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BaseGTR - R34 GT-R S-Tune

Exterior:

Carbon Top secret bonnet,
Carbon Voltex wing and potentially carbon bootlid,
Potentially an Autoselect Carbon front splitter with canards,
Potentially a top secret carbon diffuser,
Nismo sideskirts and rear spats might get done in carbon,
Potentially some Mine's carbon mirrors,
Rear window sticker and wiper delete,
Maybe delete the Nismo stripe and associated decals,
Front number plate delete and Japanese plate at the rear,
Bigger metal burnt tip exhaust,
18" or 19" wheels possibly Volks/BBS etc. With a big brake kit.

Interior:

Sports steering wheel,
Racing seats,
Roll cage either full or half,
Potentially a stripped interior with floor pan showing.

Engine:

Either a Tomei or Top secret RB26 with upgraded components everywhere,
Either a big single turbo or twin turbo set up.
Bigger strut bar,
ARC intercooler.

 

[StratosWRC]

Yesssss!

 

[K.Customs]

Oh hell yeah, that's gonna be sweet!

 

[Upgrades]

This is gonna be awesome.

Giovanni

 

[BaseGTR]

This is gonna be awesome.

Giovanni

Cheers lads, fingers crossed it comes out looking good, hopefully I can start working on it soon.

 

[pcars]

another special customization that is always spectacular

 

[BaseGTR]

another special customization that is always spectacular

Thanks mate.

So I've disassembled the car and mocked up some of the parts; Top secret bonnet, Autoselect splitter and Voltex type 4 wing.
The splitter is for an R33 and will need a lot of work to follow the lines of the R34, might be better off building my own on a stock R34 splitter. The wing has unfortunately gotten a slight curve from being in storage so I'll need to try and fix this (I'm thinking some heat and clamping it against a flat surface?) or buy another one.

 

[StratosWRC]

that looks great already

 

[Upgrades]

That front spoiler looks surprisingly really good on it. The curve on the the rear spoiler doesnt look to bad on the pictures.

Giovanni

 

[BaseGTR]

That front spoiler looks surprisingly really good on it. The curve on the the rear spoiler doesnt look to bad on the pictures.

Giovanni

Cheers guys, hopefully I can start the real work soon. Now I'm thinking the Nismo livery on the side might actually work with the overall style of the car. With the engine rocker/valve cover, I'm thinking a nicer pearly red, or maybe carbon fibre. The front plate is just on for these pictures to cover some marks from the old plate.

 

[StratosWRC]

I would go for some kind of dark colour for the valve cover. Carbon sounds perfect.

 

[BaseGTR]

I would go for some kind of dark colour for the valve cover. Carbon sounds perfect.

Carbon cover and carbon strut towers like a Z-Tune? Hmmm let's see.

 

[StratosWRC]

I would go for some kind of dark colour for the valve cover. Carbon sounds perfect.

Carbon cover and carbon strut towers like a Z-Tune? Hmmm let's see.
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yeah why not. I find with gray it's good to go dark. Gray cars with black detailing look awesome in general

 

[BaseGTR]

No real progress here yet, I did however get my custom 3d printed wheel inlets from MIY minimodels, I had some input in the design as well which was pretty cool. They're TE37's in an 18" Nowak Alu ring. I painted them in Tamiya gunmetal and put them under the car on Hobby design RE11S tyres. They still need centre detailing and a spoke decal (maybe the TE37SL look), but I'm liking how they look.

 

[StratosWRC]

Yeah that looks lovely. More than any, this model screams for a different set of wheels

 

[BaseGTR]

Yeah that looks lovely. More than any, this model screams for a different set of wheels

Definitely, the stock wheels and the LMGT4's they come with do this car no justice.

 

[BaseGTR]

A bit more of an update this time.

Brakes: Endless style from TK. Discs given a dark wash and centres painted a dirty gold.

The wheels also got decals. I have 2 sets of these and gave both different decals. The red SL style are most likely the ones I'll use on this car. Also tested out different brake caliper colours and decided i liked silver with red writing the best, so I will make some Endless ones in the same style as these Brembo ones. Tyres shown here are TK's new Toyo R888's which are insanely detailed. Not sure yet if I'll use these or the Hobby design ones shown in my last post, all depends on which ones give a fatter look as it's needed when running 18's on an R34.

Wheel mock up on the car

Seats are TK type 22 which I painted and decalled in a Bride Zeta III style.

Prepping the wing and bonnet. These were primed and painted gloss black after.

Spoiler legs painted matt black and rivets added (Top Studio 1mm IIRC)

Then the wing got it's carbon treatment

And then the most difficult part, chopping off the stock spoiler legs. First I removed it from the car and then removed the brake light and badging. Then I got out the mini saw and went to town. The cheap Chinese blade snapped after I cut the first one lol but I managed to cut off the second carefully with a proper hack saw.

The spoiler-less look

Mock up with the big wing, haven't clearcoated it yet.

Sanded down the paint on the bootlid and added some Tamiya putty to fill the badge holes and smooth over where I cut it.

More to come, thanks for looking.

 

[ROBSMC]

Nice work so far, wow, those new TK tyres are insanely detailed, I will have to get a set of those for my next JDM build. Can I give you a suggestion, use a Dremel with a thin cut of wheel to cut those wing leg bases off and then the dremel again with a sanding drum to clean up the cut, it will give you a much better (and quicker) cut and finish rather than using a saw. Less filling to do as well.

 

[BaseGTR]

Nice work so far, wow, those new TK tyres are insanely detailed, I will have to get a set of those for my next JDM build. Can I give you a suggestion, use a Dremel with a thin cut of wheel to cut those wing leg bases off and then the dremel again with a sanding drum to clean up the cut, it will give you a much better (and quicker) cut and finish rather than using a saw. Less filling to do as well.

Cheers Rob, will try that way if I do it again. And yeah, the tyres even have the rotation and date codes and everything. I'm hoping for some higher profile ones next.

 

[K.Customs]

Good effort dude. I'm gonna have to do the same to one of my Gtr's at some point too... Not looking forward to that 😂