Bottem End Rebuild Please Help!

[roniboi]

Hi guys

Just had a phone call about my r32 gtr and it's not good news

it has come back no good on the leak down test and I've been told the rings are passing oil which explains the smoke anyway Im just woundering wat the bottom end rebuild will invole part wise and cost wise ?????

Also wanna know if their is anything esle that I should do to the engine while in the state of no play e.g replace anything important while I'm their ?? Some told me to rebuild the whole engine but as we all know money don't grow in trees

Also compression test wasn't to bad at all

please help me out guys

Cheers

[Moodles2]

I would use this opportunity to put a set of forged pistons in, and while it's open put a oil sump baffle in and change the head restrictors.

[shaund]

You have a few options and it depends where you want to take the car power wise.

1. look for a low genuine km half cut and do an engine transplant, swap any goodies/better parts over and sell the rest. - make sure this is tested by an independent company as a condition of purchase - you'll have to pay for the test.

A good half cut can be had for $10-11k, and there are a lot of parts you can sell and recover a reasonable amount of $ from. You'll probably get a few extras like boost controller, turbo timer, cams, turbos perhaps, but I'd be looking for something thats had no mods done at all, or very few.

I got a 94 GTR half cut for $11k from a guy called Ken James. I had STZ in Brisbane test it and it came up great. Cost about $500 to ship to Perth by road. I got the entire car as far as mechanicals go all the way to the rear wheel hubs. Only thing that was missing from the car was bodywork from the gearbox's rear yoke rearwards, doors windscreen, roof and seats. I ended up using most of the stuff inc the rear cradle, diff, wheel hubs gearbox, etc as it was better than mine. It also had a few extras like some atmo BOVs, ecu, and some other bits and pieces.

You can do most of the work with stripping and preparing the bits from the half cut yourself if you've got say a double *garage* to do the work in and an engine crane. Then you're just up for about $500-1000 in labour for an engine swap.

2. Rebuild

2a. Bare minimum build - just fix whats wrong. If its only rings, it'll be cheap, but also do bearings - they are cheap. Your engine builder can advise

2b. Better build - As suggested already, forged pistons etc. Limited only by your budget. Go speak to a reputable engine builder, outline your budget.

Go somewhere reputable for any work you do - kinda goes without saying really. This generally means some where that does this day in day out and is familiar with high performance turbo engines, preferably the RB26.

Good luck... its not as dim a situation as it may seem. Save some $ and do it right if you can afford the time.