Wayne.

June 4, 2022

Update pls

May 3, 2020

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.

May 3, 2020

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

May 3, 2020

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.

May 3, 2020

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"

May 3, 2020

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...

May 2, 2020

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

November 19, 2018

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

October 30, 2018

Quick google search

October 1, 2018

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

July 31, 2016

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

July 28, 2016

man this build is awesome, posting for mooore

July 28, 2016

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.

March 9, 2014

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....

December 17, 2013

Hope you guys like it.

September 6, 2013

but....

September 6, 2013

August 30, 2013

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.

August 14, 2013

^{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}

August 14, 2013

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.

August 13, 2013

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.

August 13, 2013

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

August 13, 2013

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.

August 8, 2013

August 8, 2013

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.

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