BK

Saw you racing on TV at Wakefield. Pretty cool class by the looks of it. On the track you looked a bit radical though. What the hell's going on with your car?

A standard GT-R clutch is around $550 but since they're pretty crap don't bother. For a good dollar versus performance clutch my V-Spec is running a Adelaide Clutch Services Xtreme (or Xclutch) XHD ceramic button single plate. The pressure plate is 1260kg vs 800 odd for the standard one. There are 9 cushioned buttons and the centre is sprung too. From driving it's quite good for the street and will keep up with most sprung twin-platers for 300rwkW+. Being a high clamping single it wears the flywheel and pressure plate way quicker than a twin.(Twins don't actually clamp as hard) I paid $1300 fitted to my car in 6 Hrs. Xclutch are actually the only company who actually can pressure test clutches in Australia. When they say 1260kg, it is actually 1260kg. Sprung Xclutch twin (with flywheel) is around $2300 fitted. Australian built and good value.

Yeah those pictures were on the Nissan Australia official website a while ago. Probably still on there.

Seriously good luck (Don't wanna see any one spend $$$ unless it's worth it).

Look at Tom's car from BD4's in Zoom 86-mines very similar bar suspension and ECU(I bought all the HKS stuff bar turbos from him). Yeah I think I'll wait to go to Adelaide and get a Power FC installed from people who know how to tune them. Power I would hope at 1 bar would be 280-290rwkW and hopefully around low 300's rwkW at 1.3 bar. Keep you posted but that's pretty much as far as it goes with this car.(Unless I kill a motor or gearbox- then it's HKS 2.8L for $9000 and a OS giken box for $5000.) I'm getting an itch for another Supra but with twin GT2835's. I love Toyota's at heart but GT-R's are just such a complete package.

The RB30's don't have a cradle design for the crank. Its as simple as that. Why do you think an RB26 can rev so hard reliably with the stock stuff compared to an RB30. Nothing to do with capacity but the crank design. Brave man to rev RB30 stock bottom end to 8000rpm+. RB26's ARE for revving. If you want torque off idle get a V8.

Hi all, Ben here in Alice Springs. Would've love to come but 1500km away. The R33 V spec GTR could've used a run though. Next time. :flamed:

It's only ever been dynoed when I bought it in Melbourne at 224.5 kW at the wheels at 1 bar. Thats stock turbos and a slipping standard clutch. Mate this is Alice Springs. Nearest 4WD dyno in Adelaide 1500km away. Only 2WD one in town here at Street Torque but I'm not running an R33 GT-R V-Spec on the 2WD. It kills the transfer case, I don't like dynos at the best of times. Anyway what's so unusual about what I'm saying. Look at 400kw GTR's post in this section and he has GT2530 which full boost at 4000rpm and GT-SS turbos are way sharper than those but are limited to 1.6 bar max. Further mods include Blitz LM vspec intercooler (old style 600 x 300 x102) , Trust remote oil cooler, 1260 kg ceramic 9 button Xclutch + lightenied flywheel, reset valve clearance, oil separator kit, Kevlar timing belt, Tomei 1.2mm head gasket(8.7:1) and steel intake/exhaust/throttle gaskets, HKS wastegate actuators, the exhaust stuff and the STANDARD COMPUTER-NEVER TUNED. Car has had running air/fuel analysis on road through rev range and is still rich at around 10.1:1 at full load up to 8000rpm(remember NT- 10kms from home and theres no speed limit and the roads are good enough to it). Nothing tricky just a turbosmart boost controller because they're always guaranteed to work properly. The car is ridiculous for the street it really is and 180km/h in 3rd gear(speed limited) feels like 90km/h in a VX Clubsport. GT-SS turbos would spool up at 2500rpm on any good 3L(RB30's aren't that great). My Supra spools up a To4E(which is a decent sized turbo and plain bearing) to 1.2 bar at just below 25oorpm and does 280km/h.

Nah mate. The exhaust manifolds are mega dollar Kaminali's. They are so wicked combined with my custom exhaust with zero backpressure. HKS dumps, HKS 2 x 70/85mm stainless front pipe then 4 inch Magic cat (get one - they flow 750 cfm), 90 mm rest of the way with NO RESONATOR to a HKS 95mm/120mm muffler. It's way better than the Hi power HKS setup. I had this set up on std turbos bar the cat and manifolds. Changed to the manifolds and within 5km of driving the car the front turbo violently snapped the wheel off at only 1 bar at 3000rpm! Seriously these manifolds made the world of diiference, if you look at the exhaust flange for the turbo - there's about 50% more air hitting the exhaust wheel. I chaged turbos not long after so I've never driven with the stock manifolds with GT-SS turbos. Never driven any other modified GT-R's either but I am just saying what actually happens in the car. It's an absolute animal off the bottom. I've G-tech it and it does 0-100 in a best so far of 4.11 seconds with ceramic button Xclutch.The ball bearing nature of the GT-SS turbos really are that good.You spin stock turbos with your fingers, they stop very quickly(second or so). My GT-SS turbos keep spinning for about 25 seconds and the wheels also weigh less than stockers. When the engine is revved (Stationary)to 4000rpm or so you can actually HEAR the turbos spooling down for about 40 - 50 seconds through the exhaust or the air cleaners. I've seen another car with 2530 turbos hit 20psi by 2800rpm with the RB30/26 combo to answer the 3 litre question. Also that link with the reference to the N1's I've held the roller N1's(I nearly bought them) and it definatly has a big .48 on the exhaust entry. Look I'm not a big net surfer and jump on forums bugger all. This is all just from modifying my own cars and what I've found out whilst doing so.

Using an RB30 with RB26 head is fine if you haven't already got a RB26 block. If you have, it would be silly to go to a much weaker block and crank. Its nowhere near the strength of the RB26 crank and cradle arrangement. It's pretty hard to beat and what makes RB26 blocks and cranks so much stonger than RB25's and RB30's. (Also why 1UZ-FE and 2JZ-GTE's are so bulletproof)

If you guys have 0.60 compressor and 0.64 exhaust housings they are not N1's. They're Nismo/Garrett Group A turbos. N1's have same housing A/R's as stock on both sides (Compressor 0.42, Exhaust 0.48). It's the way N1 turbo wheels are shaped as well as the housing internal paths that give more power. N1 turbos are apparently good for at least 280 -300 rwkW with Group A turbos have been proven for 350 rwkW+. Bigger compressor housings aren't naturally a better choice, especially on a GT-R. For this reason I chose GT-R spec HKS GT-SS turbos. Remember too much compressor flow at the wrong rpm will make a relatively stock and untuned car surge. Now can you tell me why HKS rate the GT-R spec GT-SS at 320 ps each (0.42 Compressor, 0.64 Exhaust) and the generic GT-SS (0.60 Compressor, 0.64 Exhaust housings) at 280 ps ? It's all to do with developing the wheel shapes and inside housing shapes for particular engines and purposes. My GT-SS turbos hit 1.3 bar by 3500rpm mate. In a GT-R 5000rpm is way too late for a street circuit car. Genuine N1 and GT-SS turbos will kill Group A turbos in reponse full stop. My point, don't go too big. (Like GT-RS turbos for the street. Not good.)

TESTING TONIGHT AT BREWER ESTATE BK here letting you know about the car tuning/testing at brewer estate rd. All parties involved are meeting at Alice Springs MVR at 9pm tonight for a weigh in. See you there!

Hey everyone! I've been around Alice Springs trying to get all of the skylines together as Duncan suggested for a cruise night and a general exchange of ideas on the skylines. It would also be a good time for all the NT skylines to start prepping their cars for the Car Show at Blatherskite park showgrounds later on in the year. The previous show contained a mere TWO skylines : a R33 gts and a R32 gts-t ! Come on guys I know there's a lot more skylines than that in town. :flamed:

Yeah, I know what you mean. I worked for AMEC out at the spacebase for a year so I know about the yanks. The Corvette driving dickheads! (Which saw the rear end of my supra at 220 km/h + quite regularly coming home of a afternoon!)

Duncan, BK here. Yeah I'm up for a drive. I don't know any of the other skyline owners though. About two weeks I'll be back from bush so I'll want to take the GT-R or Supra for a spin. I've got a mate interested in the GTS25t so I'll have to have him get back to me now I know it's $25000. I know he nearly bought one last week in Brisbane for $21000 so I'll try and swing him! I have a G-tech meter also so if after any cruising anyone wants to test their cars performance (400m ET and km/h, 0-100km/h, 100-0km/h braking and rear wheel HP/kW) we can LEGALLY go out the road and go for it. Just no side by side drag racing please!(I tend to value my license after six months DUI.)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey BK here. To my knowledge there is at least 10 skylines in town worth mentioning. My car (of course!) is a white 1995 R33 GT-R V-spec with 220kW at the wheels, but still 180km/h limited (d'oh !). Three R31 GTS models: one red car with the RB20DET motor and a white and a red SVD skyline witn the RB30E. There is two R32 gts-t 2 litres in town. A black one and a silver one (with NOTAGTR on the number plate ?). There is at least three R33 gts-t models around as I have seen a black, grey and burgundy (wine red possibly) versions of each. There is supposed to be a Black R34 GT-T in town but I have yet to see it. The GT-T kicks arse man over any other skylines bar GT-R variants as I have compared all models. Also try and buy the latest model GT-R you can find. I know about the R32 GT-R weight savings but they are nowhere near on par with a 33. Trust me.