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Hi Sau community,

I have a mint S1.5 Gunmetal Grey R33 gtst coupe, blueprinted motor, forged pistons, metal head gasket apart from a boost controller, spitfire coilpacks, turbo timer and 2.5inch exhaust with Cat  it's stock.

Looking at advice on a series of upgrades.

Would really appreciate input regarding Haltec Elite, Greddy Plentum,Fuel Rail, Blitz Front mount intercooler, Tein Coilovers and best slotted discs. 

Cheers 🥂 Dan 

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Welcome Dan

As you didn't mention the stock turbo, you should probably add a high flow standard turbo to your list and remove plenum and fuel rail as they are not required for a long time.

Yeah I was going to comment on this. Somewhat _unusual_ to have a built, blueprinted motor when everything else is stock?

Nevertheless, the age old wisdom applies: What is your goal for the car? Be honest, and then you later find out what you need. The recipe in the other direction is sadness.

The path is not necessarily "Buy shopping list, car become more fun" 

Yeah, "blueprinted" does not mean "built" (in the common usage of "built" where that means "built tough with forgies and so on"). Blueprinted just means that when it was assembled the bearing clearances and other tolerances were all made to be right in the middle of the range given in the engine manual. Or otherwise to some exact specific value liked/used by the builder or someone else with good knowledge on the best setup.

It is a term that I haven't really heard used by anyone since I stopped reading Street Machine about a million years ago.

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Yea, it's also so they can be written down and referenced (and reproduced, really).

My old forged motor was blueprinted... but also funny that a car would exist with a forged motor and nothing else. Entirely possible that a R33 GTST lived its life unmodified and eventually had an engine failure.... but most don't go that way and go down in fiery glory via a little extra air going into them :p
 

2 hours ago, GTSBoy said:

Yeah, "blueprinted" does not mean "built" (in the common usage of "built" where that means "built tough with forgies and so on"). Blueprinted just means that when it was assembled the bearing clearances and other tolerances were all made to be right in the middle of the range given in the engine manual. Or otherwise to some exact specific value liked/used by the builder or someone else with good knowledge on the best setup.

It is a term that I haven't really heard used by anyone since I stopped reading Street Machine about a million years ago.

It's still a common term, in specific areas. Things like go kart engines, builders will talk about blueprinting, which is pretty much as above, where it's just built to the absolute best tolerance to extract that last poofteenth of a horsepower, in a heavily restricted engine build series.

 

I've heard the term from motorbike racers too, especially 2 stroke, that seems to be the main group still using it really is 2 stroke engine guys :/

8 hours ago, Duncan said:

Welcome Dan

As you didn't mention the stock turbo, you should probably add a high flow standard turbo to your list and remove plenum and fuel rail as they are not required for a long time.

Thanks Duncan,

Bought it in 2008 had some major engine issue, Had RPM in ADL build it to apparently handle up to 400kW, After having the engine rebuilt for $10.5k and a respray for $6k spent more on it than a 33 was worth at the time. Been sitting for 2 years. Goes well but can never have 'too much' power. Just looking at where to start. Do you have any recommendations? High Flow turbo's from Hypergear seem cheap at 1k.?

 

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6 hours ago, Kinkstaah said:

Yeah I was going to comment on this. Somewhat _unusual_ to have a built, blueprinted motor when everything else is stock?

Nevertheless, the age old wisdom applies: What is your goal for the car? Be honest, and then you later find out what you need. The recipe in the other direction is sadness.

The path is not necessarily "Buy shopping list, car become more fun" 

Yeah, short story is I had children and didn't have enough disposable income to complete the upgrades. I want to drive it on the road but to also keep up with my mates e92M3 at the bend motorsport park.

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Welcome. 

The older I get, the more I prescribed to spend once, spend right.

(Or, poor man pays twice).

If you have a final vision in your head of what you want, try to work toward that straight off.

Hi-flow turbo would be nice, but if it won't suit your final goal, it may be a waste of funds that could go towards what you truly want.

I hope you can get it to that point one day.

 

Also, pics please 🙏 

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