Friday, June 11, 2010

Ok, next up was the handling.

Larger wheels were purchased-KOYA Driftek's, 17x8 +32 f, 17x9 +38 r.

The upper arm bushes have been replaced with nolathane. Rear cradle has now got pineapples installed to stiffen rear up. HICAS has been removed & a lock-bar has been put in its place. Larger swaybars, 28mm fr-24mm r both are solid type & blade adjustable. (Brand Selby).

Standard suspension is out & Uprated Bilstein dampers(height adjustable) with King 25mm lowered springs now sit in place. Front Suspension geometry adjusters have been installed to help with Camber/Castor adjustment. Rear adj. upper arms for the back. Change in handling is incredible, still ok for the street-bit firm-ish(but I like that) but on track it flies.
Front height-350mm ctr to guard, Rear height- 340mm ctr to guard

Brakes-Front changed over to R33 Slotted Rotors with R33Gtst Fr Callipers. Hawk HP-R Carbon pads, Motul RBF600 brake fluid-amazing change to braking capability.

Todd's Lil War Machine takes shape


Well, what to write.

This is the rather slow progression of my ride. I thought I would list out for those considering a possible path of modification to their Nissan Skyline R32 Gtst.

It started out as a fairly stock R32. It did have front & rear Cusco strut braces & a HKS mushroom pod. Also installed was an 11point earthing kit. The exhaust was a 3' Pressure bent back section.

First thing that had to go was the restrictive front section which was replaced by a Split Front Dump pipe, High flow Cat & Mandrel Bent rear section for better flow.