Spring is here!

Last Friday I decided it was warm and dry enough to finally pull the cover off the GTR and fire her up for the first time in 2014.  I have to admit that it's like Christmas morning for me when I roll the car cover off the car. For some reason, just having the GTR hidden under cloth makes me almost forget that I'm the lucky owner of such a great toy.

After a quick victory lap around the neighbourhood, it was time to get down to business.  First thing on my to do list: fluid change.

Oil, filter, front and rear diffs, tranny flush and fill.  Thanks to my buddy at Pentosin, I was set up with FFL-4, a huge improvement over the standard (and pricey) Nissan fluid.  

On my wife's urging, the powerful but noisy Endless MX72 pads were swapped out for oem Nissan ones.  I don't plan to run many hot laps on the track so these will be much more livable and keep my wheels less dusty.  I also swapped out the oem exhaust for a 90mm T1R stainless unit with Ti tips.  There is not much performance gain in an aftermarket exhaust, so I thought I'd be happy with oem (plus keep the car quiet and more in line with the GTR's "gentleman's race car" mission statement) but a great deal came up that I just could not pass up.  I love the sound, the workmanship and of course  the looks!  The bigger tips really fill out the rear openings aggressively.  I'll have Ben Linney at GTC do a retune as soon as it warms up enough for me perform a few 3rd gear pulls.

Next on the agenda was a quick visit to Derek at Autovation to install a new set of shoes: Advan GT.  I picked these up used from Peter Pang of NextMod in Markham.  These wheels were on his show car but became useless once he went with the LibertyWalk widebody.  These babies are finished in what they call "hyper black" but is really a polished metallic gray finish on the spokes with a polished stepped lip.  They measure at 20x11 and 20x12.  I had my Michelin Pilot Super Sports and TPMS sensors transferred over from my old ADV7 deep concave wheels.  I admit I'm such a ADV fan that I had serious second thoughts about doing the swap, but afterwards I was completely sold.  Love the new look, and love the extra JDM tyte points.  The fact they weigh almost 1/2 that of the ADV1 is not too shabby either. :)