Ben's R32 Gtst Build

[Let Me Drive]

with that air box it in it going to hit the radiator because that will go to the top of the front bar piece???? cos i was thinking of doing the same but droping my radiator down two inches to clear?????

[sav man]

i'll be getting a cross flow radiator, but make it 20mm shorter, and the airbox will sit ontop of it (with heat proof material inbetween)

[Roy]

Will you be putting a breather can in the coolant system to try and aid bleeding or do you think with the custom cross flow radiator you will be able to get a side header tank high enough on the drivers side to still bleed it easily?

[sav man]

I'll probably go a header tank, as it will make the radiator a fair bit cheaper i'd imagine.

[NZM.031]

ben... im drawing up a v mount setup at the moment... dont want to make it until the engine is sitting in its rightful place.

im going to use an MY00 WRX crossflow radiator/thermos/header tank setup... might be something for you to check out..

the wrx radiator is a little bit shorter than the skyline one.. same width though, or close enough.

the early wrx doesnt have the cap on the radiator.. its a pure header tank setup..

btw... great to see the project is moving again.. mine has gone back to the drawing board.. starting all over again.

[sav man]

is it big enough in the other dimentions to compensate?

[NZM.031]

is it big enough in the other dimentions to compensate?

i assume you mean thickness... well you can get a/m thick ones.. koyo for $650, 53mm thick...

[sav man]

they the same width too?

[NZM.031]

ben... im drawing up a v mount setup at the moment... dont want to make it until the engine is sitting in its rightful place.

im going to use an MY00 WRX crossflow radiator/thermos/header tank setup... might be something for you to check out..

the wrx radiator is a little bit shorter than the skyline one.. same width though, or close enough.

the early wrx doesnt have the cap on the radiator.. its a pure header tank setup..

btw... great to see the project is moving again.. mine has gone back to the drawing board.. starting all over again.

[NZM.031]

http://imageevent.com/publicgallery/forsal...amp;s=0&z=9

it wont let me right click it..

[zebra]

Id be keen to see how a V-mount would go in a RB powered car? Not much room in front of the motor.

[NZM.031]

thats all you know, because thats all you need to know.. like one of those james bond things.

ill have pics up in july.. promise.

[zebra]

haha ok then

I wanna see this intake Ben has planned!

[sav man]

I'll be converting the Crownie boxes to Alloy soon, i'm at superlap/a wedding this weekend, so i won't get to look at it. The over the radiator intake seems to be vary popular on race cars. Only seem to be the Japs that persist with the pod filter in the guard.

If the new airbox goes to plan, i'll duct from the LH guard to the turbo to cool it.

Edited May 19, 2010 by sav man

[zebra]

sounds good, If I see you at superlap Ill say Gday, (Im working there)

I was going to pop the drivers oops! passenger side head light and make a duct into an alloy box, but i like your Idea better lol

[sav man]

Well we did some more wiring on the weekend. The car now cranks over, and the fans, ecu and horn work.

When I was at superlap I took lots of pics of the GIO airbox, my original design was very similar, but i'm copying the GMS one now, as it's pretty simple design.

[zebra]

I had a good look at that too, not really possible for me though because i like my clutch fan too much.

What did you do for the wiring? Multi core stuff or single runs?

[sav man]

damo is a auto electrition so that helps. it's a trimmed down standard loom, as the factory wiring is small and light. And all the extra bits and peices are single runs tied into the loom. The ABS will be wired with mil-spec, but there isn't enough colours to do all the car.

[zebra]

Hahah yeah I bet having a sparky mate helped heaps!

[POWR34]

Top build... cant wait till its finished..