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Okay so first off hello.
I'd like to begin this Build buy giving you a little history, before this I owned a 99 Subaru Forester, which started fairly stock N/A manual.

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The motor blew In that so I bought a wrx sti halfcut and transplanted that, plus a whole lot more.

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I then Sold that an purchased myself a very rough N/A R32 RB20DE Neo
Had some nice extras (Genuine Nardi, Factory Cupholders)
I then got into my first car accident and destroyed it.

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The reason theres no "Before" shot of this beauty is because I did not have the time to take one before totalling the poor thing. :( But it wasn't all bad because I got a fairly generous insurance payout for it, and purchased my current vehicle.

A 1992 R32 Gts-t, This originally was one of the few automatic rb25de r32's to come out but has been converted since.
And so we begin the build.

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The day I got her (minus strut brace) - had some ugly sideskirts and wheels straight out of Need for Speed. But there were big plans ahead. First had to make a Pod box to hide the filter.

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Next up decided to remove the sound deadening from the backseats, and boot (as it already was missing boot interior why not go the whole 9 yards?)

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Next up was interior, as it was already in pretty good shape I decided to try and keep it fairly simple.

Got myself a sparco steering wheel, sparco quick release, nrg short boss kit along with a sparco shifter.

I also change the ugly green and white dash cluster back to the original grey with purple led's

I did the aircon unit and rest of the din area while I was at it all in purple.

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Also picked up some gtr seats which needed some fixing for faily cheap so sewed them up and put them in, much better! :)

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Moving onto the exterior I had big plans, slowly starting to gather all of the bolt on bits and pieces I'd be adding.

This included the following:

n1 vents for the gtr front bar

gtr grill

gtr bonnet with n1 lip

n1 sideskirts

gtr overfenders

trust rear pods

dmax roof wing

dmax boot wing

Slowly but surely I got it all together and began trimming up the fibreglass pieces and text fitting them.

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Got myself some new pipes made up and got rid of the cannon,

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(To Be Continued)

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Part 2

Saw a few gtr's with this headlight/radiator ducting so decided to have a go making my own and they came out great :)

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The oppertunity then came up to get a new set of wheels to help fill out the widebody that would be going on eventually.

Came across a set of work equip 05's 18x9.5 +38 front and 18x10.5 +38 rears with 25mm bolt on spacers all round

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Uni holidays came around and It was time to start prepping the car for paint along with the rest of the bits and pieces.

As this is a budget build and very much DIY I opted to paint it myself, I'd never done this before so it was going to be interesting.

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Dad got involved, he was a way better painter than I was so I was real glad.

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it turned out "good from a far, far from good" type deal, and will need some serious cutting/polishing still but It was black and for that I was happy.

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I then began wetsanding with 2000grit paper then using some no name cut and polish compound, not really knowing too well what I was doing but it seemed to be working ok for the moment, plus I knew I had to sand back the orange peel anyways.

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Then to start adding on bits and pieces, N1 bonnet lip to start.

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Covered up that hack job I did on the bonnet well :)

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Trust rear pods were next along with the Boot and Roof spoiler and front sections of the N1 skirts and more strenuous sanding and polishing

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By now end of semester is coming up and the car has been put on hold, I drive it daily so It's still in a reasonably presentable condition. But when uni finishes I will be able to get it finished. Thanks for reading!

P.s apologies for the mass info and picture dump. A lot has happened since I got her :)

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Well I measured both front and rear when I bought em and the fronts were 10" and rears were 11" minusing off the beads on either side would make them a 9.5 and 10.5 wide, although I could easily be off with the offset, the inside of the rears were rubbing on the control arm.

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Quick update on this, I have started cutting back most of the paint, and have most of the bits and pieces on, Also have some gtr front fenders to be painted and fitted soon. Skirts and rear overfenders also yet to go on. But heres how the paints looking :)

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