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I bought a Ku Engineering plenum, I was surprised how little effort it too to fit up, it cleared the clutch master and only had to make a small modification to the water lines under the plenum.

Great price also, got the plenum and a Sard rb26 fuel rail including mounting brackets for a little over $800 Fedex'd

Edited by murrayis

hey

its coming along great.

i wanted to order the tomei rb24 pistons but they are discontinued. do you think i could get ross pistons to make me up the same pistons as yourself. i have gtr crank and rods and 9.25mm lift 270 in&ex tomei cams with solid lifters

let me know,

cheers

hey

its coming along great.

i wanted to order the tomei rb24 pistons but they are discontinued. do you think i could get ross pistons to make me up the same pistons as yourself. i have gtr crank and rods and 9.25mm lift 270 in&ex tomei cams with solid lifters

let me know,

cheers

Yea that shouldn't be a problem. All the info I have on them is on the previous page so that should be enough info for you to call them and tell them what you want :P

Just remember AUS vs USD atm isnt that great might be worth trying ACL etc. see if they can make a custom set up for you.

Is the Ku Engineering plenum any good?

I was looking at one myself but its hard as i dont want to buy something and find out it sucks after a paid for it lol.

Seems to be fairly good, only comment I had for the plenum was the intake runners at the face of the plenum are a tad small but nothing and hour or two on a dremel didn't fix for mine :D

Inside was nice and smooth no visible defects, just a bit of cleaning on the outside to remove the metal polish. Fitted past the clutch master thought much of a drama, I spoke to Jack alot from Ku Engineering he was very helpful with dimentions etc so I knew it was going to fit.

On another Note,

A few changes have to be made before I goto the Dyno to get it tuned.

1) I need to lower the gearbox as I think its jutting the gearbox tunning somewhere when the engines running

2) Exhaust need to be lowered 20 mm at the front and a side effect of lowering the gearbox 10mm will bring it in striking distance of the tailshaft.

Alos how do you seal a vband dump pipe? Mine leaks in the gap on the Clamp?

Nah I have a BMI 80mm I was going to get one but got offered this one to pay a bill ;)

Just an Idea of shipping he posted it on Saturday, it arrived the following tuesday he told me on msn on Wednesday hes posted it lol

Edited by murrayis
  • 2 weeks later...

Well its all done! ready for the tune!

But... Was running it a little yesterday messing with the idle bringing it down from 2000rpm to sit around 1200rpm when.... I noticed a nice water feature from the engine bay shut it down quick smart to investigate and found the wate line under the intake had 4 or 5 pin size holes in it all spewing out coolant. Quick tip always replace all those old hoses even if it look fine its the only hose I didnt replace in the water system.

Ordered from nissan $30 later it will be here monday :ermm:

good work mate. i love seeing a project from beginning to end.

I am looking forward to seeing how the tune goes and what sort of response and power you end up with.

you have done all the hard yrads and now comes the time to enjoy the results.

goodluck!

Well got the new water Hose today Another $30 for the local nissan part department.

Fitted it all up started it up, bleed the system topped up the coolant. But noticed a slight hissing sround from Number 1 injector shut it all down and took a closer look, Last time I had the injectors out I musn't of put the o-ring back in square so it was half jammed down the hole... pulling air down past the injector... not good!

Pulled all the injectors out and checked over all the o-rings, added a smidge of silicon lube to eash o-ring just to make the seal a tad better and reseated, fired it up problem gone :P

On a different note is there a 12v source hear the battery thats only active with the ignition so I can wire a relay to it?

Cheers

Cameron

  • 3 weeks later...
  • 1 month later...

Time for an update.

Today was the day that has been two years in the making... 7am picked up the car trailer got down to B.E.S.T performance who we had hired the dyno from strapped the car down all was running sweet.

After 45 minutes of getting the fueling correct we did a run and made 164kw on 6.3psi adjusted the fueling a little more 197.6kw on 6.3psi... and thats when the postive mood got shot down.

Third run something was wrong the entire run was 20kw short of the previous... lots of blow by coming from the cam cover breathers.... Ticking sound....

All I could think of was... Bearing...

Got the car home checked the plugs... no oil on them..started her up for a second ticking sounded like was in the head...

Tomorrow we will pull the head off i just hope its nothing major!

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