Civic Type-R Owners Club & Forum

Hi there,

Please don't think I've purely put this here for self promotion....... it's not my style, but I was asked to create a thread outlining my R34 and so here I am.

A bit of history. Car was purchased brand new as an official NZ car (only 12 in total, 10 VSPEC and 2 VSPEC II) in 2001. I had previously owned a R33 VSPEC and it was either spend the cash to go all out on that or move to something else. At first I wasn't sold on the R34 (brown wheels looked average to me at best) and so I went hunting for an alternative.......... M3's, Evo's, STI's etc etc, but to be honest nothing came close to my R33 and so I was convinced that I could make an R34 look how I wanted so I investigated some more and realised in a different colour and with some nice wheels it looked awesome.

This was confirmed when the car was ordered and it arrived in the country and I flew to Nissan NZ to see it........... just looked awesome in something other than Bayside Blue. I love that colour, but nearly all the R34's I'd seen were that and I think it didn't show off the bumps and curves as much as I liked so this colour was perfect.

The car arrived and a now good mate Jonah Lomu was at the dealership when it arrived trying to convince the dealership owner to take the carbon bonnet and a few other bits off for his own VSPEC car !!! ...... Once we were introduced he soon realised that I wasn't likely to give up the parts....... even if he is the built like the brick $hithouse. LOL

So here I was.......... first ever brand new car, salesman who knew less about it than I did trying to tell me how to use it and all I heard was blah blah blah blah...... I just wanted to start it and drive out.......... They'd taken the factory wheels and swapped them onto my R33 which they'd given me a very good trade price for and I had some Blitz 18" wheels from my old car on there. At first I thought it was nice with those on, but then I saw a mates car in Japan with the current Ray's / Top Secret wheels on and I was sold........ 19" x 9.5 it was. 285 x 30 x 19" rubber all round.

Anyhow over the years I've made some one off parts for the car, everything else is mostly known brand stuff, Nismo, Mines, HKS, Trust. I'll include a spec list below, then some pics from a magazine shoot and some video from earlier in it's life as well as some later on......... please don't laugh at me in the interviews

Spec List

Rays Engineering / Top Secret - Sparkling Silver 19" x 9.5" TE37 wheels
Bridgestone SO3 285 x 30 x 19" tyres
Tein Flex Suspension with EDFC in car electronic controller

Nismo
320kph custom white on black dash cluster
Intercooler waterspray
MultiFunction Display V2
Oil Cooler finisher kit (vents on passenger side front bumper)
Sports Radiator cap
Low Temperature thermostat
Carbon B-pillar garnish
Oil filler cap
Fuel filler cap
Side skirt kit
Rear bumper under spoiler kit
Large capacity fuel pump

HKS
Stainless steel turbo downpipe
EV-R active exhaust system with in car controller
Super Dragger II mid stainless mid section
FCON V Pro engine management system
EVC electronic boost controller
Super suction intake kit
AFK Air Fuel and knock amp controller
Iridium Race spark plugs
HKS Type 1 Turbo timer

Mines
Carbon radiator shroud
Front bumper vents
Carbon rear wing

Abbey Motorsport
Custom fuel rail
Custom drivers side oil cooler vents to match Nismo side.
Custom Oil catch can / breather tank

Sard
6 x 800cc injectors

Trust / Greedy
VSPL Intercooler 600 x 300 x 150mm
Aluminium racing radiator
Intercooler hard piping kit
T66 turbo manifold
T66 turbo system with wastegate

ATS
Twin plate carbon/carbon clutch with 1350KG pressure plate

Rhea
ICES 1500 Pro in car entertainment system with custom MFD touch screen upgrade.
Garmin satnav, tyre pressure and temp monitoring, 120GB HDD.

Boston acoustics
6.5LF Pro series front speakers and crossovers
Eclipse 1600W 4 channel amplifier
Eclipse 12" Pro series sub
Sony ZM405EQX 2 channel amplifier
Blaupunkt IC10SM rear speakers with mid and sub

Meridian
Category 5 alarm with online GPS tracker

Stoptech
Big brake upgrade kit. Front 355mm x 38mm front rotors, Rear 355 x 32mm rotors.
4 x oversized 4 POT calipers with braided brake lines. (Best upgrade on the whole car in my opinion)

Now some pics and vids !!







































PS I know some of the sound on the chase scene isn't my car, but the mic's crapped out so they had to improvise

Car is actually a bit different now as it's single turbo not twin and makes around 650HP at the flywheel. Usually only quote at the wheels as that's all that's important, however I know in the UK most think in flywheel HP so.........

Currently in process of building a 2.8 litre HKS engine for the car, however I've put that on hold to focus funds on the NSX project since it's plenty fast enough as it is if I'm honest and not so fussy

Also developed my own touch screen and in car PC solution for the GTR and my Civic also which is awesome. I've converted the Nissan MFD display to touchscreen and integrated all of the Nismo data logging, Garmin Sat Nav, DVD, music etc etc into one unit....... more info here. http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/100766-anoth ... grade.html

Anything else you want to know, feel free to ask.

Just spaffed

Brb

gosh that looks a bit nicer than my car :WOOT

I would hate to take that on the road, just in case i'd get it filthy.

Very cool car :salut:

absoulutly beautiful mate :cooldude: is that your weekend car and the ctr is your run around? what have you done to your ctr? have you a thread on that?

That is gorgeous. Exactly everything that I would do, even down to the wheels.

I doff my cap to you sir, you have great taste. :thumbup:

Amazing!

:thumbup:

best 34 ever.. :salut:

the pic with all skylines is that nissan HQ or your front garden?

Drool!!!

Mate that is absoloutely stunning!! :cooldude:

Always had a soft spot for these since i was a wee lad, and this... one of the best ive every seen :thumbup:

I am officially very very jealous of you!!!

Nice car though

Holy moly! Thats stunning :thumbup: :cooldude:

That car is just pure awesomeness!

Thanks for the positive feedback guys. I've spent a lot of time and effort to get it how I wanted it.

I've always wanted to mount all of the extra gadgets into the main dash, however because there was a normal stereo and not much other room I didn't have space, however now that I've built the stereo into the MFD display it meant I could remove the stereo and make a custom centre dash to take all of the other items to suit...... I'd wanted to do that since I bought the car but has only happened in the last 8 months so it felt good after 6 1/2 years of waiting !!

Jamsie W, yeah my CTR was meant to be left stock as a run around but it didn't last long before I got started on it !! Thread here ....http://www.civictype-r.co.uk/forum/view ... &start=180

Also have just supercharged it .... http://www.civictype-r.co.uk/forum/view ... 1&t=193809

Next project now that Civic is basically done is my NSX race car here..... http://www.civictype-r.co.uk/forum/view ... 3&t=194863 ...... very early days for that.

Awesome R34. Hats off to ya!

Awesome write up and the car looks fantastic.. Top work :thumbup:

canman wrote:Thanks for the positive feedback guys. I've spent a lot of time and effort to get it how I wanted it.

I've always wanted to mount all of the extra gadgets into the main dash, however because there was a normal stereo and not much other room I didn't have space, however now that I've built the stereo into the MFD display it meant I could remove the stereo and make a custom centre dash to take all of the other items to suit...... I'd wanted to do that since I bought the car but has only happened in the last 8 months so it felt good after 6 1/2 years of waiting !!

Jamsie W, yeah my CTR was meant to be left stock as a run around but it didn't last long before I got started on it !! Thread here ....http://www.civictype-r.co.uk/forum/view ... &start=180

Also have just supercharged it also.... http://www.civictype-r.co.uk/forum/view ... 1&t=193809

Next project now that Civic is basically done is my NSX race car here..... http://www.civictype-r.co.uk/forum/view ... 3&t=194863 ...... very early days for that.

expensive hobbies you got there mate. was unsure of the wide body kit though . the nsx will look are you going for a lemans look? what do you you do for a living? something car related?

How many skylines have you got

Just the 1............ trust me, it's plenty

that looks the nuts mate :salut: :cooldude: