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Hey guys names Joey I live in Caboolture and this is the build for my r32 gtst, I was originally building the motor to put in my rodeo ute but later decided that a motor with all the parts I had chose to use deserved to be in a better car so I was on the hunt for an R32. After searching for a couple of months I found this (which my little brother loved).post-132812-14209711519319_thumb.jpgpost-132812-14209711631474_thumb.jpg

After a couple months of collecting parts I went to pick up my Tein super streets from Mercury Motorsports and saw this post-132812-14209711858823_thumb.jpgpost-132812-14209711957662_thumb.jpg

And after about 30 minutes of talking about it with my little brother he decided he was going to buy the black one off me and I would buy the yellow one so It got put at a tow truckpost-132812-1420971261881_thumb.jpg

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Ok so after a couple of days owning It I pulled the old coilovers out and put the Teins in

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Next I started pulling the existing engine and gearbox out which only took about 3 hours to Pull it all outpost-132812-142106466379_thumb.jpg

Now the engine was ready to be sent off to be machined so that everything was and good and better got a couple of pictures while the machining was being done, the block was bored, honed and acid bathed an the crank was balanced and a crank collar was fitted. The original crank that came with the block turned out to be bent but I luckily found one quickly and it pretty cheap.

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The machinist cleaned up the ports, put in new valve springs new retainers skimmed the head a little and cleaned out the lifters.

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Ok so found the photos of the intake manifold, exhaust manifold and turbo :)

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As you can see I have went with the plazmaman plenum, throttlebody and the black plazmaman fuel rail. Exhaust manifold is a t3 single entry 6boost and the turbo is a GTX3582r with a .82 rear housing

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So done a bit of work on the car over the weekend, we mocked up the surge tank and my external fuel pump only took a photo of the car on the hoist though, but will post some pics of where the pump and tank are sitting as we aren't putting it in the boot.

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I went with the aftermarket industries under car surge tank.

Also got the injectors and fuel rail on and walbro intank put in aswell.

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I have decided to use the siemens 2433cc injectors so I don't have to upgrade.

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