Just a qwik hello....

[SL33KGTS]

Finally I thought i might update you all on the progress of the car.......

Zac @ Cypher tuned it for me...... a couple of hours later we got about 310 rwhp on the formaz dyno which is apparently one of the lower reading dynos.... It would have been more but the car kept smoking the tires on the dyno after 6000rpm!!! But the general concensus with my setup is that the GT35R turbo is just too big for the skyline donk. Boost doesnt hit hard until about 5800rpm. But for a bit of fun i went to the drags on Wed night to see how it would go... best of the night was my last 12.65@192km/h. Conditions were terrible (77% hum, 20deg air temp and 30deg track temp) but it got better as the night came to a close. So the next step is to remove the 1.0ar exhaust housing and put an .82ar housing with an external gate. This will bring the 'power band' in a few thousand rpm sooner and then we can squeeze some more power out of it....... but as for now, major exaust manifold leak and yellow sticker, so plenty of work to do

[stÖrmy]

welcome dude! i dont own any car and my first car wont even be a skyline, isnt that a shame

edit : on a side note, i want to secks your skyline, it looks so damn nice :headspin:

[25GTT]

AHAHAHA small world,

you talk about Mick Briffa... I am sure it was you who i was speaking to when my plugs fouled that time out the front of his shop in morley there.... i own the burgandy SLY 33

he had just done the engine polishing....

Mick is a good old school friend of mine and has done a lot of work to mine as far as polishing and metal fab. he also wanted to do my plenum by i hadn't seen any other examples..

one quick question is does it flow ok? are the air flows to each one ok? i was worried about it before he did it coz i have heard of lots of troubles with any custom plenum air flow.....

[SLIPPERY]

hey michael

just wanted to say youve done a great job with the build!

do you have any clearance issues with the drop tank??....i managed to have a good look at it all the way into the city on the kwinana freeway last week when you kept flying past me and it looked mighty low

what was the sticker for?

[SL33KGTS]

Yeah.... that was me alright. I remember the emotions getting a bit high when the car wouldnt run properly! Mick and I sat down one sat night over a bottle of something(???) and pondered how to make a plenumn. I wanted a complete one not a throttle body relocation as other ppl have got him to do. So the best we could do was copy the greddy one. It works really well but obviously there are other things to consider now that one has been made. I think it is a bit small plus the runners are a bit short which makes the car suffer down low. But other than that its all sweet..... I dont think he will be making another one in a hurry tho....... i broke his balls for 3 weeks on that one

As for slippery.... have i had clearance issues with the drop tank? yes... major problems. I have cleaned it up good and propper several times. I actually split it. But just to clarify..... its only a cover that sits inder the spare tyre well.... but im sure all you real skyline heads know that the fuel tank is under the backseat But i am getting it shortened by about 2 inches to make it more driveable. I managed to scrape it on flat road once ahahahahahahahahaha, stoopid thing!

As for the licky, well lets just say its mighty low. When i got to the pit, they didnt like my tint, my 10inch rear rims, the blow off valve location, seats, and the chip in my windscreen.... so im sort of stuck atm, got till the end of march and no time now back at work....

BTW does anybody here have a set of springs to pass the pit?????

[GWP021]

  SL33KGTS said:

BTW does anybody here have a set of springs to pass the pit?????

one set std 33 springs hangin on tha wall in my shed also std airbox kept for express purpose of lendin to SAUWA members in need of pit pass pm me and yas can borrow