Mckhenry

And tonight a funny thing happened! Unfortunately the engine crane I bought is a real piece of junk, I got the engine up and clear, but with only the wife on deck, there wasn't enough strength to lift the transfer case and gearbox clear. Thankfully one of these was sitting in the shed; I would have been screwed without it, but finally the motor is out. It was actually a little easier than I thought it would be, amazing you can get so much in a little space. Anyway it is good to be on track, so far I have given about 8 hours to this and anticipate another two to three to strip down the engine. Should hopefully be ready to ship off to the machine shop by the end of the weekend.

Forgot to mention, fitting some coilovers as well, would love to get some 19" wheels to fill the guards out, but this rebuild budget just doesn't allow that unfortunately. But would love to know thoughts on a good street compound tyre, low noise with plenty of grip?? I have Potenza R compounds, great tyre, noisy as hell though.

What I am looking to do is give the motor a freshen up, the car lobbed in Australia in 2002, so I think is is safe to say the km's are fairly on the money. So the current motor has done about 140,000 and has a few heavy breathing problems, thanks to a suspected cracked ring in number 5. So we are going for a forged top end, heavily ported head, tomei type b cams, tomei oil pump 87.5mm bore. Supporting hardware is Apexi FC, Tomei expreme dumps and manifolds, HKS full piping kit AFM's to plenum, NISMO plenum and 800cc twin spray injectors, Splitfire coilpacks, HKS EVC, Garrett -7's (a little too small), Aexi dry pods, HKS Type R 700mm FMIC, oil cooler kit and Nismo or Z32 AFM's. Body wise, looking to put a full Z-tune front end on the car, with pods ans spats. Hoping to get the engine out before the end of the week!

Hi All, Just getting into my rebuild and wanting to hopefully learn from others mistakes before I make them myself. This has been a long time in the planning so it was a little relieving and simultaneously intimidating finally getting started. My previous experience with cars was extensive, but nothing of the magnitude and technical complexity of the GTR. So here are some pics when everything still worked, hopefully is wont be too long until I see this again; So now I was ready to get going, I had a rough old shed I was able to use thankfully. So I set about getting the car in a good spot, got her up on the stands and fired her up for one last time to heat up the fluids, drained it, disconnected the battery and started on the front end. I am looking to replace the guards, so they came off too. I had a decent day, with a little bit of stop starting, had to go get some tools, cords and other bits and pieces. had a good 3-4 hours and was a little disappointed with the progress. Finally hit a brick wall when my the half inch drive couldn't crack the gearbox plug and I didn't have the right hex key to drop the tail shaft. On a lighter not, this is the old girl that refuses to die, loaded up with all my crap, pretending to be a tow truck;

Hi, just wanting to know if you can get any non Nismo versions of this duct?

Hey does anyone know where you can get the oil cooler air boxes for the side vents on z tune bumper?

I think the key here gents is make sure the machinist and the engine builder are the same guy. I have always tried to do that in the past

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You got any contact details for them?? Can't find anything useful on the web.

Have had a chat to X-speed already, they are my current mechanics. They are saying $6,000 in labour just to build the engine, hence why I am looking to Lewis Engines or someone like that. But the costs from X-speed was pretty much as follows; $1,100 pistons $1,000 rods $700 head gasket $2,000 head overhaul only, no porting $600 bearings $800 gasket kit $500 hose kit $1,600 HKS oil pump $6,000 labour $2,500 Machining Lewis Engines; $12,569 plus $399 freight; Block bored,honed,decked, cracktested, oil restrictors, Crank collar, cracktest,grind, blueprint clearances, microppolish Acl comp bearings, JE forged pistons total seal rings, Spool h beam rods with arp 2000 bolts, Arp main and head studs Steel 4 layer head gasket, Tomei oil pump, Genuine Nissan gaskets, Tomeii 264 cams, Springs step 2, Full recon head,refaced,guides,multi angle valve job,seals ,tappet adjustment, 300cfm port job –maximum, Hi octane hi vol race sump extension and baffles also mods to oil drainbacks in sump Assembled complete sump to covers

Thanks, that is the second vote for Red R, will give them a call!

Cool, thanks! But insurance is paying for the body parts, the splitter and lower lip are being replaced along with intercooler, so there is some scope there to do some work.

Thanks to everyone too for chiming in with your two cents. I have been in love with GTR's for about 15 years now, but have been able to learn more about them in the last 6 months thanks to the forums. Anyone have an opinion on the body side of things, I am going to need to order the front end parts this week.

Dunno, that is what has been offered. They retail the extension for $700ish at High Octane, but I am pretty sure Performance Metalcraft makes the High Octane sumps anyway. So the mechanics are probably paying $4-500 for them, might be that they can't match the quality for that price.

I hear you there, but I would say Lewis build more engines than X-Speed do, I have every faith in Hanson and they guys down there but $6k for engine labour is too much for a weeks work. For the last four years nothing bad has come up about Lewis in the forum searches. It is a pretty big thing for me to send my motor off to another state, but these guys seem to know their stuff pretty well! I am most worried about the crank setup/ clearancing and have discussed this extensively with Darren, they also have a bore machining jig for the rb's centered off the mains. So I can take some comfort off that, plus you can't burn people and be around for as long as they have without someone having a crack on a forum.

Why no to the rods?? But yes, everyone else seems to favour the Tomei pump, but X-speed are a HKS dealer, so you expect them to push the HKS items, you just take that into consideration when dealing with them. Also at $120 per hour they will always be difficult to get great pricing from. But being a newb I don't know anyone else over hear I trust with my engine. Darren Lewis seems to get a good rap from the members and is seemingly a very nice guy, so he is leading the race currently.

Have had a chat to X-speed already, they are my current mechanics. They are saying $6,000 in labour just to build the engine, hence why I am looking to Lewis Engines or someone like that. But the costs from X-speed was pretty much as follows; $1,100 pistons $1,000 rods $700 head gasket $2,000 head overhaul only, no porting $600 bearings $800 gasket kit $500 hose kit $1,600 HKS oil pump $6,000 labour $2,500 Machining Lewis Engines $12,569 plus $399 freight; Block bored,honed,decked, cracktested, oil restrictors, Crank collar, cracktest,grind, blueprint clearances, microppolish Acl comp bearings, JE forged pistons total seal rings, Spool h beam rods with arp 2000 bolts, Arp main and head studs Steel 4 layer head gasket, Tomei oil pump, Genuine Nissan gaskets, Tomeii 264 cams, Springs step 2, Full recon head,refaced,guides,multi angle valve job,seals ,tappet adjustment, 300cfm port job –maximum, Hi octane hi vol race sump extension and baffles also mods to oil drainbacks in sump Assembled complete sump to covers

Nice looking car, have you got carbon skirts and diffuser? I was looking at having lacquered carbon under part on mine too :-) Lewis engines seems to be the best deal I have found so far they are in SA, so not looking to get it done in WA, WA is very expensive ATM with the mines pushing up labour costs. Also speaking with Josh from JSAI re dress up gear. My engine is screwed, it needs a rebuild, 5 has a cracked ring, so a rebuild will be happening no matter what. scan0001.pdf

Thanks, will look into them!

Thanks for the feedback! Have sort of been scared into the Nismo Plenum to a fair degree. I have been told you can lean out a fair bit more and it gives a lot better throttle response, so I think for those two factors (if true) it is a good investment. Can you let me know why you think the Plenum's unnecessary please?? Compressor surge, what is that?? I have been a long distance admirer of the GTR's and RB's, but still learning. BTW the engine package I am looking at currently has the Tomei pump.

Scratch the old style Tomei dumps, they were what I paid for, but they delivered the expreme's! No complaint there. Also looking at doing suspension in there as well, thinking of the Hipermax III, thoughts? Lewis Engines seem to have a good deal also as far as engine goes- http://www.lewisengi...m.au/prod60.htm This one comes with a 3l sump extension and sounds like it might be the one. Here are a few car pics too.

Engine is still running in car, as far as pics go if you want I can email, but it is like any other red top rb26

I'll keep it in mind thanks, but chasing carbon skirts and spats first up.

Hello All, I have been dredging through google trying to find a good deal on a new engine, decent exchanges etc. I am coming up with a few options, but I am also getting a few red flags. People saying you need to be very careful who you get to build your motor, making sure all parts and machining are thou perfect or catastrophe will follow. Since a N1 purchase fell through, I am left with buying a new N1 long motor and putting it in stock or worked, this option seems to range from $17,000- 28,000 or option b is to rebuild my redtop, this seems to be about the same sort of price but no real warranty to speak of. I have Garrett 2860 7's, evc boost controller, HKS race exhaust, Apexi fc all current and generating 389hp atw maxing current injectors. Parts I have but aren't fitted- old style tomei dumps and manifolds. The mods I would like to do to the engine are; full head rework, port and polish, cc and o/s valves bore to 86.5mm (i think) explore stroker vs machining stock crank forged rods and pistons n1 pumps sump upgrade External engine mods I will also be paying for in the above price will be; HKS 600cc injectors ( have been advised these or Nismo are tho only ones worth looking at) Nismo plenum (to deal with leaning of rear cylinders) New clutch & flywheel HKS Intake piping kit (have been told this is the best around) Intercooler and piping Nismo mounts New AFM's (nismo has been reccomended) Oil cooler Sump upgrade What I want- Reliability and power, want to get a good bump on the torque curve and push out at least 440hp atw, more obviously with forged crank or stroker. Any advice on what I should get, pros/ cons or who I should talk to what mechanics, machine shops would be great. But I should stress I want a reliable quality job. Body wise; Looking to get the z-tune bar, carbon splitter, z tune guards, bonnet, spats and skirts. not going genuine on the z-tune parts, but same again, would like to get quality built epoxy parts that fit the way they are supposed to. Was also wondering if anyone had seen a white GTR with unpainted carbon splitter, spats and skirts as opposed to painting white??? Any help the forum could give would be great!! Thanks Mick