robbo_rb180

A full service of all fluids and filters should be the first thing. Never trust the service history of a 20 year old car. Inspect all the vac lines and rubber couplers. May be a good idea to do timing belt, tensioner and water pump. Inspection of the driveline and suspension and once that's all good. Have a plan of the end goal of the car as that will dictate the best way to modify the car. Depending on budget will also impact what to do.

Some stuff happened and I can't legally say but got a new builder who has jumped in at short notice and fitted us in. Not doing anything now but a mate was letting me use his shed to get it together and running.

Who did you get it through? Did it come with half shafts

Must work with some jackc*nts to have to do that. Vibration in rear or front? once that vibration sorted would have to be one of the tidiest and sorted commodores out there.

A mate bought some passenger seats stripped them of the good foam and material. Then fitted it all to drivers seat frame so was mint again. Pretty good solution as most passenger seats are in great condition. @LWR34 post some pics

Probably, be interesting to feel the difference as I could tell between the sil80 and s14 I had. Well it will definitely be a roller by Xmas next year.

Yeah this car has fought hard with this rebuild. Almost a sign to give up on it. Yeah was going to swap engine and diff. Was going to upgrade box when came time to swap it. S15 is pretty much good to go besides ecu and display, looms all there. Got evo brakes to go on. Suspension wise its mca golds, pedal box, multiple pick up points on subframes, flat sway bar conversion. Ex ipra car that was setup really well. Yeah that's it. Just issue of no where to work on it now as shed won't be up until February now with the new builder and probably not setup properly with power and hoist til April. Yeah it's a super nice car, love the way the 180sx is looking now but s15 chassis is so much better.

Well test day finished up early...... Started day with power steer res being too full and sparying part of the bay, bonnet and windscreen. Car also felt really weird in the corners so adjusted rear Sway bar and dampners which helped the under steer but still moved around and heap. The steering was feeling weird the whole time then one of the hoses stared leaking from the fitting at the rack so sorted that which was fun to do 😅 Got it sorted for a few passenger ride sessions but car still was weird moving around in the corners. Just thought should check the pressures as started at 24psi cold they weren't coming up so went 30psi and that sort of fixed this weird shimmying thing but steering felt off. Went for one more session and dropped a wheel in a corner and when it got back on the track heard a bang and lots of clunking 😪 Got it up on stands in the pits and found the diff making noises so called it there. Don't know if it's the gears or the centre yet. So got a few decisions to make on whether to fix it or jump into the new car........ VID-20221110-WA0007_1.mp4 A quick video of the new cars interior, so much nicer than the 180sx. Now with few issues with the 180sx may be time to swap drive line over. 20220519_153950.mp4

Got to be happy with that. 2nd run a PB?

drop tire pressures and see how it goes. Website says don't go below 13psi recommended is 14-18psi.

Need to use the matching bracket to subframe. r32 cross member to rb20 brackets r33 cross member to rb25 brackets r33/rb25 from memory have 2 types of bracket a steel and cast aluminium. Project cars are fun aren't they.........

Welcome, What rb's do you have?

Its a copy of another companies...... Say bye to low/mid range torque. Plazmaman plenum and DBW is way to go. Their rail bolts on too with no issues.

Theres a few good places here in Qld that can clean and flow your injectors. Brisbane Fuel Injection Longboost performance Golebys Parts Pretty sure some Cooldrive stores do injector cleaning. I feel your pain on remote location tax. Most economical way is to remove injectors and get them cleaned. Besides that brand new from nissan are the only other option as anything else may require injector and MAF rescale which in NT is not going to happen.

Thats pretty good, could you feel a difference?

If unable to Nistune in the timeframe look at the ec/tcs/abs diagrams to see what voltage is required so no error appears. May be able to trick it with the right resistor/diode in the circuit as we did that on a mates r34 na +T setup to fake a few signals.

good progress, roof and doors will definitely shave a few KGs and help with balalnce. Chasing them small gains now, did you find a lot of the adjustable arms needed resetting?

I'd be using a meter set to ohms and checking resistance of the wires. Also don't want too much voltage as well 14.2-14.3 is plenty.

12.8-13.2l per 100km on e85 on a 3000km roadtrip. I use a 4d fuel map that leans out at light throttle cruise 4-12% tps at 1500-2400rpm. Improved economy and didn't ruin the VE fuel map with silly dips. Yet to run 98 as car rarely is driven

over 5 years ago....... Take a guess.

Almost the ultimate bogan chariot but needs 2 doors for that title. Get onto a suspension shop about a decent rear setup. That tyre can work with the right setup. 4l80 or 6l80 an option for you? t400 is getting hard to find now and decent internals https://www.facebook.com/BrinksPerformance/posts/624930669420914

This was the adapter I bought https://au.element14.com/seeed-studio/114991193/adapter-usb-to-can-analyzer-1/dp/3932091?gclid=Cj0KCQjwkt6aBhDKARIsAAyeLJ2VuduYWnm6gfg9w7030eEUM4jtr17B3FVLd_T9sKSuhZPCBZdVVFYaAsnxEALw_wcB&mckv=_dm|pcrid||pkw||pmt||slid||product|3932091|pgrid||ptaid||&CMP=KNC-GAU-GEN-SHOPPING-PLA-PMAX

I am still using g4+ so heaps simpler. G4X needs an adapter, needs to be run on can2 to the adapter. I'll see if I can find the adapter I bought to test with.

Hey Duncan, Yeah pinball machine is going to fund next mods. Good game to being a star wars premium. I have the usb tuning cable running to the head unit then run realdash app http://realdash.net/index.php You can run it over CAN to a usb adapter the info is on the site. I have found it great to use once you get use to it and setup. If you want to get fancier and send messages over CAN if ecu can do it there is the toucan device https://www.hawkemotorsport.co.uk/Store/jti-toucan-display

Right foot should be able to help a little, I am more concerned about the sr gearbox. Cheers, currently old splitfires but looking at Taarks or PRP R35 kits. Minister of finance has agreed to mods but need to sell my pinball machine to fund it. First world problems.