Installed coil overs on the weekend, I had no clue what to do so my mate (who's a semi-pro drifter) said he would help me and I just handed him tools :P I learnt a lot though

After installing the coil overs and adjusting the tightness of some bolts he decided to take it for a test drive. I've never pushed my car as hard as he did, but man you can feel the huge difference that they make!

We conveniently ended up behind a turbo r34 skyline when testing it in some windy corners so we decided to play ;)

We could keep up but due to the tires not being grippy enough and the open centre diff we couldn't quite get through the corners fast enough, but she loves to rev!

Even though the cannon is a bit ricer it still makes a nice noise past 5000 rpm!

So far that has been the best 1200 bucks I've ever spent!

Tl;dr : cars awesome now with new suspension and keeps up with turbo skylines in corners

I will post some pictures later today, she really needs a bath from all the dirt in my mates shed

Do yourself a favour and whack some Federal 595 RS-Rs on it and you'll eat the Riceline through corners and under brakes ;)

Tires are on the list of things to do ;)

Have to sort out brakes as front callipers have to be rebuilt, front rotors and all the pads changed

I want to get new wheels first though, these ones sometimes clip the suspension.

Any suggestions on wheels?

Any lightweight staggered Jap 17s - I use Enkei Racing S
maybe 17x7.5-8 front, 17x8-9 rear. +35 ish offset

So Tought I'd write out my massive list of things to do. My wallet hurts already just thinking about it :/

-Front Brake Caliper Rebuild
-New front rotors
-New pads
-Remove rust on pillar
-Repaint and paint match roof
-Engine out
-Replace all seals
-check water and oil pump
-Timing Belt
-KAAZ 1.5 way LSD
-New Clutch
-New wheels
-New tires
-A/C Regas

All of that's happening in the next 6 months, I want it all done by the time I get my p's

Any help/opinions are much appreciated!as I'm still learning

So, I finally Made more Progress. The motor needed the leaks fixed, a new clutch and pretty much a massive service. So far its deffinetly got one and has been worthwhile
Some good mates of mine offered to do the job in their shed, and I assisted by cleaning the motor and passing tools :P

I got all the parts required for a cheap price through some friends, and we got started

The car went up on my friend's Hoist, right next to his awesomesauce drift car.

 
We started disconnecting everything and along the way found some very major issues, such as the accelerator cable which was ready to split.
We then raised it up once again and dumped all the fluids. Everything was going great until we got to the gearbox. We dumped the oil and there was less than half a litre in there! Honestly we were so lucky. Turns out the rear mains wasnt leaking but the gearbox.


 
Then the final removal of all wiring, etc began. Mr. ECU got disconnected and now sits happily on the boot floor.
 

 
The plan of attack was to drop the rear subframe with the wheels and suspension still attached (along with the motor and box obviously)
Blocks of wood made good supports ;)

 
 
With some gentle persuasion it eventually came free. It trapped my friend's hand in the process though, he was a lucky man that we were close by. No one likes engines on their hands (Nothing broken)

 
 
And then we began work. Along the way we found that the previous mechanic put the wrong spark plugs in, and that the timing belt had been done wrong.

 
We were deffinetly lucky today with all the issues that we found, and the hands that we saved haha :P

Tommorow we should finish the job and hopefully tuesday it will be back on the road ready for another 100,000km's
 

Yay! This is what I should've done when I bought my car *facepalm*

Wow! It's a good thing that you picked these things up now.
Also, well done for taking everything apart and doing it yourself, a lot of people (myself included) aren't that mechanically minded haha. Best of luck with the build. Keep us posted :)

I'm using this as a learning experience, I haven't done much apart from pre-lube the seals, degrease stuff and hand them spanners haha. 

I can say without a shadow of a doubt that they now definitely hate mid engined cars :P 

^lol! yeh the amount of times my mechanic called my car a "nightmare"