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well my GTR finally comes to my house tomorrow..

What should I do to it before i start it up etc?

I have heard that I should flush the oil and stuff..

Im going to go buy some stuff for it after it comes..

irridium plugs???

motul turbo lite 3000??

coolant..

is that all i should get? will those plugs and oil be alright?

its an 89 r32 gtr...

thanks

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Wow, where to start...

this thread of links in the maintenance forum would be a good first call. http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=35442

A biggie that you may overlook in your haste to get "going" is to make sure there will be no problem stopping!!

i.e. CHECK BRAKE PADS and FLUSH BRAKE FLUID and bleed brakes.

Hope you have the finances to afford to run a GTR as well as buy it....

CUT AS!

i took the day off work so i could be here for when my car came.. and it didnt even come!

i called and apparently its coming tommorow morning now.

i went shopping tho.. bought some turbolight 4100 oil, set of iridium plugs, coolant, injector cleaner, radiator fluch, engine clean and an oil filter :(

congrats anyhow..

just make sure it does *have* oil, has coolant, has brake fluid - then its more than likely you're not going to kill yourself or the car.

I still haven't done all the servicing for mine as it had the above. I figured if it was sitting there for 3-4 months going nowehere, another month of not being serviced going not going anywhere wouldn't matter. Its not like I can drive it anywhere at the moment anyhow.

I was just happy because I fiddled with everything, and everything *worked* (except the aircon... think gas). It's always those minor little things that don't work properly that give you the shits and can be hard to diagnose. That was the best part, knowing that it wasn't an obvious lemon :(

lol...

its ***in awesome man..

so so so clean..

i think somebody unplugged the afm so that nobody could flog it before it got to me.. cuz i thouught mine was broken cuz it wouldnt hit boost.. its all good now...

i think i should have bought a battery the other day :P

had to keep starting it with a charger.. .

it came full of fresh oil, the paint is perfect, sounds great up to 4500rpm.. (thats all i took it too)

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