Hi there Driftworkers My name as you can see is Dan, Im 20yo and live in glorious New zealand I just purchased my first gtst on the weekend after going for a few rides with a couple of mates in their silvias i decided to bite the bullet and get amongst it! The specs so far are as follows: 1990 R32 4 door Rb25det greddy copy front facing plenum 80mm throttle body greddy bov front mount intercooler Big alloy radiator 2x10” thermofans 38mm external running 14psi DSR430 genII turbo on std manifold standard exhaust for WOF (noise regs) 5puk solid centre gearsmashing clutch rb20det gearbox with smashed 2nd Standard viscous lsd BC gold coilovers Front and rear strut braces Bn copy kit Nz made coffee table drift/drag wing 17x10 DTM Diezel rims Stripped interior with just seats and dash left My plans as money allows are as follows: Fit my new Nardi 350mm Deep corn steering wheel when it arrives from DW Fit Rb25det bigbox gearbox when it arrives Run a full 3” mandrel bent exhaust from the turbo (no mufflers) All adjustable susp arms Modified steering knuckles and tie rods Modified lower control arms Then im going to do as many DMNZ track days possible as they hold at least one a month at anyone of the many tracks we Have over here which is mint, Sorry for the lack of pics ill chuck some up tonight when i get home from work Ill try keep this as updated as possible because as you guys know these builds never go to plan and always go way over the top. Dan
Time for a small update I’m a little gutted at the moment as the RB25DET big gearbox I had jacked up for $900 fell through, and I can’t afford to buy any others as everybody else wants $2g + and that would hold up me getting to the track asap, so I found a fresh recon RB20DET box for $650 and bought a Excedy 5puk sprung centre clutch, so hopefully the dampening with this clutch should be a bit easier on the gearbox. So until that all arrives the old girl is parked up in my mate Damien’s shed next to his S13 drifter which is awaiting a good rebuild/makeover.
Hey bro, Im from Waipukurau. Small town just south of Napier/Hastings. yourself? Good to see another NZ'er on here! haha
hit up otene road? im from hastings and i have a r32 im currently putting a 20det in. that road has a mixture of 25's and 35's. its alot of fun to drift..
nah lol. dont wana risk my licence again haha. lost it last november. was the worst 6 months EVER! only just got it back hahaha. what's the plans with your skyline man? I bought this thing to take it to the track and be a good boy... haha
yeah man... lost mine last june for 6 months too... i race it at manfeild. just wanna get the engine in and be good for awhile too. but im going to get sway bars for it and then adjusties when i can afford it. and i would like to get boost upto 1 bar but thats a while away yet.
New clutch turned up in its pretty pink box today. Hoping to do a massive mission to Cambridge NZ tommorow after work and pick up my new freshly reconned RB20DET gearbox. Then on sunday me and my buddy Rob are planning on chucking the new box and clutch in at my old man's workshop. Oh and I'm really considering lowering it a little moar while the old girl's up on the hoist. Ill be sure to snap up some picks over the weekend so untill then, Peace
sorry bout the sh*t quality phone pics but the old girl is parked up with her brother from another chassis series. which is awaiting a good make over and tidy up as my buddy damian had a tyre delaminate on him and smashed his fibreglass guard to bits hahaha heres a pic of him on form at the most recent taupo DMNZ track day
cheers guys. i love the wing too haha. had an old bloke who looked about 70 odd hit me up at the servo the other day asking about the skyliner, spent bout 5mins chatting to him, he was lovin it! haha. oh and when i was parked up in town getting a feed with the mrs an older foreign couple that must of been visiting NZ started taking photo's, so im glad even some people of the older generation can appretiate the old hack lol
Update time! well a little bit has been happening lately. my nardi turned up, thank you put the new gearbox in which is no good got it in and found that 2nd gear syncro must be a bit dodgy as it doesn't like down shifting to 2nd at all but all is good because a good mate has hooked me up with a free RB30e gearbox heres a pic of the old solid centre clutch which i took out and replaced with a 5 puk Exedy HD clutch i got through work which feels so much better and makes me not feel so bad when dumping and kicking the clutch lol my 15yo little brother got bored at school so wagged and went to the metal work room and spun me up a new gearknob when i had it parked in my buddys shed we pushed it outside and noticed the camber and toe on the left rear looked a little out of wack so upon further inspection i found that one of the bottom arm brackets had cracked off the subframe luckily another one of my friends was reshelling his RB25DET r32 coupe at the moment and had a couple of spare shells sitting around for parts. so i bought one of them for $150 and the mission began. we lifted it up with the forklift and dropped all of the rear end out of it diff and all. not being the most competent welder i didnt want to risk it breaking again so i swapped the subframes over and put some lock collars in there while i was at it i now have a spare diff which i have had welded up i've also scored an RB30E powered VL commodore manual which im guna keep and do up as a bit of n/a drift beater/missile to take to trackdays for a bit of fun and to let the boys have a skid if they want. oh well thats about it for this time. i better go do some work hahaha. ill leave you guys with a pic of my car and my workmates VL commy as they sit outside my work at the moment PEACE
