Excited.......

[Spooner]

Hey man

300kw nothing special? I just started out and had my first dyno ever yesterday. Got 122kw atw for an auto R33. If i had 220kw atw i would be giggling daily. Congratulations mate, glad you achieved your goal. Must be happy times round your place.

yeh will be happy times when I drive back to work after picking up next friday.

thx

[Spooner]

put in a gates timing belt, changed the thermostat, painted the cam gears, put clear timing belt cover on, and put in a 40mm triple core alloy radiator today. just about all set to go for the tune this friday. just waiting on injectors and z32 afm to turn up then happy days

nice way to spend 8 hours on a sunday

[Catlin]

definetely a good idea with the gates belt, where did you get the clear timing belt cover from? and how much

[1C3B3RG]

Hey Spooner, it sounds like you're building a wicked machine. You'll have to have a show and tell when it's done. I get excited everytime i read thet you've done something new to your car.

[Spooner]

definetely a good idea with the gates belt, where did you get the clear timing belt cover from? and how much

can be bought from PSIPARTS.COm for about $145. not bad considering hard to get and i think the greddy ones are around this prince for rb26

Hey Spooner, it sounds like you're building a wicked machine. You'll have to have a show and tell when it's done. I get excited everytime i read thet you've done something new to your car.

i dunno about wicked, but it should be a bit of fun. i'll def be out and about once I get it finished. of course, it will need a polish after the weeks of rain we have had before i take it too far, hahahaha. its bloody relieving to be able to drive around now without the temp creeping upto 106deg due to the dodgy old radiator and thermostat. sits at a nice 84deg now.

i will get some new pics up next weekend.

[Oblivion]

can be bought from PSIPARTS.COm for about $145. not bad considering hard to get and i think the greddy ones are around this prince for rb26

i dunno about wicked, but it should be a bit of fun. i'll def be out and about once I get it finished. of course, it will need a polish after the weeks of rain we have had before i take it too far, hahahaha. its bloody relieving to be able to drive around now without the temp creeping upto 106deg due to the dodgy old radiator and thermostat. sits at a nice 84deg now.

i will get some new pics up next weekend.

groovy man, i have an alloy rad in mine too.

keep us posted on how the tune etc goes, although i am sure you will.

Cheers

[Bunta]

I made 300rwk with the same turbo as you at 18psi, it was not safe and some timing was taken out to make a bit over 260rwkw, I think the stock exhaust manifold was an issue but if you are lucky you should make 300rwk especially if you are happy to run a bit towards the 'unsafe' side of things tune wise

[Spooner]

I made 300rwk with the same turbo as you at 18psi, it was not safe and some timing was taken out to make a bit over 260rwkw, I think the stock exhaust manifold was an issue but if you are lucky you should make 300rwk especially if you are happy to run a bit towards the 'unsafe' side of things tune wise

i would most likely be ok with being on the 'unsafe' side, as I wont be driving it all the time on whatever boost setting is used to make the most power. I have the avc-r set to 9.5psi on setting A and thats what my daily boost will be.

[Col-GTSX]

bah.... just use your right foot to control it...

[Spooner]

just wired in the z32 afm, now i just have to get to sleep so tomorrow comes quicker.

[Spooner]

well after dropping the car off this morning its not happy days just yet. a leaky exhaust manifold has put a slight holt to getting it tuned to something decent. for the time being it has been tuned on 10psi and made 215 rwkw. so i guess there is plenty to go for once the leak is sorted.

[R33S2]

Fark thats awesome power Will cant wait to see what you get on higher boost. Good luck!

[Col-GTSX]

So was it just an un-seated gasket or something worse like a broken stud???

[Spooner]

turned out just to be slight gap between turbo and exhaust manifold due to heat expansion after the original fitting. after hanging off everything in the area with 2 spanners as leverage, including the exhaust manifold nuts, its all sweet.

however is the process of taking the heat sheild off the manifold I broke the oil feed line for the turbo (turns out its a cheap peice of 'not very flexible' shit. thanks to the performance shop who sold me that, they will remain un-named. so i fitted another one i had lying around and it must have been shat aswell cos whilst out driving smoke began bellowing out form the engine bay and it had ruptured and spray painted my engine bay in oil.

I am taking the fittings, along with a quality braided flexi hose to enzed tomorrow arvo to be made up, than its back to the shop for tune time.

[Col-GTSX]

yeah get a crimped fitting made up (pirtek or enzed) and she will never come on done

[Spooner]

hose all sorted by enzed, car is goin back to shop tomorrow, tuesday, for round 2 of tuning attempt. lol. fingers crossed......

[Spooner]

took car back to shop today. they started on the dyno and one of the pipes blew off, now they cant get it to rev over 2000rpm. swapped ecu's and afm's without change. they are goin to try a different cas tomorrow and see what happens

[Oblivion]

ah man thats ghey...hope you find out what it is and get it going again.

[Spooner]

well its lookin better now. i got them to check the plugs and they were shitty bosch items, so they have been replaced with decent ones. and they took off the CAS to find it was screwed, chewed out on the inside. totally unexplainable and weird. so a new one is arriving in the morning and i should have it back tomorrow.

the dodgy CAS might explain a weird flat spot i had between 3000-5500 rpm when i had the std ecu. happy days ahead

[murrayis]

Hey mate good too read your progresss I just pasted the year mark with my build, hoping to have it all together in the next month.

I went the funny option of building a RB24 some of the mods I am doing are:

Forged Eagle Rods

Rb26 Crank + Balanced

ACL Race Series Bearings

ARP head studs

ROSS Custom 83mm pistons

Tomei 1.5mm metal head gasket 83mm

1mm Oversize valves

Tomei Solid lifters

Tomei Valve Springs

Tomei 270 9.25mm lift Cam's

Tomei Shims

HKS Cam gears

Ported and polished head

Garrett 3076R .64 rear

Hopeing for easy 300kw on low boost and around 350 - 400rwkw on high boost around the 30psi mark which i hope should be achieved with this turbo or having to change to a larger rear housing.

Anyway goodluck today with the car at the workshop!! keep us updated