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Hey guys,

I just wanted to say hi as a new member of SAU. I came from the land of s chassis (owned about 4 over 6 years) haha and only just saw the light to move onto r chassis, a black r34 gtt sedan in black, which i recently bought with a glorified slush box aka tiptronic auto.

What a transformation! The drive is so much more refined, cabjn noise is much less and the power delivery is so smooth and torquey. I am lovin it!

I recently finished a manual conversion myself following a few guides here, as well as the uk based skylineowners forum, which are a wealth of knowledge, so thanks guys!

I hope to return the favour by putting back some things i have learnt along the way about nissans.

Will upload pics in a tick

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Thanks for the support people. As promised earlier, here are some pics.

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The above pic shows the rims it came on and the car on stands halfway through the manual conversion.

I soon took it to one of sau's texikhana events and did this

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A few days before the event, i decided to change the rocker cover gasket seals and half moons. I also gave it a service.

I stupidly put too much silicone on the half moons and they leaked, so i did it again. Things got pretty busy afterwards at home so i wasnt able to test it.

Thinking they were all good, i drove to the event i had prepaid for. I noticed after pulling into a servo that i had a decent oil leak. Luckily it wasnt enough to starve the motor of oil, but it was enough to smoke up the entire engine bay. I decided to drive it to the event and give it another go by re-doing it at the pits. Still no joy. Did a few skids then retired early.

Luckily one of the helpful guys at the event had a spare bottle of oil to top up for the ride home. Also had alot of offers of help, so cheers SAU guys!

When i got it home, i purchased a genuine nissan gasket set and genuine new half moons. The previous ones i used to change with were ebay spec copies.

After a few days, the genuines arrived, so i set out to do the job again. I noticed with the genuine, the seal was embossed except for where the half moons sat, allowing a good seal for the half moons and for the entire way of the head. The seals even sat in the rocker cover without falling off when i held the cover face down.

This would be the 4th time. As i was doing a check over, i noticed oil under the oil filter. I though that was strange, i serviced it not long ago! Then it occured to me that it was considerably larger than the one i pulled out. Doh! It was a z445! It was supposed to be a z442. Fixed this promptly and dropped the oil again to replace with full synthetic castrol sport 5w 30 and hasnt leaked since.

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I sold the 17x9 zenkai drift wheels as they werent my cup of tea. I wanted bigger, so i bought some 350z anniversary rims and fitted them with a 5mm spacer. I noticed the previous owner installed 60mm extended hub bolts all around under the project mu lug nuts, so i will probably move onto using a 10mm spacer to fill the wheels out more. Effectively the wheels sitting on it now are f 18x8 +25 and r 18x8.5 +28.

I will be starting a members ride thread to discuss more technicalities with the skyline.

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