sounds like you need to go over the whole car with a spanner and tighten up evrything that is loose and go from there. . .also fuel choice can affect pinging too
good one . . ive thought cutting the gtst bonnet to look like a gtr one would be possible and (as of last year)the grilles are still available new and just jap stocks new fibreglass gtr style bumpers that fit the gtst reo.
Sounds like like these motors mite be v good to use. . With a slight drop in compression they would be good to turbo. . Good port size,vct etc.have look on a few engine impoters web sites but havnt sen any listed as yet
sounds like detonation damage to me otherwise i would still be looking for a cause . . .the HG are the fusable link on any motor and under normal operating conditions last a very long time. . .ie ive had unopened motors with 300,000 +ks on the original HG
the exhaust wrap will eventually rub through where its touching the body, as said elsewhere the exhaust MUST NOT be hard up against any part of the body of the car, even if its not the cause of the drone, i suggest you add more clearence
some ppl might like the smaller motor for theslightly better fuel economy over the 25,with PULP being around $1.60 (most of the time) here in WA that might not be a bad thing
noise not only exits the end of the exhaust pipe but also resonates thru the pipe itself, exhaust wrap would act as a silencer as well as keeping up exhaust gas velocity
Howdy, out of curiosity more than anything, why so few ppl use GTR transmissions in their GTSs etc? i can see that you would have to mod the tailshaft but would there be any other fitting hassles/issues?