BK's eternal money pit build - 1989 R32 GTR single turbo

[BlueR32]

Hi

I am the original importer of this car from Japan.

Not sure what you know about the history but if you are interested in knowing more drop me an email [email protected].

Wayne

[BK]

On 30/01/2022 at 9:05 AM, BlueR32 said:

Hi

I am the original importer of this car from Japan.

Not sure what you know about the history but if you are interested in knowing more drop me an email [email protected].

Wayne

Really ?! BNR32 - 002155 ?

I absolutely will contact you - you can PM me your phone if you want me to call you. I bought it from a dude named John in Adelaide in 2008 with the HKS turbo on it.

Before that I can see that it had been engineered in the ACT and that Jake's performance there did a forged rebuild on it with Arias pistons and Crower rods around 2006 or 2007. Some major headwork appears also to have been done over in Japan before import.

The car is a completely different thing now, even to when I bought it as I have actually lost count of the engines and gearboxes this thing has had since being in my possession.

[BK]

Correction on chassis number,

BNR32-002605.

I confused it with my 33 GTR being BCNR33-002155.

[BK]

While the other 32 in pieces again for the motor rebuild I thought I'd do another job I've been putting off for a while. Big long extensions and the modified 3" socket definitely is the only way to do this on a 32 without dropping the rear sub frame.

Tools required:

Done.

[MoMnDadGTR]

On 17/02/2022 at 4:51 AM, BK said:

While the other 32 in pieces again for the motor rebuild I thought I'd do another job I've been putting off for a while. Big long extensions and the modified 3" socket definitely is the only way to do this on a 32 without dropping the rear sub frame.

Tools required:

Done.

benny boy, wish i would of thought of this before i wasted a weekend doing mine(dropped subframe) literally dropped it on my leg wont do that again.....probably will....im going to go mod up a 3" filter wrench for my next adventure on the accumalator. cheers mate another good trick ive learnt from you! 

[BK]

Few more little things changed for improvement and reliability purposes while the car was being repaired after I blew a small coolant line under intake and worse, had the clutch master seal fail. This really sucked, as all the clutch fluid was sucked into the the engine and obviously had no clutch.

New Genuine clutch booster unit

Genuine clutch master cylinder rebuild kit

GKteck poly steering bush

Nismo timing belt

Ross billet lower timing gear and shields setup

ARP crank bolt

Nitto billet crankshaft keys

Ross integrated 12t metal jacket balancer

One thing that always shitted me with the Ross trigger disc balancers was no timing marks on the horizontal side when looking down. After asking about it they laser etched some onto the new balancer for me 👍

Added new tension wrench to the mix to add to the collection

then bolt it back together stuff

 

Looks like during the tuning at Morpowa I have my cam gears set to +2 deg advance on intake and exhaust retained at 0 with the Apexi camshafts. I won't touch as it seems to work.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

a little advance on the intake always heaps with low down, and turbo spool  

I'm still wondering if Xtreme GT-R is using a RB25 NEO head OR just adapted a NEO VCT to a RB26 head.

[BK]

On 09/03/2022 at 12:09 PM, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

a little advance on the intake always heaps with low down, and turbo spool  

Yeah I can't complain about the spool, so I doubt I'll ever stuff around with vct / v-cam gear. Even my 33 with the small -9 twins the in cam is advanced +2 and ex retarded -1 to I guess to improve spool.

As I sold my Camtechs, I will wait further for the inevitable incoming pull those Jap crap cams out / install Kelfords comment 😄

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

On 09/03/2022 at 2:02 PM, BK said:

I will wait further for the inevitable incoming pull those Jap crap cams out / install Kelfords comment 😄

I didn't say anything LOL

[BK]

On 09/03/2022 at 12:44 PM, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

I didn't say anything LOL

Don't think I haven't been trying to talk myself into it. I had Camtech but sold them as I think the specs were a bit mismatched at 272 and 9.7mm, so I went back to my original Apexi cams. The Camtech just seemed too much duration for not much lift, which is why went back to stock camshafts in the other 32 without using these at all.

The Apexi camshafts are the long discontinued Apexi GT step 2 cams which are 264 and 10.6mm with a 32mm base circle, which seem bloody awesome in reality compared to the other Jap offerings like Tomei and HKS.

Granted I'm not sure of the specific ramp rate of them, but If I was to go Kelfords I'm not really sure what I would get that would be better than these ? The two that stick out as the obvious choices are the 182-B at 260 / 10mm or the 182-C at 272 / 10mm.

Maybe the 182-S or SE ? They seem pretty wild though, but thats purely on paper. So I guess that's where I'm sort of like "don't fix what's not broken" - I dunno.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Agree with the Camtech stuff, just sounds great insert hectic braps to attract the boys to the yard.

The Apexi camshafts (didn't even know they made camshafts) seem to have better specs on paper, lift is king!

I can see why you're in a pickle, because on paper the Apexi cams have greater lift than the Kelfords.

[BK]

On 09/03/2022 at 1:27 PM, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

Agree with the Camtech stuff, just sounds great insert hectic braps to attract the boys to the yard.

The Apexi camshafts (didn't even know they made camshafts) seem to have better specs on paper, lift is king!

I can see why you're in a pickle, because on paper the Apexi cams have greater lift than the Kelfords.

Yeah I think the Apexi camshafts were discontinued in the mid 2000s with the rest of their engine parts catalogue. A shame Camtech is gone now as they did make good stuff, just not a fan of the particular spec cams I had. Definitely a shame as I think I remember them having a 260 at 10.5mm or something like that available - similar to the Unigroup 260 / 11mm I thought.

More lift from Kelfords mean more duration with the S or SE, but again that's on paper. Then again there's the 182-X the custom camshaft profile option, so I guess they can make whatever you want really.

 

[r32-25t]

The worst part about when camtech closed was they didn’t tell any body it was coming just a post saying “we are closed as of now” and that was it 

[Duncan]

yup. somewhere someone still has a pair of standard cams I had with them for measuring 

[BK]

In other completely f**ked news the 32 was left slightly exposed to the heavy rain recently and this happened to the left front guard

Water got under the clear coat and destroyed it.

Straight away got it redone and results are immaculate, very impressed. Hard to capture how good the repaint and blend is with my very bad photo skills, but the entire left side of car has basically been resprayed.

Me and Alexi from Alice Crash are very good friends at the moment after the recent triple car theft from my house, so I'm glad the 32s are around at the old man's place.

[Duncan]

Sounds like you 've had a bad run there, I've never seen paint damaged like that

[BK]

On 22/05/2022 at 4:07 PM, Duncan said:

Sounds like you 've had a bad run there, I've never seen paint damaged like that

Yeah the rain has been hitting the top edge of the guard over a week or so and crept under the clear coat  It was hardly noticeable, then another rain event and it started lifting the paint on the entire guard !

Completely my fault for leaving the car outside.

[BK]

On 24/05/2022 at 11:54 AM, Lithium said:

Ah nice, yeah solid result. 

Apparently I never attached this in here with the dyno stuff, but summary

Nitto 2.8 stroker

Precision 6466 T4 divided 1.0 a/r

Haltech Elite 2500

BP ultimate 98 RON unleaded

456kw / 611hp at 22psi

A bit more on United E85 at 32psi

[MoMnDadGTR]

Hey Ben those are some extremely wicked numbers for 22psi and the kill tune on e85 at 800 probably feels great. What are running for a gearbox? nice work mate glad to see the blue is working proper. Send me your base timing map when you get a chance I want to see how cranked up you got it over 16 psi, cheers

Edited May 28, 2022 by MoMnDadGTR

[BK]

Still running the PAR straight cut dog box. Car is extremely impressive with the 6466.

I'm in Perth at the moment so I'm not near the car for the tune. Just bought another car and am seeing my work branch in WA. I'm definitely going to leave the NT and Alice soon - short list is now Perth or Bunbury in WA, but Adelaide is now possibly on the cards.