R31 Skyline .. Track/Weekend/Mountain/Drift Car.

[sweefu]

I polished the lips of the wheels I'm using on the front at the moment, the WEDS 16x8 +35 with my Advan ad07 225/45R16. They came up a treat!! Makes the centres look even crappier though.

 

[sweefu]

Onto the 17x9 +36 now, these were in pretty crappy shape. Had to sand through the fading clear coat first, so I did 240grit, 400, 800 and 1200 before metal polish.

Before:

After:

I think it looks a lot better overall, I know they don't have massive dish but I think the polished lip looks a lot better than faded dirty clear coat.

 

[sweefu]

I bought this little two row cooler to use for my power steering, I'll relocate the reservoir to the back of the engine bay, so hopefully the combination of the cooler and the longer lines (larger fluid capacity) will keep me out of trouble.

 

[sweefu]

Don't really enjoy painting stuff all that much, but the front end is painted again, so is my boot. I did it in a badly lit shed, and with gloss white it was hard to see there were a few runs appearing - but I'll be able to get rid of them with some wet 2000grit. Paint was using all my last drips and drabs, got through in the end though.
Dodgy phone pictures: (looks sort of grey in the pictures, because of phone/light etc) the other thing I painted was a BBS front air dam for my friend's E21.

Also picked up these, I am doing a texikhana stlye driving event at the end of May, so need some tyres which will grip well apart from my Advan fronts.

 

[sweefu]

My friend took a picture of my interior, what do you guys think?

 

[sweefu]

By the looks of it the views keep going up, so I'll keep updating. First clutch picture

 

[sweefu]

Progress pictures - damn the old clutch had a hard life

Old assembly:

Worn:

Not bad, looks like it has machine marks in it??

Would this be a factory clutch?

Flywheel - being machined tomorrow - anyone ever had an R31 flywheel lightened?

Here's the kicker - check out the spigot bush!! not much left of it!! Half of it was just dust

Comparison:

Sitting at the workshop until tomorrow:

Nice few hours work

 

[some_guy]

Dude, solid effort.

Your giving me motivation to start tracking the Subaru. (i know your drifting and that's different, but you get the idea )

When's your next drift day?

 

[sweefu]

Thanks mate The car is not only for drift, I do grip events too Just tweak my suspension and change the wheels/tyres etc. I didn't want to build a car so stuck on drift that's all it could do.
Track days are great, change your brake fluid, take out your spare tyre and get going

I have a practise day this Saturday on the wet skidpan, then a big day on April 9. Then:

Matsuri May 12-13

Texikhana May 19

Motorkhana May 20

So much fun!! Just need to get that damn turbo on there.

 

[dumpedvs]

Looking good man, you should upload a video on your next track day