R32 Gtr, The Final Build

[SimonR32]

Ricer dash install

[Roy]

Awesome! I have had my car so long now I remember back to 2004 when I thought i was the cool kid with my race seat and (new at the time) MyChron Gold

LOL, time for me to get with the times

[WantGTR]

Love the dash!!!

[SimonR32]

Awesome! I have had my car so long now I remember back to 2004 when I thought i was the cool kid with my race seat and (new at the time) MyChron Gold

LOL, time for me to get with the times

All the new ones are now fancy colour LED LCDs so even this is old school!

Great to have basically everything directly in view and not need any gauges

[bcozican]

looks good man.. one day i'll get one.. till then im still old school gauge spec

[Roy]

All the new ones are now fancy colour LED LCDs so even this is old school!

Great to have basically everything directly in view and not need any gauges

Yeh, they are pretty cool things...but I actually prefer to MXL and MXL2 vs the MXS. The colour LCD are too playstation and I suppose I am just liking in the past of the Pi dash being what a dash logger should look like

[SimonR32]

First time with 2 bar of boost on the track... Interesting!!!

That was at the last round of the WA Sprint Championship, holding off a few quick R32 GTRs and all those Evos/WRXs to get both the overall win and class win for the season.

[SimonR32]

Few weeks ago at Barbagallo again, ran 2 x 60.5's in a row which is a little off my PB but tyres have seen better days. Interesting that I ran high boost (just under 2 bar) compared to the normal 1.5bar and held 4th to limiter on back straight instead of using 4th. Picked up 18kmhr just doing this which puts me right up there with the quickest cars I've ever seen logged down the straight.

Edited December 2, 2015 by SimonR32

[SiR_RB]

What clutch are you running and how many stock boxes have you gone through at that power level lol

[SimonR32]

What clutch are you running and how many stock boxes have you gone through at that power level lol

OS Giken Triple Plate with steel cover (not ally as they seem to be bitches)

2 x 3rd gears, 1 input shaft and 1 5th/reverse selector. They are actually pretty tough if you don't smash gear changes and use redline lighweight shockproof

[SiR_RB]

I've got the same clutch sitting here ready to go on, the steel cover one not the billet version, abit nervous how it will drive

They do handle abuse that's for sure !

[fatz]

They do kill boxes

They love abuse though

[DCIEVE]

I've got the os quad plate with ally cover. Used to be brutal to the point of considering binning it but now it's been abused a little it drives really nicely. Not sure if it has bedded in or something else changed...

[fatz]

Yup drive my car to the shops a few times and the clutch becomes terrible

Go to track and half way around the lap all fixed

More you thrash the happier they are for some reason

[SimonR32]

Bit of an update for those who don't know or haven't heard...

Took it to the drags for a run as there was a small leak from the front of gearbox and I guessed the rear main seal had cried enough. I figured if I went to the drags I'd probably break another box so would just fix 2 birds with one stone. Like a special child I left it in RWD first run and then did a lazy 10.8 @ 135mph but motor didn't feel 100%. Noticed it was on 5cyl under brakes (couldn't tell when it was on gate) and turned onto the return road to a small knock. It almost instantly went away so figured I was hearing things but when I got back to the pits I checked the logs and it was well down on boost (3-4psi from memory). So naturally figured I should just turn it up a little so adjusted the wastegate duty cycle a bit higher. Turned car back on to a reasonable size knock, shut it straight down and called Turner over. Turned it back on to a massive knock, shut it down again and then got it towed.

Have been spending the last few months slowly stripping current motor and putting the parts on my spare stocker, found number 6 spark plug was closed so we just assumed that it had done the big end bad enough that the piston had hit the spark plug. I grabbed some new cams, same lift but smaller duration to try and get a bit more response. I also swapped the head studs over, the new motor has a stock head gasket so will be interesting to see how well that hangs on. Fast forward to last weekend and we pulled out the old motor and put in the new one, so will just get that tuned soon and back good to go. Motor top end is actually very quiet compared with the previous one but that may be due to the following...

So when the motor came out we pulled off the cam cap of number 6 and the bearing was good, which made us WTF for about 10 sec till we found one of the inlet valve guides missing. Simples, RB26's are fairly well known for that, but today I figured I'll pull the head off and check out the damage to head, piston and bore to find this;

and then found that another 5 guides had dropped in cylinders 2-5 (number 1 was the only one not f**ked), number 3 had dropped both inlet valve guide. Funny thing is that they all had carbon build up over the damage, as I've always run on E85 it seems to point that they have all been f**ked since before it came from Japan! Regardless, 4 pistons and combustion chambers have had damage from mashing the valve guide inside the bore for a fair while unknown to anyone but still happy to smash out 740hp all day haha

[fatz]

700 ponies on a stock bottom end

Well done

Rince and repeat

[SimonR32]

700 ponies on a stock bottom end

Well done

Rince and repeat

But of course... Already up and running, just need a tune

[k_d]

Bit of a bummer, but it sounds like you were prepared anyway!!

[SimonR32]

New motor in and going with the Tomei Poncams (Type R) 250 x 9.1mm

Went 590hp at 1.5bar and 670hp with 1.9bar. Didn't bother pushing any harder as I just want to see it's all good until I push it a bit more. A little disappointed I didn't pick up much low down power with the smaller cams so might try type-B's in the future.

[frostyboy]

Sorry mate I couldn't find what gearbox your running?