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There it sat for a while.

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Went to the track a few times.

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Did alot of this for the hell of it.

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Found this afterwards

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Turns out i burnt the floor, carpet and wiring as well.

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Few months later this happened, poor thing :/

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New turbo on and shit, still to be tuned properly.

Larger wastegate and headstuds, fix the flex fuel stuff, battery relocation and a continue to tidy the engine bay more. I bought another gtr shell as a project track car so i suspect this motor will go into that car.

  • 2 months later...

love the wheels, my head is slowly moving away from the meister/professor style of stepped lips and bolted centers (which i still hrrrng for) and really appreciating smooth spoked/ concave wheels.
and those are a nice classic.

  • 1 month later...
  • 1 month later...

So due for a little bit of an update. Drove this around for a day to tune it towards the end of march and found:

Alternator no longer works properly when it gets warm, resulting in low fuel pressure etc etc

Bovs are open at idle and dont seem to like holding pressure

Aparently i cant run any less that 23ish psi without pulling the gate out to replace spring (ran 14psi before no worries?)

Solved all these problems by removing the interior........ Well in my mind at least.

Plan is to run NSW time attack for a laugh, probably need to get some tyres sorted haha. So weekend just gone removed seats and vacuumed carpet, removed amplifier and unnessisary cabling in boot. Started to remove interior trims to fit harness bar and continue wire tidy. Still have to fix above mentioned problems before it gets tuned again but at least i have a course of action.

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