Andy's R32 GTR
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A couple of pics from the weekend:
R32 GTR by TheAndy616, on Flickr
R32 GTR by TheAndy616, on Flickr
I also finally got some outside video footage. Turn your speakers up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygx5G5tmiyo
R32 GTR by TheAndy616, on Flickr
R32 GTR by TheAndy616, on Flickr
I also finally got some outside video footage. Turn your speakers up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygx5G5tmiyo
Andy616 said:
A couple of pics from the weekend:
R32 GTR by TheAndy616, on Flickr
R32 GTR by TheAndy616, on Flickr
I also finally got some outside video footage. Turn your speakers up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygx5G5tmiyo
That looks the absolute tits. R32 GTR by TheAndy616, on Flickr
R32 GTR by TheAndy616, on Flickr
I also finally got some outside video footage. Turn your speakers up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygx5G5tmiyo
Another small job sorted. I originally created my rear fog light by putting a red bulb in the driver's side reversing light and operated it using a rocker switch screwed underneath the dash:
Functional but not pretty!
I'd been planning on rewiring the switch for a while now and got around to sorting it last week. Using the aux switch is fairly straight forward. You just need to attach the live wire on the fog light to the live wire coming from the switch. It's the orange/black wire that's the live one.
MOT rules, however, require a "tell" to be present. I wanted to fit an LED to the aux switch whilst making it look as original as possible so I bought a spare switch so I could examine it and see what could be done.
As it turns out, it's possible to do it without even taking the switch apart!
The switch:
I bought the brightest 3mm led I could get from the local electronics shop. The grey diodes pull out and you can fit the LED though the hole they come out of, like so:
You need to wrap (I stripped some thin wire and used the casing) the legs of the LED to ensure there is no shorting as it is eventually wired separately. Test fit without wrapping:
I split the new live wire so that the power goes to both the LED and the rear fog light. The LED is grounded in the driver's footwell. Soldered up:
All put back together:
Not the best pictures (taken on phone), it's brighter in reality. And that's not light shining out the bottom, it's the reflection from the handbrake light.
Much better than the rocker switch that was there before!
Functional but not pretty!
I'd been planning on rewiring the switch for a while now and got around to sorting it last week. Using the aux switch is fairly straight forward. You just need to attach the live wire on the fog light to the live wire coming from the switch. It's the orange/black wire that's the live one.
MOT rules, however, require a "tell" to be present. I wanted to fit an LED to the aux switch whilst making it look as original as possible so I bought a spare switch so I could examine it and see what could be done.
As it turns out, it's possible to do it without even taking the switch apart!
The switch:
I bought the brightest 3mm led I could get from the local electronics shop. The grey diodes pull out and you can fit the LED though the hole they come out of, like so:
You need to wrap (I stripped some thin wire and used the casing) the legs of the LED to ensure there is no shorting as it is eventually wired separately. Test fit without wrapping:
I split the new live wire so that the power goes to both the LED and the rear fog light. The LED is grounded in the driver's footwell. Soldered up:
All put back together:
Not the best pictures (taken on phone), it's brighter in reality. And that's not light shining out the bottom, it's the reflection from the handbrake light.
Much better than the rocker switch that was there before!
Not much to update but I have managed to get hold of some original wheels.
The standard 225/50 R16 tyre size has never had a great selection of rubber to choose from but Bridgestone have recently released the RE002 in this size so I thought I'd give them a try. They're only just scrubbed in but first impressions are very good.
Anyway, the sun was shining today so I went for a drive and took some pics.
The standard 225/50 R16 tyre size has never had a great selection of rubber to choose from but Bridgestone have recently released the RE002 in this size so I thought I'd give them a try. They're only just scrubbed in but first impressions are very good.
Anyway, the sun was shining today so I went for a drive and took some pics.
Edited by Andy616 on Wednesday 7th May 21:35
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