BEE*R 324 Skyline - Shiny Stuff Alert

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After my Mx5 hillclimber went off to its new pilot for a season i hankered after some J tin.






A chance conversation with DJ at Garage Sinister led me to an accident damaged BEE*R R324.

It's an R32 Skyline GTST 2litre in a fancy set of new clothes that mimic the R34, the car is one of 4 car built by the legendary BEE*R garage and imported into the UK.

Should look like this










Now like this
















Now the money shot





Plan is probably a reshell and refurbish of all the components to make a fast road car.

[edwardbear]

Looks fast already. Think of the weight saving

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Reputed to have 450 bhp so should do ok in the fast stakes

[HoTWire]

Nice purchase

Are you Reshelling into an R34 look or R32?

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UPDATE :Pulled the kit off the rear and to say it's rough







So I took the decision to re shell it and managed to find a straighter R32 shell, given the horrible state of the original shell and the rust trap that gets crearted by the bodykit we took the decision to tub the rear arches properly.





Chop,Chop.....





First part of the tub.

[alecf]

saw that for sale on ebay a bit back,

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Yes i made a cheeky offer and paid about half of what he was asking.

[🇿🇼Kingludba🇬🇧]

Watching this one.

[Davey]

Very interested in this.

[kikiichiban]

Love it, glad to see it's coming back to life.

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So bit of an update on the old girl.

After a lot of head scratching the rear tubs were finished, and under sealed and the profile of the tub cut to the shape of the body kit.



The kit will then get bonded to this edge to stop the ingress of water.

We did is this way, as you can see from the donor car,this becomes a real rust trap, and just in case anyone from Bee*R sees this, if this is the work of one of Japan's top tuning houses I would hate to see what the worst one was like.



We then took a bit of a radical decision on the front end. The new shell had suffered some drift injuries to the front as well as the normal J-tin worm from random intercooler holes and battery leakage. The donor car also demonstrated just how tightly everything was packed into the engine bay So it was out with the grinder and we ended up with this.



The plan is a partly tubular front end similar to this.



Various bits have gone off to be blasted and stripped, including the fairly rare (so I am told) Bee*R B5 rims.

As I need a roof over my head my house renovation is getting in the way of working on this so DJ at Garage Sinister is taking the reins for a month or so.

More updates to follow

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May 29, 2017 16:20:06 GMT HoTWire said:

Nice purchase

Are you Reshelling into an R34 look or R32 ?

Its a Bee*R R324,As you probably know some countries wont allow the import of performance Japanese cars unless they are 15 years old.So Bee*R came up with the idea of grafting the R34 front and wide arches onto the R32 shell so you get something that resembles an R34. Its a bit of a marmite car some purist hate them others love it.

[surprisingskoda]

Yes, but what he was asking was are you reshelling it as a standard R32 or will you be re-creating the R32/4.
Obviously your later post answers that.

The next question would be, why are the rear hubs on the new orange shell 4-stud?

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Jul 11, 2017 1:07:18 GMT surprisingskoda said:

Yes, but what he was asking was are you reshelling it as a standard R32 or will you be re-creating the R32/4.
Obviously your later post answers that.

The next question would be, why are the rear hubs on the new orange shell 4-stud?

Apologies, yes as the R32/4 is just based around a common or garden GTST shell, re-shelling it doesn't really alter what it is as all the value is in the body kit, wheels and remapped ECU.

The shell rolled in on s14 underpinnings, the 5 stud subframes that were in the car are off to blasting and then either powder coat or paint.

The garage gets a good discount on Driftworks stuff so a lot of the standard stuff is being replaced.

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Work continues on the tubed front end, we got a new bender in the garage. I will leave you to make the jokes about which one it is.



After a lot of head scratching and measuring and cutting, we came up with this.



With new project hiding in the background.



All tacked in place just a question now of buttoning up the welding, cutting off and tidying the horns where the wings were, welding on some tabs to hang stuff off and then prepping and shooting the bay in a bronze colour to match the wheels.

Engine and box should be in by end of week......

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A few more progress pics



Welding to the tubed end complete



Lights and winged boot

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So a small hole pin the drivers cill resulted in finding this



So while a few bits of sheet got bent and tacked in.....no picture so use your imagination.

Then the old girl got her big ass back.

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Now we have the tubed front all square, we have now started temporarily hanging body panels lights etc and making tabs and gusseting (I love that word.








Gave it a bit of a sand and then gave it a coat of bronze to smarten it up a bit, wheels will be painted the same colour.

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Things have started to get interesting now.

In an effort to get the shell rolling the front sub frame etc. got blasted then hit with a coat of Hammerite then got dropped in. I had already sold a kidney to finance a delivery from Driftworks. I have gone with HSD Monopros, as I have them on my MX5 and I was really impressed by home much them improved the ride, all the Driftworks tie rods, camber arms etc got bolted on. Just to tidy the engine bay the ABS is going to be ditched.





Front hubs and Brembo disks and callipers are on, I will probably re anodise the disk carriers once we know it all works, front lines will get replaced with HEL braided.



So we now had a rolling shell, the rear is off an S14 as the rear sub frame is undergoing the same treatment as the front



The engine then got pulled from the old shell for a refresh,the clutch is an uncertainty so the gearbox will get split and probably a replacement is on the cards.





The new shell then got put on the ramp and the workshop had a bit of a tidy up.

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Very good work so far! I like a lot these cars. Keep going!