I has a car, Updated 11/1/2015 - Nothing of note. Options

[Anoroc]

Oh hi.

I've been lurking here for a while for the wealth of motivation in the build threads and such.

I has a '96 GT4. Being in NZ, it is a JDM facelifted one - no trispokes here, though unfortunately noone in the car's past ever thought to pick up projectors.

It currently looks like this:


Anyway, hi, sup etc.

Oh, I have a build thread here, and am much too lazy to cross-post everything!

http://www.gpforums.co.nz/showthread.php?threadid=435792

This post has been edited by Anoroc: Jan 11, 2015 - 5:47 AM

[Anoroc]

****, it's been a while since i've updated this.

Since the above, I clocked up a bunch of distance and decided that I didn't want to lose the sound. 3" downpipe, decat, and only the rear muffler sounds a wee bit hollow at low rpm, but the pops, crackles and backfires make up for it. I decided I couldn't live without it, so just rolled dirty without a Warrant of Fitness for a while.

Then my clutch died. Recently it has been slipping a little - unsuprising, after eleventy million kms under the control of a ham fisted idiot.

Going from here to here, I went to go play games with the speed limiter (excellent quality road, no people etc). Came onto a straight in 5th, applied boot from about 3k rpm. Car revved to 4.5k or so, and then paused, and then spun immediately out to redline with the accompanying smell of a pig thrown into an oil fire.




That was a while ago. It got parked for a bit while I explored my options. Turns out clutch in a GT4 is a pain in the ass. Long story short, $2300 later, I have a solid rivet HD clutch, 5kg chromoly flywheel (down from the 7.4kg stock weight), recond rear diff, fresh gearbox oil and pretty much every other fluid under the sun. The cats who did this also gave me a warrant. Excellent. Pops and bangs are here to stay.

Currently 460 out of 500km done on the run-in, but it already pulls as hard at 60-70% throttle as it did previously at 100%. Definitely recommend it as a mod.

I also dropped a deposit on some projector headlights, which will be here in Feb/March (shipping by sea, container not yet full) which will hit me for around $500 landed (incl GST/shipping). Totally okay with this.

Next on the list is either spacers/tints, or an electronic boost controller (since a Link is a while down the track).

This post has been edited by Anoroc: Dec 14, 2012 - 10:08 PM