Hola

[Coullsy]

Hola

Hello everyone,

I've been around R31s for quite a few years, purchased my first R33 a couple of months back and love it. Already spent some coin on it, with much much more to come. Looking at making it a reliable 300kw street/track car.

 

[PranK]

That looks clean! Series 2?

Whats planned for it? 

[Coullsy]

It is a S2.

Currently has: GFB elec boost controller, GFB elec blow off valve, FMIC, 3" magnaflow exhaust, Extreme twin plate race series clutch, Tein coil overs, break upgrade

Planned: Larger turbo, plazmaman intake, upgrade ignition system, upgrade fuel system, aftermarket computer, E85, tune, upgrade suspension, eventually forged internals.

4th gear syncro is on its way out so ill throw a new gearbox in it next and then swap out the diff to a stronger LSD. should make for a reliable fun car. My target is 300rwkw.

[admS15]

Hey mate, welcome. Before you go changing gearbox, you may want to check how much oil is in there. Mine used to crunch into fourth at high revs and it turned out there was only 2.5 litres of oil in it when there should be 3.6 - 3.8 litres. I changed the oil and refilled with the right amount and the box has been beautiful since.  Worth a try before you go to the effort of changing boxes and obviously the cost of it too.

[Coullsy]

The mechanic that put the clutch in couldn't get the drain plug out of the box to change the oil, so there is a good chance it may be low, i might find a hoist, have a crack at the plug myself and throw some oil in there.

thanks

[admS15]

There is a plug on the side, that is the oil level plug. Pull that one out and check the level by sticking a finger in there. If you can't feel it right there, it needs oil. You can then work out how you're going to remove the drain plug.

[Coullsy]

Awesome, Thank you for that

[Coullsy]

Got it on the hoist, took about half a litre of oil, took it for a drive and 4th gear is still troublesome, it is only at speed that it has an issue which is a little confusing, I can't engage 5th to 4th, but I can if I go 5th, 3rd, 4th.

[admS15]

Sounds like 4th gear synchro is toast.

[Coullsy]

joy haha, might do both diff and gearbox at once, get them over and done with

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

drop in Nulon Smooth shift addictive, usually helps with these shit boxes (literally)..

Mine grinds in 2nd at 7k rpm, but a workaround is to bash the limiter and slip it into gear... 3rd and 4th grinds too, work around just shift as hard as you can "reef" it into gear LOL... #traklife

Yours looks so much cleaner than my shit box

 

Does it dose good?

[Coullsy]

I've put Nulon G70 in both the gearbox and diff, diff still whines like the missus and the gearbox was no better

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Now imagine this, you strip down your gearbox to find a PPG helical gear set hence the whining hahah

[Coullsy]

That would be amazing