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Well Hi there peoples. Most people call me Shaddow, everyone but my wife and mother.

Anyway I'm a car enthusiast from teenage years. I've owned a few different makes and models over time.

Currently I've just bought an R31 which I plan to play with mildly as its my newish daily now that my old celica is past it. Ontop of that I've a 260Z which I'm rebuilding slowly, I have ownership of a 38 chev (its more my mates then mine these days), a 07 corolla (though thats really the wifes) and of course my celica which I'm yet to get rid off. Hmm dune buggy I hear written in the wind.

Anyway the skyline is nothing flash. Its an executive auto. It has genie extractors, 2" lowered springs with new monroe on each corner (thats how I bought it) and its straight. I've got a mini spool in a spare diff coming my way from a friend, a stereo which was the zeds lying around going into it and what ever other odds and ends I can pick up to make the ride nicer and go better (yes I know a stereo doesn't make it go better but makes the driving more pleasant). Don't ever want to turbo it but open to some ideas to make it nicer and go better. Oh and here are some pics of it.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Alrighty here are some old pics of the zed and some broken down pics of the old girl. And yes that engine in it is what you think it is. If you ask why the simply answers are, cost (A working series two VP cost 200 bucks and that got me a tidy engine and a very tight T5 box plus loom to hack apart, plus I've been given two other engines working for nothing), easier to put in then an RB by far (I did do research and the physical dimensions and what I had to mod to make it fit legally) and availability of parts and upgrades. I've no got a rear heavy car, as the engine is very low slung and so far back in the engine bay its not funny, with a great power to weight ratio. Besides each to their own.

Breifly before I pulled it apart.

Manual conversion -280zx box and nissan patrol clutch/flywheel

Extractors and exhaust

240 SUs - Pollution gear mysteriously went missing.

280zx electric dizy

Baby Cam

Sound System (can't be bothered being more specific with that one)

The heavy tinting

After market headlights (crystal type) - SO worth it! Recommend that one immensly. Also started replacing bulbs with LED bulbs.

Then odds and ends like black interior etc.

Nothing exciting really. What will be done at the end. Rear end of post

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Plan for end

The 3.8 V6 with T5 - Already in but wiring isn't.

4 Pot front calipers

Rear disc conversion - means a brake booster conversion too

Single piece guards and light cones

Rust repairs and repaint obviously

Custom exhaust - Already made and on

Custom performance chip - mate builds them for fun so I'll let he play with my computer

Bigger 3 core radiator

Then the added extras

Thermos, strut braces, recaro drivers seat, lowered springs (as nose sits up way high with the lack of engine weight to weigh it down), new shocks, bushes, eventually an interior, new rubber kit, etc

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