Run-It-Hard

I’ve had this M spec front grille lying around for a while now. So I finally decided to mount it on the car. I didn’t think I’d like it at first, but it has deffinately grown on me and I prefer it to the original slat grille.

They are similar in colours haha. DGR are pretty good though, I've had them in a few cars now. Yeah I think it was late 2013 I went to Matsuri last... Might be going this year depending on my work. Thanks again! It's come a long way and kinda wish I documented more of the things I've done do it. But all the important stuff is up there haha. I've heard a few people say that which is cool, but bizarre too. It hasn't been out much. Only really to the drift events and the SAU cruise..

Cheers Tim! It bent a DGR coilover, broke the knuckle, traction arm, LCA and Hicas toe arm. Suprisingly the wheel was fine haha. I think I remember talking to you, it was quite a while ago now though.

Here’s a vid that Benny put together too. Once again, the R33 is in hibernation mode. Patiently waiting for the next drift day to come along so it can stretch its legs. There’s a few things that need to be done to it so I should probably get it all ready for its next outing. I’ll try my best to keep the updates coming on the R33. Some more things are planned for it in the not to distant future. Peace out!

After the Wakefield day the R33 was in hiding, I got my drift fix and forgot about the car for a while. That was until Driving Sports announced they were going to hold a drift day at Marulan driver training centre, something that hasn’t happened in many years. Nothing major needed to be done to the Skyline to be ready for Marulan, I changed the oil, got a few pairs of tyres and I was ready to rock and roll! I’ve never been to Marulan before, it was a pretty cosy track, it had a similar vibe to Raleigh raceway. Marulan itself was fun fun fun! It’s rather tight and has some sweet corners to slide through. The scenery is cool too, there are some parts where you’re surrounded by trees as you’re drifting. This drift day was done as a “trial” by MDTC and is unclear if this will become a regular thing yet. I hope that it does as it was refreshing to drift there. Can anyone guess who this guy is? It’s Benny! He’s back and this time he’s in a R32 GTS-T. Marulan was his first outing in his new beast, it took him some time to get used to the car but towards the end of the day he was nailing it. He had some issues with his handbrake, so we'll get that fixed up prior to the next event. Speaking of the end of the day, my car decided to throw in the towel and chew through the wiring loom. I wanted to fix it on the spot and drive the Skyline home, but we had a trailer already so we figured we might as well use it. I needed to change my wheels over though as the car didn’t fit otherwise. Here’s some poor quality in-car of the R33, I’ll try get some better vids up later.

These posts are taken directly from the blog. KEEPING IN THE LOOP - RUN IT HARD! BLOG So this is the first post on here for the year, cool! It’s certainly been a while. A lot of things have happened and new with my current work situation I don’t have much time to post cool things about my car as often as I’d like. I can happily say the car roulette game has stopped, I’ve stuck with the R33 still and have spent quite a bit of time and money on it since ownership. The most drastic changes would have to be to the exterior. The R33 has under-gone a complete make over! I wanted to get my Ordens on the car, I was sick of them sitting in the shed collecting dust. There was no way I could get them to work without going wide body. So I figured what the hell, might as well make everything look pretty and get rid of the cruddy 3 tone the car had on it. The Skyline was taken to Chris at Hollylea road smash in Campbelltown (the same shop we took Julie’s S14).To get an open door respray in a funky bronze colour. Roughly 2 weeks later, the car came back looking like this. Needless to say I was stoked with the out-come. As usual Chris worked his magic and delivered an awesome result on my car. After the car was painted I decided it was time to take it on its first outing. With that in mind I wanted to do a few more things to it before its debut. I had a S14 subframe sitting in the back yard for quite some time, so I decided to get it braced. I installed some GKtech V3 arms, subframe risers and solid diff mounts to complete the rear end. The radiator was swapped out at one point too, along with the hoses and clutch fan setup as the OEM unit had a nasty crack in it. I opted for a GKtech unit as a replacement, instead of going for the more popular thermo fan conversion. The GKtech fan is a direct fit to SR engines, however on RB’s you need an adaptor plate as the PCD is slightly different. Installation is pretty straight forward though. You can see the vast difference between the original fan and the GKtech fan. I also bought a pair of Bride Brix II seats off Benny and got some rails to suit. I went over a few other things like changing the tie rod ends to better units as the previous owner used some funky bolt on rack ends and cut the stock units down. I made a metal intake pipe too as it was using the factory unit with all the holes blocked with random stuff ha-ha. Anyway, with all of that out-of-the-way. It was finally time to take this beast to the track. It’s debut was an event at Wakefield held by Cursed Sundays DC. I was a little anxious drifting Wakefield as it’s very unforgiving if you come off track, and I wasn’t familiar with how this particular Skyline would handle. But all in all I got used to it pretty quick. In saying that I managed to buckle one of my MAE riversides on short track, I was pretty bummed about that. That’s drifting though! The wheel is currently being looked after by Barrel Bros in Milperra NSW. Cool bunch of dudes that welded up a crack in one of my Ordens before I mounted them on the car. Benny came out to the drift day and got a rad video of me drifting “schlong track” it’s a mixture of long and short track, you cut back into short track in a reverse layout. Super fun!

After this time period I went through a few cars. I went back to my roots and got a Eunos Roadster Shortly after I was persuaded into buying my Stagea back I made it look cool again and decided to move on from it. SO I managed to swap it for this neat S15 Unfortunately I never got to see a track day in it. But it was a cool car with some good mods. I ended up selling it for top dollar to a P plater. Sometimes I miss this car. Shortly after, I bought Skyline number 5! Here's a snippet from a blog post I wrote about the S15 to R33 transition.

Onto my third and fourth R33 Skylines Both of these were my mates cars. The third one I owned was Paulie's. He decided it was time to jump back into a car that has little triangles spinning inside it's engine. So a deal was done and I hopped back into yet another R33. There was an event called Wakefield Matsuri coming up so I decided to take the R33 down. Unfortunately the R33 didn't have the same idea as I and within a few laps it gave up the ghost. Loosing power and spitting oil all over the place. This caused me to miss out on I think 3 matsuris now. The fourth R33 was my best friends, Benny's car. He had an off at Wakefield resulting in a broken rear end. He came to the conclusion to take a break from the game and wanted to sell his car. We worked out a deal where I'd strip the car I got from Paulie to pay for his car, as they had similar parts. So the dud R33 lasted about a week before it was all stripped down. The R33 I got from benny lasted a few months but ended up needing to sell it due to loosing my job. I ended up cleaning her up good though!

Hey guys, Thought I'd do a little write up on my current R33. For those who don't know me, I run a blog called Run It Hard! and also run a group and page on Facebook called R Chassis. Here's a little history of my cars: My first R33 Skyline This was my gateway into the R33 Skyline. I picked it up on the cheap and it had some great mods on it, like a GT3071R. It was fricken awesome to drive! But after a few months of ownership the engine let go. Everything spiraled out of control from then and I decided to rebuild it all. When that was all said and done the rebuilt engine had let go on the dyno. There was a big shit-storm with the builders and ended up going through fair-trading to get my money back. After all of this I decided to scrap the build and move on to another car I owned. This cars ownership was from 2011 to 2013 My Nissan Stagea This is probably one of my most known cars, my humble Nissan Stagea RS4. I traveled to Camperdown - Victoria to pick it up. Stock as a rock it eventually changed into a drift machine. Though it wasn't smooth sailing unfortunately. A lot of problems occured each time I took it to the track and once something was rectified, a new issue would rise. In the end I got it to a point where I was considerably happy with it. But an oppurtunity arose on where my partner and I could own our first home. So I decided to sell the Stagea to help funds etc. At one point I bought the car back, but a lot of it was changed/pulled apart/de-tuned. I got to the point where I thought I have spent enough money on this car, and I wasn't willing to do that again so on it went. Adam's second R33 This was a good, simple set up R33. Very reliable and good fun to drive. I can't remember how long I kept it for but I think it was only a few months. I had the urge to get it painted though as it had some real bad paint fade and the clear was peeling from the roof. More to come!

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Brand: nissan Model: 350Z Track Version One Tyres: Yes only a pair, 225/40R18, pair have no tyres. Pair / Set: Set PCD: 5x114.3 Diameter / Width / Offset: 18x8 +30 Location: Cecil Hills Willing to Ship: Yes Price: $450 ono Willing to Swap: No Wheels have some minor rash, selling due to no longer using them. SMS me on 0490169671 if you're interested.

Alright guys, got plenty of pics uploaded, head over here to get them! Here's some of my faves

Going through all the pics on my camera now, I think we managed to get a snap of everyones car! They'll be up shortly

Awesome cruise, had a blast! the missus took a heap of pics so I'll go through them tonight and get them uploaded!

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Was used to low mount a t67 on a RB25. 45mm vband flange. $300 or swap for unmodified rear housing Rear housing is interchangable on the following turbos Kinugawa TD06SL2-20G, TD06SL2-25G, , TD06SL2-601, T67-25G - Greddy TD06SL2-20G, T67-25G So if you plan to low mount your TD06, this would be perfect for you! Cecil hills NSW Happy to ship at buyers expense. SMS me on 0490169671 Thanks Adam

Was used to low mount a t67 on a RB25. 45mm vband flange. $300 or I'm willing to swap for unmodified rear housing (going to high mount it). Cecil hills NSW Happy to ship at buyers expense. SMS me on 0490169671 for pics.

Another one from me

Hey guys, Just picked up a Precision 5858 off a mate that needs a rebuild. It currently has a .63 rear housing and I was curious if anyone has seen any results with this kind of set up on a RB25. I've seen Rondofj's results with slightly smaller 5558/.63 combo and his car made 286kw with full boost around 3600-3800rpm. So I'm assuming I'd have no issues running a 5858 with the same rear housing ... might make the magical 300kw mark too? (kinda all I want on a unopened RB25 for drift anyway). My guess is it would be responsive as f**k, just wondering if it'll choke in the top end, and/or cause excess exhaust heat/restrictions etc. Thanks! Edit: I saw the 5858 on the RB25 neo on the last page too, very impressive!

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Dmax 20mm wide front guards R32 R33 M spec rear pods R33 mirrors SOLD!

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As the title states, I have a pair of brand new genuine DMAX front guards to suit R32 Skyline. Never been fitted! How they look fitted $250 ono Happy to ship at buyers expense Located Cecil Hills SMS me on 0490169671 Adam.

My old girl got a make over recently, and I finally got my Ordens on her too!