My R33 Gtst

[DamageInc]

Hay!

Im Mitch , and i dont own a chaser.

this is my Nissan Skyline R33 GTS-T S1 M-Spec

Modifications.

Engine:

*rb26dett conversion

*rb26 sump with transfer case sliced off

*rb25 engine mounts

*rb25 Harmonic balancer

*HKS Intercooler

*HKS Pod filters

*Blitz 80mm stainless steel tuned front pipes

*Signal stainless steel straight through with carbon muffler

*Splitfire coil packs

*Toda Racing clutch

*Toda Racing 4.5kg Flywheel

*Cusco 2 way mech diff

*Iridium spark plugs

*R33 GTR fuel pump

Suspension and Braking:

*Selby rear 28mm sway bar

*Racing Gear coilovers

*D1 rear camber arms

*D1 hicas lock bar

*D1 adj castor rods

*Cusco front tension rod

*Solid rear sub frame bushes

*Project mu slotted front rotors

*TRW pads all round

*Nismo front strut brace with brake stopper

*GTR rear strut brace

Bodywork:

*Full body respray

*Satin Black bonnet and wing

*Sparco bonnet pins

*Nardi steering wheel

*Trust/GreX gear knob

*Sparco Spirnt drivers seat with Bride super low rail

*GReddy Profec B Spec II boost controller

*GReddy turbo timer

*GTR centre gauges

*GReddy boost gauge

Oils I Use & Recommend

*Castrol Edge 5w30

*Redline shock proof diff oil

*Redline shock proof gearbox oil

*Redline powersteering fluid

*MOTUL 600R brake fluid

A Week After It Getting Dyno'd The Motor, It Spun a Bearing Which Sucked

So Let It Sit For a Couple Months And Then Thought , Screw It, I'm Ripping This Engine Out

So The Stripping Begins

Started By Taking Turbo Piping Out

in between not having an income or anything to do i decided to do some minor shit on the car

started by removing some crap out of the boot and painted it all black

next was the rad support , it got a bit bent getting the rb26dett out so i hammered it back into shape as best as i could and then thought stuff it , and took off the jdm concept and cusco sticker to obtain a neater look

got the stickers off and lightly sanded the rad back a bit to remove marks and touched it up with some more gloss black

after selling all my GTR parts and winning $1k at the casino i bought a new motor , decided to get one off SAU as it was cheap and had new gaskets all through it

then i found this haha

went and hit up nissan from some overnight parts from japan (Not really overnight , they were in stock )

bolted everything onto it and it started looking complete!

then went out and bought all the stuff i was in need of

also decided to splash out a couple hundred and get a good front pipe as my GTR one was useless to me with a 25det

after i got all this and took note of the engine diagrams i had i realised i was missing a

tensioner pulley and an idler pulley , not to mention a water pump pulley !

so, dropped it all in

after alot of messing around i finally got the gearbox to line up nice and snug !

after a lot of messing around in to the early hours of the night hooking up remaining hoses such as breathers on the turbo

and replacing the throttle cable, which required removing my sparco seat and getting my mate to crawl under the dash to do so haha!

hooked up a stock side-mount for the time being as i cant afford piping

for my HKS core and i just need to get it running.

also bought a HKS sus power air filter panel for better induction but i think im just gonna run a pod for now.

here are some more pics

was heaps fun pushing it onto a car trailer at 8am in the morning!

continues on next post

[Granthem]

back to a 25....

[DamageInc]

winch was useless haha

and finally , its in (thats what she said)

i like the look of it from the back

after the car being in the workshop for a week i decided to wonder down there as i hadnt heard anything from them..

came to find out they got broken into and my car had stuff missing...

i started freaking out because i wasnt allowed to inspect my car as the police hadnt arrived to fingerprint the scene etc etc...

i had to come back the next day, what a frigging painful 24 hours that was!

anyways went down there the next day , opened my door on the car and was confronted with this...

missing: JVC fold out tv & greddy profec bspec 2 ebc.

NOT HAPPY

and to add to the frustration its not covered by the workshops insurance (already went through all the legal bullshit and i decided to give up)

so now im out of pocket close to $2k including a new dash surround...

and then i find out my rb25det has a blown piston and bent valves!

im sick of the car , all i want to do is skid it already!

so, the workshop told me the engine has bent valves and a blown piston.

this didn't sound right to me as the engine i bought was low km and had new gaskets all round and had the head cleaned up.

so i decided to pull the head off so that i know for certain.

anyways i got the head off and there seems to be no visible bent valves what so ever. after having my 26 head that had bent valves i have an idea on what to look for and i also had an apprentice mechanic mate have a look over it and he said that they don't seem bent. next step is taking it to an engine builder and getting it vacuum tested and going from there.

just from pulling it apart you can see how clean the head is.

turns out they were wrong, they put the bolt into the cam pulley too tight and didnt put a spring behind it making the cam not turn at all, and well what do you know , cylinder 3 is OPEN like a homeless shelter on Christmas day...

got my mechanic to look over it aswell and he did a test on it and there arent bent valves...

fkd if i know what that workshop were doing but clearly they were wrong.

started cleaning the head up where the old gasket was and also started cleaning the valves up .

finished the cylinder head off!

bought new cam shaft oil seals from Nissan as they were missing, re lubed camshafts as one was seized up.

so , i was browsing some forums just sussing parts for my car and i came across this

series 2 r33 gtst auto

was in Victoria but i didnt care , was going down there for the grandfinal anyways!

turns out it was 1 street over from my cousins and his mrs knows of the owner and said that he

always respected his cars and always was maintaining them.

spoke to the kid who owned it and he was a champ

had a good look over the car and worked out whether it would be viable or not , decided i wanted it so i paid him a deposit!

went back down the following weekend as i had a 50th birthday to go to , picked it up on the Sunday and towed it to my cousins place

[DamageInc]

and surprisingly my parents don't care about me having another skyline in the driveway haha , i think its cause they know this is the last of the troubles !

so , i decided to drive down there with my dad and a car trailer to pick it up

but this plan failed epicly

i cant be stuffed re-writing it so here is a direct copy paste from my facebook from when it happened !

what a shit past 24 hours ive had !

set off from home yesterday morning at 7am to get a car trailer to go to vic to pick up my white R33,
we got to stirling and there was smoke coming out from under the car, looked to be coming from where the headers join the exhaust so i assumed it had blown an exhaust gasket..

continued up the highway towards tailem bend and it was still smoking but was driving fine, pulled up for some lunch and continued driving.
got to coomandook and jacked the car up in a way side stop , checked the tranmission out and it was roasting. let it cool down for a bit and kept going after checking all the lines to it
ended up getting 10km out of kiki and the car gave up, needed transmission fluid bad!
i remembered when passing kiki there was a garage there so we started the 10km hike back there to see if they had fluid, got there, garage was shut !
luckily a women that lived next to it offered us a lift to the next town which was yumali.

got there and bought 2x 1L ATF top up bottles , the women that gave us a ride told the store owner what had happened and he ended up giving us a lift back to our car thankfully !

got back and started jacking the car up , took one of the lines off for the trans and started bleeding in the ATF, took for ever to do but we got about a good 1 or 2 L in to it , went to try it and nothing
car still wouldnt even move!

let it sit for a good 30 mins and it started to move along so we crept along the highway towards coonalpyn, got into coonalpyn about 4pm and found a mechanics that was open but he couldnt help us,
all he said he could do is sell us some fluid.
ended up buying a 4L bottle of ATF and then bleeded most of it into the trans. didn't do much , got the car moving once again and decided to head back towards adelaide!

ended up getting about 10km out again and bam , nothing at all.
by this time it was 8:40pm , we thought there's no way we can sleep here and there's no way we can get home so we walked back to coonalpyn.
got back there at about 9:40pm and went into the pub , spoke to some of the locals and ended up getting towed back into the town.
at this point we hadn't eaten since breakfast and had pushed the car pretty much 5km with a big car trailer on the back of it , i was f**ked and couldn't give a shit , i needed sleep!
ended up getting a room at the coonalpyn pub and all the bloke wanted for dragging the car into town was a scooner so i bought him a couple of rounds.
decided to hit the hay and work out the car tomorrow.

woke up at 9am and packed our stuff to go back to the car, thought oh yeah might aswell see if the thing will move but nope wouldn't move,
by this stage id spent roughly $80 on fluid and $80 on getting a room , not to mention trailer hire and fuel costs.

my mum ended up calling so i got her to check my netbank to see how much i had left , had about $300 which was good to hear , rang a tow truck company in tailem bend and they said $500 to get back to my house with the trailer,
i said yep great let me get $200 together and ill call you back, my dad rang his sister in melbourne and she transferred $200 into his account and rang the tow truck, after about 1 hour he showed up, boy was i glad to see him !
loaded the car up and hooked the trailer on the back and started the journey back to adelaide, at this point i was tired, sore, sunburnt and broke , i really couldnt give a shit what had to be done , just take me home!
ended up getting back home about 1 hour ago

f**k im glad im home now , im wrecked , not just physically :(

oh and our phones are disconnected so we couldn't make calls !

all of this head f**k to get my other car

FML !

anyways , got the car put on the back of a truck cheap cheap and it got delivered to my door, was so happy

anyways , took the block out of my car to get ready to drop a new motor in , again!

couldnt notice how it was sittin at the rear haha

BAWLAA

got a couple of mates over to give me a hand to rip the wreck apart

but this resulted in some suprise buttseckz

finally , ready to come out!!

me doing angry face while jacking engine crane

finally got it out and decided to go buy all the stuff i needed for it !

Motul engine oil

Gearbox Oil (got the wrong stuff so went to my sponser and got hooked up with some ulx110)

OEM Clutch Bolts

OEM Scopot Bush

KTS Strengthened Pivot Ball

OEM Thrust/Throw Out Bearing

also picked up some power steering fluid the other day aswell

got a mate to machine my flywheel and clean my clutch up a bit

this is how we align clutches!

and here it is going in

all bolted in now

all i have left to do is bolt up my front pipe , put some oil in the engine and box , hook up the power steering reservoir, put the radiator in , mix up some coolant

then turn the key

all comments welcome

[DamageInc]

and now its running!

more soon

[DamageInc]

back to a 25....

yep

plans are

remap ecu

z32 afm

nismo 555cc injectors

nismo fpr

garrett gt3076r .82 rear internal gate

[Benzino33]

Talk about drama!

thats some story, glad to see your car's running again though..

the things we'll do for what we love

[dark.sky]

and now its running!

more soon

Good work Mitch, youve earned it!

[DamageInc]

Talk about drama!

thats some story, glad to see your car's running again though..

the things we'll do for what we love

ill be glad when im on the street once again , for now im psyched its running but still sad that i cant drive it

hello trade plate weekend!

Good work Mitch, youve earned it!

Thanks Dion!

what you doing this weekend?

i should have a trade plate for the car and im keen to get out for some pictures+ cruise with some of the boys!

[Luciano]

back in action mate, well done

you have got some real patience Mitch! I would've lost my shit a long time ago if this were my situation

the things we'll do for what we love

qft!

[CRoNic...]

Crazy adventure!

[TALBO]

Great stuff Mitch. Good to see you got it out 'n in so to speak

[Damo_R34]

lol, usally build threads result in +150-200kw's. good to hear it isnt broken anymore

[MegaGTS4]

Cool but now u'll have to sell the plates

[DamageInc]

Cool but now u'll have to sell the plates

keeping them for a rainy day

just gonna run standards for now obviously

////update

got the car running all fine tonight , was wondering why there was smoke coming from the front pipe , then me n my mate realized it was a brand new pipe so the paint is burning in still.

took it for a test run up the street , blew a cooler pipe off under load ,fixed that , checked over it multiple times and its all running fine now

so happy !

[TALBO]

Great news

[s13-steve]

very tough!

[DamageInc]

Great news

very tough!

cheers Steve's

[Weezy]

Hills burn soon brother

[DamageInc]

cant wait