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I won't bore you with the huge version I've posted elsewhere, but instead a quick summary.
About a year ago I picked the car up, immaculate and totally loved it.
A few months into ownership it had a blowout which ruined one of my Nismo LMGT1's. These were replaced with the Greddy Gravity wheels thanks to Bren at Apex, and all was well again.
A few months after that the engine developed a slight ticking, which progressively got worse, at this point I kind of new a rebuild was on the cards which would have been needed anyway due to wanting more power. Just another expense to grin and bear with skylines.
Eventually the engine "went", spinning a bearing I believe though it's not been investigated, so she was retired on the drive for a couple of days whilst I was gathering my thoughts as to how to approach it.
All was well until my brother in law bumped into the car with his piece of sh*t rover whilst under the influence thinking he'd be ok to dump his car on my drive and go for a wander (he wasn't
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So, a good kicking was dispatched, and the damage evaluated, nothing too serious, bit of a dent in the wing, and some scratches in the bumper, door, skirt and more importantly the new wheels.
So at this point I decided I'd do it properly, full engine build with all the trimmings, and a full respray for the outside, everywhere getting lavished with new parts.
Engine wise it's getting a nice shiney new RB30 from Rob at RIPS, which should see her well on her way with the power I want to achieve.
I'm not chasing numbers or figures, it won't be used on track all that much, won't do more than a couple of drag runs (to satisfy my curiosity), and above all is a road car, and will be setup as such.
Power delivery will be very smooth with quick spool and full boost early, basically a torque monster.
Brakes, suspension, gearbox, diffs and all the other stuff will be addressed, I've got a mountain of parts growing for the car which I'll go into later.
Anyway the bodywork stuff was finally completed today after 3 long months, and I'm quite pleased.
I'll get some high quality pictures when my new camera is sorted, but for now you'll have to live with the one and only pic I have courtesy of the bodyshop.
How she looked originally:
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New Wheels (and no splitter) :
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Bumped into by penis breath brother in law:
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So off she went to the bodyshop. Knight racer supplied the lovely carbon fibre Chin spoiler, The Greddy Gravity wheels were refinished in white, and a bit of paint was laid down.
The paint is Kouse of Kolor Silver metallic with a Violet pearl added. Over the top of this goes the House of Kolor Prism effect lacquer which is sort of like the Spectraflair seen on TVR's and gives it the look it's got now when the sun hits it. I'm told by House of Kolor that mine is the second car in Europe to be done in the Prism Effect, so it's a bit different for now at least.
Apologies for the quality, but you get the idea, I'll get some SLR pics of it very soon
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Now I can finally get on with the mechanical stuff
About a year ago I picked the car up, immaculate and totally loved it.
A few months into ownership it had a blowout which ruined one of my Nismo LMGT1's. These were replaced with the Greddy Gravity wheels thanks to Bren at Apex, and all was well again.
A few months after that the engine developed a slight ticking, which progressively got worse, at this point I kind of new a rebuild was on the cards which would have been needed anyway due to wanting more power. Just another expense to grin and bear with skylines.
Eventually the engine "went", spinning a bearing I believe though it's not been investigated, so she was retired on the drive for a couple of days whilst I was gathering my thoughts as to how to approach it.
All was well until my brother in law bumped into the car with his piece of sh*t rover whilst under the influence thinking he'd be ok to dump his car on my drive and go for a wander (he wasn't
)So, a good kicking was dispatched, and the damage evaluated, nothing too serious, bit of a dent in the wing, and some scratches in the bumper, door, skirt and more importantly the new wheels.
So at this point I decided I'd do it properly, full engine build with all the trimmings, and a full respray for the outside, everywhere getting lavished with new parts.
Engine wise it's getting a nice shiney new RB30 from Rob at RIPS, which should see her well on her way with the power I want to achieve.
I'm not chasing numbers or figures, it won't be used on track all that much, won't do more than a couple of drag runs (to satisfy my curiosity), and above all is a road car, and will be setup as such.
Power delivery will be very smooth with quick spool and full boost early, basically a torque monster.
Brakes, suspension, gearbox, diffs and all the other stuff will be addressed, I've got a mountain of parts growing for the car which I'll go into later.
Anyway the bodywork stuff was finally completed today after 3 long months, and I'm quite pleased.
I'll get some high quality pictures when my new camera is sorted, but for now you'll have to live with the one and only pic I have courtesy of the bodyshop.
How she looked originally:
New Wheels (and no splitter) :
Bumped into by penis breath brother in law:
So off she went to the bodyshop. Knight racer supplied the lovely carbon fibre Chin spoiler, The Greddy Gravity wheels were refinished in white, and a bit of paint was laid down.
The paint is Kouse of Kolor Silver metallic with a Violet pearl added. Over the top of this goes the House of Kolor Prism effect lacquer which is sort of like the Spectraflair seen on TVR's and gives it the look it's got now when the sun hits it. I'm told by House of Kolor that mine is the second car in Europe to be done in the Prism Effect, so it's a bit different for now at least.
Apologies for the quality, but you get the idea, I'll get some SLR pics of it very soon
Now I can finally get on with the mechanical stuff
