Nz R32 - Drifting forum

r32 · 03-06-2008, 08:25

My R32 4dr drifter. Its a long read....

I purchased it mid 2005, a grey r32 auto sedan with factory type-s bodykit, minus engine and box and planned to have it completed before round one of D1nz in 2006.

I stripped the entire car over a week and bolted on some spare 5stud front hubs and from then the car sat untouched till Jan 2006.

In January I moved house, so the car went on the truck and came with, once again I left it sitting there. A week and a half before round 1 of D1nz 2006 I decided I had to build the car

I pulled the BC adjustables and adjustable arms(castor, camber, traction and toe) from my road car and fitted them to the shell, purchased a 5stud conversion, diff and axles from a gts4 and fitted them to the car, rolled/lipped the guards, bought some 17x8 and 17x9 Gmax 050s and slapped em on and dropped her back on the pavement. It look pretty nice gunmetal grey with the bronze 17s, but this wasnt going to stand out enough.

Anywho, I towed the car to Petes Customs(a local fabricator here in CHCH) and he hooked me up on the half cage install (as he was just starting out). when I got the car back that night I removed the factory spotlights from the front bumper and binned them, then proceeded to angle grind a nice gapping hole into the front bar and bumper iron to accomodate the 600x300x100mm front mount intercooler, bolted on the cooler and refit the bumper. The car sat over the weekend until the real business started.

I took the week off work to complete the project in time and worked from 7am to roughly 2am Monday through Thursday night. I mounted the Battery box in the boot, ran power cables to the engine bay, refit the dashboard(minus all heater components and trim panels) mounted the fire extinguisher, cut holes in the inner guards for intercooler pipes and fit the manual pedals and clutch cylinders.

Time for the Driveline, A freshly imported r33 Rb25det and 5speed transmission was purchased off a mate, Chris. I slapped in a new Exedy 5 puck unsprung clutch disc and Heavy Duty pressure plate and dropped it all into the car, amazingly the 25t box bolt straight up to the auto bodyshell, which i was rather pleased about cause i didnt have to fab up a crossmember, in went the radiator, inty pipes etc. I custom made a r32 loom with r33 injector loom spliced in and had a "friend" solder it up for me while i continued the build. I fit the Kakimoto Racing 3inch cat back exhaust donated by Chris and Daito autoparts and had Pete weld up a 3inch front pipe to join it all to the turbo. Scott/MrX(another mate) dropped into the workshop and painted the car for me(after i sanded it for damn hours!) Kawasaki green with a black roof and bonnet.

The next day I fit a GTS link that i borrowed from Chris, filled the driveline with oils bled the brakes and fired her up. first pop and it went Yes! No time for testing, up on the trailer and off to Ashley at Xposed graphics for the sticker work. When i got the car back the following day, it really looked the part, I fitted a bucket seat that i borrowed off Adam and a harness i bought from sydneham park Chev spares and we were ready for the test drive. on went my road cars number plates SSSSHHHH! and at 11.40pm i drove it to Akaroa to run in the clutch and ensure everything was in good working reliable order returning home at 3am half asleep.

6.30am Friday morning the car was on Chris's truck and off to PAD for a Dyno tune, I really have to thank PAD as he got there early and held off one of his regular clients to tune my car for a discounted price. Finished at 10am and back on the truck and out to ruapuna for the practice day. The end result 308rwhp at 10psi and after some rewiring of the injectors on friday night i netted myself a top 16 placing at my first event. Sweet!

Theres more to come!

r32 · 03-06-2008, 08:29

Part 2:

Next on the list was a little more oomf! I purchased a polished genuine Greddy forward facing intake manifold from one of Jamies mates and fitted it up to the engine, around the same time Chris kindly donated a cnr racing kr480 turbocharger (i think they are a blitz knock off) he had imported for me to "test" on my car, so after some minor modifications to the standard exhaust manifold on it went and once again the car was sent to pete for some minor intercooler pipe mods and a new vband 3 inch down pipe.

As I had borrowed Chris's link for D1nz I had since returned it, which sorta left me without an Ecu. My flatmate Geoff(expo d chipping) had been dabling into the world of ecu chipping, so i conned him into chipping an r32 ecu to run the 25t and i then hired nzefis dyno for Geoff to do some real time tuning. The end result 339.2rwhp, not much of a jump from last time but the power came on like getting hit in the face with a seesaw!

First outing with the new setup was the terrible excuse for a D1GP qualifying mid 06, and due to my intercooler pipes consistantly detaching themselves during the day i failed to qualify

Ah well you win some you loose some!

Stay tuned for part 3!

r32 · 03-06-2008, 08:31

Part 3:
After sorting my teething problems with the intercooler pipes and having used the car fairly successfully at a couple Drift South rounds i (for some strange reason) decided something else had to be done, i needed to build more!

I stripped the front end of the car, as in there is nothing forward of the firewall except the chassis and internal body panels, all the body panels got hung on the walls of the garage and the engine and box took up half the floor. And thats how it all sat for months :S Ill put it down to laziness.

Anywho, rd6 of the first season of Drift South was being held at levels in timaru, the team had been offered 6 new kumho tires for each car as a short lived sponsorship deal, so how could i not use my normal speedy building skills to rig up a car for a round?

My mighty gts sedan stepped up to the plate and after 4 days toiling in my workshop (garage)

the gts emerged, sporting all the good bits from the green car minus the rear adjustable arms. Rb25det and box, cnr racing turbo, big front mount, kakimoto racing exhaust, a 5stud conversion(not from the drifter) boot mounted battery box, locked diff and black bonnet.

I did pretty well in the "B" car, finishing in 6th place overall, a placing I was very pleased with especially after running the day with 3.5degrees negative camber on the rear with 340hp, can anyone say slippery?

A couple months ago, I decided to show off to my missus on the road in the rb25det powered white car and after a speed run and a missfire at 6500 rpm i now had one rb25det with a melted number 6 piston. out came the rb25det and box, in went a rb20det and box and i sold the car(as i always intended) I stripped the rb25det, sold the head and intake to chris. so at this point in time all i have is a turbo and gearbox:S

Back to the green car, I have cut the std strut towers out and spent the last couple of weekends welding in a31 cefiro macpherson strut strut towers, to increase my steering lock, give me camber adjustment in the front and reduce parts that can wear and tear.

r32 · 03-06-2008, 08:34

Current: Here some pics of the strut tower swap.

A Pair of towers from a a31 cefiro - kindly donated by Chris.

After some skillful work with a drill and an angle grinder i Have no front strut towers

After more work with the grinder the new towers are sitting in place.
Since then i have weled them all in, smoothed the front of the inner wheel arches and primered the engine bay. Ive been slack over the last couple weeks but meh, itll get done eventually.

r32 · 03-06-2008, 08:35

Update Time!
Ive been doing a fair bit of work to the car over the last couple months.
Heres a picture of the engine bay painted (by can)

One of my mcpherson strut setup

I had to notch the crossmember a little so the new engine would fit

Fabricated up some engine mounts and a gearbox mount

And bought a new engine, adapted a bellhousing to fit a toyota w55 5spd geabox behind it

What is it you ask, ls1 5.7litre all alloy injected Chevrolet v8

I figure nissan saved Holden when they loaned them the rb30, so why cant an 02 holden save my nissan?

r32 · 03-06-2008, 08:35

Just a Quick update, I had the week off before I start my new job so Ive been getting some time to work on the car. I havent taken many photos though, you know how it is when your busy, the last thing you wanna do is stop and take photos lol.

Ive had the bellhousing strengthened, fit the gearbox to the engine, had a drive shaft made. Fitted the engine, box and driveshaft. Fit a hilux clutch slave and a corona master cylinder(cause the left head is in the way of the r32 one), made up a clutch line and bled the system up. Temporarily fit a r32 radiator, fit all the engine accessories (ie starter, alternator, ps pump, idler and tensioner and serpentine belt) I had to roll the steering column back slightly so it would clear the starter. Drained the old fuel out of the gas tank, fit my walbro fuel pump(cause i lent it to jamie) And then spent a day removing all the interior sound deadening.... fun job that one.

Engine in place

Another shot

Its nearly done

Olly - Sil80 · 03-06-2008, 08:41

hahaha this is awesome!! It sucks.. I have to come to a UK Forum to read up about NZ Cars now!!

Good work bro.. mad props..

sycorax · 03-06-2008, 11:45

great build! can we expect to see this at drift south later this year then??

Stavros · 03-06-2008, 11:54

mint, proper engine

sideways.taff · 03-06-2008, 12:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stavros

mint, proper engine

Make your mind up! You said the LS engines were bandwagon lumps the other day and that the old school basic V8's were way better...

**James** · 03-06-2008, 12:30

Tidy job

Loving how far back the V8 sits

were the strut towers a fairly straightforward fit?

Lex · 03-06-2008, 13:09

Class.

Green 32s are super cool

r32 · 04-06-2008, 09:08

Sycorax, Yeah man youll see it in the next season of Drift South for sure, Im hoping to have it ready for the National series round at Ruapuna, September 20th

James, Yeah the towers are a straightforward fit. From all the cars I checked and measured I think Nissan used the same front inner wheel well in s13, c33, a31 and r32(at least they look nearly identical) but the poor old r32 got stuck with the crappy double wishbone towers.

r32 · 19-07-2008, 07:31

UPODATO!!!!!

Ive been doing some work on and off, namely on the exhaust system. Ive used factory hsv headers and modified them to fit

rh:

lh:

Clearance

Other side

Underneath by the steering and starter

Can you say twin side exits?

Fitted an external fuel pressure reg because the ls1 uses an intank reg.

About 2 months ago after nearly a years wait I finally got my bonnet back

Then After waiting 2 months for the panel shop next to work to pull finger I got it painted

So Close

So now I need:
1-to finish of the exhaust mounts and the side exits
2-lift thje engine about 5mm to stop the steering rubbing on the starter
3-buy a link ecu and wire it up
4-seats
5-wheels
then I should be ready to drift again!!!!

Autospecs · 19-07-2008, 08:07

Haha this is a damn good read, keep it goin mate!! Wonder why i never saw this thread untill now?

03-06-2008, 08:25	#1 (permalink)
r32 gripper Join Date: May 2007 Location: New Zealand Posts: 13	Nz R32 My R32 4dr drifter. Its a long read.... I purchased it mid 2005, a grey r32 auto sedan with factory type-s bodykit, minus engine and box and planned to have it completed before round one of D1nz in 2006. I stripped the entire car over a week and bolted on some spare 5stud front hubs and from then the car sat untouched till Jan 2006. In January I moved house, so the car went on the truck and came with, once again I left it sitting there. A week and a half before round 1 of D1nz 2006 I decided I had to build the car I pulled the BC adjustables and adjustable arms(castor, camber, traction and toe) from my road car and fitted them to the shell, purchased a 5stud conversion, diff and axles from a gts4 and fitted them to the car, rolled/lipped the guards, bought some 17x8 and 17x9 Gmax 050s and slapped em on and dropped her back on the pavement. It look pretty nice gunmetal grey with the bronze 17s, but this wasnt going to stand out enough. Anywho, I towed the car to Petes Customs(a local fabricator here in CHCH) and he hooked me up on the half cage install (as he was just starting out). when I got the car back that night I removed the factory spotlights from the front bumper and binned them, then proceeded to angle grind a nice gapping hole into the front bar and bumper iron to accomodate the 600x300x100mm front mount intercooler, bolted on the cooler and refit the bumper. The car sat over the weekend until the real business started. I took the week off work to complete the project in time and worked from 7am to roughly 2am Monday through Thursday night. I mounted the Battery box in the boot, ran power cables to the engine bay, refit the dashboard(minus all heater components and trim panels) mounted the fire extinguisher, cut holes in the inner guards for intercooler pipes and fit the manual pedals and clutch cylinders. Time for the Driveline, A freshly imported r33 Rb25det and 5speed transmission was purchased off a mate, Chris. I slapped in a new Exedy 5 puck unsprung clutch disc and Heavy Duty pressure plate and dropped it all into the car, amazingly the 25t box bolt straight up to the auto bodyshell, which i was rather pleased about cause i didnt have to fab up a crossmember, in went the radiator, inty pipes etc. I custom made a r32 loom with r33 injector loom spliced in and had a "friend" solder it up for me while i continued the build. I fit the Kakimoto Racing 3inch cat back exhaust donated by Chris and Daito autoparts and had Pete weld up a 3inch front pipe to join it all to the turbo. Scott/MrX(another mate) dropped into the workshop and painted the car for me(after i sanded it for damn hours!) Kawasaki green with a black roof and bonnet. The next day I fit a GTS link that i borrowed from Chris, filled the driveline with oils bled the brakes and fired her up. first pop and it went Yes! No time for testing, up on the trailer and off to Ashley at Xposed graphics for the sticker work. When i got the car back the following day, it really looked the part, I fitted a bucket seat that i borrowed off Adam and a harness i bought from sydneham park Chev spares and we were ready for the test drive. on went my road cars number plates SSSSHHHH! and at 11.40pm i drove it to Akaroa to run in the clutch and ensure everything was in good working reliable order returning home at 3am half asleep. 6.30am Friday morning the car was on Chris's truck and off to PAD for a Dyno tune, I really have to thank PAD as he got there early and held off one of his regular clients to tune my car for a discounted price. Finished at 10am and back on the truck and out to ruapuna for the practice day. The end result 308rwhp at 10psi and after some rewiring of the injectors on friday night i netted myself a top 16 placing at my first event. Sweet! Theres more to come!

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03-06-2008, 08:29	#2 (permalink)
r32 gripper Join Date: May 2007 Location: New Zealand Posts: 13	Part 2: Next on the list was a little more oomf! I purchased a polished genuine Greddy forward facing intake manifold from one of Jamies mates and fitted it up to the engine, around the same time Chris kindly donated a cnr racing kr480 turbocharger (i think they are a blitz knock off) he had imported for me to "test" on my car, so after some minor modifications to the standard exhaust manifold on it went and once again the car was sent to pete for some minor intercooler pipe mods and a new vband 3 inch down pipe. As I had borrowed Chris's link for D1nz I had since returned it, which sorta left me without an Ecu. My flatmate Geoff(expo d chipping) had been dabling into the world of ecu chipping, so i conned him into chipping an r32 ecu to run the 25t and i then hired nzefis dyno for Geoff to do some real time tuning. The end result 339.2rwhp, not much of a jump from last time but the power came on like getting hit in the face with a seesaw! First outing with the new setup was the terrible excuse for a D1GP qualifying mid 06, and due to my intercooler pipes consistantly detaching themselves during the day i failed to qualify Ah well you win some you loose some! Stay tuned for part 3!

03-06-2008, 08:31	#3 (permalink)
r32 gripper Join Date: May 2007 Location: New Zealand Posts: 13	Part 3: After sorting my teething problems with the intercooler pipes and having used the car fairly successfully at a couple Drift South rounds i (for some strange reason) decided something else had to be done, i needed to build more! I stripped the front end of the car, as in there is nothing forward of the firewall except the chassis and internal body panels, all the body panels got hung on the walls of the garage and the engine and box took up half the floor. And thats how it all sat for months :S Ill put it down to laziness. Anywho, rd6 of the first season of Drift South was being held at levels in timaru, the team had been offered 6 new kumho tires for each car as a short lived sponsorship deal, so how could i not use my normal speedy building skills to rig up a car for a round? My mighty gts sedan stepped up to the plate and after 4 days toiling in my workshop (garage) the gts emerged, sporting all the good bits from the green car minus the rear adjustable arms. Rb25det and box, cnr racing turbo, big front mount, kakimoto racing exhaust, a 5stud conversion(not from the drifter) boot mounted battery box, locked diff and black bonnet. I did pretty well in the "B" car, finishing in 6th place overall, a placing I was very pleased with especially after running the day with 3.5degrees negative camber on the rear with 340hp, can anyone say slippery? A couple months ago, I decided to show off to my missus on the road in the rb25det powered white car and after a speed run and a missfire at 6500 rpm i now had one rb25det with a melted number 6 piston. out came the rb25det and box, in went a rb20det and box and i sold the car(as i always intended) I stripped the rb25det, sold the head and intake to chris. so at this point in time all i have is a turbo and gearbox:S Back to the green car, I have cut the std strut towers out and spent the last couple of weekends welding in a31 cefiro macpherson strut strut towers, to increase my steering lock, give me camber adjustment in the front and reduce parts that can wear and tear.

03-06-2008, 08:34	#4 (permalink)
r32 gripper Join Date: May 2007 Location: New Zealand Posts: 13	Current: Here some pics of the strut tower swap. A Pair of towers from a a31 cefiro - kindly donated by Chris. After some skillful work with a drill and an angle grinder i Have no front strut towers After more work with the grinder the new towers are sitting in place. Since then i have weled them all in, smoothed the front of the inner wheel arches and primered the engine bay. Ive been slack over the last couple weeks but meh, itll get done eventually.

03-06-2008, 08:35	#5 (permalink)
r32 gripper Join Date: May 2007 Location: New Zealand Posts: 13	Update Time! Ive been doing a fair bit of work to the car over the last couple months. Heres a picture of the engine bay painted (by can) One of my mcpherson strut setup I had to notch the crossmember a little so the new engine would fit Fabricated up some engine mounts and a gearbox mount And bought a new engine, adapted a bellhousing to fit a toyota w55 5spd geabox behind it What is it you ask, ls1 5.7litre all alloy injected Chevrolet v8 I figure nissan saved Holden when they loaned them the rb30, so why cant an 02 holden save my nissan?

03-06-2008, 08:35	#6 (permalink)
r32 gripper Join Date: May 2007 Location: New Zealand Posts: 13	Just a Quick update, I had the week off before I start my new job so Ive been getting some time to work on the car. I havent taken many photos though, you know how it is when your busy, the last thing you wanna do is stop and take photos lol. Ive had the bellhousing strengthened, fit the gearbox to the engine, had a drive shaft made. Fitted the engine, box and driveshaft. Fit a hilux clutch slave and a corona master cylinder(cause the left head is in the way of the r32 one), made up a clutch line and bled the system up. Temporarily fit a r32 radiator, fit all the engine accessories (ie starter, alternator, ps pump, idler and tensioner and serpentine belt) I had to roll the steering column back slightly so it would clear the starter. Drained the old fuel out of the gas tank, fit my walbro fuel pump(cause i lent it to jamie) And then spent a day removing all the interior sound deadening.... fun job that one. Engine in place Another shot Its nearly done

03-06-2008, 08:41	#7 (permalink)
Olly - Sil80 doughnutter Join Date: May 2006 Location: Taupaki, NZ Posts: 73	hahaha this is awesome!! It sucks.. I have to come to a UK Forum to read up about NZ Cars now!! Good work bro.. mad props..

03-06-2008, 11:45	#8 (permalink)
sycorax gripper Join Date: May 2007 Location: Nelson, NZ Posts: 19	great build! can we expect to see this at drift south later this year then??

03-06-2008, 11:54	#9 (permalink)
Stavros DEYTUKURJURBS Join Date: May 2005 Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Posts: 10,355	mint, proper engine

03-06-2008, 12:30	#11 (permalink)
James Lights out! Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Birmingham UK Posts: 7,770	Tidy job Loving how far back the V8 sits were the strut towers a fairly straightforward fit?

03-06-2008, 13:09	#12 (permalink)
Lex DWYB.CO.UK Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Booostville Posts: 2,646	Class. Green 32s are super cool

04-06-2008, 09:08	#13 (permalink)
r32 gripper Join Date: May 2007 Location: New Zealand Posts: 13	Sycorax, Yeah man youll see it in the next season of Drift South for sure, Im hoping to have it ready for the National series round at Ruapuna, September 20th James, Yeah the towers are a straightforward fit. From all the cars I checked and measured I think Nissan used the same front inner wheel well in s13, c33, a31 and r32(at least they look nearly identical) but the poor old r32 got stuck with the crappy double wishbone towers.

19-07-2008, 07:31	#14 (permalink)
r32 gripper Join Date: May 2007 Location: New Zealand Posts: 13	UPODATO!!!!! Ive been doing some work on and off, namely on the exhaust system. Ive used factory hsv headers and modified them to fit rh: lh: Clearance Other side Underneath by the steering and starter Can you say twin side exits? Fitted an external fuel pressure reg because the ls1 uses an intank reg. About 2 months ago after nearly a years wait I finally got my bonnet back Then After waiting 2 months for the panel shop next to work to pull finger I got it painted So Close So now I need: 1-to finish of the exhaust mounts and the side exits 2-lift thje engine about 5mm to stop the steering rubbing on the starter 3-buy a link ecu and wire it up 4-seats 5-wheels then I should be ready to drift again!!!!

19-07-2008, 08:07	#15 (permalink)
Autospecs JDM Car Export Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tokyo, Japan Posts: 1,056	Haha this is a damn good read, keep it goin mate!! Wonder why i never saw this thread untill now?