I posted this on another forum and one of the members told me about this site and said I would get better help here b/c you all actually work on your cars!
Hi, First let me say that I'm from the U.S., so there is VERY limited knowledge to the skyline's here. Reguardless, I'm the new owner of a 98 ER34. It had a R32 Rb26 swapped into it and it needs alot of TLC. I looked around for skyline forums and this one seems to be the best one so I thought I would just post on here for help with my car. Hope you guys don't mind. From the threads that I've read, most of you all seem to be very cordial and helpful, so Thank You in advance.
Ok, so to start off I'm going to list some of the problems the car has (I'm sure i won't remember them all right now, so Ill add them as I go along). And then maybe some of you can point me in the right direction as to what I need to do.
I have some hesitation issues and originally thought the coilpacks may need to be relplaced, but after reading some of the other threads it seems the hesitation comes after 4500 RPM's and most of my hesitation comes before that.
Also, it has an intercooler kit off of fleabay. The "autobahn 88". I noticed that there is no blow-off or recirculation valve and there are some "pipes" that come off of the turbos are taped off. It would be helpful if someone could show me some detailed pictures of the charge piping system.
Let's see, the "TCS" light and "slip" light stay on all the time. Along with the "(ABS)" light and "HICAS" light. The car had HICAS on it but it now has a HICAS delete so I'm sure that has something to do with some of them, but l'm also pretty sure there has to be a way to solve this.
The power steering pump doesn't line up with the crank pulley so I'm thinking it's the original one that went to the RB25. What's the common fix for this? I was thinking either get a rb25 crank pulley or get a rb26 powersteering pump. I think the pump would be easier, but would the lines bolt up no problem or what?
Also the speedometer and oil temperature guage don't work. I haven't looked into the oil temo guage yet, but the car has the original transmission so I dont know why the speedo wouldn't work.
The car also registers that it's overheating! It's weird because when I first turn the key to the on position, the needle automatically go's to the middle of the guage (normal operating temperature)...and after driving the car for some time, the needle moves up close to the top of the guage...about the same distance it would move if it started at the bottom...I'm wondering if it's the wiring...I've swapped out the temp sensors already.
Sorry, I know this is alot and maybe some of it sounds like a alot of newbie questions, but there really isn't any info for these cars over here!
Thanks
Nick
Here's some pics of the car as well!
Here's a pic of how the powersteering doesn't line up.
Here's a pic of how I don't have any kind of intake. Does anybody know of a kit that comes with everything I need to Have the correct set-up?
Here's two pics of the taped off portions of the turbos.
And here's the "Oh so great" wiring job