Piglet's Rebuild Of His Busted Tomei 2.8

[Piggaz]

I dont know how I forgot to post this. It's my surge tank and AFM delete pipes. I painted the surge tank black so headlights didnt reflect off the alloy..... because im a nice bloke

[UWISSH!]

does the surge tank sit under the car?

[Piggaz]

How it sits under the car.

[BOBBYr34]

Bobby, the box is a OS 1-3 gearset with the big dick input shaft. It was behind the engine before. It got pulled down and put back together since. Nice box but really needs a stroker to work.... Orrrr have smaller turbos!

I can't see myself revving any harder than 8000 RPM. I found myself with the -5's changing at 6500 and just ride the torque. See where the power drops off but 8000 RPM will be the shift point with the hard cut set at 8600-8800 JUST so I don't hit it.

Nice

Since your not reving past 9000 rpm its all good, and you will notice it set up like this it will want to rev and the squish will make these turbo's come on boost at a lower rpm. I guess you will be able to compare to your last build with the dyno sheets.

Cant wait to see the results.

[Piggaz]

Nice

Since your not reving past 9000 rpm its all good, and you will notice it set up like this it will want to rev and the squish will make these turbo's come on boost at a lower rpm. I guess you will be able to compare to your last build with the dyno sheets.

Cant wait to see the results.

Thats why I decided to run the -5's again. The whole time I was building the head it was "response, response, response". I have been assured it will crack 450 but im more interested in the mid range.... The goal is 400 by 5000 RPM.... I wasn't that far off it before it died.

With the single, time will tell!

A tad bummed I took the valve relief out as I qould have been around 9:4 - 9.5:1 but atleast it's not 8.5!

Bring on the tune!

[levinboy]

How it sits under the car.

Pooooorrnnn

Who made that for you of you don't mind me asking??

[Piggaz]

Pooooorrnnn

Who made that for you of you don't mind me asking??

I took it to Unigroup and said "Give me a 5 litre surge tank under the car... GO".... I got that back.

I've never had an issue... I have a Fuel pressure gauge in the car.

i'll evenutally put a little fuel cooler like what Bobby did. i've seen the data that Unigroup has of warm/hot fuel and its just downright scary!

[levinboy]

Sweet yea I've been looking at similar options but want it under car, fuel cooler for sure

Nice to see your build nearly finished can't wait to see the end results both twin and single

[Piggaz]

Sweet yea I've been looking at similar options but want it under car, fuel cooler for sure

Nice to see your build nearly finished can't wait to see the end results both twin and single

Single will make more grunt for sure.... the question is if it can match the twins mid range and driveability!

[UWISSH!]

are u ever worried about something flying up and hitting the lines to the pumps?

just wondering why u havnt used braided lines

[Piggaz]

That rubber is pretty damn thick!

My new return line from the reg is braided.

[Shoota_77]

Please don't take this the wrong way but I can't believe it's taken 22 pages to get to this point!

Should be a weapon once it's done. Looks sexy too! Can't wait to see some videos.

I'm at the crossroads of doing a dirty 30 or stroking the 26 so your results may make a difference.

Good luck once you hit the dyno!

[NYTSKY]

It took me 80+ pages to get mine to the current setup

[Piggaz]

Please don't take this the wrong way but I can't believe it's taken 22 pages to get to this point!

Should be a weapon once it's done. Looks sexy too! Can't wait to see some videos.

I'm at the crossroads of doing a dirty 30 or stroking the 26 so your results may make a difference.

Good luck once you hit the dyno!

Just waiting on parts and people, not to mention the shit talk in the thread.

Starting fresh? 30 hands down!

[wedge_r34gtr]

what about a 30 with a nitto 3.2 stroker....just sayin.

Awesome looking surge tank Paul

[XKLABA]

I'm doing the 2630 conversion into a GTR and if I started again it would be the BC 2.9 kit

Paul, would love to see this on the dyno, I'm free Thursday should be done by then yeah keep the pics coming, love your work it gives me ideas

[Piggaz]

I'm doing the 2630 conversion into a GTR and if I started again it would be the BC 2.9 kit

Paul, would love to see this on the dyno, I'm free Thursday should be done by then yeah keep the pics coming, love your work it gives me ideas

Where are you upto with it man?

Ideas? What ideas are you talking about?

[XKLABA]

good, just waiting another fitting for the oil pump to external feed it which is going to work better then I thought with heaps of clearance from the AC, then 3 bungs into sump for the oil cooler setup and I came close the bottom end then it's just the hot side gaskets and lines Quaife diff and Ross balancer then insert it in car

when I say ideas I mean copy you of coarse, things like the pipes into turbos, though I melted one of then, the surge tank, possible cams etc

sorry if that's not clear to read I changed the turbo on my truck today and gave it a service and thought I could use a beer or 11 so far after doing so

[UWISSH!]

what about a 30 with a nitto 3.2 stroker....just sayin.

Awesome looking surge tank Paul

I'm actually thinking about doing this next year, still trying to to decide if I can justify the cash or not

[Marko R1]

I've been there and built an rb2630...fun it was but it simply didn't feel like a gtr anymore (damn block is out of a vl commodore) and it really annoyed me that things didn't line up the way it should have by having to extend inter cooler pipes etc blah blah.

My mate bought a my12 r35gtr...now that is shockingly quick and its stock!!! My old gtr would have still got it though

The engineering and tractable power is really mind blowing.