32 Sedan Daily

[Tonks]

Long time forum stalker, first time build thread.

Anyway picked it up earlier this year, was after a cheapish daily with minimal mods as im trying to save for a house. After searching through a few forums and good ol' gumtree found this within my budget.

Only downers were the 50 shades of quite badly faded paint and backyard bonnet paint job and shithouse wheels, but, its only a daily so didn't care much.

Drove it around for a while with no issues until a few weeks in could smell coolant quite badly and sourced it to the tiny hose under the plenum. Anyway changed that haven't had a cooling issue since.

Engine:

RB20DET 165,XXX Kms

Z32 AFM

VG30 Turbo

Super Spark Coilpacks (Want some Splitfires)

GTR 444cc Injectors

Nistune

184rwkw

Still running RB20 Gearbox but with GKTech mount, have a 25det box in shed when this poos itself

Diff still feels quite tight as well.

Suspension:

Tein HA Coilovers

Gonna start to chase some camber arms and swaybars soon.

Got a boot lip that I don't mind but the roof spoilers a bit average and needs to be pulled off and redone.

The drivers side mirror crapped out on me so I got some GKtech mirrors and a few other goodies at the same time.

GKtech handbrake

Radiator silicone hose with water temp adapter

Air deflector

Solid shifter bushing

Mirror On

Got fed up with the wheels that came with it, eventually want some 33 GTR wheels but till then did a DIY respray and quite happy with the results.

Wheels when I got it, nice and gutter rashed up.

Stripping them back.

Etch Primer

First layers

Final layers

Baking in the sun.

Need a bit more low and maybe a spacer to fill guard?

While I was fitting the coilovers I found this in my cannon lol, anyway looking for new catback haha

Then the missus got me this

[Tonks]

Went and spoke to Andrew at AM performance on friday and hes going to whip me up some new cooler pipes cos quite frankly the ones at the moment are a pick n mix of random pipes an joiners.

Also going to get a solid intake pipe cos im pretty sure my rubber one is sucking itself closed. Will hopefully have them just after the new year

[XXXI]

Solid intake pipe is the go mate!

Had the same problem with mine on hot days would suck shut and not be boosting properly, stock rubber one is poo.

Nice looking 4door mate, good job on the wheels

[babyskyline]

Nice lil 4 door you got yourself.

[Tonks]

Solid intake pipe is the go mate!

Had the same problem with mine on hot days would suck shut and not be boosting properly, stock rubber one is poo.

Nice looking 4door mate, good job on the wheels

Yeh even cool the rubber one feels so soft.

Cheers!

Nice lil 4 door you got yourself.

Cheers mate, still needs some work but coming along.

Today chased up a miss it had for a while, ended up finding the wiring on #4 injector had split and was arcing out and that also the connectors that sit in the plug are loose and werent making contact with the injector properly so happy to have found that

Gunna start chasing a non hicas rear subframe soon and sort the rear end out

Edited December 29, 2012 by 4DR_32

[Tonks]

Still chasing some stuff and getting cheap stuff that i want/need when it comes up cheap. Changed my box oil to castrol vmx80 today as changes to second were a bit rough.

A bit of metal

Picked up a 32GTR strut brace and fitted that recently.

Tried to realign my cooler but its pos so gunna chase a new one soon, im annoyed at the turn flow style. When i had it off i noticed a lot of oil in the pipes so picked up a cusco catch can but theres no drain on it, so might drill a hole and tap a thread for ease when it fills up.

Also jus won some GTR sway bars on ebay so gunna pick them up tomorrow and if time permits fit them

Edited January 16, 2013 by Tonks

[Spark911]

bro are you still on holidays?! lol.

those GKtech parts look the business man. You planning on keeping the 20 or throwing a 25 in it later (do i recall you have a 25 at home)?

[Tonks]

Hey man na on engine runners course. Not sure yet, Yeh its in the shed, will prove throw the 25gb in first.

Reckon ill strip the 25 down and build it up proper but the 20 won't die, its knocking atm, thinking its due to the excess oil I have everywhere lol

How does the banana go after its tune?

[Spark911]

oh yep fair enough man.

i suppose you could start collecting parts now for the 25 rebuild. How severe is the current donk knocking?

the canary car goes well, 1st is useless, second it skates about but 3rd is where the money is made. was hard to adapt to the lag and I had a massive exhaust f**k up the other day - forgot to do up the front pipe to cat converter bolts and one had fallen out

exhaust gasket was hanging down and as i was walking to the car i was like 'wtf is hanging down from the middle of my banana?'

anyway thats the reason my car got stupid loud stupid quick i suppose haha all fixed now though. with work-provided rtv

[Tonks]

Only knocking after about 5000 giving it the beans, thought it may have been leaning out up top? Gotta get it on the rollas and have a suss properly. Wanna get a hard intake pipe made too, so a few things to do yet.

Yeh sorta started getting a few little things for it, should probs start getting the bottom end sorted.

Yeh I got a few metres of braid and -an fittings to from work haha

[Tonks]

Picked up a GTR seat yesterday so chucked her in, feels soooo much better

[Mohsen]

Nice! Sometimes I wish I kept mine simple!

where did she get that model?

[Tonks]

Cheers!

89 32 gtr

Yeh I figured, driving it everywhere I'd better keep simple

[Tonks]

Fitted up a GTR rear sway bar, need to get some new drop links though.

So much bigger too

[Tonks]

Driving to work the other week this happened.






Then this happened...

XD9's in 18x8's+38 and 18x9+20, Just needa pump the rears a bit and maybe a 10/15mm spacer up front?

Also went on a bit of a spending spree today too,

42mm alloy rad

ikeya formula tie rods

gktech rack spacers

gktech castor rods

gktech braided clutch line

work rs wheel nuts

Also on the cards soon will be

Front rotors

2 Piston rear calipers

new pads all round

gktech braided brake lines

front and rear camber arms

hicas delete

gktech clutch fan

front swaybar/ with new bushes and links front and rear

Also picked up a GTR front bar so gotta get that ready for a respray.

[Tonks]

Little update, (excuse shit photos, missus lost cable to charge camera)

Fitted some 20mm spacers up front looks much better imo.

Some of my other goodies rocked up too

Work RS wheel nuts. (should pull wheels off for a respray )

GK castor rods

Ikeya Formula tie rods, not sure what ends to go? Any ideas or just get a set of OEM ends?

Got some rack spacers as well to fitted when these go in.

My cheap defis were shitting me up in front of my broken aircon vent so i took a file to the surround and they fit nicely. Look a little big in the pics but, sitting in the car they're nice.

Edited April 24, 2013 by Tonks

[Tonks]

So been a while.

Bought new solid orange indicators and another GTR front bar in better nick to be fitted up.

This DEFI Din set to replace the 60mm gauges

Got some new Splitfires, front mount cooler with custom piping (gone the 120 deg bend off the throttle body), slotted T2 DBA rotors QFM A1RM's, braided brake lines, GKTech tie rod ends.

And this bad boy,

Hypergear SS1 Actuator set at 14psi.

Looks like i'm gunna take it into Decs at Garage7 for new dump pipe, remove GTR resistor pack, 610cc injectors, walbro e85 fuel pump and retune. Hoping for around 220-230rwkws.

Edited March 11, 2014 by Tonks

[Tonks]

So it's been a while and looking at the thread all the pics have been deleted unfortunately. So bout time for an update.

Anyway, just drove the car for another 6 months or so while I saved for my first house so the car plans were put on the back burner.

Finally got myself one and the plans started on the car again!!

Bought a daily and parked the the 32.

Initial plans were to pull motor, replace coolant & P/S lines, 100k service and not much else.

Yep, lost all my smurfs blood out the back, doh!!

Subframe was next.

Thennnnn this happened. I didn't plan on taking it off, but I thought while its out, why not, lets have a look.

All in all I was pretty happy, considering I think the motors done close to 200xxx kms.

Next step was to start replacing gaskets and hoses. I've used all genuine Nissan hoses and gaskets bar the head bolts and head gaskets. I used Garage 7 and kudosmotorsport for everything.

I have a JJR dump for the new Hypergeart as well.

Have now bit the bullet and have decided to paint the whole car as well. Not before remove this cancer and replace the front window. Which im assuming has cracked due to the rust there?

At the same time have started on sorting the rear end out.

Plans for the next few weeks will be finish motor off, clamps etc. Subframe bushes, paint subf and then refit knuckles bearings, shafts and new rear suspension, i.e new camber arms, HICAS delete, etc.

Edited December 9, 2015 by Tonks