Gh05t's 32 Gtr Daily Cleanup

[GH05T]

Looks quite nice, im starting to get old enough I appreciate the retro style of keeping someone original even if it does look as good.

I was trawling the cars for sale and I notice you posted on quite a few r32 gtr for sale threads before you got this one. Congrats on finally having her in the garage

haha, yeah i bugged allot of people.
im amazed i actually ended up buying in adelaide tbh.
now im pestering all the for sale threads

Edited January 24, 2015 by GH05T

[GH05T]

Just bought myself a new gtr steering wheel aswell as a new geearstick and handbrake boot.

Yay.

[GH05T]

i have a 32GTR also that i am restoring

Regarding your HICAS issue - sounds very similar to the issue i had. Do you have an aftermarket steering wheel by any chance? If so you may have the wrong boss kit which is incompatible with the hicas clock behind your steering wheel

In my case fitting the correct boss kit and aligning the steering wheel and hicas clock correctly fixed my issue. My HICAS light would come on exactly after 10kms of driving on the freeway

Jase

Thanks jase. Tested this today. Reset the counter and yup, bang on 10km the light pips on. New wheel should fix.

[GH05T]

hit the paint on the bonnet today,
the bonnet particularly had been buffed or something before and had allot of swirling.
the paint was smooth after a good clean and the claybar but harsh big swirls.

this is a photo after the claybar where in this light you can really see how bad the bonnet was.


i did try quickly with the electric buffer but the pads old and i didnt want to balls it up so i went back to hand for this one.

not sure how well you can see it but what a difference after just a quick cut.

cut on the left vs uncut on the right.



finished it off with some good wax. soooooo smooooooooth but also nice and deep., cant wait to get some more gear for the rotary buffer and go over more of the car but happy the bonnet is now done. luckily this was the only panel which had this much swirling.

Edited January 25, 2015 by GH05T

[Sinista32]

Goodness

[SiR_RB]

Loving this build/resto thread mate

Very nice gtr too hard to find original paint in such good condition

[GH05T]

daylight photos just cos

[GH05T]

it seems i still have a coolant issue to chase,
seems to be either the same small line at the back of the engine has let a clamp go, or something similar.

cant quite see with the car on the ground but its right up on the head.

.
always the way with pressurized cooling systems, fix one week link and wait for the next to go.

decent amount of coolant coming out too.




possible suspect.

[Sinista32]

You're right - fix one and more will follow.

At least it did for me.

One at the rear, second at the rear.

So replaced the lot

[gts25]

Thanks jase. Tested this today. Reset the counter and yup, bang on 10km the light pips on. New wheel should fix.

no worries mate. had to share my experience on this as it drove me batty for ages...

[GH05T]

As suspected the coolant leak was the next link in the system, damn heater hoses at the back.
One has gone, the other looks aged. the third looks ok but im not pulling the manifold of to do only 2.
annoying thing is two are out of melb stock but the third is out of japan apparently...

good news is, seeing as we are taking the manifold off anyway it gives me a good excuse to have the throttle body linkages all adjusted and set correctly to bring my idle down from the slightly annoying 1200rpm which has been bugging me.

cars off the road until these damn hoses come in.

[r32-25t]

You don't need to pull to manifold off to replace the hoses, I've done them all without taking it off. But don't just replace the heater replace EVERY hose

[GH05T]

doing the linkages anyway. how many are there in total at the back?

[Sinista32]

It's the ones underneath the mani of the same age - lmfao

hope you have small hands

I took the mani (intake pipe) off to do mine

Edited January 27, 2015 by Sinista32

[r32-25t]

Not including the actual heater hoses there are at least 4 under the manifold

And small hand aren't required, thinking outside the box is

[okooko]

Grats on the purchase and I'm sure you'll get great enjoyment for years to come.

I've had mine for about 5-6years now and had been in storage for the last year, getting some work done and back will be back in my hands shortly.

I recently put on a set of RPF1's 18x9.5 +15 in matte black (car is BNR32/KLO) and they look great. If you need any pics for fitment/etc feel free to PM me as I pestered alot of guys on here before I put down the money.

Mine will be a daily soon

[GH05T]

basically the same as what i will get except silver.
there seems to be a few places doing cheap deals on them brand new too.

[Gts-t]

Always a good idea to have some pressure testing equipment in the garage and give the cooling system the odd test. Doesnt hurt to get it up to temp either and give the top radiator hose a sqeeze and see if the radiator cap is still working and holding pressure.

[okooko]

basically the same as what i will get except silver.

there seems to be a few places doing cheap deals on them brand new too.

You could go wider depending on what you wanted but that'll need work and won't be stock styles as you've mentionned earlier in the thread.

I think 9.5+15 are a pretty good fit. Pulled out my guard liners for now, might put the rear half on later...

Think it was around $1.6k iirc or something like that, could be cheaper now etc

[GH05T]

heater hoses done, they managed to get to them faster by removing the brake master,
haven't tackled the throttle linkages as we didn't remove the intake plenum but were gonna do that at the same time as we do the timing belt and squeaky tensioner.
will probably dyno and up the boost at this point.