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Guessing this will be a boring build and not in the least bit epic so this is more for me to track my progress and use for possible future motivation however feel free to input :)



Bought this stock standard unregistered scum spec 95 R33 recently.



Current plans


Get the thing rego'd again and back on the road


take it to lots of track events


make it a little more visually pleasing


chuck on some goodies for better performance


learn to use nistune and try not to wreck my motor



Short term parts list


3" exhaust


front mount cooler and piping


z32 nistune ecu


plx wideband


gizmo boost controller


suspension / handling upgrades



Now for the pictures which are somewhat uninspiring



Bought it looking like this

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After getting it home

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Passenger side damage

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Sunroof which doesnt work and has a little bit of rust

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Rust holes in the boot sill makes me sad

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Interior not too bad but steering wheel and gear knob (held on by rubber bands) needed attention

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Front bar was cracked and side bracket had snapped off

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Tape fixes everything

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Boring engine bay

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Defect list

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Not sure who wrote it but they are probably right

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My old 33 that I owned for a while. Looked a bit nicer than this nugget

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Issues with the car that need attention

Motors ticking - think it is just the lifters though as it seems to run well

battery needs clamping down

couple of new tyres

brake lights not working

speedometer not working

lots of dodgey wiring that needs attention

fix up interior

replace steering wheel

fix sunroof

noisy power steering

repair the front bar

fix the rust hole in the boot

replace the passenger door

replace ignition barrell - key falls out

service - oil, filters, radiator flush

fix the heater

Random TLC

Started work on the boot sill and cut out as much rust as I could without having to take out the rear windscreen. Due to the position of the hole it made it hard to get power tools in there to remove the rust so used a rust converter on the bits i couldnt get to. Of all the parts that need fixing this is the one that worries me the most as the rust could quite easily come back again.

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Decided to weld the new metal in two pieces. This is the first time ive tried to weld a car body and bought a cheap mig for the job. Ended up going gasless which did the job but my skills could definitely do with some practice.

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Its not pretty but will hopefully do the job. Made it hard grinding it flat as I couldnt get an angle grinder in there so had to use a dye grinder. I decided not to weld at the top section near the windscreen as the metal was a bit thin so used some metal tec bog stuff. I didnt end up taking any other photos after this but I will put on up on the finished result.

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Decided to pull the head off and have a look due to the lifter tick I was going to pull out the lifters and clean them but decided I would try some engine flush and lifter free first. Also painted the rockers and changed the gaskets while I was there. Will be going for a black theme under the bonnet with just the rockers being white. Wasnt to happy with the matt paint so might pull them out at a later stage and go with a gloss finish.

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I have owned a plastic welder for years now but never actually used it until now which presented the perfect opportunity. Even though my skills aren't that good it was a bit of fun and I think once I sand it down and bog it up it shouldn't really be noticeable. The plan is just to get the car over the pits and registered before I start going all out on the appearance. The only work I am doing is the stuff that it would fail on at the pits for now.

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Looks like she's had a rough life. Do you plan on fixing all the rust yourself?

As you can see in my last post so far I have done the work myself and there is other bits of surface rust in various areas which will need attention too. The thing I need to figure out is how much effort I should put into the appearance. The anal part of me wants to go all out and give it a respray and do it properly but I definitely want to do lots of track days etc with this car and if I go all out I might be more hesitant when it comes to the track so its finding the balance which I guess iI will figure out int time.

I paid $2700 for it which at the time I didn't think was too bad seeing as there were people in WA asking more than that for unregistered NA and Auto R33's. I estimate that I have probably spent an extra $500ish for parts that I have bought off of wrecks to bring it back up to scratch so in reality it probably wasn't that cheap especially seeing how much rust there ended up being. Truth is I probably fixated on it being that it was a 95 (like the series 1 front bar and the series 2 spoiler) and had a sunroof.

I think that's OK. If you wrecked it you would get it back no worries. Great project and Kudos. I see 2 types of skylines these days: Either beautiful examples or ones that look horrible. There seems to be few in between.

By the look of it you have a s1.5 ive got the same specs as that so sunroof and the s1 seats with a airbag steeringwheel. Dont be too suprised if you find out the motor ia a s2 motor :)

By the look of it you have a s1.5 ive got the same specs as that so sunroof and the s1 seats with a airbag steeringwheel. Dont be too suprised if you find out the motor ia a s2 motor :)

Yeah personally I like the S1.5 the best. I am fairly certain it is a series 2 motor as it has a pink label MAF but there was an extra series 1 Ecu sitting on the floor when I bought it and the current ECU is a refurb so it doesnt have the model number on it so I was trying to figure out which one it was for a bit. The guy before me swapped the head over so I'm guessing the extra ECU came with it.

Yeah i love mine ive had it for about 3 years. Just one thing trying to find the same steering wheel in good condition is f**ked. Well one way to tell look at the plug to the afm s1 have 4 cables and s2 have 3 :)

Haha yeah I know I had to hunt around for a while for a replacement steering wheel as one of the reasons the car failed the pits was due to the steering wheel falling apart. I ended up getting one from a wreck on gumtree for $100 with the airbag. It is by no means perfect but a lot better than what was on there.

I will double check the plug tonight. Will need to know which series its is for when I get the nistune.

Ive been looking at 95 pulsar steering wheel looks identical but im a bit hesitent lol. And yeah you may need that info lol. But it should be the s2 motor dont see why it shouldnt.

Yeah old one was an S1.5 as well. Was pretty mild just the usual exhaust fmic and safc etc but was in pretty good condition overall. Shame I sold it I should have kept it but I'm looking forward to some sunroof action in this one once I get it going only problem is I'm not sure how much head room I will have once I put on a helmet seeing as I'm about 6'4 :S

Series 1 engines have the igniter for the coilpacks series 2 dont. you seem to have a s2 motor as i cant see the ignitor. usually bolts up ontop of the coilpack cover.

good start mate good to see you putting the ffort in to restore it. :D

Jelious of the sunroof man. good find :D

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