DJZ's DR30 Skyline

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They're definitely two piece. It's back to 4 stud now, suspension hasn't quite settled in the back in the picture as I've only just put it down off the jack.

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Man I love this car....
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It could do with being a little bit lower, this is how it's sitting now that everything has settled. I think I'm going to get 205/55/16s for the front and 225/50/16s for the back, they seem to be the most common sizes for 16x7s and 16x8s. Need to repaint the wing mirrors too, I think I've still got some black plastic paint so I'll probably do them with that.

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Looking good man, I like this look and love this car. If I had a desire to be single I'd definitely own it I think, but Jill would either leave or just kill me if I adopted another old Datsun/Nissan
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Looks really good. They look alot better on a DR30 iron mask. HR30 is still sitting on axle stands haha.
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So after two months of sitting I took this thing in for new tyres and a warrant today, passed the warrant the new tyres will be here tomorrow. Oh I bought some new radiator hoses for it too.

I'll be taking this to the grasskhana this weekend.
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haha sick!!!!!!!!! it sounded like you wouldnt have a car for the grasskhana so iam very impressed to see you got it sorted
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Mucked around with this a bit this weekend, it was over due for an oil change so I did that, put the new radiator hoses on at the same time and decided to replace the gasket for the wastegate, I flattened off the adaptor part in the mill and gave the manifold piece a quick go over with a file, still don't expect it to last very long, need to find some thin copper sheet still.

Broom broom, I would suggest turning your speakers down.

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Oh I took the blow off valve apart to see what the difference was between the copy Tial and the real Tial off the Z, should have been pretty obvious if I looked at them side by side, the fake one is quite a bit shorter than the real one, the inside where the spring sits is actually 10mm shallower in the fake one meaning the spring is compressed more than it would be in a real valve, no wonder it doesn't work properly.

There are some fakes on Aliexpress that look more like the real thing, I might just buy one of them to try, they're about $60 - 70 and come with another flange etc.
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Changed the back shocks in this thing today, I thought the 280Z KYB's that I had were too long but when I checked them again today they were pretty much the same length as the Bilsteins that were in the Skyline, made a big difference to the way it drives and the noise from the left rear has gone away. It's still too high but I'll worry about that if it doesn't sell.
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