Another black GTiR

Hi guys,

After been chafted badly with my other R i brought this in febuary for my 21st bday. It was originaly Frits car on the modifiers, its what my car was going to be bar a few mods and fancy crap.

I have swapped the forge hoses over to blue, put stock nissan leads on and got rid of the hks filter that was on it and added a oil catch can for good measure. Just brought all filters and silkolene for it to service her and need to get two new toyo proxys as they were elegally bold so swapped my wheels over quickly.

Plans are to service it fully, maybe add some whiteline arbs and more polybushes underside, battery would be better in ze boot and possibly more boost.


Spec:

Full rebuild March 2010
Arias forged pistons
Polished and unground crank
HKS metal head gasket
ARP conrod bolts
ARP main cap bolts
ACL big end bearings
ACL main bearings
ACL thrust washers
Garrett GT2871R ball bearing turbo
Forge front mount intercooler
Greddy full auto turbo timer
Greddy profec b spec 2 boost controller
Z32 air flow meter
Power enterprise 700cc injectors
HKS super sequential blow off valve
HKS speed limit defender
Mongoose exhaust system with new flexi
AM performance turbo elbow
Walbro 255lph fuel pump
Helix organic clutch
Samco ancillery water hose kit
Braided turbo oil and water lines
Magnecor 8mm blue HT leads
Silkolene pro-s 10w-50 engine oil
Silkolene 75w-90 fully synthetic gear oil - gearbox & trans'box
Fusion motorsport remapped ECU (by Ed)364.9bhp/355lbft at 1.4bar - surrey rolling road 04/12/09

SUSPENSION
D2 coilover suspension
Whiteline strut brace
Powerflex polybushed front bottom arms
Rota Slipstream flat black 16x8 wheels got my DV-Bs on atm
Toyo Proxes T1R 195-45-16

BRAKES
Hi-spec 4 pot brakes
Goodridge braided brake lines
grooved discs Mintex 1144 padsdot 5.1 fluid
Omp deep dish suede steering wheel White dials
Autogauge 51mm Boost guagePillar pod 51mm
Cobra seats

I remember seeing it go up for sale on the forum very nice example

nomad29 wrote:I remember seeing it go up for sale on the forum very nice example

Cheers, its nice to have a decent base to work from and add my own touches to it and improve on it, its a good car just havent realy enjoyed it yet been in th garage for a month sleeping

Whats your plans then fella to put your own twist to it ? i agree its good to have a solid base to work on i didnt have either really makes it hard work to keep the faith lol

Someones been to barmouth? Lol love that place!

Cars looking good Tom

Nice simota filter ;_)

Oh and nice wheels lol, half my car you got there hehe!

nice healthy looking dyno sheet there tom

car looks great the only thing i dont like is that battery clamp (that would severely worry me) if that slips a bit it will short right across the 2 battery terminals and could result in a nasty fire or worst still the battery going up like a bomb

love it, looks a beast

Very nice.

Very nice car you have there

gtirus wrote:nice healthy looking dyno sheet there tom

car looks great the only thing i dont like is that battery clamp (that would severely worry me) if that slips a bit it will short right across the 2 battery terminals and could result in a nasty fire or worst still the battery going up like a bomb

Yer I did notice that, quite funny what some people do to cars, was going to put it in the boot anyway to get some space but the bar is pretty firm and its not moved out the garage for nearly 2 months now seems like they get there little home and no playtime.

TBH I havent got the love for the cars completely back since having mine away for so long, its going to be a hard one to get anything much done on her at the moment as I have alot of work comitments so it will be staying in the garage for a while. I have an Astra VXR for a daily car now and I must say its alot of fun, and relatively quick with good handling which does make me think these old Rs are loosing their apeal

tut tut but its not old school and different its just another vauxhall my friend; besides you cantbeat the look on peoples faces when you pass them in the gtir

Been hiding away for a while, both Pulsars havent had my full attention to say the least. The R has had some of the work done over the winter months including two new ear arches put in place (courtesy of Poland the 5 door sunny panels) also had some of the sill replaced and generally tidied up. Amazing what you find when these cars are sold as mint

anyway here are some pics of the progress, hopefully picking it up next week as its finished

Your have to chuck some pics up of the finished job its never nice to see all the filler work lol ... have you had it sprayed or just the panels that have been prepped

Yer its not ideal having to fill the area but its the only reasonable way without too much $$$, once chopped out and welded back on its got to be taken back to how it was, hopefully with this been new panels you wont see the horrible rot under filler scenaro bubbling back up as is what happened before.

No the whole car hasnt been done, the paintwork wasnt that bad in all honesty, its having the whole two rear quarters and bonnet front bumper done but its under too much dust to take any usefull pictures yet

I wasnt knocking it fella its near impossible to weld it all in without a skim of filler ive been welding for years now and done many cars and still cant get it perfect enough to just spray it

Oh I know that mate, was just saying the person before had just filled the gaps in so the rust had come back and was all bubbly and crap. So much for the mint bodywork

I think alot of them are like that now unfortunatly pugged up and sold on to be fair they are getting old cars now .... but there is a way of doing it properly .

only way youll fit a panel and not use filler is by leading panel (which is a craftsmans job)
theres no way you can just weld it and grind down to a flat paint prep finish