Canada 1993 gtr ready for action

[MoMnDadGTR]

Well my motor is down again just waiting to get my head back from machine shop as we had a head gasket failure. In the mean time I was brought a car from my friend who just got his car back from a shop here and wow did they hack it up and charged him 15k!  He brought it to me as it was “feeling funny” and hitting 26psi when target was 14. Wastegate was stuck shut, they used windshield washer line for vacuum line all over the motor. They fried his powersteering pump as the resevior was right by turbo and they left the Hicas fins in so I made a new resevior and smacked a new pump on there.Rad hoses falling off and cracked, front prop shaft bolts were in backwards and the shaft was loose. No wheel alignment after Hicas removal and it was walking like a crooked dog. I could keep going on how he paid 2k for intercooler pipe that looks like it was done blind folded. Crank pulley had a 3” chunk out of it. So I got a good project on my hands for a bit while I wait for some stuff for my car. Going to make some new piping with hdi clamps and make his beauty a solid reliable unit.My jdm space is nice right now.

[MoMnDadGTR]

These were some of the issues.... There was one plug going to the tps which was not extended and plugged in. I posted a picture of the plug. The car seemed to run ok without it but I extended the harness and plugged it in. Just trying to figure out the actual function of this specific plug as I know the tps has 2 plugs going to it. The dust cap that was pissing out oil was pretty funny/sketch as hell......

[MoMnDadGTR]

This was the intercooler piping they charged him 2k for. Actually robbery. It’s a shame people bering there cars to me to be fixed out of my garage instead of to “shops”. that’s the level of work we get around here at shops it’s pathetic....that’s why I bought all my own fabrication stuff and hubs because I pretty much had too if I wanted to stand a chance...Leaking at 4 psi in about 25 spots. Leaking from welds, cuplers, throttle shaft, rubbish. I don’t even know how they dynoed this thing!

Edited April 14, 2022 by MoMnDadGTR

[MoMnDadGTR]

So yeah this is all the shinanigans a guy has to go back and redo everything for his mate so he can have a nice reliable gtr again. Nice to be on the other end of it for once and watch someone else spend there money haha. The gtr itself is awesome and fun to work on as its kind of beat up a bit but hauls ass and has a good strong motor.

[Nostalgia]

What a bummer. I'm dumbfounded by the lack of competence from Canadian workshops. R32s were eligible since mid 2000s and nobody there knows how to build one?

[BK]

Tps has a 3 pin plug on the lead for the actual throttle position to ecu and the other 3 pin with actually only 2 wires pinned in is the throttle closed idle command switch.

That balancer is a good one 😄

[MoMnDadGTR]

On 14/04/2022 at 6:44 AM, BK said:

Tps has a 3 pin plug on the lead for the actual throttle position to ecu and the other 3 pin with actually only 2 wires pinned in is the throttle closed idle command switch.

That balancer is a good one 😄

Yeah good old gtr was still spinning it not blowing belts somehow. Thanks for the info Ben yet again. And as far as the Canadian shops go they only follow the scene. People wanted cheap work that’s what they got and that’s the attitude that arose. People are more worried about what kind of oil cap and steering wheel they have rather than the setup of the car. I’m serious it’s kind of embarrassing that’s why I’m only on this site and don’t partake In Canadian crap what so ever. I hide in a hole yet everyone comes with there gtr. Here’s another one I had to fix that was mangled. This car now is actually pretty dope and finished now/catchcan and everything is on it now and tuned.

[MoMnDadGTR]

On some mean te’s. 

[TurboTapin]

On 4/14/2022 at 5:08 AM, Nostalgia said:

What a bummer. I'm dumbfounded by the lack of competence from Canadian workshops. R32s were eligible since mid 2000s and nobody there knows how to build one?

Canada's big. This must be an OP local thing as my area has a lot of well known skyline shops that do top work. 

[MoMnDadGTR]

On 15/04/2022 at 10:17 AM, TurboTapin said:

Canada's big. This must be an OP local thing as my area has a lot of well known skyline shops that do top work. 

I believe out of every place in the world that builds gtr’s Canada is on the low end of it all. Yeah there’s always gunna be a few good shops but for the most part nothing major. Like boost factory in Calgary is good, couple places in Ontario. We aren’t so bad ourselves.....other than that I haven’t seen anything that great comes out of canada

[MoMnDadGTR]

Well good mate mikey’s car is turning out great after removing all the rubbish from his engine. Can’t believe what that shop did to him. That’s why he brought it 350km to have it done right and retuned! There was many boost leaks, kinked vacumm lines, no mounts or cars taken on anything. Can’t wait to finish this girl up we are waiting for parts again.ceramic coating the exhaust manifold, neW down pipe, bigger wastegate 60mm,intercooler pipe on that side, ceramic coat the intercooler pipes black, cast elbow welded on the compressor of turbo. Then send. First picture is how it came....if your following the thread look above at the issues this car came to Me with it was nuts!

[MoMnDadGTR]

[VictorySpec33]

On 4/14/2022 at 6:13 AM, MoMnDadGTR said:

On some mean te’s. 

there she is. sup m8 its kyle

[MoMnDadGTR]

Well finally done one of my good friends builds. My buddy mikey brought me this car after being dynoed with sooooooo many sketchy issues. With 100 hours of time and fabrication this gtr is back on its feet and being remote tuned tomorow!

[MoMnDadGTR]

The major things we did, 1. new piping with proper fittings for bov, meth nozzle, iat bung, proper hdi clamps all around 2. Down pipe and wastegate went from from 44 to 60mm power gate 3. New Hicas reloop with new pump gutted viens and custom reservoir 4. Custom catchcan and coolant overflow 5. Gkteck clutch line 6. Replaced all washer fluid lines used for vacuum line with high heat silicon lines 7. Welded turbo elbow on turbo 8. Screamer pipe 9. Made intake pipe with filter 10. Rewired missing plug to tps and other wiring cleaned up 11. Check timing and replaced broken crank pulley with fluidampr 12. Cleaned up engine bay and painted lots of stuff 13. Remote tune from Derek at powertune Canada 14. Ball joints replaced with fresh lazer wheel alignment 15. Turbo gasket and manifold gaskets replaced from not being tightened and completely blown out 16. fabricated new turbo oil inlet and fittings 17. fabricated new turbo drain and fitting to block. 18. Installed proper block off plate for rear turbo drain 19. New coolant lines 20. Replaced all grounds and installed proper breaker on power cord to relocation 21. Bumpers and grill painted 22. Coolant panel fabricated 23. Perfect performance Canada is a joke search above to see some of there work that we fixed. 

[MoMnDadGTR]

We added a oil cooler for some cheap insurance due to no extended sump on the old girl for now. Will take care of that later on when engine comes out again. Nice grill mount turned out ok. All full of fluids should have some nice videos of some pulls today

[MoMnDadGTR]

Finally finished up the milk r32! Just tuned on low spring pressure for now but we are going to redo the suspension next and the turn it up. Turned out pretty good some light pull videos at the bottom. 60mm gate screams like crazy lol

[MoMnDadGTR]

The beast is alive again! No more headgasket issues. Will see how my jb weld holds up on my block but I was out smacking it at 20psi and the good old girl seems to be holding together nicely ! Cheers mates. Check bottom picture for some thing I found on my drain plug on transmission I have no idea what it is

[MoMnDadGTR]

First time in my life where me and my wife have had our cars dialed in at the same time. Will be nice to go to cash days this weekend with the cars in Winnipeg. It’s the capital of our province and has a massive underground race scene in pretty pumped to take the gtr there and see what it can do. 

[r32-25t]

That’s a clip for between the synchros, very common for them to fall out on big power cars. You been moving to a dog engagement box soon 👍