patrick g

Some more up to date pictures

Hello all. Sorry to bring back a zombie thread, but I feel it’s appropriate as I purchased this car from propiene in May of this year. My name is Patrick and I am near Cleveland, Ohio USA. I’ve wanted a skyline since I was in my early teens and playing Gran Turismo. As part of preparation to buy one I sold a 68 Toyota Corona, 67 Sunbeam Alpine, 94 Mustang GT, and 90 Infiniti Q45. Replacing 4 cars with one I love was the best decision I’ve made in a while. A couple weeks ago also sold my LS swapped 75 280Z because it was getting no use. If anyone is interested I can go over some of the things he did as well as some of the things I did. I’ve been enjoying it very much and I’ve put over 2,000km on it since I got it. The seats are much worse for the wear as the fabric is just falling apart from age. I love how they look and feel but will have to save up to get new upholstery or have them redone. I picked up a set of generic black seats to toss in over winter if I feel motivated to do so to preserve the foam on the recaro seats. What propiene thought were Bilsteins are actually Öhlins road and track coilovers. He did add an ebay sourced GTR style frp grill but it definitely needs my help over winter to get it looking better. Car now has the Link ECU and it is running pretty good, the tune needs help while it’s cold but runs amazing when it goes into closed loop. It’s way rich in open loop. Not long after purchase one of the coils failed due to cracking and instead of gimping them along with epoxy I just did the LS coil conversion. The biggest change thus far has been swapping to a set of Nismo/Rays LMGT4 wheels. I’ve taken it to autocross and am hoping to make it to a dragstrip before they close for winter, that’s rapidly approaching.