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Hi Ppl

My name is Mick and this is my R32 GTST

I have owned plenty of cars althou this is my first import

03 XR6TURBO 455rwhp , 4 Vl calais turbo's one a calais aero turbo , supercharged 929 mazda

To cut a long story short i bought this car and went to register it and came back with the fact that the engine in the car had been stolen and not yet recoverd..,,,, see here : http://www.skylinesa..._1#entry5764020

Car was stock with just a cat back exhaust and 19'' rims

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Any way i decided to purchase a new engine from silver gtst off the forums so i ended up with a low k (98,***) auto RB20DET travelled down to sydney and picked up the engine hoping for a decent running engine it was already out of the car.

OK so now i had the task of swapping the engines over and doing a major service on my new engine , timing belt ,water pump, crank seal , spark plugs , belts alot easier doing it out of the car (first time doing a major service btw)

ok so old engine out next to the new one

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Can you tell which is my new motor? haha

Time to fit up my China spec turbo , now i bought this turbo from a factory in the midddle of china and the same guy makes crankshafts , cant be to bad can it? lol

as you can see big differece from stock althou i need to port the wastegate hole which i didint do while it was out :(

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So while the bay was empty i installed a gktech solid steering bush and removed the aircon

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The clutch didint look to healthy to while the gbox was off the engine i bought a Exedy hd clutch (nothing to serious , rb20 boxes are like glass imo) and had the flywheel machined

time to remove the auto spigot PRICK of a thing ok so all was bolted back together and started to think about installing my new engine

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Bought a GTR fibreglass front bumper , car had a m spec bumper on it when i bought it

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ok so after a weekend or 2 i had a running car

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Time to get some rego and drive the thing

Had a little bit of fun at a ghetto skid pan nothign big as this was not long after i got it all running

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ok more to come soon

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Looks good mate, haha i rebuilt one of these with my brother once, it started and expected to do the same thing, a engine swap and do major service on the new engine, then while searching we ended up buying a rb25 and building it to a 300kw motor hahaha. and it was alot longer then a couple of weeks

  • 11 months later...

So i replaced the stock dump pipe with a 3'' bellmouth

increased the spool time as the turbo is quite big and a little laggy , nothing a clutch kick doesnt fix LOL

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So while the motor was getting installed i replaced the timining belt and water pump (big job for a first timer)

in went a new 52mm radiator , and would you know it big lauch and the fan hit the radiator smashed it to pieces and broke my new water pump $$$ later had it going again

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Picked up a genuine N1 GTR bumper , these things are so much bigger and bulkier then the fibreglass copys , only problem is its missing an intake vernt but im chasing one up

gave it a coat of paint in the shed

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Ok , so a bit of an update ran a set of EUROLINE 18x9 +20 front 18x9 +20 rear for a little while

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ran some 19x8 30 somthing offset BBS MESH C1 copies plus polished the car up and can see the genuine gtr front bar

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Got some aftermarket mirrors from GKTECK.COM

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Bought some Rota grid r in gunmetal 18x9 +25 with a 8 mm slip on front and 18x9.5 +25 rear and got some low

Tien HR Coil overs maxxed out

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I then installed a nistune got some gtr injectros highflowed z32 afm and a tune

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then drove the pants off it

realised the ebay turbo wasnt doing the rb20 any justice i bought

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and a retune by JEZ

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HKS 25/35 turbo

  • 3 months later...

Ok so i fitted up some parts dumped it and maxxed out the tein coilovers

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Crusing down the road spot an unmarked hwy was about 1 mins from my house and got pulled up in my driveway and got defected for wheels to wide , sticking outside the guards too low exhaust and airbox

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somthing diff

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Decided to buy myself a present Mint S2 RB25

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Perfect turbo to go with it HKS 30/37 Pro S .87 rear housing internal gate

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old turbo on the 20 hks25/35 double the hp :)

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awesome wgate design should flow well

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nice dumpsetup and clutch im running

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installed SARD 550 injectors

thought if im going to do it ill do it properly and bought my self a r33 gearbox and got a custom tailshaft made up

installed and wired it up myself got it running

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took it to DVS JEZ to get the dumpipe modded and External Msd switch wired up then tuned , was asked what results id be happy with and my reply was 260rwkw or 350rwhp . now i knew this turbo had produced some good numbers from the previous owner 350ishrwkw forged RB25 E85

Fingers crossed

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HI BOOST VS LOW BOOST

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RB20 VS RB25

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Huge difference it went well with the rb20 ! Cheers DVS TUNING (JEZ)

fitted a roof lip and led taillights

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some sweet sideskirts

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Hicas lock bar

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Camber arms

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removed paint off rims and gave a quick polish

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Goes hard lights up 3rd no worries ITS A BEAST

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looks like a gtr here

At the moment there is a huge defect blitz in newcastle ''Operation hammer ''

so im trying to run under the radar sleeper spec what do you think?

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gtr lip off

sideskirts off

pods off

all stickers off

stockies with big tyres

airbox

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Time for a drive ...... ;)

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