DannyC33

So, the laurel decided to destroy another left hand inner CV last night. This is the third time it's happened. Always the left inner CV. Anyone else had this issue? It's starting to piss me off, and I'm assuming it's not just the fact the shafts are old as it's only the left that it happens to. Any ideas?

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So the track day this saturday was f**king awesome! Laurel behaved and ran flawlessly all day. Melted a bunch of tyres. Got a f**k load of slap marks on my rear guards from delam. Rubber spray f**king everywhere from my front tyres rubbing on the guards all day. Got a bunch of videos and shit but currently can't upload them anywhere. Youtube is having a cry about the format (even though they've been converted to .avi) Vimeo won't take anything above 500mb because f**k paying $65 a year to upload bigger. and Photobucket is just a shit flamin mongrel. I'll probably just find a program to compress them down. Anyone got any suggestions? No stand for the BBQ? No problem. The Ghetto Garage crew.

So, china turbo is on. after cracking 2 water drain lines and then throwing a fit and getting a braided line made! Haha. Feels good! Runs 1 bar off the standard actuator. It's noticeably laggier, but realistically full boost at 2600rpm was pointless considering it dropped off so early. Comparison shot Entered a private day with a few mates up at Tailem Bend. That's happening this saturday, so it's been a mad rush to get the turbo on and everything sorted out. pictured 2x 17x9 xxr's 2x 17x9 koenigs 2x 17x9 work euroline s2 2x volk c ultra not pictured 4x 16x9 random roh wheels of alans. 2x 17x9 xxr's Finally bought and fitted a water temp gauge also. Since the engine swap the factory gauge has barely been getting off the cold mark. AM gauge says it sits happily on 76 degrees. Hopefully everything going to plan, I'll make it through the day with those tyres. Not having a tyre fitter there means if we run out, it's end of the day haha!

Ended up going some ghetto ebay turbo for now. Needed something cheap and right now as I have a track day next week. Haha. Will sort out a decent turbo down the track, over building it. Time to thrash the nuts off it. Thanks man.

So it seems I need a new turbo. Killed mine on the weekend. What do people suggest? Car's mainly going to be used for drift. I don't want massive power right now. But I figure I might as well upgrade while I'm doing it. Had a few suggestions so far: Garrett 2876 to keep it responsive, will be basically limited to 260ish kw. Garrett 3071, obviously it'll be laggier, but it should be capable of 300kw Kando td05 Not sure on trim sizing Kando td06 again not sure on trim sizing. I'm open to ideas. I may just end up putting another neo turbo on it for now.

So here finally is an update worth posting. Took the laurel on the SA R31 skyline clubs annual cruise this saturday. Was easily the best cruise I've been on in years. Rad roads, rad cars, rad mates. Here's some pics Few mates convinced me to enter it in the Show n Shine at the SA round for DCA. Entered for a laugh, expecting nothing. With the bunch of f**king awesome cars that were there, apparently I walked out with a trophy for "Best Hella Flush"

Haha, cheers mate. I'm pretty amazed with it. My mates laurel is still defected with a blown turbo. Unfortunately since he picked up a sponsor and a team car he seems to have forgotten about his laurel. Got some custom fixed mounts made up last night for the driver and passenger velos. Sits alot lower and in a much nicer position now. $200 well spent! Got a cruise on this saturday that I'm taking the laurel on, so will hopefully have some decent pics.

Well the laurel has rego, and is wheel aligned. Must say, it's absolutely amazing to drive. Power delivery is so smooth. Velo feels awesome. Haven't given it the beans yet, as I want to make sure it's all running sweet before I give it hell.

Nah I'm probably going to go for something like a td06 or 3076. I've not driven it yet though haha. Will hopefully rego it this weekend.

Had alot of issues at the tuner. Many wiring issues popping fuses. Apparently at some point during the first engine swap I must have caught a wire on a sharp bit of metal and it started to rub through. This caused it to pop ignition fuses as soon as you hit ignition. all fixed now though and was tuned yesturday. Turns out it's not a vg30 turbo at all. It's just neo turbo. Made 214kw. Makes 15psi by 2600rpm ish, got to confirm that once the car gets here so I can read the dyno printout. (currently on a trailer on it's way). Bleeds off real quickly though. From 5500rpm it starts dropping right the way down to 10psi. So new turbo will be required soon. VCT still isn't working as I ran out of time to sort it out. Now I just need to get mounts made for my velos, wheel alignment and rego. Will be getting a weld in half cage in the near future.

So this happened today. Off to Boostworx to get it tune. I've told Shaun not to push it past 220kw. It should make more than that, but that'll be plenty for now. Once I get it back tomorrow I have to give the suspension the once over and make sure it's all tight. Got to either make up a mount for the passenger velo or bolt the stock passenger seat in. Then it's just rego and a much needed wash!

Haha sorry mate, just doing what my tuner recommended.

Where are you mate? I have a cat back 3" exhaust for a c33 that I've been trying to sell.

So with the cash from the chaser I went out and bought a pair of Velo GPT-2 seats, they are basically the same as a gp90 except narrower across the shoulders and a little bit deeper bolsters. Mounted the drivers seat in wednesday night. Excuse the mess. Needs to be a little bit lower but I'll sort that out eventually. Bought a z32 afm tuesday night. Wired that up today. Finally decided I can't be f**ked finding a battery that'll fit where the standard one is now that there is intercooler piping in the way. So I bought a battery relocation kit. Started doing the wiring for that this morning. Then I got over it. Engine bay side is done. Will do the rest later today/tomorrow. Bought a GKTech fan as my rb25 fan hits on the alloy rad, even with f**k loads off the fan cut away. Turns out sr20 fan hubs bolt onto rb water pumps, so no need to run the gktech fan adapter. Other than that, once I get the battery in it'll be ready to get towed to Boostworx for a tune.