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Thought I would share the progress of my 32 GTST I purchased March last year

this is what it looked like on day 1 of ownership. Stock as a rock apart from a FMIC

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and then gave it a good cut and polish

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First week I had the car I went to town on it on ordering some new things to make it reliable

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all hose clamps for water, fluid and fuel hoses

all water hoses

all pwr steering fluid hoses

all fuel hoses

rocker cover seals

040 fuel pump

removal of hicus crap

putting a full brg set through the gearbox

cleaned everything up

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found a cactus brg on the mainshaft in my gearbox which is a common cause for skyline rollover noise

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So once that was all done I purchased some 32R rims

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gave the GT badges a polish

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installed a 3" bellmouth dump pipe and 45V1 R33 Turbo

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then replaced a the front end bushes and installed some new K sport coilovers

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which lowered it somewhat

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engine bay is now all clean as well as the air con system at the front of the car

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next bit was to put in a new 3" mandrel bend system

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and then a nistune done by sean at allstar garage

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stripped out my boot

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then I got real, pissed off the 32R rims and went for some buddy clubs

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more to come!

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then it was time for a new windscreen and front and rear rubbers

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then put in new gearboots

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then one of these under the dash

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new bigger battery and clamps

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new pads (ebc redstuff) which I have not fitted yet

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dba 4000 slotted rear rotors

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and I have these on order (324mm gtr front upgrade on 4000 dba rotors)

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also not mentioned yet is I put in a rear 32R sway bar and RB20 diff from an auto for the shorter ratio

see if I can work this out

Rims & Tyres -$1100

Brakes - $1500

Fuel Pump - $240

ksport Coilovers and nolathane bushes $1900

nistune - $950

Gearbox rebuilt $500

Gearboots $30 odd

bee*R $300

Mandrel steel Exhaust $450

Seals, Hoses, clamps ect.. about $400 from memory

Turbo $300

Dump pipe $200

GTR rear Sway bar $20 (CHEAP CHEAP)

Rear auto diff $150

Strut brace for the rear $80

Tint $60 and seals $50 (mate of mine does windscreens & tint ect)

Dry ice sound deadner removal was about $150.. Dry ice isnt cheap!

Thats as much as I can think of, All the new stuff is below trade price too.. glad I didnt pay retail for any of it

duno if I wana add all that up LOL, would be almost 9K i rekn

im building a 25 for it next year, still pretty keen to spend more money.

Edited by BANGN

f**king gorgeous .... wish mine would look like this ... ( the Bee*R rev limiter) what do u use it for? ive seen them applied (ignition cut) with all the backfire which is awesome but .. what are they used for? launching?

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