R32 Sedan - Grip and Drift (have my cake and eat it too build)

[AngryRB]

nice strong curve, how does it drive?

[CRSKmD]

Drives pretty well. Only done a few freeway pulls so far have not had a chance to take it for a proper drive

[CRSKmD]

so i have the opportunity to get a GTS4 sedan. Can anyone convince me not to and stick with the RWD

[Burger]

If you go AWD, then no sideways fun. But a 26 swapped GTS4 sounds good... Have both?

[CRSKmD]

If you go AWD, then no sideways fun. But a 26 swapped GTS4 sounds good... Have both?

way i see it

AWD good for Grip and potentially safer/faster around track and during "spirited" driving. But worse for Skids and U-turns

[Burger]

Would the rwd/awd switch that people put on R32 GT-R's work on a GTS4? That might be the way to go if you want the best of both worlds.

[CRSKmD]

yeah you can get the variable ones which you can go from 100/0 right up to 50/50 drive bias. but the AWD chassis still has less lock and more weight

[Burger]

True. I would be looking at the GTS4 if the price is right.

[CRSKmD]

Unfortunately i was unable to look any further into the GTS4. but here is a potatocam drive by to enjoy

I plan to film a better clip at a laterdate.

[CRSKmD]

In an effort to reduce the laggy feel i went and bought a 4.36 ratio diff to replace my 4.08. the whole time i thought i had a Nismo GT 2 way but as it turn out it was a 1.5way hard to tell until i looked at it side by side with the new 4.36 nismo 2 way i bought. the new diff i bought is a 5 bolts vs the 6 bolt i had before. so nice upgrade there

i also wanted to fix the excessive front camber i have which was -3.8'. I did this by buying some superpro adjustable poly bushes. the old ones literally smelt like poo when we pushed them out haha

got under the car to swap out the diff and noticed this

subframe had to come out to fix this and at the same time i noticed my exhaust had done this to the rear bar

also the bushes were well buggered. I had been using metal subframe lock collars but it really was a bandaid solution.

burning out the old bushes.

ended up with whiteline poly bushes. i toyed with the idea of metal subframe risers but the whitelines came up for a good deal and it is still a street car. however even with a press the back two bushes were a pain to do and ended up up having to make this contraption up to get them in. Made from two Daihatsu strut tops drilled out and a pulley puller with a breaker bar and a jack pole

while it was out i scrubbed up and painted the subframe and arms. looked nicer imo and protects from rust

[jmknights93]

270kw would be a lot of fun on the old rb20.

Love the build. Keen for more updates!

[CRSKmD]

Booked a track day and was able to finally to stretch the cars legs with the new tune.

Bought a new set of wheels for track use, 17x9 +25 Rays Volk TE Fortresst. think old TE37 + AVS model 6 for the style and fitted up some brand new Hankook RS3 tyres to them in a 255/40/17. Got some help fitting them up

The wheel and tyre combo was bigger in practice than in theory. In theory they should have been +5mm each side fro tyre and -3 offset on the rim resulting in +2mm on the outside edge and 8mm on inside effective when compared to my 17x9 +22 AVS T7 with 245/40/17 but the Hankook tyres were bigger resulting in some rub. haha

sorted that out then on to wiring. perfect thing to be doing at midnight the night before track day.

Got out to Mallala nice and early and unpacked the car

out on track





ended the day with a jerrycan rescue for one of my mates also driving at the day.

Short video of one of my laps. My phone ran out of storage before the best lap of the day but i managed improved a few seconds on my best lap last visit with a 1:26.8. Overall it was a great day with only a few minor issues but i drove there, did the track day. then drove home so i call that a win.

Edited April 21, 2016 by CRSKmD

[Adz2332]

hey mate

what did the new diff set you back? ditto with the rims?

Edited April 21, 2016 by Adz2332

[CRSKmD]

hey mate

what did the new diff set you back? ditto with the rims?

got lucky $750 for the diff freshly inspected and setup and $850 for the set of rims with stuffed tyres

[CRSKmD]

not much new but i did have my car used for a photoshoot recently. So have some pictures. a few from my iphone and some from the photographer (watermarked ones).

heaps more on their site if people are interested

[CRSKmD]

Small update:

R34 LCA with adjustable lock stops to get my turning circle back as R34 LCA stock lock stops  got in the way long before the rack maxxed out.
end result was ~1m my turning circle.

TRUST Turbo heatshield to try and keep some heat off vac lines that melted last track day ...and for some bling haha

also picked up a hand held gimbal to muck around with and shot a bit of driveway test footage below

 

 

[Tom101]

Looks really clean! shame about the crash

[CRSKmD]

Signed up for another grip day at Mallala.
arrived bright and early and got the car unpacked and setup


Convinced my mate to come out in his RWD manual stagea.

mid turn in, Easy to see the tyres cross section here haha 

pitwall ft. "genuine" (fake) GTR grill doing its thing... i call it dynamic aero

nice deserve range of cars in my session

All in all a great day. Smashed my old PB and had a great time

[CRSKmD]

Video of my best lap for the day. Please excuse the lack of 3rd-2nd rev matching... brain was fairly fried by here 

 

[CRSKmD]

On 10/1/2016 at 7:49 PM, Tom101 said:

Looks really clean! shame about the crash

Cheers mate, it was a kind of a blessing in disguise as without it i likely wouldn't have have the "bugger it just track it" attitude.

Prior to the crash it may have ended up getting a full body refresh and being super clean but the trade off would have been more cautious use and less/no track time