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R34 Gtr Vspec Build

wedge_r34gtr replied to wedge_r34gtr's topic in Members Cars, Project Overhauls & Restorations

Thanks Steve, it’s taken a big step in the right direction. Well it’s been hectic past three weeks; I’ve packed my house up for moving interstate, had my last grandparent unfortunately passed away and had an engine put back in the GTR. As you can appreciate, I was a little busy so I was more interested in getting things done then taking photographs. Anyway, I did manage to take a couple and this is where I was up to last time: Clutch on Engine install Installing the engine was a little tricky, it’s a bit of move down, push back, move down, push back repeated a few times until the gearbox input shaft spline lined up correctly. After everything was connected back up, intercooler and radiator were hooked back up and front bar re-installed. I didn’t have time to create a custom recirculation pipe for my stock GTR BOV’s, so the HKS BOV’s got a rebuild (clean, modified spring and a much fatter o-ring) and re-installed for the time being . Now, it was time for some fluids Geabox – royal purple syncromax ~2L Transfer case – Nissan Matic D ~2L Attesa pump reservoir – Nissan Matic D ~0.5L Front Diff – Royal Purple ~1L Radiator - 8L of demineralised water and 1L of concentrated glycol free coolant. Sump – 9L of cheap shell oil for run in. We had a small leak from the rear turbo water lines and front diff, but other than that everything was sweet! Connect battery: And then turn the key….followed by 15mins of scratching heads and checking leads wondering why it won’t start….until we realise the fuel pump fuse is missing and the battery is flat. We changed the battery, replaced the fuse and she roared to life. (Unfortunately no video – really wish I got a video). Anyway, Pauls method of bedding the rings involved: ~5 mins of Revving between 3.5-4.5k RPM (no holding), followed by 2-3min hold @ 4-4.5k RPM and repeating until engine is up to temp (or 3-4 cycles) then allowing the engine to cool and repeat this again. It’s critical for a decent seal, not to let the engine idle for the first ~30mins of operation. Engine oil was then droped/replaced and the oil filter split for analyses – no debris and all good. It’s usually straight to the dyno for Paul’s engines, but there were still a lot of things to connect on this car. First drive out of the garage in over 6 months - Next up was the rear diffuser Two of the brackets were really shagged. After a realised everything was riveted on (which required drilling out to remove), I decided only to replace a couple of the brackets (enough to put it back on) and then do the rest in Perth. I should note that the RB motorsport diffuser kit was a really good fit too. Once I have all the parts installed again I’ll take some better photos. Catch can, Oil cooler and oil filter relocation kit – This took a quite a bit of mucking around to get everything to fit nice, but i love how it looks (i'll take some better photo's once it's in Perth too). And that’s was pretty all I got photo’s of. There’s still quite a bit more to be done to the car but we were just out of time. I really wanted to get DVSJEZ to tune the car, but we had to settle for a brief road tune of ~25km as they were picking the car up for transport to Perth. (As a bit of an update, they were meant to pick it up yesterday, but reportedly took one look at the car and said too low for the truck– we’ll be back next week for it. My new injectors and a few other required things are already on their way to WA so there still won’t be any dyno time to it reaches Perth) Cheers, Joel

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