R32 Gtr Long Term Love, Now Project

[MBS206]

So there I was, going through some old messages when I find something interesting... Someone offering to the sell this R32 with no engine in it, for $13k... 

And that was deemed expensive back then!!!

[r32-25t]

Bet there’s a lot of people who wish they could have taken that offer now 

[MBS206]

4 minutes ago, r32-25t said:

Bet there’s a lot of people who wish they could have taken that offer now 

I said it to my missus, I should have taken the offer when you gave. Even entirely untouched it would be worth so much money now!

[r32-25t]

Thankfully no one did and I’ve still got it 

[r32-25t]

It came up on my memories that on the 24 of April 2015 it hit 130,000kms and I went out and looked at what it has now which is exactly 134,500kms so in 8yrs it’s done 4,500kms 

[r32-25t]

tank is in the boot and plumbed and the oil filter has been moved and plumbed back up. Also now has oil in the tank ready to prime the pump

front bar is back on permanently now, I love the way that cooler looks behind the bar 

[MBS206]

That's looking good Brett!

 

You must be super close to finished (in terms of the list, not necessarily time )

 

Once it's all back on all fours, and running, is this going to end up like a once a month car that you take for a cruise, or you're planning to still drive it as hard as it's been built to be driven and truly enjoy it?

 

I ask as I know some of us still love these cars for what they are/were. Whereas others are now trying to turn them into old collectible cars that should be in "private museums" and barely touched for fear of the loss of the vehicle.

[soviet_merlin]

You were right about the intercooler Brett. The fitment is perfect. Love it!

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

2 hours ago, MBS206 said:

drive it as hard as it's been built to be driven and truly enjoy it

It's like have a hot missus you don't oots oots once in a while.

What's the point?

I'm sure Brett will give it a oots oots lol.

[r32-25t]

It’ll be a bit of both, it’ll get driven on the street occasionally to just enjoy driving it and then taken to roll racing and a few events like that to really stretch its legs 

[r32-25t]

It’s not a museum piece, while being a fairly clean car it was my daily when I couldn’t afford 2 cars and it has a few stone chips and etc on it, also has 134k on the clock! No one would use a car with that many kms as a collection car lol

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Just put in a Nismo dash with 30k kms on it, someone will go wow.. such low kms 😂

[MBS206]

7 hours ago, r32-25t said:

It’s not a museum piece, while being a fairly clean car it was my daily when I couldn’t afford 2 cars and it has a few stone chips and etc on it, also has 134k on the clock! No one would use a car with that many kms as a collection car lol

The Commodore crew don't share your opinion, they'll put 400k km examples on blocks

[r32-25t]

2 hours ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

Just put in a Nismo dash with 30k kms on it, someone will go wow.. such low kms 😂

It’s got a nismo speedo but I made the clock say the same as the original dash 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

1 hour ago, r32-25t said:

It’s got a nismo speedo but I made the clock say the same as the original dash 

Oh man, you had your chance and wasted it 😂

[r32-25t]

Car won’t make all Japan day 😞 I’ll update what’s going on soon 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

oh noesssss

Just put your spare Nissan badges onto the XR6 Turbo

[r32-25t]

21 hours ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

oh noesssss

Just put your spare Nissan badges onto the XR6 Turbo

It’s already starting to become unreliable it doesn’t need Nissan added to it to make it worse 

[r32-25t]

Ok so the reason I decided to cancel all Japan day is I was finishing off the last of the wiring and started to look at having to do the relays and fuses for the fuel pumps, thermo fans, trigger for the power steering pump and etc. after looking at the number of wires that were going into the car, I took a step back and thought nah f**k this there’s a better and much neater way to do this!! 

insert pd16 (pdm) here and the problem is solved only issue is I now need to strip the wiring harness, remove the i/o 12 box from it and fit the pd16 instead

I got very lucky and it just happened they came into stock the day after I ordered it, now while this is a set back and will mean having to redo some work, it’ll end up being better for it 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

I'll buyyour I/O, time to wire up my brake input for cruise control.