Just Starting Out

[Jonno34]

Hey Everyone!

I just bought a Skyline R34 25GT, non turbo unfortunately...

Anyway, starting to think about giving the car a bit of a facelift, but I'm not really too sure where to start.

I'm thinking of doing the interior first, any ideas on easy stuff to DIY? i'm working on a bit of a tight budget.

[DCEIVR]

post some pictures up mate, that way we can give u ideas

[RusH_]

check out this thread clicky

Re-paint the interior trim,

Re-trim your stock door cards

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

forged LS1 TT conversion, brembo's, full carbon bonnet, boot, roof, front bar and skirts, motec ecu and dash, seam weld chassis, full roll cage, buckets....

oh... budget....

err... gearknob?

[Jonno34]

hey sorry took me so long to get pics up

just got back from overseas, been travelling

these are the pics i got when i bought the car

hope they help

[Jonno34]

sorry, just found a few more pics of the interior, hope they help

[tmg]

That's pretty nice man . Good to see it's manual - I got a 4 door sedan (taxi), which I wanna convert to manual some day, maybe even to RB25DE+T too.

A Pod filter will make a difference so that's a good place to start...other mods like redoing the interior??? How brave do you feel??? I'd personally like the colour of my centre console changed to something darker...

Dunno man, just have a good look through the car at things you'd like to change.

[RusH_]

Honestly a Pod filter wont make much of a noticeable difference except for the noise factor, but steering away from the debate on that (there are a fair few threads around discussing the effectiveness of a pod) it seems like you have the factory 4dr rims if im not mistaken?

Maybe get yourself one of 666DAN's LED kits for the dash, assuming your still sticking to cosmetic mods for the moment, i changed mine to blue last night, looks really good.

[Yo-Yo]

nice car,

maybe some throw over seat covers if you're on that tight of a budget? When I had my r34 I just got some plain black throw-overs with 'skyline' embroidered on the top section

you can kind of make them out in this pic

Edited January 22, 2009 by Yo-Yo

[Bennett]

Lower it and get new wheels. Will look a million times better..

[Jonno34]

mm yeah i was thinkin of adding the stock gt-r rims... dont really wanna attract too much attention from the cops adding flashy aftermarkets

the post on repainting the centre panels were a great help, thanks for the reference RusH, gonna go grab the spray paints and sandpaper very soon.

also at the moment buying some gear knobs/pedals/e brake handles

by the way, i found a really good wrapping kit for the interior, i wont be getting it for awhile since it costs around 600 to make a set. its on ebay if you just search r34 leather, you will notice it quite easily, hope thats of some help to everybody, but im sure u all already know about it, but just in case

anyway, thank you all so much for your help will be getin to work on the car ASAP and will post up pics of the results

[gtrkiet]

its a non turbo, so attention from cops wont be a problem for you ahaha.