Damo's R32 Gts-r, On Going Project Fun Car. History And Use Full Info

[richzx]

your name is Richard. you cant get much more gay than that...... ive tried...... and you just cant.

Have you looked in the mirror? Obviously you haven't tried that or you wouldn't have said that^^^^!

[DJRIFT]

sweet thred mate, good build aswell.. but dude time for a good turbo!! lol

thanks mate.

lets see what the Tax man brings. maybe a new turbo.

[DJRIFT]

small update. im not sure what the end result will be but at the moment the head is off and stripped down. being a 25de head i cant just buy off the shelf valve springs so i have to remove the stocker and measure them up compared to others.

and ive started restoring some new old rims for my 4 door. should give it the old school look im after with it.

[Roy]

RB20 valve springs are the way to go. I have a set of Tomei solid lifters and springs for the RB20, it all bolts into the RB25 DE head. So if the RB25 sux will be easy to put into an RB30 (heaven forbid ) Well at least thats what i read on the internetz so it cant be wrong

[sav man]

the solid lifter kit is bloody deer isn't it?

[Roy]

Sometimes, i have bought two sets...as they come up sometimes realy cheap. I paid very litle for new Tomei 2.4L pistons, springs and solid lifters. The second set of RB20 solid Tomei lifters i got with my cheap ass Tomei cams. Nobody wants or can get good money for RB20 gear so can get the stuff cheap

[DJRIFT]

Sometimes, i have bought two sets...as they come up sometimes realy cheap. I paid very litle for new Tomei 2.4L pistons, springs and solid lifters. The second set of RB20 solid Tomei lifters i got with my cheap ass Tomei cams. Nobody wants or can get good money for RB20 gear so can get the stuff cheap

whats that. your shipping ma some free lifters and cams?

i had a think about it yesterday and wondered why all the 25/30 crew hadent had thid issue then i remembered reading in the rb25/30 how to guide about putting somthing other then stock in. will have to re read it.

i did however mention that fact to my engine builder at the time and he said not to funk with it so i didnt. anyway im pretty sure were on the right path now so its just a matter of getting what i need and slapping it back together.

[DJRIFT]

its been a busy week. Ben and i got all of the body wiring done on his car. and a big start on the ABS wiring.

i dragged the new 4 door in for what was ment to be just a lowering job. the aim with this new car is just to be a streeter and to only utilize parts that we have laying around or that are avalible vai horse trade.

lowering went. found climb gear struts in the front. put kings super lows in the front. way to low. 320mm ride. then pedders in the back. way to high. "modified" the rears. then it sat ok. 335ish. then stripped a pair or Tanabe GTR shocks and used the shoter than stock springs in the front. 340mm but still a bit high and probably way to heavy on the spring rate.

the aftermath of lowering stage 1

then thought id fit up a new cat. removed old one and wondered why the exhaust bracket didnt conect to the gearbox like usual. found that it is most likely a r33 exhaust bracket. cracked the shits and tried to find a r32 one in all of our spares. couldnt find one so went onto biger things.

also found at the above point that the turbo was hanging on by 2 loose nuts. (should have just tightened them) decided to remove the turbo. broke the 2 coolant banjo fitting as they were old and coroded. pulled the exhaust manifold off to expose the 4 broken exhaust manifold studs.

removed them tonight and got got the r33 turbo ready to go on.

oh and fitted the 2nd pair of rims for the 4 door. 17x 9.5 work equips. the guards need a slight roll .

they need a clean up like the other 2 but that will come later.

oh and i spent most of last night playing around with the head off the race car. measuring all sorts of things to try and solve our problem. My Tuner has been grate with my head float problem and has been sending me MMS's of the kind to rectify "head" issues. but on a serious note i had a set of tomei springs lent to me to test with a bunch of others and the option was to go for some genuine nissan ones slightly modified as it cost a quarter of the price of the tomei's. one thing we learnt thoe was the tomei stuff has excelent heat caracteristics.

parts have been ordered for the head and i supose it should be back together within a week.

[Roy]

If you are serious then i think we can come up with something regarding the second set of solid lifters that i have. The cams that come with them are mysetery Tomeis. I am hoping they are 260/10.25, but all i know is that they are 10.25mm lift....no idea of duration. If the duration is too big for the lil 20 then i will be getting rid of them. All your id you are interested. Looking at the pictures I am expecting they will need a linish as they look to have been left in the open and have some evidence of surface rust...thogh hard to tell in poor quality pics. I alslo have some RB26 titanium retainers, have no idea if they work with the RB20 valve and springs.

If you find the RB25DE springs are the same as the RB20DET, then they are also the same as VG30DETT and you can get sets of those real cheap out of the US

[DJRIFT]

If you are serious then i think we can come up with something regarding the second set of solid lifters that i have. The cams that come with them are mysetery Tomeis. I am hoping they are 260/10.25, but all i know is that they are 10.25mm lift....no idea of duration. If the duration is too big for the lil 20 then i will be getting rid of them. All your id you are interested. Looking at the pictures I am expecting they will need a linish as they look to have been left in the open and have some evidence of surface rust...thogh hard to tell in poor quality pics. I alslo have some RB26 titanium retainers, have no idea if they work with the RB20 valve and springs.

If you find the RB25DE springs are the same as the RB20DET, then they are also the same as VG30DETT and you can get sets of those real cheap out of the US

yea right well i went for nissan ones and theya re already here. the springs are the same id and od as even the rb25det ones so i just got some of them as they were the right spec for what i wanted.

thanks for the offer. benny might take you up on that as hes the one with all the Jue gold.

[r33_racer]

Dude, sweet build! Love all the DIY stuff. It will be interesting to see how those suspension mods pan out when you get around to actually using that modified subframe.

[sav man]

If you are serious then i think we can come up with something regarding the second set of solid lifters that i have. The cams that come with them are mysetery Tomeis. I am hoping they are 260/10.25, but all i know is that they are 10.25mm lift....no idea of duration. If the duration is too big for the lil 20 then i will be getting rid of them. All your id you are interested. Looking at the pictures I am expecting they will need a linish as they look to have been left in the open and have some evidence of surface rust...thogh hard to tell in poor quality pics. I alslo have some RB26 titanium retainers, have no idea if they work with the RB20 valve and springs.

If you find the RB25DE springs are the same as the RB20DET, then they are also the same as VG30DETT and you can get sets of those real cheap out of the US

will the lifters work with any solid lifter style cam? do they need machining to go in?

[Roy]

What are you askign me for? I need to see if my inley will botl up to the NEO head, if so i will use R34 GTT cams, (possibly looking at HKS V-Cam cams pr cutoms) otherwise will jus go Tomei 260/10.25 cams. I belive these drop in and work with the std valves, only thing is the high lify cams may need relieving against the std head.

But wont know until its all done...i am thinking Bullet in SA will be the go for the headwork, but just so hard to trust someone...everyone is an expoert and offers different porting advice.

[DJRIFT]

Another twist in my Fun car project. its now been locked away in storage for the next 6 months or so. im a bit over it and i need to actualy save some big cash to spend on this and have a bit of a think about what i want to do with it. 100% drifter or still a 50/50 drifter/track.

anyway before we parked it up we robbed some parts off it for the current project.

im tidying up a mates Pig drift 32. hes the 3rd owner and its been drifted for about 4 years with little maintinace. i does now sport a built engine with 3076R.

If we get it running 100% in the next few weeks ill be having a drive of it at the sep 11 drift event.

the first thing we robbed was the diff. the Pig as ill call it has had a whining diff for about 4 years so you can imagine what it soulds like now. while mines in there we will get the other rebuilt and put it in at a later date.

its a bit dirty at the moment but it does have a nice set of Meisters. the rears currently wont fit under the guards.

and to wrap up last weeks shed time i got the 4 door finished. new ex manifold studs and gasket.

i painted all the heat sheilds so it looks a bit nicer under the bonnet

and sofar ive got one rim outer polished and inner sanded ready for paint. i just need about 3 hours to polish the second one haha.

Edited August 2, 2010 by DJRIFT

[DJRIFT]

so its been 3 weeks since my last update. ive had a stack of things on but its all for the better.

the head for the fun car is ready to be picked up and can be added to a pile of new bits to fit to the drift car once work comences.

my new 4 door 32 was always just ment to be daily but i cant help a bit of mild modding. but mainly just to tidy it up and make it a pleasure to drive.

i brought a centre muffler off a HKS super dragger exhaust as the system on the 4door only had one muffler and at crusing speeds tends to drone. suprisingly its made a huge difference to the sound level of the car but doent sacrefice the crisp RB note higher in the rev range. i brought a used jap branded muffler because i have used mufflers of old systems in the past on friends cars after they had had AUS spec mufflers fitted and found no difference in sound. you just can beat them for quality.

i needed to fix the boot light so apon inspection i found that the old light asembly was broken and to remove it required removing the parcel shelf that had been custom made by a previous owner. it was covered in some crap fabric. it had some nice MTX audo splits with the cross overs mounted on it. i decided this was a bit to "showy" for me so i re-trimed the parcel shelf in black vynal to try and match the dash and other trims and just mounted the speaker back on it. the cross overs will be mounted somewhere elce.

to get the parcel shelf out i had to remove the rear seats which due to our spare parts stock i had fitted GTR rear seats. they are somthing id always wanted in a 4door and people always comment about the bucket style of them. one thing i learnt in doing the swap was thet the rear seat belt buckles needed to be longer so a quick trip to out GTR wrecking mate and i had that sorted. you can see the difference in the length.

while i was shopping for the muffler i got offered an ARC side mount for my 4door. im not planning to mod this car far and the stock side mount would probably do the trick but this was cheap and it has an ARC badge so why not.

in between other jobs ive been slowly prepping up the front rims for pain. i sand blasted the inner parts of the wheels then after finding the to be pretty averearge, scratches ect, i decided to pain the inners matte black.

the centers were then given a few coats on the nut holes and hard to paint bits so the finished coat on the face will be over spray free. i find rims to be a bit of a pain in the ass in this respect. then i sat one together to get me motivated to finish them.

i realy liked the contrast between the Gloss and Matte black so we did this for lols. a look that i think will be aplied to the drift car. Arrrg when do the ideas stop.

after my hectic shock and spring modding i was left with un-known spring off tanabe shocks out of a GTR sitting on climb gear shocks in the front and stock shocks with modded pedders springs in the rear. the ride was firm but nice in the front but horible in the rear so lashed out and brought these. 6 month old billies and whiteling springs. the rears are grate but the fronts are to soft for my liking so ill be playing around with springs to find the right setup in the near future.

And to wrap up the Pig got tuned after finding more dodgy stuff. a fuel pump issues arose on the dyno so i checked it out and did a quick power modd to it. in the process i found why the fuel pump was loosing power/ fuel pressure. an imoboliser sytem had been fitted and they had tapped into the fuel pump causing a massive resistance in the circuit. this car had had a few fuel pumps instaled in it over the last few years as no on had diognosed what the actual problem was. its now repping 266rwkw on 19psi and the power comes on like a light switch.

it come back friday to have some more bits finished off which included a bolt in harness bar to add to the bolt in jap bendy cage.

a few more small details and it will be good to go.

[richzx]

Lot of work done Damo!!! I think I need some thing with an ARC badge as well. Nice pick up on the Bilsteins, they ride so well and are well worth the extra cash you pay for them I think. I probably think this because my car has some as well and I want to be a Bilstein fan boy.

[DJRIFT]

Lot of work done Damo!!! I think I need some thing with an ARC badge as well. Nice pick up on the Bilsteins, they ride so well and are well worth the extra cash you pay for them I think. I probably think this because my car has some as well and I want to be a Bilstein fan boy.

yea the bilsteins are grate. i ended up putting the springs i got out of bens GTR in the front. the ride is super.

on the 4 door hectic daily i have added a very JDM centre console lid.

so now when im fealing super American and i get my 3 super sized cheese burgers i can fit all the ddrinks in. on a plus nite the top sits at the same level as the arm rest on the door so it feals like im in a sporty arm chair. 2 thumbs up for this mod. haha

after weeks of tinkering the Pig 32 is ready to roll. as usual while doing some matenance, replacing turbo to manifold gasket, we found some split and burnt water and oil feeds. so an expensive trip to enzed and some time later and everything is nice and in braid.

and a mate welded up the drain pipe designed to get all the fittings of the drain pipe away from anything super hot.

and we made a tuff spec front bar out of one of our spares. first some pro repairs.

lip added

big mouth cut

finished product

[jangles]

looks waaaaay better

[XRATED]

Awsome....

I want those rims!!!

[paulR32gtr]

Here here rims are smoking - nice work