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Hey all,

Fellow Skyline Lover from Wellington, New Zealand here sharing my project.

Have been for the last 2 years building up my R33 Gts25t SII that I have owned for about 9 years now. It has been of the road for the last 6 years after blowing a clutch and a head gasket. Have been solidly working away on it for the last 2 years. Details of Modifications below:

Engine:

Factory Internal Rb25det

Rips Enlarged and Baffled Sump with Extended Pick Up.

Greedy Magnetic Sump Plug.

Front Oil Feed Blocked Off, Rear 1.5mm Oil Restrictor.

N1 Water Pump.

Genuine Nissan Thermostat.

Genuine Nissan Cambelt Idler and Tensioner.

Genuine Nissan Alternator, Power steering and Fan Belts.

ARP Head Studs

Genuine new Stock Nissan Head Gasket.

Head:

Rebuilt with Genuine Nissan Parts.

Tomei Poncams In and Ex 256 degrees @ 8.5mm Lift.

RB Extra Oil Return back to Sump, -10 an Braided Line and fittings.

Cooling:

Blue Samco Heater and Coolant Hose Kit.

Alloy Radiator with Greddy Dummy Block Off Cap.

Greedy Coolant Breather Bleeder.Greddy Radiator Cap.

Greedy Oil Filter Relocation Block with built in Thermostat. -10 braided an lines and fittings. Oil Cooler.

Intake:

Rips Front Facing Inlet Plenum.

80mm Throttle Body.

Front Mount Intercooler, 2.5 Inch Intercooler piping.

APEXI Power Intake Pod Filter, 3 Inch Pipe to Turbo Inlet, 300zx z32 afm.

Blitz SS Blow Off Valve.

Exhaust:

Stock Exhaust Turbo Manifold with T3 Spacer Flange and and longer studs.

Masterpower Gt37 Turbo with T300 stage 3 turbine, .63 a/r. -10 an braided oil return, -4 an braided oil feed, 1.4mm Oil Feed Restrictor.

Tial 38mm V Band Wastegate if turbine housing. -4 an braided coolant feed and return. Using ports on block for turbo water lines as Turbo is not Water Cooled.

3 inch Custom Dump and Front Pipe

Blitz Cat Back Exhaust.

Fuel:

Nismo Fuel Pump

SARD Fuel Pressure Regulator

Circuitsports Sidefeed Fuel Injector Rail.

440cc wrx sti Injectors,

-6 braided an fuel lines, feed and return.

Ignition:

Splitfire Coilpacks

Misc:

Custom Washer Bottle and Oil Catch Can. -10 Braided AN Oil Catch Can Lines.

Nismo Oil Cap.

Project Mu Reservoir Sock Covers on Clutch and Brake Fluid Tanks.

Driveline:

R34 GTT Rb25det Neo Gearbox.

Braided Clutch Line.

Custom 5 puk solid Centre Clutch Plate and Pressure Plate.

Handling:

Braided Brake Lines.

Kts Adjustable Suspension.

Whiteline Pineapples set up for drag/squat.

18 inch ROH Drift R Rims 9.5 inches wide all around.

235x35x18 tyres on front, 255x35x18 tyres on rear.

Hicas Lock Bar.

Adjustable Rear Camber Arms

Nismo Front Strut Brace with Brake Master Cylinder Stopper.

Factory Rear Strut Brace Added.

Project Mu Wheel Locknuts

Nismo Dust / Air Valve Cap Covers.

Exterior:

Factory Respray cloud white qm1.

Factory Side Skirts and End Caps.

Nismo Smoked Side Indicators.

R33 GTR Style Front Bumper.

Drift Style Wing / Duck lip Rear Spoiler.

Hand Brake and Gear Shifter Leather Boot with Red Stitching.

Pillar Mounted Boost Gauge.

White Face Dials on Dash Cluster.

HKS EVC S Boost Controller.

HKS Type 0 Turbo Timer to match above.

Nismo Leather Gear Knob.

Apexi SAFC and Apexi RSM mounted in Glove Box with Apexi G-Sensor for RSM.

R32 GTST Ecu With Nistune Daughterboard. Still running VTC.

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Hopefully have the GTR Style Front Bumper painted and installed this week. All that awaits is fluids and in the new years of to get certified and the fully tuned. Hopefully it will be a good summer :-D

Thanks, hopefully it works out once all tuned etc. Have spent alot of time on here definetly seeing others results and making choices etc. Has been a big learning curve for me as im not a mechanic or anything by trade. Have put everything back together myself to this point. From here there is nothing else I can do as im not a welder or do not have the equipment or knowledge to tune the ecu. Have built it keeping in mind that she is still my daily driver. :-)

Thanks AngryRB. Yeah playing with braided lines was not originally on my list. I decided to do them for mainly cosmetic purposes. Was a pain putting them together at first. Managed to buy some cutting tool from the states which did a nice job in the end and made it easy to put them together, I also figure with the car being 20 years old next year it wouldnt hurt to replace old lines that could cause problems in future. Also decided to use them for the water cooling on the external wastegate and used the water feed and return originally ment for the turbo as the new turbo is oil cooled only. Decided to do something different rather than block them off.

Also had trouble finding a adaptor / fitting that would work with the side feed fuel rail. Managed to find something. Its a very tight fit due to the NVCS Solenoid being there.

Thanks Prank. Im glad I worked with it. There was alotta times where i considered throwing in the towel. The car was a mess and in pieces and also missing a gearbox due to hanging around with people who were suppose to be friends and helpful. Am glad I didnt give up and have got to this point finally.

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Thanks Looney_Head, no I have not run the car with any of these modifications or the new turbo. The car only had basic boltons before this. Am interested to see how it will react as the guy who put it together for me says its will do what I want. I was deceived by the size as originally I told him I wanted something nice and responsive wanted to build and hold a nice power curve. So am interested to see what it's like as my impressions are it might be very laggy lacking bottom end.

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A guy called Dave from Total Turbo built that turbo for me. All though it was done through a friend I found out the details of the turbo by sending the numbers on it to the NZ Masterpower Distributor. Was told that it was customised though, but I really have no way of telling this. SH!!!T that's a lot of power. Was definitely not wanting that kind of power at all. Car was my daily driver before it broke and I plan on it continuing to be my daily driver so will not be getting E85 tuned or anything like that. I was always wanting around 250kw at the rear wheels absolute max lol.

  • 4 weeks later...

Got a phone call yesterday, Christmas came early. Bumper has been all painted and just needs to be fitted. Will fit and post updates after Christmas most likely.

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To replace the original tog lights and indicators on my factory series 2 bumper, I found some low key led Drls which also have indicators built into them. Could justify the cost of sourcing the original indicators found on the factory r33 gtr's

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Some minor adjustments or mods maybe but looks like she should be alright. Will post update once fitted.

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  • 1 month later...

Also looked further into the nistune side of things and after finding out the R32 ECU did batch injection and the mods required to run a z32 ecu just got sick of the messing around and found out Apexi started making the Power FC for my car again. Because they were on sale and the price for a brand new piece of kit was just an opporunity I had to snap up instantly.

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