Progress will be slow with small things being done here and there for the next two weeks until I have another week of leave at which time the big stuff like rear subframe, 5 stud, front xmember, engine cleaning/prep will take place.
Pics?
Monday, 20 August 2007
Paint is finished!
Got the car back from the painters yesterday and im very happy with the end product. Ive already started putting it back together with half of the main loom run through the car and the engine bay loom (not the engine loom) fully run through.
Progress will be slow with small things being done here and there for the next two weeks until I have another week of leave at which time the big stuff like rear subframe, 5 stud, front xmember, engine cleaning/prep will take place.
Pics?
Progress will be slow with small things being done here and there for the next two weeks until I have another week of leave at which time the big stuff like rear subframe, 5 stud, front xmember, engine cleaning/prep will take place.
Pics?
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
Its white!! (sort of)
The car has finally had some paint laid on it and its now half way through its paint job. The interior and the engine bay have both been sprayed and I am incredibly happy with the way it has come out. Trust me, the pictures dont do it justice...it is a very crisp clean white in real life. Remaining is the rear quarters, roof, bonnet and fenders + headlights then I get the car back. Looking at about two weeks for all of the above.
Once its back I will hopefully have some time booked off work just to work on it so things should start moving nice and quick. As always, here are the pics:
Once its back I will hopefully have some time booked off work just to work on it so things should start moving nice and quick. As always, here are the pics:
Sunday, 15 July 2007
Paint Update
These pics are actually from a week ago but I believe the car still looks the same (my painter has been sick). Basically the car has been to a panel beater to have the dents removed from the body and its been bogged up in certain places.
At the moment Im thinking it will be about 2 weeks before it lands back at my place and then I can start turning bolts the right way for a change.
At the moment Im thinking it will be about 2 weeks before it lands back at my place and then I can start turning bolts the right way for a change.
Monday, 25 June 2007
Progress Update
Woah...its been ages since I have posted here.
Since the last post about engine removal things have gone rather slow to be perfectly honest. A few weeks after the RB came out of the halfcut I had the car towed from the workshop back to my house so that I can do the time consuming work at my own leisure. Whilst the car was at my place I have:
- Removed ALL left over sound deadening
- Flared the rear gaurds
- Removed all body seals except for rear quarter windows
- Cut out the battery tray and had stainless welded on top
- Bogged this up so it is nice and smooth
- Had front windscreen removed (it cracked so now I need a new one...)
- Removed body loom from the engine bay
- And just generally tidied things up/removed bits in preparation for paint.
I have been holding off posting until now as the car was still stranded at my place but as of yesterday it has left to be painted. There were delays with this as I was originally going to get it done by a certain business that turned bad overnight, then I decided I would paint it myself, then someone talked some sense in to me and I ended up finding a fellow drifter who happens to work as a spray painter and he was more than happy to do it for me. As it is sort of a personal favour kind of job there were delays in getting it to him, and it might take a tad longer than normal but none of this bothers me as long as the end product is good.
In the mean time I have received some bits in the mail that will be going on the car. These include:
- Garrett GT3540 0.70 compresor/0.63 exhaust
- 6boost high mount manifold
- Turbosmart 48mm external wastegate (dont know if I will use this though)
- Oil/water lines
- Plazmaman intake plenum
- Apexi PowerFC (uses AFM though so not sure if I will run this)
- Bee*R Rev limiter
So at the moment Im waiting on the car to return home so I can start re-assembling it all (sigh) and then give the engine a good scrubbing before it all gets bolted in. It sounds easy when I say it but I can imagine there will be so much shit that doesnt fit that im going to go crazy. Oh well, pics:
Since the last post about engine removal things have gone rather slow to be perfectly honest. A few weeks after the RB came out of the halfcut I had the car towed from the workshop back to my house so that I can do the time consuming work at my own leisure. Whilst the car was at my place I have:
- Removed ALL left over sound deadening
- Flared the rear gaurds
- Removed all body seals except for rear quarter windows
- Cut out the battery tray and had stainless welded on top
- Bogged this up so it is nice and smooth
- Had front windscreen removed (it cracked so now I need a new one...)
- Removed body loom from the engine bay
- And just generally tidied things up/removed bits in preparation for paint.
I have been holding off posting until now as the car was still stranded at my place but as of yesterday it has left to be painted. There were delays with this as I was originally going to get it done by a certain business that turned bad overnight, then I decided I would paint it myself, then someone talked some sense in to me and I ended up finding a fellow drifter who happens to work as a spray painter and he was more than happy to do it for me. As it is sort of a personal favour kind of job there were delays in getting it to him, and it might take a tad longer than normal but none of this bothers me as long as the end product is good.
In the mean time I have received some bits in the mail that will be going on the car. These include:
- Garrett GT3540 0.70 compresor/0.63 exhaust
- 6boost high mount manifold
- Turbosmart 48mm external wastegate (dont know if I will use this though)
- Oil/water lines
- Plazmaman intake plenum
- Apexi PowerFC (uses AFM though so not sure if I will run this)
- Bee*R Rev limiter
So at the moment Im waiting on the car to return home so I can start re-assembling it all (sigh) and then give the engine a good scrubbing before it all gets bolted in. It sounds easy when I say it but I can imagine there will be so much shit that doesnt fit that im going to go crazy. Oh well, pics:
Sunday, 4 February 2007
Halfcut Engine Removal
Well, finally got around to removing the RB25 from the halfcut. Looking back it would have probably been easier to lift the motor out from the top rather than the bottom but it worked so..eh.
The biggest suprise of the night was openining up the cam covers to find a well maintained clean engine underneath its dirty "been sitting around to long" shell.
Next on the to do list is to strip the engine down of its ancileries and clean + replace everything that needs attention...I want it to look like its new! Also need to get around to removing the remaining tar from my interior but thats such a cunt of a job its just in the back of my mind at the moment.
The biggest suprise of the night was openining up the cam covers to find a well maintained clean engine underneath its dirty "been sitting around to long" shell.
Next on the to do list is to strip the engine down of its ancileries and clean + replace everything that needs attention...I want it to look like its new! Also need to get around to removing the remaining tar from my interior but thats such a cunt of a job its just in the back of my mind at the moment.
Monday, 29 January 2007
Halfcut Arrived
Well I heard from Ben @ KYP on saturday who let me know that my halfcut would be ready for inspection today! I went to check it out this morning and I was happy to see that it is exactly what I was after:
1995 Nissan Skyline R33 (series 1 body, series 2 motor)
RB25DET
5 speed manual
83,000km's
Non-ABS
Stock standard
Compression: 165 across all 6
We started the engine up whilst I was there and it was fine. It sounded so tough as it was with no exhaust etc so it put a nice big smile on my face.
I will be picking it up tomorrow and transporting it to the workshop where if all goes to plan it will be removed from the half cut that night so that we can throw the shell away (very limited space currently). Il post pics of this once done as well.
Anyway, here are some pics of the engine as it is now:
1995 Nissan Skyline R33 (series 1 body, series 2 motor)
RB25DET
5 speed manual
83,000km's
Non-ABS
Stock standard
Compression: 165 across all 6
We started the engine up whilst I was there and it was fine. It sounded so tough as it was with no exhaust etc so it put a nice big smile on my face.
I will be picking it up tomorrow and transporting it to the workshop where if all goes to plan it will be removed from the half cut that night so that we can throw the shell away (very limited space currently). Il post pics of this once done as well.
Anyway, here are some pics of the engine as it is now:
Sunday, 21 January 2007
Removing Sound Deadening
In preparation for the cars upcoming paint job I started removing the factory sound deadening from my floor pan this weekend. I really underestimated just how much work it was to do this as it taken about 6 (slack) hours so far and i still have to clean up all the left over bits on the floor (power tools are involved with this part though!).
For anyone else that is planning to do this job I can highly suggest you purchase a bag of dry ice as it makes the job much easier. You just leave the bag on a spot that you want to remove and it freezes it and makes it brittle so you just hit it and it all cracks off in one peice. Another thing that comes in handy for the gluey parts on the transmission tunnel is a heat gun as this will melt the glue so that you can simply scrape the deadening off.
In other news I have placed a deposit down on an R33 halfcut that I should have early next month :D. Anyway heres pics of this weeks progress:
For anyone else that is planning to do this job I can highly suggest you purchase a bag of dry ice as it makes the job much easier. You just leave the bag on a spot that you want to remove and it freezes it and makes it brittle so you just hit it and it all cracks off in one peice. Another thing that comes in handy for the gluey parts on the transmission tunnel is a heat gun as this will melt the glue so that you can simply scrape the deadening off.
In other news I have placed a deposit down on an R33 halfcut that I should have early next month :D. Anyway heres pics of this weeks progress:
Sunday, 7 January 2007
Interior Detailing...
Had a fun day yesterday pulling the cars interior out in preperation for painting. I got all of the trim and carpet out but I still need to chip off the sound deadening and mask up the parts that I dont want sprayed. The engine bay is also looking a bit emptier now as I removed all the random ancilleries from it like clutch/brake master and also the entire HICAS system (as i have a non hicas subframe to go in).
I also received a response from DPI this week regarding the conversion. Their letter basically says it is ok to modify the vehicle this way but I will need an engineer to sign off all of the work which is what I was expecting anyway :D. They had a sad about the rims I chose (17x8 F, 17x9 R) and said I couldnt run them but I have seen people roll over the pits before with rims like this so I will worry about it when the time comes.
Anyways, pics of the cars current state:
I also received a response from DPI this week regarding the conversion. Their letter basically says it is ok to modify the vehicle this way but I will need an engineer to sign off all of the work which is what I was expecting anyway :D. They had a sad about the rims I chose (17x8 F, 17x9 R) and said I couldnt run them but I have seen people roll over the pits before with rims like this so I will worry about it when the time comes.
Anyways, pics of the cars current state:
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