My 1995 GTR project thread.

[cortexx]

NP EMA ...

So down to business , I recieved my 48 inch roll of dinoc black dry carbon textured 3M stuff and have attempted to wrap my dash.

Now seeing as how this is my first attempt at wrapping , and it's well known that my 8 yr old daughter wraps xmas presents better then i do , i figured i'd start with the easiest piece first .

First i needed to gather some basic tools so a quick trip to walmart for a nice sharp xacto knife and a rummage through the bathroom to steal my wifes hairdryer for a heat source.

The R33 dash trim comes in 2 pieces , upper and lower part that blends into the center contole.

The console part of my dash was covered with a crappy shiney carbon vinyl and it looked like shite so i ripped it off.



Once removed (took a while) i had another rummage in the bathroom and found my wifes nailpolish remover and used it along with an old t-shirt to clean up the surface that was exposed ...



By now the nailpolish remover had given me a bit of a headache so i tossed the rest of it back in the bathroom and hoping my wife wouldn't notice 1/2 the bottle had gone , and threw the old t-shirt in the garbage and opened the door to get rid of the stink , next time i'll use something else instead .

Next job was to pry of the little metal fasteners that hold the suede boot on , this only took about an hour , sometimes i think Nissan and then WTFFF . stupid way to attach it for sure .

Once off i took out the fag lighter and was left with a surface ready to wrap , i cut out a piece of the material abd spent the next hour massaging it around the plastic moulding.

After a redbull , 2 shots of ventolin and a nasty coffee my 13 yr old made me i ended up with this :-



with no flash so it looks more lifelike :-



after we sat and stared at the radiant beauty of the dynoc textured finish for a while i reinstalled the boot and fag lighter and voila ..



Spurred on by our success we decided to attempt the dash trim - i see we because i enrolled the help of my 13 yr old daughter to hold the hairdryer while i held the moulding with one hand and stretched the material with the other . It's definately a 3 hand job .

This is the dash along with 15 years of scarring and marks :-



This is an ancient asian hyroglyphic that came with my car and i havn't a clue what it sayes , translation would be appreciated . The local nissan dealership had a hunch it said "foragoodtimecallcdguy" but a confirmation would be good (j/k btw in case you are THAT gullible, its the nail polish remover talking here).



After pulling off all the junk we are left once again with virgin plastic ready for wrap , so i cut out a piece big enough to do it in 1 piece making sure the grain on the material went the same way as the grain on the center console piece . And proceeded to peel and stick , heat , stretch , stick , heat and restretch , insert blasphemous word here etc ...... took a photo while the tips of my fingers recover and cool down .



Finally after about 2 hours of cursing, swearing , dropping the knife on my foot , dropping the hair dryer , burning my fingertips we finally got this -



Not too bad has a few flaws in it .

At this point i'm going to say that 3M does a primer that is recommended but not required for secure adhesion of the material. I'm did not use it , but there are some areas especially edges and inside curves that need it for the material to stay put . I'm ordering a can tommorrow and i'm going to fix the imperfections with it.

The fag ash tray was never int he car when i got it , instead there was an Apexi revspeed meter which i have removed but i plan to plate this and install my pin pad entry for the starter , a serial interface for my datalogit and the LED and calibration switch for my wideband

updates to follow soon (tm)

[EMAGDNIM]

I love this build thread. I like the fact that you take great detail in your work and document everything (well all that you can). Thanks again

[aN4rk1]

Thanks Evo

Im trying to drag my ass to the workship tonight to do more, but i drove 500klm today and had to deal with many ethnic minorities both on the highways and at the wholesalers in Markham so i'm a little short on patience!

I asked one nice young man working on the RMA counter of Compugen why they don't hire people that speak English for customer service duties and was told . "I'm sorry sir, English is only a minority language in this area, when hired we are expected to be able to speak chinese or punjabbi , English secondary" .

W-T-F

BTW hope this doesnt offend any of you no offence intended !

I see you were in Scarborough for the first time LAWL

[cortexx]

Thanks Evo

Im trying to drag my ass to the workship tonight to do more, but i drove 500klm today and had to deal with many ethnic minorities both on the highways and at the wholesalers in Markham so i'm a little short on patience!

I asked one nice young man working on the RMA counter of Compugen why they don't hire people that speak English for customer service duties and was told . "I'm sorry sir, English is only a minority language in this area, when hired we are expected to be able to speak chinese or punjabbi , English secondary" .

W-T-F

BTW hope this doesnt offend any of you no offence intended !

[Evolution-VIII]

Wow dude, this build looks amazing, great job on everything!

[GTRADDICT]

Oooo purdy!!

[cortexx]

Nismo !

[GTRADDICT]

Its being replaced

Oooh! By what?

[cortexx]

Its being replaced

[DJ]

Looks good! You really need to do something with that intake manifold! the finish looks real rough!

[cortexx]

OK got into the workshop and threw the car back up on the ramps tonight with the full intention of installing the wideband sensor wiring.

I have decided that because i have the wideband bung welded fairly high up the downpipe and can see it from the open engine bay that i'd run the wiring for the lambda sensor across the back of the firewall and through the rubber grommet inside the drivers side inner fender. The other option was to drill a hole int he floor of the passenger side to pass the wiring up and i wasn't too happy about doing that.!

I occured to me at this point that i should work too pass all further wiring through at the same time because i also have a defi oil pressure , oil temp , water temp , boost and fuel pressure sensors i have to run .

I therefore decided to install the GReddy oil filter relocation kit i have had kicking around to give me the 2 holes for the oil sensors ... funny how some jobs sidetrack you eh ?

So removed the filter from the HKS oil sandwich plate which meant i promptly dumped about 2 litres of oil all over the workshop floor because i wasnt paying attention and didnt relalise the filter being lower than the cooler would mean it would syphon its contents out of the filter block , handy way to drain the cooler though i guess lol.

I threw cat litter under the car to soak up the oil and proceeded to install the GReddy plate and stainless braided hoses . This kit comes with the most god aweful hose ends , they have screw clamps hidden in a fake anodised earl cover - really crap stuff , ill be changing these later and making some black hoses to do the job with russel fittings ( my favourite )

eventually this is where i got :-



Of course the instructions that come with the kit are written on a piece of toilet paper using Japanese hyroglyphics again so its up to me to figure stuff out using common sense and experimentation.

The bracket that comes with the kit mounts the oil plate and filter just forward of the fuse box which is awesome in a factory unmodified car , but in my engine bay with all the crap iv'e changed it's not gonna fly , the RIPS oil catch can rears its head again to get in the way so mods must be made .

this is a pic of the bolts im supposed to use to mount the bracket , which of course means the filter would foul the catch can !



It's kind of amusing to note that all the tuning companies take great pride in making bolt on kits that are easy to install , but none of them realise that their kits sometimes have to co-exist with other mods and that nothing really fits right out of the box lol .

Anyway I decided to kill another bird with this stone and do a better job of mounting the boost solenoid on a bracket that will also mount my oil filter assembly . I did use the GReddy bracket but instead of bolting the remote unit directly to it , i used it to anchor an aluminium bar to the inner fender ... - mad scientist at work



this was the old boost solenoid location -



This is the new bracket i fabbed from a nice piece of aluminium bar



At this point in the game i couldn't situate the filter mount where i wanted because i had too much braided line sticking up from the sandwich plate on the engine so i spend about 1/2 hour trying to reef off the hoses so i could trim them , my poor fingers - did i ever say how much i hate braided steel lines ?

After chopping about 3 inches off each line with some weiss tin snips the filter plate mounted up , i bolted on the boost solenoid and it looked like this :-



I'm a great believer in clean looking installs so this looks good to me , i threw the filter back on and it all looked on , even clears the hood when i close it



and with the boost solenoid remounted on the same bracket :-



At this point Im now ready to run my defi sensor wires along with the wideband loom into the car through the big grommet inside the drivers inner fender , I have to find a location fo the water temp sensor and might end up cutting one of my hoses and inserting a sensor adapter.

I emptied the catch can tonight after about 1500 klm of semi spirited driving and there was practically nothing in it , no oil just a little bit of condensation and tiny amount of sludge . This is a good sign that my engine hasn't got much blowby , going to dump the oil and fill again this weekend , I have been running 10/30 redline , oil temp never goes over 80c , was contemplating a slightly heavier oil because of the hot weather but not sure if i really should .

Should have my datalogit here tommorrow and i have co pilot ready on my laptop ready for some powerfc fun once all the vital monitoring stuff has been mounted Then i'll start on the fuel system .

time for bed (yawn) !

[cschepp]

Rent it, what for. Come down let's have a few pints and we can do it. Wouldn't be bad except you might have to crouch down a bit under the hoist as your pretty tall man. But ya your more than welcome to drop by anytime Paul!

[cortexx]

GJ Chris , thanks for the kind words , i might have to rent your shop hoist one weekend to swap a tranny sometime in the future , i used to do them on my back years ago dropping them down onto my chest and rolling them sideways but i have a hunch this tranny might squash me . I'm also tossing the idea of a carbon fibre drive shaft to reduce rotating mass and improve response and hopefully drop some weight got some home work to do there ..

[cschepp]

Cortexx your awesome buddy. You and your family are very nice peopled. You are all welcome anytime!

Oh and btw. I did as we discussed and cleared things out and took it for a spin. Runs alot better! Thanks man

[r33gtr]

Let me know when you get rid of your steering wheel ! I'm looking for one for my car. Leather on it is all worn .