Well ive been looking for another r32 gtst for a while after building my old white one and getting bored of s-bodys how it started when i was done(ish) with it after spending a few months searching the uk and ireland i didnt find anything that was either a decent enough spec or wasnt destroyed / rottern after speaking to a few old friends i decided theres more choice in japan another 3 months pass after looking on japanese used cars twice a day i decided on this well it was a nightmare from the get go car was listed 6hours before it went to auction juc said they wouldnt have time to view or bid but i asked nicely and they went and bit for me few hours later i win the car well then it went bad again, after a few days i got a message from juc saying they cant get the car taken to the port yet reason being that it was too low for a transported and also because it was in the far north (where theyre a bit backwards/ inbred) they also coundnt find a garage to raise the car well 60,000 yen later for a special transporter it gets too the docks after a few weeks i get the date to say what boat its on and when its due its supposed to land in southampton on the 12th of january 2014 it didnt, after talking to kleerfreight they told me the 16th of january ?? so i call up the shipping company on the 8th of january and guess what its been at the docs since yesterday so i panic and pay stuipid amounts to a friend to go get the car now as i couldnt collect on the weekend like planned we get to the docks after 2 hours sitting in traffic due to 5 ships coming in the same time and the fun begins again the papers were all in order but we had to wait on some woman in the shipping company main office to send a email to the guys at the port saying all customs and stuff had been paid well she didnt for another 3 hours (long lunch break) while waiting i was chatting to the guys that move the cars, and they said it was driven onto the boat (great news) well after the long wait we went over too the car and thats where my heart sank sorry i didnt take pics i was now tired and really upset the car was in a right state it wouldnt start, so we tryed to jump start nope no luck the front bumper was broken in 8-9 places atleast front passanger wing had a big dent front passanger side light broken intercooler dented beaten and hanging by the pipes curbing in all 4 wheels (fresh) soo many scratchs all over, just to name a few anyway we winched it onto the trailer and took it home i went up the next day to try and get it running charged the battery overnight and brought a jerrycan full of shell v-power nope it now runs on 2 cylinders out of 6 a new set of spark plugs and she runs but the coilpacks are arking out so here we are in feb ive bought a set of splitfires to fit to it spent 2 days pulling out wires that wasnt attached at either end spent a few £££ on upgrades which ill take pics of when im putting them on the front bumper is on its way to life again things are starting to look up the front trial too see how much of a pull the arch needs side view rears not too bad either
mate sorry to hear all that bad news!! doesn't put a lot of trust in importing a motor for me, but i'm sure once you've done with it it will be a nice motor again! see ya soon bud.
Big homo, stop your wining, do a fucking skid braahhh, dont start tarting it up slag tits. your too Si for your own good. smoochies.
Ha ha thanks Aaron I'd defiantly import another car it's just the 32s are getting hard to find and I'd look more towards a drift exporter than juc But I'd use juc if I wanted somthing like a ra27 celiac or a minty mint stockish car Joe you big slut, I've not done any tarting up, the polishes are firmly in the box I'm simply trying to make it work Are the lower arm ball joints the same as r33 and s13-15 ? Drift trader the car owes me around 4.7k after it all
had a few hours to play with it yesterday removed the hid kit that i couldnt get a bulb for and fitted a new one broke the bulb on the same side of the new kit (well the wire fell out) managed to get my gauges lit up and working but didnt leave the car running long enough to check all of them, atleast the engine has oil pressure lol front wing is off getting the dent removed might paint the front bumper and bits on pay day still need to replace o/s/f lower balljoint and tie rod end new egt sensor find a white greddy boost guage fit a rb25det aircon setup change all the oils fit the splitfire coilpacks flare all the arches wire in a diffrent turbo timer, boost controller, guages and the headunit replace all speakers find sombody that will supply and fit a cat 1 alarm get it on the road and check how its running on a rolling road as i think it needs a map and do all that while trying to fix the gf's r33
Nice R32 mate, any more info on its current spec apart from not happy? Keep up the hard work though, itll pay off, theres nothing like a decent R32 imo! if you need any R33 bits let me know just clearing out the garage atm.
ok got some more done today and have had a quick look around too see what bits it has original spec from japan full aero led rear lights lsd (might sell this) rb20-rb25 diffrent turbine bride front seat meters greddy boost controller they didnt even tell me what suspension its on what ive found is hks 2530 hks turbo timer (removed) apexi coilovers 5 stud conversion 15mm front hub spacers with longer studs larger calipers unknown rad greddy guages, oil temp, pressure and egt (broken sensor) nismo front arms thicker anti roll bars car going up removed the shagged n/s/f lower balljoint and tie rod end i forgot how much of a pig it is to get the lower one out and then fitted the new ones, engine bay needs a tidy up soon but ill be stripping the car down over winter so will paint lots of bits then so close with the wiring i guess this isnt a remappable ecu? but im wondering if its worth selling the hks turbo and just running a stockish turbo with a stage blah blah chip?
wow its been over 2 months since i worked on the car i spent 10hours on saturday fitting my rebuilt turbo dynamics turbo and new kinguwahwah braided lines which are actully quite good all though i spent ages looking for tools and cleaning / painting pipes and loctite-ing the joins in the feeds to prevent them leaking later on i was expecting to bin the when i seen the blingy banjo bolts that looked like alloy in the bag they are quite good but ill edit this if they die in 3months time only thing that annoyed me is its not the full line on the top water feed, and so i left quite a bit of the oem pipe just incase it bursts at the joint to the braided line heres what i got Turbo Oil & Water Line Kit 6AN Line Nissan Skyline RB25DET with Stock T3 Turbo | eBay (£48 delivered) and no vat or import charges made me very happy sorry i didnt take any pics and the quality sucks because i used my phone but heres a pic of my engine bay now ive got some wringkle red paint and new rocker cover gaskets to do soon, i cant decide if i should paint the silver pipes gloss black or polish them all up and get some red samco joiners the only thing im bothered about is when i strip the car down to refurb it i wont want much black in the engine bay so i can spot issues sooner, but i really dont want to be polishing the engine bay every week i seriously need to get a decent front facing plenum before i get it mapped today ive spent 6-ish hours doing the electrics (never again) i did take apart the gauge cluster to install some plazma dials but got a tad nervous about how the pointers come off, so cleaned up the plastic on the inside and out and put it back together it looks a bit OTT with the guages, but i love my 90mm boost gauge and i might remove the 42mm one next to the boost controller and fit some switchs although i like to look after a car i tend to drive it hard when i can next is to fit a r33 diff when i get some poly bushes for the front of it and fit my nardi then its all running, just and alarm and making it road legal and some paint i would like to replace the oem pipes in the engine bay at some point as theyre very brittile
Mad 32. I imported mine last year. Didn't have any issues like you thankfully. You mentioned a 5 stud conversion. I believe all skylines are 5 stud from production.
ive not polished anything so you can suck my balls, i wirer wheeled the pipes as they was cruddy and minging and painted one pipe ill text you in a min as im still after that neon green coolant, im after a full rb25det aircon setup now
My car is due from Japan this week. Reading that first post scares the bejesus outta me!lol Good to see you making the most of it tho dude!
Nope Think it was rb20det in silver Dave I think I jumped the gun when I bought this, I waited over 3 months searching daily for a r32 On the spec sheet it did say there was dents in the roof n stuff, I'm claiming back for all the damage caused by the shipping company As for the running issues what you expect when the tanks run dry and pulled up over 21years of grit into the fuel filter
Lol, very true mate. Suppose it's a nightmare to claim back off the shipping company? My car had 2 bars of fuel in the tank in the pics after the auction. I will make sure it goes to good use if it's still there when I get it!lol
its not too bad to be fair hopefully they pay enough to repaint the whole car as nobody has a clue what colour it is, closest ive seen is house of colours paint
Got news that mine is at the importers yard so nerves are jangling!lol Maybe try taking it to a paint supplier who have the device that reads the paint and can match it that way? Iv poke to fellas in work (bodyshop) about it. Sounds a good job