Our R32

[Artic Choc]

any updates man?

[Bushy]

Nah not really, it hasn't been receiving a lot of attention lately, been waaay too busy with Uni. I started putting in a head unit the other day and tidying a few things up, nothing too exciting really

[Bushy]

Quick update. Still not a great deal happening due to uni, but slowly made a couple of changes.

A trip up to Symmons Plains to help my mate James who was racing his RX7 again coincided with a set of wheels popping up for sale that interested me, so I met the seller at the circuit for a look and made the deal. The centres are a bit worse for wear and require powder coating to make me happy but I got them for a good price so it doesn't bother me. Photos....

Also decided to tackle the job of fitting a stereo and relocating the gauges. The stereo brackets, surround and pocket are all brand new items. Pretty happy with how it turned out...much tidier!

[Bushy]

And these sexy things turned up today...

[Artic Choc]

daaaaaamn thats sexy as f**k man looks the goods!!
wheels look mint man

[XRATED]

..... nice datsun in the back ground. wonder where you got such a good looking little rig?

When the watanbe's turn up, shoot me a PM if you want to sell the SSR's on the 32.

Cheers

Justin

[Bushy]

daaaaaamn thats sexy as f**k man looks the goods!!

wheels look mint man

Thanks mate!

..... nice datsun in the back ground. wonder where you got such a good looking little rig?

When the watanbe's turn up, shoot me a PM if you want to sell the SSR's on the 32.

Cheers

Justin

Haha yeah that's my brother's, I assume he bought it off you, small world lol (actually it's just Tassie that's small)

Yeah will do mate

[Bushy]

Felt like updating this as I've been inspired by other peoples progress.

Not sure if I mentioned it but the inlet manifold cracked again in the same place, and unfortunately the guy who made it moved to the mainland, so with more free time I took it off and took it to another local fabricator who cut out the top piece of sheet and welded in some 3.2mm sheet. With everything back together there is no more flex so hopefully that has finally sorted the issue!

I have a strange idle issue that needs sorting where I get an extreme lean idle (~17-20 AFR) and strong fuel smell occasionally after cruising at partial throttle then slowly coming to a stop that seems to resolve itself after driving and stopping again (back to ~14.7 AFR). Haven't really done much diagnosis yet.

Still trying to decide what to do power wise and what I actually want to use the car for. I bought a GCG Garrett GT3076R second hand but never used for a good price with the idea of fitting the Hypergear first and if I was happy with that, selling the Garrett as I won't lose any money on it.

Anyway, I'm just going to drive it for a bit and see what happens. Here's a photo from today.

[Artic Choc]

Hey buddy. Glad to hear you got your plenum problem fixed (for good *touch wood*) sorry mate no idea with the idle issue. . Maybe afm??

As for power goal im running the same hypergear turbo (not coated) at 18 psi with a boost leak and im seeing 265rwkw boost hits roughly at 4100. I have a top end restriction due to standard dump and most likely the leak or exhaust. I reckon with your current set up plus the hypergear youd probs see closer to 300kw with boost slightly earlier. just to give a rough idea. Would make a deadly daily or even a possible 11second pass with a good set of tyres?

I reckon it would be a shame to see all this hard work youv done go to waste to see it only see action at the track on occasion(if you take her off the road)

[Bushy]

Yeah the manifold seems all good so far. Thanks for the feedback on the turbo.

Still got the standard turbo, I wound the boost up to 12-13psi which is good amount of power for me at the moment with plans to fit the bigger injectors and tune very soon.

I entered a hill climb event on Sunday at Baskerville, car went well apart from me trying to launch 2nd and slipping the clutch haha. Unfortunately I had some stiff competition due to how the classes are defined but I improved my times over the day and I drove it to the track with all my tools in the boot and was stoked to drive it home so I can't complain. I don't think hill climbs are really my thing due to the amount of waiting around between runs, so I'm planning to compete in the Supersprint series next year, whilst keeping the car road registered.

There's not many photos but hopefully I'll get hold of some more soon.

As a comparison my best time was 40.92 sec and the white STi next to me was running on Bridgestone RE11's with ~230awkw and did 37.66 sec.

Plans for the car are new clutch, I've ordered an NPC ceramic button clutch and billet flywheel

At the same time I'll be fitting an RB25DET gearbox with Nismo solid shifter

Get Nistune, injectors and Z32 AFM fitted, and a tune

Replace old rubber brake lines with HEL braided lines

New tyres, I'm thinking of trying the Achilles 123S as a compromise to expensive R spec tyres, and I'd like to get more experienced driving the car with a more limited level of grip first

[Bushy]

Here's the results of the other cars in my class for the hill climb

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Think this is due for an update!

So I discovered that the rocker cover breathers were a source of vacuum leak and possibly the PCV, which I believe was the cause of my occasional lean condition at idle. To fix this I fitted some push in -10 alloy breathers (bought off Interloper on here) and 90 deg. push lock fittings. These currently tee together but will eventually be run separately to an alloy catch can. And I replaced the PCV with a new OEM one.

End of last year I pulled out the RB20 gearbox and ordered an NPC ceramic button clutch and lightened flywheel, I expected them to arrive within a week but it ended up taking almost two months!

This gave me plenty of time to fit a B&M electric line locker...sorry I mean "launch control" And HEL braided brake lines. To be honest I was a little bit disappointed with the front brake lines as they use plastic fasteners where they are secured to the suspension upright, which poorly replicate the standard Nissan fasteners and as a result aren't very well secured, in hindsight I would have replaced with new genuine rubber brake lines.

I also got rid of the clutch "dampener" loop and replaced with a single braided line from clutch master to slave cylinder.

Eventually the clutch and flywheel turned up and both were fitted along with ARP flywheel bolts. The RB25 gearbox was then mounted, the standard gearbox mount modified to suit, and RB20 tailshaft yolk replaced with RB25 yolk. At the same time a new OEM slave was fitted and Nismo solid shifter. To retain the standard speedo I used the well documented method of fitting the RB25 speedo drive gear to a Navara speedo drive (new from Nissan at ~$60), and lastly the reverse and neutral switch plugs were replaced with the corresponding RB25 ones (I was pleasantly surprised to find both of these available new from www.wiringspecialties.com, but prepare to pay for them!).

You will probably notice in the next photo that I had to space the mount down 10mm,

because the gearbox hit the top of the tunnel. I will probably remake this at some point a slightly different way to get rid of the spacers.

It was pretty exciting to drive it again, and even more exciting to discover that everything worked as it should!

I got a few weeks of driving out of it then today I discovered the inlet manifold cracked AGAIN, this time on the underside. So off it came (I'm getting pretty good at this now!) and I took it back to get fixed. After discussing the solution with the fabricator we're pretty confident it won't happen again.

[Artic Choc]

Wow you have been busy. Thats a huge job you've done mate and well done for getting it all going! That bloody manifold haha it been not crack again hows the clutch feel? I love my npc clutch everyone else hates it coz mines way to heavy for them

[Bushy]

Yeah I probably could have bought a Hypertune with the money I've spent on it how haha.

Clutch is good, pretty heavy and bites hard but I don't mind it, just have to get used to it