Damo's R32 Gts-r, On Going Project Fun Car. History And Use Full Info

[DJRIFT]

the pipes are done and polished aparently much to my suprise. so ill get them back wednesday then have a crack next weekend at finishing them.

cams timing belt ect are back on to.

[richzx]

Nice, neat lobster backing! It seems like you made all the mistakes on mine and yours will be schmik.

[DJRIFT]

Nice, neat lobster backing! It seems like you made all the mistakes on mine and yours will be schmik.

i had so much fun building your dump that i just had to make another one. ive upgraded some of the tools thoe that are making all the difference. it wasnt a bad job that whole system for a pair of noobs.

[DJRIFT]

It would have been un-australian to not have taken advantage of a day off and worked on my car today.

only a few hours thoe a i ahd to spend some of the day with the other half.

i collected my welding jobs and to my suprise my mate john had polished the pipes to.

he had done an outstanding job especialy for the price.

i put them back in and started on the centre section.

this is as far as ive gotten.

thats everything tacked in bar the front section of the rear pipe. im also only half way through making a splitter to put the 3 1/2 into 2 x 3" pipes

it looks ruff now but ill tidy it up.

i also started on the new colour scheme for my wheels as i got some more wheels recently and have finaly decided on what i want the over all car to look like.

its a bit of a wait and see now as i have a few more coats to go and i have to pain up the rears to match. hopefully they will look the part.

New dead line is an event around the 20th of Feb. so it needs to see the rollers in about 2 weeks. yay.

[jangles]

that paint should look pretty trippy!

[DJRIFT]

paints looking good but ill have to wait till all the rims have tyres to show them off. still a few more coats to do on the rears.

ive lined up some 295 tyres to have a play on once the rims are painted.

i spent a good hour or more trying to make the next part of the split pipe. third time lucky i cut the peipe just right to fit. im hoping to have the finished item back early next week. that will inspire me to get the rest of the engine together.

i made up the hot side cooler pipe last night. one pice from turbo to intercooler. ill put a pic up once thats done.

ive made up a bracket to mount my engine dampner to. (these are a grate bit of gear. and they save engine mounts) should get that back with the exhaust.

generaly heaps of little jobs done. will put some pics up after the weekend.

[Rowdy]

those pipes came up really well man, update?

[DJRIFT]

just a small update.

these are the pipes before being welded and polished.

just for the haters. a gtr seat mounted on the stock seat mounts.

hot side cooler piping done. one pice turbo to cooler. this would be about the 10th revision of my cooler piping since i got the car.

engine dampener welded up. still have to fabricate mount on the engine side.

dump pipe braces to gear box to help cracking. i was going to heat wrap it but decided i better put a bung in for a wide band at some stage.

And the front wheels painted for now. rears are awaiting final coat.

hot side cooler piping was finished tonight just needs to be welded.

[DJRIFT]

thought id drag this back up.

no pic but weve had a massive few nights on the car and bar the a small amount of wiring and a diff the cars good to go. all then engine bits are back on just working on the finishing toutches. i got 50% of the floor welded back in so now i just need to finish that off. very happy with the results so far.

stay tuned for some pics.

[Beer Baron]

cool. sounds like good progress. definitely need more pics!!!

[XRATED]

Pic's dammmn it!!! ha ha ha.

[Joe_89]

Pic's dammmn it!!! ha ha ha.

Agreed

When i saw you masking up the wheels I was pretty skeptical because i like the colour scheme they were, but they came out pretty good Would like to have seen them with the red on them still though

[DJRIFT]

Agreed

When i saw you masking up the wheels I was pretty skeptical because i like the colour scheme they were, but they came out pretty good Would like to have seen them with the red on them still though

thanks for the comments on the wheels. i seen this idea on a car from last years tokyo auto salon and that was on a full black and white car. ive since seen the same idea on an orange lambo in the states. it fits my way of thinking somthing a bit left field. i honestly dont like change but i like to try new ideas that people are to scared to do.

i left the red lip but it looked to much on the wheel. im sure the finished over all package will look the part. only a few days ago i came up with some stickering to tie them in with.

and as for pics. ill see how i go tomorow night other wise it will be during the weekend. but the section of floor that has been replaced now sports camo paint to blend in with the rest of it and my 4" intake pipe is repping some monster crinckle. its realy just a show car now. i hope it brakes down on the first few runs so i can sit in the pits with the bonnet up. haha.

[DJRIFT]

ok update time.

started the week looking at this

and this

i spent most of the week working on this shitter. everything i went to do required custom work. nothing went to plan as usual.

somthings i did were weld in the last half of the floor.

that ended looking like this

mounted the turbo up and made intake pipe

painted up and fitted my home made bomex type mirrors

and finished off the side pipes. wheels ect.

we also did a bit to my mates black drift car. he recently brougt an origin cabon GT wing

i ran the car at barsky yesterday but after a dozen runs the turbo shat itself. as vedence the turbo tried to eat itself.

this left me running a fair bit of peak.

we had 4 r32s down there for the day. one kept blowing fuel pump fuses because the metal baffel in the tank had come loose and was hitting the fuel pump wiring and shorting it outout. this is the seccond time ive seen these baffels come loose.

mine had boost issues then terminal boost issues. open wheeling diff. poor front end grip caused by bad alignment and tyre combo and a useless driver

bens car had a fuel leak and all the sensors i had wired into the dash the night before hadnt been calibrated so they didnt work

the black car had a "not accept throttle" fault that turned into being an open circuit wire between the tps and ecu. somthing that has now accured twice on cars i know, and a power steering pump missalignment fault that caused it to shread a belt, so we changed brackets from my dead 32 to his car an then the belt finaly broke. was very close to anyway, then we moved the pupm and bracket to be fitted like mine lower on the block due running out of belts. that fixed the belt shreading issue but the issue it has had for a long time of power steering going normal then hard then normal half way thrugh a corner was still present. that fault resulted in him loosing power steering during a scando and hitting a wall. luckily due to the massive wheels it only left paint marks on the rims and mirror.

as my car was out of action i also lent my coil packs to another r32 driver to allow him to continue drifting miss free.

to redeem the day i got to do track car V drift car time attack in the black 32. that was a ball. i havent had that much fun driving for a long time. pushing road tyres to there limits.

i also made this for fun.

[DJRIFT]

didnt realise i haddent posted but the car made 270rwkw on 20 psi. i didnt get to see what it was like thoe. worst luck

[sav man]

[Beer Baron]

nice mate. I still LOVE the side pipe effort. full credit mate, it's an awesome set-up and very practical. no more squashed/bashed/dented/ripped off exhaust pipes for you.

[DJRIFT]

nice mate. I still LOVE the side pipe effort. full credit mate, it's an awesome set-up and very practical. no more squashed/bashed/dented/ripped off exhaust pipes for you.

thanks mate

i think every one that seen them on the week end aproved. i can say thoe that they are noisy as hell inside the car. somthing i will have to adress once its going again.

[PHaT MR30]

Car is looking really good Damo, shame about the turbo... surely its not even that old?

And as for noisy in the car, I found the best way is to get a better helmet with ear muffs and that

[XRATED]

Hey damo, just stuff the sound shield box full of fire blankets... help cut the ressonance down.

Dude--- sucks about the turbo!

You know, I recon a nice set of red top rb20 rocker covers in crincle red would look good toooo....