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#3860685
Hi All,

I'm new here, recently sold my EP3, but want another ... !

Have another little project on the go at the moment..

The current Stagea, which we have had a couple of years is near end of life unfortunately. She has been a fighter, been on a few track days. The Chassis is now too rusty.

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Sooooo, we have a new one :)

We'll transfer the performance parts over, and currently looking at a crazy printed wrap for the car too

The 2 together..

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MOT Time

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The new Stagea is a fresh import and a very clean 125,000 kilometres example. Has service stickers over it, and all history from Japan. Zero Rust.

Its the Turbo 2.5 litre 24 Valve 6 Cylinder Engine out of the Nissan SKyline R33 GTS-t, and a 4wd System Similar to the R33 GTR Nissan Skyline.

Should hopefully be a fun Project over the next couple of months...

Check back for updates, always keen to hear views :)
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Hi All,

I had the old one round a few tracks. Due to the weight, and the autobox, they are sluggish, even with 250 odd BHP. Its very comfy, like driving an arm chair round. Does surprise a few people though :)

The car passed the MOT, woo hoo...

Over all looks to be in very good condition.

I've never seen brakes so even on the tester !
(Top is front brakes, middle is foot brake, bottom is the rear brakes).

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Next to get it registered and all the goodies from the other Stagea fitted...
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Next Job...

There was a rather 90's TV sat nav audio system screwed to the dash. I wasn't going to
be able to look the screw marks from where it was mounted.
Little OCD maybe, so the dash had to come out !

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Out... !

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Here are the 2 dash units together

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Might have been a bit overkill to change the dash, just for this, but I wouldn't have been able to sleep at night !!

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All back in.. You'd never know the dash had come out.

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Loads of screws and fiddling. All in all took aobut 5 hours.

Next, we'll get the seats done. Currently the car has the standard velour seats.
We'll change them for ones from a series 2 version. Little more sporty, the look similar to ones from an R34GTT Nissan Skyline.
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Time for the brakes to be upgraded.... These Brembo brakes are from the old Stagea (but originally from an R33 GTR Nissan Skyline). The bolt straight on.

Going from a 280mm Front to 320mm. The standard brakes on the Stagea aren't the
best !

These are also Brembo discs and pads, so give excellent braking !

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Next we get to fitting the Coil pacls :)
#3860978
Next on the list, changing the coil packs. It wasn't that the current ones were misfiring. These new ones were only a year or so old
from the other stagea. So just to be on the safe side...

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All in all, took just over 2 hours. 1 silly thing I didn't think about was changing the spark plugs at the same time.
School boy error, so they'll have to come out again soon to change the plugs ! D'oh !

More things being added to the list, will be never ending... :)

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