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Plenty of work ahead but perhaps not as much as it looks from the photos :)

Cheap car!! and actually passed RWC pretty well straight away so that's a good start.

I'll let the pictures do the talking for now, plenty of info and work coming up in the following months.

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Is anyone missing their mailbox? I think its under the car!!!!

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Do you think that the pink number plates bring out my eyes?

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Replaced both tie rod ends straight off the bat, as one of them looked like this...

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And replaced the hub on the same side for good measure, just in case anything was bent/damaged, and because the bearing didn't feel 100%... unfortunately it was an ABS hub onto a car without ABS, so it was time for another trademark Sam-spec backyard fix :P Who ever would have thought of using a coke bottle lid to fix a problem......just imagine what you could do with an entire Mount Franklin bottle.....

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Car is officially roadworthy and registered :)

couple of things to sort out

drivers' door doesn't shut as nicely as it should, and the key doesn't work in the lock of the same door properly.

couple of interior plastic trims need replacing with non-broken ones :)

wheels need a bit of a balance

still doesn't make power properly all the time, needs some tuning love I think. Read somewhere R33s don't like Nistune so that's a shame; PowerFC maybe, given that a bigger turbo will be on the cards for later on?? don't know enough about this side of things.

wow.... what made you think this is the right section of the forums for this thread....

Ive seen them turn up in the wrong thread before but this is obtuse

interested to see how/where your build goes though

*sigh.

I reported the post immediately when I realised it was in the COMPLETELY wrong section of the forum. I don't usually make mistakes like this :( and apparently the moderators took their time moving it, as it still hasn't been moved.

Hmm..

The possibilities are endless.

Anyway thanks for the altogether useful and productive advice you have all given so far :D

so we swapped the HKS pod for a generic pod PLUS a FMIC with all piping!

WTF!!

Pretty keen to get stuck into building this thing properly, but first i think it really needs a tune or SOMETHING since it uses about 540000L / 100km.

Sometime around Christmas we will strip the entire car and prep it for painting, inside and out. Panel shop can take care of the actual colour laying for us :)

Anyway thanks for the altogether useful and productive advice you have all given so far :D

don't mind the nerds, you DID post in the gaming section after all :nyaanyaa:

My first car was an r33 that had exactly the same colour scheme factory two tone silver & grey, ahh the memories

  • 2 weeks later...

so I'm having trouble chasing down the source of a misfire / spark breakdown..

Idles fine

Coasting down in gear misfires

Under part or full throttle misfires at random so hard the R&R must kick in or something because it's like the power just drops away for a moment now and then

I've changed the O2 sensor just behind the turbo, there looks to be another one in the rear of the catalytic convertor but I don't know what the deal is with that..? Is this a common issue?

There's also an earth strap just hanging free from the floorpan right next to the catalytic convertor... where is this supposed to go?

The earth strap in the engine bay from the motor to the strut tower is a piece of shit, I need to replace this because it's rubbish and I'm not happy with it at all.

Other than this issue the car's going alright :)

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