R32 Gts4 - Restoration/rebuild

[Chris Rogers]

ordered the rear right guard yesterday - touch over $800 for it. due in about 3 weeks pending freight.

[Chris Rogers]

whizzn droped a LOT of stuff of today (ta! let me know when you need to borrow those lights ) now I have all the intercooler pipes and only need a BOV return pipe and then that part is complete.

I remember someone saying they had factory cruise on a 32 sedan. I would like to talk to you and get a photo or two of how the actuator is mounted. been looking at wrecks and it appears they all use the same setup with different mounting. also found a U13 bluebird with a leather wrapped wheel and cruise buttons on it. I will look at it over the next few days along side a R32 that is also sitting in the same yard and see if the wheel fits or not.

[Chris Rogers]

rear guard is here. yet to pick it up but it has landed. once I pay for that it is a full strip of the thing again and then onto the panel shop for prep/fitting/paint.

[Chris Rogers]

spent a couple of hours building/testing door harnesses last night. both have been rebuilt to LOOK original but the drivers one now has a OEM actuator harness stubbed into it. I stil have to mod the body harness to take that so that it works from the original controller.

have a few images that I will put up later and a few new parts.

[Chris Rogers]

new rear shelf. this fixes the missing lower right corner problem I now have with the existing one. These ARE NOT cheap!

new rear shelf - close up for part number.

rebuilt harness for the drivers door. the one on the right has been redone to accept a factory actuator.

still yet to replace the body grommets. the oval one is hard to find intact.

the one on the left is a spare R32 item I pulled out of a trashed door. used it as a guide to place things.

close up showing the difference.

Plain R32 has a two pin plug on it for the central locking switch. these never had the actuator on the drivers side from factory.

Some of the GTRs had Dealer fitted keyless entry on them and they HAD this setup.

Tthe *new* harness has a 4pin plug to take the factory actuator and route is to the stock control box in the drivers kickpanel.

the plug part of the new harness was taken from a later RPS13 180SX as those HAVE the actuator in the drivers door.

[zebra]

Im amazed the after all these years, you can still get these things

[Chris Rogers]

to be honest if I didn't need a chassis number to register the thing I could pretty much build it from scratch. small brackets are dying out but all the major panels are around. that rear shelf was bought locally ex MLB and most of the car is ex MLB. trim bits are ex osaka for me but still available. the electrics are extinct that's why I an rebuilding some of the harnesses and changing the old ones over for newer ones.

one thing I DO need though it the rear fuel tank strap support (bottom of spare tire well rear of car - left side) as that bit is NOT available and everyone I have found has been rusted out.

[zebra]

Thats pretty cool that there is stock in aus

[Miguelone]

I've got a couple of those harness boots from my old bootlid harness, look pretty similar if not exactly the same if ya want em.

[Chris Rogers]

Thats pretty cool that there is stock in aus

when you think about it these things are as popular as the VN commodore. parts are readily available for them and that's a good thing. don't need any more harnesses. I have 3 sets now.

[zebra]

Yeah true!

Still the amount that have being crashed over the years I thought new panels would be thin on the ground

[Chris Rogers]

nah they make more.... its only when the demand drops off on certain bits that they kill them off.

take a infiniti Q45 - try to buy bits for one of those. not a popular car and bits VERY hard to find new.

this thing I can pull up on my lookup list and get parts prices and the like quite easily.

to put it another way , if everyone keeps restoring R32 GTRs then the GTST or GTS4 will still live as well.

some parts are getting expensive though. the alloy GTR bonnet is a touch under $2k new..

[zebra]

are they still making them?

Most manufactures stop producing spares after 10 years

[Chris Rogers]

Whzzn,

FOUND A LH headlight seal. I want to copy it into rubber somehow. it is intact (barely.) and useable.

[Chris Rogers]

are they still making them?

Most manufactures stop producing spares after 10 years

seem to be. every time I have asked they have said available ex japan and a short lead time OR a long lead time IF they had to make it.

[zebra]

ahh very cool

[RBish]

very thorough build, keeping it stock why did you go for the rb25det and how are you keeping the awd?

would it be possible to get a rhr quarter panel, window seal that the window pushes up through and the the trim around the window on the drivers door for my gts4?

[Chris Rogers]

very thorough build, keeping it stock why did you go for the rb25det and how are you keeping the awd?

would it be possible to get a rhr quarter panel, window seal that the window pushes up through and the the trim around the window on the drivers door for my gts4?

RB25 is from a C34 Stagea so 4wd. it stays stock apart from a intake swap. I kept the original GTS4 box as it is the SAME box as the GTR (with ratio changes) so that keeps it somewhat original. engine choice was easy for me. RB26 cost too much - RB20 too old and parts hard to find.

parts are easy to get. nissan have them providing you have money to source them as some are not cheap.

the door trim pieces ARE NOT cheap new. about $1200 for both sides ex osaka. yet to bother with these due to cost. working on body first.

[turboedsloth]

one thing I DO need though it the rear fuel tank strap support (bottom of spare tire well rear of car - left side) as that bit is NOT available and everyone I have found has been rusted out.

I have a 32 sedan wreck in the backyard i'm scabbing bits out of for my build, i'll check that strap for you if you want

[Chris Rogers]

TA!!

When you look down into the spare tyre area about middle of the back wall you will see a bolt and nut pop up there that is the bracket I need.

the middle bit is what I am after. that is the top of it. I cannot find a decent shot of the thing. if you do have it chop around the panel and leave it intact. that way I can salvage it for mine.