The R32 Chronicles
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nissanr34cal
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I cant wait to get the engine back in.
KillboSlaggins
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Yeah +2 on the engine bay, looks mint
Can't believe how quickly you've done everything tbf
Can't believe how quickly you've done everything tbf
nissanr34cal
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Its not that quick mate. Im 3 years into this build. The last few months have been pretty productive visually but thats just becuase its been big steps. It will probably look like progress slows right up for a while because its lots of shitty little jobs now.
Timm.
New Member
I've been watching your build for a few years now, I cant wait to see you finish! I hope to start a build thread soon since I am tearing mine apart for rebuild. I've owned mine for over 5 years but have never bothered to do a build on it, Your car has definitely been a huge inspiration for me to redo my car!
nissanr34cal
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Thanks man. Appreciate it.
Sorry guys I've been slack with the car at the moment. So busy sorting buying the house i havent had the motivation to work on the car. However im still ordering parts so hopefully i can drop the engine in soon.
nissanr34cal
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So went to the workshop for a couple of hours. I had ordered a few bits to get the engine a little more together. So i put the engine stand on its side and set to work chucking the exhaust manifold on.
Put some new studs in where needed and a brand new cometic mls gasket. Started to bolt it up.
This manifold pisses me off more than any manifold ive ever fitted. All the bottom nuts are a spanner job 1mm turn at a time. So fucking frustrating. It took me 3hrs to get this bolted up.
Then i put a fresh copper t3 gasket on ready to fit the turbo.
Put the turbo on and started to do the nuts up. Then this
So i packed up and went home before i threw shit around the workshop.
So a boring little update but we are getting somewhere slowly. So busy with house things that the car has taken a back seat. But i will get back onto it soon.
Put some new studs in where needed and a brand new cometic mls gasket. Started to bolt it up.
This manifold pisses me off more than any manifold ive ever fitted. All the bottom nuts are a spanner job 1mm turn at a time. So fucking frustrating. It took me 3hrs to get this bolted up.
Then i put a fresh copper t3 gasket on ready to fit the turbo.
Put the turbo on and started to do the nuts up. Then this
So i packed up and went home before i threw shit around the workshop.
So a boring little update but we are getting somewhere slowly. So busy with house things that the car has taken a back seat. But i will get back onto it soon.
nissanr34cal
Well-Known Member
Thanks man. Im trying. Somtimes i have to adult instead of doing silly car things.
It was custom made by a friend of mine for his car. Its equal length and 2” runners. Unlike a 6 boost that is 1.75” it makes it hard af to bolt up.
nissanr34cal
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So ive been a little slack. I move into my first home this friday coming so that has consumed some of my time at the minute.
I have done a few little bits ready to get the engine in the hole. I am hoping next time i get chance to work on the car the engine and box will be going in the car.
Got the injectors in the inlet, this was taken halfway through. Got the alternator on the engine, i had an sr power steering pump so that fucked that idea. Also sorted a few bits in the bay ready to get the engine in. The turbo line i bought for the top mount were not correct so i need to get new custom lines made up which is what stopped the engine going in.
So minimal updates. I’ve been slack but had more important things to do.
I am hoping that in a month or so i will be able to fully commit back onto the car as im not as far off as i thought before mapping. Which may surprise people but im really not.
Sorry for the shitty update guys but sometimes i have to remember there is more to life than drift cars haha.
I have done a few little bits ready to get the engine in the hole. I am hoping next time i get chance to work on the car the engine and box will be going in the car.
Got the injectors in the inlet, this was taken halfway through. Got the alternator on the engine, i had an sr power steering pump so that fucked that idea. Also sorted a few bits in the bay ready to get the engine in. The turbo line i bought for the top mount were not correct so i need to get new custom lines made up which is what stopped the engine going in.
So minimal updates. I’ve been slack but had more important things to do.
I am hoping that in a month or so i will be able to fully commit back onto the car as im not as far off as i thought before mapping. Which may surprise people but im really not.
Sorry for the shitty update guys but sometimes i have to remember there is more to life than drift cars haha.
nissanr34cal
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So boys and swirls. Ive been busy with my house. However things are nearly done on the house so its time to start getting somewhere on the car.
I put some fittings in the block to convert to -6 an and -4 an. For the oil and water feeds for the turbo.
I mocked up some lines to get the measurements and ordered the lines i needed fom Hel Performance having fucked up almost all the an fittings i ordered to make my own lines. That shit is hard. You need paitence. Something i donet have.
Also i have been having issues sorting power steering pumps. The one that came with the engine was for an sr20. Which was fuck all use. Then i grabbed one off a mate. That was an rb20 pump but i didnt realise till i got back to the unit.
Finally i got an rb25 pump sent to me.
Got that fitted up. Which because of this poxy manifold i had to clearance the bracket on the block so it would fit.
Like a glove.
I also ordered up all the stuff for the fuel system. So i now have a brand new bosch 044. A brand new walbro lift pump, a bosch pump bracket, all brand new genuine jubilee clamps, the adapter for the fuel rail to go to an adjustable fpr.
I got the adapter fitted up.
Got the walbro mounted up in the pump bracket.
Also ordered isolation rubber bobbins for the bosch hopefully that will keep it a little quieter.
Also been doing some fucking around sorting tie rods. The 2 pairs I had. One was too short, the other were too long so ordered some new ones.
Figured it out and finally have steering and shit. Which is posh as fuck.
Cars back on the floor and finally rollable for the first time in 2.5 years.
Been having a fucking nightmare with this manifold it snapped another stud in the turbo flange.
There is a plan underway to resolve this as its the only thing stopping me putting the engine in.
So soon there will be a fuel system in the car. And then hopefully the engine and box will be going in.
Im back bitches.
I put some fittings in the block to convert to -6 an and -4 an. For the oil and water feeds for the turbo.
I mocked up some lines to get the measurements and ordered the lines i needed fom Hel Performance having fucked up almost all the an fittings i ordered to make my own lines. That shit is hard. You need paitence. Something i donet have.
Also i have been having issues sorting power steering pumps. The one that came with the engine was for an sr20. Which was fuck all use. Then i grabbed one off a mate. That was an rb20 pump but i didnt realise till i got back to the unit.
Finally i got an rb25 pump sent to me.
Got that fitted up. Which because of this poxy manifold i had to clearance the bracket on the block so it would fit.
Like a glove.
I also ordered up all the stuff for the fuel system. So i now have a brand new bosch 044. A brand new walbro lift pump, a bosch pump bracket, all brand new genuine jubilee clamps, the adapter for the fuel rail to go to an adjustable fpr.
I got the adapter fitted up.
Got the walbro mounted up in the pump bracket.
Also ordered isolation rubber bobbins for the bosch hopefully that will keep it a little quieter.
Also been doing some fucking around sorting tie rods. The 2 pairs I had. One was too short, the other were too long so ordered some new ones.
Figured it out and finally have steering and shit. Which is posh as fuck.
Cars back on the floor and finally rollable for the first time in 2.5 years.
Been having a fucking nightmare with this manifold it snapped another stud in the turbo flange.
There is a plan underway to resolve this as its the only thing stopping me putting the engine in.
So soon there will be a fuel system in the car. And then hopefully the engine and box will be going in.
Im back bitches.
nissanr34cal
Well-Known Member
So i went down the unit today with the plans of plumbing up the fuel system in the boot and chucking the tank in the car, and did something totally different.
I started by rolling it outside, thats the first time this car has seen daylight in 3 years. Pretty big deal to me.
Took a few photos of it with Adams car. Then pushed it back inside. Apologise for the photo quality. My iphone is in full potato mode again. I need to get a new phone.
So i pushed it inside and did my self a ghetto rattle can gloss black spray job on the cage.
Its not perfect. Far from it infact. However. Its painted. So good enough for me. I’ll be honest i didnt take and photos as i was going. But anyone who has painted a cage knows what a massive pain in the dick it is.
Its an excellent job from a distance though and thats all that matters.
I then bolted the bonnet up. Because obviously thats a priority at this stage. And took some more photos.
There’s potential here for sure.
So i then went on to quickly chuck the walbro in the tank with all new hardware and a new o ring seal as the old one was fucked.
Then it was time to head home. So i pushed the car back inside.
My new house is less than a mile away from my unit as apposed to the 18 miles away i was previously so that means i can pop up and make small amounts of progress a little more regularly.
Im now waiting on parts to come in to be able to mount up the bosch pump and the swirl pot setup. So once they come in thats next to do along with get the tank in the car. Then its onto chucking the engine and box in the car hopefully. Then i dont know? Maybe looms and interior?
I started by rolling it outside, thats the first time this car has seen daylight in 3 years. Pretty big deal to me.
Took a few photos of it with Adams car. Then pushed it back inside. Apologise for the photo quality. My iphone is in full potato mode again. I need to get a new phone.
So i pushed it inside and did my self a ghetto rattle can gloss black spray job on the cage.
Its not perfect. Far from it infact. However. Its painted. So good enough for me. I’ll be honest i didnt take and photos as i was going. But anyone who has painted a cage knows what a massive pain in the dick it is.
Its an excellent job from a distance though and thats all that matters.
I then bolted the bonnet up. Because obviously thats a priority at this stage. And took some more photos.
There’s potential here for sure.
So i then went on to quickly chuck the walbro in the tank with all new hardware and a new o ring seal as the old one was fucked.
My new house is less than a mile away from my unit as apposed to the 18 miles away i was previously so that means i can pop up and make small amounts of progress a little more regularly.
Im now waiting on parts to come in to be able to mount up the bosch pump and the swirl pot setup. So once they come in thats next to do along with get the tank in the car. Then its onto chucking the engine and box in the car hopefully. Then i dont know? Maybe looms and interior?
nissanr34cal
Well-Known Member
Slowly man. Slowly
nissanr34cal
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So more progress, started mounting up the fuel system. I mounted the fuel pump on rubber bobbins to try and isolate some of the noise of a bosch 044. Ambitions but maybe possibly it will help.
The next thing was to mount up the swirl pot. Due to the height of the bobbins i had to mount the swirl pot ok spacers which i made from some ali i had laying about.
It came out pretty well.
Then went to start plumbing it up only to realise i had 10mm fittings on the swirl pot when i needed 8mm. So ive ordered some weld on 8mm barbs to weld on there so i can actually plumb it up and put the tank in the car.
So onto problem number 2. The snapped turbo flange stud. A lad in the unit next door but one is a tig welder. And had a mobile tig set. Rather than dragging my engine to work i got him to pop around and tig some studs in for me in situe.
He tigged in a new set of studs. Not the prettiest but it works.
Then just to ensure a good seal over the welds for the studs. We opened up the wholes on the gasket.
Then as a second precaution we put a small countersink on the turbo too.
Then bolted it up lovely so did the water and oil lines.
I picked up an injector loom and an rb25 viscous fan from a friend.
I got the loom plugged in.
Then I got it off the engine stand ready to get the clutch and flywheel on.
I cleaned up the flywheel bolts on a wire wheel.
Then i mounted flywheel up.
Bolted it up with some loktite and torqued it up which took some thinking and a lever bar to do on my own.
Then like a twat I realised i needed to change the pilot bushing and i bolted the flywheel on in the way. So i then had to figure a way. I made a tool. With some some cunning and ghetto techniques.
It needed to be a tight fit to the current spiggot. Its not stupid if it works right.
Then I tried to use some thin grease i had in the unit but that didnt work. So took a quick trip home and got something more effective.
I went for the healthier option. No body wants a fat RB.
It worked a treat.
Result. Bread saves the day. This was why it needed to come out however.
It was fucked. So I chucked a new one on.
Onto the next mission. Fitting up the clutch. I ordered new arp clutch cover bolts because i had none.
Then onto fitting up the clutch itself.
All done. And it was time for a pizza break. The mrs delivered me a dominos. And a beer. What a girl. So i sat infront of the fire watching FD with a beer and pizza.
And not a bad view either.
Then i chucked the box on after dinner. Which i have to say was a pain in the arse on my own.
Also got the starter bolted up and a few other little bits. Then i was about ready to bolt it in the car.
I had one quick go. However on my own with a freshly painted bay, i didnt fancy my chances. So i called it off untill another day where i can get a bit of help.
So thats where we are up too. I really wanted to get the engine in however I’ve still made good progress so i cant grumble too much.
Cheers for reading, if anyone even is anymore that is.
The next thing was to mount up the swirl pot. Due to the height of the bobbins i had to mount the swirl pot ok spacers which i made from some ali i had laying about.
It came out pretty well.
Then went to start plumbing it up only to realise i had 10mm fittings on the swirl pot when i needed 8mm. So ive ordered some weld on 8mm barbs to weld on there so i can actually plumb it up and put the tank in the car.
So onto problem number 2. The snapped turbo flange stud. A lad in the unit next door but one is a tig welder. And had a mobile tig set. Rather than dragging my engine to work i got him to pop around and tig some studs in for me in situe.
He tigged in a new set of studs. Not the prettiest but it works.
Then just to ensure a good seal over the welds for the studs. We opened up the wholes on the gasket.
Then as a second precaution we put a small countersink on the turbo too.
Then bolted it up lovely so did the water and oil lines.
I picked up an injector loom and an rb25 viscous fan from a friend.
I got the loom plugged in.
Then I got it off the engine stand ready to get the clutch and flywheel on.
I cleaned up the flywheel bolts on a wire wheel.
Then i mounted flywheel up.
Bolted it up with some loktite and torqued it up which took some thinking and a lever bar to do on my own.
Then like a twat I realised i needed to change the pilot bushing and i bolted the flywheel on in the way. So i then had to figure a way. I made a tool. With some some cunning and ghetto techniques.
It needed to be a tight fit to the current spiggot. Its not stupid if it works right.
Then I tried to use some thin grease i had in the unit but that didnt work. So took a quick trip home and got something more effective.
I went for the healthier option. No body wants a fat RB.
It worked a treat.
Result. Bread saves the day. This was why it needed to come out however.
It was fucked. So I chucked a new one on.
Onto the next mission. Fitting up the clutch. I ordered new arp clutch cover bolts because i had none.
Then onto fitting up the clutch itself.
All done. And it was time for a pizza break. The mrs delivered me a dominos. And a beer. What a girl. So i sat infront of the fire watching FD with a beer and pizza.
And not a bad view either.
Then i chucked the box on after dinner. Which i have to say was a pain in the arse on my own.
Also got the starter bolted up and a few other little bits. Then i was about ready to bolt it in the car.
I had one quick go. However on my own with a freshly painted bay, i didnt fancy my chances. So i called it off untill another day where i can get a bit of help.
So thats where we are up too. I really wanted to get the engine in however I’ve still made good progress so i cant grumble too much.
Cheers for reading, if anyone even is anymore that is.
