Newman's E30/Skyline swap thread

[n2bimmer]

This is just amazing.

[newman]

I ordered some carbon fiber door cards. Now i need to find some Black stock cards to hack up...

[Fidhle007]

I ordered some carbon fiber door cards. Now i need to find some Black stock cards to hack up...

Where did you order them from if you don't mind me asking?

[newman]

Where did you order them from if you don't mind me asking?

Performance-trim.com

they're out of the UK. Shipping was 75. Mine still haven't shipped yet. It's possible that if you wanted a set we could combine shipping. PM me if you want...

[newman]

More stuff... dash 2 install:

01/26/10 - Cluster/gauges...

[newman]

One interesting tidbit...

The boost and EGT gauges have been mine (more or less) since 2003.

1) I bought these new for my first real modded car, my 97 Maxima Turbo. (It was my senior design project)


2) Sold the Maxima and installed them into my RHD RB26 240SX (idk wtf I was thinking w/ this setup, lol)


3) Parted out the gauges, sold them to RyanA96, who installed them into a car I ultimately bought, an SR20 swapped 240sx coupe.


4) Sold the coupe but kept the gauges and installed them into my 06 GT35R STi


5) And now they're in my BMW...

[karimMsalama]

also i don't like the doors but the car look cool

[newman]

also i don't like the doors but the car look cool

How the hell do you start your first post in a thread with "also". Did you forget to type the thought you had before that? lol.

[Gnarles]

lol those gauges in the visor are awesome!

Glad to see you are working on this build again.

[Fidhle007]

Thanks for the info man, I've seen their cards and I'm intrigued but there's another design out there that I've been desperately trying to track down. Eventually I'll probably give up and go with the same ones you got but for the time being I'm holding out hope...




If you ever see any of those, let me know!

[newman]

Those look like 1 off parts.

[Simon S]

Bat shit insanity.

I fuckin' love it.

[whatt18yahoo]

so i was cruising the site for cool cars and came acrossed this thread, i started reading post 1 and went on to the next page come to find that there were 16 of those lol

at first i hated the crazy assortment of colors because there's just so many of them, but frankly around page 10 -ish or so i just had to give up and love the fact that they are all so damn unique, like the rest of the car.

i gotta know how many total ss braided lines you have on the car and how many feet of them you have - i am guessing 34-ish.

i love the rb26 but never saw if you were keeping the all wheel drive train or not. what tranny did you use? i would reccomend os geiken's tranny - mostly cause that thing is bad as hell.
who makes the turbo you're using

how much money have you spent thus far i'd guess like 400 in an fittings alone but seriously what have you got into this thus far

[87e30]

This is amazing. Can't wait to see it done.

Why didn't you choose to build an m3 though?

[newman]

i gotta know how many total ss braided lines you have on the car and how many feet of them you have - i am guessing 34-ish.

A lot. Lol.

i love the rb26 but never saw if you were keeping the all wheel drive train or not. what tranny did you use? i would reccomend os geiken's tranny - mostly cause that thing is bad as hell.

I'm using a modified RB26 transmission

http://onyxsyndicate.com/newman/e30gtr/e30gtr_18.html

who makes the turbo you're using

It's a Garret GT35R

how much money have you spent thus far i'd guess like 400 in an fittings alone but seriously what have you got into this thus far

I'm pretty sure I have over 1000 dollars in AN fittings alone.

I lost track of what I spent on the car so far. There are some big ticket items in there:

ECU: 1400
Turbo: 1300
Seats: 1200
Motor: 3500
Pistons + rods 1200
Dash: 1100
Paint (just paint): 900
Exhaust parts: 400
Machine work: 1200
Valve springs: 900
Mtech bodywork: 1300
Wheels: 3000
Tires: 600
Radiator: 300
Dif: 100
Dashboard: 100
Cage: 1200 (money NOT well spent)
Blasting: 600
CF Hood: 650
Suspension: 1100
Mtech wing: 350
Fuel Cell + pump: 350
AN lines: 1000
Brakes: 1500
CF door panels: 300
Fender Flares: 250
Crank collar: 150
ARP Bolts: 400
Timing belt, oil pump, water pump, tensioners: 500
Head gasket: 150
ATI damper: 600
Injectors:400
Regulator+filter: 170
Intercooler, plumbing, BOV, wg: 700
AEM UEGO + greddy gauges: 1000
Kwikwire harness: 200
New wheel bearings and mis OEM parts: 500
Wheel studs: 100
Steering wheel: 250
Quick release: 150
Labor for paint: 1000

I don't really want to add all that up. I am forgetting tons of stuff too... this is just off the top of my head...

This is amazing. Can't wait to see it done.

Why didn't you choose to build an m3 though?

Because my initial budget was, I'm not kidding you. Lol. See above. I can't half ass anything. But i was already so involved w/ the car by the time I decided to do it RIGHT, it just didn't make sense to start over again...