Gtr Turbo, Fuel, Electronic, Brake, Weight Loss, 100k Service

[Tomek]

Hows it going fellas..

Beginning tomorrow, I will be performing a whole list of mods to my car..

The car is an 93 gun metal GTR.. 92,2## kms

It is fitted with a

-3.5 cat back

-power fc (regular)

-boost tap

-what looks to be a jecs fpr

-arc pipe with bov

-excedy twin plate

Im giving myself 1 month to get the car ready, prepped and tuned.. Have 1 mate who will be there with me each step of the way and a host of mechanic/ labor/ company friends.

Within that month, I will be moving house x2, recovering from ankle re-con and training hard + work..

-2860-7 turbos, x force dumps (front pipes if the ones on it are stock)

-cooler + piping clean, new joiners and clamps

-044 fuel pump, 800cc injectors

-jjr coil packs and new iridium plugs

-AVCR

-JJR cam gears, gates belt (will let the mech do, as warranty is provided)

-100k service .. basically all fluids, water pump, bearings etc etc

-new pads and braided lines

-removal of air con and hicas + stripping more weight while keeping interior in tact

-perhaps exhaust

- +other things im yet to purchase.. catch can, oil cooler + relocater.

Will do my best to update this thread with all relevant info, pics, trouble shooting and of course questions to pick your brains..

So far the small list of handy things to have is..

-Pens, note pads, permanent marker

-Boxes and tape

-spill kits and towels to drape over quarter panels

-tire tubes

Tomorrow arvo, il begin with prepping the car for the removal process on saturday..

-Throw the car on stands,

-remove wheels, bonnet, front bar, NS head light

-drain oil, water

If anyone else has some more suggestions or any handy hints that will help/ remind me through the process please add..

oh btw.. lol.

Im quitting smoking and won't be drinking through out the entire months

^^^ meh F**k it, il quit in a month

Let the fun begin

Tomek

Edited August 28, 2008 by Tomek

[GTRsean]

Sound like you're keen to empty your wallet lol. Good luck with the project.

Have you got a workshop manual as well, they come in very handy...

[Tomek]

Hey Sean..

Have been steadily emptying my wallet for the past few months, it will stay open for another month to come

Yep, I have the PDF on file, will endeavour to get the relevant parts printed.

Tomek

Edited August 28, 2008 by Tomek

[heller44]

044 intank or surge tank setup? AFM's stock?

If you haven't removed and installed turbo's on a 26 before, I sincerely wish you all the best.

also interested in how the jjr coilpacks hold up after they've been used for a while..

[Tomek]

044 intank or surge tank setup? AFM's stock?

If you haven't removed and installed turbo's on a 26 before, I sincerely wish you all the best.

also interested in how the jjr coilpacks hold up after they've been used for a while..

In-tank and yes stock afm's, Im chasing 300-320kw so stocker's will be just fine..

Haven't done the turbo's on a 26 before but if, or shall I say when I run into trouble I have a few mates I can call who have done it..

Tomek

[rb26s13]

*puts phone on silent* and prepares the "sorry was drunk didnt hear it" excuse

[Tomek]

Called it a night after 3-4 hours. .

Car is on stands, front bar, bonnet removed.

Dropped the coolant and oil.

Pulled apart the piping to uncover the nightmare of confusion which layed beneath

Managed to get down to the heat shield's, atm having trouble with what seems the high pressure lines which travel along the side of the motor diversing to the actuators which then keep going to the end of the motor.. I've removed all the bolts but having trouble getting the lines off which are situated in between the head and the fire wall.. Therefore making it hard to get to the shields.

Will have another look tomorrow, hope im going about it the right way (top to bottom).

On a good note, won't need to replace the front pipes, as the car is fitted with HKS "competition use only" front pipes.. lol

Edited August 29, 2008 by Tomek

[heller44]

I know there is a clamp in one of those lines where it goes around the back passenger corner of the head, unsure of the other one. It looks to have a joint on a flare nut almost at the very corner of the head. The vacuum hard lines had been removed from my car before I bought it, an ebc lives under the intake filters and has short hose runs to the actuators.

How you are going about it is how I removed mine, working top down mainly. All the gear on top is the easy part, then have fun getting the water and oil feed lines that run along behind the turbos unbolted so that you can get the turbos out of the way.

Putting them back in, I disassembled all the piping and worked under the car bolting it back in, might be something to look at for removal but mine were so tight that it was just going to be nasty no matter what.

Edited August 29, 2008 by heller44

[Tomek]

I know there is a clamp in one of those lines where it goes around the back passenger corner of the head, unsure of the other one. It looks to have a joint on a flare nut almost at the very corner of the head. The vacuum hard lines had been removed from my car before I bought it, an ebc lives under the intake filters and has short hose runs to the actuators.

How you are going about it is how I removed mine, working top down mainly. All the gear on top is the easy part, then have fun getting the water and oil feed lines that run along behind the turbos unbolted so that you can get the turbos out of the way.

Putting them back in, I disassembled all the piping and worked under the car bolting it back in, might be something to look at for removal but mine were so tight that it was just going to be nasty no matter what.

From what I saw there was 2 lines clamped on between the head and firewall ...

May just need to have another good look at it and go from there..

[bigmikespec]

Ankle re-con, quitting smoking, training and working... plus working on your GTR. You are a machine!

Good luck man. Removing the air con too, let us know how you go with that.

Mike

[Tomek]

Thanks for that Mike, will let you know about the aircon..

DAY 2

So today we couldn't loosen a flare nut of one of the tubes, we used a pipe spanner correct size it would just round and destroy the nut.

We stopped and weighted up out options, in the end we decided to remove the motor and freshen it up a bit... We have all the ancilleries removed atm. Tomorrow we will then drop out the front shafts, still not 100% if we will remove the drive shaft or use the play in it to aid removal of the motor.

Ideas were brewing off a rebuilt motor, big single and ppg box but i quickly toned it down a bit before it got out of hand.

The general plan atm is...

N1 oil pump

Sump baffles

Oil gallery/ return mod (need to research this, i know sydney kid has a thread on this which will be helpful)

Decided against replacing the head gasket at this present moment.. Few people have told me that the standard gasket will be good for 18-19psi. Don't won't to blow my budget out of the water since I picked these -7 turbo's for this very reason.

Will be staying up late tonight to work out what the best route to go would be.

If anyone has suggestion's please share..

Cheers Tomek

[bigmikespec]

If anyone has suggestion's please share..

New harmonic balancer, perhaps a Ross if you don't want to go all out on an ATI? Probably not essential but at least you mind will be more at ease when you hit 8000rpm.

[Tomek]

New harmonic balancer, perhaps a Ross if you don't want to go all out on an ATI? Probably not essential but at least you mind will be more at ease when you hit 8000rpm.

Hey Mike..

This hadn't run through my mind!

[Tomek]

DAY 3

Not much happened today, Spent 4 hours trying to organise a crane from a mate with no out-come.. Made a quick phone call to another mate, had a crane in the garage 25 minutes later..

Sunday must have been somewhat a rest/ family day as no one really showed up to work.. hehe

Only work I managed to do was

-Remove the HKS front pipe

-Pointlessly removed the driver's side wheel assembly (rotor, caliper, shaft cover ... may aswell change the pads and lines over now)

Damn confusing and hard to remove the front driveshafts Need to get the theory done before I tackle the physical side again.

Next few days, I don't see myself doing much work as House removal's will be going on.

Cheers Tomek

[Tomek]

Spent a few hours on the car tonight..

Undid the 6 nuts on the passenger drive shaft, Took of both nuts on the tie rods passenger/ driver. Spent a good 20 minutes removing the split pins out of the thread

Attempted to remove the passenger drive shaft with the free play around the diff with no success, dissambeled the brake set-up with no improvement.

Ran out of time to keep working, so cut it short..

If anyone who is reading this has performed this exercise please offer me some advice

[GTRsean]

Six nuts to remove off bolts on the driveshaft to diff flange is all ou need to do.

All you need to do is separate it half an inch or so, so it clears the flange on removing engine.

I ended up removing the front diff cover to push out the rhs drive shaft.

[Tomek]

All you need to do is separate it half an inch or so, so it clears the flange on removing engine.

.. Why didn't I think of that ...

Thanks Sean

Edited September 1, 2008 by Tomek

[BoostedBarge]

Keep up the good work on this thread. I'm enjoying the reading

I used to live in Townsville (left early last year). If I was there, I would be keen to help out. I used to do sprints, too (grey GTI-R)

[Tomek]

Keep up the good work on this thread. I'm enjoying the reading

I used to live in Townsville (left early last year). If I was there, I would be keen to help out. I used to do sprints, too (grey GTI-R)

Hey man..

Sprints are fun What sort of time bracket were you running in?

The sprints and Mt stuart are the car's main focus...

Edited September 2, 2008 by Tomek

[BoostedBarge]

Hey man..

Sprints are fun What sort of time bracket were you running in?

The sprints and Mt stuart are the car's main focus...

Yeah I really miss the sprints. Great fun

I was only doing mid 46s, but my car was near stock and running on 185 street tyres. Now I've got a Stagea 260RS. I'd love to bring it up to see how it compares. Much bigger and heavier car, but seems to handle better than the old GTI-R. I think I saw your car doing Motorkhana, too. My brother-in-law, Jaimen, owns an old black (now half black, half orange) Toyota T18 (previously owned by my brother).