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Aquired this beast the other week (wanted to get one for ages) and I'm pretty happy with it overall, except at the moment a renault clio sport will

stay on my ass at full throttle up to an 80km speed limit lol.

Plans are to make a street legal GTR that puts out 300-330AWKW and look the goods in my eyes.

It already had bigger brakes, ADR approved braided lines, 100mm frontmount intercooler, PFC, aftermarket exhaust that needs to be changed for something better, extreme HD clutch, optima battery, nismo dash. Everything else is stock.

First thing I did was remove the apexi pod filters and adapters, then source a stock airbox and snorkel assy and fit that along with a high flow panel filter.

This now makes it legal in NSW on that aspect.

Then got some neat white slimline plates to replace the crappy yellow ones. A front bracket will be made up soon.

All fluids will be replaced too.

Fitted some Rota 18x9.5 +12 offset wheels I had in the shed with 265 35 rubber. Keeping the stock wheels.

Here it is before I got it. Previous owner kept the GDZILLA plates.

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Here's some pics of it now.

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Have some new Garrett 2860-9's ready to fit to replace the stockers. Stockers are running at 1.2bar, no boost controller.

Alpine gear will go in soon too, using optical fibre link instead of RCA's, and some dyna mat.

Also may change the big end bearings for ACL race series as it's a little noisy for my liking before it gets oil pressure on start, and change the balancer for a Ross tuffbond....and the rest lol.

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Thanks Steve!

Ha ha, Chris, too late. I just started pulling it apart! I'll be dropping some stuff off to get ceramicoated though!

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Owned it 2.5 weeks and this is what happens! I didn't want to chance the engine as it has a bit of bearing rumble before it gets oil pressure, so it's coming out. And the ceramic turbs are banned. Taking the engine out to do the work. Crank will get checked and balanced if all good.

Some more pics:

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Garrett 2860-9's (GTSS) Radiator had some trash in front of it!

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Piping is a bit oily from pcv pipes

Getting used to living under these things!

This was over two years ago, same shed!

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you are just like a big kid that has to pull everything new appart to see whats inside :bunny: should go well once you get it all back together again.

Dont fret the clio thing, they have crazy short gears. stack a few more km/h on though and you should leave it behind.

Thanks Steve!

Ha ha, Chris, too late. I just started pulling it apart! I'll be dropping some stuff off to get ceramicoated though!

damnit! wanted to see how they went stock - oh well .... just dont try and polish the plenum on this car too lol

Well stock they are kinda like a R33GTS-T with a highflow turbo, and after 5000rpm it's flat. Plenty of torque around 3-4000rpm though.

So you weren't missing much!

Took the front pipe(s) off this arvo, not standard as it is big, equal length design too.

Now I'm going to source a service manual, as I haven't taken a pull type gearbox off before, only push types.

Thanks for the info!

Cheers, well better than a spun bearing lol.

Got the damn circlip off the clutch fork pin!. What a pain, and I ended up modifying screwdrivers to help get it off.

Looked different to the GT-T split pin? arrangement.

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Unbolted the left hand drive shaft, and pushed the RHS drive shaft out of the diff.

Unbolted front prop shaft at the front diff.

Also unbolted the aircon and power steering pump from the engine to avoid disconnecting lines.

Wish I had a hoist!

Finally got the engine out today after a lot of cursing.

Then pulled the turbos and sump off. Broke a half inch breaker bar on the harmonic balancer bolt too, will exchange at supercheap (lifetime warranty!).

Inside of this engine was pretty black compared to my last engine I did, so it'll need a good clean.

Checked out the big end bearings and they did look a little tired. Shells had a bit of fretting on the backs and weren't a very tight fit in the bigends.

Will have to measure clearances another day. Main bearings looked better and thrust was good.

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Dual mass flywheel, want to turf it!

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V spec exhaust temp sensor on rear dump pipe

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Dead breaker bar, big end bearing

Hmm yeah, would be nice but I have set a budget on this build as buying the car has made me broke again lol.

I will think about it though as more off boost response would be a side bonus with 2.6l and the 'heavy' 34.

Gonna sell some stuff in the shed so I might be able to budget it in!

I'll have a look at what is available piston wise :thumbsup:

Sump cleaned and Tomei baffle fitted, Cheers Andrew!

One of the engine mounts is half split through so replacement Nismo mounts it is.

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