BN Sports SR32

[johnjoeae86]

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

[driftescort]

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.













If anyone one would be interested in having one of these made up for them don't hesitate to contact me. :-)

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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.

[Famous jh]

You are some absolute homo if you plumb the screamer back into the exhaust! Give the dirty SR some hope of sounding proper Billy!

[driftescort]

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!

[driftescort]

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:





and one with the gate just placed on:



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



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:





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.

[PeterT]

good stuffs! when dya reckon youll have it all in and that?

[driftescort]

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.

[driftescort]

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:



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.







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!

[Simon]

awesome.. looks deadly. nice work dude..