timmy_89

Not really a 'car' update, but I decided to buy a GoPro. Got the Black Edition. Went for a quick drive with it yesterday to test it and will have a bit more of a play on the weekend but so far so good I've got a suction mount to use with the car, and I'm also going to use one of the clip mounts on my helmet for when I'm doing car events and for when I go go karting

great build. full of awesomeness, definitely subscribed.

My girlfriend is interested in doing this sort of thing for a year after finishing uni and had mentioned the 'JET Programme' to me. Anybody gone through these guys before? I just found this thread, it was good to read the few points that have been made, just curious on peoples thoughts with doing this for a year? I was looking at also going over with her, not sure on whether it would be to do the same thing or not? What are other peoples experiences?

awesome build. cant wait to see the results after tuning

nice thread, hope the conversion all goes well without too many problems

wow. gauges are a perfect fit. what brand/model are they? its hard to read anything on their faces because of the flash/glare lol.

Nice thread car looks great. Whats next?

Looks good. Whats next? When do you plan to have it on the road, or will it be track only?

build is coming along nicely man can't wait to see more.

Well this definitely sounds like it could be interesting but you need more info

Edit: double post

Cheers I know exactly what you mean about the wheels. That's why I haven't done anything yet and would like to do it after I get other wheels and then these would be my track wheels. Still undecided though.

might know someone interested, did you have a rough price in mind? what boost was it tuned at?

In an ideal situation I would actually like to get some Varrestoen 2.2.1's in black for street and spray these something for track wheels. I'd rather do some more performance mods first though

Cheers man I was super happy with the fitment. The rear wheels paint was a bit screwed, so I resprayed (pressure pack) them the other weekend. Not perfect but a hell of a lot better! I want to do some out there colour but can't decide what. Orange, green, blue, pink?? I don't know

Haha. I guess more than anything I'm keen to find out more myself, as I plan to do this in the future too.

Sorry I have no idea what I was on about when I re read my post lol ...edited it but wasn't quick enough to get in before your quote.

I wasn't saying I was right, just voicing my opinion. Most of the time I see stock cabling to be around 4 gauge, running between the battery/chassis/alternator/block. But I guess they are shorter runs also. Anyway, I may be totally wrong, just wanted to put in my 2 cents Edit: I guess this is why it is common to do the 'big 3' upgrade, where the cabling between battery/chassis/alternator/block are upgraded.

Cheers I'm not sure why all the photos went small but I've reported to get a moderators help to fix it up lol. I never realised the red S badge was so uncommon until somebody else mentioned it to me :S

Great thread. Nice build so far

cant wait to see this build go ahead

great thread car looks clean!

Great thread. Coming along nicely. Can't wait to see this thing get finished Also (just my personal opinion) with my experience in car audio in my younger days I'd be surprised if you run into trouble anytime soon with the battery relocation wiring. I personally would have gone 0 gauge, but nothing wrong with what you have, especially being a track car, there isnt going to be a lot of electrical 'devices' running from it and the car won't be running that often anyway. Glad you ran it on the inside though, I would never run cable under the car. Tim

Hi all, I've been a member on here for a little while now, but have only start becoming fully active in the last few months. I purchased my silver R34 GTT last year around mid-August I think it was. Appearance wise it was completely stock, but it had a few performance goodies. It was nice to finally get a turbo car, my first car was a '94 Suzuki Swift GTi, and after that I had a '00 S15 Autech, both were nice, but obviously wouldn't compete with this performance wise. I live in Dubbo NSW, where there are a few imports getting around, but not many, mostly P platers in non-turbo Supra’s haha. At the time of purchase the Skyline had the following mods: Apexi Power FC + hand controller (tuned prior to the hiflow turbo to 206kw) e-Boost2 Hiflowed turbo Splitfire ignition coils Trust front mount intercooler (retaining factory piping holes) Trust pod filter 3" turbo back exhaust JVC head unit It also has a factory sunroof. Not something I was looking for but figured it was a bonus, though, after driving it for a few weeks I realised how tiny it was The car had close to 150,000kms on it, but the previous owner who lived in bathurst was a guy in his mid-thirties who had owned the car since 2001 and had all receipts from when it was imported, its services, and all work carried out on it. He was pretty meticulous. The km's didn't bother me after seeing the condition of the car and meeting the guy. We settled on a decent price and I was a happy Skyline owner I will also note that this is my secondary ‘toy’ car. I own a VY Commodore for my daily duties, and because my girlfriend is at university and I wanted something easy to travel in, so it does that well. At first I didn’t do anything to the car, I wanted to drive it for a little bit and enjoy it without spending money. It only took me a couple of weeks before I decided to pull off the NEO engine cover though, and also take out the factory air intake ‘snorkel’. It looks pretty crappy but I wasn't a big fan of the cover either. After a couple of months of ownership I decided to head to a local drag meet which is a 1/8th mile, held at an old airport near Wellington. I went with a friend who has a Sil80 pig. Wasn’t expecting any amazing results, just wanted to go for the fun of it and ‘play’ in a legal environment. It’s the only ‘track’ related thing I can do without travelling 4 hours. I had a number of runs throughout the day, and was improving each run, until my diff begun to play up. It started doing singles and was launching terribly. I think the best run I managed was a low 9.3. I know I could’ve definitely done better, but I was still learning. After the drags I obviously needed to fix the diff, so I decided rather than repair it or replace it with a stock diff I would go a 1.5way. I decided to go with the Nismo Pro GT LSD 1.5way so I ordered this online. While waiting for the diff I bought some second hand King Springs and Bilstein shocks from a forum member. I decided it was time to fix the ‘boat-ish’ look the Skyline had. They never turned up. Luckily, having paid using PayPal I got my money back, and bought another second hand set of springs on eBay. I chose spring for the current time as after putting coilovers on the S15 I previously owned I got sick of the roughness on the ‘country’ roads too quick. Once these turned up I got a mate to help me fit them and I was amazed at the difference. It looked better and drove firmer too, but still not rough. Once lowered I decided I needed to source some wheels. I kept my eyes on the forums and soon found a set of Rota DPT 18x9.5 +22 for sale with tyres for a reasonable price. So I purchased these. I was a little unsure how the fitment would go, but from what I read I was hoping they would be fine. I also rolled the rear guards in preparation for them, just using one of the the ‘cheap’ eBay guard rollers. This worked a treat. When the wheels turned up they had a few more marks around them to what was pictured/described, possible because of the poor ‘protection’ the seller provided when having the wheels delivered. But anyway, I guess that’s part of the risk you take when buying second hand. I got home from work the next day and went to fit the wheels all excited and discovered that my wheel nuts were not going to fit. I raced around town trying to find some that would fit to no luck. As a result I bought some 50mm extended wheel nuts from Cartel Aus, and opted for blue ones, as I thought they would match the black wheels on the silver paint. Once these arrived I fitted the wheels and was happy with the appearance. Not quite ‘build’ related, but I went for a bit of a drive one weekend when I had nothing better to do with a mate Kam, also a member on here, who just recently purchased a R32 GTR. Originally I was just going over to visit him (about an hours drive) and we would drive to Mudgee for lunch. This ended up in about an 11hr round trip drive for me after we decided to drive all the way to Bathurst and cruise around Mount Panorama before heading home. Next the diff arrived and I tried to find somewhere local to fit it. After being refused service by about 5 different local ‘transmission and differential’ shops, absolute joke but I guess that’s half the trouble with living ‘rural’ with an import, I finally found someone who would fit the diff for me. I must say, best thing I have done to a car so far. After driving the car for 20minutes I felt like I learnt so much. The car felt so much nicer to drive too. After fitting the diff I haven’t done much with the car, just been driving it around to bed in the new diff. Did go for a cruise out of town with a mate in his XR6 and a couple of mates with bikes. I attended a local car show with Kam in his GTR and a couple of other mates, who had R32 GTST, XR6 turbo and a Supra (N/A). It was good to attend this and push some local support for imports. I wanted to do this because the ‘charity car show’ had about 16 trophies covering Holden, Ford, muscle, bikes, utes, even ‘country utes’ and tractors, but nothing for imports. We gave them a bit of shit about it haha. Ahh to be in the country *bliss*. After the event we went for a bit of a drive. Along the way, the clutch slipped in 3rd gear, and later slipped in 2nd and 3rd. Time for a new clutch. Because I’m saving for a month’s holiday in Japan my budget is tight. But I wanted to replace it as there is a motorkhana event on locally at Easter which I want to attend, and have already paid to enter. I picked up an Exedy heavy duty clutch (just a basic one) on eBay for cheap that was coming out of a wreck. I received that a couple of days ago and am going to get a couple of mates to help with getting that fitted. Soo… this gets us to present time. Let me know what you guys think and I’ll update more as things happen Tim

sure to be an interesting build! keep the updates coming!