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  1. CanadianGuy
    This exactly. In my province (Canadian equivalent of a state) there’s 6 skylines that we know of, one guy is over an hour away and the others are all 3+ so it’s realistic to say people here have never saw one out on a drive. My GTST as it sits had people randomly pulling into my yard asking if they could take pictures and the local car clubs asking me to join and be in their shows and it’s FAR from being finished or what I consider nice (yet) Meanwhile you can go to a junkyard or down some back road in the country and find a dozen 90s/2000s firebirds, mustangs or Camaros with weeds grown up around them because they’re nothing special. Even corvettes are kind of looked at as the old man car, had a number of buddies make fun of me when I was considering getting one lol
  2. CanadianGuy
    I definitely get that last part ran into it a few days ago haha. Have a friend I met through work who just moved to Canada from South Africa, was over at the house for bbq and even though he liked the skyline he was nuts for the two 1994 Firebirds I have, near lost his mind when I said I bought it for $200 lol. To me it’s just a cheap old car that I might fix some day. Funny enough I was looking hard at C5 corvette’s before I found the skyline, could have picked up a fairly nice driver for the price of my project gtst
  3. CanadianGuy
    Putting everything down on paper and pricing it all out it is definitely thousands and thousands cheaper to go LS especially since I already have the 6 litre in a donor vehicle. It’s sounding to start appealing even if it’s just to get the car on the road and going for now while I build some sort of RB down the road. The price of just a rb30 block here gets me a t56 or a cd009 with adapter kit, engine/trans mounts are under $400, and the few things I’d want to do with the engine while it’s out are sub $1000… damnit lol
  4. CanadianGuy
    Haha honestly the thought crossed my mind but skylines are so damn rare here someone would probably hang me 😂 I’ve had a few LS swapped cars (280zx and a foxbody mustang) so trying something a bit different this time
  5. CanadianGuy
    I was reading that the other day, 25 heads aren’t too pricey here thankfully. Now just have to weight the cost vs what I’m getting out of it on doing a rebuild on the rb20, picking up a rb25, or building a rb30. Not really interested in doing a stock rebuild on the 20, but stock 26 cranks & rods seem cheap. Decisions decisions
  6. CanadianGuy
    I’ve gone down the Rb30 rabbit hole the past few days and it sounds pretty sweet, only thing that really turns me off is the $2500 price tag for a bare block people are asking around here. That being said I’ve got a snowmobile I could sell to get the majority of the bottom end done lol
  7. CanadianGuy
    I’m not sure if it was just the way coolant ran as I flipped the head for that pic but went out to double check and there’s nothing there, 100% looks like a crack in that picture though so will be doing some more investigating. Definitely doing something with the bottom end if I decide to stick with this engine, considering grabbing a rb25 as an alternative but we’ll see. Built my fair share of engines so only labor I’d be looking at is the machining/hot tanking if I just go for a rebuild but might be worth the bit extra to go bigger while it’s already apart
  8. CanadianGuy
    Well hit the first larger snag in the build! Car wasn’t running 100% right even before I took it for a drive, starting slow and felt like a bit of a miss so compression tested it once I got it into the garage and on stands for the winter. That would do it… Got to tearing everything out and was greeted with this Seat looks a little mangled but somehow the cylinder is fine Will check the turbine next wonder if the piece made its way in there and chewed up some fins. Once I survey the extent of the head damage I’m going to have to make a decision. Cylinder 4 is kind of low anyway so might not be a bad idea to take a peek at the bottom end while I’m already in it
  9. CanadianGuy
    Thanks! I haven’t 100% decided but I’ve always been partial to the R33 midnight purple even before I could drive
  10. CanadianGuy
    Really should be putting some time into other projects but screw it 😂 Got brave and cut back my hood, a lot of measuring and taking it very slow with a Dremel and it turned out not bad! Still need to weld the inner/outer back together and clean everything up but I’m happy with how it turned out
  11. CanadianGuy
    Little more work! Did some body work on the rear wheel arches and since the paint was a cheap spray job before figured I’d do something to tide me over until I wrap the car. Colour might not be everyone’s choice but I like it and it’s only temporary, just hate having primer from the wheel arches standing out. Keeping an eye out for a decent set of wheels to throw on now. Wheels and tires on the car are junk
  12. CanadianGuy
    Finally had some time after working on other projects to jump back on this thing. Pulled all 4 wheels to check the brakes over and lucked out, only needed to bleed them/change fluid to get everything working! Took it for its first quick spin (around 2km) up the road and ran great! Sounds like I have a left rear wheel bearing that needs replacing and there’s a shake in the steering wheel but the tires are absolutely junk on this thing and had been sitting flat when I went to first look at the car so we’ll see if that’s the cause. Tach randomly started working but I notice if my hicas light comes on the tach stops working 🙃 yay for electrical gremlins
  13. CanadianGuy
    I just finished fixing a similar problem on my rb20, I’d double check your AFM or the AFM wiring. Mine didn’t have 12v on the power wire, as soon as I ran a jumper wire it ran perfect. From my understanding there’s very few things that will induce that cut from the ECU so I’d be looking at the AFM for sure. Walbros are loud pumps so wouldn’t be too worried about that and it seems like you’ve checked the majority of the other spots
  14. CanadianGuy
    Not a whole lot done lately, front brakes aren’t engaging so need to get this thing back into the garage to see if I need to rebuild the calibers. Currently have the wife’s 1973 VW Van, my 2004 Mustang, and a 1994 Firebird in there I need to finish up first, the list of work never ends Stealing the 6 litre from the van and the interior from this parts Firebird for the other
  15. CanadianGuy
    Got this thing up and running properly! Traced my AFM wires and the signal back to ECU was good, ground was good but no 12v! With a jumper wire tied into what should be the 12v wire it fired right up and rev’d nice and strong! One thing down at least, now to figure out where the break or disconnect is. Tach is probably next, hopefully that’s just the signal wire from the ECU but I doubt I’m that lucky
  16. CanadianGuy
    That’s fair, my main reason for not throwing the stand alone in right this moment is money lol. Figure I’ll get the thing going as is hopefully, have some fun with it then start throwing fancy parts like that towards it down the road
  17. CanadianGuy
    Both of these options are strong possibilities, a second ECU came with the car and might be getting thrown in to diag some problems. In a perfect world I’d just say screw it and throw a stand alone in but the rb20 will probably get swapped out at some point in the future for something with a higher hp ceiling
  18. CanadianGuy
    Hey everyone! Finally after years of owning all kinds of other jdm cars (ae86, s13 with a RB swap, FC RX7, Datsun 510, 280zx etc) I’ve got my hands on a skyline! Ended up trading a Harley Road Glide for it after being in that scene for a few years. The previous owner started a lot of work but then had a bad motorcycle accident and the car sat for almost a year until I picked it up The car wasn’t running and had a massive fuel leak from a pinched injector o ring but had good compression so went about trying to get it firing up so I could drive it into the garage Turned out the fuel rail which was set up to run with an aftermarket aeromotive regulator had plugged up injectors, fired in a 2nd set that came with the car and drove it into the garage. Once getting it tucked into its spot (have a nice 46’x26’ garage) went about tackling some of runability issues. The main ones now are between my driveway and the garage the tach decided to stop working, and there seems to be a 2500ish rpm limiter being set on the car. The limiter I imagine has something to due with the butchery that is my afm wiring Seems someone decided to run new shielded wires from pin 2&4 to the ECU and hack together the remaining into the original harness for some reason. Going to clean that up and see if any of the afm’s that came with the car make it run a little happier. Speakimg of ECU this was a cool surprise Looks like Mines might have had something to do with the ECU at some point in its life. Still lots of little odds and ends to work out but couldn’t be happier!
  19. CanadianGuy
    Thanks! Tried to send you a message but I must be too new still, if you can send me one I’ll probably take that resistor off your hands
  20. CanadianGuy
    Well I definitely have a new option for a future colour, I’m a big fan of that!
  21. CanadianGuy
    Thanks everyone, it does in fact only have 2 wires so it’s the fuel pump resistor (still new to skylines and RBs as you can all tell haha) my symptoms still make sense? im getting fuel pressure at the regulator (has an aeromotive with a gauge) and can hear the pump running
  22. CanadianGuy
    Well was troubleshooting what sounded like an rpm limit being set on the car just as it was building boost and noticed my wastegate is open at idle. As I was using a prybar to put some pressure on the rod to see if I had any binding doesn’t it slip and end up hitting my fuel injector resistor mounted on the passenger side firewall HARD. Checked all my wires and everything’s good but now the car won’t start 🙃 Upon initial turn of the key it sounds like it’s about to start for a split second before it just cranks. Strong smell of fuel, car has spark. Now I’m assuming my smacking of the resistor messed something up internally and the injectors are dumping a ton of fuel (plugs are wet and even QuickStart/ether won’t do anything after cranking a few times it’s so flooded) This make sense in other people’s minds before I drop the money on a new resistor? Car went from idling mint to not starting at all after that one slip
  23. CanadianGuy
    Thanks! It definitely looks a little better now. Hit it with some bumper paint for the time being, the entire car (minus the carbon fenders) will be getting either resprayed or wrapped at some point but that bumper just stood out too much lol
  24. CanadianGuy
    Thanks! I’m actually from Prince Edward Island, the NB plate on the ground was from one of the many old projects around
  25. CanadianGuy
    Hey everyone! After having all kinds of other jdm cars in the past I finally got my hands on a skyline! Say hello to my 1990 GTST! Ended up trading a Harley for it which I was trying to sell to fund a skyline, normally things don’t work out that easily lol. Lots of little odds and ends done to it which I’m still finding. Biggest thing that needed to be done was fix a massive fuel leak which was bad enough that the engine wasn’t starting. Ended up only being a pinched O-Ring and dirty injectors. Swapped a 2nd set in that came with the car and drove it into the garage Next up will be cleaning up the underside (lots of old rubberized undercoating everywhere) giving it a good coat of POR15 and getting some of the smaller things taken care of
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