RBrennan25

So pumped for the track, hurry up and get back from Japan and get yours fixed so you can drag me there haha. Nulon nats team of '16 haha

I'd like in please. Pretty sure their synthetic oil is E85 compatible so that would be the only condition I have Thanks for organising!!

Now some random photos of cruises and the car

Hahaha yeah what a car he has. One day we'll be ripping up hill climbs with him haha

So lastly just some thanks to a few people: Firstly to James and Danny for getting me more involved with SAU. The cruises have been great fun and I've met some amazing people through it Thanks to Mat (34GeeTeeTee) for helping answer all the questions I had. Very knowledgable bloke and incredibly nice as well Thanks to Nick and Alex and Pete the stagea gurus who gave me some incredible advice on looking for stageas. Your depth of knowledge was incredible and I will definitely be getting myself a stagea once the bubs has grown up a little bit Thanks to Raj for taking me for a spin in his car and letting me check out the suspension work. Showed me that not everything you read on the Internet is true (who knew!?!) Thanks to Scotty for setting me up with some great parts at great prices Thanks to Stao for a weapon of a turbo, I absolutely love it Thanks to my mate Nick up in QLD who is an absolute genius at cars and has given me so much advice over the years Thanks to Paul, dave and all the rest of the boys at Pulse Racing. These guys are genuinely nice guys and do the most professional work I've seen. If you need a work shop in the south of Sydney these guys are the best. And the biggest thanks of all goes to my amazing partner Bethany. She was there day 1 with me to pick the car up. She has dragged herself out of bed at stupid o'clock to come on cruises. She has listened to my ranting and rubbishing about cars (and loved it haha). And most of all she supported me through everything. She knew how much I love the car and never wanted me to sell it, which I can't thank her enough for Sorry if I forgot anyone but I have the memory of a goldfish. Thanks for reading. Feel free to chuck any questions up and I'll keep updating any progress

So the future plans for the car (in order): Almost nothing other than servicing for the next 12-18 months with the buns due on march 17th But I'm going to do a service this weekend and I'm thinking about putting on a front sway bar just to kill a bit of occasional under steer. Then the next thing will be a set of coilovers and camber arms and possibly castor arms Then after that would be the head. In the long long run I would like a set of Tomei cams, some valves and springs and then put in a bigger MAP sensor and see what I can get out of the turbo but that is many years away and who knows what the future holds

Sorry for the crap pic but its the best I can do for the moment

With the turbo bought I set about collecting the other parts I'd need, albeit slowly as the mrs and I moved to a new unit and I had to focus on buying a few furniture things and what not. With that out of the way the focus returned to the car and I placed an order with Scotty to get the injectors, fuel pump and intake pipe, and booked the car to go in to Pulse Racing to have everything fitted but I left plenty of time in between when I booked it and when it was going in, just to allow for unforeseen things. Then the most surprising thing ever happened. Without going into too much detail, my mrs sister had a problem with her ovaries and might no be able to have kids, so the doctors strongly suggested that my mrs Beth go and get tested. So I dropped her off to the doctors with her mum and started heading to work when I got a phone call and Beth was in tears. My heart stopped. Basically the doctors had said that it doesn't look like Beth will have trouble having kids, as she was already around 2 and a half months pregnant! Neither of us could believe it, and took quite a while to sink in. So I thought maybe I should sell the car and buy something semi sensible, like a stagea. Big thanks to Alex and Nick the stagea guru's who gave me some amazing advice on buying a stagea. I found a great car from a reputable dealer up in Queensland and asked them to send me some pictures and a video so I could give it a close look before I flew up. I looked at the car very closely, and they were also very good at saying there were a few tiny issues with the interior and exterior of the car and took photos of them so I could see the extent. Looked like extremely simple fixes so I rang them back to put a deposit on it, and wouldn't you know it, someone had walked in off the street liked it and put money down on it in the space of 2 hours. That sucked. But I decided that if I already had my 34 and all of these parts sitting in the spare room to go on it I was never going to get my money back on it anyway, so I took it off the market and bought a very sensible daily, a mighty Camry wagon. I love it, it's so comfortable and quiet and the air conditioning is unreal haha. So with a massive savings account still, after buying the Camry and a whole heap of baby stuff, the skyline went in to Pulse Racing to finish stage 2. Paul was excited to do the car and the goal of 300rwkw on E85 was set, with a full flex tune as well. I basically said I don't care what it makes on 98 just so long as I can physically drive it if I have no other option. I popped in a few times while it was in to check progress and the boys were very pleased with it. The only issue was the intake manifold where the radiator pipes go into was fairly corroded, which I'm told is fairly common. So we had to wait to chuck a new one on, which pushed the car back a few days, and unfortunately Paul had already organised to go on holidays after WTAC (the poor bugger, he was absolutely flogging himself in the lead up to that. Really earned that holiday haha) and my car would have to wait. Finally it was ready for a tune and Nick (levinboy) went down to watch everything. He said he was extremely surprised by the result and Paul gave me a ring the next day and said much the same so in I went to pick it up. We made 244 rwkw at 15psi on 98 on one of the most conservative tunes ever, which is exactly what I wanted so I was happy with that. Then the E85 stuff. 281.5rwkw at 15psi which I thought was incredible. Now time to turn the boost up, although we were limited to 22psi with the internal MAP sensor. But we managed 320.6rwkw at 22psi which was incredible. On the road the car feels incredible! It feels like an NA car off boost with E85 which is pretty high praise for a big turbo car, and anything about around 2800rpm you can really feel it surging onto boost. Full boost is made around 3800rpm from memory but it goes like an absolute missile from about 3500rpm. You can see on the dyno that it builds really fast and then basically plateaus for the rest of the run. There could be a few reasons for this but I think I'd mostly say it would be the standard cams and valves more than the exhaust or anything else.

So after a few more cruises with the boys and meeting a tonne of really nice and knowledgable people I decided it was time to sign up for a paid membership. Certainly haven't regretted that. All the members have been extremely welcoming and always help out with whatever they can, definitely recommend signing up. Now on the cruise to Wollongong through the national park I developed a misfire under a fair bit of load so it was decided that I would change my coil packs to splitfires, which I planned to do anyway. The misfire went away unsurprisingly. This is the beginning of stage 2 haha. The power bug had bitten and I was determined to get more out of the car. At the time I was working around 80 hours a week and actually getting paid over time so saving was very easy and with all that time at work (the place was the deadest you've ever seen so I had lots of time to think) I started planning the next step. I knew I needed certain things, like turbo, ecu, injectors, fuel pump and a few other things and there is a plethora of options available and opinions for and against most of them. So I decided the best thing I could do was follow a few build threads and see what things they had in common and ask a few questions of the owners. I messaged a guy named Mat (34GeeTeeTee) and he was extremely helping in telling me about his car and what he liked etc and this really helped me choose a few parts. The only real difference in our cars was that his was a little more track focused and I wanted to keep the turbo a low mount. So the list consisted of: ID1000's Walbro 460 fuel pump Haltech ecu and flex fuel set up Metal intake pipe But I hadn't decided on a turbo. There were loads of options and all had positives and negatives. Then all of a sudden my choice was made for me, Stao from Hypergear had a bunch of ATR43SS2's lying around and decided to have a sale - $999 + delivery for the turbo, braided oil line and spacer for the manifold. $1000 for a bolt on turbo capable of well over 300rwkw!? Bargain of the decade and I was all over it like a rash Somehow this is the only pic I took of the turbo :S but gives a bit of an idea

So after driving for a few months, it was brilliant. I loved it and it wasn't too bad for a daily. But the daily driving meant that the K's added up pretty quick and all of a sudden the clutch was sounding a bit off and slipping on WOT. So with a few recommendations on here, I rang NPC and told them it was a daily and that it would probably see more mods eventually and they recommended an organic clutch to keep the standard pedal feel but hold 300rwkw and that seemed more than enough so I bought it and it was at my doorstep 2 days later. Great service and product so if you're after a clutch give these guys a ring. So it was around this time I started getting more and more involved with SAU. I'd been stalking the forums for a while but had never really posted anything or met anyone or anything of the like. I then saw a post advertising a restaurant (ribterranian freaking awesome btw) by a bloke named James so I went down to check it out and met James and his brother Danny. They talked to us for ages about cars and cruises and the like and said they had organised a cruise for a couple of weeks time on SAU and I should come along. This was the first of a tonne of cruises haha

Few pictures. The day I got her home The intercooler Stealthy Exhaust

Hey all, I've had a lot of people asking about my mods and various other things so I thought I'd just start a thread and have all the information here. I've had 2 skylines before this 1, but I've always wanted an R34 so I started searching for something that looked nice and wasn't abused. I didn't find a single one in Australia that fitted that description and were even remotely in a real world budget. So where else to look? Japan obviously. The wait to get it here nearly killed me as I was borrowing my mums Kia. I found the car online myself and paid Someone to bring it in for me (BIG mistake but I don't think I can name and shame?) with the help of a mate. The car landed in Australia and I still found myself waiting nearly 2 months before I could drive it and the tyres were well and truly illegal and unsafe (something else wasn't done as promised as well but I forget what, it was 2 years ago). But anyway it was obviously a huge step up from the Kia but it was never going to stay standard for long. When it landed it only had a HKS silent hi power cat back, so the first mods were to finish the exhaust with a split pulse dump pipe custom made by pulse racing at Menai and a hi flow cat, a cooling pro return flow intercooler (for the blackness), and a turbo smart eboost street boost controller. With all of this fitted it was chucked on the dyno and pulled 217.8 rwkw at 12psi. This was P100 when united used to sell it, so I think it was definitely worth using. Such a shame they don't make it anymore. Anyway it now pulled really hard on the street and was a really fun car to drive and I was happy with it for quite a while. I will call this 'stage 1' haha. Pictures will follow tomorrow

Why are you changing to an RB26 head? Aren't you better off with the 25 neo to keep VCT? Certainly would be cheaper. Other than that interested to see the progress as you go Good luck mate

Yep definitely recommend Paul at pulse racing

Does the power FC have long/short term fuel trim? The haltechs do, so theoretically if the tune is done well the first time, but there are lean or rich spots in coming on/off throttle, very light throttle, etc, it fixes it by itself

Haha sweet should be fun

In please raj Also anyone else a lefty? I don't own clubs

I'm actually getting the same thing, any chance of getting a photo of the aforementioned hole?

Yeah somehow I missed that you have a nistune as well. Really the only reason to upgrade to a new ecu (link, haltech, etc) would be if you want to run e85. They also give you a bit more accurate knock protection and a few other input and outputs which will help accurately tune the car. But really that part is optional. It won't be cheap but I recon if it were my track car running 300rwkw I think I'd want the protection of e85 and other things.

Apparently 98 doesn't mean 98 always. I read a paper somewhere where they tested all of the suppliers 98 fuel and some were as low as 96. If memory serves BP was the highest and most consistent. Hence I've only ever used them for 98

I'd say go have a look at the Hypergear thread. Plenty of good results with slightly different set ups to read through. I'd say depending on how much you wanna spend and what your actual power goals are, this would be where I'd go: Xspurt 1000cc injectors Walbro 460 pump Hypergear highflow Link G4 Will net 300rwkw and be pretty damn responsive. If you feel the need to do cams, do the valve springs and what not with it. Will probably add another $1000 to your build but no point doing one without the other. And let the varying opinions start

There's a very clean R32 gts/gtst parked directly across the road from my apartment in sutherland at the moment

Andrew Hawkins R32 gained 20+ awkw just from changing to a haltech. And as previously said its not just about peak power it allows closer and more accurate reading of things like knock which means you can add more timing and boost. It also has much better drivability on the road. Having said all of this you'll never know the difference until you actually try it. I love my haltech and I'd never go back

Great photos mate!

For everyone who missed it, this is the point where we got held up for the road works. We say there for a few minutes and then went off and the traffic controller videoed the whole thing haha. Think we made his day