Dose's Sometimes DIY and Pay Someone Home & Boat Improvement Thread

[r32-25t]

2 hours ago, MBS206 said:

It wasn't a pandemic in 2019 either. Someone said that statement, and how'd that turn out for us?! 😛

In beginning of March 2020 it was still a running joke, mid March it went to shit 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Pandemic also made my previous house rocket and we sold it for a great price to only get into even more debt 😂

 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Shit box survived all 7 sessions of hooning and circuit.

Didn't get a clean run on any of the sessions as there was a bit of traffic. Camber changes did make a massive difference and ended up going into T1 at 160km/h without the front washing out so happy with that!

Some eFame shots of the shit box.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Shit box up against my mate's Evo 3 (dog box, 570kW at all fours, etc.)

Of course I was going to lose, but was fun nevertheless

 

[No Crust Racing]

Didn't get gaped as bad as I was expecting.

RB POWA

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

I wonder how it would be if we had more road to use, I find the wide power band helped keeping up

[No Crust Racing]

Racing is all about WOTIF

Guess you better go race again

 

 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Just now, ActionDan said:

Racing is all about WOTIF

Guess you better go race again

haha next All Jap Day!

Meanwhile, I'm trying to work out what night I can go attack SMSP again, I am keen on a low 1m50s around the circuit with RS-4 tyres.

I feel that I am happy with how the car handles now, the front camber made a massive difference! Now it's just practice and more of it.

[Jasoncauser]

Sweet, this is why you built it man! Go send it
I dont have headlights on the 32 so cant do the night runs

[No Crust Racing]

I'm just glad to see you using the car. 

I'm feeling slightly more motivated again, but wont get back to tub work until the XR5 engine is sealed to avoid contaminating it. 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

1 minute ago, Jasoncauser said:

Sweet, this is why you built it man! Go send it
I dont have headlights on the 32 so cant do the night runs

I suppose so, I also still hate the car. If someone walked up to me and asked for a straight swap with a M2/3 Comp I would do it in microseconds.

LOL... why aren't there headlights?

 

1 minute ago, ActionDan said:

I'm just glad to see you using the car. 

I'm feeling slightly more motivated again, but wont get back to tub work until the XR5 engine is sealed to avoid contaminating it. 

It's a bit like that, you see another working car and it gives you a bit more motivation. I did cheat and drop it off at a shop to do all the heavy lifting this time round.

Is that just a refresh on the XR5 OR full build? 

[No Crust Racing]

1 minute ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

Is that just a refresh on the XR5 OR full build? 

The bucket I picked up for $500 with multiple spun bearings so I could try my hand at an engine build and teach the kids. It's just a stock refresh with some added block mod shims between the liners for if someone wants to lean on it harder later. 

If it runs it'll cost me easy 5-6k in the end by the time I replace DMF/Clutch setup etc but could end up with a semi cool car to daily then swap/sell off for something else rinse/repeat as I'm sick of driving the 4wd daily. 

It's manual, turbo, bucket seats, nice electrics etc and running is hopefully worth more than it cost me. 

If it blows up on first start or I dont get it running, I will part it out, go back to Silvia and buy something else to daily (335i? 545i?). 

Anyway, learning lots, I think?

 

[No Crust Racing]

I should add, bad choice for a learning platform, FWD, 5cyl, Euro... not the easiest car to work on at all, it was like 10hrs to remove the entire front subframe with engine/box attached to get the engine out, I am dreading reinstall... 

I really should have bought an XR6T or something, shit even an NA one. 

[Jasoncauser]

7 minutes ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

I suppose so, I also still hate the car. If someone walked up to me and asked for a straight swap with a M2/3 Comp I would do it in microseconds.

LOL... why aren't there headlights?

 

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Funny story, 
it was at the mechanics workshop sitting in the carpark and the drivers glass just fell off, he got it on his security camera lol. and the price of a replacement is just a joke, so we did this

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

@ActionDan well it is a Volvo afterall lolol

Hopefully home stretch to get it back on the road and dose city.

 

@Jasoncauser LOL how does a headlight just fall off lolol

[Jasoncauser]

I know right!!
glass just popped off
 

[No Crust Racing]

Nope, I'm still mic'ing bearings because I "had to be sure" and double check the machine shops work.

That meant buying a mic and learning how to use it and associated tools lol

Oh then there was the 12hrs or so I spent weight matching the piston/rod assemblies because I "had to be sure" and weighed them all and found up to 8g difference.... 

Could've stopped at 3g like the machine shop said for a street engine, but "had to be sure" and went to 1g.... 

Shoot me.

[Duncan]

5 minutes ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

 

@Jasoncauser LOL how does a headlight just fall off lolol

Because someone's been in there before you. They are a pain to pull apart from factory, no chance factory goop stopped gooping suddenly

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Typical Nissan Autism at it again.

[Jasoncauser]

Just now, Duncan said:

Because someone's been in there before you. They are a pain to pull apart from factory, no chance factory gooped stopped gooping suddenly

Yeah we thought the same when we looked at the glass channel lol
we did toy with the idea of putting lights in the panels we made but will just get those Motive headlight ducts down the track