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Im not saying to do a burnout as a breaking in method, its just what I did very shortly after building the motor. I wasnt exactly caring about it during the break in proceedure. As I said, if done right the break in is always over very quick. The burnouts werent big arse bouncing off rev limiter ones either. More like a mild 50m line lock up the street trying my hardest not to touch the limiter. Im not a fan of limiter hitting with std pumps and short drive snouts. Anyway my point is, best way to break in a new motor if its built right is pretty well just to give it shit straight off. If you baby it for too long you will never get a good ring seal and it will always use a little oil and never be as good as it should have.

The hat is epic! Kudos!

Nice work. Good to see its finally coming together. No doubt you will be impressed with your own efforts, I would be. The whole project is awesome. Love it!

Im hoping to get this into a car mag when its all done. I doubt ill get paid for it though. Fingers crossed! I havent actually finished the accusump install yet. Ive only fabricated the bracketry to hold it in place. Once I get upto that part Ill show/explain what I plan to do. So ive only got a few pics of bits and pieces that have been fabbed/machined up. The rest of the i/c piping is done, but I realised I can't do the bypass valve yet until I make the intake so I can locate accordingly. I ran out of argon this afternoon so my efforts got cut short. I was about to start the intake too! Im waiting for my boost relief valve to arrive from gcg. Should get it tomorrow. Hopefully by sometime early next week Ill have all of the ally fab work finished! Then it will be time to start the biggest PITA bit of this project. The super duper intricate headers....Then once thats done it will be the rest of the new exhaust system. I have two Borla XR-1 Multicore racing mufflers enroute from summit. The Borla rep reckons two of those mufflers will keep it quiet without disturbing flow at all. So the goal atm is within the next week or two to have the better part of this project done so I can get to pulling the motor out, checking my bearings, oil pump, thinking about modifying my sump for greater capacity with some basic baffles, fitting the old NPC twin plate off the race car, making new billet fuel rail to suit new 1000cc injectors ive got coming from the states, fabricate a surge tank and mount for the twin 044s and then fitting everything back up to see if it will all work! Then off for tuning at Mercury! lol just reading that, ive realised there is still alot to do! Everyday when I drive home from work, I imagine what it would be like if I was driving my newly supercharged skyline home instead of the turbo diesel hilux. *sigh* Anyway some pics... I have to give a big thank you to Kyle @ 6BOOST too for supplying me with one of his exhaust header flanges. He saved me a shitload of time not having to measure,draw and mill out my own one. Cheers mate!

Bam! Stickin it to him Ash... New exhaust ftw mate, just do it properly.

No risk. Rb30's in standard form only have a basic scraper/windage tray built into the sump. The gtr windage tray could be bolted to the girdle no problem, just as you have suggested. The only drama may be the extra stroke length of the rb30. You would have to dummy assemble and check clearances and space down the tray/s accordingly. For where you are atm, I wouldnt worry or bother with it.

Cool. I found the article I was thinking of too. http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm

The rings were bed in probably within the first 50kms of driving it, if you gave it some good hard squirts. You need to understand that piston rings only seal properly on the power stroke, every other stroke they are virtually dragging in the bore. They rely on the rapidly expanding gases from the burning of the mixture to get down in behind the ring itself and push it down on the ringland/seat and out against the bore(hence why top racers usually gas port their pistons for increased piston ring seal). By running low boost and driving it like a girl the top ring isnt going to be doing that job as well as it needs inorder to conform the bore to its shape to seal properly. You only need to give it about a dozen good 3/4 boost/rpm loaded pulls and they will be right. All done and then you are ready for a proper full tune and go flog it. When I rebuilt my rb25 3 years ago my tuner wanted me to baby it for 1500-2000km till it all "beds in". I argued my point and in the end I just went and did a couple of burn outs and flogged it around the mountains a couple of times and changed the oil a few times. Luckily he never checked the odometer, so I just told him i did it and then got it fully tuned. The motor has been perfect with no oil use or smoke over the last three years. I run acl (ross) pistons in it too, good piston and ring set! There was a good article somewhere written by a motorbike guy in europe or america on how to 'bed in' your motor properly, it was linked via the gtruk forums i think.

So clean and tidy. Looks immaculate. Congratulations to you and your old man.

The accusump is a good way to ensure you dont get oil surge, well thats not true, its a good way to keep your motor supplied with oil while you are experiencing oil surge in the sump. The sump, catch can and oil cooler all address three different areas. The sump and accusump will work well together. Plus the benefit of pre oiling is always good for ensuring bearing life everytime you start the motor.

roflmfao!

You guys sure are fancy! Rocking the garage floor here, nicely painted though. Regs old hoist too thats been busted and fixed a couple of times!

Tonights effort I got the drivers side completely finished in terms of i/c piping. Got about half of the p.side done so far, wont have pics until its all done. It will take longer as im going to make one of those afm into i/c piping mojos using a q45, which will hopefully work out and I gotta put the bypass valve in there somewhere too, along with my overboost valve. Anyway a couple of pics

Figure I might throw up some pictures from last night to show how its all sitting atm. The bracket behind the intercooler is the new bonnet catch support which also holds the accusump. The accusumps bolts line up with the extra two brackets I tigged onto the i/c to tie it all together for added rigidity. I have next week off work to try and slam out as much as I can on this project, may need two weeks to get most of it done though. Starting to get excited as its getting closer and closer and feeling as if its actually all possible and maybe going to work. Lol I had also thought about (jokingly ofcourse) the short pipes idea. Ahhh if only! But hopefully there will be enough room to run those first three cylinders straight up near the cam covers and then back down to the collector/s.

A 3qrt high pressure accusump with manual valve. Instead of the oil cooler, get yourself a bigger radiator, pref twin pass atleast, with built in heat exchanger. Kill two birds with one mod! Just make sure your catch can has a return from the bottom that plumbs into your sump above oil level on the exhaust side. If possible, also fit another line from the intake side of sump/block to your catch can as an extra crank case vent. If you are getting serious but dont want to spend heaps of money, get a good quality oil pressure gauge, water temp gauge and two oil temp gauges. One probe in sump, and other probe after cooler/heat exchanger. I would atleast change the gears in the oil pump.

Yes it will be interesting, lol you are dead on. Intake is a big 180 degree oval about the same shape and size as the back of the supercharger. Its going to be quite tricky as the first three cylinders will run right into it Having an rb30 instead would make it alot easier as the extra 40mm in height would help tremendously with the exhaust side of things.

Been abit slow lately. But I did start on the i/c piping and have about half of it done, hopefully get the rest of it done tonight or pretty close. Crank pulley got finished today also and it looks fantastic! Bolts up where the powersteering pump pulley was. I am using a Ross Tuffbond Metal Jacket balancer too. Much more affordable then the ATI units. Hopefully I will have more photos soon showing the supercharger bolted up with piping connected and things starting to take shape

It is what pretty well everyone else uses to do it. It works.

its like a 2 second job to dill and tap.... totally synonymous with budget & slap together.

I think they do make that power because of their billet compressor wheels....or so the word is, something to do with little or no flex in the fins at high speeds.

isnt it due to the belief that the air in the system is basically trying to slow/stall the turbo down/out after it hits the closed throttle body and goes backwards? Hence the bov's job to dispel that air or recirculate it back to the intake of the turbo. Well thats what they say....

Very neat and tidy. Wonder what the cost of that setup is in relation to the amount of increased power it provides? The increase of 77hp & 109nm doesnt appear to be a great deal for what I would imagine looks like a very exxy kit. Pretty sure HKS charge like a wounded bull for just about everything they make. Unless it can be geared up and make more power, but kept low because of standard motor?

Cheers Daniel! Exactly what I was looking for.

Im curious if anyone has done this when using their std oil pump and if so, do you know roughly what thickness shim will net what oil pressure increase? Cheers.

Got the new bracket assembled on the weekend and its all good! Finally got past that issue now. Been fiddling with intercooler, radiator and accusump fitment in the front end tonight. Didnt take any pictures as its not all complete, but it all fits together pretty well. However if I had retained the air conditioning the accusump would definitely not fit in the spot between a/c core and intercooler. But after this bit is done then its onto the new 3" intercooler piping! Decided Im pretty well going to paint everything flat black so it just all blends in. I dont want anything standing out, so no blingy chrome bits anywhere for potential cops to look at "IF" I get pulled up in the future. Plus the whole stealth look is always great. Got a few pics of the new speedcar too which finally turned up and is taking up my spot in the shed. My car is now back outside...so annoying. I think they are trying to get it ready to run for this saturday night, if anyone here follows snorway.