Thread For My Car Problems.

[Rolls]

it costs a lot more?

hahah

[lilcrash]

Lol. I noticed that. Have you driven an r34 gtr? What are the ratios like?

[Rolls]

I wish! never driven one sorry.

[lilcrash]

lol ok

[lilcrash]

ok getting it all balanced as we speak, just a concern, im leaning toward replacing the clutch but im getting it balanced my excedy, will the new clutch affect the balance that much?

[Stevoss]

if you have a decent builder they will neutral balance everything, 1 thing at a time, so you would only need to make sure the clutch is also neutrally balanced then you should be able to swap no worries.

[lilcrash]

he is balancing one piece at a time but he is marking my pressure plate to go a certain way so yeah, just worried me a bit, im gonna keep my excedy i think.

[lilcrash]

Ok just got the call from my machinist. $866 for the balancing, grub screwing the crank, checking bearing clearances, installing crank collar. So my build so far is very close to $5k

[lilcrash]

Ok all the gurus out there.

Standard block height, mil 6thou off. Will my pistons be too high? They are cp 9:0 compression 86.5mm bore

[lilcrash]

i doubt that anyone is still actually going to help me but i have some questions.

my stagea manual is in Japanese, but i have an r33 manual in English (only covers rb26 bottom end) will the rb26 bottm end and rb25 top end torque settings be ok for my rb25 neo?

what is my ring gap supposed to be, i just want to make sure it has all been machined correctly before i assemble it. (cp pistons, 86.5mm)

arp head studs, what kind of socket is it and what size?

assembly lube, is it normally in the oil section at auto stores?

[lilcrash]

Is everyone refusing to help or does no one know what the ring gap is supposed to be?

[Bond]

I'm not sure but there was a thread on it recently.

Ask the machine shop what they think.

[lilcrash]

Ok incase anyone cares. I'm going top 17 mid 19 oil 16.

The manual says to stretch the head studs, do arp studs need this done too? Will i need to re tension the head studs after the run in?

Head settings In my manual says

Tighten to 29N-m

Tighten to 98N-m

Loosen to 0N-m

Tighten to 25-34N-m

Tighten to 93-103N-m

But the arp booklet says 80N-m

What should I do?

[GTR260]

Do what arp say & they dont need retensioning! On standard head bolts, u stilll tension in the factory pattern

[lilcrash]

Arp says tighten according to manufacturers specs to 80N-m but the manual says higher so should I just 3 step upto 80?

[lilcrash]

just noticed something strange, in the paperwork for the pistons it says the rings are made to suit a specific bore size but when measured they came back at top .010 and mid .015

what grade file should i use to file the gap?

[lilcrash]

Just thought I would try the cp ring gap calculator formula and according to that my ring gaps should be top .018 mid .024 and oil minimum .015.

That's kind of disturbing.

[lilcrash]

ok resizing rings just got harder, ive killed 3 files and havent even scratched the first ring yet.

[lilcrash]

ok update. out of the box the rings measure as follows, #1 - .010 and .020, #2 - .012 and .022, #3 - .011 and .020, #4 - .011 and .020, #5 - .010 and .022, #6 - .011 and .020. ive set all the mid rings to .022 as per cp specs. with any luck i can find a harder file tomorrow and set all my top rings to .018

and yes i realize im probable talking to myself, but im considering this as my blog from now on. that way atleast i can come back and find out what ive done/done wrong

[DVS JEZ]

Haha. Is anybody listening.

Good work dude.