anthonymcgrath

thanks for the help mad

fantastic thanks mad

theres other signs that your turbo is going anyhow - small puddles of oil in that metal piping that feeds up from your intercooler. There can be slight smears in the pipe that you can wipe of with your finger (charge pipe is it?) so dont fret if you pull it off and see that but if you pull if off and see it dripping then I'd be a bit more worried smoke out the back on hard boost - basically oil escaping I think. only know this as I had to disconnect mine getting to the spark plugs and we checked this area recently

hey mad082 - you mention a bov (I'm assuming thats a blow off valve heh!) - do all r33gtst's have them or are they aftermarket addition? I only ask as mine too makes this subtle whistle and it is at a certain point on the throttle as you said but I dont have an aftermarket dump valve on my car

thats it mate I'm not after a massive hike but I would like to be able to say 'yeah if I fancy taking it up a bit more of a notch' then I can as I know the other goodies under there will smile and just come back for more

hey mad082 where is the idle control valve - thinking about it mine might need a good cleaning - cant hurt it lol but I have no idea where to look for that one hehe!

getting same prob myself at times - seems ok and revs are stable (but higher than normal - idling at 1100rpm ish) but after accelerating and using boost - come to slow down and it can stall here n there. only thing I can think of personally for mine is AFM on way out as other owners I know had similar trouble

fantastic Ben!! that looks really cool - what kind of bhp can that ARC 33kit hold then? overall what do you think of the mods I'd like to do - anything you could suggest? *edit* was also wanting to get splitfire coil packs - heard lots of great things about em and their durability nice bright blue too - that'll have me removing the plastic coilpack cover on top hehe!

mine does the same on slight acceleration - changed oil regularly and all seems fine tho - still makes slight whine (like a dog whistle almost) which I've heard on lots of others - bear in mind this turbo is spooling up to the phenomenal speeds it spins at just before the actuator opens so on slight accel your gonna hear something spin up - I haven't heard a totally silent one yet myself but I'm no expert either so every skyline I've driven or drove in might have been knackered lol!

hey guys I've been having a good read over the many threads on this fantastic site - you guys over in oz have really tinkered with these motors over the years and tried stuff out and its great to read the results and see what people are doing I am planning a few modifications to my own 33gtst - my plan is to get about 300-350bhp maximum under the hood of my car. heres a list of bits I plan on getting - just wondering if you guys think its a good plan of attack really hehe! I have the classic hesitation prob at higher revs - I've furiously read through the many threads on this site and I'm gonna try and fix the coilpacks and clean them up overall. I would like to remove the 2stage boost so it sits at 0.75bar all the time. the reason for doing these things first is I would like to see how my car runs prior to going further with stuff. -apexi powerfc and a remap - this is essential in my eyes as I'm just not gonna be able to make the most of the modifications I would like to do afterward. I can have the currently installed (and old) SAFC removed too whilst at it as the PFC should do the job of that really (I hope!) -upgraded intercooler - I dont really like front mounts - too much butchering and I read that putting one on with the standard turbo can actually stress the turbo. I was gonna try and source an R34gtt intercooler - I read somewhere that they're good for higher levels of boost and go in the usual underwing position of the current one. -front pipe for the turbo to work a little better. cannot find one for love or money in the uk for a 33gtst but I'm still digging about -I have bought a new standard turbo but the shaft has snapped due to previous owner installing as new then thinking he could run 1.7bar of boost on ceramic components (chump) ..anyhow I plan on getting this converted into hybrid turbo - steel internals, 360thrust bearing, larger compressor wheel and turbine wheels. I dont want a bigger turbo as that would just be more laggy but a small one with grunt would suit me fine -uprated clutch - gonna need it soon - current one is joking me about!! -uprated oil cooler and fuel pump maybe? -Z32 - got this sat at home - no point fitting till PFC is in really I'm not after insane power but plenty of torque will do me and if I see a hike in acceleration and power throughout the range I'll be more than happy I have a big bore zorst on it (kakimoto I think is it?), a decat pipe and hks induction pod filter and its going well (aside from hesitation which I've read plenty about on here so not gonna ask about it if you can believe what your reading hehehehe!). anyhow these are my thoughts - I'm no expert or anything so anything you suggest assume I'm a muppet - I've done alot of reading on this and other sites and pestered skyline owners till they've literally told me to get lost hehe but any thoughts are more than welcome cheers ant uk

heres larger separate renders of the R34 and Sierra Cosworth RS500 - sorry for the large images:

hi guys I'm Anthony and I'm based in the UK - I picked up my skyline R33gtst in January of this year after making a computer animation featuring two of my fave cars and then deciding I couldn't wait any longer hah! The project was a 5month task I set myself to make a 1minute intro a bit like the need-for-speed-underground stuff. I modelled up two of my fave cars the R34 and the sierra cosworth RS500 which took about 6-8weeks each (first time car modelling in 3d), I then animated them racing round a cityscape and drifting on a long road and then composited the animation and made it look wet n rainy. I also did the sound although I pinched some from need for speed hehehe! Now we all know the GTR would decimate the cossie (and whether it would or wouldn't we'll say it will cos we own skylines hehehehe ..not biased guv!) but see what you think - comments welcome.... quicktime movie 400x320pixels (about 25mb) R34_vs_cosworth_final_animation

hi I'm anthony and I live in Britain (no idea why!) - I'm driving an R33gtst and this tutorial is exactly what I'm looking for thanks guys nice n straight forward an important tips like can o coke n pie too! I have just one question ..I have an old style apexi SAFC like the one in the pic below: ...my question is will I have to lean this SAFC off once i fit the Z32? Other than a HKS induction and decat pipe my car is standard with original ECU too. I think it had boost controller fitted but its not there now. The reason I ask is because my old AFM is on its way out, I have a Z32 sat there and I'm having an apexi PowerFC fitted at end of the month thanks alot anthony newcastle uk