PLYNX

After its dried out Penetrol is you friend to treat rust and seal up those seams

Yep ! Cluster out first. Dismantle. Check for oil grease. If oil and grease = clean. Then check seal at the drive coming from the gearbox. Seal broken = change seal. Doing it the other way around it will again push grease/oil back into the cluster and then your gonna have to do the cluster clean all over again !

Wait ! What ? My knees are NOT supposed to look like porridge ? ? Ummmm ! I'd best get to the docs ! Maybe there a cream or antibiotics or something! !

And at over $2 per litre I'm starting to consider setting up a corn mash still and converting over to alcohol and running mine on it ! Up side of that is it all doesn't have to go into the car ! Win win !

Yes I as well would like to find out where I could get some of the seat material with the red or blue small squares in it

How much is it to re-uploster? Well that's a "how longs a piece of string?" question ! And I answer thusly: "twice half its length! " . . . . . . Seriously you'll have to chase multiple quotes for that one from different uphlostrerereres ! Ask around, in your area and on the forums, chase reviews and most of all see the finished product in person cause photoshop is a wonderful thing !

Yep that's a superb price and ther is no way you will over capitalise on you investment. As to the bracket, again just use the passenger side seat bracket ( obviously reversed ) as a sample to reshape it and in this case, TIG it back together.

Considering the price of GTR stuff now the answer is yes. That's a straight forward TIG or even MIG job. I'd put extra tubing inside, for extra strength and weld it up. Then use the spare seat as an example to get the bolster rails in the correct position and the re-apolster. If you don't mind me asking what did you pay for the pair as they are?

Oh very very true ! I'm honestly thinking about taking my entire R33 series 3 red stitch GTR interiour out of my car, selling it and buying a small house ! I spotted as pair of R400 GTR seats on GumBay on the interweb and they were asking around the 12K mark !

Oh ! Oh ! And the Subaru SVX . . . . . . . soooo 90s !

Of the 90s ! !

Every one has seemed to of have missed . . . . . . . The Mazda Cosmo . . . . . . what a MACHINE ! !

Yup but for me its the HR ! Cut my teeth on the old holden 6s in the day ! And here's me thinking in the day it was also the 300ZX and the Mitsubishi GT3000 ! All, as well had good lines, but always seemed to need finishing off, style wise.

Did I tell you I really love skylines ? ! ‽

Ha ! Did mine as well. Used a Z hose I got at Supercheap and cut out what I needed. Then while everything was off changed out the water heater control block and the heater supply hoses to silicon on both sides. While attaching said hoses to the plastic hose fitting that goes through the firewall to the heater core they crumbled due to age. Got new heater core supply pipes, de gassed the air con took out the glove box pulled out air-conditioning fan unit and took out the heater core went to change out the busted pipes and went nope ! Went and got a brand new heater core, attached the heater core pipes, put the air con fan unit back in, re attached the new silicon heater hose, put the air conditioner fan unit back in got it regased annnnnnnnnd Bob's your uncle ! 5 minute job really ! AND I AINT DOIN THAT SH*T AGAIN ! !

I booked a council pick-up for a bunch of stuff and left them out the front, with all rubbish to be picked up, on the top with other bits of scrap metal, the arvo before pick up. Inevitably the metal scrap guys turn up and take all the metal that arvo. They must have a deal going cause they certainly know what addresses to show up at ! Works every time !

Don't do it if your gearbox box has already having syncro issues. The short hifter will put a greater load on them. If you must I remember Nismo did a shorter shifter, with the top part being physically shorter and the part that went into the gearbox was the same as stock. In saying that I've had a C's short shifter (I think) in mine for many years, which was given to me as the previous owner was not sympathetic to the gearbox. Thus forwarned I was careful and had to modify my normal changing style. You have to be super accurate with your clutch and shifts

Weird ! Same Same with mine. Autoexcel in Bonnyrig is your friend !

Oh thank God its just not me ! I thought I was the only one and I was some weird arsed automotive hoarder that need an intervention. I've had a spare R33 in my garage since 07 and now its a blessing as I'm working on my car and all I have to do is turn around and there is the part I need ! ! Its like magic ! So keep every thing except the broken stuff. As was said plastic tubs are your friend Then again I've also got old Holden 6 projects that I work on from back in the 80s that I'm working on again for nostalgic reasons

Gearbox ? And you have 700hp now ! With the extras your considering you wish to make more power ? Yes ? So perhaps a ZF8H75 gearbox might be the go for you to try and keep the "street drivable" factor more enjoyable ?

Yep and yep ! Every time I now take out the R33 I get a lot of thumbs up as well, and my car was also a daily until last year. Still get people coming up and asking about it. A while ago the most memorable being a V8 commodore driver who approached me in the bunnings carpark and asked me why the were so fast and what kind of V8 it had in it. Couldn't resist and told him they were only a straight six the same capacity as the 161 red motor. The look on his face was legendry. However the shine has gone off cause as well as the appreciation there is now a lot of harassment from other drivers in there VW/Nline/Ae86 with body kits or whatever the hell they are, while all I want to do is cruise.( well sort of drive with spirt ) I always try and get the hell away from them by driving slow, putting on my lawn bowling hat and leaning over the steering wheel to look as old fart as possible.

My eyes ! My eyes ! I'm blinded now for life ! Hunt down the people who did that and destroy them ! Sacrilege to the God of Skylines ! Oh the humanity ! OK I'm better now ! As joshuah96 said but looks like the clutch master cylinder was out before it was painted ! Very sus that !

And what you now need is cruise control for your 'line to get even better economy . . . . or build one to suit . . . . . . . . wait like I did . . . . . . . and never again . . . . . . . . I'd rather snort wasabi ! ! !

Been there done that in the good old days when working for Goodyear in their labs as the Asian import tyres started to hit the market. I tested a wide range with some frightening results with one memorable 4 x 4 tyre flying apart at 120kph. Passenger tyres were substantially cheaper back then with appalling abrasion resistance with what looked like inferior raw materials. There first batches were quite good but after that the arse dropped out the quality with the common trend of substituting raw materials.

I don't have any kids. But I take out the small child that resides in me and scare the crap out of it every time I take out the R33 ! Does that count ?