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hi, i had some exhaust studs snap off like yours, but was a bit luckier with the drill. While extracting one of mine i ended up drilling way off centre, but still manged to get it out. can you drill another hole off centre, you say the stud was loose. Just use a nut or similar as a guide(and vise grips to hold nut) to keep from drilling into head. From memory I used an extractor of about 3.5mm dia, i cant remember the brand (but not one with a thread, just parallel ribs running the length of it, someone mentioned the brand on another post), an excellent product!. Other than that i can only think your solution is best. P.S. I replaced all the studs at the same time, another couple of them decided to break during that process, which was in one way lucky cause its not a job you want to do twice!

If you get Bilstein shockies, they come with adjustable spring 'carrier' platform, which I enables you to lower by upto 32 mm. You can only adjust height when you are fitting springs, not very easily once on car. This way you can keep the original progressive rate springs which will keep the car bearable on crappy roads, and there are a few of those around Brisi.

I have an r 32 with rb20 det. The factory plenum changes for number 5 and 6 cylinders beacuse of the brake master cylinder, so I not so sure that it would create the same mixtures for cylinders 5 & 6 as it does the others. So i dont think the factory manifold is that perfect at creating equal air flows for all 6 cylinders either - unless it has some sort of deflector internally.

hi, are you sure its at the rear? on the 32's at the front the top horizontal suspension arm(about 25cm long that comes from inner guard to top suspension link) can squeak like crazy when they get worn. The sound used to come and go on mine until I replaced them, now its gone for good. If noise is at rear it could just be a rubber mount or bush, is the noise constant or dcoming and going like after driving thru water? P.s. I've had to replace a new shock before, after it had only done 5000kms, so u may have a faulty one. Mine let go of all the oil and it sounded like a jack hammer when you drove it.

Hi, I've got some Falken ZE -502(205/55/16) on My R32 gts4 had them since April got them from quickfit for $600 for set fit&bal. They are ok, but squeal easier then than the BFGoodrich radial TA's i had before. The Falkens are better steering tires than the goodriches but have less traction than goodriches on the rears.i.e. going around small roundabouts in the wet, falkens hold line, goodriches run wide-understeer! like crazy.

Hi I've got a R32 GTS4(Rb20DET) and I am using copper plugs too, they are: NGK R BCPR6EY11 gapped to 1.1 My engines done around 160kms and the 1.1 gap is to big, runs a bit rough at idle. I think they should be gapped to 0.8 when your coils are getting a bit tired like mine. Just change them once a year, only $20. I previously used NGK platinums, NGK with a heat range of 5, I had them in for about 50,000kms. I dont think they could handle the OPtimax fuel, probably been ok if I had one range colder. The insulation on a couple of plugs developed an orange colour and the car would not start properly sometimes. I dont think the platinums are worth it either. It only takes an hour to change them anyway and like someone said earlier you get to see how the car is running, can look down plug hole and see if pistons are carboning up at all.

hi, i had some exhaust studs break too. They were number 5 & 6 cylinders. They are a real bugger to drill out whilst the motor is in place. I was quoted about $600 to do it, so I bought the studs and washers and gasket from nissan for about$150 and hired a 90 degree drill($20) and replaced the studs with the help of my dad- took the best part of a Saturday - dismantling, drilling, fitting studs and reinstalling everything. I used some really unusual screw extractors (looks like a rod with about 8 ridges running down the length of the extractor - some german brand), 'just drill ahole in the centre of stud' and bang them in and twist - was quite easy to extract them BUT not easy to drill!, tip... leave exhaust manifold on if you can to help guide the drill, save slipping off and drilling the soft aluminium. I'm glad bolts were mild steel, very easy to slip off centre with drill. I agree with the person who said the high tensile ones go brittle and can break too, there is alot of weight hanging off them (turbo and front of exhaust system).My mild steel bolts lasted about 12 years. Stephen

The dealers that originally sold GTRs were INdooripilly and gold coast. The Nissan dealer i have used for getting parts has been the Moorooka one, stay away from SPringwood- they are useless!, the guys at moorooka are atleast interested in helping you, no experience with the indooripilly or goldcoast tho. Check with Nissan, if the waterpump for gtr is the same as the rb30 one, it is for rb25 and rb20. Try this place for tensioner and idler, they had them for rb20det on the shelf, Bearing traders -slacks creek 38082766, cost me $140 for both a year ago.

Also if they are replacing the timing belt, get them to check the cam belt tensioners, i replaced both of mine on rb20det at about 140,000km, they were making a lovely squealing sound. One was same as rb30 about$70, and the other was $70also(nissan will try and sell youone for $250 tho!).Apparently the tensioners can part company and do horrible things!

hi, check out the CASTROL site, it has a car by car lubrication guide, and it amazingly covers GTRS.

I know a place in Brisbane, 'The Shock Absorber Reconditioner' - TSR, bit far to send them i think, he is good tho.

Hi, I fitted bilsteins to my last 32 gts4, they transformed the car, it had 110k on clock. They had adjustable spring seats, which meant your could lower the car around 30mm by sitting std spring lower down on shock strut.You can also get them revalved to suit your application. p.s. regarding springs, friends who have replaced their std with aftermarket one have found that the factory ones are often better(they are progressive) vs std rate aftermarket springs.

Hi, had this happen to me a while ago, check out the airflow meter, if cars had aftermarket airfilter(one that you oil) on it , it may require cleaning, also the solder in the airflow meter plugs can become a problem, I accidently broke all the connections trying to look inside it, resoldered them all back, 2 years later still going strong. Stephen