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Thanks for the bump... Thats the chassis us under my 1966 vw beetle. The center tunnel with the chassis number stamped on it is standard but thats about all that is. I've modified the front and rear end of the chassis to allow 1994 Porsche 968 turbo front and rear suspension and braking components to fit. The gearbox is from a porsche 930, and suspension is honda civic Tein super streets. Wheels are porsche 996 with 18x8 and 18x10 RE55 semi slicks. The pics are pretty old now, the car is nearly assembled again. Just waiting on a few engine parts. Cheers, Ian

From what I understand the R33 GTR, R34 GTT and R34 GTR all have compatible suspension components. Ive never tried it though. I have tried R34 GTR suspension in an R33 and it fits.

They are very streetable but work on the track as well (though I'd never done anything more than a motorkarna event with them in my previous R33 GTR). They were a huge improvement over my Teins that I had previously. Yes they are eibach springs, 4/3Kg. I have no idea how they compare to an R32 GTR setup. Its possible the top hats just need changing to make them compatible but I dont really know and I dont have any means of comparison either... sorry.

Price drop $700 + freight, and will accept offers or swaps for other GTR parts as part payment. I need these gone!

I'll take the ROMAC harmonic balancer ($250).. PM me your details.

I agree with Noel and PM-R33. They are a pain in the ass to work on most of the time. One of the reasons the cars are expensive to maintain is that to keep your sanity you have to pay someone else to do the hard stuff.

U have a PM

You have a PM

Clutch still available?

Is the clutch still available?

You have a PM...

What is the pricing on this stuff ?

PLEEESE clean your camera lense! Looks great, but blurry... So are you a panel beater by trade? I'd consider doing this R324 conversion for my next car, but i think if you paid someone to do it it would probably end up costing as much as an R34 does.

Im working on an open deck engine project at the moment that might interest you. Basicly with my design there you could use and RB26 or RB30 crank as the base, and with modifications achieve a 2783cc capacity with the 87mm bore and 26 crank, or 3175cc with the RB30 crank (87mm bore). Both are high deck built in an RB26 block, long rod setups, sleeved blocks etc. The 3.2lt is 22mm taller than stock, and the 2.8lt is 12mm taller than stock. I hope to have a prototype engine in my R34 inside 3 months. Because im using a standard crank or rb30 crank as the basis and the rest is machining its a lot cheaper than a HKS kit and provides more capacity too.

Indeed, I only did AWD donuts twice (didnt require antilag to get it going, just rolled into them and slipped the clutch in 1st). Tyres completely stuffed from a total of about 15 seconds of spinning. Ripped chunks off the outside edge of the falkens it was wearing. I'd imagine an antilag launch and full lock would stuff the cv's pretty rapidly. They probably just pop instantly.

Antilag + AWD = Extreme fun! My old GST4 was a hoot launching it with 20lb boost. Thanks to the nismo twin plate and gtr gearbox, it held together and would to 0-100 in less than 4 seconds easily (never timed it though). The most fun was pulling out into traffic... 0-60km/h in a little over a second. I'd never do that to my gtr though.... I have too much respect for it, plus it costs a lot more to fix when you start breaking things.

Not really... the 5/16th bolts were in a vw engine and are 1.5" long... not 3/8th and not 1.6. I only borrow the stretch gauge when I am doing final assembly normally, and use the recommended torque specs only for pre-assembly checks and to give the machine shop. Im not a professional engine builder by any means. I need to buy a gauge but just havent gotten around to it yet and they arent exactly an off the shelf item in Cairns. I only know of one other builder up here that uses one, not that I talk to all the builders up here either.

Well if its a 2.8 its the most piss week engine ive ever owned for what its supposed to be! No the engine in my R34 is 100% stock. My old R33 GTR with every bolt on upgrade except turbo's and with a 12lb tune was a faster accelerating car. I forgot to mention, the second EVO8 is also 100% stock. Very impressive brakes on those cars too. Larger than the stock R34 GTR brakes. For our motorkarna to be competetive you needed to be in control, and if you went too fast you'd lose it and take out an orange cone and pick up a 5 second penalty. Adding too much power without equally adding to handling just unbalances the car, or just seems make it too fast to be controlable around a tight course. I guess the only way to really know is to put the stig behind the wheel and eliminate driver skill.

Well here is the results from the SAUQLD Cairns motorkarna event. We had 2 R34 GTR's, 2 EVO 8's, 6 R33 GTST's (in various stages of tune from stock, to boost, to 400rwhp and with suspension work. The two R34's were stock, except the winning R34 had a exedy twin plate upgraded, and my car's nismo suspension. The motorkarna was a 6 events. 1. Tight course slalem, 1st and 2nd gear in the gtr only. 2. Loose course slalem, 1st and 2nd still, but faster. 3. Simular to 2, but with two parking garages inside 6 cones. 4. go-woah over 100meters, approx. 5. 2 lap circuit. Its a tight course, about 1.5 lanes wide with some areas that require large balls to do quickly. Mistakes can land you in the creek, into a concrete wall or into a few 1.5 ton concrete posts. 3rd gear and about 115-120km.h on the main straight and about 100 on the back straight (before that concrete wall, posts and two 90 degree double apex corners. 6. 4 laps of circuit. Initial guesses were that the evo's were going to kick ass being smaller and lighter than everything else there. Also Nathan's evo was quite modified making around 350awhp, with suspension and aerodynamic improvements. GTR's were expected to come second, though Christian''s R33 GTST was also expected to do well because he drives like a demon and had won the previous 2 events. Many of the track courses were tight though, which gave the GTST's an advantage in being able to turn around faster by kicking out the back end (but those that tried over cooked it). The EVO8's turned out to have the turning circle of a boat, like an R33 GTR, and they managed to collect a few penalties from witch hat strikes. Mike in his R34 did the big launches all day long thanks to his exedy twin plate handling that abuse easily. My R34 gtr has a stock clutch, so I drove off the line for all stages at around 3000 rpm, but didnt hold back once I was rolling. All times are in seconds. Brace yourselves... GO-WOAH Best Times Single time 1st Nathan (EVO8) 9.10 2nd Mike (R34 GTR) 9.16 3rd Ian (R34 GTR) 9.70 4th Christian (R33 GTST) 9.94 5th Steve (AE86 Sprinter) 9.94 Karna Best Times Karna Slalem 1 1st Mike (R34 GTR) 24.90 2nd Christian (R33 GTST) 26.31 3rd Dave (R33 GTST) 26.50 4th Ian (R34 GTR) 26.85 5th Matt (XR6 Turbo) 28.57 Karna Best Times Karna Slalem 2 1st Nathan (EVO8) 19.96 2nd Mike (R34 GTR) 20.28 3rd Nick (R33 GTST) 21.41 4th Ian (R34 GTR) 22.15 5th Christian (R33 GTST) 22.35 Karna Best Times Karna Slalem with 2 x Garage parks 1st Mike (R34 GTR) 38.34 2nd Nick (R33 GTST) 41.36 3rd Paul (Supra) 42.25 4th Ian (R34 GTR) 42.41 5th Nathan (EVO8) 43.53 Circuit Best Times 2 Lap 1st Nathan (EVO8) 64.25 2nd Mike (R34 GTR) 65.31 3rd Stuart (EVO8) 66.69 4th Nick (R33 GTST) 67.68 5th Dave (R33 GTST) 67.88 Circuit Best Times 4 Lap 1st Nathan (EVO8) 124.22 2nd Mike (R34 GTR) 125.13 3rd Stuart (EVO8) 125.87 4th Dave (R33 GTST) 130.81 5th Nick (R33 GTST) 130.91 Event Champions (Tally of all times for all stages, including penalties) Combined 1st Mike (R34 GTR) 419.68 2nd Ian (R34 GTR) 446.70 3rd Dave (R33 GTST) 447.06 4th Stuart (EVO8) 453.00 5th Christian (R33 GTST) 467.57 So, Mike's GTR was nearly the fastest in all stages in near stock form (except for the clutch). Only the modified evo8 could beat it in the straight line acceleration of the go-woah and the faster slalem event. The GTS-T's while being tuned for more power running 14lb or more boost proved to be less controlable with that power. Power oversteering or under-steering in many corners. I was second outright with a stock R34 gtr that has nismo S-tune suspension. I didnt win any event outright, but because I was consistent and didnt pick up any penalties I placed well. There was to spins at speed as well. One was a GTST that spun while braking into a hard right hand corner. The 2nd was an evo8, dropped the left rear off the track into the dirt when coming out of the 90 degree turn off the main straight. Unsetteled the car and then the driver tried to drive through the spin. My guess is that the lack of a torque split awd system combined with an un-settled car at about 80km/h and 350hp the car spun around to the left, 270 degrees to come to a stop. Shame we didnt get this on video too, because it was very impressive. Does anyone have some real data comparing track days where speeds above 200 are attained?

The rods im using arent an RB26 rod. Im using honda size conrods and the supplier broke up one set of 4 to give me another two for my project. As a result they werent sent in the factory packaging, so no torque specs. My above example with the 5/16th arp bolts all used the same thread pitch, and were in a h-beam 4340 forging. I used the bolt stretch method with carillo wmc5 bolts and still have the records from the assembly. At the recommended torque for an ARP2000 bolt the wmc5 bolt wasnt even at 1/2 the recommended stretch. 6-7 thou is recommended for the wmc5 bolt. 30ft-lb - 3 thou 35ft-lb - 4 thou 40ft-lb - 4.5 thou 43ft-lb - 5 thou 45ft-lb - 5.1 thou 46ft-lb - 7 thou

As per the topic.... Does anyone in Australia stock forged pistons CP/wiseco/venola with low pin heights or do I have to order these direct from CP? Im after some 28mm or less pin height for a stroked rb26 build.

Strange that its the same for an L19 and ARP2000 bolt? The last carillo WMC5 bolts I used were 5/16th and rated to 46ft-lb with a 6 thou stretch. That same stretch was at 28ft-lb with an ARP2000 bolt and 18 with a ARP8740 bolt.

They are an eagle rod, in the hands of the machinists now. I'll probably just have them torque to 50 for machining. I know the arp2000's are definatly 43 so the L19's should do 50 safely. I guess when I do final assembly i'll be tightening a few lb at a time measuring while measuring bolt stretch...

I dont have access to a bolt stretch gauge just yet, but will when the engine is assembled. Its just for the machine shop so they can measure up the rod journel size with a set of bearings in it, so I can get my crank sized for the correct clearances. The machien shop doesnt have a stretch gauge either... And yes i did look on the ARP site, and so many of their catalogues ive lost track. They mention all their torque specs for all their standard replacement bolts, but not for the after market h-beam rods that use the common 1.6" 3/8th bolts.

Ive googled till I can google no more and just cant seem to find torque specs for the 3/8th L19 conrod bolts. Actually ive found them in quite a few places, but all the suggested torque settings have been diferent ranging from 43ft-lb to 65ftlb? Bolt stretch seems to be 0.006, but I'd like to know the correct torque setting to be sure. Cheers, Ian