R32 Gts+t Daily/street

[CRSKmD Topic Author 147]

okay lets continue this story.

new box in. this box had a measly 11,000kms on it. Pulled from a car back in the 90's filled with oil and kept in storage for a mate of mines personal project...which never happened but i got to reap the rewards.

fresh rear hub assemblies as one had started the develop a slight wheel bearing noise at speed under load. last thing i wanted was a wheel bearing failure at speed. fresh studs where a nice touch too

when installing the new box we noticed this with the Clutch slave. have since found out the 15/16" HFM units have an issue where the body of the cylinder just touched the bellhousing before the mounting tabs are flush causing a angled force which results in this over time. OEM nissan unit back on for now. see how it holds as my clutch had required a bigger cylinder due to blowing out the seals in the stock sized ones.

all back together an track day ready.
As expected the super low kms RB25DET gearbox was butter smooth and really changed how enjoyable the car is to drive!

follow up post from the track day coming soon!

 

 

[CRSKmD Topic Author 147]

Track day October 2019
track wheels on

lined up ready for the session 

coming back in

cooling down

*Euro beat intensifies*

Having a blast and matching my old PB when in the first afternoon session...the T3 gasket melts again. The resulting leak effectively creates a gas torch which ended up melting the hose inside my braided waterline so my day in the 32 ended here. Though my mate let me drive the above AE86 in all its stripped out NA big brake glory and so much fun was had!

Still i limped the car home without any overheating.

 

[CRSKmD Topic Author 147]

post track day tear down

another T3 gasket melted. This one was a genuine Nissan complete with flame rings

Brass nuts mushroomed

"flame proof hose"

pitting in T3 manifold flange

spent a long time carefully facing both flanges

installed inconel studs and copper nuts (generic pic but you get the idea)

all back together. With the fresh gaskets, inconel studs and copper nuts. Along with carefully facing the flanges and using the Nissan nut retaining washer tabs i have done as much as i can.

The main issue is the turbo is technically too small for the motor and is running outside the efficiency map so lots of heat is generated. So if this doesn't hold i guess the only option is a bigger turbo.

[mr_rbman 173]

Saw your car at all jap day, love the trak spec cars at those events