hey guys,
been on here for a while just lerking around saving money and looking for a car, ended up in melbourne over christmas period and found a clean reasonably straight r32 gtst maybe type m? , at a fair price, took it for a test drive put in on a hoist and all looked sweet, so i put a deposit on and flew home sorted my shit on and went back to pick it up early Jan.
Got to the car with no hassles, swapped cash drove away, 31kms down the highway and Bam no oil pressure, couldnt beleive it, so called a tow truck and got towed to the spirit which i was then flat towed on and off mate me with his car trailer at the truck depot for ths spirit and loaded it up and drove 330kms south,
got the car home and it all began took the radiator and clutch fan and timing covers off, found out that the owner before me had put Greddy adjustable cam gears on it but didnt beleive that torquing the adjusting bolts up was the was to do it so the 4 out of 5 have gone MIA attack , what looked like a brand new, timing belt, and taking half the oil pump belt guide off ripping a 5 cent peice hole in the front of the oil pump , so the oil pump was only drawing in air and pumping the air around, not the best lubricant for engines i beleive, so then the engine had to come out because nissan have thought putting the valve of the oil pump in the sump was a MINT idea,
so once we took it all out we found more ghetto shit like 4 snapped manifold studs and 2 were glued back in? a farked exhaust manifold gasket due to studs, torn engine mount, got all this stuff sorted put new pump gasket studs belt on and put it back together and got it running on the first weekend of feb which was also my 18th a few of my top mates helped me out putting it back together and got it running sweet thanks to Ash Courtney and Ben Swan for the tight as tiger times haha,
decided since i bought the car for driftingide enter the test and tune day at barskerville last on the 12th of feb, car was running sweet not faults on a few grip laps, then my first skid session came up, did about 8 laps i belive started getting the first part of the ess and loooped ah, went backwards over a ripple strip and the ripple strip decided it wanted to rip the front left lca out and elongated the bolt hole and stripped the nut off the bolt, luckily enoguh martin was heading back to his workshop and picked up a bolt and nut so i could put i back together and drive it home
SPECS
Engine
fmic
exhaust
ebay turbo, i beleive its a copy of a kkr4**
Driveline
exedy sports tuff clutch
lsd shimmed up to locked
Suspension
rear old gab coilovers
gktech subrame bushes
gktech solid steering bush
Exterior
cheap fibreglass roofwing (yet to be tiddied up and fitted)
stock s14 rims for daily and skidding use
Interior
gktech steering wheel
gktech drift button
momo gear knob
Apexi boost gauge