James' Svd Gts2 #072 - Long Term Resto Project

[Sir Lord Van Von Vader'ham]

Well, today is an exciting day for me. I have been after this car for the better part of two years.

After tracking down the lady who’d been driving it, i found out it belonged to her uncle who owned it since new and he’d lent it to her ten years ago! He wasn’t really interested in selling it but after calling up to check every couple of months he finally relented. I had wanted this one to be my tenth R31, but i bought the silo 5 days before as a fixer upper. The simmons will be going on the gts until i can source another pair

It is quite rough on the outside as you can see and the interior needs some work but thats exactly why i’d wanted it. It seems to have all the original bits except for two of the rims – developed the cracks – but im sure any GTS aficionados will help pointing out whats needed

Standard tape deck!!!

Standard speakers?

[Duncan]

Excellent project mate; I assume you are not planning to molest it?

[Sir Lord Van Von Vader'ham]

Thanks matie. yep back to as original as possible, as there will be some parts impossible to buy now..

[Duncan]

well the real miracle about finding one of these is that pete has personally killed more nissan actually made. On the bright side he would have left lots of bits at wreckers

[tweety bird]

i will be following this.

[spranga]

Saved! Rare Aussie Nissan history. Nicer than most VLs. Good luck with it.

[Sir Lord Van Von Vader'ham]

Thanks guys. Im really suprised at how well it drives, handles better than any of my other street 31's

Did a bit of a clean, needs a lot more work but it feels nicer now. The polish worked, it'll need a cut though but im not sure how much paint is left. There’s bare metal on the bonnet

I don’t know if i mentioned it before but the car got broken into a couple of weeks before i bought it. so i had to replace the loom behind the ignition, now i can start it without having to jump the starter haha.
I’ve also ordered a new ignition barrel with extra door lock barrels

Did an engine oil flush as it was blaaaacck and new tank of premium with injector cleaner in it. Must have been some sh1t in it, stalled on me about 20min later and had to floor it to start again with a big puff of smoke. Running much better/smoother now.

Also, I tried to adjust the front bar gap. I think the reo is bent so for the interim i pushed the right side up and pulled the left down so theres about a 10mm evenish gap now. No pic atm

[XRATED]

...awsome sauce.

Job 1. get rid of the horrid wheels pleeeease.

[Sir Lord Van Von Vader'ham]

Haha, yep. Got a set of Simmons V4's to go on, just need to get a lip straightened on one.

The ones you see on the silo in the first picture.

[Sir Lord Van Von Vader'ham]

New number plates finally got here and i put the fog lights back in at the same time.











Also, shiny new O2 sensor. The old one had a rattle..
Cold idle is new and improved.

[Roy]

Looks like you got to it just in time. Would be a very cool daily

[Sir Lord Van Von Vader'ham]

cheers roy. yeah, still needs a fair amount of work but it'll get there.

[dontyellpl0x]

No more work done on this James?

Looks like a reasonably tidy car

[Sir Lord Van Von Vader'ham]

Funny you posted now

I only just put rego onit and drove it for the first time since june.

But other that that, I haven't really done much to it. Been on the back burner while I've been playing with grumbles