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Hey guys the wait is over ive got my first laurel after waiting for about 2 month to get it from nsw just picked it up today and could not be happier i fell in love at first sight and now the long hard road begins fixing little things up to get it to what a want quick list of things done

ENGINE:

- Its an RB25det series2 out or a R33 skyline with 80,000klm and have all recipes for work done.

- Greddy intake manifold.

- 80mm billet throttle body

- Denso 740cc injectors

- Custom fuel rail with braided lines

- Turbosmart FPR1200 fuel reg

- Walbro 500hp fuel pump

- Stainless steel hight mount manifold

- Turbosmart 38mm external wast gate with screamer pipe

- t04E turbo with polished housing .8 rear housing

- Full 3" stainless mandrel bent exhaust system

- 300/600/100 intercooler and piping

- 52mm alloy radiator

- Tomei Poncams 256 degree cams

- adjustable cam gears

- Gates racing timing belt and all tensioners and rollers wear changed

- EMS Computer (ECU)

- Turbosmart duel stage boost controller

- Greddy turbo timer PLUS SO MUCH MORE

SUSPENSION & BODY

- Tein full adjustable coilovers

- Tubed control arms Rose jointed

- R33 4piston Calipers front

- R33 2piston Calipers rear

- Rear wheel bearings have been changed

- 18" black with machined lip rims 8.5" front and 10" rear with stretched tyre's

- 5 Stud conversion done with all new wheel bearings

INTERIOR:

- Fully retrimed in a light tan leather

- The sound system is basic but affective with all Alpine head deck and splits and amp

- The roof has been custom made with down lights and the laurel emblem in the roof needs to be finished

- Downsides

- there is a bad manifold leak at the moment but will be first thing fixed

- and the car is a AUTO :( but this will be the big thing that will be changed and am going to begin collecting parts to do this asap

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yeah man its super neat i took a chance on it with out ever seeing it but has payed off big time so happy with it can tell it had been sitting around for ages in a shed gave it a good wash and clean inside and out come up awesome few little things gas struts have shit it manifold leak will be first on my list to fix went through some stuff that come with it there was brand new gauges turbo timers bov still in box never open downer the bit to get the wheel nuts off was not in the car and messaged the guy said he thought it was in the car so gonna have to get the wheels taken off some how :( some greddy injector thing come with the car in a box never seen one before and looks old! no idea what it is ill put a picture up to see if anyone can tell me what it is and in the front bumper there is like some light thing there then in the cab there is a switch looks factory i press it and it comes up like a arial and has a flashing light on top hahaha real strange looking but owner said there there from factory so who knows

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ohh really ok i see now funky little jap idea but yeah im surprised how clean it is myself just like its sat around in a shed for years and hasn't been touched bit of a barn find really... do you know what CLUB L is there badges on both guards looks factory but cant find anything on it think its a special model??

Oh ok did say on the vin plate was rb20det so maybe it's been added on yeah I was concerned about the rust I had seen photos of it but as I'm a panel beater I wasent to worried its not very big but has got a hole in it ill be cutting it out at some stage and putting a new section in and respray the hole engine bay but that is really the worst of it so I am happy if I'm right your the guy that Zach brought his laurel off the black one?? Well hoping to cut the little bit out of his shell to put in after I cut the front right out of it to repair the damage from his crash it ain't good for anything else been a good doner car lucky to have it!

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that would be me :) , so you're from Tassie?! . yeah i saw the pics of what zach did to the old girl . just be careful because they're well known for rusting out around the window (the black one had but i sort of repaired it (im a panel beater too :P ) . careful not to break the front window btw , they're hard to get!

yeah mate from launceston yeah well i put the new apron on the front and he wanted to take the front tubs out so just got to welb some more supports on the front to help with that its looking alot better tho so zachs done it in the same area?? his seems to be good for no rust little bit has started in the back window but will fix it before it gets worse.. i could imagine the windows would be hard to find like most things haha im a little worried about finding a crossmember for the gearbox and tail tailsharft to fit :/

most definitely , the longer you leave it , the harder it is to fix . Gearbox cross member is r33 in memory . all of the driveline is interchangable with skyline basically , the body panels and trim are the hard bits . feel free to come down and swap me for one of my r32 sedans lol

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well this weekend made the start on the laurel took it for its last drive for while as i start fixing things up getting ready to go over the pits for rego

things to do:

fix exhaust manifold leak

fit new steering rack boots

fits lights,horn

try to find out whats going on with the power steering

need to check over the car and check the cams and make sure it has actually got the poncams in it and find out whats going on with the computer and what it is as i looked and looks like a stock r33 but as he said had a ems but was told the ems may of been cut in to the loom like a chip so hoping i didnt get shafted on that but still got it for a good price and cant complain about that

will put more pictures up later once i slip rocket covers off get some pictures of the cams and try to find some numbers on them and try and find out what they are also as soon as i get it back going going to have the sniffer put on it just to make sure everything is running safe

got the manifold off today was a battle :( and i found out what i thought was gonna be wrong with it the manifold is warped so ill be sending it off to get planed hope they can fix it with no problem now can anyone shed light on what washers go on manifolds on the laurel there was the manifold then a spring washer then the nut but on my r32 that is set up basically the same its manifold spacer spring washer then nut

so just wondering what is the right way???

and whats every ones thought on best manifold gasket to use looks like the one on there is a multi layer stainless steel

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yeah think ill just do that took the manifold to the machine shop today to see about getting it fix and since it had warped 4mm out on each side that fixing it would make it very thin so ive decided to scrap the dirty cheap china manifold and get something good as everything else is good quality on the car so now ive gotta make a decision on what sort of manifold to go with



suggestions very welcome ;)

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