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hey im an american living in peru, happend to buy a 1998 r33 40th annyiversary 3 months ago, in pretty bad state, it was a drowned car, when i bought it 3 of the 6 injectors worked the fuel rail was bent, the tming belt was completely loose and skipped 2 teeth,the steering rack termianls were all with huge play youd lift the front tires and you'd have 3 cm's of steering rack play, it had a horribly made 1 1/2 inch exhaust thats right 1 and a 1/2 inches, it had a chunk of the front left rotor mising(dont ask) it had 4 blown shocks had a broken clutch fan, the rims were basically squared, the nismo dashboard didnt work at all, and half othe car was badly painted(the car came out of nissan midnight purple) looks like the prevous owner had a fender bender and repainted it with spray paint, and its an s2 with s1 headlights lol oh and it gave me 7 km's per galon and was runing uber rich

Well after the dismantling fixing welding soldering sanding painting bending farting praying, it finally started to take shape, painted it fixed the engine trouble the fan the fuelrail the injectors, made a 3 inch exhaust rewired the gauge cluster put some hks hypermax II suspension it was fianlyl starting to run like a skyline but it was giving me 7 km's per galon, i tried everything tps maf coils plugs fpr injector orings etc etc etc finally i decided to fork over some cash and buy a haltech e6x best 1600 dollers ive ever spent(not cheap tog et aussie products in peru, 1600 tuned was the price i paid) solved all my problems, it currently gives me 35-30 km's per galon, now that all that was fixed it was time to try to get some hp out of the lil guy, after allt hat my poket was prety bruised and abused, the car ame with an hks fmic (with 3 holes i had to fix), other thent hat the only other performance parts i had was my home made exhaust and the haltech, oh and the blitz air filter, i bought a blitz sbc dual, and stated raising the boost and with my tuner, we finally started wake up some of the druged horses i had under the hood, when we were finally pleased with the results, i took ehr to the dyno( peruvian dyno es hp vs speed) no torq only hp, and she threw out 327 beautiful horses( @ 1 bar ) i was so proud and happy that day, soo i dicided to take her to her first drag event i was so worried, heh so with 300 tread wear street tires 1 size to small for my rim, i lined up and ran 12.9 ET i could have died that day and i wouldve died happy lol, heres the video

here are some pics

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an extremely special thanks goes out to Abo Bob, and paulr33 for all the help theyve given me these past 3 months, i wouldnt have been able to have done this without thier help

Edited by ReganGTS25T

btw im not a gtr wanabe it came with that front bumper it came with that rear wing and it came in that color, i heard that some 40th annyversaries coem like this, its the first 1 that ive seen that came midnight purple, and its the original color ive taken the whole car apart to see if it had another paint originally

Edited by ReganGTS25T
btw im not a gtr wanabe it came with that front bumper it came with that rear wing and it came in that color, i heard that some 40th annyversaries coem like this, its the first 1 that ive seen that came midnight purple, and its the original color ive taken the whole car apart to see if it had another paint originally

Yep those are factory items.

No idea how you fit those headlights under that bonnet tho. That's the weirdest thing i've ever seen.

Those are series 3 GTR front seats in it though.

Congrats mate.. Gald you didnt give up either, and worked on it like your intentions from the start!!

Love the paint job too!! :D

Edited by siddr20

Good work, but those headlights MUST go!

Source yourself a good set of used Series II headlights, they usually aren't terribly expensive and will transform the front of your car (back to what it should look like)

MEga work dude, thats what i call effort. you wanted the dream and you worked your way to it, respect. start saving for another turbo cuz the factory turbo can give way and ruin your engine, believe me i know. BTW love the paint job

nice car and glad you are so happy with it. nice 1/4 time and nice looking car.. i would be looking at some s2 head lights (so much sexier then the s1) and maybe backing the boost of for your day to day driving.. but god work on the car

ty guys so much heh, umm yea its true tis converted to lhd unfortunatly it wasnt a very clean job, ill post some enbine bay shots even though its kinda of embarassing its like askinga 180 kilo guy to take off his shirt but here goes nothing

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thats when the car was for sale at the importer, notice how everything is rusted well all the bolts n stuff, and yes its a tight fight, and i cant use any aftermarket rb25det exhaust manifolds so im goin to have to make my own for my turbo project, im goin for 450 crank hp out of it i have a couple of locals i need to beat :D

and as for the turbo well i only run 14 psi when im racing or if i find some 1 fast on the streets :laugh: but most of the time its on 9 psi

as for the headlights, umm yea its like 1400 usd for each s2 headlight here in peru and it would take 3-4 months to get here

here what they do is that they cut up your original rhd dash and then fibre glass it back together then shroud it all in very cheap vynel i have to take it apart and redo it, but time nad money are 2 things i lack right now heh

Hey, can you post some of your interior pics ? And what do they do with the steering rack ? Cause u can't use the RHD one. Here in China they cut it open and reweld the insides. Its an ugly job and rhd converted cars here look like shit.

How much did u get ur skyline for in Peru? Converted ?

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