Cruise Alice

[BK]

Gonna be a major teardown of R32. Next time Oscar, it's not a good idea to laugh when a $15000 bottom end lets go mate, not everything is a joke. Engine failure is serious stuff. Let's just say you've been very fortunate with your car. Looks like nothing to do with tune, just oil supply starvation from launching at 9200 with a stock sump. This bottom end is all going in the bin probably, I'm not just gonna chuck some bearings in and "she'll be right". Fab take note and be very careful what you choose to do to repair your 26.

Just finished discussions with the old man on which path to go down - HKS 2.8, OS 3L or keep a 2.7L capacity. 3L option is too much at $29k, HKS 2.8 is tempting for 800ps stage 2 but too much for stage 3 1200ps option right now, so it'll be a 2.7L capacity again.

On order first thing tomorrow is Trust sump extension, 86.5mm CP pistons/rings, crower rods, R33 GTR crank and R34 GTR block - all brand new from Perth where machining for block and balancing of crank will be done. Trust Dog box is going back in too.

Don't worry, I'll be back stronger than ever.

Edited August 2, 2009 by BK

[fab34]

yea were gona take mine apart see how bad it is hopefully nothing major

[fmlycar]

How was the oil supply over looked when the engine was built to start with? I don't know much about 26's, although it'd be Russian roulette with nearly 5 times the factory power to happen reliably with the factory sump on any car. Seems like a good opportunity to see if there is anything else that could be improved.

[MFP]

What can I say?

I LOVE carnage in my motorsport!!! Speedway is turning me into a sadistic prick.

There is nothing better than pushing a car or engine to its limits and beyond.

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Gt...ad-t257137.html

I thought that my RB would be the first in town to go pop considering the 2006 standard rebuild, standard cast pistons, 200+ HARD 1/4 passes with limiter launches, 2 burnout comp wins, wearing my 4 M/T's to the wire and peak holds of boost above 1.7 bar.

The only thing keeping it alive is the N1 oil pump, tomei oil restrictor, sump baffles, oil changes @ <100km and good luck!

On a serious note Ben call me if you want to sell your 16" wheels & M/T's $$$CASH

I reckon these with new bov's and a serious weight reduction I may be able to give the 10's a nudge.

[JstPlyn]

wow ozzy your car has been put through a lot surprised it is still goin strong

[GTROH]

Was a good weekend at the Drags. I rana new personal Best, dident think I get a low 12 (f**k YEAH)

11s Next? I wait and see.

[fab34]

wats up orderd a new r33 gtr crank bearings and rings ill get a new clutch as well were tearing this motor to a bare block clean evry thing make sure it dont happen again and run the bearing in proply so i can burn sum rubber at drags and get sum decent et down the strip its on ozzy wen its back on the road best burnout

[BK]

You're right Kurt as at 7k rpm and above there is no oil left in the sump on a RB26, it's all in the head.

So $11000 and counting with the new build for the engine. Just got back from the rock, gotta pay for this new bottom end. Xspeed have machined and assembled the brand new 34 block, 33 GTR crank and 86.5mm CP pistons/rings and crower 74mm rods. All brand spankers so I'll have to run in a new engine from scratch. New kings bearings have gone in and most importantly, a TOMEI 1.5mm HEAD RESTRICTOR for the bloody oil issues. Have a Trust sump in the works too, which should cure the 9k + rpm limit. Will be boxed up on Monday so I sould see my brand new bottom end maybe next week. Still gotta pull the engine out still, which is a major mission on a GTR at nearly 400kg with transmission. I can't see this car being done for a couple of months though. HKS turbo is leaking on compressor side so that'll have to get serviced/resealed on the housing.

Oscar I'll see you some time on the weekend OK

[Mr.Msquito]

Sounds like an interesting weekend for everyone. Heard of some good times which means the track must be improving alot from when it was first opened

[fmlycar]

Track is becoming a good place to hone your technique on getting the car down the track faster. New manifold is getting ordered this week. Gains from their design is said to be spooling 200-400rpm sooner and 6-15% more power. Can't wait.

[BK]

Wouldn't you have already had a good manifold to mount a Trust T67 ? Was yours cracked ?

GTR engine and driveline is fully removed from blue car. Finished it about 2hours ago. New bottom end is assembled and sent. Anyone says they can remove an RB26 and transmission from a GTR in 2 - 4 hours as I've heard so much people talk shit about before I'll give em a grand to watch it happen. The GTR must be the worst car in history to work on for rebuilds, give me a RWD car anyday. The engines themselves are great though. I picked up Fabs gearbox to my chest on Friday by myself, try doing that with a GTR box and you'll be walking no more.

[fab34]

crank arrived today and ordered new acl race bearing so hopfully back on the road in a few weeks hopefully

[fmlycar]

Trust manifold that is mounted to now would be a good design and quite nice for a more mild amount of boost. The stainless steel manifolds are quite well known to crack like mine has. So I have ordered a steam pipe manifold from Kyle at 6boost. This will ensure I will not have to replace it again as they come with a lifetime warranty against cracking or defects.

Good work on getting the motor and gearbox out.

[BK]

Motor is apart totally. Whoever at Jakes performance let this engine go out like this is a bloody dropkick. Rings have bugger all tension (which would explain the engine breathing) and stock nissan main and big end bearings which have copped a hiding. Number 2 conrod bearing let go with number 3 on its way out. Conrod cap 4 and 5 were swapped around and get this, my engine mount bottom nuts were both gone ! Engine was just literally sitting in the car !

Bearing failure was not from oil supply issues at all, as they were not welded to the crank or conrod like Fabs. The car has just been absoluely hammered at a very high rpm for way too long before I bought it. Still going to address oil issues though, cause I ain't doing another rebuild on this car. Not in any hurry to get it back out drag racing, definitely be next year for the R32. I'll race the last night round in the v spec.

[Mr.Msquito]

^^^^ sucks, but i suppose you gotta expect things like that when its someone else's project first. my car is looking more mismatched than ever....... but i think it has a nice drift pig look to it i might have to get out the spray can to match some panels up lol

[fmlycar]

Nothing a bit of time can't fix cam. You've been pretty patient so far so it should go pretty well.

No racing for me this weekend as my manifold hasn't arrived yet. I'll be out on the 13th if they still run that test and tune, if not then it'll be the following bracket.

I know what it's like to find engine mounts missing bolts BK, I found mine with one missing and the other only hanging on by a couple of threads. Last tome I allow someone else to work on my car. That is the main reason my manifold cracked, the twisting of the motor caused the wastegate pipe to hit the chassis rail while the engine and exhaust was a full temp causing the pipe to crack and split wide open. $1200 later I've got my problem fixed.

[Mr.Msquito]

with a spray of satin black the front bar will look 100 times better than the other thing i had on there. not sure if i should do the doors aswel tho

[fmlycar]

lol, depends how much you really care I guess. It's not really not going to make much difference really tho

[JstPlyn]

Just hit the whole car with a can for now make it all match go for matt black or satin will look tough as

[MFP]

http://www.pfes.nt.gov.au/index.cfm?fuseac...y=2009&mo=8

Who is the 26yr old Skyline driver caught hooning last weekend?

Did they have proof or was it just a phone call from the public?

I would like to see the so called 'evidence'.