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The car went for its MOT and passed . Needed a front wheel bearing and a CV boot .

Ive also found out the springs were cut down a bit so have fitted stock ones which sits the car a little higher .

Ive removed the tacky foglight and wired the foglight through the heated screen switch to one of the reversing lights .This has the required warning light when its on (needed for UK regs) and means no extra switches on the dash . If I want the heated sceen on i have a hidden crosssover to convert the switch back to work it

A few pics of the first day out

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Ive been asked my quite a few what its like driving a stock 32GTR . Well now i have taken the car for a nice run I can say.

It wasnt what I expected

First and biggest impression is it doesnt sound like a GTR

The car is amazingly quiet inside - You can even hear the injectors on tickover In fact you cant really hear the exhaust at all untill around 4000rpm . It does liven up after that but it is never even close to loud.

Handling wise its simply awesome for a stock 20+ year old car and goes in and out of all corners as if on rails . Admittedly it does have brand new suspension but even so I am very impressed ,

The brakes are not great but not as bad as I expected having got used to AP.s on my Stagea

The performance is not stunning . I can certainly see why they were/are modded

Around town it is really graet to drIve, . Power ciomes in pretty immeadiately with no lag. It is however not very quick when pushed anf does run out of steam at around 6000. This may be a bit unfair as I am used to twin 2560-5s

On a motorway it will cruise at pretty sensible speeds without a problem . It is actually quite eerie as there is no noise at all at road speed limits .not at all what I expected

But all in all I am very impressed for completely stock 20+ year old car- I think it would have knocked spots off what else was around at the time.

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Awesome work, looks great in factory form.

One thing I'd add is there was a factory option for a rear strut brace (matching in red) and I reckon they improve the R32's handling no end.

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Fit it.

The ass rigidity you will thank it for later on.
Especially on wet windy roads.

lol jokes - it just looks cool.
It does make it more stiff in the rear and at speed you can feel the difference (it was like that on my GTS-T's anyway..)

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Ive decided to get the wheels redone as they let the rest of the car down.

does anyone know the correct paint name or code as mine are the wrong colour.

Had the car requested for a photoshoot a while back

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the wheels came back from Lepsoms who did an optical colour match (whatever that is ) on a set of original wheels ..

A few pics of the wheels plus a recent pic of the car

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