Jump to content
SAU Community

My R34 Gtr Front End Stagea Build Thread

darrinspencer
 Share

Recommended Posts

darrinspencer Grand Master

darrinspencer

Posted
  • Author
Posted
hey stageatype S....i was wondering where did you end up buying your front quarter panels on your car from? because i found the masa motorsport R34 conversion, but they dont have your quarter panels.

I order them direct from Masa in Japan.

If you are in OZ, I organised copies to be made. Contact CCubed in Sydney for them, they own the moulds. Aprrox 600-650 pair

Do not buy any of the cheap copies of ebay extra

What other Masa parts have you found, as most of the other bits need are genuine R34 gtr

Since my thread has been bumped, a bit of an update

Currently working on the car every night tring to get it finished for a drag day on the 29th May

I have a list of over 20-25 items still need to be done, some alot bigger then others.

Hopefully get the final engine work done this week, modify exhaust and fmic piping next week and then on the dyno the following week.

Plus supsension and brake work as well.

No pic's, you will have to wait until it is all done

  • Replies 226
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

32godzilla
32godzilla

Damn that is sweet! You must be stoked with the result - nice to finally see the end product.

Posted Images

darrinspencer Grand Master

darrinspencer

Posted
  • Author
Posted
Will you have the FFP installed? I got my batteries yesterday and am fitting them now. Very happy I did not have to move washer bottle.

Plenum is bolted up. vac lines done. Still need to throttle body and cable and fit injectors.

A couple pic's of engine and rebuilt rear calipers went on tonight. Will do the front and bleed as well tonight

sorry crappy iphone pic's

post-14923-1273577249_thumb.jpg

post-14923-1273577365_thumb.jpg

  • 2 weeks later...
darrinspencer Grand Master

darrinspencer

Posted
  • Author
Posted

All mechanical work is know done with a couple of minor things getting finished off at the tuners. Dropped the car off last Friday after inishing at 2.30am in the morning tring to get it all done, and will be on the rollers tomorrow.

Will be picked up Wednesday arvo if all goes well.

Still have to refit the front guards, bonnet, head lights and front bar before Saturday.

Running it down the strip at Willowbank for a couple of hours to see what it can do.

Can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!

darrinspencer Grand Master

darrinspencer

Posted
  • Author
Posted
where did you end up taking it to get tuned darrin? hopefully you don't have the same boost creep problem i was having on the gcg dump.

EFI Performance

Not shaw how it will go. I had it at the exhaust shop last Wednesday for 7-8 hours getting the exhuast to fit (it was bent is 3 places) plus intercooler piping changes to suit turbo and inlet plenum.

I ended up with a HKS silent cat back which 3 inch with a canon on the rear and a large centre resinator. The problem with that is the resinator only has approx a 2 1/2 pipe thru the middle, so that may restrict it a little.

Are you free Saturday arvo?

QWK32 Veteran

QWK32

Posted
Posted (edited)
EFI Performance

Not shaw how it will go. I had it at the exhaust shop last Wednesday for 7-8 hours getting the exhuast to fit (it was bent is 3 places) plus intercooler piping changes to suit turbo and inlet plenum.

I ended up with a HKS silent cat back which 3 inch with a canon on the rear and a large centre resinator. The problem with that is the resinator only has approx a 2 1/2 pipe thru the middle, so that may restrict it a little.

Are you free Saturday arvo?

what power level are you hoping for?

i have a HKS system but the 409 not the silent, i think they are the same just one is shinny stainless. i never looked down the centre muffler, i bet its the same to :cheers: . though mine seems to flow good enough. i'm blaming the split dump for the creep, i opened up the wastegate pipe entry at the flange and it helped. still get the occasional spike. think i may mod it to be a bellmouth.

yeah i should be free, i haven't made any plans as of yet. why's that?

Edited by QWK32
darrinspencer Grand Master

darrinspencer

Posted
  • Author
Posted
what power level are you hoping for?

i have a HKS system but the 409 not the silent, i think they are the same just one is shinny stainless. i never looked down the centre muffler, i bet its the same to :D . though mine seems to flow good enough. i'm blaming the split dump for the creep, i opened up the wastegate pipe entry at the flange and it helped. still get the occasional spike. think i may mod it to be a bellmouth.

yeah i should be free, i haven't made any plans as of yet. why's that?

It has enough bolt on's to get to 300rwkw, as long as there is no issues

Will have to wait and see. Will be limited to stock head gasket, so 18-19psi

Sat arvo QLD SAU drag day. I think I get 1 free passenger entry included. My son is going, under 13 are free. Otherwise $20 to watch.

QWK32 Veteran

QWK32

Posted
Posted
The car is now running and ready to go on the dyno

Has not been run for over 7-8 months

Very excited :rofl2:

let us know how it goes mate, i'm keen to see the results. i'll let you know if i'm going to head out on saturday, i don't mind paying the spectator fee if i have to. hopefully 2 hours is enough to get a few runs in.

sheepus Enthusiast

sheepus

Posted
Posted (edited)

heres the wheels i have used on my stag, dont comment on height lol, i kno it needs to be lower, but its for sale so dont think ill bother

cx7 wheels, need massive spacers to get flush, so didnt bother

15853_179508370016_618585016_2904634_6802008_n.jpg

weds sport wheels, 17x9+18 just sit out of guards

28503_404126370016_618585016_4178075_1634909_n.jpg

28503_404126390016_618585016_4178079_6419441_n.jpg

Edited by sheepus
darrinspencer Grand Master

darrinspencer

Posted
  • Author
Posted
let us know how it goes mate, i'm keen to see the results. i'll let you know if i'm going to head out on saturday, i don't mind paying the spectator fee if i have to. hopefully 2 hours is enough to get a few runs in.

Should be picking it up this arvo if there are no issues. Not sure if I will get much work done tonight on it, State of Origin is on (Go Queensland)

Will get the full front on Thursday night, drive to it work on Friday, 75km round trip and then race Saturday. Hopefully

Put the new wheels on the other day, 19x9.5 +12 but they are B disk and they clear the r34 calpiers by about 1mm!!!

Grabbed some 3mm spacers yesterday just to be sure.

If it had r33 calipers, they would have not fitted.

darrinspencer Grand Master

darrinspencer

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Don't use crappy Chinese copy parts!!!!

The hks copy fuel rail is still leaking, now around the fuel entry

They are going to remove it from the car as it is not square on the ends and the screw in fittings are not sealling. Need to mill the end square

First few power runs were seeing over 200rwkw's at 14psi when rail was leaking.

darrinspencer Grand Master

darrinspencer

Posted
  • Author
Posted

After bagging doggy chinese stuff, I need to kick my own rear end

Due to running out of time getting the piping done, I made a very doggy BOV return line from high pressure PVC pipe to "just get the car going"

The tuner stopped due to worring about it blowing apart on the dyno.

So I will be picking up a new metal pipe from the exhuast shop tonight as well as picking up the car.

Will have to remain as is until next week when I can get it back on the dyno.

Anyway it is making 330rwhp (246rwkw) at only 15psi.

Tuner advised it was still making easy power and should get to the magic 400rwhp figure I want.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Duncan
      Mistakes were made, my R34 Story

      By Duncan 路 Posted

      That's the thing....the basics of fuel and ignition are deceptively simple.....getting it to behave like factory in all conditions after airflow mods is way more complex. Newer cars like the V37 are all about modifying the standard ECU which is about a billion times more complex than they were 20 years ago, with a bunch of parameters affecting others
    • The Bogan
      Mistakes were made, my R34 Story

      By The Bogan 路 Posted

      The larger TB I had on the SS was a pain to get to idle right, but, that was cable In the end they just raised the idle up a couple of hundred RPM so it was happy idling away either in gear or in park (slush box life) I'm curious on how my NC will idle with the new intake, larger TB, and cams that are currently going in/on, but I have faith that MX5 Mania will sort this "electronical" "black magic" out the best they can in the tune with a electronic TB Sometimes I wish I knew more about the intricacies of tuning, but most of the time I don't because I know it would hurt my brain 馃ぃ
    • Kinkstaah
      Mistakes were made, my R34 Story

      By Kinkstaah 路 Posted

      That's the thing. Cam is smaller than before.. though the old cam was +6 degrees advanced. We're talking huge changes here, the narrowbands want to trim out 20% of fuel and pull the (wideband) idle to like 16.0 AFR or such. One side is a little more trimmy than the other. Think along the lines of ~20% to ~15-18%. Unfortunately my scouring of the internet hasn't really found anyone with this issue. People either just disable NB's or have them wildly different, where one is -20% and the other is +20 or 0 (i.e a sensor is just dead/wiring is just busted). Turning them off and relying on the base map only results in the wideband reporting at about 14.0 with the Varex closed. It'd be a little leaner (closer to 14.7ish) with the Varex open. I know I can just change the switch points so that the narrowbands agree with the wideband, but it's still odd. Both of them are reading voltage, it's just that they're reading quite high mv, in the ~800 region. It's just odd. This was with the IAT fudged to report it was about ~22 degrees which is my guesstimation of the temperature in the room. I have an OEM sensor ready to try tonight, which is slow and crap - but .. worked last time I used it. Sadly I am aware that idle tuning with the big TB is going to be a PITA and I look 'forward' to many hours spent stalling or stumbling idle or delving into drivability things.
    • GTSBoy
      Mistakes were made, my R34 Story

      By GTSBoy 路 Posted

      Probably the cam.
    • Kinkstaah
      Mistakes were made, my R34 Story

      By Kinkstaah 路 Posted

      The GTR strut brace clears the new manifold.. by about 0.5mm. So this means I need to buy an OEM GTT Strut brace (again), which will clear the new manifold, but not the bonnet vents. I guess I can sell the GTR Strut brace with the bonnet with the vents as a package deal as someone will need this one day. So my choices are vented bonnet but no strut brace, or GTR Bonnet with OEM brace (which I have to buy) but is bright red instead of the same colour as the rest of the car, which means the entire front end of the car will just be red until it goes back to paint jail. In other news the engine starts and doesn't leak. Why both O2 narrowband sensors think the tune is rich AF I do not know. The idle is also pretty shitty and my expensive IAT sensor from the USA is dead. The car sounds awful. But I assume or at least hope this is due to the many exhaust leaks, and the concrete garage it is in, sitting there with 0 intake bolted to it, and no bonnet or panels or anything to stop the induction/intake sound which is about 200db.
脳
脳
  • Create New...