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Managed to track down some old school Bride Euro reclinables, they were pretty stiff to say the least but for $300 for the pair I could say no as my stock gtr seats are mint and didn’t want to ruin them. Got them reupholstered in alcantara (that stuff is $$$) new springs, cushions and strengthened bolsters. Now sitting on genuine bride rails

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Treated myself to a wee xmas present, my tuner had managed to score an awesome deal for the link dash, so i went for the 7" dash with the Mako dash mount to complete replace the stock cluster. It was a bit of a mission as the R32 ran a mechanical speedo drive, however friend of my had a spare s13 speedo drive the converts mechanical to digital. We are currently working out how to get the power steer to work, as i believe the original cluster used the mechanical speedo input to send a signal to the hicas ecu to feed power to the power steer. 

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Gearbox has arrived safely and have bolted it in.

All i can say is wow what a box. It is a wee bit noiser than what i had hoped for however now i can finally give the car a good rip.

It feel really weird being a brand new box, there is no slope in it at all. I had opted for the centre billet plate upgrade and using the stock 5th however for some reason i can hear it whine in 5th while cruising on the motor way.

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On 03/03/2021 at 4:52 PM, UWISSH! said:

Doesn’t stock 5th just refer to the ratio?? As it’s a straight cut box all the gears are straight cut/ can’t use a syncro gear 

No, have a good look. It is the actual stock Nissan synchro 5th gear arrangement. This entire gearset is also completely synchro with straight cut except helical 5th - straight cut has nothing to do with being synchro or not.

Regarding the extra whine, it comes from having a straight cut input shaft gear arrangement vs stock helical input.

This would definitely be my preferred synchro gearset of choice, well done.

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7 hours ago, BK said:

 

No, have a good look. It is the actual stock Nissan synchro 5th gear arrangement. This entire gearset is also completely synchro with straight cut except helical 5th - straight cut has nothing to do with being synchro or not.

Regarding the extra whine, it comes from having a straight cut input shaft gear arrangement vs stock helical input.

This would definitely be my preferred synchro gearset of choice, well done.

Ahh completely missed the second pic and only seen the gears in the 1st

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Hi all,

Just a little update over the last few months.

Car got retuned just before Chrome(NZ equivalent of Powercruise) managed to squeeze a little bit more power out and made 640kw and 987nm.

Unfortunately at the event I had blown my cold side intercooler pipe off 5 times and caused the turbo to overspeed. So off it went to get rebuilt.

Managed to sort a group buy and got myself a PPG Billet sequential.l, and upgraded my old and tired Endless front calipers as we were no longer able to get the rebuilt parts off the shelf.

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On 20/12/2021 at 2:26 PM, Looney_Head said:

nice, what make was your old gearset? was it JT that your got the PPG through?

i was running a PAR built by Sam at Neat Gearboxes. I got the PPG through JRS Performance,

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