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The weather took a turn for the better so here are some photos after collonite application. This stuff Is amazing and so easy to use. Thanks to hadouken for posting about this stuff.

I had the same issue with my rsrs. Federal usually tell people that they are OK to run like that and will only replace if the de laminate. Wtf. I know of others that have run them like that and reported that as they wore down the cracks wore away. I ended up selling mine off. Let us know what federal says and does.

It is unfortunate but at least he's insured and your car will be fixed. Just make sure they fix it properly.

Melbourne weather has been shit so far today. So waxing with collonite is on the backburner but I managed to sort my traction issues this morning. Got a set of Achilles 123s tyres fitted. 265/35/18 all round. I know there's much better tyres around but @ $150 fitted each I couldn't go past them. If anyone wants any, import monster has a limited supply at this price. First impression driving home in monsoon like weather is that they're pretty good in the wet. No unwanted wheelspin unlike the falkens that came off. I was 4 wheel drifting around corners this morning without trying to. I will update about the performance of the 123s as I drive on them.

Collonite will have to wait. Melbourne weather is shit today so I just read your whole build thread instead. I like the way you've gone about everything. Kept it simple and effective. None of this ott bullshit. You've gone as far as the cars purpose requires. Well done. That paint is immaculate. You are one lucky prick. Factory paint ftw.

I will after its done. You may need to come down to Melbourne with your SLR coz I can't take photos for shite. Lol

Thanks for the tip. Will do

very nice indeed. After seeing your post last week about the collonite, I decided to get some too. It arrived today. I know what I'll be doing this weekend.

I'll kick off the bidding. $500:) lol

Now the car drives awesome. Traction is an issue with the shitty falken 265's that are on at the moment. I am contemplating doing an e85 flex tune. Trent reckons another 40 odd rwkw is achievable. All I have to do is get a bigger fuel pump and rewire it with a relay, add a flex sensor and tune for the e85. Some days I really feel like doing it, other days not so much. What are peoples opinions on flex fuel?

Boost graph. Boom 18 psi by 3400rpm.

A couple of days later I drove my car down to chequered tuning and left it there for them to work their magic on a 98 tune. A couple of days later the R33 was ready to go with a decent result of 248rwkw. The torque I thought was a bit low, just over 400nm. Trent reckons there is probably another 10-15 kw in it with a better flowing exhaust as the nismo ones usually have some sort of restrictor. Im quite happy with the result considering the quiet zorst and return flow cooler. Here's the graph.

The clutch install went smoothly while drinking a couple of jimmy's. After doing it on a hoist, I would never contemplate doing it on the ground again. What a nightmare that is. Scotty came through with the intake pipe a couple of days before the tune which was good as it gave me time to install it and go over everything else on the car to make sure I wasn't going to get a call on the day of the tune telling me something isn't right and they cant finish.

A few days later I called in to the tuner to have a quick look over the car and see if he was happy with the way everything was. Once there, we worked out that they had miscommunicated the date of the tune to me and it would be on the 17/9 not the 17/10. This was good and bad at the same time. I still had to install the clutch and have an intake fabricated in 7 days. Fark! Thankfully a buddy of mine offered me the use of his hoist on that weekend and Scotty said he would be able to make the intake for me in time.

With big smile on face

The turbo was fitted promptly, it's so much easier on an rb than it is on an sr. I drove it around easily for the next week untuned. The following weekend I fitted the adaptronic ecu to check if it was working properly and it was. The following day I fitted the injectors. I then had some issues where the car was running extremely lean if the injectors where set to the correct size. Adaptronic support was fantastic even though I bought the ecu second hand. The problem ended up being the fuel pump being lazy. Although it could run standard injectors ok, it couldn't supply enough pressure for the nismos at low duty cycles. I swapped over the walbro from the s15 and boom everything was sweet. I did a little bit of fuel map tuning using the wide band just so I could cruise the car around. I booked in for a tune and was told the wait was 6 weeks. Faaaaark

So that is basically the heart of my setup, my s15 wreck donated some stuff, an apexi panel filter, a mac valve for boost control, some subframe lock collars, a walbro 255, a de-meaow pipe and the 4 nismo injectors.

Next on the shopping list was a 3" dump/front, injectors, ecu, wide band, intake pipe and clutch. I had 4 nismo 740cc injectors that I pulled from my wrecked s15 so I bought another 2 and that was the injectors sorted. The dump pipe was sourced from just jap for a really good price as they owed me a favour. I was on the hunt for a used power fc but couldn't find 1 at the time but I came across a used adaptronic plug in so I snapped it up quick smart. I scored a brand new npc organic clutch off a fellow sau member who had abandoned his build. A stainless intake was fabricated by Scotty's customs and a innovate mtx-l was purchased through adaptronic. All of these parts where collected over the space of a month.

I was in desperate need of more power and was trying to decide what turbo to go with. Ease of installation and stock looks was a priority as this car is driven everyday in Vic, the state of defects. I pondered for a week or two on the hypergear 21u high flow, atr43 ss2 and atr45 sat. The winner ended up being the 21u, I thought for response, bang for buck, stock appearance and ease of fitment It was a no brainer. It was also the turbo that Richo was using on his r33 at the time with excellent results. I bought a used 21u and sent it out to hypergear to get done and that was that. The High flow next to the stock unit.

After this I managed to get a tein edfc kit really cheap so I jumped on it and fitted it. Thought my wife may appreciate the ride being set to soft when she is in the car.

The volks fitted. Specs are 18 x 9 +22. 265/35/18 tyres all round. Car needs to be lowered but unfortunately there is a bitch of a driveway at work which I wont be able to get get up if I do. Damn my camera skills are shocking

This bloke really looked after the car. Interior is spotless, seats arent torn or anything. The undercarriage is remarkably clean, no rust or oil leaks. Im real happy that I scored something in such good shape.

As I said earlier the previous owner was cosmetically orientated. The body has a complete 400r carbon fibre kit and cf boot lid which he paid over 5k for and I have the receipts for. There is also rear over fenders moulded in over rolled guards and fibre glass front fenders. The car was resprayed in a Lexus colour from an rx330 when everything was fitted. Not sure of the name ATM I've got it written down somewhere but its a darkish grey with heaps of metallic sparkle in it. He also forked out for active k rear tail lights and some tein monoflex coils. Car also had a nismo cat back a viper alarm and that's about it. The bloke owned the car for 13 years and had it as a weekender and only covered 25k kms in that time. Car was resprayed in 2007 and there's not 1 chip on the bar or bonnet although there is some minor marks here and there and some minor imperfections. He gave me a folder of receipts totalling over 13k not including respray. He said he was happy with the stock power level and that it was fast enough for him. That has been fixed up now. He must of been on some good drugs.

Thanks Mark. Yeah the front bar is nice. Its a 400r styled bar made out of real carbon fibre. Previous owner paid a pretty penny for it. If u see a guy walking around minus an arm and a leg, that's him. Turbo has been arranged already but thanks for the advice. I will post more details, pics and stories as I get time. May even include magic dragons:)

At this point the car needed some more power and some better looking and fitting wheels. I hit the sau classifieds and managed to get my hands on a blitz LM return flow cooler and a set of rays volk f zero winning rims from a couple of members.