rb25det s13 conversion help, finishing touches

[dabigbolf]

hey,

everything is pretty much sorted. cooler piping, tailshaft, gearbox mount, bonnet shutting, rad, etc.

But am just a little unsure on a couple of pretty simple things.

1. have had the plenum refaced, with the throttle body at the front now. However throttle cable doesn't reach. Can it be extended, or do i have to get say a bigger Vl, r32, r33, or other cable.

2. Am not running a bov, so can i just get the rubber hoses which go the bov blocked off at the plenum. The black metal piping which leads to the bov on the turbo side have been taken care of.

3. With the new cooler piping there no place to plug in the vacume line for the wastegate. Can i just extend the line and get the reading off any part of the plenum, or is getting it off the cooler piping on the turbo side essential.

4. for the boost gauge reading, does that just get it off the plenum also.

5. for the vacume lines which go to the throttle body, now that at its at the front, is just getting a bigger line ok, will it effect the throttle body opening, and operating the way it should.

6. whats the best way to drain the fuel tank?

any help much appreciated. i will post some pics as soon as i can get a hold of a digi camera.

thanks again

[meggala]

3. With the new cooler piping there no place to plug in the vacume line for the wastegate. Can i just extend the line and get the reading off any part of the plenum, or is getting it off the cooler piping on the turbo side essential

jsut puta nipple in the cooler pipingand run the line from there

you might need a custom throttle cable

ps I want a ride when its done

boost gauge jsut off the plenum

[dabigbolf]

hehe,

so do i.

how hard is it to put a nipple in the piping?

[sidewaymambo]

Get a S14 throttle cable, as it has been use those people use Greddy's plenum.

3 & 4 can connect from plenum.

[dabigbolf]

coool. will look into that one.

might be hard to find a s14 one. not that meany crashed ones around.

[sidewaymambo]

get from jap wacker/ or a new from nissan..

[dabigbolf]

also run into another problem.

power steering setup. The silvia has some some speed sensative unit. and theres 4 lines coming off that, yet theres only 2 spots on the rack.

And putting in new lines mite not be viable cost wise at this stage.

Just wonderding whether i could take out the power steering lines, pump, put fluid in the power steering rack, so it doesn't run dry, and block off the outlets and inlets, so no fluid can go in or out.

only worry would be whether the rack will suffer, or turning will be come impossible.

Anyone know what the go is.

Is it safe to do? or should i run new lines, but then if i bypass the speed sensative unit, it could cause problems up at high speeds, pretty tight for room with this one. and i got lines going everywhere.

thoughts on this please.

oh and i got the tank drained, hooked up old fuel pump ran it off a battery and pumped the old fuel out through some hose. worked well.

[Cool Hand Luke]

Hey what mods have you got done? A mate of mine has a 180 with a nice RB25 that made 260 or 270rwkw... 100km/h wheelspins

[Steve]

GTiR throttle cable fits on R33 with front facing plenum. I have been told you can get the stock cable modified as well.

Two spots on the steering rack? why not use an R33 steering pump? I think the R32 have like a dual pump with two lines for the rear hicas, and two for the front steering. If your pump has 4 outlets, do 2 of them run from a seperate resevoir? Sorry I dont have much of an idea what is exactly wrong with the power steer - but interested to hear what the problem/solution and outcome are?

Cheers

[strutto]

Marine shops are good for custom cables as they make them all the time as steering and throttle cables for outboard motors....

HTH

[dabigbolf]

thanks will look at all the options for that now

just relocating fuse box, to give a bit mroe room at the moment.

[S13 Silvia]

I've probly already asked this on another forum but how did you go about solving your engine height problems? or did you have any engine height problems?