Jump to content
SAU Community

Jun 2.7l Stroker Build Underway (hks T04z)

StageZilla

By StageZilla,
in Engines & Forced Induction

 Share

Recommended Posts

CruiseLiner Mentor

CruiseLiner

Posted
Posted

ok heres the car ready to be tuned finally after 8 months of problems and setbacks :P

tuning is this thursday as mentioned, unless something goes wrong in the meantime :) no power figures for atleast 2-3 weeks as it will be getting run in.

couple of pics with everything on, and my old man (the fabricator, hehe) made a turbo heat shield for the exhuast housing for about $10, after finding out the hks ones are $270 and gcg want $180 for a plain one. didnt come up too bad in the end :)

111_1130.jpg

111_1129.jpg

111_1127.jpg

111_1157.jpg

enjoy, finally i get to rest for a while if all goes well :)

  • Replies 315
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Posted Images

yug_r34 Enthusiast

yug_r34

Posted
Posted (edited)

Good luck for thursday, I'm sure all will go well. Just out of curiosity, are you running a surge tank or in tank fuel pump set up?

OK, just read the 1st page. Nice set up, no problems with fuel starvation that's for sure.

Edited by yug_r34
Silverback Community Regular

Silverback

Posted
Posted

I think that it takes a bit of good old Aussie ingenuity to undertake a project like this. Well done. Hopefully everything hangs together well, and you finally get some fun out of the Stag!

Sydneykid Grand Master

Sydneykid

Posted
Posted
Sometimes i really wonder why you didnt buy a 260RS ?

Then it would have a standard RB26 in it.

And the engine is has now is FAR from standard.

Plus the fun/satisfaction factor

Sometimes it all about the journey, not the destination.

:whistling: cheers :stupid:

Tommyk Veteran

Tommyk

Posted
Posted
Then it would have a standard RB26 in it.

And the engine is has now is FAR from standard.

Plus the fun/satisfaction factor

Sometimes it all about the journey, not the destination.

:whistling: cheers :stupid:

Gary

I just meant, having a 260RS wouldve saved a lot of hassles having to buy an rb26 in the first place. The original unit could have been rebuilt, and there would have been less hassles with changing diffs, gearbox, etc. Even the chassis would be slightly stiffer on the autech.

But then again, the price of the 260RS would be 3-4 times that of the stagea :D

At the end of the day, this is looking great

AMS Grand Master

AMS

Posted
Posted
Gary

I just meant, having a 260RS wouldve saved a lot of hassles having to buy an rb26 in the first place. The original unit could have been rebuilt, and there would have been less hassles with changing diffs, gearbox, etc. Even the chassis would be slightly stiffer on the autech.

But then again, the price of the 260RS would be 3-4 times that of the stagea :whistling:

At the end of the day, this is looking great

Didnt he already have the RB26 from his VL?
Correct.
Chris Wilson Proficient

Chris Wilson

Posted
Posted

Lovely, just to say good luck with the mapping and the run in period. my only concern is heat, I'd definitely get a turbo blanket on it, I have had a LOT of heat issues even WITH a blanket and wrapped downpipe on my single Apexi turbo RB25 in a track car, to the extent I really need a new engine loom. The heat, on track, is simply immense, as is the heat retention when stopped. It beggars belief how much radiation there is off the manifold and exhaust housing, wastegate and plumbing.

CruiseLiner Mentor

CruiseLiner

Posted
Posted

hey guys thanks for all the support and nice comments :D

firstly i didnt buy a 260rs cause their wasnt any on offer in november 2004 when i actually bought this thing (and have only done 900km in it since :cool: ). series 1's were as good as it gets, and plus as mentioned i had the rb26 from my previous car (VL calais). The vl was a nice car and spotless but all the electrics and interior were crap so i needed a daily ride instead with comfort yet still a sleeper as i was always paranoid about parking the vl at shops/dodgy areas because of thieves and jeleous idiots. i spent 3 years on the vl project with plenty of time spent finding info on the conversion as no one in perth knew what an rb26 even was back then (over 5 years ago now). so i sorted it and managed a dyno figure of 350rwhp on 17psi, only revving to 7200rpm or so to save the motor (unknown condition and unknown km's) and ran a 12.0 at 118mph on its 3rd pass and snapped the tailshaft uni joint and bent a diff arm cause of the 10" slicks getting lotsa traction :D

so i was sick of smashing driveline bits (broke a tailshaft uni on a previous drag meet aswell), so i needed something that wouldnt be a handful on the street and drivable in the wet, which the vl was like a car on ice for traction. so my choices were gtr 32 which was tooo old and dating interior wise, or a stagea, and so the late 96 stagea was a perfect choice, dual sunroofs, full electrics, spotless cond, etc and for 18k i was lovin it :) people dont associate the stageas with skylines because the taillights look different meaning no cop hassles and potential theives think its a done up volvo :) so the stageas rb25 went in the vl and sold it and the 26 went in the stagea :)

so in the end i woulda saved money buying a 260rs str8 up but i did have highflow turbos/autronics, etc in the costs so it was fairly modified. gtr diff has been added after snapping a stagea rear axle in half from a rolling start coming on boost, so lets just see how the rest of the driveline hold up now :

heres a few pics of the vl and the fully detailed engine bay with everything removed pretty much so it looks 100 times better than the stagea bay, plus i filled in all the unused holes and repainted it.

vl26baypic.jpg

topshotvl.jpg

sorry for the long post :P

CruiseLiner Mentor

CruiseLiner

Posted
Posted (edited)
Looks very very nice

You do make me jealous. Even that vl looks a piece of art, particularly the engine bay :D

Now hurry up and get it tuned !!!! :P

cheers tommyk

swap ya for the r34 gtr anyday :cool: ill keep my motor though :)

this is a better engine bay pic, nice and empty :D

bay2.jpg

Edited by CruiseLiner
Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • MBS206
      G'day!

      By MBS206 · Posted

      Consider a 35 too...
    • dbm7
      One Headlight isn't working - Driver Side Fuse Keeps blowing

      By dbm7 · Posted

      He's right ~ there is no 'magic' with stuff like this ... it is more likely that in the process of looking for the short, the loom/wire 'incidentally' got moved in the process, thus removing the short ~ now, that maybe a wire (in a loom) rubbing against the edge of some grounded metal, that's worn through the insulation, causing the (now intermittent) short to ground. If one wire in a loom has been damaged in this fashion, it's reasonable to presume that other wires beside it may have also be damaged, and now exposed...you can bet the green crusty copper corrosion will start... ...that'd be a pisser, Murphy's Law steps right in as GTS observes...but worse, something like that is easier to find when shorted...ie; unplug bulb and fuse, and put multimeter in continuity mode so you get constant beep, and carefully poke about hoping to find if some movemet of the harness stop the beeping.... ...it's still all a bit Arnie tho' ..It'll be back... 😃
    • GTSBoy
      One Headlight isn't working - Driver Side Fuse Keeps blowing

      By GTSBoy · Posted

      Yeah, but knowledge of one wire's insulation worn through to short on earth implies the possibility of other wires doing the same. I had my power steering die, because the wire that runs to the solenoid valve on the rack runs in the same loom as the power wire for the O2 sensor. And when the O2 sensor/wire did something stupid and burnt part of that loom to death, the only indication was the shit(ter) fuel economy and the heavy steering. It took deep excavation of the looms in the bay to find the problem. Not wear through in that case, but similar shit.
    • MBS206
      Mistakes were made, my R34 Story

      By MBS206 · Posted

      Ah, I thought he'd wired it to one of the spare ECU inputs! Too long ago since I read that post, ha ha. I've been arguing with radiators, harmonic balancers, alternators and rust since reading it.
    • Kinkstaah
      Mistakes were made, my R34 Story

      By Kinkstaah · Posted

      Correct. The ECU cannot read oil temp. (Well, I think it probably can in some situations. I did have the thought of potentially repinning the ECU when I was doing oil pressure). I am using this into the MPVI dongle, so that the MPVI dongle can read oil temperature. It is attached to a VDO gauge which is obviously calibrated to whatever curve the sender actually is using. This would be easy if I could setup a table of voltage to temperature like many sensors, but it appears I cannot do this and can only setup the transform rule which appears to be Input (voltage) x Multiplier, and add an offset. This to me means it MUST be linear. So it may be a complete waste of time wiring this into the ECU. The idea was that the MPVI3 has standalone logging. I wanted to use this instead of a laptop with serial cable (for wideband) for long datalogs. Given the wideband also has electric interference, I may never trust this either in a world where the serial wideband and the analog output wideband do not agree. Last time I did a trace I could see the two wideband traces follow each other, but one was a little leaner than the other. I plan on playing with voltage offsets and actually driving the thing to see how close they correlate. If they never correlate... then, well, maybe I'll never use either. Ideally I'd like to have the Analog wideband read ever so slightly leaner than the serial one, because the serial one is 'correct'. Tuning the car to be ever so slightly too-rich would be the aim. Not needing to have a laptop flying around in the footwell connected with cables is... an advantage. About the only one from the forced upgrade to MPVI3.
×
×
  • Create New...