My Other Gti-r & GTI Projects and Purchases

So... i got a new Gti-r... i know... great fashion accessory! Or lawn art... ok ok maybe i have an addiction....

This one, sitting on a lawn for 6+ years NICE!!..... not really.

Spiders on it were well fed, and had a thriving community built on, under and in the car.

Motor had being forged and some point, with eagle rods, wisco pistons and rings, alc race bearings... but the motor had seen better days. Head was off, owner said one piston was melted.

Z32 amf, 550cc injectors, nismotronic ecu fitted. A deal was done and i rescued the car.

I was more interested in the running gear in this car, so after a quick tidy up, removing the motor and box i on sold the chassis as the rego was still live, so could be kept on the roads here in New Zealand.












Another one gone, this one is off to its new owner to have motor and box put in it, paint job and be back on the road. :-)

Good to see they are being kept alive over there:)

Might be heading over for a holiday over there next year, would love to check out your collection of R's oneday

So picked this one up from a pretty rough neighbor hood the other day. Not a Gti-r completely. However it is running a gtir motor.

This one is a P10 Primera, with gtir motor fitted and Microtech ecu.

Big turbo fitted, forged motor, nice alloy wheels. Car does not start though.. and when you see the wiring you can understand why. Will spend a few nights figuring this one out i think!!





Yeah the wiring.....



These are the forsale photo's when i get a chance i will snap a few pictures and update.

Wow thats some tidy bit of wiring lol ....

That's the JDM way to redo wiring these days

A few hours of grumbling and wire stripping later... + mapping out wires to correct locations, repairing broken wiring and broken connectors..Managed to get it to fire into life again.

Compression tested motor is mint. Car goes very very very very fast wheel spins everywhere.

However i will be removing this motor and ecu set up now i know it works for it to reside back into a gti-r where it belongs!!








Removal time.

Good to see it running mate, it deserves to be in an R

So the primera is no more, she finally came apart and her heart now resides back in a Gti-r :-)

So a managed to acquire another Gti-r this one had being written off by insurance due to a frontal crash.

easily the worst Gti-r i have had to take apart... the motor proved rather hard to remove with the crushed chassis.





















After getting the broken front mount off, and removing all the damage that i could, i connected the turbo up to the quad throttle bodies to get the thing moving.



Motor out



And car parts RIP

At the same time the black crashed gti-r turned up so did this red one. Now this one belonged to a very good friend a number of years ago. And i bought it on impulse with great plans to put it back on the road... I bought it un sighted... bad move...

The car itself was in average condition... very average condition.. infact it didnt even start when it arrived. After a lot of work i got it to start... but the bottom end was noisy, all the panels were stuffed, and it had a lapsed rego... meaning it is almost impossible to put back on the road here.... I didnt have the heart to pull her apart though as it was such a complete car... so i sold it on.

As i got it:




Then when i got it and washed it, got it going and sold it.

I was then offered another car.. this one was de-rego'd as well and in super bad condition. Quick strip down to sort it out.








Making your cars worth more one car at a time...

Now this one was truly a waste of a car, found it in someones garden.. it had being there for 15 years....

36,000km on the chassis.... RB model..... pretty disappointing to say the least. I did a deal for the chaps garden art. And had to get a tow truck in to pull it out.

Had some pretty good bits on it for a car built in the mid 90s. A lot of number 8 wires modifications as well..

Thats a sad sight to see an RB in, looks like it would have been tricked out back in the day.

Was looing at your youtube earlier on, nice collection of vids you have mate.

gtir_woody wrote:Was looing at your youtube earlier on, nice collection of vids you have mate.

Cheers buddy. Try to upload some every 3 to 6 months to keep the channel current.

I should probably do some video's of how to remove and put back in motors and parts on these cars.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY7ic3VQAa3RwkM4HDkh5gA

For anyone that is interested

Ok so this one came to me through a phone call. I have known the owner for a while and un fortunately a bus had rear ended his gti-r with insurance writing the car off.  

I got it home to asses the damage, car drove pretty well, except going over bumps and trying to boost the rear scraped on the bent chassis and arch.

Chassis had done pretty high Km and body itself was not in very good condition but mechanically the car was mint. So into the Gti-r auschwitz it went.











Unloading the old girl back home:








Auschwitz Gti-r gas chamber







Most of the interior had cig burns and grease stains which was a real shame, carpet was full of holes as well and hood lining was wrecked. So loaded all the broken stuff back into it before it was collected.

While the other garage gathers dust.

You must have a lot of spares and room