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A bit going on with the skyline the last couple of weeks. I've installed the new 4.36 diff gears, installed the new adjustable radius rods and solid rear cradle bushes. Also put the interior in for the last time and started organising the battery leads and earth wire set up.

But yesterday was the day for the new colour to go down. The pics i have are not the best for showing off the colour but i'll try get some more if the sun ever comes out here in townsville ever again.

Masked up and ready for paint

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And finished in the new R33 Midnight purple.

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Little bit of work done over the last few days. I put the car back together after painting. Turned out pretty nice i think. also last night a bolted all the accessories onto the new motor so it's pretty much ready to go in the car.

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Well, engine met car last night. Dropped the new engine in after some further deleting of unnessary junk like all the heater hoses and oil heater pack, Now it's way less cluttered under the plenum. Also ran the first scavange line from the back of the head to the pump as it would have been a mission to get it on there with the motor in place.

Still on the to do list is, finish the fuel system and change the injector plugs to fit the hks 1000cc, make all the intercooler piping, finish the oil system plumbing and make a coolant overflow bottle and also a breather tank. Plenty to do still. Hopefully get a windscreen in tomorrow to.

Pics as of last night.

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Ha ha. Thanks Ben. Although I have a decent shed at home the pics were taken down the back of my friends workshop that he lets me use. Note the dyno that 180's sittin on. I hope to be giving that a work out befor too long to. :P

Haha Derrrr to me, didn't notice the dyno :P

I'm about to have a crack at fitting some Aerocatch bonnet pins, they look like a real prick! lol.... I got rid of the vertical bracket for the bonnet latch because it weighed 2.6kg.... lol, what a wacka!

Yeah. Same here. should have them next week. I have a carbon bonnet that i don't really like that much to practice on so if i mess up it's no biggy. Let me know how you go with them. I've got a few ideas on how to line them up but untill they arrive and i can have a look at how they work i'm pretty clueless. defo nicer to look at than traditional pins though.

Something else to consider that my mod plate guy mentioned last week was a secondary locking catch that I, like you have ditched. I thought a secondry lock would be having 2 bonnet pins. But apparently, by the rules, the bonnet must lock down when just closed with out the pins in. So, like if you forget to put your pins in the bonnet can't fly up.

I'm not really that stressed about it but something to consider if ya get a copper that knows what they're on about.

Yeah mine rarely gets street driven so I'm not overly concerned. I think I'll still run a stainless cable to the centre original latch just to appease any scroot that might be in a mood.

I've made brackets, waiting for paint to dry. The issue with the R32 is the depth on the catches in relation to the radiator support. If it's a success I'll post some pics here ok?

If it's a disaster and I wreck my alloy bonnet I won't be back. lol

Yeah mine rarely gets street driven so I'm not overly concerned. I think I'll still run a stainless cable to the centre original latch just to appease any scroot that might be in a mood.

I've made brackets, waiting for paint to dry. The issue with the R32 is the depth on the catches in relation to the radiator support. If it's a success I'll post some pics here ok?

If it's a disaster and I wreck my alloy bonnet I won't be back. lol

Righto mate. sounds like a plan.

Ok, done and dusted..... these look sweet! :thumbsup: Nice product!

** I used two different size hole saws to cut the radius and simply used a cutting wheel to remove the rest. Lots of masking tape around the area to stop any damage from swarf.

Made U shaped brackets to utilise an existing hole in the radiator support. The return down the front too to give some extra strength. Made these from 3mm steel. You can see I had to gring the bolt down a little to allow clearence.

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This is the drivers side from under, nothing tricky really.

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The passengers side was a little harder. I did this second to get the feel for it. This is a GTR bonnet so I hade to carefully remove some of the reo.

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And the finished product! A bit of fine tuning is needed to get them just right, and it's very strong, not going anywhere. As a bonus the rubber stoppers they supply were the perfect length to allow a little preload so no rattles.

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And a reminder that angle grinders with cutting wheels can bite.

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Awesome. That looks the goods Ben. I'll probably have to mount mine a little wider as the new radiator support comes out a bit past where you have mounted yours. but I'll be using your stepped plate idea for sure.

Take care of you fingers bud. I did something similar cutting out the hole for the oil header tank. probably why Grinders have guards but they just get in the way. Haha.

Car looks great, looks exactly the same as mine did in the oven :thumbsup:

I was reading about cages in the cams manual the other day and i remember reading that if you only had one brace in the main hoop, it had to be from behind the drivers head to the lower P/S...maybe check that out for piece of mind. I could be wrong though.

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Accusump came from a local cheapa auto spares who deal with presision industries who import the canton products. I found canton from googling accusump and worked backwards to find a oz dealer. It is a good idea but obviously not required with the dry sump.

Dropped the car off at a local custom shop to have the intercooler piping made today to match the ARC twin entry intercooler. I'm still using most of the greddy pipe kit except for the Y piece. Engine now only needs a breather tank, air filters, the injectors, fuel rail, reg and Bov fitted and is all done under the bonnet.

Also thinking about getting an ARC coolant bubbler set up. Has anyone had any experience with them or other air removal tanks that they can share???

Then back to the boot to finish the fuel system.

Also got a windscreen fitted last week.

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