Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Howdy,

I just took my 33 down to the RTA place in Mount Gambier.

The guy had a 'ooo a import, im gonna defect this till the cows come home' look about him. I think he actually rubbed his hands together when he saw it.

So he asks to look at the engine and straight away tells me that the blow off valve is illegal. I said, 'thats strange because it is stock'. He moved on pretty quick after that :lol:

THen he said that the boost guage was illegal, I asked why, and he said that it can change the boost, and I said no it is ONLY a guage. Then he said that cops will defect me for it. I thought that its only defectable if its higher that the dash, I said that too him and he said I would get defected anyway because cops will THINK that its a boost controller. THen he started with the whole 'I could defect you right now but I'm not going to' power-over speech. To stop me asking questions. :)

So after that rant, what I need help with are these things.

Where can I get a tyre placard ? About how much?

I have a turbo timer in the ash tray. Do I really need to take it out? Are they gonna look in there or be able to tell its there from seeing wires or somthing somewhere else ? And how much is it gonna cost to take off ?

How much is it gonna cost to get 'Child support anchor points' put in ?

Ive also got to raise the car 2cm because it is too low. He said I will need to buy new springs. Is that true ? or is there an easy way to do it ?

Thanks for reading this far, any help will be hugely appreciated.

Clinton

How much is it gonna cost to get 'Child support anchor points' put in ?

I thought this was supposed to be done as part of compliance?

Ive also got to raise the car 2cm because it is too low. He said I will need to buy new springs. Is that true ? or is there an easy way to do it ?

No LEGAL way to do it other than new springs I'm afraid.

Hope I've been a little help.

Edited by chops
i would have told the guy to go f*ck himself. sounds like he was on a power trip and didnt know shit all.

Power trips right, they think they know the lot, but we know they are just cop wannabe's and when people like us come thru they are cheering, cos then they somewhat do have the power!!! stupid Cops

i would have told the guy to go f*ck himself. sounds like he was on a power trip and didnt know shit all.

And you would have walked away with an even longer list of defects.

syx, grab some new springs, or see if you can borrow some stock susp. for the inspection, swapping them in and out isn't too painful, as for kiddie seat points take it to a compliance shop and ask for a quote.

Where can I get a tyre placard ? About how much?

I needed one too since the car was repainted the as the original got wrecked after removal.

do you know anyone else with a 33? Take a pic of their placcard, go home, open up MS Word, insert table, copy figures, print onto glossy adhesive paper, print and stick into door jam. Mine looks sweet. Can hardly tell it from an original. Id send you the file but dont have it anymore.

Thanks Oosh and Sly

The print your own sticker thing sounds good, although 33's are a bit rare down here :O

Im trying to arrange a spring swap for the suspension.

With the child restraints, I have a mate who is a fitter and turner, he reckons he could make them. Does that sound legal ? Or would they have to have some sort of certificate ?

Thanks

surely some with R33 on here will help you out, i'd just slap a post in "Susp/Brake/Tyres" and ask for a piccy, while you're at it try and collect the whole set to help people out if they get in your sitch.

With the child restraints, I have a mate who is a fitter and turner, he reckons he could make them. Does that sound legal ? Or would they have to have some sort of certificate ?

Thanks

Something like that would have to comply with the relevant ADRs, and therefore would be best sourced complete.

Best of luck!

good luck mate. hope it goes well for ya

i just brought a 32gtr(from victoria) and i have to have it put ova the pits as it came in under the 15yo rule and doesnt have a complance plate therefore i apparently have to have an exempt for compliance done. i also need to get child support anchor points fitted. and have my turbo timer taken out.

hey syx

mate after i bought the TT i went custom with the mounting....i bought a 2nd ashtray and cut a hole in the back of it and piped the TT through the hole and attached it with velcro as you can see, (dont know if you tried to detach it though)

you can detach it, take the ashtray out, push the TT back into the recess behind the ashtray and then replace the ashtray and it'll look sweet, they shouldnt look twice (maybe just a strip of black tape to cover the rectangular hole)

BUT... if you do this, disconnect the battery first!!!! the wiring of the TT is such that if you pull it too hard in one direction it will short out the car and bust the main fusable link (2nd green fuse in the fuse box in the boot) after you have finsished hinding the turbo timer hookup the battery and you should be sweet (same in reverse - unhook the battery so you dont blow that fuse.)

if that fuse blows there will be no power to the car at all even the immobiliser will die

the good news is IF all else fails and you do fry that fuse

1 they about 20 bucks at your local nissan dealer and

2 there is a second fuse next to it that is the exact same type that controls the hicas system and you can pull that one and replace the main link with it so you can drive to nissan for a new one for the hicas

phew that was a long post, hope it made sense

:P

Jimbo

  • 4 months later...

Ive finally had my car checked over and passed.

The things I had to do were:

Raise the car 2.5cm

Got all new springs and shocks (shocks were nearly dead anyway)

Get tyre placard

Sly33 sent me a word document, printed it out and stuck it on. The bloke didnt look twice :O

Get 'Child Restraint Anchors'

Got local shop to fit these

Remove Turbo Timer

Hidden as per Jimbo's advice (didnt even short the fuse ;) )

Hide boost controller

The boost controller is in the glovebox, it happens to be about the same size as a can of beer just a short one, so we unscrewed the little harness thingo for it, stuck a stubby holder over it and stuck other bits and pieces in the glovebox to hide it some more. All good.

(Turns out the bloke didnt even look in the glovebox :( but we were proud of our sneaky plan anyway :) )

When he had a look in the boot he started telling me that the battery was illegal... so I had to patiently explain that that's where the battery goes, didnt you notice there was no battery under the bonnet sir.

He had a quick listen to the exhaust (4 or 5 inch cannon), didnt test it at all even though the microphone thingo was sitting about a metre away from the car in the shed.

So im all legal now :)

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • The average previous owner for these cars were basically S-chassis owners in the US. Teenagers or teenager-adjacent. I often tell people that neglect is easier to fix than something that was actively "repaired" by previous owners.
    • Update 3: Hi all It's been a while. Quite a lot of things happened in the meantime, among other things the car is (almost) back together and ready to be started again. Things that I fixed or changed: Full turbo removal, fitting back the OEM turbo oil hardlines. Had to do quite a bit of research and parts shopping to get every last piece that I need and make it work with the GT2860 turbos, but it does work and is not hard to do. Proves that the previous owner(s) just did not want to. While I was there I set the preload for the wastegates to 0,9bar to hopefully make it easier for the tuner to hit the 370hp I need for the legal inspections that will follow later on. Boost can always go up if necessary. Fitted a AN10 line from the catch can to the intake hose to make the catchcan and hopefully the cam covers a slight vacuum to have less restrictive oil returns from the head and not have mud build up as harshly in the lines and catch can. Removed the entire front interior just shy of the dashboard itself to clean up some of the absolutely horrendous wiring, (hopefully) fix the bumpy tacho and put in LED bulbs while I was there. Also put in bulbs where there was none before, like the airbag one. I also used that chance to remove the LED rpm gauge on the steering column, which was also wired in absolute horror show fashion. Moved the 4in1 Prosport gauge from sitting in front of the OEM oil pressure gauge to the center console vents, I used a 3D printed vent piece to hold that gauge there. The HKB steering wheel boss was likely on incorrectly as I sometimes noticed the indicator reset being uneven for left vs. right. In the meantime also installed an airbag delete resistor, as one should. Installed Cube Speed premium short shifter. Feels pretty nice, hope it'll work great too when I actually get to drive. Also put on a fancy Dragon Ball shift knob, cause why not. My buddy was kind enough to weld the rust hole in the back, it was basically rusted through in the lowermost corner of the passenger side trunk area where the wheel arch, trunk panel and rear quarter all meet. Obviously there is still a lot of crustiness in various areas but as long as it's not rusted out I'll just treat and isolate the corrosion and pretend it's not there. Also had to put down a new ground wire for the rear subframe as the original one was BARELY there. Probably a bit controversial depending on who you ask about this... but I ended up just covering the crack in the side of the engine block, the one above the oil feed, with JB Weld. I used a generous amount and roughed up the whole area with a Dremel before, so I hope this will hold the coolant where it should be for the foreseeable future. Did a cam cover gasket job as the half moons were a bit leaky, and there too one could see the people who worked on this car before me were absolute tools. The same half moons were probably used like 3 times without even cleaning the old RTV off. Dremeled out the inside of the flange where the turbine housing mates onto the exhaust manifolds so the diameter matches, as the OEM exhaust manifolds are even narrower than the turbine housings as we all know. Even if this doesn't do much, I had them out anyways, so can't harm. Ideally one would port-match both the turbo and the manifold to the gasket size but I really didn't feel up to disassembling the turbine housings. Wrapped turbo outlet dumps in heat wrap band. Will do the frontpipe again as well as now the oil leak which promted me to tear apart half the engine in the first place is hopefully fixed. Fitted an ATI super damper to get rid of the worn old harmonic balancer. Surely one of the easiest and most worth to do mods. But torquing that ARP bolt to spec was a bitch without being able to lock the flywheel. Did some minor adjustments in the ECU tables to change some things I didn't like, like the launch control that was ALWAYS active. Treated rusty spots and surface corrosion on places I could get to and on many spots under the car, not pretty or ideal but good enough for now. Removed the N1 rear spats and the carbon surrounding for the tailpipe to put them back on with new adhesive as the old one was lifting in many spots, not pretty. Took out the passenger rear lamp housing... what do you know. Amateur work screwed me again here as they were glued in hard and removing it took a lot of force, so I broke one of the housing bolts off. And when removing the adhesive from the chassis the paint came right off too. Thankfully all the damaged area won't be visible later, but whoever did the very limited bodywork on this car needs to have their limbs chopped off piece by piece.   Quite a list if I do say so myself, but a lot of time was spent just discovering new shit that is wrong with the car and finding a solution or parts to fix it. My last problem that I now have the headache of dealing with is that the exhaust studs on the turbo outlets are M10x1.25 threaded, but the previous owner already put on regular M10 nuts so the threads are... weird. I only found this out the hard way. So now I will just try if I can in any way fit the front pipe regardless, if not I'll have to redo the studs with the turbos installed. Lesson learned for the future: Redo ALL studs you put your hands on, especially if they are old and the previous owners were inept maniacs. Thanks for reading if you did, will update when the engine runs again. Hope nothing breaks or leaks and I can do a test drive.
    • No those pads are DBA too  but they have colors too. I look at the and imo the green "street" are the best.
    • I’m not sure what happened I told them about sonic tunes free OTS tune and the next the I know .. I was booted..   To funny 
×
×
  • Create New...