Five Lug Swap: Part 1

Once upon a time this car was 100% stock and we were planning on keeping it that way because it was a good and reliable daily driver but people kept asking if we were going to do a five lug swap. We weren't really planning on doing it but a year and a half later here we are. This will be over four parts detailing how we did it.

You may or may not know that our Skyline was four lug because it was N/A and had an open differential. We decided that we didn't like that and it was time to do a five lug swap, even though we planned to keep it stock (hahah)! That would mean we would either have to do just a hub swap which required a lot of work or we could simply drop the subframe and swap it for a new one that already had five lugs. Since we were also planning on doing the HICAS delete anyways and wanted a limited slip differential so this way made a lot more sense. We picked up the front and rear subframe from a buddy who had just lost his GTS-T Skyline to a pole for $550. The first step to making this happen was we had to clean up the new subframe and prep it for new parts.

Here's the front and back view of the rear subframe. It has a VLSD, bigger axels compared to what our N/A had, single pot rear brake calipers and upgraded 300ZX brake rotors.

We were only taking the front hubs, rotors, calipers and stronger front suspension arms that came from the new front subframe and we got rid of the rest.

Brand new AMS solid subframe bushings, HICAS eliminator and Powerflex diff bushings which I should have put more research into because I ordered them before I got the rear subframe and realized I didn't actually need them. (REVIEW IN PART 3)

We cleaned up the subframe, removed some thing we didn't need from it, and painted it with a rust preventative paint and it also made it look a lot better. Part two will be about removing the subframe bushings and putting the new ones in, putting on other new parts including the HICAS delete kit.