I checked the car out the more I found parts that had been replaced with factory parts. I now think that Japlink imported the car with a heap of gear on it and then took all the goodies off of it and turned it back to stock. Well here's the only photo's I have left of the engine bay all from when I got it Anyway I continued with the removal of the engine and like I said I had removed the head then I unbolted the gearbox and tried to split it back off the engine. I reckon I spent almost 8 hours trying to get it off jacking up the gearbox, letting down the engine trying every possible angle until late on a saturday night when I eventually gave up. I went back the next morning and thought f**k it I'll take it out as one so I bolted it back to the engine and pulled the lot out. Man did that involve some angle to clear the rad support panel (no photo's) Once out of the car I eventually got the clutch fork pin out and it came out. I found out later about the little clip on the thrust bearing from my engine builder but hey it would've only saved me A WHOLE DAY! I took the engine up to town and left it in the capable hands of Matt Rogers at Tasmanian Engine Reconditioning and got down to business of stripping the engine bay back ready to paint. The car was originally silver and has had a not too flash colour change to black so I'll be stripping the whole car back and doing a proper job in straight black once it's running again. Here's the engine bay all freshly painted Sorry about the crappy Iphone picture quality all I had handy at the time. Anyway I'll try and add a bit more later or tommorow sometime.

Hey mate I removed the engine and gearbox From my 32gtr the same way only difference is I had removed the head off of my engine first if you want to make it a bit easier then you could cut the top radiator support panel out and you won't need such an extreme angle on the motor to clear it. Also it is illegal to vent a/c gas in aus but it won't do anything dangerous just get a rag and wrap it around one of the nuts going into the condenser at the front and just crack the nut a bit to let it vent. Keeping the rag around it will stop it shooting gas everywhere but try not to breathe it in.

Well I think it’s finally about time I started a buildup thread for my GTR. I’ve owned the car for exactly a year and a half now with every day other than 3 of those spent with it sitting in my brothers shed. I actually bought the car by accident really I had flown up to Sydney to buy a GTST with a big$ built 26 in it with my mate Jack and his girlfriend to keep me company on the road back down to Melbourne to catch the boat back to Tassie but the car turned out to be a piece of shit. We spent the next 2 days looking at every R32 we could find around Sydney and eventually stumbled across this. The ad on the internet said “1994 model R32 GTR Vspec2, ex track car, needs work but probably the cheapest way to own a Vspec GTR, $16,000” Basically as is where is. We went to Japlink and had a look at it where Adam the salesman tried to steer me towards another GTR he had for $21,000. We took that for a drive but I kept coming back to the fact that the Vspec looked tougher and was cheaper. Eventually we talked him into a test drive and he got a mechanic to take us out in it. It blew a cooler hose off after 1km, stalled in the middle of the road and had to be jumpstarted twice but compared to the other GTR’s we’d driven so far man this car had some balls! I didn’t make up my mind then and there but said I’d sleep on it and went back the next day and bought it. I got the car for $12,500 with a new battery, 3 months rego and freight back to Hobart so I was absolutely stoked. Once all the paper work was signed I asked to go for one last drive which resulted in Jack wringing the absolute hell out of it through the back streets that ended with clouds of smoke out of the exhaust all the way back to the car yard. When we pulled up I got out and popped the bonnet to find it had shot the dipstick out and emptied about 3 litres of oil through the engine bay. I think Adam thought I’d back straight out but Jack and I just started planning the rebuild. It took nearly a month for the car to arrive in Hobart and when it did I raced in after work to pick it up. That was probably the most embarrassing drive of my life. Right through the middle of the city and for the next 16kms back to my work the car chaffed out more oily smoke than 10 Ftrucks on startup. I had people overtaking me yelling out the window “get a new car” which was funny cause this WAS my new car. Well when I got it safely stored away in my brothers shed Jack and I thought the most likely cause of the smoke considering that the car actually ran beautifully was turbo’s. So I found a set of R34 turbo’s for it and proceeded to swap them over. I soon learnt why the Japanese have such small hands my sausage like fingers could hardly get down in between the turbo’s to do anything and after about 3 weeks of getting so frustrated that I had to walk away rather than break something I finally had them swapped over. Anyway over the course of weeks that it took me to source new turbo’s and actually fit the damn things I found a set of 17x10 lenso D1r’s with 235/45/17 federal 595’s on then that had about 90% tread. I fitted these as soon as I got them home and man it just totally completed the look of it. Originally when I had bought the car I didn’t like the side skirts and planned to change them in the near future but once these wheels were on it all came together to make a really fat, aggressive stance that I’m not keen on changing anymore. Well after I finally got it back together at about 10:30 one Sunday night we took it out for a spin into town which was a night filled with dramas. We met up with some mates in their R33 GTST and a WRX and cruised around for a bit. Then did a high speed run across one of the bridges in Hobart and pulled over to check how my car was going and found out it had filled the catch can full of oil. We emptied this and set off again over some nice windy roads and pulled up again to check the catch can. All looked good. We decided to go for a bit of a long drive down south and not 2 minutes into it I thought I noticed smoke in my rear view. Jack reckoned he couldn’t see it but after another minute I was sure of it so I pulled over and there way smoke pissing out of the engine bay! I lifted the bonnet to find that Jack hadn’t put the oil filler back on when we stopped last which had then shot oil all over the turbo’s causing all the smoke. I then decided that I’d put it to bed before I actually broke anything and so I went home. I took it for another drive the next day for probably half an hour and it behaved but when I went back 2 days later I didn’t get 2 blocks away before it started bellowing that same sort of smoke clouds it had done before the turbo swap. So I took it back and locked it up in my brothers shed and didn’t look at it for probably 4 months. I eventually came to the conclusion that I was only putting off the inevitable rebuild and so started the big job of pulling out the motor. I’ve ranted on too long so I’ll end it here and post up more info and photo’s of where I’m upto now including my forged engine rebuild if this gets approved (and I wont crap on for so long next time more just facts and pics.

All looking good but the very bottom one on nizmokid's last page has the goods.

Wow some really good ideas on here now guys I especially like nizmokid's second page bottom right corner and top left corner but mostly bottom right. I also agree with savman it needs to be rectangle and a fair bit longer than it is high so it can run right along the edge of a window. If we work out a design that we all like I'm sure that the great minds on here could easily work out a way adjust the shape for a small quarter glass window. I cant really see anyone putting these on a panel so we should probably assume they're going to be put over a darker background.

Just a few I've mucked around with not upto the same standards as autumn33's but you get a rough idea. I like the first and 3rd one in Autumn33's second batch too.

Great designs there autumn33 pretty similar to what I've come up with actually although mine aren't anywhere near as good. Also like tjhill said mine only have SAUTAS. I hand drew one but then used paint to try and give a rough idea of it but I'm not home tonight so I'll post them up tomorrow after work.

I've also Knocked up a couple of designs too so I'll post them up when it's time.

Definately interested too especially when my cars finished I was only talking to Jack(Mr.Untouchable) the other night about the lack of any form of car scene these days. It's sad to think that there are so many skyline/car enthusiasts out there that rarely if ever get to hang around like minded people and talk cars. We've all got a few select friends that we talk shop with but sometimes it's nice to get other peoples ideas and input other than just on here lol. I know the police presence and cracking down on organized cruises and meetups is mostly to blame but hopefully with an affiliated club we may avoid some of the harsher attention. I think that the track days zoidbergmerc has started organizing are a great start I wasnt able to make the 2nd one but I went to the first and it seems like a few more turned up yesterday? Maybe a meetup somewhere between north and south to gauge the kind of support/ numbers would also be a good start with plenty of notice so as many people as possible can make it.

Hey man yeah no problems don't rush yourself to get it out straight away. This might sound funny but I'm trying to sell my 88 model series 2 r31 Ti lol. It's not stock though I fully rebuilt the car there's a thread on it from when I did it in here actually. I'm selling it to just get a daily and spend the rest on my r32 and what better type of daily than a 31 Ti lol.

Hey man I'm keen to have a look at this where are you situated?

Hey man when I first started reading this thread I was horrified at what you were doing! I'm a spraypainter by trade and the thought of doing this to a customers car nearly did my head in. Having said that I understand this is a drift car and 11/10 to you for the effort most people wouldn't even dream of repairing a dent in their own car and you've actually gone out and done some fairly involved customizations that have come up looking really good. Keep up the good work.

Hey man I really shouldnt be but I am interested in this as I'm actually trying to sell mine atm. How much rego has it got on it and also are you down hobart way?

Your a bloody menace jack going out partying when your cars half finished I don't know. You should be sensible like the rest of us and have the night in ready for a big day of racing tomorrow! Having said that you better not bug me all night trying to get me to come out too or I'll turn my phone off!