R32 Gtr Fresh From Japan.. Almost

[Forgeperformance]

Have to ask did the exhaust come from sa?

 

[GRKGTR]

10 hours ago, Forgeperformance said:

Have to ask did the exhaust come from sa?

 

Bought it from Yahoo Japan and imported through Jesse Streeter.

[Forgeperformance]

I saw one for sale in sa  a few months ago. Missed out by 10 minutes haha. How does it sound?

[jake26]

Loving the build so far! So clean!

[GRKGTR]

11 hours ago, Forgeperformance said:

I saw one for sale in sa  a few months ago. Missed out by 10 minutes haha. How does it sound?

Sounds very good inside the car but I haven't heard it from outside yet haha

[GRKGTR]

So decided to just bite the bullet and order the Supertec R35 Brake adapters so they will be ready to be installed on the car after my next track day in June.

Seriously the quality of these things is insane and they are so light yet solid!

Also received this special box

I've already got the Ikeya Formula front camber arms (-10mm version) and I needed the lower control arms to complete the front suspension setup to adjust neg camber and caster to my liking and ensure my new wheels fit properly!

Also picked up new inner and outer ball joints as the current ones are worn and torn.

And I figured my current headlights are pretty crap so I got these LED's which a friend has proven work really well..

[SiR_RB]

Love ur work mate

what brand are the led headlight globes 

[GRKGTR]

1 hour ago, SiR_RB said:

Love ur work mate

what brand are the led headlight globes 

Nighteye.. Got them from ebay

[niZmO_Man]

LED globes, wow.

[GH05T]

i love my LED globes.

you get allot of the high horse, led bad light, blinding, hotspots washout, spewing all sorts of youtube based statsy ada yada. but they work so well, and the stock lights are so dangerouse

[GRKGTR]

26 minutes ago, GH05T said:

i love my LED globes.

you get allot of the high horse, led bad light, blinding, hotspots washout, spewing all sorts of youtube based statsy ada yada. but they work so well, and the stock lights are so dangerouse

With the stockies, I honestly can't see shit all and I want to be able to avoid all pot holes without needing the reflexes of a fox on speed.

@deongster runs them and he's very happy with them.

[GRKGTR]

So I fitted one side to show the difference but I bought the wrong fitment for my car. The later models have H1 where the earlier ones are H3.

But you get the idea for what difference it will make.

Ikeya Formula Front Lower Control Arms are now fitted and functioning beautifully!

Now my front suspension setup is complete and no more purchases are needed, I just need to replace the couple of chinese rear arms with Ikeya Formula stuff and get the rear Ikeya LCA's aswell to complete the whole setup!

[deongster]

On 2017-5-17 at 10:39 AM, GRKGTR said:

With the stockies, I honestly can't see shit all and I want to be able to avoid all pot holes without needing the reflexes of a fox on speed.

@deongster runs them and he's very happy with them.

Yeah i run them with both my high and low beams... they make a world of difference - starts up instantly - unlike HiD's 

i also have the mod - where if you switch on the high beam the low beam stays on... so i get massive amount of light... doesnt blind anyone

[niZmO_Man]

Night time, find a while wall, level ground, take car back 7m, set your camera to 50 ISO, take pictures (one halogen one LED).

Here's a "3,000 lm/30W" LED vs. H11

Car was ~5m from the wall.

Not to shit on your parade, but I haven't seen a "good" LED bulb.
R32 projectors are shit house, best to get rid of them instead of trying to overdrive them with HIDs or have a scattered LED. Retrofit!

Remember, bright foreground != good lighting, unless you like to only see what's in front of your bumper.

Oh and the F3 Fastbright ballasts in my GT-R warms up Philips 85122 bulbs as quick (if not quicker) as my OEM Subaru Denso slim ones ;). $50 HID kit will always be shit compared to "proper" ones.

I also have relays/wires for the headlights ("anti-flasher" setup), lows operate independently to highs. If lows are on, they don't turn off when I high beam. If lows are off, they don't turn on when I high beam.

 

If you're so hell bent on LEDs, you can always put these in:

Koito LED lows from Japan.

[jake26]

404, exhaust video not found

[GRKGTR]

5 hours ago, jake26 said:

404, exhaust video not found

Haha it's coming.. Track day on monday

[GRKGTR]

On 6/8/2017 at 8:01 PM, jake26 said:

404, exhaust video not found

 

 

Not the best video but before i back off the throttle I'm doing 7,5k rpm

[GRKGTR]

My mate is a cinematographer and he came along yesterday to do a short film of the track day.. Enjoy!
 

 

[GRKGTR]

So finally fitted the wheels, just need to get a bit more front neg camber to remove some rubbing.

[jaysevu]

Looks amazing mate. Are your guards rolled?