Hr31 Coupe Rb26 (For Now)

[fatz]

she always did good skidz

[DCIEVE]

Jesus nick I can't believe your building another motor!

Nice, can't wait to see it out and about... Powercruise this year?

The rb26 came with the car so this is the first motor I've built for it(and hoping to keep it that way). Powercruise would be nice but I'm not sure it'l be done by then... starting the understand the meaning of time poor

nice mate! you are a brave man to buy fatz's old 31... lol. full credit to keeping it going and tidying the old beast up. I've been in it years ago when fatz first put the XR6 tubz on it with fatz laughing like a giant school girl beside me as he drifted the thing. not the safest feeling in the world!!

it's always been a cool car though and with the new full race set-up and the weds it looks shit hot.

Brings back memories of the test drive before I bought it lol.

[Beer Baron]

haha, yeah fatz knows how to sell a car. 3rd gear putting down the road at 80k or so, turn the wheel, kick the clutch and see where you end up after that...

[ohno1]

always thought 31 two doors were rad.. but yours is pretty f**ken awesome man

[DCIEVE]

Bit of an update. Still going backwards (stripping parts from the car) but getting closer to the point where I can start putting it back together.

Sound deadening is next up, then it's off to the fabricator.

Std body wiring loom is weighty, looks like custom is the go.

Picked up a flat wheel - great bit of gear

JE/Nitto pistons, Nitto rods

External oil pump, sump with external pick-up / trap doors etc and drive mandrel for the ati balancer.

Dummied up (not my engine)

[Lucaas]

Some time before heading to the drags it was reversed into by a careless council worker so I took the opportunity to fit a uras kit and a wingless boot. Std 4 stud rear axles were fitted so it could be driven to the paint shop and a few weeks later into storage.

It looked pretty odd with std 4 stud wheels!

Revised catch can (routing blowby to the back of the car)

OS quad plate, pita to fit with the motor in - would have been a lot easier to remove the motor & box together and work on it that way!

Just my luck, the day I flew out the bloody axles arrived....

Roughly 1 month after leaving we returned to Perth for a friends wedding... the plan was to fit the axles, shoot the car for HPI, check the tune and get to the drags again.

Sean at ASG ran it up on his hub dyno, without the slipping clutch and wheelspin the 6boob related boost control issues were even worse, with boost creeping to 1.7bar.

Unfortunately bad weather saw the drags cancelled, but at least the axles were fitted.

Axles fitted

And the rear wheels back on.

The weather meant we weren't able to get any good shots for the article besides a few in the garage..

It was then back into storage for the end of '08 and most of '09.

What Wheels Are they Mate and where did you pick em up from?

[DCIEVE]

SSR Professor SP1 18x9 +16 & 18x10 +11 - C-Red in Perth imported them for me a few years ago. They've since been sold and will be going onto a friends dr30!

[SimonR32]

Nick you are crazy

Whens the ETA?

[XRATED]

Whats the part number for that moroso pump and bracket???

Cheers

Justin

[masTers]

My pants are tight...

[N1GTR]

Just when you thought it did decent skids, you go for an RB30

Good choice

RB30; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTPLXUwuzz8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[GODZILLA-GTR]

glad i stumbled across this! subscribed

[DCIEVE]

Vid doesn't work for me n1gtr?

Whats the part number for that moroso pump and bracket???

Cheers

Justin

No p/n on the pump or bracket, there is a hand engraved no. on the back but it's not a moroso #

[N1GTR]

Sorry dont know whats wrong there, try this but take out the spaces http://www. youtube .com/ watch?v=gTPLXUwuzz8&feature =youtube_gdata_player

[Sir Lord Van Von Vader'ham]

ur doin it wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTPLXUwuzz8

[N1GTR]

Thanks!

That's rb30, in rwd-smokes them so easy, so I don't doubt your coupe will be an absolute smoke machine when it's done!

[dirtyRS4]

i also luv the dr30s.

this is just baws

[N1GTR]

Anything happening to this beast lately?

[DCIEVE]

Not really much in the way of interesting updates. I've stripped all the sound deadening, hopefully picked up a fresh head with some larger cams, springs, retainers (more on this when it arrives) and the new turbo finally arrived. Geoff at fullrace talked me into going larger than I had originally planned, together with inconel studs etc.

[DCIEVE]

Motivation...

Re-tapped the manifold M10 x 1.5 for the inconel studs, quite the pita with very shallow tapped holes. Getting just on three turns on the shallowest of them which is border-line ok.