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Been meaning to get this up for a while now, just never really had the time until now. Somewhere I can post about my vehicles, what I'm doing to them, what I plan to do and ask for tips from you guys on what to do next. This first post is going to be quite large, just to get up to date with whats been happening. So, lets begin.
So as a very small group of you may know, I acquired this Nissan GTS-T R33 back in February, with its fair share of issues. Firstly, it wouldn't start under its own power, it needed to be jump started everywhere, the turbo wasn't spooling properly, there was an oil leak in the engine somewhere, the rear boot lip was looking worse for wear, and the paints not in the greatest condition and the headlights were in kinda bad shape. The engine had just been rebuilt and new tyres put on which meant 2 big areas weren't necessarily an issue. So with a list compiled, my dad and I set out to get her back to her former glory.
First issue to combat was the starting issue. After a bit of digging around the car, we discovered the battery was being drained by the immobilizer that one of the previous owners put in. So we set out to remove it.
After a half hour wrestling with the cabling under the steering wheel, the immobilizer (the little black box to the right) finally revealed itself. It, with all the black cables coming out of it were wired in pretty deep, it took another hour to un-wire all the cables from the ignition, the sensors and the lights. Which meant we had to take the door apart as well, which revealed another issue. The rubber strip had been removed from the door cavity which meant whenever the window was rolled down, the glass was banging around inside the door creating a less-then-desirable clunk whenever we hit a bump. Added to the list then.
Next were the headlights, nice easy fix compared to removing the immobilizer. While I changed the headlights over, we charged the battery to see if it would hold its charge now that the immobilizer wasnt sucking the power constantly.
Pretty straight forward and as you can see, with the new headlight in and the old resting on the hoist, vast improvement on the headlights that were in it. This process did reveal to us the cause for the turbo issues though...
"Well there's your problem". The pipe had been rubbing against the hole in the bumper and had actually cut a hole in the pipe.
Pretty easy fix for something dad and I thought was going to be a lot more of a head ache. To confirm there was nothing else wrong with the turbo, we wrapped the hole with rubber tape and taped around to seal the hole and took it for a test drive. Both let off a sigh of relief as the turbo was spooling properly.
Pretty good for one days work. Turbo pipe has been sent off to the exhaust mob so they can make us a new pipe mirrored off the old one, battery was on charge to see if it would hold it, and most of the issues thought to be massive headaches turned out to be very small issues.
About a week or 2 passed looking for new bumpers as the one that's on now is quite cracked around the bottom. At this point dads come home from work and has asked if he and his boss could use the car in a 6 hour race held at Winton Raceway. This is when things start moving slowly and I stop being involved as much due to work, never the less Im still over seeing everything and making sure everything is still moving forward.
Upgraded brakes were the first on the list. The stock brakes just wouldnt cut it for 6 hours, and although the race isnt about outright speed, more consistent lap times, brakes were still priority.
A few phone calls around and the brakes were delivered and fitted
Look good, work really well apparently too. Kept the standard calipers, but the discs and pads are super heavy duty for track work.
When I bought the car I had the option to take the bigger rear wing for it, so I took it with the intention to tidy it up, respray and sell. But if its going to be on the track, we might as well use it.
This picture is before we moved the car to the workshop and before the wing was properly mounted but you get the idea.
(Sneaky motorcycle shot. Coming soon)
Another couple weeks went by, waiting for bits and pieces like Hood pins, stickers and such to come in meant not a lot got done. Then I went away for a week for work and came back...
Strut brace made its way into the picture.
The hood pins arrived and got fitted
Got new tyres, for some reason...
And the car went on a diet and had the bucket seat installed.
With only 2 weeks until the race, more will be done. Will definitely try and keep this thread up to date. Let me know what you guys think. Cheers 👍
). Regardless it was good weekend, allowed us to see where we needed to improve and change. We left Winton with a boost leak that still remains undiagnosed... The list currently is as stands
