Canadian Bacon (R34 Gtt)

[604JD]

Hey everyone, I live over in Vancouver Canada and wanted to share with you my 1998 R34 GTT coupe.

Its been in hiding for a bit, but finally parts arrived, repairs and routine maintenance were taken care of, and back to inspection the car went. This time it passed perfectly, not a thing needed, and not an issue was made with the car.

The car came over in pretty good condition, was a grade 4. I spent about 3 days bringing the shine back into the paint, cleaning up emblems, door jams, under the hood etc.

at home waiting....for monthssss

repairs done, maintenance complete, time for alignment....

inspection time, but first some pics of the new brakes

inspection passed, no plate yet, storage insurance for now.

Fully insured and legal, went for a nice drive through the mountains, such a pleasure to drive this car.

As for mods go the car is very stock, only mod it had was a HKS 3" high power cat back when I got it. But since I had to do a couple repairs I upgraded things while I was at it.

The car now has BC Racing 30 way adjustabe coilovers, stage 3 clutch, splitfire coilpacks, drilled+slotted rotors, 18X8 in the front and 18x10 in the rear (OZ racing 3 piece)

The motor was compression tested and leak down tested here Canada couple months ago, numbers came back really good 175-180 all cylinders, and there was pretty much no percentage of pressure change in the leak down either (very happy to have a healthy motor)

Most likely I will grab a tune shortly, a nistune one. But first I might go ahead and get a intake, intercooler, and open up that downpipe and remaining exhaust.

[DoseVader]

Nice car you will be very happy with a Nistune I got one and it was the best money I ever spent should be able to push the standard turbo up to 12psi. This thing would be a handful in them Canadian winters.

[Redline_GTR]

Very nice mate, looks fantastic

[V28VX37]

Very nice, well done! Pics remind me again that I totally have to visit Canada one day..

When you're done with the first batch of mods a high flow is a good next level option, should get you up to around 250rwkw Do you guys have access to E85 or similar over there?

[jake26]

Nice

[604JD]

Nice car you will be very happy with a Nistune I got one and it was the best money I ever spent should be able to push the standard turbo up to 12psi. This thing would be a handful in them Canadian winters.

Nistune is on order should be here in a couple weeks

Our winters can be sketchy, but the R34 wont see any rain or snow, it will be stored.

[604JD]

Very nice, well done! Pics remind me again that I totally have to visit Canada one day..

When you're done with the first batch of mods a high flow is a good next level option, should get you up to around 250rwkw Do you guys have access to E85 or similar over there?

we do have E85 over here, a place opened up last week that is selling it now!

[604JD]

On order

*Blitz FMIC

*Blitz intake kit

*Blitz downpipe

[V28VX37]

Good plan. That + Nistune + boost controller = 200rwkw on premium unleaded, assuming you've got a high flow cat and cat back exhaust.

For E85 you'll probably have do injectors and fuel pump too (go big enough to support later mods) that will give you another 30rwkw or so.

[604JD]

ok good to know, thanks for the info advice!

I have a cat back exhaust already, just need to add a high flow cat in likely.

[604JD]

[djr81]

Nice car. Don't take this the wrong way but are you going to get some rims that fit? You look to have a ton of neg camber on the rear which cant be good for the handling.

[604JD]

actually the are very up right, the shot makes the car look like that (wide angle lense)

[djr81]

Hmm, well it may be the same story but the other photos make it look like your wheels/tyres are sticking out past the guard?

[GH05T]

they are, thats not camber though, thats a lack of.

do you not like the look of camber in the shot or that the wheels are a low offset?
(not a good or bad thing, just not sure what your refereing to)

Lower it and i recon the might squeeze in the gaurds, albiet needing maby a guard roll. will look good. but needs to be closer to the floor.

Edited August 27, 2014 by GH05T

[djr81]

Its just that I am old and cynical and reckon wheels & tyres should be designed to make the car go/turn/stop and not for stance/fitment. If you are setting cambers to make the tyre fit to my addled brain you are doing it the wrong way around. Equally it is out past the guard then it doesn't fit either. But as I said I am old and jaded so each to their own.

[604JD]

the wheels in the rear poke out a bit yes

But funny we are on this topic, I got the all the guards rolled today! I will get around to lowering the car back down now....it was up high because of our out of province inspection laws the car must pass to be road legal here in Canada.

If the wheels in the rear end up being to tight to the guards I can always take off the hub centric wheel spacers....

I will post new pics of the changes soon

[djr81]

That's an easy fix then. Piss the spacers off.

[GH05T]

totaly agreed.

[GH05T]

they inspected a car for roadworthyness with spacers.... im moving to canada