Ant's Rb26/30 A31 Ceffy

[johnbarry88]

Bought the ceffy bout 8 months ago for a decent price just something to drive to work and back in. Then my partner bought a new mazda 3 and I aquired her lancer.. So we took the car back to Hervey Bay (thats where im from) and it sat in the shed and ran out of rego. Though to myself in this time I could put a car together and still be able to get to work and back. So the old rb25 came out of the ceffy and the 26/30 built started. Picked up a rebuilt rb30 off a mate here in brissy and then it all started. Sourced a rb26 head had it reco'd, light port and a set of tomei 270deg 10.25mm lift cams and tomei buckets/springs fitted also went for a single throttle setup for something different. Looking for a streeter to make 450-500rwhp all day every day.

So the things Ive collected on the way are:

Jun plennum

90mm throttle body

hks fuel rail

sard 800cc injectors

sard fpr

dash fittings

2 x 975 external pumps

haltech e11v2 patch loom and 3bar map sensor

crap load of dash fittings and braided line etc

Pulled the rb30 bottem end apart and found that it had been reco'd maybe 100km ago and is in very good condition.

ACL pistons

ACL bearings

Ballanced Rods/crank

Need to fit new water pump and a possible nitto oil pump/crank collar. Also looking for the turbo side of things at the moment maybe a 6boost manifold and a gt3540 or maybe T04z something along those lines as the power output is at the lower end of the scales and I want it to be a street car with decent response.

Got stuck into the engine bay with a mate thanks Keiron aka (Gtir-keiron) got it prepped and paintedd blue with green zerelick. Put it back together the next day.

so it started out like this:

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base down

clear on and a close up of the colour change

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parts all fitted back up

Small collection of parts

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[want_33]

Keen to watch the engine build up, working off a budget? Ejidos you choose the 30 bottom end instead of a full 26? And what did the head including reco set you back? Cheers man, good luck it looks great so far

[NA_Goodness]

Nice work, mate! Ceffies and 3L bottom ends, some on the best things Nissan gave us!

[skylinekid]

nice magna

[Nur33]

Very interesting colour scheme, i think it will look good together... defiantly stand out from the crowd thats for sure. Great Work

[johnbarry88]

Decided to go gt42r as we came accross a deal at a good price. So we sourced a trust manifold and a tial 44mm wastgate off a guy here on the forum. So hopefully we will get the wiring loom run and the computer in the car aslo still have to tap the block for the second tentioner and fit the head to the block, fingers crossed it'll be done this weekend .

[SimonR32]

Might be interesting to see if the 42R will squeeze between the strut and the motor with that manifold...

[johnbarry88]

we'll make it fit man

[esky_mad]

keen to see the cefiro itself...

[johnbarry88]

some pics I had

[NYTSKY]

Fun project. Love the look of the engine

600rwhp all day long with that turbo.

[johnbarry88]

thanks man should be interesting pretty much got eveything now so just gotta bolt it together and tune it fingers crossed itll be finshed very soon. It a bit hard when you live in brissy and the car is 3hours away

[NYTSKY]

Get a few vids of it when its all done. Tossing up the idea of upgrading to a turbo of similar size, the Garrett GT42R is half the cost and want to hear what it sounds like

[johnbarry88]

No worries man I'll get picks up asap, missed out on going home this weekend got called into work. Next weekend should see the wiring loom, engine in and turbo on and lines finished off! Not long now.

[johnbarry88]

just dumbied up the fpr dunno if im going to keep it here on put it on the body..

[johnbarry88]

motor is in for dumby setup fuel lines, vacumme lines etc..

[daz32]

sweet car man should be sick

[johnbarry88]

yeah will be cept ive been ripped off on my manifold and gate as ive bought one from a forum member and have been done $900 as its been over 2 weeks since ive paid for it and still havent recieved he also screwed over someone else on here too..

[OKBANANA]

Loving this project...how hard was it to spray the engine bay? As I'm at the point in my project where the 'bay needs to be resprayed.

Keep up the awesome work.

[Gtir-keiron]

To be honest ant and i had the engine bay stripped down and painted in about 5 to 6 hours.

Motor already out of the car helped alot.Ant is really good with strip down work as he has pulled so many cars apart and put them back together again.

Wow anthony you got ripped off by a forum member dude? Name and shame time really mate and im sorry to hear about that.

I hope he comes clean and sends you the items mate really.