Frankiman's street/track GTR project

[frankiman]

every GTR from 1994 to 2004.. had the same front brembo calipers
so.. r32gtr v-spec, r33gtr, r34gtr

[louis110]

love your build frank. great story, lots of motivation and ingenuity. respect.

[frankiman]

love your build frank. great story, lots of motivation and ingenuity. respect.

thx man


ok so i'm still writing that^^ chapter i promised, will be massive...

and i already got some stuff coming my way,

Garret adjustable wastegate actuators
KTS suction pipe
front/rear diffusers
the rear section of a Cusco roll cage
stock gtr projector headlights, still don't know if i'll swap 'em
a couple other sets of spare front brake pads, hp+ and stocks

still need a new catch can setup,
maybe HSD coilovers
certainly huge ass tire

next summer is going to be freaking awesome...

[Nismo_line]

what are you running for head lights now?

[frankiman]

N1s

but i need a new HID kit since my ballast are old, and blown
so i thought, might as well go back to projectors..

[Nismo_line]

thought so lol

[TW]

you should retrofit some bad ass projectors if you end up swapping the other lights in... 20 year old optics suck haha. but still, n1 lights ftmfw

[frankiman]

you should retrofit some bad ass projectors if you end up swapping the other lights in... 20 year old optics suck haha. but still, n1 lights ftmfw

that would be awesome, but i wouldn't even know where to start,
i know one guy who retrofitted his vw corrado headlights with bmw e46 projectors/hid
it looked dam hot, but also uber complicated

and theres also the fact that i see more GTR with N1/gts-t headlight and gts-t with gtr headlights than their own
its kinda backwards

i'm also looking into retrofitting the N1s themselves, because with the HIDs i had in there and with the wide angle lamp, i was litteraly blindind everything alive on the road

but anyway, at the price i got the stock units for, i couldn't pass it up
won't be hard to get my money back if i don't end up using them

[NeptuneGTR]

lol hey man, it just took me 1 hour and 30 mins to read through your build, keep up the great work man, I like how you made that custom tow hook!

[TW]

you could always send them out to lightwerkz or a company like that if you dont want to tackle it yourself. They do EPIC work.

[frankiman]

Chapter 33 - 2010 photoshoots of teh GTR

i've been sitting on these pics for a heck of a while, but today the January's The UltraRide's Car of the Month as been published, so now i can finally show everyone these pics

the pictures were taken by myself, and my good buddy Louis-Philippe Blanchard from NoPainNoGain Photography in september and october
photoshoots were done while it was about 3deg C ... freaking cold to be hanging around a car for 3 hours (each shoot)

http://www.theultraride.com/index.php?page=member&name=Francois+GTR

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=266915&id=668156458&saved#!/album.php?aid=266915&id=668156458&fbid=479180556458

here they are
click on the pics for higher res

[frankiman]

moar?

[frankiman]

MOAR????















the money shot ^^

[louis110]

<3 this is the epitomy of a street spec GTR.

[allwheeldrifter]

very very nice, congrats. i would love to do that with my gtr