Shoota_77
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Could it be an exhaust manifold leak? They can tend to be quite loud and only at higher revs. check your exhaust manifold studs to see if any have snapped off or if you can see any sooty stains around the gasket.
Other than that, see if you can record a video of the sound on your phone and post it here so we can hear it. Very hard to diagnose until we know what it sounds like.
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5 hours ago, admS15 said:
Downsides you say, don't we all own Skylines... Well I have a skyline for backup when the Audi fails 😄
You're fu(#ed then if a Skyline is your reliable back up plan! 🤣🤣
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5 hours ago, GTSBoy said:
I kinda think that's the opposite of what's desireable though. I'd rather a good ride (and by that I mean actual performance, rather than comfort) than the pretty blonde fakeness of TSwift.
TSwift is not even for looking at (and she's certainly not for listening to, or considering rooting). My R32 is for driving, not looking at, and so it's at the correct (minimum) ride height to maintain decent geometry. It still looks good at 345mm.
As with everything, opinions are very similar to arse holes. We all entitled to have one and and we're all seemingly obligated to deal with them too.
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36 minutes ago, admS15 said:
@Shoota_77Thanks for the reply, I'd figured as much. I have been keen on one of these for a while but then decided against for the exact reasons @Duncanhas described above. Considering this one has already had $ thrown at it I am seriously looking into it.
You will love it as long as you're aware of the downsides! My second Audi way back in 2010 was a Q5 3.0TDI and I loved that car! It was fast as hell and yet insanely good fuel consumption at the same time. The SQ5 version of the 3.0L TDI engine is a whole another level of fun! We still service heaps of them. There's one the same vintage as the one you're looking at sitting in the carpark as we speak!
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3 hours ago, Duncan said:
funny that 9 years is "old" for a modern euro car, they were sure built to last for a planned period and then be replaced by a new one. I'd stay the hell away from anything outside warranty, it would be a quick way to burn money when your $40k second hand car needs to be thrown away.
Yeah fair point
. It could be worse. You could buy a BMW and have a horrid f**king car from day one...
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12 minutes ago, GTSBoy said:
Well, except that it's way too low and the suspension geometry will have AIDS and herpes as a result. But it does look good.
Who cares, looks good..... A bit like Taylor Swift, she would be a shit ride but damn she looks good!
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Welcome! The old school HKS livery on your car looks amazing! She sits at a perfect ride height too!
Make sure you start a build blog to document the work you do.
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18 minutes ago, kevboost7 said:
Thanks guys. And i wish i knew that it didn't need the L-Brackets, i figured it would be swinging around without it.
Can’t hurt to have them there! Everything helps.
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@admS15 they’re an amazing car to drive but like all older Euro’s you need to be realistic that they can be expensive to repair. Sounds like the previous owner has copped most of the pain though! We don’t replace a lot of injectors on the, but all of the VAG V6 TDI’s need injector seals once you get up around the 150+ km mark. I’ve got an old 2013 Touareg V6 (a fill in car while I’m waiting for my new model Amarok to arrive in March) and it needs a set of injector seals in it (@ 180K). I just did a water pump too. Again, amazing build quality, performance and handling but it can cost you!
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2 hours ago, admS15 said:
If my memory serves me correctly, don't you work or used to work for Audi? If so you'd be used to going down deep rabbit holes wouldn't you?
Yep, Audi/Volkswagen. We get some curly ones from time to time. Trust me, the VAG rabbit holes are a whole lot less deep than the Jaguar/Landrover holes we dive into. Goddam…….. #dontbuyone…..
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Very neat and tidy, good job!
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29 minutes ago, admS15 said:
I remember having a conversation about this phenomenon with a mate of mine who is a spray painter. He had a name for it, "chasing your tail" I believe it was. He reckons after lots of experience you kind of learn where to put it in advance to reduce chasing it.
Ha ha, sounds very accurate! I'm trying to stay strong and not chase my tail too far down the deep hole it's dragging me into! That's not easy....
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4 hours ago, robbo_rb180 said:
Keep them long, you put in good detail of how you thought about doing things and the process of doing it.
I am always looking at things I've stuffed up. It use to upset me a heap but now I think of it as a lesson as we are all learning as we go on our cars especially bodywork/paint and fabrication.
Awesome, glad you find it readable and not too boring!
Yeah there are numerous things on my car that are far from perfect but in the grand scheme of things I’m proud of having a crack and learning along the way! I can always go back and tidy things up m not happy with later on. For the most part our cars end up a whole lot better than how we got them even if we did do all the work ourselves!
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5 hours ago, soviet_merlin said:
Not boring, so thanks for sharing it all!
Do you know the Nightride guys on youtube? They seem to constantly require body filler work on their cars. Also very much working as non-professionals. The latest is the engine bay of their S13 and getting it right seems to involve endless repetitions of applying and sanding off and starting again. And never quite being happy with it.
I'm wondering whether this is going to be a bit like home renovations. You are going to forever be aware of every little imperfection in that engine bay and every little spot where you stuffed up. Anyone else who looks at it is not going to notice.
Especially once it has all the engine bits in it again.
Cheers mate, I’m glad it’s not just waffle! I try to help people learn from MY mistakes, not their own!
No I’ve never seen those guys on YouTube. Sounds like I better check them out though if they’re doing an engine bay!
100% that you over analyse the shit out of your own work when no one else gives two shits. They’re just impressed that you did it yourself! We’re our own worst critic but wouldn’t have it any other way!
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Ok, so....... Because the whole paint and panel thing is a new batch of skills to learn it feels a little like one step forward, two back, one to the side and then another 2 steps forward...
I decided I wasn't going to be happy with the finish of the seam sealer for the more visible parts of the engine bay so I stipped it back off only leaving filling the larger areas I wanted sealed off. at the end of the day, once it's all painted up to a lot higher level than what Nissan ever it had it, most of the worrying water ingress points in the engine bay are going to be pretty well sealed so I've erred on the side of aesthetics for the strut tops and the panel the guards sit on at the top. I've also convinced myself that the visible detriment of the seam sealer in the wheel arches is way less important than I was originally telling myself. Ie I slapped the seam sealer on under there with only mild concern for those aesthetics! Once it has a coat of high build primer, Raptor, colour and then clear I really don't think a few sanding scratches or wobbly patches of seam sealer are going to be of concern. Particularly when you consider most of it will be covered up by suspension components or covers anyway...
I didn't take any photos of seam sealing the wheel arches but this is how I spread it out. Put it on a body filler board and applied it all with my finger. A messy shite of a job but easier to apply to all of the tight areas with your finger as opposed to directly out of the gun.
That board was a whole lot messier than that by the time I'd finished...
Initial stages of playing around with body filler to shape the tops of the strut towers and fill any spot welds. Again, I'm really only worrying about the more visible areas for the body filler. The strut tops are realistically going to be the most obvious part of the whole engine bay from a paint perspective so as long as they look good I'm happy! Don't fry me on my body work skills just yet (please!!). This is far from a finished product, just doing a little bit at a time learning the skills. I'm just using 80 grit sandpaper at the moment, the finished sanding will be 240 grit or higher so there are minimal sanding marks. One thing you find with body filler and the panels is that just because you want to just fill one little spot weld, the ripples in the panels don't necessarily play ball... When you go to sand it, if that spot weld is in a low spot it makes it really hard to sand it back with a sanding block. You either have to hand sand the small area or commit to filling the whole low spot. Hard to explain but if you zoom in on some of the pictures it may make sense. You can see the heavy sanded areas where I've gone through the epoxy primer around the filler area because the filler area is still lower than the area around it.
This picture may help to understand it-
You can see how the sandpaper is biting into the metal on the higher ridges presumably part of the production process of the strut tower. Things look a lot flatter to the eye until you start playing around with body filler and sanding is the long and boring point I'm trying to get across!!
On that note sorry if my posts are long and boring....
A few more shots of the progress-
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1 hour ago, mr_rbman said:
Even the flange doesn't appear the right size for the G30, let alone the threaded fitting they supplied doesn't suit the 26 block 🤨
Yeah all sorts of shithouse!
Very nice welds, good job!
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17 hours ago, mr_rbman said:
very sexy...
will never understand why guys use those mesh flexi joints, bad news...
Yeah i agree, have seen plenty leak but admittely a while ago. They've got the proper baffled one on the wastegate pipe so not sure why they wouldn't use baffled version for both...?
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33 minutes ago, mr_rbman said:
identical 🙃😅
Frighteningly so!
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Progress has been slow (because to be any other way after 10 years of dawdling would just upset people....).
I have an new found understanding of why Nissan are lazy as fu(% when it comes to applying seam sealer. Because it's a cu^# of a job! God I hate applying sealant. It's just a shit of a job! I use way too much and end up with it everywhere! I resealed our shower once and I had silicone all over me and everything within 5 metres of the shower. Resealed my caravan door, same deal, silicone on my face, my legs, everywhere..... Not my forte...
Anyway, the extra effort of masking definitely makes life a little easier and less messy. Seems like such a waste of time to spend 4 hours masking fiddly little shit and bends, apply the sealant and rip it straight off again...
Didn't worry about masking for the non visible areas. I'm anal but nowhere near anal enough for that to seem worthwhile!
Still needs some gentle sanding down but should look relatively neater once painted over. Certainly a lot neater than the disgraceful effort from the factory, that's for sure!
Once the sealant is done I'm still determined to skim fill the spot weld holes on the towers and any of the visible areas just to give it that extra smooth look. Hopefully pays off in the end....
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38 minutes ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:
And oddly similar to ones on aliexpress for a fraction of the price.
Photo shows a fixed fitting, yet comes in a bag for you to cut off and weld on yourself lol.
Friend bought one, wasn't impressed.
They give you zero instructions either so you just have to work it out for yourself. The tube is about as thick as a Coke can so try as I might, I could not TIG it without blowing holes in it. Straight in the bin and made my own.
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By the way, I found the PRP turbo drain to be useless. The material is way to thin to weld. I made my own out of 19mm stainless and associated fittings. Check my build to see what I did if you wanted ideas.
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Nice! Some sexy bits there!
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Ooooo damn, that's a tricky place to fix.... The section that the K-Frame is bolted to is a VERY structurally integral part of the car. It's a massive job to strip all of that apart to get to that panel. Dozens of spot weld to drill out to remove all of the panels.
The other thing to consider is if there is that much rust there, most likely there is a lot of rust elsewhere too..... If/when you get a quote, IT WILL NOT be the final amount as once they start drilling out spot welds more and more nastyness will be revelled. Prepare yourself for that.
Good luck, I hope you can bring her back from the brink.
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10 hours ago, BK said:
C'mon man, you're asking $126k on Skylines Australia - put some effort into the for sale post as you are going to get more questions about the car by not doing so.
For a start details like location ?, Borg Warner what ?, actual motor specs not just it's a 2.8 and at least try to sound like you know what you're talking about - SELL the car.
Maybe more than one bloody photo might help too
You're showing your age! Surely one photo is enough to justify a $125K spend?
People are paying $250K for one photo (ie NFT's) so $125K is a bargain!
All jokes aside, I agree 100% if you're selling something worth $25K let alone $125K you put in a whole lot more effort than that....
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Thank Christ you clarified that. I was about to drive to Sydney just so I could jump off the Harbour Bridge in grief over how bad my welds are compared to yours!