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Something came up the other day while I was yarning to a joker that I thought was common knowledge, but apparently not. So at the risk of teaching my grandmother how to suck eggs ill clarify something. This knot wheel and the stripping discs that go on your grinder are your best friends, HOWEVER......

with the shed building getting towards the finished stage i started working on my fancy Datsun. the first thing i need to do is tidy up the rust under the ABS pump and the master cylinder. im going to assume that all the R32s rust here, anywho my car wasn't to bad, just surface rust. i did cut the side out of the chassis rail to have a look but it was not as bad as i thought it would be so im pretty happy with that. i used a little hand held sandblaster to get right into the narrow gap between the firewall and the inner guard and it worked fucking mint. ill clean up the other side them splash some epoxy primer on everything and weld the chassis back together. the rest of the engine bay is just sand and prep. oh, excerpt for the huge hole that's been cut for the intercooler piping, ill make a piece and weld that up. i will need a hole bigger that factory to fit the pipework on my motor but i can at least make it look tidy.

well, OK.

i thank you.

WOF question, can you have one of those spiral wound flexible cables wrapped around your steering column going to your steering wheel?

Painted floors are for people who don't do any work in their sheds.

It's now in its new home I'll need to really map out what I'm going to do with it. Paint the engine bay is a given. I think I'll also restore the underside of the car and replace all the bushes, balljoints etc.

Going to pick it up soon.

that bmw lifter looks very similar to the 5MG unit. which i rubbish. just thought id add that in case you wanted to not use them.

OMG the new "clunk" noise the indicator stalk makes is fucking amazing.

I got updates. EGR removal is a complete win Cleaning all the shit out of the intake gained a very noticeable increase in powah Attaching the wastegate to turbo pressure has been a great win too in that is not just free boosting and yet it goes faster. It uses WAY less diesel Side exit exhaust had eliminated all fumes from the truck whilst back window down cruzing. Also I put the new stick things in the steering column and it looks all new and fancy.

Bought new stalks because they were available and not too expensive. I also ordered the clear cover for the gauges and in typical amayama fashion they listed it, sold it to me, took my money, waited two months and then told me they are NLA. I love how amayama do that.

I like to cruze around with the back window down. Had a bit of zorst smell sometimes so I made a side exit zorst to hopefully send the fumes to outside my environment.

neither are gravel burnouts in the driveway apparently.

been driving the truck around this morning and i can confirm with actual science* that the truck has way more power than it did before. fuck, what a difference. *no actual science has been used in the making of this post.

"EGR removal phase two, the de-sliming" Got new genuine toyota gaskets for the intake then took it all apart. Fuck what a mess. I am now covered in sludge but anywho it's cleaner. The ports were about 6- 8mm smaller all round due to the amount of buildup in the manifold walls. I got all the shit out and also got the ports in the head all cleaned out. Put it back together. It goes way better, it's super noticeable how much better it goes. You could say it goes hard, For what it is.

Yea it's been on TV before. I think this car was the first road car in nz to make over a thousand hp but I could be wrong

Na, the 30 is going into his sons car, he's built an RB26 for this car that comes with the purchase.

i am so happy that i made you post this. Ha!

the back story is that Dick has owned this car for at least 20 years. he was drag racing it in the early 2000's and got it into the 10s back then. he pulled it apart to do a "full resto" and the EVO 1 drag car took over his life. hes subsequently come to the realisation that hes never going to finish it so here i am. side sharn, the R32 GTR parts car i bought in 2006 to build my IRS celica came from the same guy.

the car next to it is the sellers 8 second EVO 1. hes been pushing the thing for years and has been getting quicker and quicker, i think hes close to the limit of what the car will do.

R32 GTR. A car I've dreamed of owning since I was 15. I honestly never thought I would own one of these, but here we are. As you can see there is some assembly required (which is the only reason I was able to afford it) but it's all there. There are some nismo bits in the car. The engine is fully built with all sorts of HKS bits, it's running twin HKS turbos and makes about 400kw . It'll probably be about 2 months before I can actually drag this thing home. I don't know what I'm going to do once I get it home yet. Get it running or full resto, dunno.

Can finally post some picks.

talk about it here,