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Though i'd post up whats i've been doing to my car. It's been off the road for 2 years with not much done to it(Mostly due to work getting in the way).

I purchase the car 3 years ago, fairly stock apart from suspension, a 3.5" HKS exhaust and HDI boost controller.

I quickly installed an r32 ECU with Nistune and VCT controller, a Hypergear ATR28G4 turbo(ATR43G3 now days) and APEXI AVCR boost controller.

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After some ghetto road tuning on my own I got it running pretty well, slightly laggy but real nice top end. Would flog a tuned 33 with the standard turbo, but was also maxing out the injectors.

From the day I purchased the car it had stalling issues if you coasted and put the clutch in, so I started trying to work this out.

First went in a new alternator as I noticed the ECU voltage would fluctuate alot.

Spent alot of time leak testing the engine, ended up removing the fuel vapor system as this was leaking air. Also replaced my damaged HKS interncooler.No other leaks were found.

Car continued to have the stalling issue.

Next I installed a DW300 fuel pump and 740cc DW injectors.

Tuning the new injectors did not go well at all, idle was stuffed and was all over the place. I could either get fueling good at WOT with crap idle, or i could get idle working ok but WOT was extremely rich.

To me this looked like there was still an air leak. After mush searching and research i finially found the previouse owner has setup the PVC system incorrectly, meaning at idle/vacume there was a massive air leak, fixed this and took the car for a test drive......

Car idled perfect, car drove perfect of boost and did not stall, slight adjustmed to injector settings and she boosted perfect awell., then....

100m from home the car died, could not get it started and ended up getting it towed home.

After taking pretty much every thing apart, finally found the issue, the connector to the fuel tank(On the actual lid) was corroded, totally unrelated to everything else i had done.

While all this was going on I aquired a 44mm Gate and one of those NZ top mount manifolds.

Spend alot of time getting the manifold on to find the wastegate pipe was too close to the chassis and air con lines, off it comes for modifications.

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I then purchased a t67 to replace the hypergear turbo, and also got my hands on a greddy style plenum for free.

Since the gearbox needs work and a new clutch is needed I though it would be easier to do all this work with the engine out.

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Since i have an external oil cooler i replaced the stock filter neck with one from an RB20

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Plenum installed

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Injectors and TB installed

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Exhaust manifold will be cleaned up and installed over the next month when i get time, will post up some more pics.

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Thought it was about time i cleaned up the cam covers.

First step was to fill in the little factory dent. I used a fibre glass reinforced heat resistant bog.

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And it dosnt look too bad after alittle bit of sanding.

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Will put some primer on this one and start running back the other side this weekend.

Also heat wraped the exhaust manifold last night.

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Finished painting rocker covers over the weekend <- Will post up pics when they are bolted on.

Also I didn't like how my oil cooler lines were routed so I just ordered some -10 bulkhead fittings so I can more easily rout them. Any one see a problem with this approach?

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Been a few months with no progress updated.

Installed a Greedy carbonectic twin plate, decided gearbox can go back on with out any attention(Hopefully some good oil can mask the slight crunching form 1st to 2nd).

And today after a little nudging the engine and gearbox are back in, along with some scratches on my nice paint job on the cam covers :(.

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