A Closer Look at the R32 GTR Safari Project

As I sat down to inspect the mud flap, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. The little corner of red was going to require some careful attention, as it wouldn't be easily fixed with just a black Sharpie. But despite my reservations, I knew that this mud flap would provide the mounting point for all sorts of goodies to attach.

I imagined what it might look like when finished, and while I wasn't entirely sold on the design, I was willing to give it a shot. The mud flap seemed like it could tie in with that line above it nicely, creating a cohesive look. But ultimately, it was just one piece of the larger puzzle that would come together to create this R32 GTR Safari.

One of my primary concerns had been the ride height of the car. I knew that the spring rates were going to be pretty soft – around 4 and 5K – which could potentially cause issues with clearance, especially on big bumps. The existing clearance was a paltry 4 1/2 inches from the top of the tire to the first point of contact with the chassis. But what really worried me was the droop that came with jacking up the front end of the car. With all the clearance, I had worries about hitting the chassis on big hits.

To put this into perspective, I compared it to a standard GTR, which had around 6 and 1/2 inches of clearance between the frame's FR rail and the ground. That meant we had about 4 inches of extra clearance, which was definitely a bonus. However, I did feel that our front arch might need some trimming or reinforcement to maintain proper wheel spacing.

With the suspension taking center stage in this project, I knew it was essential to examine its angle and orientation closely. The existing setup was relatively straightforward, with the arms oriented straight up. But as we raised the car, the spring rate began to increase due to the geometry of the setup. While 6K springs might seem soft compared to lower rates, they can become much stiffer when the axle is angled upward.

The tie rod wasn't looking too bad, but it did get hairy when the droop kicked in. Still, with a good inch of clearance between the tire and ground, I felt that this was manageable. Moving down to the rear end, I noticed that the suspension geometry was also pretty even. The main concern here seemed to be the long-travel BCs, which would take center stage when it came time to tame the droop.

As I explored the car further, I couldn't help but chuckle at the prospect of taking this baby out for a spin. With all that travel and potential droop, we were basically building a monster truck in disguise. And as we stood there, admiring our handiwork, it was clear that this R32 GTR Safari was going to be a wild ride.

As Christmas break approached, I knew that the next update would likely involve some tinkering with the Legend car, which had caught my attention due to its tiny engine. My friend from down south, an expert in carburetors, had invited me to come up and play, and I was excited to dive into the world of miniature engines.

Before we left, I wanted to capture a few final impressions of this project. With all the droop and suspension travel, it seemed like we were building for a whole new level of driving experience. And while there might be some minor tweaks along the way, I couldn't wait to see how everything came together when it was all said and done.

As I wrapped up our time with the R32 GTR Safari project, I felt a sense of excitement and anticipation about what lay ahead. Whether we were tweaking suspension geometry or exploring miniature engines, this car had already stolen my heart – and I couldn't wait to see where our journey would take us next.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI love life it's welcome to episode two of the Safari GTR project now we made a lot of Headway but today is going to be the most important part of the build and that is the tire wheel suspension package the intentions of this car are still a little bit unknown because I don't really know where it's going to perform best gravel snow off-road rally rocks mountains and I'm not an off-road person so there's quite a bit of unknowns here maybe you guys can help me out a little bit but I've done some research and I'm going to walk you through the plan one of the most exciting things was getting to see this bad boy up in this wheel well and get an idea of what this thing's going to actually look like so this tire right here is nitto's nomat Grappler it's actually designed for crossover utility vehicles and for our case it's available in many different sizes so if this doesn't work we have different options to choose from couple key highlights it's really good off-road nitto's blockings makes it really quiet on the road it's good in rain it's triple snowflake certified so it'll be good in the snow and we have two different sidewalls to choose from one that's a little more aggressive and one that's I don't know a little more geometrical because of the fact that I'm trying to keep the GTR all-wheel drive one of our limiting factors when it comes to raising the car is going to be the front axle if I raise it too much not only does that start to throw off the geometry of the front end but we start to run into issues with axles hitting things axles popping out and binding so rather than getting all of our lift from the suspension it did some math the stock GTR wheels are around 20 6 in these tires are around 28 in so we'll get about 1 in of lift just from the tires alone without affecting any arm angles without affecting the axle placement the only thing will be affecting is clearance we kind of rolling the dice on as an example these are the wheels that came on the car they are a little bit bigger than stock but you can see when you actually put the off-road tire next to it it's really not that different and you got to remember too this is like on the ground so if they were centered we're talking like like I I know it's going to work yeah I think it's going to work hopefully the theme of this build is it's going to work great or it's not not going to work at all but it's going to be fun and we're going to try my fellow off- rians may be thinking why didn't you go with a smaller wheel Adam the more Tire the better front brakes on the GTR they are designed to clear 16-in Wheels that's what they come with from the factory I was actually trying to find factory GTR Wheels people want a ridiculous amount of money for them we got a quick timeline this car literally needs to be done in a week and that includes all of the holiday brakes and stuff so by going up to a 17-in wheel that open us up to many options of which are the wheels that I'm going to be using on this build yep Nismo lmgt2 is baby but hear me out these wheels are 17 by8 the sets usually come staggered with 17x 8 17 by9 the 17x 9s are what I like because the 17x 8S look stupid we want a narrower wheel since the tire that we're using is a 21565 and that'll protect the wheel with the tire and as we dive deeper in this build you'll realize there's a bit of a Nismo theme going on with it I want to emphasize this is not me trying to destroy an R32 GTR I'm going to honor it and I'm going to find a new way to enjoy it I want to add a disclaimer that the colorway on this wheel or the other Wheels probably not what we're going to end up going with however one's light and one's dark which should kind of give us an idea what looks good on the car we got a lot of different Prismatic powders to choose from so hopefully you guys can help us make the decision there nonetheless I want to get a mounted up start seeing what we're dealing with fitment wise I like this tread that's the one for me why I don't know this just looks so long this is like the first time I've ever mounted a tire this bag big on my machine you won't even need that I was going to say watch this be the easiest Tire I've ever you literally won't even need that you don't think no it's so I for Mike used to work at Tyra Sears Auto Baby Bro Sears yeah that's crazy hell yeah Pepper Farm remember Sears people from Connecticut remember pepper farms and pepper Farms remember who makes the Bagels Thomas Thomas Thomas that's my little brother dude it's all it's also the Grinch you stole Christmas that was ridiculous yeah I'm sing that's sick you know what's kind of cool about it so all of the Porsche guys use I'm not authentic enough to know how to to say it fuks fukes fukes yes no bleep that last one no that's the right way to say but they they all use it on their Safari Porsches and it's kind of like actually I don't know if they're just like replicas of them or what mhm but they're bringing Heritage into the Safari and the LM gt2s brings Heritage into the Safari it kind of looks like something you'd see on someone's four doesn't it it does shout out to my 4Runner peeps we might be reaching a new market with off-road videos all yeah maybe you're going to put a widow wad on the back a ladder yeah a widow what for climbing on your woof is that a thing yeah that's that's off-road people thing that's a first yeah there a big de this is a new problem that I don't face with stance all right next up money hell yeah baby quietest bead seat ever yeah for real this is so cool I love life let's see if we achieved what I was looking for will the side wall protect the rim yeah the thing is you see rocks they're they're not shaped like a flat floor so they're going to the r up but it's okay I'm in it for the long haul as Drake would say it looks perfect I'm glad I didn't do nines yeah should we see if we can do not Crush my hands though oh yeah you think mhm that's crazy yeah bro they should charge way less from Mountain truck tires if that's how they all are yep jeez I don't think silver is it the bronze looks intentional the silver just looks like laziness yeah sporty boy chose the wrong size wheel mind you the lmgt2 uh is definitely going to be really sunk for GTR but I think that's going to help us when it comes to Fender clearance and stuff since it's not a drift car uh so might need spacers but I'd rather have a more sunk wheel than something that pokes out too far looks sick doesn't look like clearance is going to be a big issue either no if anything I feel like maybe trim the front bumper or a tad when you're turning yeah I kind of want to mock everything up and then see in the air since that'll kind of give us an idea of like Drew yeah we've encountered our first problem I don't know if you guys saw my Instagram story but we've recently discovered that Johan is an absolute Pro on the ring is it Grand Turismo yeah so you hopped on the Sim the other day and like literally all of us have our Jaws on the floor watching him absolutely shredding dud this thing's ridiculous oh it's na it's crazy all right guys this is your reminder that every $5 you spend on lzmfg or drift hq.com is going to get you entered for a chance to win a Podium 1 ultimate simulator just like this one but we're going to custom spec it out to your needs pretty cool giveaway we've all been having a blast with it I'll put more information in the description the tire rubs the rear upper well the tire rubs the front upper Tire rubs the front thing front upper control arm the front yeah but they call it some weird thing in GTR term it's like the front upright okay so it's like a knuckle like upper knuckle but we're hella sunk so I think I can confidently stick a spacer on there and we'll be all right yeah um maybe I'll shoot with a 20 mil for first but ideally I want it as close to that as possible cuz the more sunk the wheel the less clearance issues will have versus if it's poking out a lot there'll be a higher scrub radius the closer it is inward the more it pivots on the same axis as as the knuckle and the less issue we'll have with like bumpers rear area and all that just to be a little bit more illustrative this is really really important when you're dealing with a drift car or even a St car that has uh limited clearance issues when I say scrub radius small scrub radius would be like it has a pivot point in the middle this would be higher offset Wheels where when you start sticking spacers and stuff on it when you turn the wheel instead of like this it's traveling like this which that was a very exaggerated thing but just trying to illustrate the concept so you know what I'm talking about latter so we're going to start off with a 15 mil and see where does 15 mil spacer did the trick and now in retrospect looking at it I'm really glad that I didn't go with a taller Tire cuz that front upright would have created a real problem we're not touching right no it's probably like I could probably space it out a little bit more but we know our minimum point now yeah all right now the moment of truth how are we looking clearance wise we could pretend that this is like I don't think this will be full droop full droop might honestly be higher but look in the back dude no issues whatsoever even this area that you usually have to like Cammer in mhm not hitting front no issues up here this might be an issue under compression so when we get into the suspension point in the video I'll show you how I'm going to figure out where we're going to set our bump stops and oh man it would have been nice to clearance of chassis before we undercoated everything huh and before we painted the engine bay I think we'll be all right you're close to the swayed Barre but you're not hitting it sick how does it look like fitment wise I mean it's going to be sunk but that's okay it's like maybe a width load on the car maybe 2 in that looks funny yeah imagine I put non GTR fenders on a GTR actually would it actually wouldn't be a terrible idea cuz you would keep the rear cuz like we don't need it to have all that extra clearance in front right I have them yeah but you don't have them wrapped a boy can try true all you need to do is buy more e36s and'll give me more free wraps I have those look hella sunk that's going to be a problem but my scrub radius is going to create a problem because then this right now that isn't that big of a problem will become a way bigger problem yeah cuz it's going to move the wheel way more forward all right so we've got our happy spot and that's 15 mil spacer yep so we know 15 works so this is why you build the car first and then you wrap and paint and do all that after to avoid situations like this so like worst case scenario we'll be able to do a little cutting and trimming I don't think GTRs have adjustable Caster oh actually yeah I could just push that traction Rod back a little bit I don't know how that'll affect how it drives but knowing Tommy is probably not set up to drive right anyway right now so not that he wouldn't do that it just this was like a shell you know yeah so all right I can do that that'll get us something try that first yeah before I cry doesn't look like we'll have any clearance issues here I was worried that it might get kind of close to there but I really feel like 28 in is the perfect tire height for your GTR Safari build needs God the front looks so cool I'm so hyped now before we get into figuring out the suspension setup on this car it's very important to have the full weight in it which means putting the engine in the car so we're going to cut to some footage of sea getting the engine in the car and then we'll dive in the suspension no it's snowing Sean Vlogs are back baby I guess I guess what working on we're doing the fuel system on the R32 the safari car yeah we got the radium Top Hat up in there uh and then I ran a 8 a in line and a 6 a in line down from that up to the front of the car the radium kit comes with these sick brackets that bolt to each other and then to the chassis yeah they're like perfect yeah the peel lines can't go anywhere and then we got our content sensor from link and our fuel pressure sensor from link and then our radium fuel filter so we got all that mounted on the rail and set the engine in and make the rest of the fuel lines from the content sensor and the fuel filter to the engine yeah once it's all in the car sick can't do tripping fing on me my chcken B I wait till the noise I know the noise all right we got the engine back in for the final time going to start uh dressing it up and putting all the tiny little pieces stuff tomorrow Johan will do intercooler piping and exhaust like a downpipe to the rest of the exhaust and then wiring we got the fuel lines ran today so just few more things and we should be ready to start this thing within a couple days looks sick as elen there yeah I like the green on the white right it's a good color combo do got to make oil lines um run power steering line and like two or three more days and this thing will run I promise oh yeah so we'll see if we can get it running Before Christmas that'll be Adam's Christmas present right it's s all right now the most important part of this safari car being able B to do great things and hit rocks and go fast and slide around is a suspension and luckily enough BC racing will custom spec out your coilovers absolutely for free but I'm guessing it's not common that people ask for Safari spec R32 GTR coilovers so what we did is we started off by utilizing longer shocks that are going to Target a ride height approximately 1 to 2 in over stock now again this is the first iteration of the car maybe we'll need more lift maybe we won't but when it comes to redesigning suspension arms messing with the angle of tie rods and all that stuff I I don't want to get too complicated so my idea was to go an inch of tire height gain an inch to 2 in of suspension gain but I will say with spring rates I need to take some measurements before we get them dialed in these are just placeholders right now I want to Target to actually have just slightly stiffer than stock which on this car is like a 2 or a 3K but have a dual stage spring so there'll be a second spring up top that will be about double that spring rate so instead of hitting bump stops on really soft Springs we'll have a soft spring so the suspension can have a lot of travel and soak up all the bumps on the road and then the upper spring will be used more so for preventing the Wheel from hitting things preventing suspension components from maxing out without just hitting a bump stop one thing that's going to come in handy is BC Racing's new premium spanner wrench set we're going to be adjusting the height a lot on this thing to get it right she you're a big ride height guy you want to have a set of these don't get fatigue on your fingers available now on the BC racing website I'll put a link in the description look at that so as an example we can see the existing suspension that was in there and how much longer the custom spec BCS we have and mind you this is them fully Low Max low is what it's set out right now that will help a yep I actually found I had some softer Springs in my stash so I'm going to start off with a 5K in the front which I know will be a lot closer towards what I'm aiming for we just obviously won't have the secondary spring to prevent it from hitting like what not a bad starting point for Max low full droop yeah pry sick sick clearance looks epic now mhm I'm so excited I just want to see this thing rip around here I know it's going to look so funny mhm but I think it's also going to drive great or terrible what'll be sick is you won't feel like anything on the road you'll have so much time to absorb all of that yo I'm going to go to Starbucks and I'm going to jump over the curb you know the Cur what I'm talking about yes I do yeah that's going to be so cool bro I just realized what Rich dudes use Safari Porsches for there's a ton of spring tension on all these bushing so I'm going to crack them all loose since we're going to be finding a new center point for the suspension versus it's previously lose on I got the my I my I on on I hot off the press Tu bong saddle o O2 style like it cuz it's easier to well it looks better looks weird but it's better just got to W that on there then I might add a b down here and then it'll be downpipe then mid pipe on the S15 the green S15 we have it like that but just for ease of service I think it's better just to make it two piece but right now I have this going in the direction it needs to so this right here is below the car yeah along the firewall and then the floor right so depending on where I add a b van it doesn't change anything if anything it gives me more room to clock it and the dead on I weld this on and then I could make make the the make pipe which is shouldn't be as long as this now it's done had this here you can tell somewhat the Wells on this two joints here look better than the rest got to do partly with the material not being clean or like uh sand it like I normally do so that just shows you like you know still gets a decent well yeah and it's bad Pur so it will help with cracking and all that stuff Wells it on the inside right yeah like the well go fully through the metal right if you're like fully penetrating yeah so now this is done got now do the rest of the now I want to make it clear that this is one of the first times ever I've gotten with Johan and I've said hey Yan don't give me your best work on this I just want it done fast you don't need to go super OCD and this is Johan's version of a fast down pipe still literally a piece of art I don't think Johan can can do anything bad not about doing nothing bad you could tell some of the wells I was like welding fast so the gas coverage wasn't good it still looks great but like the well at the end of the day will come out decent if your fit up is good so like fit up is pretty much what I pay attention to and then when he tells me to rush it then I just well it still looks amazing it's a compliment yeah not bad D for for LZ not really knowing so I just did this because I like the black Edge on this yeah oh man I missed a little corner of red here a little black Sharpie won't fix a mud flap's going to end up covering this anyway I don't really know how that's going to look um potentially something like this but this mud flap will give us the mounting point for the stuff to attach yeah and then it kind of like ties in with that line yeah that looks sick all right here's our first look at what I think is going to wind up being the ride height of the R32 GTR Safari mind you this is not its final spring rates right now the spring rates are actually pretty soft I'm like 4 and 5K the problem is I'm worried if there's a big bump that it could hit the chassis right now from the top of the tire to the first point of contact in the chassis I've got about 4 1/2 in of clearance but when I jack this thing up in the front it has a ton of droop too which is going to be key for like going over lots of bumps and stuff but what's interesting is frame FR rail to ground we have or I'll go from Pinch weld because that's almost the lowest point of the car 10 1/2 in in the front and the rear it's about equal right now and if we compare it to this GTR which I'll say is probably on the lower side this one has 6 and 1/2 in so we've got about 4 in of extra clearance obviously compared to stock it's probably closer to 2 in but I think uh it looks pretty good and I I think it's going to ride pretty good the only thing I'm a little bit concerned about is just the the front Arc that we going to have going on mhm might need to trim a little bit of this bumper maybe make a bracket that will like hold it out a little bit more I think that would actually help a lot um cuz I want to space the wheel out a tiny bit more it's really close to that front upright to where if the tire is deflecting or moving around it could rub uh and if you want to kind of get an idea of what it's going to look like once it gets the mud flaps these will probably go something like this I don't know how low we'll have them sit up set up or down that would go like that and then we'd have one back here look oh yeah absolutely so that'll be a a more of a I'll call it an aesthetic mod there's quite a few other Safari type mods things is going to get but the suspension is a big one and uh I want you to see the angle of the axles and the arms right now another important thing to keep in mind when you're raising a car and especially if the arm is going from being directed up like this to being like this you're essentially amplifying the spring rate because of how the arms oriented so a 6K spring might be a little bit softer than 6 is really low but it starts to get stiffer when you get higher but the axle angle right now isn't terrible no it's straight I don't hate it yeah um everything looks pretty solid the tie rod isn't terrible obviously when it gets a full droop it gets a little hairy and then in the rear like it it doesn't look that abnormal I think getting the inch from the tire helps a lot yeah and like the the down the road plan is if we needed more clearance we could just drop the subframes which would retain the arm angle but my my favorite thing about this I want to show you how much droop this car has cuz it's ridiculous that's where the long travel BC's come and play bet you never did this with your GTR how funny is that oh yeah straight up monster trucking that's quite a bit of travel yeah that's awesome so I'm pretty excited I think it's going to drive pretty good that's it for this one uh we're obviously going to be on Christmas break for a little bit so the next update on this thing maybe like a mid to late next week I might play with the legend car in the meantime time I've got some stuff I want to do and I got a buddy from down south who's an expert with tiny little engines who uh wants to come up and play with my carbs with me so I got a couple of little little things of that so I might dive into that while we wait to get to the next phase of this but uh the next video you might even hear this thing running so thank you guys for watching hope you're stoked as I am on this thing and I'll see you soon it's I forgot Mike used to work at Tyra bro Sears that's crazy pepper prob remember Sears people from Connecticut when you say when youI love life it's welcome to episode two of the Safari GTR project now we made a lot of Headway but today is going to be the most important part of the build and that is the tire wheel suspension package the intentions of this car are still a little bit unknown because I don't really know where it's going to perform best gravel snow off-road rally rocks mountains and I'm not an off-road person so there's quite a bit of unknowns here maybe you guys can help me out a little bit but I've done some research and I'm going to walk you through the plan one of the most exciting things was getting to see this bad boy up in this wheel well and get an idea of what this thing's going to actually look like so this tire right here is nitto's nomat Grappler it's actually designed for crossover utility vehicles and for our case it's available in many different sizes so if this doesn't work we have different options to choose from couple key highlights it's really good off-road nitto's blockings makes it really quiet on the road it's good in rain it's triple snowflake certified so it'll be good in the snow and we have two different sidewalls to choose from one that's a little more aggressive and one that's I don't know a little more geometrical because of the fact that I'm trying to keep the GTR all-wheel drive one of our limiting factors when it comes to raising the car is going to be the front axle if I raise it too much not only does that start to throw off the geometry of the front end but we start to run into issues with axles hitting things axles popping out and binding so rather than getting all of our lift from the suspension it did some math the stock GTR wheels are around 20 6 in these tires are around 28 in so we'll get about 1 in of lift just from the tires alone without affecting any arm angles without affecting the axle placement the only thing will be affecting is clearance we kind of rolling the dice on as an example these are the wheels that came on the car they are a little bit bigger than stock but you can see when you actually put the off-road tire next to it it's really not that different and you got to remember too this is like on the ground so if they were centered we're talking like like I I know it's going to work yeah I think it's going to work hopefully the theme of this build is it's going to work great or it's not not going to work at all but it's going to be fun and we're going to try my fellow off- rians may be thinking why didn't you go with a smaller wheel Adam the more Tire the better front brakes on the GTR they are designed to clear 16-in Wheels that's what they come with from the factory I was actually trying to find factory GTR Wheels people want a ridiculous amount of money for them we got a quick timeline this car literally needs to be done in a week and that includes all of the holiday brakes and stuff so by going up to a 17-in wheel that open us up to many options of which are the wheels that I'm going to be using on this build yep Nismo lmgt2 is baby but hear me out these wheels are 17 by8 the sets usually come staggered with 17x 8 17 by9 the 17x 9s are what I like because the 17x 8S look stupid we want a narrower wheel since the tire that we're using is a 21565 and that'll protect the wheel with the tire and as we dive deeper in this build you'll realize there's a bit of a Nismo theme going on with it I want to emphasize this is not me trying to destroy an R32 GTR I'm going to honor it and I'm going to find a new way to enjoy it I want to add a disclaimer that the colorway on this wheel or the other Wheels probably not what we're going to end up going with however one's light and one's dark which should kind of give us an idea what looks good on the car we got a lot of different Prismatic powders to choose from so hopefully you guys can help us make the decision there nonetheless I want to get a mounted up start seeing what we're dealing with fitment wise I like this tread that's the one for me why I don't know this just looks so long this is like the first time I've ever mounted a tire this bag big on my machine you won't even need that I was going to say watch this be the easiest Tire I've ever you literally won't even need that you don't think no it's so I for Mike used to work at Tyra Sears Auto Baby Bro Sears yeah that's crazy hell yeah Pepper Farm remember Sears people from Connecticut remember pepper farms and pepper Farms remember who makes the Bagels Thomas Thomas Thomas that's my little brother dude it's all it's also the Grinch you stole Christmas that was ridiculous yeah I'm sing that's sick you know what's kind of cool about it so all of the Porsche guys use I'm not authentic enough to know how to to say it fuks fukes fukes yes no bleep that last one no that's the right way to say but they they all use it on their Safari Porsches and it's kind of like actually I don't know if they're just like replicas of them or what mhm but they're bringing Heritage into the Safari and the LM gt2s brings Heritage into the Safari it kind of looks like something you'd see on someone's four doesn't it it does shout out to my 4Runner peeps we might be reaching a new market with off-road videos all yeah maybe you're going to put a widow wad on the back a ladder yeah a widow what for climbing on your woof is that a thing yeah that's that's off-road people thing that's a first yeah there a big de this is a new problem that I don't face with stance all right next up money hell yeah baby quietest bead seat ever yeah for real this is so cool I love life let's see if we achieved what I was looking for will the side wall protect the rim yeah the thing is you see rocks they're they're not shaped like a flat floor so they're going to the r up but it's okay I'm in it for the long haul as Drake would say it looks perfect I'm glad I didn't do nines yeah should we see if we can do not Crush my hands though oh yeah you think mhm that's crazy yeah bro they should charge way less from Mountain truck tires if that's how they all are yep jeez I don't think silver is it the bronze looks intentional the silver just looks like laziness yeah sporty boy chose the wrong size wheel mind you the lmgt2 uh is definitely going to be really sunk for GTR but I think that's going to help us when it comes to Fender clearance and stuff since it's not a drift car uh so might need spacers but I'd rather have a more sunk wheel than something that pokes out too far looks sick doesn't look like clearance is going to be a big issue either no if anything I feel like maybe trim the front bumper or a tad when you're turning yeah I kind of want to mock everything up and then see in the air since that'll kind of give us an idea of like Drew yeah we've encountered our first problem I don't know if you guys saw my Instagram story but we've recently discovered that Johan is an absolute Pro on the ring is it Grand Turismo yeah so you hopped on the Sim the other day and like literally all of us have our Jaws on the floor watching him absolutely shredding dud this thing's ridiculous oh it's na it's crazy all right guys this is your reminder that every $5 you spend on lzmfg or drift hq.com is going to get you entered for a chance to win a Podium 1 ultimate simulator just like this one but we're going to custom spec it out to your needs pretty cool giveaway we've all been having a blast with it I'll put more information in the description the tire rubs the rear upper well the tire rubs the front upper Tire rubs the front thing front upper control arm the front yeah but they call it some weird thing in GTR term it's like the front upright okay so it's like a knuckle like upper knuckle but we're hella sunk so I think I can confidently stick a spacer on there and we'll be all right yeah um maybe I'll shoot with a 20 mil for first but ideally I want it as close to that as possible cuz the more sunk the wheel the less clearance issues will have versus if it's poking out a lot there'll be a higher scrub radius the closer it is inward the more it pivots on the same axis as as the knuckle and the less issue we'll have with like bumpers rear area and all that just to be a little bit more illustrative this is really really important when you're dealing with a drift car or even a St car that has uh limited clearance issues when I say scrub radius small scrub radius would be like it has a pivot point in the middle this would be higher offset Wheels where when you start sticking spacers and stuff on it when you turn the wheel instead of like this it's traveling like this which that was a very exaggerated thing but just trying to illustrate the concept so you know what I'm talking about latter so we're going to start off with a 15 mil and see where does 15 mil spacer did the trick and now in retrospect looking at it I'm really glad that I didn't go with a taller Tire cuz that front upright would have created a real problem we're not touching right no it's probably like I could probably space it out a little bit more but we know our minimum point now yeah all right now the moment of truth how are we looking clearance wise we could pretend that this is like I don't think this will be full droop full droop might honestly be higher but look in the back dude no issues whatsoever even this area that you usually have to like Cammer in mhm not hitting front no issues up here this might be an issue under compression so when we get into the suspension point in the video I'll show you how I'm going to figure out where we're going to set our bump stops and oh man it would have been nice to clearance of chassis before we undercoated everything huh and before we painted the engine bay I think we'll be all right you're close to the swayed Barre but you're not hitting it sick how does it look like fitment wise I mean it's going to be sunk but that's okay it's like maybe a width load on the car maybe 2 in that looks funny yeah imagine I put non GTR fenders on a GTR actually would it actually wouldn't be a terrible idea cuz you would keep the rear cuz like we don't need it to have all that extra clearance in front right I have them yeah but you don't have them wrapped a boy can try true all you need to do is buy more e36s and'll give me more free wraps I have those look hella sunk that's going to be a problem but my scrub radius is going to create a problem because then this right now that isn't that big of a problem will become a way bigger problem yeah cuz it's going to move the wheel way more forward all right so we've got our happy spot and that's 15 mil spacer yep so we know 15 works so this is why you build the car first and then you wrap and paint and do all that after to avoid situations like this so like worst case scenario we'll be able to do a little cutting and trimming I don't think GTRs have adjustable Caster oh actually yeah I could just push that traction Rod back a little bit I don't know how that'll affect how it drives but knowing Tommy is probably not set up to drive right anyway right now so not that he wouldn't do that it just this was like a shell you know yeah so all right I can do that that'll get us something try that first yeah before I cry doesn't look like we'll have any clearance issues here I was worried that it might get kind of close to there but I really feel like 28 in is the perfect tire height for your GTR Safari build needs God the front looks so cool I'm so hyped now before we get into figuring out the suspension setup on this car it's very important to have the full weight in it which means putting the engine in the car so we're going to cut to some footage of sea getting the engine in the car and then we'll dive in the suspension no it's snowing Sean Vlogs are back baby I guess I guess what working on we're doing the fuel system on the R32 the safari car yeah we got the radium Top Hat up in there uh and then I ran a 8 a in line and a 6 a in line down from that up to the front of the car the radium kit comes with these sick brackets that bolt to each other and then to the chassis yeah they're like perfect yeah the peel lines can't go anywhere and then we got our content sensor from link and our fuel pressure sensor from link and then our radium fuel filter so we got all that mounted on the rail and set the engine in and make the rest of the fuel lines from the content sensor and the fuel filter to the engine yeah once it's all in the car sick can't do tripping fing on me my chcken B I wait till the noise I know the noise all right we got the engine back in for the final time going to start uh dressing it up and putting all the tiny little pieces stuff tomorrow Johan will do intercooler piping and exhaust like a downpipe to the rest of the exhaust and then wiring we got the fuel lines ran today so just few more things and we should be ready to start this thing within a couple days looks sick as elen there yeah I like the green on the white right it's a good color combo do got to make oil lines um run power steering line and like two or three more days and this thing will run I promise oh yeah so we'll see if we can get it running Before Christmas that'll be Adam's Christmas present right it's s all right now the most important part of this safari car being able B to do great things and hit rocks and go fast and slide around is a suspension and luckily enough BC racing will custom spec out your coilovers absolutely for free but I'm guessing it's not common that people ask for Safari spec R32 GTR coilovers so what we did is we started off by utilizing longer shocks that are going to Target a ride height approximately 1 to 2 in over stock now again this is the first iteration of the car maybe we'll need more lift maybe we won't but when it comes to redesigning suspension arms messing with the angle of tie rods and all that stuff I I don't want to get too complicated so my idea was to go an inch of tire height gain an inch to 2 in of suspension gain but I will say with spring rates I need to take some measurements before we get them dialed in these are just placeholders right now I want to Target to actually have just slightly stiffer than stock which on this car is like a 2 or a 3K but have a dual stage spring so there'll be a second spring up top that will be about double that spring rate so instead of hitting bump stops on really soft Springs we'll have a soft spring so the suspension can have a lot of travel and soak up all the bumps on the road and then the upper spring will be used more so for preventing the Wheel from hitting things preventing suspension components from maxing out without just hitting a bump stop one thing that's going to come in handy is BC Racing's new premium spanner wrench set we're going to be adjusting the height a lot on this thing to get it right she you're a big ride height guy you want to have a set of these don't get fatigue on your fingers available now on the BC racing website I'll put a link in the description look at that so as an example we can see the existing suspension that was in there and how much longer the custom spec BCS we have and mind you this is them fully Low Max low is what it's set out right now that will help a yep I actually found I had some softer Springs in my stash so I'm going to start off with a 5K in the front which I know will be a lot closer towards what I'm aiming for we just obviously won't have the secondary spring to prevent it from hitting like what not a bad starting point for Max low full droop yeah pry sick sick clearance looks epic now mhm I'm so excited I just want to see this thing rip around here I know it's going to look so funny mhm but I think it's also going to drive great or terrible what'll be sick is you won't feel like anything on the road you'll have so much time to absorb all of that yo I'm going to go to Starbucks and I'm going to jump over the curb you know the Cur what I'm talking about yes I do yeah that's going to be so cool bro I just realized what Rich dudes use Safari Porsches for there's a ton of spring tension on all these bushing so I'm going to crack them all loose since we're going to be finding a new center point for the suspension versus it's previously lose on I got the my I my I on on I hot off the press Tu bong saddle o O2 style like it cuz it's easier to well it looks better looks weird but it's better just got to W that on there then I might add a b down here and then it'll be downpipe then mid pipe on the S15 the green S15 we have it like that but just for ease of service I think it's better just to make it two piece but right now I have this going in the direction it needs to so this right here is below the car yeah along the firewall and then the floor right so depending on where I add a b van it doesn't change anything if anything it gives me more room to clock it and the dead on I weld this on and then I could make make the the make pipe which is shouldn't be as long as this now it's done had this here you can tell somewhat the Wells on this two joints here look better than the rest got to do partly with the material not being clean or like uh sand it like I normally do so that just shows you like you know still gets a decent well yeah and it's bad Pur so it will help with cracking and all that stuff Wells it on the inside right yeah like the well go fully through the metal right if you're like fully penetrating yeah so now this is done got now do the rest of the now I want to make it clear that this is one of the first times ever I've gotten with Johan and I've said hey Yan don't give me your best work on this I just want it done fast you don't need to go super OCD and this is Johan's version of a fast down pipe still literally a piece of art I don't think Johan can can do anything bad not about doing nothing bad you could tell some of the wells I was like welding fast so the gas coverage wasn't good it still looks great but like the well at the end of the day will come out decent if your fit up is good so like fit up is pretty much what I pay attention to and then when he tells me to rush it then I just well it still looks amazing it's a compliment yeah not bad D for for LZ not really knowing so I just did this because I like the black Edge on this yeah oh man I missed a little corner of red here a little black Sharpie won't fix a mud flap's going to end up covering this anyway I don't really know how that's going to look um potentially something like this but this mud flap will give us the mounting point for the stuff to attach yeah and then it kind of like ties in with that line yeah that looks sick all right here's our first look at what I think is going to wind up being the ride height of the R32 GTR Safari mind you this is not its final spring rates right now the spring rates are actually pretty soft I'm like 4 and 5K the problem is I'm worried if there's a big bump that it could hit the chassis right now from the top of the tire to the first point of contact in the chassis I've got about 4 1/2 in of clearance but when I jack this thing up in the front it has a ton of droop too which is going to be key for like going over lots of bumps and stuff but what's interesting is frame FR rail to ground we have or I'll go from Pinch weld because that's almost the lowest point of the car 10 1/2 in in the front and the rear it's about equal right now and if we compare it to this GTR which I'll say is probably on the lower side this one has 6 and 1/2 in so we've got about 4 in of extra clearance obviously compared to stock it's probably closer to 2 in but I think uh it looks pretty good and I I think it's going to ride pretty good the only thing I'm a little bit concerned about is just the the front Arc that we going to have going on mhm might need to trim a little bit of this bumper maybe make a bracket that will like hold it out a little bit more I think that would actually help a lot um cuz I want to space the wheel out a tiny bit more it's really close to that front upright to where if the tire is deflecting or moving around it could rub uh and if you want to kind of get an idea of what it's going to look like once it gets the mud flaps these will probably go something like this I don't know how low we'll have them sit up set up or down that would go like that and then we'd have one back here look oh yeah absolutely so that'll be a a more of a I'll call it an aesthetic mod there's quite a few other Safari type mods things is going to get but the suspension is a big one and uh I want you to see the angle of the axles and the arms right now another important thing to keep in mind when you're raising a car and especially if the arm is going from being directed up like this to being like this you're essentially amplifying the spring rate because of how the arms oriented so a 6K spring might be a little bit softer than 6 is really low but it starts to get stiffer when you get higher but the axle angle right now isn't terrible no it's straight I don't hate it yeah um everything looks pretty solid the tie rod isn't terrible obviously when it gets a full droop it gets a little hairy and then in the rear like it it doesn't look that abnormal I think getting the inch from the tire helps a lot yeah and like the the down the road plan is if we needed more clearance we could just drop the subframes which would retain the arm angle but my my favorite thing about this I want to show you how much droop this car has cuz it's ridiculous that's where the long travel BC's come and play bet you never did this with your GTR how funny is that oh yeah straight up monster trucking that's quite a bit of travel yeah that's awesome so I'm pretty excited I think it's going to drive pretty good that's it for this one uh we're obviously going to be on Christmas break for a little bit so the next update on this thing maybe like a mid to late next week I might play with the legend car in the meantime time I've got some stuff I want to do and I got a buddy from down south who's an expert with tiny little engines who uh wants to come up and play with my carbs with me so I got a couple of little little things of that so I might dive into that while we wait to get to the next phase of this but uh the next video you might even hear this thing running so thank you guys for watching hope you're stoked as I am on this thing and I'll see you soon it's I forgot Mike used to work at Tyra bro Sears that's crazy pepper prob remember Sears people from Connecticut when you say when you\n"