Popular Post nick_m Posted April 2 Popular Post Share Posted April 2 After a couple of failed race car projects over the last decade decided it was time for a more simple road car project. Being of that age where you start to reminisce your youth I decided a 90s turbo car would be the ticket. And had always wanted a gtir as a young fella I just so happened to know of an abandoned Gtir project in a paddock and after a quick phone call a deal was done It had been sitting in the paddock approx 7 years. It ran but had a blown gearbox (of course) some rust and dents and every rubber part was perished and dash cracked etc. I immediately brought up on parts blew it to bits fixed the dents and rust and was ready to send it off to the paint shop, then……. I bought another one its about that point things escalated 22 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nick_m Posted April 2 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 2 So collected the black car. Much better base. Driven to Dry storage 8 years earlier. Fuel pump seized from sitting. Has all the factory bits. Pretty unmolested as far as these things go. I assumed it was fairly straight forward from here. I replaced the fuel pump and fired the old girl up. It promptly pissed fuel from every rubber hose it had. Fuck on the hoist fuel tank out replace all the fuel lines. Get it up and running and blast it round the block. Boost leaks everywhere. while idling the thing in the driveway investigating the boost leaks it spontaneously dropped all its coolant from one of the water lines in the depths of hell under the intake manifold fuck sake repaired this and promptly sent it to the paint shop to sit in the naughty corner for 6 months back track a bit and sometime around 2021 I enquired with Modena in Oz about diffs for these things as they were the only company who didn’t list them as NLAbut really for no other reason than I was interested to see what they costed - quite a lot was the answer. He said he was thinking of making a batch soon and he would email when he was doing them. fast forward 18 months later and I get an email. He has a front and a rear sitting there with my name on it. So I fomo panic brought them. Did I have the money for them. No. Did my road car need LSDs. Also no this started the next unnecessary phase of the build. Full underside rebuild rebuilt subframes diff and transfer box. Brakes. Basically everything mechanically except the engine and gearbox 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick_m Posted April 2 Author Share Posted April 2 I’ve summarised a hell of a lot. It was way more of a shit fight than I originally anticipated. Some of it self inflicted. Just one of those cars that while you were fixing one part you’d look across at the part beside it and realise that was fucked too and have rebuild that haha Have also realised I have F all pictures of it or working on it. There’s about an A4 page of mechanical work left to get a warrant. Once that’s sorted ill just use it for a bit before doing coil overs and 300zx 4 pot brake conversion spot light grill and as well as a few other things. but getting pretty fizzed about getting this in the road. Missed this summer which was the original goal. So will aim to get it legal over winter 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nick_m Posted April 2 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 2 Few random snaps 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post nick_m Posted April 2 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 2 End goal pretty much this 25 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Great little project and good work on the underbody. My Subaru needs this treatment sometime soon and I expect it will go a similar route... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick_m Posted April 2 Author Share Posted April 2 Thanks. Yeah was definitely worth the extra effort. 90s cars have all taken a hiding under there. So tidied up the rails and sills and under sealed it all. While ot was ant the paint shop And got all the bolts rezinc while it was all apart. Haven’t had motor and box out of this one so that sort of lets the whole lot down at the moment. but I’ll tidy the engine bay the best I can and maybe have a crack at the remainder of it one day 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajg193 Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 I recognise those storage units, they're directly across the road from where I work in Ferrymead. One of them caught fire a month ago /Ling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick_m Posted April 3 Author Share Posted April 3 Nah wouldn’t have been ours. I’m not in ferrymead. Although one of the guys a few driveways over managed to burn down a couple of brand new units a while back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nick_m Posted April 3 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 3 Couple of pics of black car at different stages 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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R3spct Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 This was the only full GTIR ive owned, bought for 650, sold for 6800. Had the umbrella too..... Dont think it lasted long after i sold it to some bogan down Whanganui way, according to carjam. 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick_m Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 Nice. Yeah there was a patch there where you couldn’t give them away. probably a terrible idea for a project car haha. Wasn’t till I got into this I realised how hard it is to find parts for them that aren’t fucked 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R3spct Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Even in 2014 it was hard to find some parts, this car came with no rear interior, had top mount but no surround which is crucial to make top mount work. Factory airbox for a GTIR is like rocking horse poo as they all had pod filters fitted and are bespoke for GTIR. Got the spot light grill on tardme for $150, was another GTIR collector planning on bidding but forgot, he said he would have paid up to 1k for it at the time. Then I sold the car with the grill on it. Last rego and wof was 2014 so no idea what became of it. Didnt get another wof after i sold it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cozza Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 This was my one. Sold it in 2017 for what seemed like bugger all. Then Covid hit in 2020, and the reality set in that I was never going to justify spending the money they were now commanding on another. Gutted I sold it, as I loved the heck out of it. Shouldn't have listened to the now wife. Great to see another still alive and kicking, with a bit of love given to it. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick_m Posted April 6 Author Share Posted April 6 Rad. Good to see a few others had them and I’m not the only one with problems haha Really looking forward to getting this one on the road. Last WOF was 2009. It turned into one of those projects where you spent twice as much and three times as long in it as you intended. Will be a cool little weekend car 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truenotch Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Nice! It's about time you had a car for yourself again. 90s cars are pretty oldschool now eh? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted April 6 Popular Post Share Posted April 6 incoming old man sharn, in about 1998 a mate of mine was working for urgent couriers in AK and for some fucked up reason that only coke filled courier company execs can answer urgent couriers bought a GTIR and gave it to my mate as his courier car. it was branded and all that but he drove it all day every day. it took me for quite a few rips in it and fuck me was that thing fast. when your bench mark was a 4M powered shitbox the gtir was light years faster. why did they think that was a good idea? fuck knows but it gave a bunch of mid 20s jokers a new understanding of what a turbo car was. 8 1 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick_m Posted April 6 Author Share Posted April 6 3 minutes ago, Truenotch said: Nice! It's about time you had a car for yourself again. 90s cars are pretty oldschool now eh? Yeah guess they are now. Probably means that I am too haha 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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