AngryRB

I think it could be done, engine mount moved/modded but its a PITA

A low mounted 6boost I think could almost get away with it, with a heat shield on the top you could just about cover up the turbo too.

Bit of bad luck yesterday, car's been idling bit rough so I blocked off the PCV valve and tightened all the clamps with a rachet instead of screwdriver, started the car and was idling a lot better, but still had roughness to it, bit like WRX or a Rotary. Anyway decided to drive it round the block, yay!! got boost happening , floored in 4th gear from 2000rpm upto 3000rpm and got 5psi, then it shoots up fast to about 10ish, was backing off about 3500rpm, then decided to give third a stab , this time it shot upto 16psi and two things happened, the left wheel inside guard plastic came off and at the same time the car seemed to make a backfire thru the exhaust and stalled... Since then it wont start, it cranks but nothing... dam it!! Im bit puzzled as to what happened, no pipes have been blown off, Im thinking that the CAS has broke or the timing belts jumped a tooth some how, the Knock levels were under control, what else could it be? Could be time to leave it alone, save some $$$$ and leave it with tuner

I see the black stealth theme has taken over the 4wd too.. Looks good, whats the mods on the 4wd? lift kit? what motor?

Be interesting to check my own engine after the poncams were dropped in, that motor I mentioned was just a Mitsubishi with a reground cam 2mm apparently but who knows.

ah ok, just thought id check, Kudos has Genuine balancer for $450, ill check the Ross Nexus one out too.. cheers for the info

yep and these issues only popped up when i first did the GT30 upgrade and the rocker covers wernt plumbed back into the intake pipe, so makes sense now

ah i see what you saying, i must of got lucky so far then and had the OCD Asian guy that day with the supervisor watching him.. lol

Intercoolers are pretty cheap, mine is a "coolingPro" intercooler which was $400 for the kit and its worked well enough for me. just jap have some, might be cheaper if you search around other places though http://justjap.com/store/home.php?cat=271&page=3

How many km's? if it has some bolt on mods already then its possible it may have some poncams dropped in, on a previous car i did this and it dropped from 150 down to 115

thanks mate, i think ill seal this PCV valve off to be sure and see what happens, i think this maybe the cause of the car wanting to stall when i quickly come to a stop after a squirt but will have to see .

whats it cost for a good respray these days?

Don't want to start a new thread so im asking here, Ive had some rough idle and rough running at very light throttle and trying to hunt the issues down, so I notice my PCV valve hose is cracked, the hoses on the rockers I haven't connected to anything and I noticed theres a fairly strong suction happening there, is it normal to have a strong vacumn coming from the rocker cover hoses? would having this hose not recirculating be creating a vacumn leak? eg same as an atmo BOV? Im wondering if the pcv valve might be open creating the vacumn and therefore creating a vacumn leak, thoughts?

is the R34 harmonic balancer any different from the R33? seems to be cheaper...

Hey, can I have my name changed to AngryRB please?

lol.. I think its other way round now seeing as I have GT3037 and you have FP, but you got some serious power going on there... think ill keep it simple and drop the X..

sounds try hardish.. lol Yeah I think its time and pm coming bout the spring.

ive never really given it much thought, so I guess it hasn't made a huge difference My cars like a go cart, you can take 90degree bends in third gear with no body roll, it just hooks up like its on rails, good fun actually when people are tail gating and you pull off third gear round a corner while there battling the body roll in there falcodore.

its setup for Eflex only, My tuner tuned the car last winter and told me to keep an eye on the Knock levels on the power fc. Both in summer and winter there has been no issues with knock so the blend must be fairly consistant, ive had a car full of people and 1.5bar in third with no more than 20 showing up on the power fc, So im assuming that the tune is very safe and not on a knife edge so as to compensate for any differences at the pump. the Caltex fuel stations are within 30mins and I can fill some 20L containers too

AVCR does the job very well for me

Over the weekend I managed to paint all the intake pipes , rocker covers , top plenum and install the new gasket, took me half the day to get the manifold on because of the fuel rail in the way. I just used some black matt paint in a can, not perfect but I think its looking respectable now. So with all the pipes back on I primed the engine till I got oil pressure then connected the injectors up and started it, then took it for a drive round the block to test it for leaks. The engine runs very smooth but has a lumpiness about it at idle and wants to stall when at 800rpm and releasing the clutch, it did this before but I thought it was the manifold gasket that was leaking, now im thinking it could be just the cams and tune. First impressions are the noise is very different between this GT and the old GTX, I don't have the boost controller hooked up yet and so I found out I have a 5psi spring in the gate which is suprising. My AVCR must of been working hard to give me 1.4bar on the old setup. I cant compare the two turbo's yet but I must admit I think im missing the GTX's induction noises so far, it used to sound like it was spooling even on the light throttle and the GT is quiet till you step on it... too early to call though really. With the vacumn line for the BOV not blocked off ( need more hose) I was making some zutututututu noises and Im not one of those guys that like that but just for that drive I embrassed the zutututuututut... and felt like a young tosser that just bought my first skyline, hahahah jokes.. Anyway, need to source a 1bar spring, maybe replace some of the cheap clamps with stronger ones, change oil, do some km's then take it for a dyno run to get result.

There's a few bad reports about MM including mine in the R35 section, I would strongly advise you go see Gavin Woods at Labrador, a lot of guys use him including myself and he is well experienced with skylines, even GTR35's. you can also use a Power FC and run E-flex, my car for example does and I havnt had any problems with it,

Over the weekend i decided to replace the plenum gasket that has leaked on me twice now, i think the rubber gasket might not be upto the task unless the bolts arnt tightening it up enough. Anyway i replaced it with a cosmetic gasket, and decided that while the car was apart id clean the runners and paint some bits. this pic shows the top rail with 1000cc Xspurts pretty well

so with the manifold and turbo bolted on, I drove the car to Daniel at Extreme custom engineering, decided to drop it off there at 5am cause I don't like towing trailers in busy traffic. He was starting at 5am so it worked out well, i got the dump pipe modified from the stock position to the low mount position and the intake pipes done. It was a quick turn around and good quality/value , heres some pics of how it came out. Nicely tucked away external wastegate, it is a bit of a prick to take on and off unless you own a workshop I was thinking about shortening the pipe that goes over the rocker covers but ended up with this, i like the blow off valve location but not sure if the pipe is angled that well.. might need to be changed.. i like how its retained the 4inch pipe and the filter is around the corner from the exhaust, its in nice position for a CAI now.

More pics, this shows the compressor cover trial fit before shaving the engine mount attachment=428516:20130423_105224 (640x480).jpg] The next thing that need done was some port matching of the turbine housing mouth to the manifold flange, I took a fair bit of material off here with the drill and grinding stone. I used a t3 spacer bolted to the housing to give me a guide and it worked well. Before After