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Fixing the Interior, Part 3 (Glove Box Door and Handbrake Boot)
So the mistake by Nakamura which upset me the most, was the damage to the leather interior that Cesar had worked on, taking several months to do so. I mean, my car would be the first R33 GTR in the...
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Fixing the Interior, Part 4 (DEFI Heads Up Display)
So one unique item I've had on my car for many years is a Heads Up Display (HUD) unit made by DEFI called the VSD Basis (no longer in production but here is the English instruction manual!) that...
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Fixing the Interior, Part 5 (Unwelcome and Dangerous LED Illumination for...
So this was something that initially appeared interesting and definitely modern, but in the end was executed not only improperly but also posed a safety risk!As long time readers recall, I have...
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This device kept the peace in my neighborhood...
As I mentioned in my last post, I am going to take a break about fixing the issues caused by WORX Auto Alarm and instead, talk about a mod I made right after I got the car back.As long time readers...
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(Another) Back up Lamp LED bulb... will this one be the one?
So as many of you readers know, I've been on a quest to figure out how to improve the back up lamp on my Series 3 BCNR33. The Series 3 (English term) or more accurately, the 後期 ("kohki") cars in...
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Still Working On the Interior...
First, apologies to all you readers - especially those who inquired to see if I was still alive. Good news, yes I am, bad news I have been so busy with my awesome new job I started in May of last year...
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Electrical Gremlin...ARGH...
So last night I was finally replacing a few interior pieces (as I will post in a future blog post soon), when by happenstance I realized that my rear brake lamps were not working.Of course, I checked...
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On Display at Nissan's GTR50 by Italdesign Event at Daikanyama T-Site Morning...
So, if you haven't seen the social media and press coverage by now, last Sunday (Sept 23) from 0700-0930, Nissan unveiled to the Japanese public, at the Daikanyama T-SiteMorning Cruise (think, Cars and...
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Two More Problems Due to WORX Auto Alarm
In the course of getting ready for last Sunday's GT-R50 Japan invite, here are two more items of note - one which I cannot fix, the other which I managed to make look better until I'm able to replace...
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Premature LED Burn Out?
So during the biannual shaken process back in June, Ninomiya-san at BeAmbitious (my go-to shop for all things non-OEM) noticed that the front right parking light bulb had burnt out. So, in order to...
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More LED Madness - Rear Lamp LEDs, Part 1
So even though the aftermarket offers full LED conversions for the 33's iconic rear lights:From: http://qestjapan.com/itempage/r33.htmlI never thought it looked right. Somehow, the natural analog glow...
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More LED Madness - Rear Lamp LEDs, Part 2
With my mind made up to order the Phillips red LED bulbs for the rear parking/brake lamps, I went ahead and placed my order with Rakuten, and then a few days later:Because I wasn't sure if this was...
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More LED Madness - Rear Lamp LEDs, Part 3
OK OK so my OCD got to me...despite the Phillips LEDs being significantly brighter as well as instantaneous in lighting up, their design - with those wide fins - results in dark vertical shadows that...
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More LED Madness - Final Result of Rear Lamps Plus
So as I indicated in my last post, I decided to complete the rear tail lamp LED experiment by ordering 2 more so as to have the complete 4 bulb set. That, and I also wanted to experiment on a couple...
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One Last LED Post for the Year
So while I ponder whether to keep those super bright LEDs for my rear license plate...Sharp eyed readers may have noticed that I had another pair of LEDs (25) that I had ordered from Pika-Q, but which...
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Out with the old, in with the NEW (Robson Leather Steering Wheel Re-Do)
One last post to close out 2018, and appropriately by swapping out the old with new. Or at least "re-newed."Some of you may recall a few years ago when I first switched over from the OEM steering wheel...
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First Mod of the Year - Super Easy!
Welcome to 2019 - and yes it's already one month old! Here in Japan it's been cold which is always an excuse for me to not work on the car. Luckily, the first mod of the year was a super easy one,...
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OK OK - Maybe I have an LED addiction?
So in my last LED post for 2018, I mentioned that I had been tempted to replace the rear turn signal bulbs with LED ones as well. But, I was too lazy to figure out how to wire in the resistors - but a...
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So yes my friends, I have been very very bad about posting here. And I apologize. But I have two good reasons.The first, as many as you know, is that for the last 2 years I have been working as an...
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Real Life History: The Nurburgring Car in the Flesh!!
So anyone who's an R33 GT-R fan knows that the 33 was the first production car to lap the infamous Nurburgring in under 8 minutes - 7'59" to be precise. (FYI, the BNR32 did so in 8'20" but it was a...
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