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So this is my r32, I've have had it for four years, not a huge amount of progress had been made, this probably has a lot to do with it being stored 300km away from where I live.

Anyway I'd best start from the beginning, I bought this R32 sedan off a guy from my uni, as a very tidy street car (in hindsight i wish I didn't) Originally it was an rb20de manual which has since been fitted with an Rb20det.

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First thing and something that annoyed me was the towbar, so that got removed pretty quickly.

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Bumper support had a small bit of rust on it so I tidied that up while I was there.

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Still more to come.....

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Since the car came with a GTR grille and bonnet, I thought I may as well get the bumper too. Needed to get the angle grinder onto the bumper support to get it to fit.

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I did a few drift days and decided it needed a bit more grunt and some changes to the handling. This took longer than I expected. it sat in the shed for about two years before I decided to attack it. I've decided that this will be a full time track car as it's just going to be too hard to get any drift spec knuckles legal. The next set of posts are of work carried out within the last 10 months.

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