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Yep same here lol. Yeah I thought if I sand it, it will be a smooth texture unfortunately, I guess I'll have to bit that bullet or risk the paint turning out shit from not painting it. How the hell does that pillar get scratched up anyway? I never scratch up my cars interior like that.

Last question, these panels seem to get quite scuffed up with deep scratches. To fill in the scratches would anyone recommend using body filler and then sand over it?

Anyone do this recently? I put a bit of methylated spirits on a paper towel and my head unit surround discoloured lol, went from black to yellow. And I noticed (especially on my ashtray as it was filthy) the material on the outside, took so many paper towels to get rid of the crap on there (some black stuff, not sure what it is), does anyone know why the hell these plastics are so damn sticky, is it just shit paint as others have mentioned? With the sanding what grit to use and what is the purpose of sanding, is it simply just for the paint to stick better? I was going to go with a 800-1000 grit sand paper. Also how to know if it's sanded enough? Some people sanded theirs and the paint still cracked.

That's dope, looks very oem.

To confirm that's powerplus tungsten? Looks great!

Yeah, that's a pain lol. I'm gonna be going with the Nismo ones that morboost mentioned.

Oh wow, you're a absolute legend then, cheers for that! Can't believe it was just there. I literally looked everywhere even called Justjap and said they didn't have it lol, but guess it makes sense as it's a bit hidden on the website.

Ah my mistake, It's for an r34 gtt I'm looking tot get the bushings for.

Yeah looking for stock rubber type ones because from my understanding the polyurethane are more prone to breaking and will make my ride stiffer. Not trying to be dense, seems you're looking into it quite long term, I'm not looking that far out.

I just had a look at the Nismo one, is that actually for inner upper bushings? For the "- Nissan R34 Skyline Hicas 4WS (Rear Upper Hubs x 4, Camber Arms x 2 & Traction Arms x 2 = 8pce)" it says camber arms x2, but my car is a 2ws, I assume the 4ws is gtr?

Waste of money, I don't want to spend $500 if all I need to do is replace the bushings. It's unnecessary. In my case if they are worn, they have worn out before the rest of the car?

Not for upper inner control arm bushings, not listed anywhere except for superpro polyurthene but that's pretty much the only listing I found and some website I think in Siberia. Nismo doesn't have them either. I checked, I don't think there is even a nissan part number for it because the diagram only shows the control arm, the bolts but not the bushings.

Is this still the case?

It's impossible to find the bushings on their own, at least rubber ones. Where can I find these? I've scoured the entire internet and only option seems to be to buy the entire arm, which I'd rather not. But I can find every other bushing for my car which makes no sense lol. I'm ideally trying to replace the bushings on my stock upper control arm / camber arm.

That's the funny thing. There are no tears whatsoever on the outer boot, highly doubt I tore something. I pulled it out and put it back, no way it could have caught onto something. I was considering opening it up and adding new grease or at least to see how much grease is in there. I keep getting this knocking sound as I break over a bumpy road, but mechanic couldn't see it. The shaft it self seems pretty tight, tie rod has been changed as well. Lost as to what it could be. Probably is the axle, just needs a whole replacement.

Ah ok good to know, it was probably completely random then. It is secured by a ziptie the mechanic mentioned, might be giving out.

I noticed a week after I changed my inner CV boot (because it had been torn for quite some time) that randomly the outer CV boot had a shit ton of grease all over it but the inner one was dry. It wasn't like that when I changed the inner boot I just happened to randomly see it. I did forget to tighten the lug nuts, I only tightened it by hand so barely anything. Is it possible that somehow the grease spilled out because of that? The mechanic said it's fine and don't need to add grease but quite a lot fell out and I made the mistake of cleaning it up so they didn't see it. Curious on a 2nd opinion.

Yup, from my understanding, every time I install a mod such as injectors, turbo, intake plenum, it needs a tune updated every time unless I put all the parts on at once and do 1 tune then. I've got an aftermarket ecu and has been tuned already but as you mentioned the highflow would need a tune. What is that ping that you're referring to, do you mean detonation and if so, does it make the same sound as when a knock sensor goes faulty and makes a "ping" type of sound? I used to have that sound on my other car until after I finally replaced the sensor after years lol.

Not against it, but it's already tuned and it's more about not spending an extra $1k if I don't need to. If I have to then fair enough.

With the high flow were you referring to something like this? https://hypergearturbos.com/product/rb25dethighflow/ If so, I just saw their turbo on ebay the highflowed one and it runs at a minimum 15 psi, as opposed to stock which I believe is 7 psi. Sounds like I'd need a tune either way?

This goes over my head haha. Can you change the ceramic turbine to a steel one for better reliability?

Ah right, I do remember hearing a while back about that balancing thing that you just mentioned. I assumed I could rebuild it and then just get the shop to balance it (until i realised there's no rebuild kit). My turbo is fine but I am running higher boost I believe so just incase the time comes the reason I'd rather rebuild it, is to save at least $1,000 on tuning it, especially as I'm not trying to make huge power.

I was wondering. It looks like for r34 gtt oem turbos there are no rebuild kits, so you would either have to get an aftermarket turbo or secondhand oem one. Are there any turbos that have the EXACT same specs as the oem one so when installed, the car doesn't need to be tuned or it doesn't work like that?

Ah Interesting to know.

I wanted to confirm if that's still correct because when you go to any automotive website like Supercheap auto for example, it only gives an option for an r34 gtt that has 206kw, which is same as a gtr r34 roughly. Makes no sense to me lol.