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i want to share my first time experience with every body who wants to get a rb30 fitting with rb26 head into a bnr32

hope my taste floats ur boat.

actually i have the longest going project thread on GTRCanada.com, hope i can do that here as well :)

this project been going to almost 2 years march 2006.

got the car then 6 days later it blew up so i decided to do something i'll never regret doing so i went with the rb30 since not many ppl have done it here in canada.

with building a rb30/26 here is a list of problems i came across

-4wd adapter makes the holes to the tranny from engine block dont match

-cheap 4wd adapter requires the use of external oil pick up

-block is taller, which means turbo sticks out too high, hitting shock tower,

-block is taller, which means rad hose don't fit

-block is taller, which means all IC pipes + down pipe has to be extended.

-have to use RB30 timing belt

-have to extend timing belt plastic cover

-i have greddy intake manifold + taller block height, making the manifold hit against the clutch master cylinder on bnr32 with clutch boosters

Engine

-RB30DET

-Greddy T78 single turbo

-Greddy intake manifold

-Greddy Exhaust manifold (braced)

-ACL forged pistons (ceramic coated)

-SPOOL forged rods

-balanced / polished crank

-N1 oil pump

-Keep Labs custom external oil pick up

-Keep Labs custom external oil return (turbo/head)

-OEM water pump

-Greddy racing BOV

-Greddy 50mm waste gate

-Electric fans

-F-win Rad

-ARC oil cooler (grill mounted)

-Greddy oil cooler (Vmounted)

-Removed ABS, Custom brake lines (hidden)

-Trust 100mm intercooler

-Areomotive FPR

-HKS 280L fuel pump X2

-Nismo 275L fuel pump x1

-Powerflow fuel filter (x2)

-Black Stainless lines

-Sard surge tank + Stainless fittings

-Earles stainless lines

-Grex 272 cams

-SARD 1000CC injectors

-ARC Ti cooling plate

-Trust coolant breather tank

-Custom Ti exhaust (KTS)

-ACL bearings

-ARP Bolts

-Tomei Type B Head Kit

-Tomei head shim kit 1.7mm

-Tomei sump baffle

-Nismo engine mounts

-Greddy catch can

-Custom rad overflow tank

-Racing Battery relocated to behind passenger seat

-Gates RB30 timing belt

-Tomei 1.8mm 87”metal head gasket

-custom anodized earls fittings

-Greddy intake manifold

-Greddy 100mm intercooler pipes

-HKS turbo bell mouth

-Greddy over size pully kit

-ATI crank dampener

-Billion rad hose

-Split fire coil pack

-Custom 4wd sump adapter plate

-Billion Power Steering fluids cooler

DriveTrain

-6spd trust dog box H pattern

-Push Pulled conversion

-OS Giken triple plate clutch

-Push to pull type Conversion kit

-Essential strengthen clutch piston kit

-Cusco front 1.5 way type MZ lsd

-Tomei T-trax rear 2 way lsd

-Nismo Steering rack bushing

-TEC Metal Steering rod spacer

Interior

-KTS 7pt Rollcage (custom padding)

-recarpeted rear floors

-Bride Zeta3 (L) bucket (driver)

-Bride Gias Carbon Kevlar (passenger)

-AC unit relocated to Glove box

-HKS Boost controller

-Defi Link Water temp. guage

-Defi Link Boost guage

-Defi Link oil Temp guage

-Defi Link oil Press guage

-Defi Link Ex temp

-Defi VSD-X

-Defi 80mm Tach 11000rpm (white face)

-Defi Link indicator II

-Custom carbon center glove box

-Toggles switches / led lamp

-Power FC Controller

-Carbon Kevlar cluster

Exterior

-Greddy rear skirts

-Nismo f-bumper

-Custom Carbon bumper Lip

-Custom Carbom N1 side skirts

-Custom Carbon hood lip

-Custom Carbon N1 ducts

-Custom Made Angel Eye N1 headlights

-D-Max Carbon Hood

-Custom LED rear License plate lamps

-Sard GT Spec M Fuji 1700mm wing stands 1210mm (Carbon Kevlar)

-Custom CNC Wing Stands

-Grams Light 57s-pro 19X10 +0

-Blitz I-Spark headlight blinker

Brakes / Suspension

-Cusco Tension rods

-Cusco rear camber arms

-KTS front camber arms

-VTTR Front 6pot 2pc rotor racing brakes

-VTTR rear 6pot Racing brakes

-HKS Hyper Max coilovers

-Metal sub frame spacer

-Cusco front & rear sway bar

-Custom over size Endlinks

-KTS lug nuts

-ALL Nismo hard bushings through out

-Seem welded suspension tower

here are some pictures

i hope to get the car running by the end of jan 08

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cusco front diff

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custom brake lines, all hidden

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oil pan modded to fit rb30

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greddy intake manifold

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block with head studs arp

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ATI ATI ATI ATI ATI ATI ATI

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hks turbo mouth

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my seats bride gias carbon kevlar

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greddy t78 33d

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sparkly engine bay

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sparkly trunk

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black stainless lines

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fuel system stuff ( getting them anodize polish silver )

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welded shock tower

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ported head

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1000cc sard injectors

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vttr brakes

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pink engine cover

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ti exhaust

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the motor is IN !

but more problems

for those who think RB30 is a direct bolt on..u are wrongin, as the rb30 block being taller, with my Larger greddy intake manifold, the back it of HITs the clutch master cyclinder, we end up moving the master cyclinder higher up

for those who think RB30 is a direct bolt on..u are wrong again, as the rb30 4wd requires sump plate, the sway bar came really really close to the sump. tho the sway bar isn't connected to the shocks yet so we won't know what will happen under final adjestment.

and it hits the NEW brake lines we made so we had to make new brake lines the 3rd time.

enjoy the pictures

i'll take more with a real camera once the tranny is in today !!!

pics taken with cherry picker still has it's tension, wthout it the engine will tilt back hitting the above listed items.

i really hope when the tranny is in. these problems will not happen !

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so i had another problem today

it was when i bolt the tranny to the engine it would engage the triple plate clutch,

turns out i have the wrong release bearing sleeve, what i have was the oem 16mm, i needed to 14mm one made for triple plate clutch,

well this was a japan part and no one in canada have it so i decided to make my own

here are the pictures

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also shorten the essential privot

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shorten the push rod on the slave

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hope it can go back together tomorrow

also on another hand, i got rid of the small rubber bushing on the tranny mount, in replace i weled 2 steel plates, may be it can stiffen the tranny part.

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also done was

due to the fact that rb30 make the engine taller, and the need of sump adapter to hold the 4wd sump, besides the fact that i have to make new holes on the bottom of the tranny

i also have the cut apart the housing so that this shaft won't hit

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GREAT !

Another Problem.....are you excited ??

well this one is a small problem and is that the upper rad hose don't fit due to the extra block height :thumbsup:

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greddy large intercooler pipes is too short

greddy Large side pulley kit is too big and will not be compatible with ATI damper

so these are for sale if anyone wants

more comming soon :)

hey look

first my water hose dont fit due to the extra block height

now my turbo is too big !!

check it out....its not even bolted down to the manifold yet and it's already hitting the shock tower

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and here is a New battery try "keep lab special" and relocated from back of the passenger seat to the trunk.

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everything is still in the mock up stage...going to get it plated and anodize next week

so more progress today

made the apexi EVC into the test pipe

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remember my turbo clearence issue ?

well instead of bangging out the shock tower, we modifided the exhaust manifold so it's more to the left

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as you can see there are more clearence to the shock tower and less to the engine cover.

i also told u before that the water tube on the rb30 block is higher so the exhaust manifold needed to be ground inorder for it to fit

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then we decided instead of having the waste gate vent back into the exhaust, like how it was before, we are going to externaly dump it, so we cut + patch the down pipe, later i am going to warp it with black heat warp

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some random pictures

my clutch master (from EK9)

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twin fuel filters

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the guys working hard

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some artistic stuff

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aeromotive fpr

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others

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some pic of my fit

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ok here is the end of the week update !

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wow i have a spoon part on my nissan gtr.

it is a spoon low temp thermal switch

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FAL fan for Supra

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with custom mount to the rad welded

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custom mounted fuse box

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heat wrap wires

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clutch lines finished

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Ti exhaust mounted

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this is something tricky

because the engine is taller, all the pipes needs to be longer, and because i have a greddy manifold, the intake pipe needs to be 4" instead of 3"

so we cut and weld + extended the intake pipe from the IC, also made it 4"-3"

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some hose clamps

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I NEED TO SELL MY GREDDY 272/10.8CAMS ! $450CND...i got BIGGER !

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here u go

rb30 dib stick tube was remove and replaced by the oem rb26 one. as in the picture you will see the height difference between the two, so with using rb26 dip stick, i have to use rb26 tube.

-oil pick up finially finished

here are the pictures

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random shots with 4wd adapter bolted to the block

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thx more to come !

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