Run-It-Hard

Hey guys, in urgent need of help! We are at Raleigh Raceway (Coffs harbour) and a coil pack has died on Benny's R33. We need a replacement to buy or borrow ASAP! Will pick it up to tonight, willing to travel to port Maquarie and all that jazz. Please contact me on 0410-651-989 if you can help us out! Thank you, Adam.

Hey guys, in urgent need of help! We are at Raleigh Raceway (Coffs harbour) and a coil pack has died on Benny's R33. We need a replacement to buy or borrow ASAP! Will pick it up to tonight, willing to travel to port Maquarie and all that jazz. Please contact me on 0410-651-989 if you can help us out! Thank you, Adam.

CUTTING IT CLOSE The original plan for the Stagea was to be completed and tuned on Monday, however when has anything in my possession gone to plan? There have been many setbacks with the mods planned on my Stagea, but one in particular almost destroyed our plans to attend the Raleigh drift event this weekend. This was the “incredible” Nissan Anti Theft System, also known as NATS. In a nutshell NATS is a immobilizer system that taps into the OEM ECU, in most cases an aftermarket ECU will over-ride NATS due to not having a circuit board that contains it. Although NATS still worked its magic on my Stagea, deeming it impossible to start. To make matters worse, Anth couldn’t find any information on the Stagea’s NATS and having never dealt with such a thing before, he was “Up shit creek, using my fingers as a paddle”. But in the end, the magician made it all work. The Stagea is alive and ready for a tune. After tune, the finishing touches will be applied and then I’ll get an alignment right before heading up to Coffs Harbour. Talk about cutting it close!

CUTTING IT CLOSE The original plan for the Stagea was to be completed and tuned on Monday, however when has anything in my possession gone to plan? There have been many setbacks with the mods planned on my Stagea, but one in particular almost destroyed our plans to attend the Raleigh drift event this weekend. This was the “incredible” Nissan Anti Theft System, also known as NATS. In a nutshell NATS is a immobilizer system that taps into the OEM ECU, in most cases an aftermarket ECU will over-ride NATS due to not having a circuit board that contains it. Although NATS still worked its magic on my Stagea, deeming it impossible to start. To make matters worse, Anth couldn’t find any information on the Stagea’s NATS and having never dealt with such a thing before, he was “Up shit creek, using my fingers as a paddle”. But in the end, the magician made it all work. The Stagea is alive and ready for a tune. After tune, the finishing touches will be applied and then I’ll get an alignment right before heading up to Coffs Harbour. Talk about cutting it close!

Offers...

c'mon!!

no one needs injectors? Probably the cheapest around..

3 days left till departure till Coffs Habour, and the car still isn't tuned ... not looking good. Anywhos, had a chance to play around with the Viennas over the weekend, should fit well .. need more time to f**k around with them but it seems like that'll be a luxury.

3 days left till departure till Coffs Habour, and the car still isn't tuned ... not looking good. Anywhos, had a chance to play around with the Viennas over the weekend, should fit well .. need more time to f**k around with them but it seems like that'll be a luxury.

Cheers dude, I can't wait to slide it! haha Pretty sure that's only with the S2 stagea though, the S1 has a different computer and harness. Either way I had this Haltech out of the 33 so it was a cheaper route, and a more flexable ecu (map sensor, launch control etc). In other news, there's been more setbacks, le sigh.

We've decided it's time to move on from the Lancer, for something a little bigger. We've had it for 8 months and it has been absolutely perfect! Runs like a dream, never ever had an issue with it. It has been very well maintained, and is in great condition body/interior wise. Some specs: 1.8litre engine 5 Speed manual Folding rear seats (MR option only) MR bodykit BC BR Coilovers (near new) Dragway 15x7 wheels (near new tyres) Aftermarket steering wheel clear side indicators JVC headunit Tow bar 18XXXXkms Rego till Feb 1996 model Has a few spares (shocks, steering wheel, poddie etc) I'll get some better pics up when the weather gets better. This would be ideal for a first car or a good run-around! Price: $6000 nego Located in Liverpool region. Contact my missus, Julie on 0424-183-332 if you wish to enquire. Thanks, Adam.

I'm going to get some tomorrow from a local supplier. From recent searches I found that we can use the 08 Toyota Rav4 roof racks. Option 3 - AeroBar Max Load 100 (kg) Price (Includes GST) $270.00 (RRP) Foot Pack RT 757 Bar Pack GL 861 Lock INCL It didn't paste well but 861 looks like it'll be perfect.

haha yeah, cheers bud!

$150 firm!!

I think Neo injectors are different to the "normal" RB25 injectors.

so lame, bump!

Bump!

Cheers for the quick replies guys! Looks like I'm boned, pretty sure Anth scrapped my auto box with the sender in it ... f**k! I did sell my first conversion kit last year, He bought my E-manage Ulitmate too? How did it all go out of curiousity? Haha yep it's all coming together now, been mega busy these past few weeks. Oh, more news my wheels have landed in Aus, I'm expecting to have them in my hands tomorrow then I'll put some tyres on them and chuck them on the car!

Quick question for all the manual converted guys.. What speed sensor are you using, I've read the standard auto one works fine in GTR boxes ... although it's shorter in length? Can anyone shed some light on this? Cheers!

WORK HORSES I’ve been slack on the Stagea updates, so I’m just going to smash though it in one big post! LOLVO has been at Dahtone for nearly two weeks now, and while we’ve had a few set backs, we are still kinda on schedule to get it finished off this week. One setback was my injectors, here I was thinking the Sard items I had purchased were a direct fit. I found out the hard way that they weren’t, so with our tight deadline and plenty of other shit to get done, I was on the hunt for some direct replacements. It then clicked to me that Paulie had a set of Deatschwerks injectors he bought a while ago for his car. So I’ve stolen them off him to get me out of trouble. There were a few more problems we were faced with, but I’ll talk some junk about it later. Moving on. The manual conversion is pretty much complete, with a few nick-knacks left with it. This went down rather smoothly except the automatic spigot bush, that gave Anth hell! Most of the fab work has been knocked over, again with a few minor details to be finished off. e manifold has been modified for my Turbosmart Comp gate, Anth and I were tossing up whether to mount off the turbo’s rear housing or not for a while, but I’m happy with the final decision. You might notice that the turbo mounted up isn’t my big ass Holset item. Well after playing around with it we’ve deemed it too big to fit in a low-mount position without major work. As you could imagine this was a major setback but I resolved this problem swiftly. I noticed a Kando TD06 turbo for sale on SAU at a good price, it was originally off a RB20 (very common turbo for them) but this particular one was super laggy on it. It turns out the rear turbine is a lot bigger than the norm. So I’m hoping it’ll shine on my RB25. Jeff and Anth designed the Stagea’s exhaust piping with the focus of minimal bends and maximum ground clearance. It has turned out great! It’s also been designed so I can still use my optional extra NISMO rear muffler, which should help me pass noise tests and restrictions if I am ever faced with them. As for the dump pipe, I scored the custom-made item for the TD06 I purchased. While it’s not perfect it has saved us a stack of time not needing to make one up. I played around with the cooling system last week, changing the thermostat, hoses and radiator core. The radiator looks awesome in black! Believe it or not, there is an intercooler hiding behind the DAYZ front bumper. Anth sent me this photo and I was like “what the f**k am I looking at, are you trolling me?!”. Anthony knocked up some mounts and needed to slightly trim the reo to get the intercooler sitting perfectly. As for piping, we are using a 90 degree and 45 degree silicone joiner with some alloy piping to plumb into the OEM stuff. More updates soon!

Should prob post in Skyline thread but meh A NEW LEASE ON LIFE It’s been months since my decision to “scrap” my beloved R33 skyline in favour for the Stagea. But as you can see I still do have the Skyline, although not much is left of it. I recently received a impound notice from my local council about the R33 … in a nut shell it said “move your shit or we’ll take it and charge you $500 for doing so”. I found this a good enough reason to finally get rid of it, so I listed every detachable part off it on Ebay for stupid cheap prices. With the intention of sending it to the scrap yard tomorrow. A Ebayer won a few auctions I had up on Friday night. His intentions were to keep them spare for a rainy day. Now I’m sure most of you heard about that dog act at the Royal National Park last night. For those who haven’t some sick f**k laid down a shitload of oil mid-corner in the heart of RNP. This led to a convoy of enthusiasts writing their cars off, and some put in serious injury. This Ebayer was involved in the incident, and his R33 is looking worse for wear to say the least. He told me what he needed to get his car back to what it was … it was an extensive list just by looking at the pictures. At that point he wanted to take the shell off my hands. It’s incredible how this all went down, just one of those things where the stars aligned and this pile of metal I had sitting at my front yard, is a chance for John to give his Skyline a new lease on life.

VISITING AN OLD FRIEND Sunday morning I headed out to visit an old friend to chill out, talk shit and get my Stagea’s diff welded up. Originally I was going to run my Nismo 2 way LSD out of the R33. But the diff shop insisted that it wasn’t compatible. Although the LSD centre part numbers are the same between R33 and WGNC34, I took this as a oppurtinity to save some cash for other parts and run a welded diff for a while. This AE86 probably doesn’t look familiar to anyone, probably because Adan hasn’t been on the blog for quite some time. I started drifting with him at Eastern Creek back in 2010 … I still had my MX-5 and he had just got this Sprinter. Although back then it was quite different … it was red too. It’s been a while since Adan has gotten his Hachiroku sideways and many things have been changed in between. It’ll be at the Raleigh drift fest ripping it up!

WORK HORSES I’ve been slack on the Stagea updates, so I’m just going to smash though it in one big post! LOLVO has been at Dahtone for nearly two weeks now, and while we’ve had a few set backs, we are still kinda on schedule to get it finished off this week. One setback was my injectors, here I was thinking the Sard items I had purchased were a direct fit. I found out the hard way that they weren’t, so with our tight deadline and plenty of other shit to get done, I was on the hunt for some direct replacements. It then clicked to me that Paulie had a set of Deatschwerks injectors he bought a while ago for his car. So I’ve stolen them off him to get me out of trouble. There were a few more problems we were faced with, but I’ll talk some junk about it later. Moving on. The manual conversion is pretty much complete, with a few nick-knacks left with it. This went down rather smoothly except the automatic spigot bush, that gave Anth hell! Most of the fab work has been knocked over, again with a few minor details to be finished off. e manifold has been modified for my Turbosmart Comp gate, Anth and I were tossing up whether to mount off the turbo’s rear housing or not for a while, but I’m happy with the final decision. You might notice that the turbo mounted up isn’t my big ass Holset item. Well after playing around with it we’ve deemed it too big to fit in a low-mount position without major work. As you could imagine this was a major setback but I resolved this problem swiftly. I noticed a Kando TD06 turbo for sale on SAU at a good price, it was originally off a RB20 (very common turbo for them) but this particular one was super laggy on it. It turns out the rear turbine is a lot bigger than the norm. So I’m hoping it’ll shine on my RB25. Jeff and Anth designed the Stagea’s exhaust piping with the focus of minimal bends and maximum ground clearance. It has turned out great! It’s also been designed so I can still use my optional extra NISMO rear muffler, which should help me pass noise tests and restrictions if I am ever faced with them. As for the dump pipe, I scored the custom-made item for the TD06 I purchased. While it’s not perfect it has saved us a stack of time not needing to make one up. I played around with the cooling system last week, changing the thermostat, hoses and radiator core. The radiator looks awesome in black! Believe it or not, there is an intercooler hiding behind the DAYZ front bumper. Anth sent me this photo and I was like “what the f**k am I looking at, are you trolling me?!”. Anthony knocked up some mounts and needed to slightly trim the reo to get the intercooler sitting perfectly. As for piping, we are using a 90 degree and 45 degree silicone joiner with some alloy piping to plumb into the OEM stuff. More updates soon!

$350 firm!

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