Pic Of The Stock Cooler Pipes In The Engine Bay Of R32

[ryan101]

I'm trying to re do my cooler pipes and I just need to see wat the stock cooler piping looks like! I'm just after a close up pic next to the airbox

cheers

[ryan101]

Anyone

[Sean'O]

Here ya go bud, this is for an RB26DETT, hope this helps you out...

[ryan101]

Does a lil bit, still would like a close up photo tho

[Sean'O]

Hey bud,

I might be able to help you with that as my front bar is currently off, what exactly do you want a picture of? birds eye view of the air box + pipes, picture from the front??

I'm stepping out for a few hours but if you let me know what you're after I can take a few pictures for ya when I get back

[ryan101]

Hey yeh a pic of the air box area would be great! And a pic of the stock cooler would b good to!!

[Spurdo]

Hey bud,

I might be able to help you with that as my front bar is currently off, what exactly do you want a picture of? birds eye view of the air box + pipes, picture from the front??

I'm stepping out for a few hours but if you let me know what you're after I can take a few pictures for ya when I get back

hey dude while your at it im after a visual on the same area while u have your bumper off if you can manage it? im looking at putting a gtr intercooler into my gts-t (r32). a) where are the stock intercooler mounts located exactly? b) are they detachable or are they permanently fixed to the frame in the gtr?

if possible i would like to use original gtr intercooler mounts with the gtr cooler, so it is positioned just like a factory one.

if you could post a picture of the mounts that would be awesome!

Edited June 19, 2010 by jonboy

[Sean'O]

Hey lads,

Sorry for getting back to ya so late in the evening, had a very busy weekend. Hopefully these pics will show everything you guys wanted to know

In terms of mounting the cooler, from what I could see there are two brackets either side of the cooler which are removable and there is a bolt that connects onto the bottom of the radiator dead center

Cheers,

Sean

[Spurdo]

hey sean'o thanks for that, much appreciated. so it looks like i need that whole black thing that the bottom center screw goes into as well.

one more question. what diameter is the piping for the rb26? in the 2wd r32's the piping is 2.5" (63mm) but i found a gtr intercooler and they say the outlets are 80mm (3") which would present another small hurdle for me. are you able to confirm this??

[Spurdo]

ryan, i obtained a pdf of the engine manual and took this screen shot for u. its the same page as the one sean'o posted above but a bit easier to read and make sense of. if you or anyone else wants the manual in pdf just let me know

Edited June 20, 2010 by jonboy

[ryan101]

sorry i should have been more clear i was after a pic of r32 gtst cooler piping, sorry

[Sean'O]

hey sean'o thanks for that, much appreciated. so it looks like i need that whole black thing that the bottom center screw goes into as well.

one more question. what diameter is the piping for the rb26? in the 2wd r32's the piping is 2.5" (63mm) but i found a gtr intercooler and they say the outlets are 80mm (3") which would present another small hurdle for me. are you able to confirm this??

Yep correct mate, that's the blow-by piping that returns air coming out of the blow off valves back to the intake of the turbo's, it's called the "recirculation tube" according to the manual.

I'll have a squizz at the cooler when I get home from work but I think your logic is right, it's probably around 3" diameter

Perhaps some of the other RB26 lads can jump in before I get home and clarify this one

Cheers,

Sean

[(OO)SKYLINE(OO)]

Sean'O!

Your FMIC is in need of paint stripping, looks like someone just half ass'd the black spray paint

Paint strip it back and get the bare metal going and would looks nice.

[Sean'O]

Sean'O!

Your FMIC is in need of paint stripping, looks like someone just half ass'd the black spray paint

Paint strip it back and get the bare metal going and would looks nice.

ha ha, now that you mention it it's really obvious, never noticed that before .......I've still got some stripper left over from my plenum so I might do it this weekend

Have you striped your FMIC?

The white paint behind the front bar is also um...questionable ha ha, don't think the guy even took the front bar off when it was sprayed...and then he also couldn't be stuffed masking it properly *face palm*

[(OO)SKYLINE(OO)]

ha ha, now that you mention it it's really obvious, never noticed that before .......I've still got some stripper left over from my plenum so I might do it this weekend

Have you striped your FMIC?

The white paint behind the front bar is also um...questionable ha ha, don't think the guy even took the front bar off when it was sprayed...and then he also couldn't be stuffed masking it properly *face palm*

Yeah man!

Took the front bar off and stripped the front and sides of the Intercooler and looks nice.

BTW your Air Resonator looks detached from the Air Intake...

If it is, you might as well take it off to save you some weight (well not that it weights all that much anyway).

[gotRICE?]

wow the recirc tube is lol! Keen for more pics of how the bov's are set up

Thread steal..

[Sean'O]

I'll take some BOV pics tonight for ya

[Spurdo]

sorry i should have been more clear i was after a pic of r32 gtst cooler piping, sorry

hey this might give you some idea, its how my engine bay looked a few years ago. its obviously missing the factory airbox but that makes the piping a bit more visible anyway. because theres other crap obstructing the view i drew lines along the route of the pipes so u wont mistake them, red is indicating the airflow from turbo to the intercooler and blue for the airflow coming from the intercooler heading towards the intake manifold. is that what your after?

[ryan101]

hey, jonbov

thats the one i want, i just don't see how both pipes fit in the one hole?

[Spurdo]

lol they dont go down the same one. there's 2 holes there. one for each pipe, one right beside the other. at the bottom-most part of those pipes that you can see in the picture they run directly down from there straight through two holes and then they bend off to either side of the intercooler directly below.

are you converting a non-turbo R32 to turbo or something?