nissanr34cal
Well-Known Member
Well hello there. It has been a long time since I posted a thread on here, however after the forums new revamp i feel like its time to post a build thread.
If you don't know me, which i am 99% sure you don't, My name is Callum. I am the freindly fat guy that you may have seen at drift events up and down the country over the last 8 years. I am part of the staff for Norfolk drift days as well as BDC, but also i am an out and out drift nerd. I would say i am very much involved in the UK scene. Also i may or may not be a part time model. I will let you decide.
As you can see. A real stunner.
Now onto my car history. I have had many cars over the years. Including the E34 that i learned to drift in 5 years ago and still have to this day. Ive had a fair few other bmws, an s13 and my favourite of my past cars. A super turbo diesel E34 with a mechanical fuel pump and a big lorry gt22.
After building that my bank balance decided that it was time for me to take a step back from owning silly cars for a while. So bought myself a sensible daily e46 330d. Which ended up looking as you see it in the first picture of this thread, albeit minus the fat guy sat on the bonnet all the time. Cruised around in that and started saving.
Now back to another history lesson. Back in 2013 i was trawling the internet and i came across an early 1989 r32 kuro black, manual, turbo. Which as far as i am concerned is the holy grail of r32's and not only that but it was 40 minutes away from us. And £800. Now at the time i was a broke assed student. So my buddy Ash bought it. It had an exhaust, some momo arrows and that was about it. Other than that it was standard And pretty clean.
The following years i turned many spanners on this car with ash and it had the original rb20 taken out and put in a 4 door ash had at the time, then an rb25 put in, then another rb20 put in and then that rb20 rebuilt. Along with lots of other things. Underneath done over the years and ended up looking like this in its final guise in Ash's ownership.
I drove it a few times and fell in love with it. As cheesy as it sounds it is a dream car of mine.
Now the car sat in Ash's yard and slowly it got broken and sold in parts however i always had my eye on it.
Fast forward a year or so on and we came to an agreement and the 32 was mine. Now i am in the pretty cool position of knowing a lot of history of the car and having worked on and driven it a few times over the years.
The car sat in the yard a little longer looking very sorry for itself whilst I decided how and where i was going to build.
It had no engine or box, hubs, seats, or kit, but it did have headlights, full s13 rear end with a 4:3 diff and shafts, full driftworks rear arms. Rack moved forward, extended bottom arms but no hubs or tie rods.
So i sorted some cut hubs. And some straight 30mm rack spacers, custom made by James Spillaine in Ireland.
I also got hold of some stock shocks and springs as well as some stock s14 wheels so i could get it on the ground.
I also started collecting parts and when driftworks had their Christmas sale ordered myself some cs2's and really was running out of room in my room for all this car stuff so needed to come up with a plan.
I also bought some cheap overs and BN skirt for Mr Bloomfield for mock ups and spares, so off i went to pick that up.
Now, whilst all this was going on. Me and a couple of friends put a team together of like minded buddies by the name of East Coast Finest that want to build silly, low cars and have fun with friends. So let me introduce you to their cars. So first up is Carls s14
Next up is Adams s15
So as you can see, the guys have a certain style and this is the way the 32 will be going styling wise. Also whilst your here check our Facebook page.
https://m.facebook.com/EastCoastFinestuk/
Now we also got our hands on a unit, so all of a sudden the 32 had a home and i had somewhere to build it. So i went to the estate agents. Emptied this, unfortunately i fear not for the last time during this build,
And i walked away with the keys. So we started moving in that night, starting with Adam's s15 and some of the parts id collected over time.
Including my engine. I had bought a freshly rebuilt rb25 from a good friend of mine Jack Tonkin, he built it for his personal car with a fresh metal headgasket, arp head studs. And 175psi across the board. It had done a little Under a thousand miles when he took it out to replace it with a fully forged one he bought.
Now at the same time i also purchaed the custom built equal length manifold jack built too. As a welder fabricator myself i was going to build my own. However jack offered me his at a price I couldn't say no too. I also may have to buy that td06 soon too. But we will see. In an ideal world i would like a gtx3076r.
I also had been searching form the second i had the 32 for some Dmax d1 spec front wings. As, in my opinion anyway, they are the nicest aftermarket wings on offer that are actually any wider. These are plus 30mm. However these are not the easiest things to find. But my buddy Ash, who i bought my 32 from, bought another 32 4 door that had a set on it, and came with a dmax boot spoiler, so i hassled him and hassled him untill he agreed to sell me both haha.
Anyway once my engine and my parts were in the unit there was just one thing missing, the skyline. So with the help of my friends Darren and Ross it was delivered to my unit, and i was like a pig in shit. So excited to finally get started on building my car.
And this was where it ended up.
Now, i am a fully grown adult, perhaps more grown than i should be, but by no means adult. So the first night the car was in the unit i set to work creating myself some inspiration for the build, I bolted the CS2's on and pushed the skirts and wings on and made myself feel good and then went to home.
Then another day i got excited and bolted most of Adams wheels to my car. and some of Carls. Their collection is far better than mine. All of them either 18x11 or 18x12.
I even had some help down the unit from my best friend. Who fully approved obviously because he is a rad dude.
Then Carl came to collect his wheels back. Which meant for the first time all three of the teams cars were together. With mine somewhat letting the side down i must admit but still Carl managed to get some awesome photos.
I also bought an exeedy hyper single clutch second hand that needed a new friction plate.
However i have decided not to use it as i am going to go with a 350z box so i can use a twin plate happily. Which leads me onto another thing. A friend of mine bought an rb to 350z gearbox adaptor so i took it to work mapped it all out. Drew it up in cad and hopefully will be cutting myself one soon. All going to plan that will save me a few quid. Worst case i will just buy myself the same one as my friend as its in his car and working and i am 100% decided i am going 350 box.
Now once i had finished messing about bolting wheels I didn't own onto a car that didnt work, I decided i should probably do something productive so i set to work stripping the car down with Ash.
Whilst doing we lifted the carpet and did some digging. The results were some rust. But nothing i wasnt aware of so dispite having to sweep a significant amount of my skyline up at the end of the day, i still was pretty happy.
No biggy i will get to that in time. A few weeks of mayhem ensued with BDC and other events on so i didnt touch the car again untill last week. Where i stripped the car right down to a bare shell bar a bit of bay wiring and equipment and the interior loom and heater matrix.
The rear subframe came out nice and easy considering its been in there about 3 year with solid bushes. I expected it to be a nightmare. Next up was the fuel tank, again pretty painless.
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If you don't know me, which i am 99% sure you don't, My name is Callum. I am the freindly fat guy that you may have seen at drift events up and down the country over the last 8 years. I am part of the staff for Norfolk drift days as well as BDC, but also i am an out and out drift nerd. I would say i am very much involved in the UK scene. Also i may or may not be a part time model. I will let you decide.
As you can see. A real stunner.
Now onto my car history. I have had many cars over the years. Including the E34 that i learned to drift in 5 years ago and still have to this day. Ive had a fair few other bmws, an s13 and my favourite of my past cars. A super turbo diesel E34 with a mechanical fuel pump and a big lorry gt22.
After building that my bank balance decided that it was time for me to take a step back from owning silly cars for a while. So bought myself a sensible daily e46 330d. Which ended up looking as you see it in the first picture of this thread, albeit minus the fat guy sat on the bonnet all the time. Cruised around in that and started saving.
Now back to another history lesson. Back in 2013 i was trawling the internet and i came across an early 1989 r32 kuro black, manual, turbo. Which as far as i am concerned is the holy grail of r32's and not only that but it was 40 minutes away from us. And £800. Now at the time i was a broke assed student. So my buddy Ash bought it. It had an exhaust, some momo arrows and that was about it. Other than that it was standard And pretty clean.
The following years i turned many spanners on this car with ash and it had the original rb20 taken out and put in a 4 door ash had at the time, then an rb25 put in, then another rb20 put in and then that rb20 rebuilt. Along with lots of other things. Underneath done over the years and ended up looking like this in its final guise in Ash's ownership.
I drove it a few times and fell in love with it. As cheesy as it sounds it is a dream car of mine.
Now the car sat in Ash's yard and slowly it got broken and sold in parts however i always had my eye on it.
Fast forward a year or so on and we came to an agreement and the 32 was mine. Now i am in the pretty cool position of knowing a lot of history of the car and having worked on and driven it a few times over the years.
The car sat in the yard a little longer looking very sorry for itself whilst I decided how and where i was going to build.
It had no engine or box, hubs, seats, or kit, but it did have headlights, full s13 rear end with a 4:3 diff and shafts, full driftworks rear arms. Rack moved forward, extended bottom arms but no hubs or tie rods.
So i sorted some cut hubs. And some straight 30mm rack spacers, custom made by James Spillaine in Ireland.
I also got hold of some stock shocks and springs as well as some stock s14 wheels so i could get it on the ground.
I also started collecting parts and when driftworks had their Christmas sale ordered myself some cs2's and really was running out of room in my room for all this car stuff so needed to come up with a plan.
I also bought some cheap overs and BN skirt for Mr Bloomfield for mock ups and spares, so off i went to pick that up.
Now, whilst all this was going on. Me and a couple of friends put a team together of like minded buddies by the name of East Coast Finest that want to build silly, low cars and have fun with friends. So let me introduce you to their cars. So first up is Carls s14
Next up is Adams s15
So as you can see, the guys have a certain style and this is the way the 32 will be going styling wise. Also whilst your here check our Facebook page.
https://m.facebook.com/EastCoastFinestuk/
Now we also got our hands on a unit, so all of a sudden the 32 had a home and i had somewhere to build it. So i went to the estate agents. Emptied this, unfortunately i fear not for the last time during this build,
And i walked away with the keys. So we started moving in that night, starting with Adam's s15 and some of the parts id collected over time.
Including my engine. I had bought a freshly rebuilt rb25 from a good friend of mine Jack Tonkin, he built it for his personal car with a fresh metal headgasket, arp head studs. And 175psi across the board. It had done a little Under a thousand miles when he took it out to replace it with a fully forged one he bought.
Now at the same time i also purchaed the custom built equal length manifold jack built too. As a welder fabricator myself i was going to build my own. However jack offered me his at a price I couldn't say no too. I also may have to buy that td06 soon too. But we will see. In an ideal world i would like a gtx3076r.
I also had been searching form the second i had the 32 for some Dmax d1 spec front wings. As, in my opinion anyway, they are the nicest aftermarket wings on offer that are actually any wider. These are plus 30mm. However these are not the easiest things to find. But my buddy Ash, who i bought my 32 from, bought another 32 4 door that had a set on it, and came with a dmax boot spoiler, so i hassled him and hassled him untill he agreed to sell me both haha.
Anyway once my engine and my parts were in the unit there was just one thing missing, the skyline. So with the help of my friends Darren and Ross it was delivered to my unit, and i was like a pig in shit. So excited to finally get started on building my car.
And this was where it ended up.
Now, i am a fully grown adult, perhaps more grown than i should be, but by no means adult. So the first night the car was in the unit i set to work creating myself some inspiration for the build, I bolted the CS2's on and pushed the skirts and wings on and made myself feel good and then went to home.
Then another day i got excited and bolted most of Adams wheels to my car. and some of Carls. Their collection is far better than mine. All of them either 18x11 or 18x12.
I even had some help down the unit from my best friend. Who fully approved obviously because he is a rad dude.
Then Carl came to collect his wheels back. Which meant for the first time all three of the teams cars were together. With mine somewhat letting the side down i must admit but still Carl managed to get some awesome photos.
I also bought an exeedy hyper single clutch second hand that needed a new friction plate.
However i have decided not to use it as i am going to go with a 350z box so i can use a twin plate happily. Which leads me onto another thing. A friend of mine bought an rb to 350z gearbox adaptor so i took it to work mapped it all out. Drew it up in cad and hopefully will be cutting myself one soon. All going to plan that will save me a few quid. Worst case i will just buy myself the same one as my friend as its in his car and working and i am 100% decided i am going 350 box.
Now once i had finished messing about bolting wheels I didn't own onto a car that didnt work, I decided i should probably do something productive so i set to work stripping the car down with Ash.
Whilst doing we lifted the carpet and did some digging. The results were some rust. But nothing i wasnt aware of so dispite having to sweep a significant amount of my skyline up at the end of the day, i still was pretty happy.
No biggy i will get to that in time. A few weeks of mayhem ensued with BDC and other events on so i didnt touch the car again untill last week. Where i stripped the car right down to a bare shell bar a bit of bay wiring and equipment and the interior loom and heater matrix.
The rear subframe came out nice and easy considering its been in there about 3 year with solid bushes. I expected it to be a nightmare. Next up was the fuel tank, again pretty painless.
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