Jump to content
SAU Community

Duncan's Race Car - The Most Overdue Build Thread On Sau


Recommended Posts

We paid $31k for ours, 1996 R33 GTS-T with 56000 kays. True M-spec I might add, not a car with add ons after the sale from factory. 

Ha Ha yea Duncan it's very amusing trying to explain to them about their cars, I get much enjoyment. One that always pops up is the Power FC, apparently they are junk, but they still get sold for big dollars.

  • Like 1
On 27/08/2022 at 8:44 AM, Duncan said:

Mate, there would be new skylines owners on these forums from American that weren't even born then...

Lol

I hope some Muuurricaaaannnnnn buys mine. 

I will then never own a Skyline again (I said that last time, and the time before I said I'll never buy a JDM shit box but ended up my 1st R33, now 2nd)

  • Haha 1
On 8/26/2022 at 2:50 PM, Neil said:

Sorry Ben, let me re-phrase that, I would have to be the longest single ownership person of a Skyline on SAU, Invoice date 06/09/2001.

I have you beat, Nov 99. What was the plate Duncan...HUJ-33 or something wasnt it?

462R32_Carpark.jpg

On 8/28/2022 at 11:41 AM, Roy said:

I have you beat, Nov 99. What was the plate Duncan...HUJ-33 or something wasnt it?

462R32_Carpark.jpg

Geez mate, they hadnt much earlier released the R34!

  • 4 weeks later...

Ha, well no progress lately so no updates. Given another upcoming wet summer I've been out on the tractor with the grader blade trying to get some driveway drainage in place, which in itself is an interesting challenge. And once that is done I'll have a few months of weeds to get ahead of for the same reason.

My guess is progress on GTR will be slow until later in the year. Kell is off to Great Tarmac Rally in a couple of weeks with Mel in a shitbox wrx instead.

  • 2 weeks later...

No work worth updating on the race car, dealing with some minor surface rust / underbody / chipped interior paint etc. As they say in racing, its "good from afar, but far from good".  I'm also updating mounts for rally gear in the boot like spare wheel/jack/toolkit.

On the other hand, the 100m of the 1klm of driveways I have done went awesome in the big rain :)20221008_142439.jpg

The rest, not so much.

  • Like 1

I did a fair bit of prep work before the rain and then we got less than expected and spread out so we actually faired really well, you guys got pumped (you are up blue mountains way yeah?) 

We're a bit south of there but same general area. This was the little river behind our place after 50mm of rain (back during the drought it took 150+mm for that)

20221009_082736.jpg20221009_083228.jpg

  • Like 1
  • Sad 1

We had water over our driveway from dam overflowing for the first time ever recently, only a few inches, but it had to fill the dam and overwhelm the overflow first. 

This was because our neighbours dam had blocked/spilled over, then he unblocked it so we had the overflow and the spillage coming at the same time plus the rain. 

The water table is defs full. 

9 hours ago, Duncan said:

No work worth updating on the race car, dealing with some minor surface rust / underbody / chipped interior paint etc. As they say in racing, its "good from afar, but far from good".  I'm also updating mounts for rally gear in the boot like spare wheel/jack/toolkit.

On the other hand, the 100m of the 1klm of driveways I have done went awesome in the big rain :)20221008_142439.jpg

The rest, not so much.

Throw in some side drains on the low side every 50 meters or so

Control scouring with rubble drains, and put in the odd culvert 

I build alot of unsealed roads with work, drainage will keep it open longer, but there is only so much drainage can do

 

erosion-sediment-control-unsealed-roads-field-guide-120410.pdf

Thats f**king awesome, thanks mate. I was just looking at the drains thinking they were going to need some larger rocks to stop erosion in the fast moving/steeper sections too, they are comparably cheap to bring enough of them in.

I've got a grader blade so regular resurfacing is no issue, I do need to bring in a massive amount of roadbase over time if I want to improve the actual surface meaningfully, but it is passable now, even 2wd in the wet

Culverts are a practical issue too....there are 4 places where I could do with them but that is a very expensive job - 2 lengths of pipe, excavator time to dig down, aggregate under them to keep them stable with a proper fall, headwall at both ends and a pit at the entry. For now I've just got a light ditch across the road surface at each location and just fill them back in every now and then.

We did put 2 proper culverts under the main drive - 4 lengths x 600mm pipe...cost about $8k but I've never seen them more than 2/3 full which is a win.

20220129_172959.jpg  Need to do the same under the mid dam road, it goes under all the time

20220129_172632.jpg

Just had the lower dam overflows dug out, looks like they are 2x300mm which is probably not enough for big rain.

All of which will seem like a hell of a waste of time and money in 18 months when the drought returns and we are watching the bushfires roaring across the hills 

  • Haha 2
  • 1 year later...
On 18/10/2022 at 9:15 PM, Roy said:

When does the airstrip go in for the Cessna Bird Dog?

Took me a while to answer that....

Funny thing is, the across the river neighbour did put in an airstrip, built a hanger, and buy a cessna, because strangely they aren't allowed to build a house on the property but there is no problem building an airport terminal :rofl:

They've used in 3 times, once for an attempted landing where they misjudged a little, aborted and missed the trees by so little that new underwear was required. Second time the landing stuck, then a few weeks later the plane left and never returned, so I don't think aircraft noise is going to be an issue.

Funny looking back through the last few posts too, I've spent a heap of time lately redoing the roads  and drains so I guess it is a 2 yearly thing to add to the calendar. Those big drains did overflow in the rain about a month ago so that is pretty disheartening....just a reminder that you can't stop nature I guess.

Uncle Duncan, send me some photos of the creek/drain/culverts, when it's low or dry, and also when it floods if you have any

Do you have an idea of how much water that part of the land and drainage would capture in a heavy fall

Does the whole creek/drain overflow up stream as well as downstream, or are the culverts the bottleneck, or is the water building up past the culverts and stifling the flow, or does the whole road go under

Are the culverts being blocked by dirt or vegetation during the event

A land survey would be handy to see where the upstream water is captured and drains down stream

I can roughly calculate the size of the drain and culverts required and speak to our surveyors and engineers at work to see what options there are

When it comes to culverts and drainage it all comes down to some math to work out what is required 

People often underestimate the size of a culvert/drain

In saying this I won't be back at work for a week or so as I had my right shoulder rebuilt 12 days ago

On 5/6/2024 at 9:40 AM, The Bogan said:

Uncle Duncan, send me some photos of the creek/drain/culverts, when it's low or dry, and also when it floods if you have any

Do you have an idea of how much water that part of the land and drainage would capture in a heavy fall

Does the whole creek/drain overflow up stream as well as downstream, or are the culverts the bottleneck, or is the water building up past the culverts and stifling the flow, or does the whole road go under

Are the culverts being blocked by dirt or vegetation during the event

A land survey would be handy to see where the upstream water is captured and drains down stream

I can roughly calculate the size of the drain and culverts required and speak to our surveyors and engineers at work to see what options there are

When it comes to culverts and drainage it all comes down to some math to work out what is required 

People often underestimate the size of a culvert/drain

In saying this I won't be back at work for a week or so as I had my right shoulder rebuilt 12 days ago

Duncan just needs to start an epic open pit mine, let it store the excess water for him.

Call it a dam and the authorities won't say a word :P

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now



  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • You have found the problem. The wire from the switch to the HB is shorted to earth. Now you have to physically find it and replace it. It won't be the switch, although following the steps above (and yes, where you ask, that is the light switch on the RHS of the binnacle) will rule it out for sure. Or not, if perhaps the switch has melted. But there's no route to earth inside the switch, so I can't see how it would.
    • I did read your post, a few times actually.    Done. Followed this step. [Negative probe should be on the cars chassis. Positive on the wire.]   Did this partially.. now that im reading this over, i only unplugged the LED lights. [Start as said above by unplugging everything (unplug the lights, and switches.] When you are talking about the switch, you're talking about the knob thing on the right side in the drivers seat right? If so, i need to take that apart?  [Now at the switch, there is a wire from the fuse, to the switch, so out your positive on that terminal. It should read open circuit. If it reads something, especially a stupid low value, the short is somewhere between the fuse and the switch.] At this point are you referring to the connector by the headlights?  [If that's fine, now put the positive probe on the wire that goes to the headlight (at the switch plug). If it reads stupid low, the fault is from the switch, to the headlight.] Did this. I can confirm that the LED lights aren't the issue [Another quick test, is take the whole LED light setup from the left, and plug it into the right side, does it still blow the fuse? If you put the right hand side led light setup on the left hand side wiring, does the left hand side wiring now blow?  If the blowing fuse swaps from right to left doing this, your LED lights are the issue.]
    • Hey was wondering if you ended up installing the R33 GTR speed sensor - I found one too and wanted to confirm it's a direct swap into the R34 6 speed?
    • After 23 years of owning a Skyline, finally had the latch go.  Followed this guide,  works like a dream again. Great Guide 👍
    • Hi all,   I’ve got the biggest lot of problems with my R33 GTS-T   It was a freshly rebuilt 25th anniversary RB25DET (plastic cas, neo cams) probably 6 years ago now   The engine was running so well but I fkd up badly and trusted someone I’d known for 10 years that was well known around Plazmaman for his welding and fab work. I added a lovely photo of some of his previous work. Not sure why my car was worked on by whoever did this shit     I’m normally someone who would never open myself up to something like this, I still can’t believe I did it. Trusting him literally fkd it all up for me. Everything has been a struggle, like it’s almost been 6 years that’s how much I’ve just on and off been trying to work it all out.    All I wanted was a car that danced down low, like full boost from around 3~3500rpm to redline, don’t really care what power it puts down (if it ever does) but I just wanted it to be quick to get on it.    He recommended the turbo to get, I picked Hypergear but he told me to get the front 4” with a T4 and 0.68 rear housing.    I was expecting all these beautiful welds, tidy fab work and paid for it to be ready to go to a tuner when I got it back.    I got a car back that was an absolute mess, I actually couldn’t believe it was my car anymore. I don’t think you could even call what he did welds, they’re disgusting.    So I stripped everything he touched off it and with every bolt I loosened it just got worse and worse.    I covered it and literally built and finished another car in the meantime but now it’s getting to the point where I really want my Skyline back.   Its a struggle because I paid him to do all this shit because I didn’t know how to and now I’ve had to try and figure it all out omg    Please excuse the bird shit horrible welds, I’ve got my show pony car and am so beyond dealing with this car I don’t even really care at this point.    If someone told me about what he did to my car I wouldn’t have believed them but it happened to me. It was unbelievable. He went missing, my car went missing, it came back missing parts, the straight af chassis rails bore the scars of being dragged up a trailer backwards, even the sandwich plate was bent. Everything was leaking and open to whatever fell into it, rounded off/ missing bolts, power steering oil and coolant everywhere, no gaskets, parts stolen off it, even managed to damage the sump pan.   Promised me he’d finish the car, knew what it meant to me, I paid him thousands and thousands just for him to trash it. He told me he was fully licensed and insured, come to find out he’d cancelled his ABN, so obviously no insurance. I had laid up insurance on the car and would’ve been covered but I was scared they would’ve written it off or because the business was no longer trading I’d still be liable.    He was supposed to:  New fully custom mild steam pipe exhaust manifold with turbo location moved from factory position to high forward mount. (I don’t know if it is a mild steam pipe, I’ve got a funny feeling the waste gate isn’t in a very good position and I don’t think the outlets off each cylinder are equal) 4” custom stainless steel dump with external gate (he re-plumbed it) Cut and shut OEM intake manifold with throttle reposition (I ended up doing the throttle reposition) Box in pod filter (left out) New 100cel catalytic converter (pretty sure it’s there but unsure if it’s 100cel) Front mount intercooler piping fabricated to suit (all smashed up and rusty holes where he was supposed to make it look standard where fmic piping passes through. I don’t even think my front bar is going to fit 🙄) Custom 5” intake pipe from pod to turbo (didn’t come with it so had to do something to make it work with the Z32 afm)   Engine: Full cylinder head service & machining  Brand new valves Precision upgraded spring kit Engine block honed New bearings  New piston rings  New ARP conrod bolt kit New ARP head studs Cometic head gasket VRS kit   ATR43SS2 ball bearing turbo 0.68 rear housing  Turbosmart 45mm external wastegate (got delivered to the fab bloke, I’ve got no idea what spring is in it, I’m assuming the one that came pre installed) Walbro 260 fuel pump  Nismo 740cc injectors (tested to 880) Spitfire coil packs GCG FMIC RB25DET manual 5 speed 4:11 rear diff   I’ve got an Apexi Power FC in it atm, I was hoping to just get it to operating temp to make sure everything was okay before towing to a tuner but it’s over-fuelling too much. I don’t think that’s going to happen so i think I’m going to get either a Link G4 or Haltech for it. What do you guys recommend? I can’t work out the power FC so just gonna give up on that one     It’s got an exhaust leak coming from somewhere I can’t see 🙄    The fuel pressure was steady but now it like drops from 40 to 20psi randomly (noticed this yesterday)    I’ll attach pics of the shit he put on my car and the engine bay now as it sits    I really just need some help, I need a tuner in Sydney I can trust, I’d like to be with the car while it’s being tuned if possible, I know it looks terrible but unfortunately I’ve just got to put up with it for now and fix the cosmetic stuff later   Do you guys think the manifolds are going to be okay? Or do I throw the exhaust manifold and try again?   I don’t even think these combinations are going to work tbh   I know everything I fitted was rated to be able to take at least 400kW but most rated higher    If you’ve gotten this far I really really appreciate it 🙏 I don’t mind if you trash me or the car, I made a rookie error and f**k I’ve paid for it. As you’ll see 🙄  
×
×
  • Create New...