zoidbergmerc

how much for the donk and auto box?

SAU Track day #2, check the other thread take some pics and and throw them up in the who's who thread

I get very hard... in my pants. That's why I like to sit down right after. This ^^^ Stanard fan and rad is fine just fine.

I've been told that they're of similar strength to a RB20DET box. $500?

There is no drifting on SAU Track days. Well, not on purpose anyway. Just normal go quickly driving

wait.. what just happened?

Hey Guys, I've got a RB25DE manual gearbox here that needs to go. Came out of my R33 when I upgraded to a 25DET box. Worked well when it was in my car. Someone come take it off me before I put it in my VL. All reasonable offers accepted. Cheers,

I've got an App called Trackmaster on my droid phone that does the same thing.

yeah I missed out on all that evolution with my R33 My original plan to track it the way it was when I got it went out the window when it became obvious that every thing about my R33 was broken

I hope you get your car running sweet mate. If you need any spares, just holler, some of us have a pretty large stash

you still got that 30e with the auto?

If you come to basky you can camp at my place I really want to see your car.

Press down on the plenum and see if it stops, if it does, re-torque the bolts and see what happens.

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/360325-fs-r31-ti-s2-with-s3-front/ Did you even try to look? lol

yeah awesome Glad to hear it mate hopefully you'll have it in time for the next SAU track day

Hey Guys, I thought I'd post in there about my R33 Skyline build. I've always wanted to race cars, ever since an early age. But I was never allowed to, always told it was too expensive and had to race bikes instead, offroad, never on the tarmac. Which was a mildly successful career, ending when I went to uni. Driving has always been a lot more fun for me, rallying the farm ute around the paddoks and through fire trails from an early age. Later buying a 98 Subaru WRX for a daily driver which was fun too, taking it for a spirited drive most weekend, usually involving a lot of gravel roads too. After taking my WRX on the track I thought to my self, I need more of this in my life. The after finishing the track day, looking at my destroyed tyres, disintegrated brake pads and the need for an oil change both before and after the track day; I knew it was going to be just as expensive as my father told me it would me. Two track days later I decided the WRX's track career was over, it would be retired to daily driving duties only. I needed something I could dedicate to the track. I had a spare $10k just lying around that I'd saved up for a rainy day so that was my budget. I was thinking my car needed to be RWD, two door and have a modicum of sporting pedigree. After lurking around carsales, my105, boostcruising, nissan silvia and all the other usual suspects I found a large amount of worthy cars, Silvias, Sprinters, Surpas, Skylines, RX-7s, MX-5s all those guys. Until one day I found it, the car I wanted; 1996 Nissan Skyline R33 GTS-t for $3,500. How bad can it be I thought to my self... I got some photos off the guy selling it and it all looked pretty good, bit of body damage but pffft, I don't care about that! Plus it's a skyline! I've always loved those Hotplate taillights and they were always my favourite in Gran Turismo Thats right, I bought a car just because I liked it in a video game! I've never even driven one IRL before! Photo of the car from the seller Unfortunately the car was in Sydney and I was in Hobart, how the hell am I supposed to get it here! Fly over, drive back? That was going to be mightly expensive and because I'd just started a new job I didn't have any leave saved up. A bit a research later I found a mob that'd ship it from Sydney to Hobart for $800. Bam! Needless to say the seller was a little skeptical, I mean wouldn't you, some guy from Tassie wants to buy your car unsighted. hmmmmmm. A couple of phone calls later and it was all sorted and the car was on it's way down. 1 week later it arrived. One dirty, unloved, poorly maintained, badly modified skyline. Awesome Mods already on the car included: Stupid unfathomable headunit, PowerFC with hand controller, 3" Exhaust, Front mount intercooler, Greddy Boost Controller, 17" mags, Strut brace. Car in my drive way. Woot! Picking up the car from the wharf I think the taxi driver that dropped me off was more excited than I was. He was a very funny man, turns out he's a big fan of imports and has a soarer. Hopping in the car I was over whelmed by a very powerful smell, it was a mix of curry, cigarettes and the 10,000 air fresheners the previous owner had deployed, my god. Walking over to the car I had a sinking feeling, blue GT badge... 4 stud hubs... oh no, it's a NA skyline that's been turboed. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. How did I not notice this before! Firing the car up I instantly knew something was wrong, not being overly mechanically minded I suspected a bearing and I'd be correct after taking it to my mechanic who was very confused but quite happy with my purchase. I'd been talking to him before buying the car about getting into drifting and time attack. The original plan was to just track the car the way I got it but there was no way this car could do anything like that. Old mate previous owner hadn't even connected water lines to the turbo when he installed it. Turbo was stuffed, Mains bearings were stuffed, suspension was so clapped out you almost lost control changing lanes. Sigh... This is going to be expensive... It was bullet biting time, do I just slowly fix it up and track it or do I get it all done properly? What do I want from this car? I knew that if I built it my self I'd just f**k it up like I did with my old VL commo. f**k biting the bullet, I'm going to swallow it whole! Go all the way, no turning back. The shopping list. Engine Nissan N1 Oil & water Pumps Nitto Crank collar to suit N1 oil pump New Low temp Thermostat Nitto 1.2mm head gasket ACL Race bearings (Mains and Big end) Nitto Forged Pistons Nitto forged H-beam rods ARP Head studs ARP Main Studs Machine Head & Block Linish crank Bore and Hone Nismo 740cc injectors Tomei Poncams Plazmaman plenum Plazmaman Throttle body Trust GREX Oil cooler Management Haltech Plug in Pro ECU Turbo Garret 3076R Powertune high mount manifold 44m Tial Wastegate 3" dump pipe 2" screamer pipe Suspension BC Adjustable Coilovers Tune agent Adjustable Castor Rods Whiteline blade adjustable Swaybars Steering rack spacers Drivetrain Stock RB25DET gearbox Nismo 2way LSD Jim Berry Full Monty Clutch G-max Drift Wheels 17" Stock R33 Turbo 5 stud hubs Chassis\interior Full weld in cage built by Az Custom Sparco Evo3 Carbon Fiber Seat Brakes Stock R33 Turbo brakes. EBC Green pads. Fuel Custom Surge tank built by Az Custom Walbro fuel pumps I'm sure we'll all agree, it's one arrowing shopping list. Everything done properly by proper people. Picture time! Roll cage going in. Cage Painted, Satin Black Oil and Water Pumps on, pistons in. Head going on, apart from Cams it's stock. Engine finished. Plain RB Pr0n. Love it. Interior Before Interior After Now that the epic build was finished it was time to get out on the track, private track day with a few friends? Nah, I'll just jump in the deepend. How deep you ask? 2011 Tasmania Drift Festival deep enough? Ok. But how do I get my car to the track? The NSW rego has expired, no problem I'll just get it registered in Tassie. Oh, you can't register a car will a full weld in cage? Maybe I should have done that before... No worries this time though, Dad said he'd come down with the ute and we'd rent a trailer. So, Saturday morning, getting the old girl all loaded up and we head out to baskerville. Unload the car and it's already getting some attention. Everyone already knew me and knew my car which was nice. But looking around everyone is unloading their cars, there are some seriously serious cars here and some very well known drivers. The same drivers I spend all day at work looking at on Youtube, admiring their skills and their cars, I'm going head to head with them! "What the hell am I doing here" I thought, this competition is way bigger than me. Oh well, what's the worst thing that can happen... Lining up for the first time. Got a new front end too. Lining up for my first run I hear the commentator for the event talking about me and my car, telling everyone that it's a weapon and to keep their eyes on me. I look over at the hill where all the spectators sit, it's packed, everyone is watching, over 2000 people. I swallow the biggest lump in my throat I've ever swallowed, I've been nervous before, but nothing like this. I kept thinking to my self "What the hell am I doing here, this is the dumbest idea ever, I've never even driven this car before, I've never driven any skyline before, I've never driven a RWD car on the track before, I've never driven a car with this much power before, I've never drifted before, this is a bad idea." Starting Marshall tells me to get going so I promptly wind her up and drop the clutch giving it around 30% to keep the wheel spin in check, shift into second and give it a little more, feels good man. Third gear time and I give to 100%, bad idea, it comes onto full boost, wastegate opens, screamer pipe unleashes a noise like I've never heard before, my trousers turn brown and I'm at the first corner already. After that the rest of the day goes like, try to drift, bash rev limiter because I don't know any form of throttle control, spin out, but by the end of the day I'm starting to get the hang of it and can link up the Esses and get turn 1 consistently. Needless to say I didn't qualify but I didn't come last, which was great Getting the hang of it At the end of the day I'm so spent, I can't lift my arms above shoulder height from throwing the wheel around and my neck hurts from the massive G's from the corners\spinning out. An epic day full of skids, power, tyre smoke, learning and skids. Reflecting back on my choices regarding the build I don't think I would have done it differently. Maybe get the car registered first, oh well. I'm just waiting for the next Track day so I can try my hand at time attack, I just hope I can beat my old time I set in the WRX or there will a lot of egg on my face. The plan now is to do this season and next with the car setup the way it is, no more mods, just learn how to drive\drift. Then I'll decide if I want to focus more on Time attack or drift and steer the car in one of those directions. I hope you've enjoyed reading about my project, if you've got any questions I'm happy to answer them Cheers, z end post engine pr0n

Did you find one yet mate?

This. <3 my haltech.

No, sorry.

Thanks for the heads up.

Hey Guys, I've got my old turbo here for sale, with manifold that suits RB25. Turbo didn't have water lines connected when it was on the car but it still feels OK. Got a stock airbox with airfilter and AFM to suit S1 R33 (I think.) I've also go the stock BOV and pipe that it attaches too. Turbo = $150 Manifold = $120 Bov = $30 Pipe = $10 Airbox and AFM = $80 Items are in Hobart. All items are sold as it with no warranty.

Bump Still got most of this stuff.

bump, still got all this jazz.

Bump. Still got most of this stuff. Dump pipe and Cat have been sold.

Hahaha, that's the one my mate is selling!