Nate's BNR32

[natetheguy]

http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=15&pictureid=59
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=15&pictureid=60
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=15&pictureid=65
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=15&pictureid=67

completely stock when I first got it other than the sparco mesh rims (17x9.5 +32 offset).
since then i've installed:
nismo sports clutch kit
Custom exhaust > xs power downpipe > test pipe > 5zigen 3inch cat back
HKS Torque Split Controller
Full custom stereo with 2 10inch subs all designed and installed by me.

waiting to put in:

Tomei hicas lockout kit

Tires are 255/40/R17's all round
Car is running at 13.9 psi on stock turbo's and no problems what so ever.

[DrMango]

Looks good and paint is lookin mint. The front sit higher than the back, or is that just the pics?

Kyle

[natetheguy]

no it still has the oem gtr suspension on it. I guess with all the boosting it makes the rear sink a little.

[DrMango]

Its caused by raw power! You have plans to update the suspension soon? Looks like a good clean car. How is the interior?

Kyle

[natetheguy]

interior is good. i have that common dash bubble. seats are in great shape with no rips.

I want to throw on a set of tein's either SS or flex but it all comes down to money and i'm not working at the moment.

[DrMango]

yeah I know how that goes. Lots of plans, little money. Important things come first and at the end of the day, your suspension is still mint I bet

Kyle

[natetheguy]

yea the suspension is still tight and no leaks which is awesome for 16 year old struts.

[Rapier46]

this gtr is so sweet. had a unique sound and feel. very solid, no rattle or any of that bullshit. it made me love gtrs...

One thing i can agree with is nate you need more lower...then i can do ANOTHER alignment..yay...

Nate doing some valve cover gaskets...
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4411/img0114c.jpg

the kh2 beast on the hoist
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/4599/img0158c.jpg

n8 doing some wiring to finish up my engine swap
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/651/img0157fu.jpg

i have lots more of nates, including some driving pics. ahh good times.

[natetheguy]

Just finished installing an R33 PS pump. here's a shot of the engine bay.

http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=15&pictureid=74

[DrMango]

How much smaller was it in the end?

Kyle

[Rapier46]

Fix up your intake manifold and it'll look really good

[natetheguy]

the pump looked the exact same size. this one still had the hicas on it.

[DrMango]

OK. So what was the advantage to getting an R33 P/S pump, just availability?

Kyle

[Rapier46]

probably the only thing he had available to him, that was reasonably price.


i sold my ps pump for $60 hahah

[natetheguy]

ya i bought a pump from ztune and instructed to send it to me in kelowna, but it had been a few days and had to remind them of the order, which they finally sent but to my cochrane address. it would have taken over two weeks to get another pump from them. Luckly i found one just north of vernon at redline recreation

[DrMango]

So a good recomendation for Ztune hey lol.
Hope you didnt get raped too bad on that deal because of someone elses mistake. Same thing happened to me a few months ago. Ordered my ACL bearings and they sent them to the wrong address. Sucks when people dont pay attention to clear directions for shipping

Kyle

[natetheguy]

Well to be fair this is the first problem I've had with ztune. Every other time has been great sales and service.

[DrMango]

Hope you have better luck in the future orders you make so they can make up for this little mistake. Im sure no hard feelings. I have no experience with them yet but I do hear a lot of good response

Kyle

[natetheguy]

So i've been working on getting a plate welded into my twin turbo charge pipe and I thought I would share a few pictures of what i'm doing.

here is the pipe in the current state
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=17&pictureid=75

It's nice and clean inside due to good oem turbo's
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=17&pictureid=76

the template I cut out to help the welder out
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=17&pictureid=77

what it looks like when the template is in the pipe
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=17&pictureid=78
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=17&pictureid=79
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=17&pictureid=80

I am going to take the pipe to the welder hopefully in a couple of days and I'll give an update when it's done.

[Rapier46]

damn. thats horny.

[natetheguy]

Update on the pipe. got it back from the shop and they did an okay job but was a little messy in spots. I had to take a screwdriver and chip away any wash left over so it wouldn't go back into my turbo.

http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=17&pictureid=81
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=17&pictureid=82
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=17&pictureid=83
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=17&pictureid=84
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=17&pictureid=85

[DrMango]

a blind guy do the welds?
I hope you paid them in hugs and smiles cause thats pure shit. No offense
Doesnt even look like propper penetration at the neck in a few spots..

Kyle

[Rapier46]

looks like a couple amatuers did it. but it should still do its' job.

[DrMango]

Yeah but its a matter of pride when you show a guy the mods you had done. Showing people that pipe will make him cringe every time someone looks at those welds. Thats my opinion anyways
Looks like I can even see vise marks they left in the pipe that would have been very easy to take out. Im seeing this in the first pic. Maybe its something else.
Im not a ticketed welder yet but I wouldnt be able to take pride in laying that pass. Thats why Im kind of picking at this job.

Kyle

[Rapier46]

oh yeah, youd thing a licenced welder would do it good enough to take pride in it right? i know thats how i am with my work. it literally looks like an amature did that. a real tech should be able to do that really well.

[DrMango]

A welder of any type should be able to lay a clean pass with no issues and no cleanup needed. I dont want to hack on poor nates pipe anymore. I voiced my opinion. Sorry to see someone not satistied with a weld because its a trade where if its not up to spec, you just break out the grinder and do it again. Really easy to spend the extra 30 minutes and do another pass until its satisfactory

Kyle

[91gtr91gtir]

holy shit i laughed out loud when you asked if a blind guy did the welds, hit it with a dremel and smooth it up for sure!

[sidewayz32]

A welder of any type should be able to lay a clean pass with no issues and no cleanup needed. I dont want to hack on poor nates pipe anymore. I voiced my opinion. Sorry to see someone not satistied with a weld because its a trade where if its not up to spec, you just break out the grinder and do it again. Really easy to spend the extra 30 minutes and do another pass until its satisfactory

Kyle

There is always going to be some clean up needed after you lay a bead down,it's called spatter and it get everywhere.

And as far as aluminum weld's go that weld look's fused from the pics he may have been moving a bit quickly but nothing to be ashamed of. ever try to weld a 20 year old piece of cast aluminum? lol not easy

[DrMango]

There is always going to be some clean up needed after you lay a bead down,it's called spatter and it get everywhere.

And as far as aluminum weld's go that weld look's fused from the pics he may have been moving a bit quickly but nothing to be ashamed of. ever try to weld a 20 year old piece of cast aluminum? lol not easy

Man I know what spatter is..It could have been a lot cleaner welds, especially considering he did it in a vise. Im not talking about, and never did mention spatter. Im talking about the fact that it looks like the welding was done by 4 different people. Every 5 inches the bead width/high changes and the outside wasnt even half my issue. Look at the second inside shot on the right side. There's popcorn everywhere but where he needed a bead.

Its obvious that someone higher up at that welding shop OK'd that work and thats the worst part
Im not going to post anymore about this topic in poor nates build thread, its just soiling the whole thing. I was just voicing my opinion as an apprentice welder

Kyle

[natetheguy]

holy shit i laughed out loud when you asked if a blind guy did the welds, hit it with a dremel and smooth it up for sure!

yea as soon as I get back to alberta i'll be cleaning up the pipe and repainting it.

[Rapier46]

Nathan u shoulda come to shanks I'm
drunk.

[natetheguy]

little hard when i'm in kelowna...

[Rapier46]

No man

[natetheguy]

Just finished installing a Tomei Hicas Lock Kit. It was easier to install than I thought. never got the hicas into diag. mode though.

[natetheguy]

I got my Greddy Full Auto Turbo Timer II in the mail today so I thought I would start working on the install. I wanted to put the remote display unit in a good location and not stuck to my dash somewhere like a ricer.

Since my clock wasn't working anyways I thought I might as well use up the space, so I tore the clock out and stripped it of it's case
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=20&pictureid=86
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=20&pictureid=87

the new remote display unit
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=20&pictureid=88

I decided to try and get the display unit to fit in the old clock case, which worked after a bit of dremeling. Since the unit wouldn't quite fit in the case I put a couple screws through the plastic to lock it in place.
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=20&pictureid=89

after playing with it more and aligning it I finally got it in and looking great.
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=20&pictureid=90
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=20&pictureid=91

I will be installing LED's into my dash lights/guages and in my A/C panel as soon as I get them in the mail.

[inhumane]

thats looking good man! good thinking!

[DrMango]

I love having the turbo timers installed there. Looks really clean

Kyle

[Kras]

who did you buy teh leds from

[natetheguy]

from 666DAN off of SAU forums

[Allan74]

from 666DAN off of SAU forums

I bought the same ones.....from him as well ;)

Main Cluster (Red), Heater Controls (Red) and Interior Dome/Map LEDs (white).

Good guy to deal with.

[DrMango]

how much was the kit guys?

Kyle

[natetheguy]

I think I payed 35$ after shipping

[natetheguy]

Well I finally finished putting my interior back together after installing the LED's and wiring up the turbo timer. Here are a few pictures of what it looks like now.

http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=20&pictureid=93
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=20&pictureid=94
http://gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=20&pictureid=95

[Rapier46]

LOOKS GAY.

[Kras]

looks good nate, what made you go with blue? I can't figure out what colour I want all my gauges lol

[natetheguy]

LOOKS GAY.

gay....hmmmm....like you?

[Rapier46]

GAY LIKE ME.

jk i cant see the pics. but im sure it looks horrible. it is led.

[natetheguy]

actually i'm surprised how well they turned out. not sure why lots of people can't see the pics.

[natetheguy]

looks good nate, what made you go with blue? I can't figure out what colour I want all my gauges lol

I've always liked blue, especially with the colour of this car. If my car was red I probably would have went with red.

[Rapier46]

Pics of leds?

[natetheguy]

i ended up moving the pictures from one album to another, then change the permissions to private, then back to public. looks like that did the job.

[natetheguy]

just finished installing some TEIN S-tech springs. since the oem springs were quite sunk in the back it didn't change the height of the rear, but the fronts are definitely matching the back now.

here are a few pics of jamie's and my GTR.
http://www.gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=15&pictureid=96
http://www.gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=15&pictureid=97
http://www.gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=15&pictureid=98
http://www.gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=15&pictureid=99
http://www.gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=15&pictureid=100
http://www.gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=15&pictureid=101
http://www.gtrpwr.com/picture.php?albumid=15&pictureid=102

[Rapier46]

Haha creepy look from little k in second last pic. Looks way better Nate, now we gotta have a group headlight alignment.