s13dan

I am still SO pissed SSC is gone. I feel like know one cares. I was astounded at how in depth the tech articles were and the level of intelligence the writers have.

Those guys need someone to give them a Job and pay them big bucks, they deserve it. I would buy that magazine just because of that. Fuck it, charge me twice..

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New chapter!!!

chapter 33 - 2010 photoshoots of the GTR

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96Turbo

that's cool and all... but just reading the first couple chapters you took it to a shop to install a boost gauge, headlights, oil change & exhaust, wtf? That's the easy stuff! And you removed the entire interior just to run a battery cable to the trunk?!

Super sweet cars though, Canada rocks

frankiman

yeah but that was way back when i didn't know much, and had not alot of access to the garage, i was only transforming the car from the JDM spec to N/A spec if you know what i mean
it was before the "real" project started,

read on from chapter 13, it gets better

and keep in mind, i don't have X years of experience building multiple cars/projects, this is my first ever project

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1on1

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...-NPNG-LP04.jpg

if only you did not have your lights on, it would have been a good pic!!!!

keep up the good work man

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Aki180sx

Very nice build! Have any left over parts?

Imarvin240

love the car man, sorry about the first one

tricky_ab

I love the pictures! Oh and what's up with the EVC-S? you don't have a permanent spot for it?

Tantwoforty

This should stickyed as the HOW TO build thread.. lol

h2v7

love this car

i do

frankiman

bunch of new chapters posted, 34, 35 ,36 just check the first post for links


btw, what the car looks like now

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bc.

Yay!!! ____!

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Chapter 39 - That good ol' feeling of hard work, week2 - 2011

disclaimer :
the following story depicts actions that occured between May 1st and 8th 2011
information is recalled purely from memory, endure with me

on week 1, the old oil had been emptied when the turbos were removed,
but it wasn't actually, not all of it,
since some oil was still stuck between the filter relocation plate and the oil cooler

but it was all thought out in the design of my oil cooler setup,
you see, the -10AN lines that join the filter to the cooler aren't whole
i made them in two sections each, that join directly underneath the car, almost in the same spot, where they are easily accessible



because of this, the lines could simply be seperated in the middle to empty for remaining oil,
you just let gravity work its magic (because gravity is magic, Newton was wrong )
but the cooler is pretty slow since the passages inside it are so small, it creates small pockets of suction,
so i found that pushing a low amount of air (~40psi) in one side of the cooler helped tremendously;



after that i could get on with the dreaded removal of the oil filter,
why dreaded?

(...)

to keep on reading follow this link;
chapter 39 - That good ol' feeling of hard work, week2

or this link for the complete list of chapters
Frankiman's street/track GTR project

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tricky_ab

Thanks for the updates...I don't visit GTR Canada as much as I used to so this is much welcomed

frankiman

Chapter 41 - Caged in
week4 - 2011, part 1/2

disclaimer :
the following story depicts actions that occured between May 22 and 26 2011
information is recalled purely from memory, endure with me

if you've read the last chapter, you have probably been wondering what the last picture was about?

well during the winter, i worked my arse off to find something i needed rather than wanted,
so i got this;




long story short, i couldn't find an affordable cage in Quebec, and didn't want to have it shipped since it would cost so much,
the reason i needed it was simple, to be allowed to use a racing harness during a time attack event, a roll bar was needed,
but the only things i saw for sale were full cages when i only wanted the rear half, and no one wanted to sell half of theirs,
so i got in contact with a shaddy caracter here in Quebec, who said he'd sell me his full cage cheap,
but then he tells me he sold it to someone else.. crap,
luckily that someone else knew what i was looking for and contacted me and offered to sell me only the rear portion of the cage he had just bought since he needed just the front bits,
and that person was GTRC's SKYGTR,
he even agreed to drive halfway (between Montreal and Quebec City) to meet, super cool guy,

what i got was 3 pieces of the rear section of a genuine Cusco roll cage, it was all wrapped with a protective foam,
i took it all off, and threw it in the garbage (i think)

so since at the time of the install, i was working full time at an internship, and i wanted so modding done to the cage, my dad jumped in again to help,
he brought the cage to a welding shop, literally around the corner from my house,
since i wanted to fit an harness bar to the cage itself, i had brackets welded to the cage at particular spot that i had measured;




(...)

to keep on reading follow this link;
chapter 41 - Caged in, week4

or this link for the complete list of chapters
Frankiman's street/track GTR project

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gearhead55

WORD.

also, nice build. white looks so good on that r32

frankiman

Chapter 42 - Interior works
week5 - 2011, part 1/2

disclaimer :
the following story depicts actions that occured between May 27 and june 4 2011
information is recalled purely from memory, endure with me

if you've read the last chapter, you know i had been working on modifying a Cusco roll cage during week4

after all the hole were drilled in the brackets and the harness bar, i bolted it all together to check for fitment;




since the harness bar was a bit too long for no good reason, i cut off bits of it at each end;



then i buffed alot of the rust off the feet of the main hoop, i don't know why it was so corroded there and where the paint had gone;

(...)

to keep on reading follow this link;
chapter 42 - Interior Works, week5

or this link for the complete list of chapters
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Chapter 43 - Interior Works continued
week6 - 2011, part 1/2

disclaimer :
the following story depicts actions that occured between June 6 and 11 2011
information is recalled purely from memory, give me a chance

if you've read the last chapter, you know i was hard at work making a custom rear seat section

you have to remember that this setup is not for seating people,
but since i knew my back seat couldn't be used anymore with my cage in place,
and i didn't want to simply remove the back seat and have to look at the ugly inner sheet metal,
so i decided to make something that looked oem, was much more practical but still lighter than stock
with the way the OEM GTR rear seats are its an assle to store anything on them,
but with the much thinner and flat panels, alot more stuff can be stored behing the front seats

last week i had acutally finished the install of the new panels, but some bodywork could still be seen in some places,
so i cut up a couple more pieces of fabric that i glued in those spost,
the middle and the inner fenders (pictured later);



also, still is how the surface of the panels looked when screwed into their support;





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back to the cage,

the week prior, i had finished setting up the cage and was ready to paint it,
i sanded all of the parts down to a smooth matte surface,
then outside with a ladder and used a bunch of hook straps to hang all the cage parts in my good ol' maple tree;



i started with 2 coats of primer;



and tried to get the paint in every little spaces,
but doing this outside meant i had to work with a good amount of wind that day,
which made it all much more complicated;

(...)

to keep on reading follow this link;
chapter 43 - Interior Works continued, week6

or this link for the complete list of chapters
Frankiman's street/track GTR project

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Chapter 44 - Carbolicious^2
week7 - 2011, part 1/2

disclaimer :
the following story depicts actions that occured between June 12 and 18 2011
information is recalled purely from memory, give me a chance

in the last weekly update, i finished most of the interior work i set out to do,
so i got back to installing some more exterior parts,

to go with the super sexy AB-Flug front diffuser, i also got this;



a Top Secret "replica" carbon fiber rear diffuser...........this is a budget build,
its looks amazing, comes with some brackets not all useful;



the first thing to do was to remove my Type-M mud guards i had installed the previous year;



these things had accumulated lots of debris over time;



the side pods that come with the diffuser fit pretty well, they actually better contour the body than the Type-M mudguards;



(...)

to keep on reading follow this link;
Chapter 44 - Carbolicious^2, week7

or this link for the complete list of chapters
Frankiman's street/track GTR project

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tricky_ab

Now that your exhaust is on it's way out, what are you planning to replace it with?

frankiman

this piece of art

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1gr8bar10der

Like your build thread. It's quite entertaining. Keep up the good work. Hope one day we will have more R32s in the States, legally.

frankiman

Chapter 45 - Enlightening
week8 - 2011

disclaimer :
the following story depicts actions that occured between June 20 and 28 2011
information is recalled purely from memory, give me a chance

if you've read the last chapter, you know i was working on making extra brackets to finish the installation of the Top Secret CF rear diffuser


the wheels were off (for some reason...) and the car was more looking like a hovership


when i was done with all the brackets, this is what i had come up with,
i was only able to reuse 1 bracket that came with the diffuser, but alot of bending and twisting was required,
i made all the others using aluminium flat bars, only painted to ones that would be seen;


i installed those between the bumper and the diffuser;


and even hid the screws with little caps;


for the front of the diffuser, there were already holes in it that could be used, so in the middle i bolted the twisted bracket to a fuel tank strap bolt i think;

(...)

to keep on reading follow this link;
Chapter 45 - Enlightening, week8

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Chapter 46 - So fresh and So clean
week9 – 2011, part 1/2

disclaimer :
the following story depicts actions that occured between June 29 and july 5 2011
information is recalled purely from memory, give me a chance

if you've read the last chapter, you know i had taken off all 4 wheels for no apparent reason..

well no, i took them off to get them re-painted (3rd time) and mount the new tires on,

so one night i packed my dad's 4x4 with 8 tires total;




the place where i was getting them painted was a 40 min drive from home, but in summer 2011 i had an engineering internship 60 minutes away, in the same direction
and that place closed as early as 5pm
so i took the 4x4 and stopped there on my way home after work, just before 5pm,
explained them which tires to put where and what type of paint job i wanted, this time
my phone was dead so i asked the secretary to take a picture and send it by email
this was to see the difference in total height (width) of the new and old tires;



meanwhile, i got something else done...

(...)

to keep on reading follow this link;
Chapter 46 - So fresh and so clean, week9

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Oakville

eh this project is just okay

I can tell you people, I live 6 hours away from the OP but it is a car that is nationally referenced as one of the front runners in GT-R builds. I have sat in this car personally and its oh so nice....

+1 for frank
+1 for Nismo Coppermix twin clutch and Nismo short throw with solid bushing!

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Chapter 47 - Playing Catch
week10 - 2011

disclaimer :
the following story depicts actions that occured between July 6 and july 12 2011
information is recalled purely from memory, give me a chance


so that week started with a trip to a Nissan dealership to get an alignment done, I have a Nissan so i thought the Nissan dealership would be the best place to get this done, i was wrong

if you have a modified car, bring it to a place where they know how to deal with one,

before i left for the dealership, i had to fix the extreme caster on my front wheels because of my previous alignments,
i had the passenger side wheel rubbing on the back of the inner fender and the beginning of the side skirt, while the driver side wheel was rubbing in the front of the inner fender

so all i did was reajuste the tension rods, but i hadn't checked the repercussion of this wrong doing, my camber and toe got all fawked up, but the dealer was only about 12 minutes away, normally

but with my alignment soooo much out of wack, i couldn't safely drive faster then 40km/h, so it took 25 minutes to get there, with my dad following me with his car

so i left it there when my appointment was the next day;



before leaving the car in their hands, i had actually printed pictures of my parts with written notes...

(...)

to keep on reading follow this link;
Chapter 47 - Playing Catch, week10 - 2011

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Extreme Dimensions

I am moving to canada now for a skyline. Love the car and color

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drscooper

wow im truly blown away right now lol great build

frankiman

they'll be available for import next year in the US

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Oakville

august of 2014 guys!

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