SRC's BNR32

[SRC]

Well my car is starting to look like my own so I thought I would start a project thread for it. I've owned it for about a year now and its been pretty good to me so far.
It's an 89' GTR.
The car came with a few bolt ons.
It came with:

HKS Intakes
HKS Intercooler pipes
HKS SSQV BOV
Apexi N1 Exhaust
Test pipe
A/M Downpipe....looks like Greddy or HKS.
Mod'd F pipe
Greddy Profec A Boost controller
A crazy ass nest of a ground kit
Bilstien shocks and Eibach springs
Nismo FUCA's
Tein TC Rods
APP Braided brake lines
Braided clutch line
ORC Twin Plate clutch
Some wheels that were too small and had 25mm spacers and they were still sunken lol.

Here are some pics of when I first got it.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/mycar.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/_MG_2093.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/_MG_2095-1.jpg
Note the nest of wires/vacum lines. Also the melt spot on the shroud...wtf?


I bought the car when I was living in Calgary with a bunch of friends. I had no driveway/garage and very limited tools. I wasn't able to really dive into the car untill I got it back to Ontario when I moved back into my parents house for college. I parked the car pretty early and bought a cheap little winter beater.
Over the winter my focus was to clean up the car, mostly the engine bay. I just bargain shopped the maketplace for good deals on used stuff all winter and got a few killer deals.
Over the winter I added:

Apexi Intakes (after seeing that chart comparing intakes I ditched the HKS asap)
Samco Rad and Heater hoses
Bings Catch Can (yet to install)
AEM Wideband
Manual boost controller
R32 Nismo Turbo's (rebuilt April 09 with 360 thrust bearings)
Autobahn88 Intercooler & Piping kit
Apexi PFC L-Jetro
Replaced the nasty melted rad shroud


Here are the turbos after being rebuiilt
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2288.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2289.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2290.jpg

I put alot of elbow grease into the engine bay over the winter aswell. I replaced all the gaskets on the intake and exhaust parts.
I ported the exhaust manifolds to match the N1's.
I polished the charge pipes.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_1805.jpg

Painted the Valve Covers, plenum, and exhaust manifolds.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2073.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2263.jpg

Here is the Autobahn88 intercooler stuff installed
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2261.jpg

Here are some random pics from over the winter:
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_1793.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2008.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2031.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2032.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2255.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2257.jpg

So the last thing I've done to the car is new rims and tires.
I bought a used set of Work CR-Kai's in 18 x 9.5 +12. For tires, I went with a set of Hankook Evo V12 265/35/18's.
And here is how the car sits now:
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2465-1.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2463-1.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/DSC_2923b.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2474.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/sclewlow/IMG_2472.jpg

[victoriaGTR]

nice looking GTR bud!

[j-ran]

sweet ride man, i really like the way you cleaned up the engine bay. Looks so much better than when you got it. I like the rim colour against your paint as well.

[Kras]

Nice car! Love the paint.

How do you like the Autobahn88 intercooler? I am thinking of buying one. What made you go with the piping kit as well instead of sticking with your hks?

[mcfly]

looks good, now get it to a dyno

[SRC]

Thanks guys !

The autobahn intercooler is pretty good for the price. I was expecting it to be a little smaller but its either 3 or 4" thick. The intercooler and piping which came with nice couplers and clamps was under $500. I didn't use all the piping that came with the kit though since I had some HKS peices and the pipe that goes from the intercooler to the plenum is 1 solid peice with my BOV mounted on it.

I'm hoping to get on a dyno soon ! Or atleast a night at the drag strip. :D

[Oakville]

sweet ride man, i really like the way you cleaned up the engine bay. Looks so much better than when you got it. I like the rim colour against your paint as well.
x2, theres something about that colour, its mindboggling on a skyline. we get to see this thing again on saturday :D can't wait.

[SRC]

I installed a Nismo Solid Short Shifter yesterday.
I had a different unknown brand short shifter on there and it was leaking fluid from the transfer case so it had to go. It was way too stiff aswell I had to fight it to get it into gear.

The Nismo unit feels so much smoother and much less effort is needed to shift gears.

Edit: Forgot to mention, I did a compression check too.
Results were: 165-160-165-170-165-170

[Oakville]

was the shifter expensive?

[SRC]

was the shifter expensive?

The Nismo was like $320 to my house including customs fee's from RHDJapan.
The one I replaced it with I got off a user on GTRC for $80 shipped.....I wish I just went with Nismo from the start.

[mcfly]

I had a c's. it was awesome. good shifters are not cheap though

[Oakville]

The Nismo was like $320 to my house including customs fee's from RHDJapan.
The one I replaced it with I got off a user on GTRC for $80 shipped.....I wish I just went with Nismo from the start.

Decent. carry on :o

[R32 Godzilla]

Damn!! nice work...its good to see people that put work into their cars like this...The only thing thats slowing me down is a place to put it on a lift....dont know very many people where I live...lol

Nice car

[Oakville]

Covers are looking beautiful now, you did that all yourself?

[SRC]

Covers are looking beautiful now, you did that all yourself?

Thanks guys.

Yeah I did all that myself over last winter.
So far I havnt touched it since I stopped driving it about a month ago lol.

[Oakville]

Very nice bro. any more mods on the list for this winter?

cant wait to see this in the spring, we should do a snows-gone-timmies meet :D

[SRC]

haha yeah forsure man.

Nothing really in store for the winter, I'm enjoying the car as is.

[giannis rb]

I know the turbos arent spining over 1 bar,cause the inlet is carbon.do you know where i can find the inside materials to rebuild the turbow with stell,so i can run over ,1,5 bar

[SRC]

I know the turbos arent spining over 1 bar,cause the inlet is carbon.do you know where i can find the inside materials to rebuild the turbow with stell,so i can run over ,1,5 bar

:confused:

[mcfly]

:confused:

I agree.

I know the turbos arent spining over 1 bar,cause the inlet is carbon.do you know where i can find the inside materials to rebuild the turbow with stell,so i can run over ,1,5 bar

Buy r34 n1 turbos or gt2860r's
The inlet wheels are aluminum on the stock turbos not carbon. The exhaust turbine is ceramic.

[Skym]

I like.

From memory they use stock Nissan Pulsar GTi-R turbo CHRA, wheels on rebuilt R32 GTR turbo's. I think SR20DET uses the same GT25 exhaust housing flange as R32 GTR. So might be able to modify SR20DET turbo's x 2 to fit on R32 GTR exhaust manifolds. Or use bored / machined out stock R32 GTR turbo housings with SR20DET turbo CHRA, wheels.

I think HKS mention GT25 for both GTR, SR20DET turbo's -

http://www.hks-power.co.jp/products/turbo/hanyo/turbinesho.html

[giannis rb]

thanks boys i am thinking of rebuilding the turbow as they are in great condition and i think it will be more cheaper.also delivered a garrett gt45 turbo today so i think i have other options

[Oakville]

Buy r34 n1 turbos or gt2860r's


just for reference, are 2860s the Garrett equivalent to the R34 N1? and which is the HKS equivalent?

are you winter driving the car Shawn?

[mcfly]

gt25's are the same as r34 n1's
hks 2510 would be around same size as well.