Damo's R32 Gts-r, On Going Project Fun Car. History And Use Full Info

[ausdutchey]

Good stuff with the ride man come a long way, body looks immac!!

[Volk34]

faroout love the lips on the wheels the whole car looks fat! tuff build

[DJRIFT]

Thanks for the positive comments guys.

best thing about pictures is they hide all the dodgy bits. its far from immaculate.

just incase people haddent pick up on it the black car isnt my car it just has some of my bits on it. this seemed to confuse the hell out of people at the Tas drift festival on the weekend. it kinda looked like my car and the owner of it and i used to be team mates so they didnt know whos it was. ive been getting complements for building it and Steve has been getting offeres to buy it.

proves to me that all you need is some tuff wheels (weather they fit right or not) and a tuff exhaust note. (helped by a screamer pipe) and people love it. we had people looking over the car all weekend. to us its a pig compared to what we usualy work on so its a surprise to see the reactions. we were like "havent you ever seen a real car before" but i think there is a certan look that a drift pig generates. the ill fitting body work. rattle can painted pannels. tuff unfitting wheels. tuff and rugged sounding engine and then seeing some one drive it on the limmit for 40-50 secconds without holding back for fear of braking somthing.

[DJRIFT]

Steve driving

http://www.youtube.com/jimeegee23#p/a/u/2/Uxek_8_7QlM

Me driving

http://www.youtube.com/jimeegee23#p/a/u/0/ITe1U83VBXM

worth turning the volume up.

[PHaT MR30]

Nice job damo!

[DJRIFT]

Update for my own car.

brought a turbo and manifold today. second hand off some dodgy bloke i know. said it was like new and stuff.

anyway its in the GT30 range. no one really cares.

what does matter is ill have Gate soon enough. hahaha

manifold looks like this.

for the haters, yes its a T4 flange with a T3 adapter. I had a ebay special a while back and the runner size and quality is much grater than the ebay job. this manifold also takes the Tial 44mm Vband gate or turbo smart 45mm Vband.

Tial have just relised a water cooled version of the 44mm gate but i dont think ill be trying to over complicate the setup just yet.

also after many weeks waiting for a parcel all the way from Melbourne i got these.

RB20 red top cam covers. after seeing them used in a workshops demo car in HPI a while ago these became cooler than smashing the back out of a 18yo. i got these at the right price but im not sure if they are somthing ill use or on sell.

my current cam covers have Mines style cam baffeles welded in them. you cant buy a direct fit part so i had a look at the design and figured it wansnt to hard to emulate using the rb25det covers.

all in all its a good days buying. haha.

[sav man]

RB20 red top cam covers. after seeing them used in a workshops demo car in HPI a while ago these became cooler than smashing the back out of a 18yo. i got these at the right price but im not sure if they are somthing ill use or on sell.

we all know 18 is waaay to old for you, i found this pic of you from the weekend

[DJRIFT]

well you told me to meet your sister there. i dint realise it was a TRAP

Edited September 20, 2010 by DJRIFT

[danbevsta]

Nice car man, love the dash

[PHaT MR30]

That manifold actually looks quite good compared to some of them ive seen.

Haven't seen you in a while Damo, I'll have to come check out some of your handy work.

[DJRIFT]

for sure. still at the new house. i think you have been there once before. most friday nights we have a drinks night if you want to pop over and talk crap

[richzx]

This car needs more R33 brakes on the front. I know an awesome dude he has some, real honest and handsome to boot.

[DJRIFT]

Pfffffffffffffftttttttttttt. r33 brakes arent worth looking at.

i actiualy have r34 gtt brakes for any one that may have miss read it. good upgrade.

[4hirpm]

those rocker covers would look good on my engine

[DJRIFT]

Friday night super special resulted in this.

this is a donor GTR bar ready for hectic modding.

and ive finaly finished the front work wheels. last part i was waiting on was getting all the bolts Zink coated. and while i was waiting i sparyed all the nuts matte black to match the rear.

the bolts had to be acid dipped twice to get the Zink to stick and to my plesant surprise the acid dipping revealved work writing on the. you can reall see in these pic thoe.

from this

to this

now to get tyres fitted and try them on. then remover and repeat for the rears.

[richzx]

So somewhere out there, a Torana is missing a rear flare?

[daz32]

nice build mate

[sav man]

Friday night super special resulted in this.

And we didn't even have a drink.

[DJRIFT]

if id drunt they would have been on upside down. or duck taped to my face. which ever came first.

[DJRIFT]

been getting a bit done week by week. please excuse the phone pics. if youd like clearer pics ill go back to a normal camera but its way more eficent for me to use a phone camera.

got tyres fitted to the front works rims and fitted them. im very happy with the fitment. this pic is not a good example.

Started back into my drift car.

ive had to make a new front reo bar. i used an old bent one and unstiched all the bits i didnt want. on the left is what i started with and on the right is what i was left with

i have a GTR cooler and i use the top standard mounts to mount it to the reo bar so i had to weld on some brackets

than after some initial test fitting i found it was to low in the middle and it covered to much of the cooler so i made it do this

and that made it look like this

painted up ready to roll

A few weeks back i got a hold of a S14 sub frame to comepare pick up points. this is some of the results

the front mount has been cut off the r32 item but the silver bar projects where it would have been. the front pick up of the s14 frame is substancialy lower.

i then stripped out the inside of the car once again. im hoping to tidy it up once and for all and never have to pull it apart again. its a real squez to get the full dash pad out with the cage in. im hoping to also de-loom the engine bay as i do this for other people but have never bothered to toutch my own car.

then i decided to start cutting the floor up ready for the new dump pipe im building. the point where the dump pipe is at its lowest under the passenger foot well has always been to low on my car and i plan on going to a bigger diamiter dump pipe so cutting the floor seemed like a good option. So far the only hassel has been some of the extra body work stiched in to that area for the gearbox cross member but i will weld in something that will be stronger than the original anyway. i am also planning on cutting and boxing the section at the back of the passenger seat so i can run a straight pipe from the firewall back with only a mild kink up and out at the back.

it may seem like a fair hassel but ive been over plenty of ripple strips and the exhaust cops a hiding and this movement can cause all sorts of problems futher back on the turbo side as far as cracking manifolds and studs ect that could end a good days racing. so i file it under a reliability thing rather than time waste.

Edited October 17, 2010 by DJRIFT