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Yeh at this rate it's going to be on stands for quite a few months haha, best do it right the first time

Did quite a few things the last week, intercooler piping is being changed to black piping, i've got the coils in, stripped the interior and fixed up a heap of rust, and got it ready for putting the deadener in, the majority of the time I've spent has been on the wiring, which is improving which is good! I sanded the rust down,killed it with rust oxidiser, then covered in rust protectant primer. Should keep it happy even if it comes in contact with water. Now to quickly spray that all black, then lay all the deadening!

I had a look at those, but I manged to get some Harmonic Harmony Acapella IC's bundled with my cresendo splits, big thick and shielded to should go well

Small update: All the sound deadening has arrived Black cooler piping and silicon joins is here Whiteline front & rear swaybar + strut brace is here Just ordered a glorious bonnet strut kit Install for all suspension bits will be hopefully this weekend, as well as the cooler piping and radiator piping to black, i've been busy dealing with the horrendous wiring, patching and repairing it, decent pics soon when the Mrs gives the camera back haha.

Got it all pretty well priced which is good. Its a competitor of dynamat, exactly the same stuff but 2.2mm thick instead of 1.8mm thick (and cheaper), a bunch of guys on MCA (melbourne car audio) recommended it so hopefully its decent! I've got the acoustic foam layer as well to cut out a bunch of road noise I've used dynamat, good stuff but expensive for the amount of area i want to cover

Things I ordered today: - 45sqft of 2.2mm Pingjing butyl - 45sqft of Thermo-acoustic foam (6mm) - 25sqft of MLV acounstic foam carpet (for the boot) - A few rolls of wiring loom tape - Silicone black radiator hose kit - Black intercooler piping kit

Nistune is its then. Leaves me money for other things I doubt this car will ever see a track, I've got a track car build going on at the moment, so that should for fill those needs

Thats my plan eventually have to love a DD, pack a big punch for what they are! on a side note, got any advice on ECU's? everyone seems to have a different idea on whats the best to go with it seems a nistune on the stock ecu should do the power levels im looking for

Already spent the money on home audio Sounds like an interest setup haha, I enjoy car audio quite a bit which is the main reason i have all of this gear It comes down to installation moreso then gear a lot of the time, a shitty sub in a well built box will still sound quite good, and a focal in a rubbish prefab box will sound shit

I've spent reasonable money on some decent gear, only putting fronts in so that makes life easy. Haha yeh i'll see how it goes in the long run.. I'll be spending quite a bit of time getting the audio right, nothing annoys me more then bad audio

Comfy being relative, as long as my backs not broken i'm happy haha. I'm hoping 17's with chunky rubber will provide a little more cushion! Yeh I actually have no idea what its purpose is haha.. just whistles when you flick it... I'm loving the sunroof, overall it needs a bit of clean up, but nothing that's hard to fix, and its all aesthetic

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Hi all! I picked up a 1993 (imported 2003) R33 GTST Manual, I’m currently still on my P’s until the end of June, so I’ve got some time to work on it! (Please forgive the lack of pictures, I’ll snap a few more and upload tomorrow!) When I first got her! On temporary wheels Current specs: - 110xxx - Recent respray in a light blue metallic - Series 1 with a series 2 motor - Front mount (ebay spec I think) - R34 high flowed turbo - 40th anniversary seats - Mspec front bar - Sunroof The aim for the car is a comfortable daily car that I can rip around when the mood hits, I want responsive power but not over the top power, great handling, properly sealed cabin, I’m going to try and fight the nissan rattle and fill all the holes haha. Suspension: It had KYB shocks and cut kings when I first got it, surprising drove quite well albeit a tad bit rough. It also had some very heavy RJR Wheels on it which I got rid of very quickly. - Cusco Zero 2 Coilovers (arrived, installing next week) - Whiteline front and rear sway bar kit (ordered, installing next week) - Whiteline strutbrace (ordered, installing next week) - Stern 1 piece forged alloy wheels, these are currently getting the lip machined, the bore machined from lexus to r33, the face sandblasted fixed and painted and the whole lot cleared. Then getting RE003's for the rubber. These are 17's, so not a super aggressive size, hopefully having the little extra chunkiness on the wheels will somewhat offset the aggressive coil setup. I'm spending quite a bit on these since I love the design of them, and I think it will suit the look I'm going for. - Check all suspension bushes and mounts, the don’t look flogged visually but always good to check! Sterns pre-restoration Engine: Apparently it was running 220rwkw tune, but it seems the stock ECU is back in it atm, so im on the lookout for a ECU then I’ll get it tune when I fix the boost leaks coming from a few places! - Fix leak on BOV (it was cabled tied on………) - Re-do intercooling piping in black - Change coil pack loom plugs (one has been cut and soldered, not that keen) - Clean up dodgy wiring and sensor wiring that’s everywhere - Move and secure HID ballasts - ECU & tune (thinking haltech elite?) - Paint everything black (one of the most important mods) - Full service, new oil/filter - Secure air filter - Change boost-T to electronic boost controller Audio: Originally this had some horrendous kicker + option audio setup that made baby jesus cry with a touchscreen pioneer. I've since ditched the whole lot (sounded rubbish) in favor of a properly set up system. - Ping jing'ing the whole car, currently in the process of ripping every bit of interior out - Laying 3mm thick marine sound foam absolutely everywhere I can, helps seal the car, and fills gaps and makes everything fit a bit tighter which is nice - Alpine V9 to run the whole system - 2x Cresendo etude 2.10 subs, which will both be in custom made sealed boxes on either side of the boot - Cresendo Opus 7B tweeters & crossovers with Opus 9 mids - Nakamichi NA88 (Haven't ordered this yet still deciding) Interior: Interior is in really good nic for its age, no cracks in dash, carpets clean, seats clean - Fix boost gauge it broke on the way home :’( - Wrap the dash piece in black suede instead of the blue it currently is.. - Remove random whistle noise switch someone installed - Build fiberglass speaker boxes in doors to enclose audio - Properly mount dash (fix loose air con vents, cluster etc) When I first picked it up! tad messy! Future plans: - 280rwkw is the aim - FFP and a high mount (just looks so god damn good) - Change the front bar (any ideas??) - Much much more to come! TL;DR Overall I’m really happy with it for what I paid, I’m going fairly no expensive spared on this project, which doesn’t mean I’ll spend as much as possible but I’m more then happy to spend where needed! I’m building this to be a reliable, quick, comfortable car, that I can drive ‘spritely’ happily, the plan is to take it on a driving holiday around tassy June next year! More HD pictures: http://imgur.com/a/KoNM6 Thanks for checking this post out, I’ll try and keep it updated as much as possible!