Looks like you'll need a gear knob as well. Glad to see another R32 on our shores, i like the wheels by the way!

 

You like them!?!?

They scream SAAB 900 to me but each to their own. I'm sure they'll be in the for sale section when I've got some replacements sorted.

I had noticed the gear-knob I have Sparco leather one from my old GTiR in the garage somewhere so that'll be fitted.

 

Can't abide 3-spokes either mate, but the Advans are reputed to be as light as hell.

Nice looking motor, a few little bits tidied and it'll be a stunner.

 

Nice car there but needs a bit of TLC by the looks of it. The 3 spokes are always a marmite topic and don't take my fancy.

 

i like 3 spokes, yourl get very good £ for them on sxoc.

mods on the car look quite old though (hks very old school bovs)

looks ok though

(btw nismo dont make a splitter for an R32GTR)

BUT you do have a clock!

 

A few quid for the current wheels would be nice, help me offset those Nismo/Rays I spoke to you about!

I think that the BOVs will go. Can't see the point of them anyway. Not keen on that under bonnet bling thing. So I think I'll block them off and run without.

The undertray will probably be the Abflug one we discussed. Was thinking about it the other day and I wondering if a GRP might be a better bet than CF. Given the number speed bumps infesting the roads nowadays something which can be repainted might be a good call.

Is having a clock a good thing and more to the point how can you tell that from those pictures!?!?!

 

3 spokes are cool!

 

Importers take the gear knobs off when the cars go for shipping so people dont steal them. Many are made of titanium etc and a re worth quite a bit.

When you get the car make sure you hunt around in the dash etc

 

nice 32 mate, when is it due in
the body work looks good just needs a good wash and wax,
and a touch up on the splitter

 

yeah, I'd planned on having to buy a gear knob when mine arrived, but the guys had packaged it up with manuals, remotes etc and shipped it seperately so it didn't all get tea leafed. Best just to wait till it arrives and evaluate then. Frustrating I know - I waited nearly 2 months for mine!!

 

Picked this up yesterday:



Think I need to look into re-trimmers.

Hmm now leather or alcantara...

 

Or how bout both!

Sexy! Black leather outer, silver ala inserts

 

Momo Corse, the best steering wheel imo! Nice looking car, will be a beauty once its properly washed and waxed!

Marc

 

I'm getting drawn towards black half leather for the bolsters/sides and a grey alcantara for the centre sections. Along the lines of the stock set-up but with a larger alcantara section on the bottom than stock. Considering grey stitching for the leather too. I'd like to keep it looking vaguely like standard. Does anyone know if there was a leather option on the R32?

Popped over to see a local trimmer today. Lovely bloke who had a range of lovely cars being worked on. However after a quick chat and as I noticed what he was actually working (a 250GTO and 1920s Ford thing with pcitures of the work he's done on F40s in the background) on I realised he might be a big high end for me. Don't want to spend more than the value of the car on the retrim!

 

Don't bother with a re-trim just gets some Bride Gias' in there! The standard seats aren't that great anyway, but not bad.

 

I rather like the stock seats TBH. There's already a Bride or some such in the car which I did consider matching on the passenger side but then you end up with the seats not matching front to rear.

Cheers for the suggestion though!

 

well then, buy some bride fabric and retrim the rears

 

But that would end up costing more than the re-trim I'm planning and I'd have cloth seats rather than leather/alcantara! I'm not too keen on having dirty great big bride logos running across my seats either. Given that I'm happy with the stock seats the whole process would be pointless.

 

Tell you what, you buy some Bride's and i'll happily swap you for my immaculate seating!!:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:

 

If your interior has had a leather and alcantara re-trim then I might be temped!

:chuckle:

 

haha fair one. There was a set of leather ones for sale a few months back. Make sure you get some pics up once you've had it done, it'll be interesting to see how they come out.

 

Will do.

I've seen someone else has had their's trimmed but I can't remember who. It was a Candy red R32 with black and red leather. A bit much for me but looked good none the less.

PS I have a cunning plan for the spare Recaro/Bride/whatever drivers seat anyway...

 

Update

Have now taken delivery of the car!

I already had a replacement set of wheels for the, ahem, beautiful Advans. So off with the old:

For those interested those are Advan SA3R in 17x9 with an ET22 offset (5mm spacer) running 225/45R17 tyres and they weigh:

Replacements are a little more attractive IMHO:

Volk SE37 18x9.5 ET15 (not 100% on the offset) with 255/35R18 tyres. They're a fair bit lighter than Advans which is nice:

Finished article:

 

nice..

Amazing what a good clean can do.. From your first pics looks to be a defi controller mounted on the near side of your h/u

 

Yes that's right. There's a rev counter, oil pressure, oil temp and boost.

Can't imagine why you'd put a rev counter in the glove box. I thinking about amalgamating some of those units with the stock one (ie replace the stock boost gauge and oil pressure gauge) and dump the rev counter and the controller unit.

 

wow what a difference changing the wheels has made! looks great with the volks!

Also suprised the 18inch volks weigh less than the 17inch 3-spoke advans, thought the advans were a very light wheel!

 

Could be that the tyres have a hand in it too. Still one set is 30cm wider than the other so should be heavier!

 

My front speakers were not producing anything close to music to replacements seemed a good idea. I had some 5" components sat in the garage so off came the door cards and this is what I found:

Hmm no wonder they weren't doing much. Set about modifying the mounts from here:

Started off with a hacksaw and drill but that was taking far too long so out came the angle grinder. Much better. Drilled out new mounting holes for the round speakers:

And the finished article: