the 1st blue is cool and the red 1 with white back wheel :D
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the 1st blue is cool and the red 1 with white back wheel :D
Ye the red one with the white back wheel's is a nice colour and i usually dont like red.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stevie e39 drift
fucking love xd9's on 32's!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by driftescort
sorry i didnt read all but how come your swapping out the rb for an sr??
Ya not bad but I think it is a bit light.Quote:
Originally Posted by johns13silvia
Ya the A Bo Mon cars are a massive inspiration to me, one of the reasons I am considering blue.Quote:
Originally Posted by KerryKid1JZ
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Originally Posted by Stevie e39 drift
Ya I do like that colour.Quote:
Originally Posted by JDMfrank
Although I love that colour its not for me on this car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kruizer
Yep XD9s are fully badass!Quote:
Originally Posted by dil
SR was something I was considering for a long time before I did it, basically for improved handling, from what I have reasearched it should make a pretty nice difference!
coming along nicely lad as for colour im liking red 32s atm you would rearly see a red 1 tbh malino red or blood red would b killer but thats just me
If you want a very bright red go Mazda True Red, its on the new Mazda 3's... Painted my old RX7 that colour, really stood out :
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good man kruizer liking that red now really stands out :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Kruizer
Well I think you 2 might be happy ;-)
I have been getting on with this a bit lately, I decided to spray the engine bay to make a proper job of it so I stripped it, prepped it and sprayed it the same colour as I am painting the car.
Yesterday I received my Genuine D-max roof spoiler from Japan, had a quick trial fit and it looks alrite, might need a bit of work.
Started refitting the engine bay after spraying it and now it has come to the time to get the SR in the bay. There is a few jobs I want to do to the engine before I fit it though. First off I picked up a set of 740cc Nismo injectors a while ago so I fitted them to the engine this evening. They came in what I assume is a S14 fuel rail but I had to swap them into the straightcam rail to make sure they fitted correctly.
That is it for now, I should be receiving a S14 oil pick up pipe in the next couple of days that I want to fit before the engine goes in and I am also waiting on a friend to remove the turbo I am planning on fitting from his car so I can get that on.
jasus billy my engine has come along way since it came out of my yoke . looking forword to the end result
if you were thinking of a blue...skyline gtr blue my cam was that color reaaly bright and shiny thats just my opinion.....lovely 32 all the same nice build man
Thought I would throw up some pics of the modidified crossmembers I have made up. One is for a RB and the other for a SR. I will obviously be using a SR item in my car.
We made them to move the rack forward 20mm to cancel the overcentre problem we all know and love! We wanted to make them in the neatest way possible so they would both look nice and also for road going cars the modification wouldn't be very noticable as this may cause problems with MOT/NCT tests.
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If anyone one would be interested in having one of these made up for them don't hesitate to contact me. :-)
Going to start doing the few little jobs I want to do to the SR now before I fit it.
First thing I did was repalce the slightly tired engine mounts with a pair of Nismo ones I had laying around.
Then I replaced with the notorously troublesome straight cam oil pick up pipe with a bentcam item for piece of mind.
I also got hold of a lightweight Exedy flywheel that needed a reface cheap so that is off being done at the moment.
I have also got the turbo I am going to be running, it is a 2871R .64, should be good enough to see close to 400bhp which I will be well happy with and should also keep a nice bit of response. I have decided to run an external wastegate to make sure I don't have the boost creep issues that these turbos sometimes seem to suffer from. I am almost 100% sure that I am going to run a standard exhaust manifold aswell to avoid the cracking issues alot of the stainless manifolds seem to have, so I will be mounting the wastegate on the manifold which is another thing I am have to do. I am undecided at the moment wether I will run the screamer pipe to the atmosphere or plumb it back into the system yet. I might see if there is a way I can make something up that will allow me to do both.
No pics to add at the mo but hopefully will get some more soon.
You are some absolute homo if you plumb the screamer back into the exhaust! Give the dirty SR some hope of sounding proper Billy!
I am just hoping it won't make it sound worse!Quote:
Originally Posted by Famous jh
Right starting to get on with the R32 again. I have told myself that I am going to keep working on it now until it is finished, I have kind of set myself a deadline of a drift event at the end of Febuary but with the rate parts I need are turning up I don't know how likely that will be!
So I did a bit more to the SR as I want to do as much as I can to it before I fit it. I had a sandwich plate laying around so I fitted my oil pressure and oil temp senders to it and got that fitted along with my HKS oil filter.
As I said in a previous post I wanted to mod the standard manifold to run my 38mm Turbosmart external wastegate so with that we went to work and this is what we made:
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and one with the gate just placed on:
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I am very happy with the way it turned out, it took a bit of work mainly on the internals of the manifold as they are a twin-scroll design so quite a bit of die-grinding was required. I shouldn't have to worry about boost creep on my 2871R though.
I also lucked upon this sweet elbow/downpipe combination, I believe it is a D-max item which seems to be a seriously rare item as I had been looking for one for a while with no luck. They are a great design with the oval pieceallowing it to sit above the chassis rail. I have also been told that they really make a straightcam sound nice:)
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As I am still waiting on some parts to finish the engine off I decided to get on with modifying the front hubs which I have wanted to do mainly to make the steering a bit quicker as I always thought the stock R32 set-up was a little 'slow' as an extra benefit I will get more lock than I reckon I will ever need. An advantage of the R32 hub design is that when modifying the hubs we could move the mounting point down a bit to add in a degree of bump-steer correction.
Here is a few pics I took of them:
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Got them fitted today and with a very quick alignmet I can say I am very happy with the results.
Hopefully will be getting a lot more done now just being held up a bit waiting for parts.
good stuffs! when dya reckon youll have it all in and that?
Waiting for a few more bits to come from the UK to fit to the engine before it goes in and also going to the UK for a piss up this weekend but hopefully should be in the next week or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by PeterT
Finally got to spend some more time on the R32. So I went about fitting up the last few bits to the SR to get it in. I ordered some braided lines for the 2871R from Hose Solutions and specced them with Fire sleeve to be extra safe:). Got them on and got the turbo fitted to the manifold. Before I fitted the turbo I put a few small tacks on the wastegate penny washer to keep it closed.
I then fitted my lightweight Exedy flywheel and Stage 2 Exedy paddle clutch to the engine and got it dropped in the engine bay, I fitted the SR box to it after then with a new DW Poly gearbox mount. I reckon the R32s must have a considerably bigger tunnel than the S-bodies as the box slipped in with loads of room, no turning this box upside down.
So here is how it sits in the bay:
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I am delighted at how far back it sits, number 1 cylinder is pretty much inline with the R32 strut tops. I really can't wait to drive this and see the difference in handling as I could always feel the extra weight of the RB in it before.
As you can also see I sprayed the bay before I fitted the engine, I am very happy I did as it wasn't much work and cleaned it up no end.
Its still pretty messy in there but will all come together soon.
Earlier today I decided to test fit the rad and intercooler in there to see how far back I could mount stuff and where it would roughly sit.
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I am once again delighted as it looks with a small bit of trimming of the front panel I will be able to mount everything inboard well out of harms way, pushing that small bit of weight further back and keep the pipework nice and short.
I am really getting enthusiasm back now and can't wait to do some more to it! :D
awesome.. looks deadly. nice work dude.. :cool:
Coming together really well now Billy, keep it up
Bit more progress today.
Gave the rocker cover a lick of paint and fitted my Turbosmart external wastegate;
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Took a break from the engine bay then and pulled the dash out to get ready for fitting the cage.
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Might try and get all the cage bolted in next and then finish the engine bay and get it running.
Right bit more done, the rad and intercooller are now mounted up:
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I am very happy with how it ended up as I was able to fit it all basically in the engine bay, I only had to trim the front panel slightly to give a bit more clearence for the cooler. I won't have to worry about smashing the intercooler off anything now and will also have very short pipework so that should hopefully make it a bit more responsive.
As you can probably see in the pics I was able to mount the top fixings of the rad and intercooler with a plate that doubles up as a cooling panel which was a nice little touch:)
You can see the brackets I made up for the bottom of the intercooler in the pics and I also mounted the rad further back on the tension rod brackets so it is a very sturdy set-up now!
I fitted a few more bits around the engine bay and have ordered the silicone joiners I will need to make up the intercooler pipe work and the intake pipe as I will be running a Z32 AFM so once they arrive I can get on with them.
I think the only other thing I have done is fit my D-Max downpipe which once I 'massaged' the floor a little fits A1 and since just nicley above the chassis rail so I shouldn't have to worry about that scraping:D
Really can see this coming together now which is giving me the enthusiasm to keep going and get it done which I hope to have done sometime this month!
Wish me luck!:p
Looks really cool, can't wait to see the finish product :) did you make the cooling panel your self?
Yep, made it all myself.
tasty stuff your doin!
Home stretch in getting life into it again, rad/cooler fitment is great . so tidy looking in there
Great stuff fella :)
Thanks for the positive comments lads! I am sick of this building lark now though! I want to be driving it!:D
Looks fuckin awesome dude !!
Great fab work aswel ...
hats of to u here dude..as u said urself some people will love or hate the idea but bein an out & out rb man i think u deserve loads of credit! ur doin everytin rite so y not.. weight advantages etc and fact costs more to build rb and ur heading for the 400-450 mark, loads of power!
good job! ur near there so keep her lit boi
I rather love this build as I love SR'd 32s
Would love to have the knowledge to SR20 my Skyline.
Keep up the good work mate !
Yo cool job !.... Question tho how does shorter inter cooler pipes make an engine more responsive!?always wondered
Less lag dude :)
Well the theroy is that with shorter pipework ther is less area the turbo has to fill with air before it gets into the inlet manifold hence it should feel more responsive.Quote:
Originally Posted by git
That is the theroy anyway:D
brad mcqeene's s14 in jdm allstars can prove aswell that short i/c pipes work! same with paul murphy's, should work well!
That's a myth.... U will notice no difference.... Good work btw love sr's in 32's proper engine....Quote:
Originally Posted by git
I dunno man, I have spoke to quite a few people that have shortened their pipework and they said they did notice a difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robbie Daly Ps13
Been putting in the hours on this over the last few days.
One of the problems I have been having is getting the prop to fit. When I had the RB20 engine and box fitted I ran both ABS and Non-ABS diffs without a problem but after fitting the SR I found that the prop wouldn't fit anymore with the 2-way Tomei diff I had picked up which was in an ABS casing. So I had to strip the diff out of that casing and fit it to a non-ABS casing which I had, luckily enough it was the same 4.1:1 ratio as was in the ABS casing as I wanted to keep that ratio.
It all went together pretty well and once I had fitted the non-ABS diff the R32 prop fitted spot-on.:thumbs:
As I had a bit of time spare as I was waiting on parts to arrive I then fitted my DW braided brake lines to knock another job off the list.
I did a little more tidying round the bay and then the courier arrived with my silicone hose joiners I have been waiting for to make up my intake and intercooler pipework so with the help of my fabricator friend I cracked straight on with that as I want to try and get the engine running ASAP.
It all went pretty well and after a couple of hours we had these in and tacked together:
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It has worked out pretty damn sweet and as you can see the pipework is super short so should improve response a bit.
This is pretty much where it stands now we just have to weld up the pipes fully then we are going to make the screamer pipe up and after that I think it may almost be ready to start:D
Oh ya I also blew the wheel budget out the window and have bought a set of wheels I have wanted forever and are pretty baller but will wait until they arrive to show them off;)
very tidy looking looking fella...