admS15

I daily mine. It's only a 33 gtst. Park in a safe private car park at work. I don't like parking at the shops but I do occasionally. I have a viper alarm fitted, a separate immobiliser and some other disabling devices as well as doing other weird shit like unplugging fuel pumps. Just a little paranoid. Lol. Too many thieving scumbags around. Car covers 10- 15k km a year. Im not emotionally attached to the car but I would rather it not get stolen due to the amount of hard work I've put into it. If it was a gtr, I'd probably not be too keen on dailying. GTST = NO f**kS GIVEN. Lol. I would describe it as a daily driving workhorse/weekend track warrior

I haven't done it but it can be removed engine in. I believe the gearbox crossmember needs to be unbolted and lowered a few inches to provide clearance. I would imagine a number of socket extensions, unis, cut down spanners and some other contraptions may be needed. Definitely doable. Hopefully someone who has done it can add to this.

Can confirm bargain, just bought Costco micro fibre cloth bag. $24 for 36 towels.

Just the number Garrett decided to stamp on the end of them. There is also a -10. Doesn't really mean anything. If you look up the wheel size specs for each of them, that may give you a better idea of what the differences are. P.s don't worry about Hadouken, he drives an EVO. Sad state of affairs there. Lol.

-5 and -7 very similar and the most responsive turbos for a street car. I think -9 make a touch more power. -5 make a fair bit more but are considered laggy on a stock stroke rb26. Check out the rb26 dyno results thread.

You may want to flush that tank out too. Rust is a sign of water being in the there at some stage. Probably a good idea to also check its condition, especially if its a steel tank.

This may help ease the pain

Probably around 15-20 mm. Best way to go about it would be to fill your oil to the full mark normally and then measure 1l and add afterwards.

I change my oil quite frequently, I haven't bothered with draining the cooler yet, as the remaining oil will still be in good nick. I generally unplug the cas and crank the engine over a few times trying to get whatever I can out. After an extended period of say 2 years I will eventually drain the cooler dry and start the process over. I wouldn't overfill the sump by more than a litre. Probably do more harm than good.

All sold

Sold

Cool, thanks for that. I run Castrol edge 10w-60 and also roughly a litre over.

Thanks for your in depth response. I don't have any oil control mods. I will keep it in mind and look into the extended sump option. I know of others that have run highflows for a long time doing track work with stock oil setup without issue. Our experience has obviously not been the same. In your case, going to a bb core should solve your problem as they require less oil. I am going to persevere with the bush core and if I have another failure will most likely take the same course of action you have. What oil where you running in yours? Where you overfilling the sump at all?

YouTube...

Infidel

Cool, will keep an eye out on both events and touch bases before committing to anything.

It would have been good to post a decent time at least b4 it went but hey, shit happens. I was chasing my tail for a little while until the turbo was dismantled and the theory of why it happened is the only plausible scenario that makes any sense. I'll run with that for now, if it happens again, i'll have to revisit. Lol.

You have learned the hard way why people buy genuine 'Nissan only' for those type of parts. As long as you learn from your mistake, you will be a lot better off in the future.

Update, unfortunately not a good one. Headed out to Sandown last weekend to the wrx day trying to better my pb. Things didn't go to plan. Didn't even manage to complete 1 lap and my turbo decided to pack it in. I went home and spent the afternoon removing the turbo. This is what was found. Broken turbine and heaps of shaft play. Google says that broken turbine is usually because valve or piston fragments have let go and impacted the blades. I panicked and did a comp test to see if anything was out of wack. I was pleasantly surprised with figures between 156 to 162 cold. This engine had tested just under the 170 mark hot a little over a year ago. I dare say it will be pretty close to that when hot. I will test it again, when its all back together and running. Compressor rub I have sent the turbo away to be analysed and be rebuilt to the same specs. The analysis showed a collapsed bearing caused the shaft play which led to rubbing and breakage. Most probably due to an oil supply issue. When comp testing I confirmed plenty of oil flow through the turbo feed (via the huge oil puddle on my driveway) so it rules out anything there. I did have an incident at the start of this year, where a hole had developed in the oil feed and the turbo ran for a few minutes without full oil pressure. Im thinking, that must have hurt it and was the beginning of the end. I did feel like the turbo sounded slightly different after that. The broken turbine blade went out the exhaust after hitting the dump pipe, nearly piercing it. I have had it spot welded now to reinforce it. The turbo is being rebuilt atm. With a bit of luck I will have it back and be reinstalling it this weekend. I will also replace the oil feed with a new one I have in my box of spares, just for piece of mind.

Budget, what's that lol. I know what you mean. I went to Sandown last weekend, was going to make it the last track day for the year but my car didn't even manage to do a full timed lap before my turbo decided to let go. I spent the afternoon pulling the turbo off, it's currently being rebuilt. I am now considering 1 more track day for the year. According to tampered motorsport website apparently there is a sandown track day on the 11/12. I may sign up for that once I have my car running again.

So when is the next track day to test it all out?

Who purchased the water pump from repco. You or workshop? If it was you and you have to pay for labour again, you can claim warranty through repco including labour costs.

Stantastic

I'll take the polariser if you part it out. Lol.[emoji16]

I think it has to do with the clutch packs. I'll ask my bud at work after cup day and get back to you.