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Hi Guys i've been apart of this forum for sometime now and though i should share my R33 story.

I previously owned r33 but i have a thing for s1 r33 and was looking for a sunroof version which i found was hard to find manual for some odd reason.. long story short I FOUND IT!!

bought the car for $2200 at pickles auction with a bent rear control arm $50 fix and add some rego i was good to go!post-88360-0-01906000-1414492314_thumb.jpegpost-88360-0-88309300-1414492321_thumb.jpegpost-88360-0-63470100-1414492329_thumb.jpegpost-88360-0-44838300-1414492348_thumb.jpegpost-88360-0-16152400-1414492356_thumb.jpeg

got it home found out it was auto and had a na 33 box in it :( so i had plans to squeeze more power out of the car i bought another smashed s2 R33 for 2.5k and which had an immaculate box in it I know hard to believe :woot: swapped the box and actually finished the conversion and hooked up the reverse lights and neutral wire so car would stall..

here comes the fun i purchased a R34 op6 high flow, 660cc Jecs injectors, Power fc, 044 pump and Z32 bang put it all in off to the tuners i go! car made 243kw on 18psi turbo was surging if we went any higher.

Exterior XXR wheels and bought another Mspec bar and painted it.

ofcause i was eager to find out what time it can do down the qtr so here i am..

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Result!!

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since then i have really grown fond of the car and wanted to fix the faded roof so off to the painters it went got a total respray with ceramic clear as i want it to last as long as it can... can't get rid of it now lol money pit!! :yucky:

ill add some more later as I'm going high mount with e85 ps i already bought the turbo :whistling:

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Here is the car after the paintwork also fitted bride kevlar reps and a carbon Gauge a pillar trim with autometer carbon series gauges oil pressure and boost for refpost-88360-0-81986900-1414497903_thumb.jpgpost-88360-0-11615900-1414498009_thumb.jpgpost-88360-0-90177200-1414498064_thumb.jpg

Ive im hanging to get this out on a track day so I decided its time to prep put a gates racing timing belt genuine water pump and pulleys as I didn't know when or if it has been done before and installed a 13 row oil cooler with relocation kit.. I totally removed the water oil heat exchanger with a rb30 oil filter stud I ordered from nissan works a treat cars ready before I squeeze more power.post-88360-0-35616700-1414498475_thumb.jpgpost-88360-0-34712000-1414498563_thumb.jpgpost-88360-0-03427400-1414498608_thumb.jpgpost-88360-0-16237700-1414498650_thumb.jpg

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Now as I gear up for more power I like to acumilate pall the parts so ive done a bit of research and I didnt want to follow the 3076 band wagon nor 3582r was considering efr turbo but this came along and I knew it was a awesome match so I got it hehe getting excited :)post-88360-0-53380500-1414498964_thumb.jpg

T67 25g 10cm rear

Now I need to source a decent highmount manifold a gate I tig weld for fun so ill leave dump pipe till last also ill be changing the rear housing to a t3 which I purchased today from kando with v clamp rear. There alot I missed but ill fill you guys in soon.

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