My Impul R33-R Project

[045HOW]

So this will be my build thread for my new 4 door R33 project.

Traveled up to Gympie and viewed the car in the night. Payed for her on Saturday 5th November in the morning and put her on a trailer back to my best mates fathers farm to be trailered down the coast on Tuesday 8th of November to arrive around 8PM.

Photos from when we picked it up:

This is a list without any of the changes as i will be posting all changes in later posts on here:

Engine:

RB25DET SERIES 1

MANUAL

Exhaust:

"BITZA" IMPUL 3" SYSTEM WITH MUFFLER AND COMMODORE SPEC TWIN TIPS

Suspension:

TEIN SUPER STREETS (NON HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE BIT TOO LOW.. )

IMPUL STRUT TOWER BAR

Wheels:

GENUINE IMPUL RACING R33-R LIGHTWEIGHT 1 PIECE ALLOY RIMS (17x9)

235/45/ZR17 ALL ROUND

Modifications:

AUTO LOCK(?) IMMOBILISER

POWERFC (AFM VERSION )

SHORT SHIFTER

HD CLUTCH THAT SLIPS (CAR CAME WITH A BRAND NEW EXEDY HD SO JUST HAVE TO INSTALL IT)

VULTURE MOTORSPORTS GREDDY COPY PLENUM

HUGE MSPEC ALLOY RADIATOR

BIG SINGLE THERMO FAN

FMIC

WINDOW WASHER BOTTLE CUT ALMOST IN HALF TO ACCOMMODATE FRONT FACING PLENUM

HKS SSQV BOV

BLITZ OIL CAP

BLITZ SUSPOWER CORE TYPE LM POD FILTER

CALIPERS AND ROTORS PAINTED A BAD BLUE

Interior

GARAGE IMPUL FRONT BUCKET SEATS

AMS SEAT COVERS IN THE FRONT

IMPUL INTERNATIONAL MOTORSPORT GEAR KNOB

IMPUL STEERING WHEEL

IMPUL BLACK AND GREY THEMED INTERIOR ALL ROUND

GEUINE SKYLINE 5 PIECE FLOOR MAT SET

AUTOMETER SMOKE FACE OIL PRESSURE GAUGE

AUTOMETER SMOKE FACE BOOST GAUAGE

HKS TURBO TIMER

RED JETFIGHTER SWITCH FOR AERIAL (AND I DONT EVEN THINK ITS HOOKED UP TO THE HEADUNIT <_< )

POWERFC MOUNTED WITH VELCO JUST ACROSS FROM AIRCON UNIT

IMPUL R33-R "DIRECTED BY K. HOSHINO NUMBER 012 (OF 200)" PLATE AT TOP OF FIREWALL

Exterior

IMPUL R33-R SIDESKIRTS

IMPUL R33-R REAR BAR

IMPUL R33-R PODS

IMPUL R33-R REAR GUARDS FLARES CONNECTING REAR BAR TO SIDESKIRT

IMPUL R33-R REAR BOOT LID COVER BETWEEN TAIL LIGHTS

IMPUL R33-R TAILIGHT EYELID COVER

IMPUL R33-R STICKER ON REAR RIGHT

IMPUL R33-R BADGE IN PLACE OF OEM GT BADGE (ONLY ON RIGHT SIDE AS LEFT HAS OBVIOUSLY FALLEN OFF)

IMPUL R33-R BOOT LIP WING

NISMO CLEAR INDICATORS

400R FRONT BAR WITH GENUINE 400R BLINKERS

UNKNOWN BRAND/STYLE GRILL WITH OEM R33 GTS FRONT BADGE

Stereo Audio / Visual:

JVC 5.1 SURROUND SOUND DVD HEAD UNIT

CLARION SPLITS IN THE FRONT

NO SPEAKERS IN REAR

NO AMPS OR SUBS

The bad

CLEAR IS GOING BAD ALONG ROOF AND REALLY BAD ON BOOT

FEW PAINT SCRATCHES HERE AND THERE

DENT OR TWO

TUNE IS VERY BAD

Estimated Power:

PREVIOUS OWNER SAID IT MADE 195RWKW ON 11PSI BEFORE THE PLENUM WAS INSTALLED.

Future Plans

NOLATHANE BUSHES

HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE COILOVERS

BETTER RIMS

SERIES 2 TAIL LIGHTS

TUNE

JUST TO NAME A FEW..

[045HOW]

As soon as the car came off the trailer i installed my Splitfire Coilpacks(did about 2000ks) from my old 4 door and then gave the car a bath.

Installed a spare window reg in left rear door from my old 4 door bits as it was no longer working and the window was sliding down on its own:

All sealed up and done

Installed the control unit from my old 4 door as the current one had a broken drivers window key

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Just some random photos in under and around the car:

Commodore spec twin tips made for the right side of a car lol.

Bad paint on all rotors and calipers. Will also need atleast 1 wheel nut for front right but would like to buy some new fancy wheel nuts if anyone wants to reccomend some good ones

Genuine Skyline 5 piece floor mats done in the R33-R black and grey them.

Impul International Motorsport gear knob feels really good to use

[045HOW]

Brought up a lot of Stuff i had in storage at parents place from my old 4 door, here are some photos of the sound system gear i have:

ALPINE TYPE R 50W

ALPINE TPYE R 100W

ALPINE 50W(NOT BEING USED)

ALPINE TWEETERS

CUSTOM SUB BOX WITH 3 12" SUBS (2 ALPINE TYPE S AND 1 RESPONSE PRECISION CARBON FIBRE DUAL COIL) (NOT BEING USED)

FUSION FLUX CAPACITOR

ALPINE 4 CHANNEL(?) V12 AMP

ALPINE MONOBLOCK V12 AMP

ALPINE HEADUNIT(NOT BEING USED)

AND JUST ALL THE WIRES AND CRAP

My fuel flap is so JDM bro

Had to empty the fuel tank as it had half a tank of fuel that was 14 months old and from some searching

the best way apparently is to take the top off in the boot and take the pump out and syphon the fuel out with a hose.

But my mate had a better idea as the power and earth cables from a previous subwoofer install were hooked up to the battery

he used them on the plugs to make the pump work and pump fuel through a hose we made from 3 pieces of hose, a Boost T piece and a screwdriver jammed in one hose

Afterwards we put fresh V-Power in with a bottle of injector cleaner

Took pod and AFM off. Gave AFM a clean with some Contact cleaner and reinstalled it.

Homebase.

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Installed new Fuel Filter.

Just a bit of carbon in the exhaust lol.

Turned the intercooler piping around so the idle air hose could be fed through the hole down the bottom

instead of being squashed by the intercooler pipe in the hole to the top. Bov has now been set to "leafblower" position

Out with the Clarion Speakers from the front and in with Alpine Type R 50w Speakers(still running the Clarion tweeters till proper install is done).

Out with the back seats for rear speaker install.

Type R 100w speakers installed

This is why the front seats have covers on them. Will see how well they can be cleaned.

Out with the subs as we wont be using this box and instead be making a new box for just the Response Precision sub.

Off with the trims to see how well the box was made and such.

Specimin A:POS sub box with moulting carpet

Look what we have here

Pumping! Sides may have already slightly blown off LOL

[045HOW]

[045HOW]

Did a compression test(Rough jotted figures) sunday morning, mate said it was decent for an engine with 170 or more kilometres on it and one that has probably had a good floggin in its day

Bought a set of cheap copper spark plugs(just as good as fancy ones for now) to use for less than 500ks cost $29.95 for the lot.

Random shot while i was undoing the bottom bolts on the dump pipe on the blue one.

BTW:The 4 doors dump install was f**kED. Someone used bolts from dump side in,no washers and one had an attempt at welding it in place done to it.

All came out but the top one which after 30 minutes of gently having at it with WD-40 and some serious elbow grease the bolt finally snapped

due to it being rusted into the turbo flange(as we expected anyway). Will see what an exhaust shop can do when it gets registered.

They dance the same dance :hsdance:

Exhausts off. This shows the actual length difference in 33s as i know they have same chassis and wheelbase but as it turns out

the ass is lengthened a bit on 4 doors so i will have to get the new exhaust lengthened.

Installed

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Car when we got it would turn off at random on idle and ran like a complete dog on all fronts. everything was allover the place.

Now with new fuel,fuel filter,spark plugs,exhaust,clean AFM and a good condition 02 sensor from my old 4 door my mate did a bit of tweaking with the PowerFC hand controller(only so much can be done as the tune was done by APC a few years back and they locked the tune <_< ) we had the graph running 8 perfect straight lines across the screen (boost,ignition timing,knock,injector duty,airflow,revs,volts and water temp)

[Joe Nash]

looking good mate, do you have big plans for her, of just to get her running nice and sweet?

[045HOW]

looking good mate, do you have big plans for her, of just to get her running nice and sweet?

No big plans set in stone just yet but yeah the goal right now is to get her running sweet. No point chasing dreams when you're base isnt in top form to start with

[Miguelone]

Four door love!!

This isn't the one that was featured in HPI quite a few years back is it? If it is it sure has seen a bit of neglect since.

Keen on parting with that boot spoiler?

[Tai1or Made]

Gorgeous car, makes me wish I got a four door.

Following with interest and lust.

[045HOW]

Four door love!!

This isn't the one that was featured in HPI quite a few years back is it? If it is it sure has seen a bit of neglect since.

Keen on parting with that boot spoiler?

Mate i highly doubt it. in the past year ive seen about 3 or 4 of these in qld. There was 200 made all up and there is quite a few in Aus, never the less it could have been.

And of course im not keen on parting with my Genuine Boot spoiler bolted through my boot on my Genuine Impul R33-R but what i did do when i saw your comment was run out to the shed to bring something in to take a photo

I've Got 2!!! This one was from my first 4 door lol

[Miguelone]

I'm mirin, I'll have a look for the issue of HPI and let ya know what number R33-R it was.

[Jasonr31]

Hadnt seen an impul 4 door before, looks really good! Shouldve got some bigger twin pipes made up instead of the cannon....

[DJBarnstar]

Those Teins are height adjustable. You just need the tool. the bottom two rings come apart and then just adjust the top one up and then retighten. I had them on my VE.

How much did you pay for it???

4 Doors are awesome, would never buy a 2 door again.

[045HOW]

Those Teins are height adjustable. You just need the tool. the bottom two rings come apart and then just adjust the top one up and then retighten. I had them on my VE.

How much did you pay for it???

4 Doors are awesome, would never buy a 2 door again.

Hey mate, They arent Height Adjustable. Only Spring Preload adjustable. Raising those rings will just compress the spring,make suspension stiff as all hell and mess up the shock absorbers real quick.

4 Doors RULE!!! !!

Edited November 17, 2011 by 045HOW

[DJBarnstar]

Hey mate, They arent Height Adjustable. Only Spring Preload adjustable. Raising those rings will just compress the spring,make suspension stiff as all hell and mess up the shock absorbers real quick.

4 Doors RULE!!! !!

Ahh Ok they just look the same as my previous teins.

So how much did you pay for it?

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Thats for me to know and you to wonder about

[Luciano]

F**&^%g awesome purchase mate!!! Caught my attention in the 'Tough cefiros and other 4doors' thread.

Only ever seen photos of IMPUL 33 sedans in hyper rev mags, and shitty images online. All the IMPUL exterior parts look awesome; the only ever pictures I'd seen (in mags etc.) before yours really didn't do any justice.

Awesome to see one landed down under! Truly unique specimen