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  1. Do you mean the reservoir feed and return under the car? I would try Nissan, I know the 2 hoses inside the rear quarter are available as I replaced mine recently.
  2. Well done, it has to be nice to get to the end of the racing year with that sort of success!
  3. I don't know (mine is custom) but I would expect all C34 Stagea to be the same from catback. Potentially front and rear pipe different between S1 and S2 with different motor but all the rest of the chassis stayed the same
  4. I'm not willing to click on any unlabelled external link; but I assume it is a hand held device intended to replace a wife
  5. Very complex piece of work there, will be good to see how it goes. Is the front bar just going to slide in on pegs and be retained somehow?
  6. Yeah so the Skid Factory on Youtube has some good coverage of this exact issue on a Z32 this week. Basically at the caliper there is a short curtly hard line which terminates at that bracket, then a rubber line with a mount in the middle that goes to a stud on the strut tower then the rubber line continues to a bracket at the chassis where it meets the hard line. As GTSBoy said, at the caliper end the bracket is deletable, and depending on the caliper you either keep the factory flared end or convert to a banjo fitting with copper washers at the caliper. Generally the line is cable tied to the strut in a similar location to the factory line's stud; I've never seen aftermarket lines with the factory style mount to the strut. It is important the brake line is mounted to the strut because it is a fixed distance between the caliper and the strut, but you need plenty of movement between the strut and the chassis to allow for full wheel travel.
  7. Agreed on both counts...depending on engine builder opinion and clearances a lighter oil might lower the pressure at cold idle but presumably 100psi is your oil relief spring pressure and is not dangerously high
  8. Well done, first start is always nervous but great feeling when you've done it yourself. Now remember not to panic when the oily hand marks all over the turbo and exhaust manifold start smoking after a couple of minutes of running
  9. Yeah interesting approach. Even the 32R workshop manual says not to re-use a lot of hardware I'm not a believer, I only replace head and rod bolts, other stuff just gets torqued to spec.
  10. Yeah they are frameless, this is kind of similar to a recent R33 question. The faster you go the more wind noise Having said that, damaged seals will make it worse so it is kind of relative. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find new (or new old stock) seals for these.
  11. Starter motor has big (unfused) pos from the battery and small start 12v from the key to the solenoid Alternator should have a plug, plus a large stud that goes to battery 12v and a small earth that goes onto the alternator body. Models vary a little so hard to be more specific, generally the pos stud is M6 (10mm nut) and the earth is M5 (8mm head bolt). Put the Pos stud on the earth spot and you'll get good sparks
  12. Oh that is my favourite, done it more than once
  13. 100% put on the intake and exhaust manifold including turbos if possible, way easier to do all that on a stand I've got one of those levellers but I agree ratchet straps are a much better solution (or a second pair of hands). The levellers take up a lot of space and don't give as much flexibility as it looks for angle (you need to start within the right range of adjustment, and that bloody handle will impact engine when you try and adjust it anyway
  14. I reckon not, performance or not they get slung together by a person that does the same tasks every 90 seconds for 8 hours. I'll bet replacing an occasional engine in warranty is just an understood cost of doing business, most of the time they are lucky, sometimes they are not.
  15. Yeah, in theory the exhaust side is better for a drain due to crankshaft rotation. On the intake side any oil returning gets thrown up at the windage tray not down at the sump. No idea if it makes any real world difference
  16. thanks Josh, that is exactly what I was trying to get at, I just wasn't aware of the term or method. Please fix this one instead of reducing the parts remaining in a small pool! Edit: sorry, to be clear, the fuel release end in the 32 is a plastic catch in a plastic thread which cracks....I could not see a practical way of fixing that beyond 3d design and printing which is outside my skill set
  17. Welcome to SAU!
  18. The R34 cable is longer but it doesn't matter, because as long as the ends are in the right place there is just a bigger loop in the rest of the cable. I see a worldwide shortage of 34 fuel door release cables starting very soon. Australia's stock already sold out 3 months back
  19. I have an R34 one in my 32, but that is because the other end at the fuel door broke (plastic in 32, steel in 34). Is the 2nd pic a temporary fix? I think it is repairable, I'm not sure of the method but it would be worth either checking around or getting an instrument repairer to look at it
  20. ....expensive
  21. Wow, they are pretty....
  22. Lol, that might be a record, even for you
  23. Sorry to be unclear, I meant that the fog lights from your questions 2 and 3 are also part of the winter pack. Generally, a bunch of rust is also part of that pack so please check the car out carefully including removing the door mirrors to check underneath. Mine has the winter pack too and despite being rescued from snowy parts more than 20 years ago the door mirrors still needed repair. There is no factory way to dim the dash lights. It is possible to fit a dimmer if it does trouble you, for a while adding one was part of compliance when cars came into Australia. You basically just add a variable resistor into the wire that supplies power to the dash backlight globes
  24. Well, a place to start is the output of both o2 sensors. You will need to know which ECU you have, if stock you need a consult cable or otherwise whatever suits your ECU. Depending if the ECU runs narrowband or wideband o2 sensors, check the output of the o2 sensors is as expected, if they are factory narrowband sensors it is reasonable to need replacement after 25+ years However.....my bet is you won't find much wrong and won't make much difference; they are just thirsty
  25. Issue inside the hydraulic unit was my thought after looking at the guide too, but I haven't really heard of that before. Potentially it is just the pressure switch has failed, original is not available but there are aftermarket equivalents like this from Frenchys https://frenchysperformancegarage.com/products/fpg-nissan-gt-r-attessa-pressure-switch-replacement I can't see how the g sensor would cause the issue but it is easy to check, just unplug it. The hydraulic unit should pressure up regardless of what the ECU thinks is happening in the car
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