DJZ's DR30 Skyline

[85_Z31]

Are you running the 0.48 or the 0.62 housing ?

[DJZ]

It's a 0.63, the factory intercooled FJs had the smaller housing.

[kb110]

The Mazda tensioner mod cost $22!!!!! Tell me more.... It is something I've always wanted to do to mine, but I hardly ever drive it so doesn't annoy me much.

[DJZ]

It wasn't a genuine Mazda one, I've got a mate that works at Repco. It's really easy to do though.

[kb110]

You did it with the engine in place...
I'd probably drop some down the front cover and have to take the engine out (again).
Want a job?

[DJZ]

Well it's taken most of the day but I've got the wideband 95% installed. Just need to take it down to work to chassis punch the hole in the floor a little bit bigger to get the plug through, I had all but one of the pins in the plug out but I just couldn't get the last one to move.



I spent ages trying to figure out a way of mounting it where I didn't have to cut anything or drill any holes. It's screwed to one of the mounting screws for the surround with a little aluminium bracket, it's pretty sturdy and I don't think it looks too bad. I popped out the air con button as it's got no aircon now so that's the hole the wires are running through.

[torqued]

nice gauge.
I got same one for my datsun let me know how it goes

[DJZ]

The start of something awesome? Maybe!

[2 doors]

mmmm steam pipe custom turbo manifold???

[DJZ]

Was round at my mates today loading one of his R30 wrecks onto a trailer and after running over 2 of my toes with a trolley dolly I thought I'd grab the missing bits to fix the rear bumper being loose on the DR, was a 2 minute job to remove them from the HR30.

Got home, had a quick look at the DR and of course it's completely different. Ended up removing the bumper and pulling the whole thing to pieces. Lots of rusty bolts, I broke 2 off that are part of the clamp for the top of the bumper (the bits on the rag in the 2nd picture), there were 8 or 10 bolts holding it together so I flagged fixing them, weight reduction yeah? Replaced all the other bolts with staino ones and put anti seize on them, I doubt I'll ever have to pull it apart again but if I do everything should come undone nice and easy.

The bumper bolt that was missing was actually broken off, I took the bracket off, drilled out the spot welds for the nut, tacked a new one on and painted it, fitted a new staino bolt and put everything back together. There was a little bit of rust here and there under the bumper so I treated and painted that at the same time.





Also removed the number plate to have a look at what was going on underneath, the awesome people that imported and registered this had for some reason cut this number plate frame in half and fitted it under the new number plate, no idea why.