Aberax's R33 Build

Aberax · December 9, 2012

Wow, just saw this thread. It was an epic read and your 33's interior will be the best ive seen! The flocking and retrim look awesome. You must be pretty wrapped with the outcome so far. If it was me, I would be more impatient to get it all back together and running. But hey, doing it properly is better than rushing it.

btw, your handbrake has a foreskin.. LOL!

Cheers, yeah I know, a few others have said that as well, I don't really care as it looks better then it did before.

08-12-12

Since 5th December my tuner has had my car to install the Clutch, and my Oil Relocation. Went round there today to help bleed the clutch, he installed a HEL Braided Clutch Line I also supplied as where he wanted to mount my oil filter, there was a heap of Clutch Pipe work which we could remove with the Braided Clutch Line.

I had emailed Otomoto earlier the week before as they are the OS Giken distributor in Australia, and was told I need a 12mm Sleeve Release Bearing which I bought and supplied for the clutch install. Install went fine with the bolt heads measuring 8.8mm and my tuner taking them down to 8mm as per the Instructions. However he didn't take take the 4mm off the candle stick/front housing which the Instructions say, and OS Giken say which we found out Saturday morning when my Tuner rang Otomoto with a few concerns he had.

They told him to ring Western Clutch and Brake, which funnily enough had rebuilt my clutch sometime before I had bought it, and they said they have never removed the 4mm when they install, and to check a few things to see if the clutch was working etc, which we did. It turned out with the Clutch pedal down and gearbox in 1st gear, you couldn't spin the tailshaft by hand, or with leverage....damn , so a bit of adjustment with the Pedal rod inside the car and we got that working, so all god now!? Nope!

Start the engine, clutch in, go for any gear and it is knotchy and grinds, DAMN IT!! You can still get it into gears every now and then. When going for first with the clutch in the car starts moving forward as you try and "force" it in....so at the moment getting gears is a pain in the ass, but not impossible so I drove it home about 20km away from the workshop. Was a very interesting drive at the least, hard to get gears, and sometimes when going for 4th would grind the gears like it was trying to go in reverse. If I had to stop, I would have to try and take off in a higher gear if I couldn't get first on the down-shift while slowing down, generally it was a take off in 2nd gear which was made interesting with the twin plate and revving it up to compensate.

So we are going to try and sort it out this week, my tuner will hopefully be on the phone again to Western Brake and Clutch sometime Monday. So overall not too bad, car is moveable, just a pain in the ass, oil pressure and temp gauges now wired up with the oil filter relocation and an oil change. Just need to sort out the clutch issues and then a TUNE!!

Aberax · December 21, 2012

I know I have been saying I'll upload photos of the Dash, etc....well I finally got off my ass and here they are.

My Tuner got the clutch all sorted...took awhile but he got there. Lots of small issues, that were a PITA as you didn't know about them till the gearbox was in.

For a highend brandname clutch lots of modifying and special bearings etc to get it to work. But once it is in and working, a really good clutch.

So today - 21-12-12, on the World is apparently supposed to end, and the day my Tuner closes for Christmas Holidays, we threw it on the Dyno

Here is the final power she made

Just need to sort out the boost drop and a few boost spike issues now, and I'll boost her up some more...Real fun to drive now, even though it is slightly more powerful then the orginal engine, she produces lots more torque

Merry Christmas/Holidays and Happy New Year Everyone

Burrieddreamz · February 28, 2013

I just browsed every single page of this thread!

Fantastic job mate , you just got yourself a fan there!

Great build an Decent amount of power and looks.

Aberax · March 3, 2013

I just browsed every single page of this thread!

Fantastic job mate , you just got yourself a fan there!

Great build an Decent amount of power and looks.

Thanks mate, there will be more power coming along soon, and hopefully more looks too

Not too much has happened to the R33 lately.

Went away for the Australia Day weekend, car began making a weird noise - like it had an external gate, got progressively worse and and annoying from about 4k RPM and became a too much familiar sound. The sound of a blown Turbo Manifold Gasket, since rego was running out soon I decided to leave it off the road so I could fix it. I bought all the gaskets etc I needed from Nissan - from Nissan as they are Metal, Ripped the Turbo off and found that the gaskets were fine. The bolts holding it to the manifold must have loosened off enough to allow the gas to escape between the gaskets and the spacer plate.

Since the rego had expired and I had the turbo off, I have decided to Ceramic Coat the Rear housing - which I am awaiting to get back, I may also have a new dump pipe made up so it has some flex in it so it can stop the bolts loosening off all the time, or have the current one modified.

Also thinking a new FMIC with piping, not sure if I'll also go with my original idea of a Plazmaman Plenum or not.

I have also bought a Nismo 1.5 way Diff second hand for $750, which will also go in while it is off the road, and I have my eyes on a brake upgrade which will happen later down the path, can anyone say 350mm Brembos!?

Aberax · April 2, 2013

It has been awhile since my last update.

I have had the Turbo Rear housing Ceramic Coated at Ceramic Coat Australia - Pacemaker Headers, Dropped the Front housing off to A Class Metal Finishers to be polished, which I will be picking up later this week.

I bit the Bullet and bought some Evo 9 Brembos, and they arrived today, they look great , I cant wait to get them on the car