R32 Gtr Long Term Love, Now Project

[reaper]

Good choice!

Welcome to the light side

[r32-25t]

Thanks mate 

[BakemonoRicer]

wind it up buzz

[r32-25t]

Gave the bay a quick degrease and clean and moved the wiring out into the guard to help protect it from the heat I’m going to strip the harness and move the abs plug back into the bay and completely remove the wires that are no long being used (air flow meters and etc)and then after fitting and removing the manifold and turbo countless times getting the oil feed and drain hoses to a point where I was finally happy it’s all sitting in there and ready to start still a few things to button up before I can send it for the custom work but hopefully not to far away ?

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

I think I've put two and two together and figured out your the Brett that used to work at this mechanic shop near Blacktown and did a clutch on my old white R33 back probably 2008 and I dropped off a slab afterwards.

Unless I am completelt wrong lol

 

[r32-25t]

Yep that would be me, there were times I wondered if that was your 33 and then I saw the photos of a blue one and figured I was wrong 

[WantGTR]

You poofs lol

Car is coming along well!

[r32-25t]

Jealous?

[WantGTR]

1 minute ago, r32-25t said:

Jealous?

Hard.

At this rate you'll get the car started first. The thread needs some reno pics.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

44 minutes ago, r32-25t said:

Yep that would be me, there were times I wondered if that was your 33 and then I saw the photos of a blue one and figured I was wrong 

That old S2 1998 is long gone, probably wrapped around a pole or tree

 

[r32-25t]

24 minutes ago, WantGTR said:

Hard.

At this rate you'll get the car started first. The thread needs some reno pics.

The Reno work is waiting on council approval ?

[r32-25t]

So had a bit of a scare and thought the head gasket might have let go and I just hadn’t noticed. Finally sealed up the open ports on the cooling system and pulled the plugs out and pressure tested the cooling system.

turned out to be a false alarm and everything is good to go, have ordered the mufflers for it and should have them in the coming days

also ordered a few non engine related bits 

[MBS206]

7 hours ago, r32-25t said:

So had a bit of a scare and thought the head gasket might have let go and I just hadn’t noticed. Finally sealed up the open ports on the cooling system and pulled the plugs out and pressure tested the cooling system.

turned out to be a false alarm and everything is good to go, have ordered the mufflers for it and should have them in the coming days

also ordered a few non engine related bits 

I think you missed some updates. 

This went from "turbo is sitting on a manifold needing custom parts" to "I thought I blew the head gasket"

How?! Ha ha

[r32-25t]

When I pulled the exhaust off there was beads of water all through it and then when i started the car to check for leaks it blew water out the back of the turbo. But turned out to be excessive condensation 

[r32-25t]

Need to remember this is a stock engine with a factory head gasket and some head studs thrown in, I have no idea what the limit is going to be and it’s always in the back of my mind. 

[djr81]

On ‎5‎/‎4‎/‎2019 at 9:06 AM, r32-25t said:

tacked the gates on to make sure they clear everything and roofed the manifold again to have them completely welded 

blocked of the rear turbo drain 

and the water gallery 

Do you happen to know if the Frenchys people have an email address or anything old fashioned like a phone so I can speak to somebody about thei CAS trigger?  Just that their contacts page is blank.

[r32-25t]

2 hours ago, djr81 said:

Do you happen to know if the Frenchys people have an email address or anything old fashioned like a phone so I can speak to somebody about thei CAS trigger?  Just that their contacts page is blank.

No idea to be honest, everything I’ve bought from frenchys has come through hi octane racing 

[djr81]

18 hours ago, r32-25t said:

No idea to be honest, everything I’ve bought from frenchys has come through hi octane racing 

Ah no worries.  I think I found it ( After creating an account).

[email protected]

I liked the look of their CAS conversion.

https://frenchysperformancegarage.com/products/nissan-rb-crank-angle-sensor-modification-24-1

Its stock occifer, honest.....

[r32-25t]

Looks like an improvement over the stock one but I like having the main trigger off the crank itself to eliminate the belt slack 

[r32-25t]

First I installed this thing and it’s made it so much easier to actually see what I’m doing instead of the stupid work light I stripped the wiring harness apart and cut these off then pulled the wires through the harness and removed them from the ecu plug (more inputs yay) then buttoned up the harness, ran it inside the guard liner, secured it and then fitted the guard liner back in and the put the wheel back on