MoMnDadGTR

cheers chap. i ordered some but dont know if i can wait 2 weeks to try this bitch lol. shipping from australia takes some time these days for what ever reason. any where really about 2 weeks wait for me.

No might not be a bad idea though mate.

Lol

maybe a small leak on the intake manifold as well where pressure was sneaking into the coolant system. i could hear a wierd sound i never heard before like it had individual throttle bodies naturally aspirated. hard to describe the sound. like a deep waap sound that was never there ever. then followed by over heat. i think the leak was always there on block(crack). i ditched the metal intake gasket and went with a paper one with rtv on each side. gunna let everything sit till tomorow and try it again lol. what a shit show.

This was the smalll crack. I feel like this wasn’t my over heating issues tho. It would over heat extremely fast and rad seemed to pressurize way to quick when trying to bleed...

No smoke out exhaust, compression is good, no oil on coolant or coolant in oil.

Got that right mate. Every time I start the car I hold my breathe. At first I thought it was my intake gasket so pulled that all off yesterday to do it again today to fix the crack. My rad seems to be pressurizing extemely quick is this normal? I started the car this morning from dead cold start for 4 seconds just to confirm the leak( needs a bit of pressure to leak) and my rad had pressure like mad after 4 seconds of running

it doesnt leak unless the rad pressurizes fyi. once i had the car back together i started it for 5 seconds then quickly jumped out and shut it off to see the leak/crack. doesnt take long to start dripping like a average bloody nose.

Well i couldnt for any reason get a picture of what has happened to me but I'm back under the knife again. short lived dream haha. directly under roughly 5 and 4 piston, the block has cracked on the intake manifold side. i was wondering if anyone has experienced this on the intake side? i know they are known to crack between the water jackets on the exhaust side but this seems stange. strange things and me is very normal tho soooo...... JB weld the crap out of it or what mates? it is creating the car to over heat thats how this problem arose. i always noticed a tiny coolant leak in my garage from the very first time i started this motor. i took my intake manifold off and resealed it because i thought i was leaking on one of my coolant ports in my manifold... after some abuse the leak has gotten worse. the rad seems to pressurize extremely quick. i really dont care to much about this motor anymore do you mates think i will have luck with jb weld or something and let her settle then send?

This is what it’s all about IMG_4853.MOV

A little hick up with the head and now I’m back in action. I had my doubts of the new engine even working as this was my first setup self tuned motor. Might work out a dyno day to tighten it up but it’s fine for now for some family cruising. Pump with meth on 25 psi is plenty feels like 550whp. Good to be driving the gtr everyday now. It’s a good strong setup I’m happy as hell with it now. 9:5:1 compression makes for some nice tourque but had to turn timing way down. Cheers.

the worst part now is trying not to drive it lol.......what a fun unit i feel 100 times more alive than ever haha. i kind of forgot about how stunning they sound and feel, smooth power right to 8500rpm. i made sure i did the break in proper, by that i mean raped it at 20 psi for the day, seems about right. i got 160psi hot on the compression test, i though my tester was broken ive never seen an rb over 145 psi lol.

Kid in a candy store lol IMG_4918.MOV

Welll I had everything I needed to get the job done and my wife’s support yet again to dial in,focus, I think I did everything right it was a blur. missed a couple things I had to go back for. Head gasket sealed I dropped the oil and coolant and checked out well minus all the shit in the coolant from my shinanigans trying to get the block surface right again. Next time I would of just used a gasket remover a little dull, and some acetone.

Head was tourqued to 105ft pounds FYI on a tomei 1.2mm with cheap arp studs not the deadly ones.

Well my son inspired me to be strong like his dinasaur and hammer down and get the job done. The son of a gun runs and doesn’t burn oil! Yet lol will see how it lasts. 12 hours straight wasn’t to bad. Was a little rushed but that’s how I role.....felt good went well gtr gods were on my side today.

ExCtly mate. I made a custom one to my standard. I got it running today!

I’ll be firing up the welder I like that better than the braided steel drain line. Not to mention I’m only 10an a little small for turbo drain.

i like that turbo drain, where did you get that one mate?

kind words, thank you mate. it is a great country. i already got the head back on im slowing putting her back together. we did a new guide and sealant, let it sit for a day and yeah thats how im gunna role on this one see if it holds. we recut the seats, set lash, blah blah. im always quick to black out but once i settle i get this sense of confidence and relax, hammer down and just get it done. i found a guide washer floating around behind my timing gear that i gotta deal with its leaving flakes of aluminum on my everything. ill send a picture with what i mean. its just floating around in there, my friend who helps me build this car must of been smoking something on that one as he set up the timing gear with the prp kit....now i know the wierd sound i always heard like a zinging metal sound from front of motor. lol

yeah mate i think about this from time to time when im struggling with the car. i felt for you guys on that one.

your 100 percent right mate i acting a bit like a child over this. gunna pick my bottom lip up and go hammer down and get my GTR running again. im off to the machine shop to try and make this right. thanks for the support mates you are good fellas down under. i even got a lead on another head worst comes to worst if a new guide wont seal up this current head. ive got a new set of guides and seals at the post office. i need my gtr lol i go bananas without it.

wow what a skid

lol well that mechanic probably knew the customer was softer than 10 ply and used the crap outta the situation. because if someone did that to me they would have to change their name and identity and move far far away to get away with that, god help my soul if i found them before the police. thats the definition of being used and played like a fiddle what person in there right mind lets that happen over a 2 year period. sounds like a subaru owner lol. anyways i understand shit happens and people make mistakes but i also understand when people are trying to be shotty and sneaky i wont accept it. im going there tomorow with a list of all the extra money this costs me and if they dont come good for it it wont be hard for me to destroy there reputation around the area. every guy in the area with jz or rb takes motors here and are waiting to see how they come good for me. if they dont theres a good chance they loose up to 25 extremely good customers and we will be taking our machine work to a different province. pain in ass but we got a good machine shop about 2000km away that does rb30 builds all the time. just keep in mind this shop first gave me my motor back with the camshafts in backwards and said i had the wrong camshafts.......

I'm not gunna give up its just frustrating and im totally done spending every dollar i have on this thing just to see it "work" proper. maybe worth it to some poeple but not me. i get the die hards go through motors, gearbox's,rb30 builds go south, etc all the time, but i would like to know how many poeple go through engines and gearboxes all the time with a 500whp goal in mind with literally the most simple and chillest engine setup possible for a car like this? most people breaking stuff constantly having issues are looking for way bigger goals and pushing there cars hard. i jsut wanted something that worked nothing fancy. i got every top of the line part and took over 1.5 years building this engine at one machine shop.... if the motor is built right, tune is right, and work is done right with top of the line parts there no reason failure of shottty work should be accepted as a normal thing in this game. i highly doubt shops like croyden,b2r,etc would deliver you a head with a o ring in it expecting you to accept that as quality work for an engine that lives at 9000rpm....they tried to use me and pull a fast one on me ontop of all tghe crap work they already did. the thousands of extra dollars going into this car yet again that i dont even think should be coming out of my pocket, would be better spent for new soccer gear, and clothes, house upgrades for my son as he grows and matures, or maybe donating some of this car part money to a country and families that done even have power food or roof over there head... lifes not about the gtr anymore sadly enough as it sounds. Just another metal thing i own that really holds no value in my heart anymore compared to family. i have about 5 others hobbeys that i thoroughly enjoy like hunting, camping, wood splitting, tree cutting, quading, snow mobiling, just been outdoors really it quickly out weighs the selfish times i spend with my gtr day in and day out. that being said im not going to let my restored gtr sit and rot as its simply an investement to me now.... i just ordered my own valve guide installing and removal air hammer tool, ill drill them out if i have too myself. i have an oven i know how to use it. im stripping my head down and will through some new guides in myself, as im sure theres more leaking guides then jsut the one. when im done that i will test the guides as i know this was a super hard step for my shop to do. THEN removing my block and re honing a size up again, as i dont trust a dam thing this shop did to my gtr. again thanks for the help mates i truely appreciate it. going back under my rock for a bit till the black lemon is alive again. cheers