Bnr32 Gtr, saving a Datsun

[Stephen_rx7]

So, I went to check on the car, been with the painter for a week, unfortunately was meant to be done this week but hasn't been touched yet

So I'm doubting that will happen 

But anyway, got my alternator housings back today 

Been powdercoated, I told them not to do inside but sadly they did the whole thing 

This presents 3 problems, the rectifier needs to be grounded to the housing for the alternator to work

Bearing clearances are already tight without having thick powdercoat in the recess 

The stator is a right fit inbetween the two housings and again the thick powdercoat doesn't allow for it 

Bought myself a much needed bearing removal tool, should have bought one years ago, this one isn't excellent but does the job 

So you end up with a removed bearing 

New bearing on 

By this time I've cleaned up inside the housings as best I could, front bearing was a tight fit but it went in 

All basically assembled with the stator painted black, normally you'd fit the pulley to the front housing before hand using the vice to stop the rotor spinning, then slot it in together, but the pulley required the powdercoating removed from the centre hole before fitting 

And that's basically it 

I may even sell this one off and have another crack at it specifying not to cost the insides, see how it goes though 

Terrible picture but brand new r34 gtr n1 1 bar adjustable actuators turned up 

So they have also been fitted up 

Also managed to pickup kudos's last radio surround 

I believe tour can still get the smooth one from the s1 which is strange, I think a lot of people update to the textured s2 in their s1 

I think if I had a s1 I'd prefer the smooth look 

Cheers

[Stephen_rx7]

On 2 August 2016 at 10:13 PM, r32-25t said:

Those lifting points don't come on the car factory and if you leave them on I think they hit the bonnet 

Thanks for the heads up, I'll be sure to check that once the motor is in 

that'd explain why I had so much trouble finding them haha 

[Stephen_rx7]

So i picked up some parts off my fab guy this afternoon, he does some excellent work 

Twin turbo pipe modified with the splitter to stop turbulence 

Clutch pedal tig welded at the joins, nismo bracket eat your heart out haha

Rear wing turned up and it's as good as i hoped 

 

No rust on mounting studs or plates and no rust rattling around inside 

New nissan strikers and striker covers 

New n1 brake lines

Overpriced nismo floormats lol

New ssr 90 degree valves, valve extensions and some ssr lip stickers 

And i found out the ssrs require special wheel nuts that are shanked and tapered, never seen anything like them 

These suit volk gtc but also suit the ssrs

And brand new o2 sensors 

Will have a lot of work cut out for me fitting this gear when this car arrives

[milanr34]

Well done and keep up the good work!!

I can honestly just bring a chair some popcorn a drink and just watch people restore cars (no homo)

[Stephen_rx7]

On 4 August 2016 at 7:19 PM, milanr34 said:

Well done and keep up the good work!!

I can honestly just bring a chair some popcorn a drink and just watch people restore cars (no homo)

Thanks Milan, appreciate he kind words

It's something else to watch someone's car come along from where it to started to a piece of artwork in the end 

hopefully mine will be worthy of that statement haha 

 

So this will probably be a bit of a long winded update

Went and paid a visit to the painter, his dragging his feet quite a lot as painters do

Cars been started on at least this time, he said he wouldn't need it for more than 3 days, now it's turned into 4 weeks and counting 
He seems to think it'll be done this week but I figure in 2 weeks 

Engine bay has been cleaned with some strong citrus cleaner, it's the only thing that'd get the soot off, then the bay has been rubbed with scotch Brite, his smoothing out some bits that were modified to clear the single turbo ( basically strut tower was clobbered with a ball pein hammer)

And new rad support is on and bonnet latch upright

So once everything is back to Oem fresh it'll be primed then a couple coats of 326 white rather than the original Oem dust coating of paint that wears through in no time lol

So that's about it for the shell, onto other fiddly bits 

Brand new heater hoses turned up

Out with the old, surprisingly still in good shape tho, not crunchy at all, could have gone again 

Proper Oem retainer clamp that was missing ordered new 

All fitted with proper hose clamps not those Oem Nissan jobs 

Dropped off my Oem clutch slave to SSS at brendale (stainless steel sleeving), I could have ordered a brand new slave, but I didn't want to, I believe in stainless sleeving, have it sleeved and the master lasts a lifetime, then you just put a rebuild kit through it 

Basically all the old parts, slave was full of gunky dirty shit before hand

Slave looking like brand new, but better 

Parts finished being electroplated, some parts came up better than others but they are heaps better than before, and the twin turbo pipe has been powdercoated for the second time haha 

Started doing final fitment of the hard piping for the twins, pretty happy it looks better than the Nissan new Oem finish 

All the piping on, I'll probably buy another set of the upper water pipes and have them redone because I'm not 100% happy with the finish and they are most visible pipes 

From another angle 

Close up of the finish on the fuel rail and cam gears 

That's pretty much it for now

[Stephen_rx7]

 

Ok a bit of a small update if people are still following 

Decided since the fuel rail was finished I may aswell fit the new injectors and the refinished rail 

All fitted up with the xspurt 1000cc injectors, looks pretty decent 

Tidied up and finished off all the hoses at the back of the motor

So I wasn't happy with some of the condition if some of the parts that were zink coated 

So I bought some more gears, twin turbo pipes and decided to even give the banjo bolts a go to see how they'd come out 

I picked up a bench top sandblaster so I could prep some parts myself 

Before 

And after, this is using glass beads, so I'll be interested to see how the finish is being the glass beads seem to clean up and polish compared to sand that pits the metal as it cleans 

Box of bits to be dropped off to be zink coated 

So there was a couple Nismo parts I want to finish off the additions to the car to make it more era correct and unique 

Rare rear Nismo strut brace which I'll be restoring to match the front one 

And something I've been trying to buy for awhile that is extremely rare, so much so that a lot of gtr owners don't know about them

R32 gtr Nismo optional rear pods, basically finishes off the exterior of the car, so with any luck next week the car will be towed back from the paint shop and I can't start assembling this engine bay!

Cheers

 

 

[JH32]

Love your work, I'm definitely enjoying following this thread

[Stephen_rx7]

Thanks man

Another parts purchase

Panasport G7C5C

Pretty stoked

Edited August 7, 2016 by Stephen_rx7

[Stephen_rx7]

Sooooo, went and had a look at the car, no change since 2 weeks ago, frustration.

I dropped the bits off for electroplating that I blasted last week, 10 working days on that so the engine can't really go in the car till thats sorted anyway but still frustrating I don't have the car back 

So I bought some splitfire coil packs, seems to be the done thing, I could have bought new Oem coils which would have done the same thing but rb owners seem to go crazy over these things 

Old vs new 

Had a bit of a giggle over this, one of the previous owners must have been illiterate haha 

Stripped the, apart and noticed the bolts were all different lengths lol, blasted the mounting plates so they look new 

All new stainless bolts and washers mounted up

I always thought rb owners were lazy sons of bitches that they only put half the bolts in the coils, only 2 of the 4 holes are threaded haha 

I thought the coil loom was abit tired but it appears to be still good, hasn't gone brittle and shitty yet 

Cheers

[Stephen_rx7]

Alright what everyone's waiting for some progress on the car finally, it's now back home

To give you a bit of a refresher of how it looked before here's some pictures 

This is how it left, sorry state from the previous owner, that's after some effort by me with wax and gerase remover 

So 10am this morning I checked my phone and had a message from my painter, it said your gtr is ready to go, I wasn't confident it actually was 100% finished so I got my stuff in order and headed down for a look 

Here's what I saw 

Surprisingly enough it's painted and looking amazing 

So I organised a tow truck to get it home, wasn't able to get it home till late afternoon which left bugger all time to actually work on it which is a it sad 

He hasn't painted my clutch and brake boosters so still waiting on those to come back next week then I can start fitting brake and clutch plaster cylinders and hooking the lines up properly, I've started fitting the new line clamps though and some of the hard lines

New n1 brake line clamps on the firewall, only have provision for the one brake line and the carbon canister line 

Brand new n1 front lhs brake pipe fitted up

All in all she's looking good, progress will be reasonably slow from here, need to be careful not to scratch the bay and I need to order a lot of new parts as I go to replace worn/crusty old parts which is a it time consuming and overwhelming if you don't do it as you go 

And the new genuine gtr wing I finally got a chance to bolt on

[jmknights93]

Always looking forward to updates on this thread. Well done

[k_d]

So much time spent, but so worthwhile!!!

Looks awesome!!!

[niZmO_Man]

I have a set of those weird tapered wheel nuts, accidentally bought them (internal drive).

[Stephen_rx7]

On 9 August 2016 at 0:30 PM, jmknights93 said:

Always looking forward to updates on this thread. Well done

Thanks man, as long as people keep commenting I'll keep posting, got over the last forum I was on because it went from being a thread to a blog with no comments 

15 hours ago, k_d said:

So much time spent, but so worthwhile!!!

Looks awesome!!!

Thanks man 

1 hour ago, niZmO_Man said:

I have a set of those weird tapered wheel nuts, accidentally bought them (internal drive).

Yeh they are weird, they are a shanked tapered internal drive nut haha

pretty hard to find, cost about $210, damn early style 90s wheels 

[Stephen_rx7]

Alrighty update time 

Test fitted up the strut brace, looks pretty good 

Started putting painted boosters and masters back in the bay 

More pieces to the puzzle 

Drivers side n1 brake line in 

Wiring harness needs some love 

Other side of the bay, not much goes on there lol

Bov setup bolted up 

My gtr key collection, too pretty to cut for the car 

Every time I buy a new car I change out the wheel studs, have a couple snap on you from previous owners who don't know how to correctly tighten a wheel nut 

New studs 

Studs out, I quite dislike the red brakes too 

Cleaned up hub with new studs 

Hoping to find some brembos to fit shortly so if anyone knows any forsale let me know, otherwise I'll be cleaning up the Nissan factory brakes for the time being 

Cheers

[JH32]

Looks so clean! Great work!

[Stephen_rx7]

7 hours ago, JH32 said:

Looks so clean! Great work!

Thanks man

 

shes deffinitely come a long way since I got it

[Stephen_rx7]

Some pretty cool parts for the gtr coming up 

Middle top is a genuine Nissan part I managed to buy still in the packet, discontinued awhile ago 

I managed to have these technically drawn and then laser cut out of reinforced insertion rubber 
The finished product looks identical to Oem, but won't tear like the original 

Brand new retaining clips, pretty proud of the outcome, it's the finer details that make a car IMO haha 

From the front 

Some people ask what is the purpose of these, it's meant to stop water/dust/road grime coming through behind the headlight messing up your engine bay 

These are the crappy originals, not of much use 

If any r32 gts/gtr guys are wanting a set pm me, running a group buy on some fb pages at cost price to help the community attain some parts that are no longer available

Also everyone knows I love my old school nismo gear, another addition to the stockpile lol

And the icing on the cake, nismo lmgt1 wheels, pansaports are for sale if anyone wants some ballin 90s forged wheels, I think between the ssr indy 500rs and the lmgt1 I have enough choices haha 

Enjoy

[jmknights93]

Ah sweet. Wouldn't mind getting a pair of the headlight rubbers as spare. Luckily mine are still in good nick.

[Stephen_rx7]

13 hours ago, jmknights93 said:

Ah sweet. Wouldn't mind getting a pair of the headlight rubbers as spare. Luckily mine are still in good nick.

I ran a group buy on them across the gtr sales pages on facebook

there wasn't a massive amount of interest tho, I could run another if we got enough numbers to meet the minimum 

the factory ones deffinitely have an expiry date 

cheers