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Went to drive it the other day. No spark... Dead battery after sitting untouched for 2 weeks whilst on holiday.

So got the new one in today. Changing a battery should not be so bloody annoying!!!

Trying to get the amp out which is mounted on backboard behind carpet wall, then trying to line up the holes again to put it all back in.. sheesh

5 minute job is now an hour!! Glad I won't have to do that again..

strut brace wasn't so much an issue, as i replaced it with another skinny one, so slipped straight under.

A little fiddly getting to the terminal bolts though. Worst of it was just the mounting for the amp. It's mounted to the frame the battery sits on =S

Bought some steel for front reo, when i was in mitchell i dropped into trojan.

He has 18" gold Volk GTC rims. They fit. I like. I like price.

Are they good wheels?

I mean have people had probs with them?

GREAT RIMS - I have :yes: on my 34 GTT.

Check they are 18's.

I know he has a set of 17"'s

No problems. One of the best

Rays Engineering - cant get better

Edited by Sinista32

Thanks, will check.

They look in real good nik too.

9" for the back and 8"for the front.

No...

17"x 9" all 4

Hmmmm.... maybe i should keep looking.

Edited by D.I.Y. Mik

Today i rebuilt the often intermittent R32 headlight switch. I Basically just pulled it all apart and sanded all the contact points, tested it out and it still did not work. :verymad:

So i pulled it apart and had a closer look at how the switch worked, everything seemed to be fine. However i thought it was worth trying to put more pressure on the contact points by stretching the spring mechanism about 1.5mm and it did the trick and now both headlights work.

The 3 black points have little springs under them that can be stretched to make the contact strong and also gives the switch a much better feel.

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Also took the car out to check tire pressures

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Confirmed my Central Locking is not working properly, could be from recent rain??? or the other night when the alarm went off cause of keys in my pocket.

Pretty sure yesterday the drivers door was the only one that would lock / unlock. (which is wrong)

Today the Drivers door is the only one that doesn't work. :(

Edit* Also, while looking through the paperwork I got with the car, mostly looking at the Alarm instructions etc, I flipped through the import papers. (guy I bought it from imported it.)

I can see that it says something about Auto to Manual conversion but I can't read Japanese (can anyone Help?) unsure of odometer reading at time of conversion...

In the pic of the car I can see it had Series 2 tailights on it but it landed in Aust with Series 1s. (confirmed by previous owner)

but also it looks like it had R33 GTR rims in Japan too but landed with 16" ASSO rims. :( No Fair!!!

Went to drive it the other day. No spark... Dead battery after sitting untouched for 2 weeks whilst on holiday.

So got the new one in today. Changing a battery should not be so bloody annoying!!!

Trying to get the amp out which is mounted on backboard behind carpet wall, then trying to line up the holes again to put it all back in.. sheesh

5 minute job is now an hour!! Glad I won't have to do that again..

r32 batteries are easy to change ;)

Time to re-arrange the front bit. Its too crappy.

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Now i have a welder and some steel its time to make it nice.

And shorten those pipes, with an intercooler flip.

No butchery this time, its cut and weld it good time.

This should be part of my "final solution"

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