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Updates time.

Gave her the fastest bath of her life. And a quick cover with Zaino. 

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Still need to fix the drivers headrest of the nismo covers. And give the interior a clean......

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So... How to tell i like nismo? Also i just noticed i need to straighten the horn... lewl There is also a Nismo boost gauge in the circle vent... Missed that in the pic. 

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Will get some decent shots when i can.... 

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I'm still doing short term oil changes, will swap to a genuine filter when it's been driven a bit more. 

Next order ill order another nismo sock for the oil filter....

Also looking into options for the battery. Possibly a stand+enclosure welded up.... at the moment it's literally propped up with wood hahahaha

Few questions...

The black fuel line that runs over the plenum.. Should i braid that for the lulz? 

Also considering either braiding or getting one of the old school greddy hard pipes for the top Rad hose...???

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I finally managed to get my hands on a decent condition optioned up foot rest, and i didn't have to pay drug (nismo) money for it. Pretty stoked. When that arrives that means the interior is pretty much done. Unless as stated above i want a nismo cluster and/or the optioned knee pads.....

Gearbox has a slight crunch 4th syncro. 

Or new diffs? !!

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Just now, ActionDan said:

Tip all of that money you might spend into my car instead, know that it went to a good cause? 

 

I'll tell you what, you give me the car and ill spend all the money on it. 

An interesting counter offer.... 

The car did come from Canberra actually, maybe it was always meant to be yours. 

As for your list, I would rebuild box. Reliability/avoiding further damage over upgrades IMO. 

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22 minutes ago, Robzilla32 said:

Why Quaife instead of Nismo at the front?

A lot of ppl seem to prefer them over the Nismo. I'm not sure why as the reasons they specify it sounds more like a setup issue personally.

Personally I've been in a couple of cars with Nismo front diffs setup correctly by RPM and they were fine after run-in.

I'd do transfer case mod>front diff> rear diff (in that order)

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