Wayne.

Update pls

Been going fairly well since all of this, still a lot of things I would like to tidy up/modify but is serving as a pretty good daily for now.

Switcherooo time this involved swapping everything from the white car to the red, heater core, dash assembly, air con, engine loom, engine and trans, rear cradle and diff, replaced all bushes (except rear cradle and front upper outer control arm bushes) replaced tie rods, and timing belt for good measure, it was a busy 5 days too say the least car has also acquired some gtr seats, old as hell tein rear coilovers, 3" exhaust, hi flow cat annnnd adjustable castor rods

so here is the real start of my journey, I had one week to swap everything from one car to another, get it all running and fix every dam issue with it. otherwise I would not have a car to be able to drive to work.

so I started searching for a rolling shell, there comes my next purchase, I found a clean shell that had been resprayed, not the greatest paint job but much better condition of a shell then my current car and plus it was all legit, which isn't completely necessary..."BUT IT HELPS"

so for some unknown reason I wanted to own a skyline as a daily once again and re-live my youth, I had a very tight budget and the cheapest turboed skylines around seemed to be R33 gts-t's, not really my favorite model but hopefully I can make something nice out of it.. the first R33 I bought was the cheapest one in the state at the time, I rushed into it and hardly looked at it and threw them the money and drove it 600kms home, it had a lot of issues that needed to be fixed and had clearly seen some abuse in its time once I got it home I put it up on stands straight away and started inspecting everything, upon inspection it was found that all of the VIN plates were missing...import plates, vin number grinded off the chassis, ignition barrel had also been swapped at some point, cracks in front control arms, blown out shocks all round, all bushed flogged out and chassis rail looked like an 80's hip hop song....M.C f**kin hammered. I went to the police station had them inspect the car, run the rego papers that I had, check engine numbers etc, turned out that the car had been stolen previously and then recovered and returned to its owners who then sold it on to mentally disabled me... they stated that the car would have to go to regency and be "re-plated" but they doubted that it would even be possible and the car may have to be taken off the road for good...

so for some unknown reason I wanted to own a skyline as a daily once again and re-live my youth, I had a very tight budget and the cheapest turboed skylines around seemed to be R33 gts-t's, not really my favorite model but hopefully I can make something nice out of it.. the first R33 I bought was the cheapest one in the state at the time, I rushed into it and hardly looked at it and threw them the money and drove it 600kms home, it had a lot of issues that needed to be fixed and had clearly seen some abuse in its time once I got it home I put it up on stands straight away and started inspecting everything, upon inspection it was found that all of the VIN plates were missing...import plates, vin number grinded off the chassis, ignition barrel had also been swapped at some point, cracks in front control arms, blown out shocks all round, all bushed flogged out and chassis rail looked like an 80's hip hop song....M.C f**kin hammered. I went to the police station had them inspect the car, run the rego papers that I had, check engine numbers etc, turned out that the car had been stolen previously and then recovered and returned to its owners who then sold it on to mentally disabled me... they stated that the car would have to go to regency and be "re-plated" but they doubted that it would even be possible and the car may have to be taken off the road for good... so I started searching for a rolling shell, there comes my next purchase, I found a clean shell that had been resprayed, not the greatest paint job but much better condition of a shell then my current car and plus it was all legit, which isn't completely necessary..."BUT IT HELPS" so here is the real start of my journey, I had one week to swap everything from one car to another, get it all running and fix every dam issue with it. otherwise I would not have a car to be able to drive to work. Switcherooo time

Has been a while since my last update, have recently aquired an rb25 box brand new, ive also had my diff rebuilt with 4.11 pintara gears, also bought but not yet installed a new speedo and pinion due to new geatbox not coming with one. Bought and installed a new hydro handbrake mount and BMC stopper from RB factory. And bought a solid tube and fittings to bypass the old heater lines from the back of the thermostat to the back of the block Also took the car out for a spin to the local show n shine, got a day permit for the car, was good to get a feel for things again but was very limited to how hard i could drive the car on the street, all in all was a fun day

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Did you have them made ? Or does someone sell them ?

been working on the car a bit this weekend, cleaned up the usual 31 rust spots under front guards, its actually the first time I've had the front guards off the car since I've owned it. stripped it all right back, etch primed and painted and seam sealed

man this build is awesome, posting for mooore

Naturally aspirated RB26/30 R31 Skyline build- Nitto high volume rb oil pump Nitto h-beam connecting rods Nitto crank collar Nitto high compression custom pistons ACL Race bearings - mains / connecting rods ACL Race ProSeal engine gasket kit Brian crower 1mm oversize valves Ross metal jacket balancer with cam / crank trigger kit N1 water pump Nismo low temp thermostat Oil restrictors Camtech RB26 camshafts Camtech valve springs and titanium retainer kit Custom made ITB setup XSpurt injectors Heavily ported cylinder head Link G4 Storm ECU Genuine Nissan front / rear seals, idler and tensioner Custom Gates belt IGN-1A race coils Have had some issues with oil going to the head at high RPM, nitto head drain is now installed also a vent from the sump to the top of the catch can, restrictors in head etc, also the original ASR sump I fitted to the car was for a VL which fouled on my front swaybar. Future plans- Over the next couple of weeks the motor will be coming out again to replace with correct sump. tidy up a lot of wiring in the interior of the car. pretty much just tidy everything up and check right over the car and get it ready for skyline nationals at the end of October.

don't really have any progress, just a to do list motor out and install nitto head drain. take a spring out of the nitto oil pump. fabricate catch can. repair auto spoiler. piss off all wiring in the bay while the motor is out and fill in all holes and re-spray. Ive since had the exhaust re-done which is pretty much a straight through 2.5" mandrel bent setup, need to fab up some nice twin tip tailpipes/blastpipes. pulled all the aircon out of the interior and all of the sterio. make it a race car....

Hope you guys like it.

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Naturally aspirated RB26/30 R31 Skyline build- Nitto high volume rb oil pump Nitto h-beam connecting rods Nitto crank collar Nitto high compression custom pistons ACL Race bearings - mains / connecting rods ACL Race ProSeal engine gasket kit Brian crower 1mm oversize valves Ross metal jacket balancer with cam / crank trigger kit N1 water pump Nismo low temp thermostat Oil restrictors Camtech RB26 camshafts Camtech valve springs and titanium retainer kit Custom made ITB setup XSpurt injectors Heavily ported cylinder head Link G4 Storm ECU Genuine Nissan front / rear seals, idler and tensioner Custom Gates belt IGN-1A race coils Dyno sheet - Mild Tune (will push it a bit later when its proven to be all well) Engine torque is that divided by the diff ratio. 3.7 in this case Annnd its on a hub Dyno hence the power curve "interuptions", if it was on a roller it would be smooth as silk.

Not sure if this will work for most of you https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151826649939459 Waiting for my go pro to be returned that I left at my friends place while I picked the car up so I can upload the video properly

That was just 98, E85 actually didn't make any more power but the car sounded a lot nicer, sounded smoother through the rev range aswell. which I was sort of disappointed by but in an NA build all gains are very minimal.

yeah mate 167.6 down the bottom did end up making 170 odd by the end of the day, although I need to adjust the cam timing to get a few more revs out of her and upgrade the cat back exhaust, also tempted to get the throttle body's enlarged and sealed properly, one has a slight leak on idle causing a very minor miss, pretty sure EFI hardware will do that for me.

this wasn't the final dyno run either, ended up getting 176kw from memory and a few more revs, but close enough haha

Dyno sheet - Mild Tune (will push it a bit later when its proven to be all well) Engine torque is that divided by the diff ratio. 3.7 in this case Annnd its on a hub Dyno hence the power curve "interuptions", if it was on a roller it would be smooth as silk.

Here is a photo of her in, heard her run for the first time today, I do have a video of it on my phone, will figure out how to get it onto here, tuning tomorrow, will try and get some video footage and decent non-phone photos sometime aswell.