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Hi guys, I bought the last set of flares from the guys at challenge many months ago, used them as templates for my steel flares, (operation 240k), sold them to a friend that hasn't used them yet so i could probably get them back in order to make some molds if you guys need them. Just a thought when we made my steel flares we actually made them shorter in height, the 240k is really bad for lowering...if you lower the rears to far, you destroy the camber, and with the front, the struts touch the bump stops. Or your you can go for the jet hopper look...let me know...

Some shots of the new 17 inch G-max's and the 4 door..

Got a new parts car last week...looks like it sat at the bottom of the sea for awhile...:sick:

Got the car blocked back and undercoated, just some shots..........Paint it black?

Started putting the arse end together over the weekend, just waiting for some shocks and springs then i can put the cv's and sway bar in.........

Found some shots of the flaring process..my brother had them on his phone!!! Don't laugh at the green!!!!

Hi, has anyone an information that might help: Looking at building a 2.8 motor with the following: 2.8 block, 2.8 crank, 2.4 conrods, standard pistons and a n42 head. The compression ratio with 2.8 conrods is 8.29:1, where if you use the 2.4 conrods the compression ratio is 10.71:1 Has anyone come across this before, are there any issues with using the longer rods...thanks..any feed back will be fantastic

Hello Mr Vert... .I hope this helps. My rear guards are pretty much the same as the you would do the front guards if they were made from one skin. If you look up into the rear guard, my inside flare is as high as the inner skin, in the photo you can see the original join from the two sections. In comparison to your photo I think I positioned my flare lower than yours, I did this to get rid of the jet hopper look..The second photo shows where my inner guard starts. Basically the area you have between your top flare hole and your bottom lip is part of my inner flare only beaten up for clearance...I've also included a photo of flare position. In the last photo the wheel is sitting on the bump stops (No spring), it actually just touches on the left side of the flare (because my camber and toe adjustments are all loose) and the wheel still has enough clearance to roll.

Sorry I don't have any flares in progress shots, As soon as i can I'll post shots of the inner arch. Once I marked out the arch line on the car (which is about 60mm lower than the original position of the fiberglass flare), we just slotted, folded then welded to the outside skin. The slots were filled with wedges of sheet metal and then painted with body deadner. The arches were originaly design for a set of 19's but have settled for the 18's in the photo. At this stage, there is now springs in the rear end and the arms are sitting on the bump stops...

Got the car sitting all fours today, here are some more pics

Hi guys thanks for the replys.... I did have to change the roof gutters on both sides, We cut back the roof skin and de-spotted the internal gutter, but I replaced it as close to original as possible, so it still has the gutter! I don't think I'll put on a rear spoiler but maybe the front scoop, shouldn't be too hard to fabricate ( as you can see I'm not to keen on the bolt on stuff). Need to check clearances for my intercooler first! The continuous welds on the guards and skins is just a whole series of spot welds. Welds were made at about 50mm apart, allowed to cool and beaten into place before re-welded. My brother that has the 4 door project in the photos is responsible for all the welding. As for the front end...It runs the standard cross member, I've cut down the engine mount humps to allow for the standard rb25 engine mounts and rubbers. The front struts are hr31 with z31, 5 stud hubs machined down so that the R32 rotors will slip over them,and 4 spot calipers. They have adjustable chamber tops to allow for trimming. The guards have been designed to fit 19 inch wheels front and back ( at the moment I'm using R32 GTR wheels as guides, but they are way too small...If I seem to have added chamber problems you can always adjust your control arms! thanks again for the interest...

Hi everyone, Wondering if anyone is interested but Operation K is underway. Our project starts off with a coupe shell that i salvaged from the crusher which cost me $350 a tonne. It spent the last 3 months having all the rust cut out of it which includes lower rear quarters front and back, rear beaver panel, lower door skins, lower guard skins, roof gutters in and out and steel GT-R guards. The photos show some of the steel work that we've completed. I've decided to install an RB25det with matching gearbox, and r200 diff centre with cv rather than the uni's. R32 rotors with the quad spots upfront and California vented rears and calipers up back, all sitting on z31, 5 stud hubs. Most of the fabrication is completed and i will post more shots if anyone is interested...

would it be possible to weld a stocky 240k grill to look like a GTR one?

i bought four sets off him about 6 months ago. At that stage he wasn't making the interior badge, need to keep looking, thanks

hi guys, wondering if anyone has a set of [240k GT] interior badges that they might like to part with, thanks

Hi everyone.....Wondering if anyone could please help! In the middle of my 3rd K build, just got my coupe yesterday.I've been collecting parts for months now, I took my chrome strip clips, (they're the ones that hold the bonnet and the boot chrome strips on) down to the chrome platers to get them re-nickled, looks like he left them in the pickle way to long and managed to destroy the lot..3 cars worth! Does anyone have any spare clips or know who might supply them, any help would be greatly apperciated...thanks

Hi everyone, just introducing myself....fantastic site, more info than i could wish for..I have two k's, both 4 doors, one fairly stock about 95% finished the other about 60%, rb25det, r33 5 speed, r200 lsd, z31 front struts, r32 rotors with 4 spot calipers..rear is vented z31 california disks and calipers with 5 bolt hubs all round. If i could ask for some advice....I have a set of steal flares copied from the gtr fibre glass ones, so i have an issue with wheels. has anyone managed to fit 10inch front and 12inch rears