R33 Daily Work Hack.

[Wayne.]

so for some unknown reason I wanted to own a skyline as a daily once again and re-live my youth, I had a very tight budget and the cheapest turboed skylines around seemed to be R33 gts-t's, not really my favorite model but hopefully I can make something nice out of it..

the first R33 I bought was the cheapest one in the state at the time, I rushed into it and hardly looked at it and threw them the money and drove it 600kms home,  it had a lot of issues that needed to be fixed and had clearly seen some abuse in its time

once I got it home I put it up on stands straight away and started inspecting everything, upon inspection it was found that all of the VIN plates were missing...import plates, vin number grinded off the chassis, ignition barrel had also been swapped at some point, cracks in front control arms, blown out shocks all round, all bushed flogged out and chassis rail looked like an 80's hip hop song....M.C f**kin hammered.

I went to the police station had them inspect the car, run the rego papers that I had, check engine numbers etc, turned out that the car had been stolen previously and then recovered and returned to its owners who then sold it on to mentally disabled me...

they stated that the car would have to go to regency and be "re-plated" but they doubted that it would even be possible and the car may have to be taken off the road for good...

so I started searching for a rolling shell, there comes my next purchase, I found a clean shell that had been resprayed, not the greatest paint job but much better condition of a shell then my current car and plus it was all legit, which isn't completely necessary..."BUT IT HELPS"

so here is the real start of my journey, I had one week to swap everything from one car to another, get it all running and fix every dam issue with it. otherwise I would not have a car to be able to drive to work.

Switcherooo time

 

[Wayne.]

so for some unknown reason I wanted to own a skyline as a daily once again and re-live my youth, I had a very tight budget and the cheapest turboed skylines around seemed to be R33 gts-t's, not really my favorite model but hopefully I can make something nice out of it..

the first R33 I bought was the cheapest one in the state at the time, I rushed into it and hardly looked at it and threw them the money and drove it 600kms home,  it had a lot of issues that needed to be fixed and had clearly seen some abuse in its time

 

once I got it home I put it up on stands straight away and started inspecting everything, upon inspection it was found that all of the VIN plates were missing...import plates, vin number grinded off the chassis, ignition barrel had also been swapped at some point, cracks in front control arms, blown out shocks all round, all bushed flogged out and chassis rail looked like an 80's hip hop song....M.C f**kin hammered.

I went to the police station had them inspect the car, run the rego papers that I had, check engine numbers etc, turned out that the car had been stolen previously and then recovered and returned to its owners who then sold it on to mentally disabled me...

they stated that the car would have to go to regency and be "re-plated" but they doubted that it would even be possible and the car may have to be taken off the road for good...

[Wayne.]

so I started searching for a rolling shell, there comes my next purchase, I found a clean shell that had been resprayed, not the greatest paint job but much better condition of a shell then my current car and plus it was all legit, which isn't completely necessary..."BUT IT HELPS"

[Wayne.]

so here is the real start of my journey, I had one week to swap everything from one car to another, get it all running and fix every dam issue with it. otherwise I would not have a car to be able to drive to work.

[Wayne.]

Switcherooo time

this involved swapping everything from the white car to the red, heater core, dash assembly, air con, engine loom, engine and trans, rear cradle and diff, replaced all bushes (except rear cradle and front upper outer control arm bushes) replaced tie rods, and timing belt for good measure, it was a busy 5 days too say the least

car has also acquired some gtr seats, old as hell tein rear coilovers, 3" exhaust, hi flow cat annnnd adjustable castor rods

[Wayne.]

Been going fairly well since all of this, still a lot of things I would like to tidy up/modify but is serving as a pretty good daily for now.