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After not driving my skyline for a year, probably more i happened to have the opportunity to buy this series 1 R33 from family so missing driving and liking this series 1 i snapped it up..

I've been in and around this car for years and envied it cause to me it just looks hot and has always performed well, 13 second flat quarters with what most say is a shitty HKS 2540 turbo which surged its head off when the cat was gutted..Since then the turbo was replaced with a Hypergear SS2 and still retains the original tune from Japan and everything else thats bolted/attached to it...

I'll just list what i know it has

SS2 hypergear turbo

SAFC controller

HKS boost controller

3inch exhaust system

Mines ecu i think

GTR dash

Blitz side skirts

Trial rear bar

Nismo wheels?

Koyo radiator

Exedy clutch

short shifter

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So, this thread is going to be simple, currently it was at 200kw's with the 2540, the goal is to get anything north of 280kw's and see how it goes at drags and track.

Have lots of parts so stay tuned for a fairly quick build up :)

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Few updates, changed seat and installed power fc plus rego and transfer to make official

Never seen/heard of this computer that was in it, some japanese chipped/modded comp..]

original s1 seat post-70965-0-15906800-1459332623_thumb.jpg

nismo GTR seatpost-70965-0-39501400-1459332690_thumb.jpg

Jap computer post-70965-0-48433200-1459332723_thumb.jpg

Am bit aroused after reading that shit on the Jap computer lol..

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jmknights93- thanks, I'm gonna try and get this thing finished alot quicker and plan now is to later drop the 2530neo in with all the good shit bolted on etc.. so pretty excited, this thing looks hot so lovin this transformation... :thumbsup:

Just saw the sexiest highmount on sinco facebook, and its confirmed to be mine, farkin nice shit, https://www.facebook.com/SincoCustoms/?fref=nf

in other news picking up the HKS hi power exhaust tomorrow...

Selling some stuff to get this moving, hypergear turbo and 34GTR wheels... then will commence complete engine swap and bolting on of quality parts and fabrications... gonna be dam sexy under bonnet :banana::bunny::P

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mmm, the japs know how to build sexy parts, suprisingly there are no silencers in this... could hand this in the living room/mancave lol..

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And the two RB's ready for a engine switch .. helpers ready ..post-70965-0-42113500-1460018916_thumb.jpg

Took the maroon one for last squirt round block, some nice pulls and pops on backing off throttle.. sounds awesome..

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Don't know bout others, but pulling an engine out is a bit of an anxious moment, only second time i done this and bloody knock sensor played hard to get but managed to pull the connector off without an engine dropping on my arm :unsure2:

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Someone should buy this SS2 turbo, was loving the pulls the other day , was only on 8psi too...

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Finally got the covers and turbo housing back, i was originally picturing more of a highly polished look and this come out quite bright if you know what i mean ... this is blindly bright lol

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Gonna paint the middle core cause they tend to look all rusty after a short time, hoping to keep it looking this new for good...

Lucky i found these little balls that were in the comp housing, dont think the engine would of like to suck these in.. alot of these guys do a great job on things but then fail on these fine details, fabricator leaves dags that will be sucked in too so i usually take all the pipes off and sand clean them before the engine can be started... :dry:

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Yeah, im not happy with the shinyness of the ceramic coated covers, i will probably end up changing them again, have to think bout will look good without being stupid...

Been a few hard slog kinda days, i removed the RB3025 from my silver skyline and now she sits in the maroon beast, was a long frustrating process, almost like it didn't want to go in, played with angles etc to get it in and bolted on the mounts..

Today i been making a few efforts to keep it going, i bolted on the manifold, a few times for various reasons, sorry but im amateur lol... finally got it on, then the air con then the power steering pump, then started putting the HKS exhaust on, dam i have to say im a big big fan of the Jap gear, many dont like it but i do... am a Jap brand whore...

I like showing pics so heres a bunch of them...

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look into the eye of the RB storm .. lol.. A big Jap Fark off muffler...post-70965-0-13999100-1460795108_thumb.jpg

Dam.. that is a nice rear end.. personally i reckon better than a GTR rearpost-70965-0-63741900-1460795224_thumb.jpgpost-70965-0-24297200-1460795262_thumb.jpg

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Slow progress, waiting for the fabricator to make up an adaptor plate so i can bolt the idle air control thing to the top plenum. It should mean that i can run the neo stuff without any issue..

Have installed all the belts and radiator and decided to try and do the intercooler piping myself. My old man bought a tig welder and has offered to help with welding so this will either be a flop or work well, wont hurt to try for the little cost. I went and picked up some 2.5inch stainless pipes 316grade so we can attempt home job fabrication lol.post-70965-0-80115300-1463649258_thumb.jpg

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