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well to get the pistons as forged it was a lot of money that would not make a money to ratio match in power

it was like $3200. (not worth the money)

40thou was big enough for the 25DE but again i was happy with the 50thou buy. My uncle will be boreing out my cylinders and all that as hes done lots for skylines so i have good trust in his years of experience that like he said "should be purring real nice soon" :)

so basicaly you will be paying x3 more for forged pistons ive worked out.

when we get the pistons we have to see what they are like apparently they are CR 10:1 so we are not saying measurements at the moment, once thats finalized ill get all that sort or stuff up in this forum.

i need a head gasket but.....

now for all of you to send your advice and locations of head gaskets :P, im thinking of

Cometic Head Gasket 1.3mm - ( what the bore size equals )

  • 2 weeks later...

its finally done now, some 50thou pistons sitting in my block and all my reconditioning done. ill be putting extractors and some other bits on and making sure it "purrring" good i am told, geez my uncle sure does like this car :) truthfuly he said most difficult car ever just because its a gts-4.

the invoice i have up is how much it cost which is good and he did the best ive seen and i dunno if its just because hes my uncles mate but hes a good mechanic, especially sourcing those sets of pistons :(

the bill is pretty good seeing as the work this engine needed after the bottom end was warped.

everyone post up about prices and such and in a week or two ill try get my car together in the spare time and get photos on here of the build and finished project to come. worst bit is i am doing all the labor here to save money but lose time. scan0001.jpg

con is my uncles name and its in running writing so its hard to see, its $1904 :D

original price of pistons were $1400 alone but were found reduced from Nissan :)

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  • 4 months later...

its been like 3 months since ive been on because i started year 12 and have just been busy with work as well and heaps more but i got around to fixing the engine %60 last saturday and another 20% more this Saturday (don't have pics of yet)

Here are 4 of the like 30 pictures taken :P

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thats just some of the work with my uncle working most on it. ill try get some pictures of the reconditioned top end. Some of the extractors and heaps more other bits

...............what too do next to my engineeeee :sweat:

Edited by central coast person

yeah i guess so.

i feel like doing the exhaust system but am stumped about where to go and get it done......wish Kakimoto did a non turbo setup from catback.

splitfire coilpacks aswell annnddddd cant think of anything worth doing at the moment.

yeah i guess so.

i feel like doing the exhaust system but am stumped about where to go and get it done......wish Kakimoto did a non turbo setup from catback.

splitfire coilpacks aswell annnddddd cant think of anything worth doing at the moment.

nothing stopping you using a turbo kakimoto exhaust. just youl be paying an arm and a leg for it. 2.5" would sound good :banana:

if you wanna go a custom job, i got a 2.5" catback made for mine, mild steel, mandrel bends and 2 straight through mufflers. sounds great

i can get it from my friend for $750 2nd hand with no damage cat-back.

im also running through some things on the Icat at work and apparently whiteline rear and front swaybars are same for r33's gts and gtr so im working out if a gts4 will be the same. Also dba slotted which a r33 gts4 is the same rotors as a r32 gts-t

also have to look at tein coilovers i can get them for 1500 brand new (whole set) but need to know what ones to buy as the catalog doesn't have gts4 in it :D

well i did get these pistons from Nissan (Japan) as a clearance item. They are a exact replica of the stock ones but 50thou and were $3000+ at full price. I would have got sleeves if i didn't find these.

i just contacted bendix and they don't know what pad a GTS-4 uses........... they just said take the pad off and size it up in the book.

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