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Its been a while since ive posted. While the car was sitting at home i painted all the turbo piping, fuel rail, fuel reg and external gate to try make it look a little more stealthy incase i ever got asked to pop the bonnet. it looks almost stock now.

I finally got a clutch put in. While it was there i decided to do the timing belt, water pump, crank seals, cam seals etc and solid mount the rear subframe. I really missed driving the car but of course with my luck atm i took it out the next day to a friends and the thermostat was stuck shut causing overheating. I got that taken out and thought my problems were behind me. I was sooooo wrong. I took it out the next day for a drive to wollongong and on the way down i lifted the head :( :( I limped it back to the mechanics and thats were its sitting atm till i can afford to get the head gasket and studs put in. Im so upset with everything. All i want is the car back on the road but at this rate everything is going against me. Its pretty frustrating!!

Horrible luck. The wheels are 18x9.5 + 20 offset. They sit outside the guard a little. It looks nice without too much playing with the guards

Cheer up...you have had a fair bit of "very bad" luck (to put it politely) but I guess it only gets better from here !!

Wat size and offset are your new wheels?

How much boost were you running? Stock turbo? Would take some serious punishment to be 'lifting the head', although a blow gasket I can definitely see.

I was running 20 pound with a garrett 3082. I saw the gasket. There was a small indent in it. However he called me after stripping the engine and sure enough. With my luck all 6 pistons were cracked somehow. He has never seen it before. He thinks its possibly a bad batch of e85. I guess its a rebuild for me. Im kinda over it a little. I just want to have fun with the car already.

  • 3 weeks later...

Well after living off crumbs i have got the bottom end rebuilt thanks to Zan at SMD workshop. Really helped me out. Only put GTR pistons in it with new rings and bearings etc. When i went in i saw all 6 were cracked and sure enough there was a hole in one of them too. I really missed driving it and having fun with it. Ill be taking it to the drag strip very soon and hitting up some wet pans to really have some fun with it.

Thats all for now i think. Ill keep updates coming on whats planned

  • 2 months later...

Well im back again for another update. Car run great on 291kw but i got a bit bored of it so when i went back for an eflex sensor i decided to push it. Sure enough the rear main crank seal (i think thats what its called) decided to give up on me and i lost compression aswell. Wasnt too suprised or upset so ive decided to go all out and build a 3L bottom end and a couple of new goodies to get it cracking realllllllllly good :) I was kinda of inspired by nytsky's build :)

Yeah im hoping she will be a unassuming monster when its done, Since the car has been sitting around i got all my interior finished off by Silvio at Strictly Auto Trim. 0405553109. He done a great job and at an amazing price. I highly recommend him to anyone looking to retrim anything. Ill get pics up soon of it once i send him the steering wheel to finish off.

All goes well im hoping to have all the stuff back at SMD this week to get started on it.

  • 1 month later...

Hey guys. Sorry for the lack of posting. There hasnt been much going on because it started off as just a built 3L bottom end but now since things are taking there time it has turned HUGE. Basically its all getting built to take big big power. Ill update with specs and all that after its all put together around the christmas mark but it will be ready for powercruise next year. In the mean time i decided to sell my ute and buy myself a Stagea as a work car plus it gives me a little bit of skyline to have fun with whilst the 33 is sitting off the road.

More to come soon

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