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I have made a few pairs of mounts in the past for other members. If you have access to a Mig welder you can fit 6x9's in the strut mounts where the old speakers were by modifiing the existing mounts. Unfortunatley I don't have any pictures. There's a number of members on here that have done custom boost installs. From subtle to extreme. This was one of mine, still able to fit the targa's, 6x9's in the original position and 4 10" subs. With an amp rack made of ply and perspex. then I ditched that and went for something a little more "fitting".

Project update. Should be getting the car back on the road this weekend. Parts arrived from the US. Gave all the bits I took off a quick polish and resprayed the cam covers, throttle cover, strut mounts, balance bar etc. Poor phone quality pics.

Many happy returns mate.

It was the first time I had the car at PPS, Dropped the car off first time round when it was standard, fly back to London. Then went up there in the old Blue SWB NA, met Mac and headed to meet peter at PPS. The 2nd time I had the car there it came back with a wings west custom rear bumper, IC vents moulded into the Stillen front bumper, blacked roof liners and an Ice works Boot Build. Had the boot build in the SWB done there as well (was a little more subtle that the TT one). Blue SWB was sold to Gumball in '07 who then sold it one to someone else, and I think he mentioned it's on piston heads again now, great little car that was, loved to drift.

I remember when JD got his first accidentail bling lol

The modding has already started on these. I've seen a few kits and thought to myself that if I had the money to buy one I would have to leave it standard. But then I saw the Wald kit. Love it to bits....

Wishing you a speedy recovery old freind. Staying alive, staying alive !

I remember the first time I met you, I think it was '02 or '03 up northish parts. Loved the colour and front bumper on yours, it inspired me.

I don't have any pictures of your that far back :), still got these though.

I run a single carbon fiber propshaft on mine, not had any problems, currently pushing over 400 bhp. but hope to be closer to 500 after mapping.

Looks like a volo

Nice pics, and nice grass. I need some like that for my back yard.

At least the guy selling them is realistic about the gains in terms of BHP and tourque. That would give me confidence in buying them all day long.

LMAO !!, when was that from ? Engine removal or the rear PCV valves :). I have a burn mark on the side of my wrist from someone's O2 sensor swap, can;t remember who's it was though :D

Looking back I think I would have saved the money :)

So, from being completely standard the spec is now as follows: Bodywork Stillen GTZ-R2 front Bumper I/C vents Stillen Headlight Panel Bonnet Bulge Wings West Side Skirts PPS Customised Rear Bumper Delined Doors Tailgate Skin High Level Rear Spoiler Colour coded wing mirror mounts Blacked out roof strips '99 spec rear tail lights Illuminated centre panel Clear Front indicators Clear Side Repeaters Chromed Headlights Clear rear side lights Tinted Windows (30% fronts, limo rears) Wheels and Rubber Black Chrome MasItaly 18" x 10.0 rears Black Chrome MasItaly 18" x 8.5 fronts Eagle F1 GSD2 245/40 x 18 fronts Eagle F1 GSD2 265/35 x 18 rears Exhaust Pipecraft 2.5" straight through zorst Greg Dupree flexi pipes Chrome Back boxes with Quad 3.5" pipes Greg Dupree Split Downpipes Brakes & Suspension R33 GTR Brembo Calipers Portfield pads Brembo 330mm discs Rose jointed adjustable tension rods SS braided Brake lines Blitz Springs Koni Shocks Midori Front Upper A arms Front Strut Bar Rear Strut Bar Transmision RPS Max Street Clutch RPS Billet flywheel Carbon Fibre Prop Billet Short Shifter Engine Weisco 88mm Forged pistons Nismo 555 injectors Greg Dupree manifold Balanced Crank Skimmed Heads & block HKS SQL BOVS Doolz Twin Pop with Apexi Cone filters Unorthodox Underdrive pulley JWT530BB turbo's Cooling Howe Rad Greddy SMIC's Uprated Oil Cooler Viscous Fan replaced with Electric Rad fan Electronics RaceLogic Traction Control with Launch Clifford AV4 alarm with inteli start & Blackjack Blitz SBC-Id Blitz Power-iD Engine Bling Polished Plenum Polished Water pipes Polished Coil Pack Brackets Polished CAS Polished Hicas Custom upper and lower cam belt covers SS Hare pipe hoses SS Slam Panel (3 piece) SS braided Fuel lines SS Rad Pipes 4mm Blue Silicone hose replacement 6mm Blue Silicone hose replacement SS braided Hose replacement Custom Throttle cover Smithy Chromed Large Fuse box cover Custom Painted Small Fuse box cover Custom Painted Balance Bar Z1 Chrome rad bracket Insane Oil Cap Chrome Dip Stick Chrome Brake Res Cap Chrome Clutch Res Cap Chrome Rad Cap Chrome Rad Overflow Cap Chrome Battery Tie Down Polished PAS res Chrome PAS Res Cap Cockpit mods Twin A pillar pod - awaiting gauges Ali pedals Brushed Ali interior kit Custom interior Din switch panel Custom centre pod Custom Leather Seats Leather interior trim Custom Gear and Handbrake grips Custom Steering Wheel Indiglow dials ICE Complete door and rear dynamat soundproofing Alpine cd head unit 4 x 60w Kenwood 200w dual mag components Door mounted illuminated crossovers 2 x 10" 1600w JBL subs Kenwood 1000W mono sub amp Kenwood Powerslide Amp Neon Glow amp rack lights Custom Boot Build with Leather Trim Credits Body Work was done by PPS. Recent Engine build done by Martyn B. Everything else on the car from Suspension, exhaust, engine mods, interior, bling etc was done by myself. See my video on you tube, this tells the story beter than works can describe... Silver Streak - The Story so far (video link)

I stripped it all down to the bare block to check for bore scratch as the passenger turbo wheel had grinded with the housing. It was at this stage I decided to upgrade a few more bits. Weisco pistons, jwt530bb turbo's, nismo 555 injectors, rps max street clutch, billet flywheel, carbon single piece prop shaft, gred dupree manifolds, greg dupree downpipes and flexi pipes and much more. I sourced all the parts along with another lot of 60k service items, new water pump, new gaskets, egr blanking kit, plus every thing else I needed for a rebuild, even a set of chromed headlights and clear rear side reflectors. If you are still reading this thread, I'm impressed, prove it and reply with the word stuffybum in you reply. I used CMS is dagenham to bore the block for the new pistons and at the same time balance the crank, underdrive pulley and clutch/flywheel. Driving 35 miles each weekend was getting painful, at the time a new garage called Zen opened up. I decided to get a guy called Martyn to finish the job. Very long story short, it took him 3 year to get the job done, it nearly went to court. Some pics from the engine build. RPS Max Street/GD Downpipes in it's case JWT 530bb's with HKS actuators and GD manifolds HKS v Stock Doolz Twin pop Reconditioning the lifters GD Downpipes and flexi pipes Chromed headlight conversion Something to help with Camber. Rebuild almost complete This pretty much brings us up to the present day. I've had a two water leaks so far but found it to be a ceased rad cap. Just ordered a Greddy and have stripped and repolished / painted parts of the engine. I got a few more bits I would like to do like, custom map from JD, tidy up any interior bits, get the wheels refurbed, then I'm done.

Still had to get the gear shift and handbrake gators done. But managed in time for Billing 04. Billing 04 was great, I managed to get 2 first prize awards from 300zx.co.uk and one from Zclub. some pics.. Unfortunately on the way back from billing. there was a little smoke, then a rattle, then no boost past 0. Yup the dreaded turbo's had gone. I decided as I was driving home, I would go straight to my parent house and leave the car there (35 miles from my house). I was now confident to swap them out myself. So a week later, I started work with a some help from Mark Hanley, MTL and mike Groves. Engine out.. Started stripping..

Next up was a replacement exhaust, I originally had a rusty greddy, but decided to get a powerflow made and fitted with decat test pipes. This exhaust lasted 2 months before I got bored with the sound of it. I decided to have a custom exhaust by an american company called pipecraft. Unfortunately I don't have pictures of it so you have to wait a little longer. Enjoying the car so much now and thinking what I can do ext to improve it to my taste even more.... but then it happened. I was parked outside a bank anda ford transit pull in to park in front of me and clipped the front of my car. So another call to PPS who would give me an insurance quote below the others for sure. While the car was there I not only got a new wing and new stillen front bumper, I also decided to get IC side vents fitted and a new Wings West rear bumper, that was custom made and belnded to fit my new Exhausts. I also got the top pannels of the car (between windscreen and targa's and targa's and rear screen) painted black. At the time a comapny called Ice works was working with PPS so I decided to get a new custom boot build done as well. We are now well into 2004 and wih Billing just around the corner I had to get the interior finsihed. I ordered a katzkins set in dove grey and black with logo's stiched on the seats. Took me a while to fit this. I also ordered an extra hide of dove grey so I could trim the boot area. before after

Had to get rid of the stock wheels and came into some R34GTR calipers as well, so new discs and pads to go on with the new wheels. More small mods like new series 2 ptu, pcv vales, new temp sensor and new injecto and coil pack connectors. I also decided to change the dials and fit chrome rings. I went for the indiglo ones. For the next big mod I got James(jaffa) to give me a hand. We upgraded the stock IC's with Greddy's, the rad with a Howe, Viscous fan with an electric, Underdrive pulley with a lightweight, stripped out loads of stuff I didn't need like AIV's etc. Painted the cam covers, changed the belts, added hard pipe boost hoses and rad hoses. Some comparrison shot's... Greddy IC's Oil cooler Howe Rad Underdrive pulley New electric fan This is the pile of old parts and parts no longer needed tat we were left with. This is what the car looked like once we were done

What do all good sports cars have ?. Red calipers (I thought). so I painted them. I played around a little for a few months doing the headlight mod so I can use UK bulbs, meshing the front bumper, fixing little things that were wrong etc. I then started getting goose honk so fitted some HKS sql bovs in place of the recircs. I'm not sure what possessed me at the time but I decided to go for a UK rear bumper with a lip. Sprayed and delivered by PPS. I then got rid of all the orange at the front of my car by removing the orange lenses and replacing the bulbs with silvers. Some more small changes over the next few months like gear stick knob, ali dash trim and some stupid arse boot build that looked ok ish but sounded really terrible. I wanted to get rid of the road noise inside the car so I sound proffed everything. before during I then added a front and rear strut bar. I pretty much encountered all the problems that so many people experience in the time of ownership... Leaking fuel lines, causing petrol smell in the car, wet passenger footwell due to heater matrix, air leaks, oil leaks, pas leaks, burn out ptu, Problems with temp sensor, tps, maf, Hicas etc etc. One of the first major problems I had was a burn out piston although at the time it was diagnosed as sticking Valves by Nissan SE as they were called at the time. So while I was getting the heads skimmed, valves reseated and in the end a replacement number 6 piston, I also got a new clutch and a skimmed stock flywheel. I had the plenum and water pipes polished for a bit of bling. June 2003 was the time I changed the look of the car. Booked myself in at PPS in Newcastle (300 miles away), didn't trust anyone else. At this stage I kept the rear bumper but deline and smooth it. I replaced the front with a stillen. I added a bonnet bulge and a high level rear spoiler along with Wings west skirts and delined doors. I also swap out the rear lights for 99 specs.

Not sure where the right place to post this is, so I'll stick it in here and let the mods decide if it gets moved/deleted :). I bought the car in October 2002. It looked very standard. It was infact completely standard. It's come along way in six years and it's been off the road for over half of that time. It was after I had compression problems and had to have the valves reseated that I decided to start making some customised changes to it. £50k+ and 6 years later the car is "almost" exactly how I want it. So what have I spent all the money and time on..... The very first modification I did was traction control. It was my pride and joy and I didn't want to trash it. I decided to fit this myself. Didn't have aclue what I was doing but got there in the end. Next I decided to get rid of the orange side repeaters. I never liked the tweed and covered it at an early stage, however I used vinyl rather than leather at this stage. before after I had the 60k service done by zedworld and had braided brake lines fitted along with new standard discs and pads. I then fitted an apexi induction kit. Next on the list was window tints. I got these done in a semi small guy buy at Paul C's Garage in kent. I decided to stay legal at the fronts but go limo on the back.

lol love the roof spoiler :o

silly question, have you cleaned your thottle bodies ?

Vinz, Any reason you swaped back to stock boost clips as apposed to the T-bolt clips you had on before ?