R32 Gtr Long Term Love, Now Project

[Shoota_77]

@r32-25t where did you get your coolant swirl pot from?  It's a very nice bit of kit. 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

4 hours ago, Shoota_77 said:

@r32-25t where did you get your coolant swirl pot from?  It's a very nice bit of kit. 

Be prepared to wait for months and be ghosted by the manufacturer 

[r32-25t]

4 hours ago, Shoota_77 said:

@r32-25t where did you get your coolant swirl pot from?  It's a very nice bit of kit. 

It’s the hypertune one, they give you the option of being in front of or behind the strut tower. 

[r32-25t]

40 minutes ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

Be prepared to wait for months and be ghosted by the manufacturer 

 the radiator didn’t take to long and arrived pretty close to the estimated time that they gave me

[Shoota_77]

3 hours ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

Be prepared to wait for months and be ghosted by the manufacturer 

They've got about 5 years to make it which is approximately when my car will see the road again....

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

3 minutes ago, Shoota_77 said:

They've got about 5 years to make it which is approximately when my car will see the road again....

I hope by the time you car is running, I will no longer own my Nissan shit box.

We all can hope and dream, it keeps us feeling alive  

[Old man 32 GTR]

5 hours ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

I hope by the time you car is running, I will no longer own my Nissan shit box.

We all can hope and dream, it keeps us feeling alive  

I hope to trade my shit box in for a new lotus Emira, be nice to have a car I can actually drive and enjoy

 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

1 hour ago, Old man 32 GTR said:

I hope to trade my shit box in for a new lotus Emira, be nice to have a car I can actually drive and enjoy

 

And do wild lap times, and then head home with the same tank of fuel and not get carjacked or cops fisting you or neighbours sending your car details to the EPA.

 

[MBS206]

11 hours ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

And do wild lap times, and then head home with the same tank of fuel and not get carjacked or cops fisting you or neighbours sending your car details to the EPA.

 

In 10 years time, own anything that runs on petrol and you'll be fisted by the EPA, PETA, and the Greens

[joshuaho96]

3 minutes ago, MBS206 said:

In 10 years time, own anything that runs on petrol and you'll be fisted by the EPA, PETA, and the Greens

I doubt any Skyline still running 10 years from now will actually matter for emissions.

[MBS206]

Also, still waiting on diagnosis as to what let the coolant out...

I'm presuming you only filled, and werent pressure testing, so worst case is something like Welch plug not in correctly or missing... However, I suspect something more normal, like, someone forgot to connect a heater hose to the heater box properly, or missed one of the many random lines under the plenum. And that's making Brett consider just selling the whole thing rather than trying to get back under the plenum in a GTR to fix a fiddly hose

[MBS206]

2 minutes ago, joshuaho96 said:

I doubt any Skyline still running 10 years from now will actually matter for emissions.

It will when they line up preparing to ban petrol vehicles outright...

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

40 minutes ago, MBS206 said:

It will when they line up preparing to ban petrol vehicles outright...

Then hopefully they word the rules in a way, they mention petroleum, fossil fuels, etc.

That would mean 100% ethanol is fine!

Back to Brett's leak, I reckon send its mum to the moon with RTV. Just don't do what Subaru did and leave bits of RTV everywhere lol.

[r32-25t]

1 hour ago, MBS206 said:

Also, still waiting on diagnosis as to what let the coolant out...

I'm presuming you only filled, and werent pressure testing, so worst case is something like Welch plug not in correctly or missing... However, I suspect something more normal, like, someone forgot to connect a heater hose to the heater box properly, or missed one of the many random lines under the plenum. And that's making Brett consider just selling the whole thing rather than trying to get back under the plenum in a GTR to fix a fiddly hose

I wish it it was that easy, being a billet block there’s no Welch plugs in it and pretty much every line under there is gone now and the remaining water hoses are bmrs because of converting it to dbw 

[r32-25t]

And no I didn’t pressure test it, at least it didn’t come back out as fast as I put it in but still didn’t require any pressure 

[MBS206]

Maybe you got your radiator and header tank so quick as they forgot to weld it together fully

[Old man 32 GTR]

6 hours ago, r32-25t said:

And no I didn’t pressure test it, at least it didn’t come back out as fast as I put it in but still didn’t require any pressure 

So where is it coming from? 

[r32-25t]

13 hours ago, Old man 32 GTR said:

So where is it coming from? 

I hadn’t got much of a chance to look at it properly as it was dark when I filled the water. When I finally did it appears to be coming from behind the housing that the water pump and thermostat attach to. 

 

[r32-25t]

The engine is stripped down and the housing removed 

this oring is the the culprit (so I thought) and I smeared it with rtv and fit it back on. A few days later I fitted the parts that allowed me to fill the water and out comes the water again 😡turns out by doing what I did I just moved the leak further up the block 

[Shoota_77]

Bummer...

Is that a groove in the o-ring?  Is there a lip or a gasket protruding that is cutting into the o-ring?

 

Also, good to see you're wearing Chinese safety boots.  Too cold down here in Victoria for those at the moment! 🤣