Geo92 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Well here is my most recent project. Few details about the car before we begin with the interesting bits: - 40'000 Miles - 54 Plate - UK Spec - Was High CR N/A build making 306 bhp built by Abbey Motorsport before I started playing. As it stands as of 30 May, it is just waiting on a steering coupler from the USA before heading off to Abbey Motorsport for mapping. Pics of the way she stood as I purchased her; She got some new shoes New HU - Avic D3 (Test fit, wires sorted properly once tested working) Nexus 7 mounted; Version 1.. Nexus 7 mounted; V2, still not happy so V3 currently in the making..!! She had a bath.... And then we hit this little milestone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo92 Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 Intake manifold off, with help from my good friend Dex Front end off, rad gone, air con rad bent out of the way (soon to be deleted as it turned out), loom off and tucked out of the way... I was left with this; bumper back on to be pushed out of the garage. (Still looking very sorry for herself!) (Ignore pics, seems I only took dodgy photos) Engine out, stripping begins Block disassembled; not looking toooooo good! Off to the machine shop for the block, crank, heads, pistons and rods! Few goodies started arriving..... A lot of cleaning took place... The Mrs loved this part-- Genuinely! Crank back in 1st Piston in and clearances checked. More pistons installed, pathfinder mod started Cams in - Uprated Heads back on, timing all taken care of Larger injectors fitted; only running 440's for the initial base map to get her broken in Turbos on Few too many beers later it seems! On the stand all ready to go, minus wiring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo92 Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 (edited) Ok so we left off with the engine fully built minus the wiring. For the time being I used stock loom to get the engine in and running Engine in car assessing clearance issues! The clearance issues are pretty simple..... The steering shaft fouls the downpipe, and the steering coupler fouls the turbo housing. See below: The temporary solution to allow me to bolt it all up to move the car about was to grind down the bolt on the steering coupler and mill down the steering shaft. After that I had a custom downpipe made up and have ordered the GTM slim steering coupler, although I envisage that needing some time on the milling machine too. UPDATES to come as soon as the Steering Coupler arrives and is fitted.. Edited May 30, 2015 by Geo92 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo92 Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 (edited) Once fitted I started work on a few small mods I had wanted to do for a while; (Pics will follow hopefully, just waiting on my smashed phones contents getting recovered) 1) Delete the oil warmer / cooler. This is achieved simply by welding shut the down feed on the upper hard water pipe, passenger side. Removing the physical oil cooler and replacing the hollow oil feed bolt with a shorter one from Nissan. Part # available if needed. Finally weld closed the water return port on the drivers side. Unfortunately no pics as the phone I was using at the time got broken! 2) I removed the crossover hose that goes from the drivers side of the engine and crosses over to the passenger side. 3) I wire tucked the engine resulting in a much cleaner looking front end. 4) After the first round of "polishing".... Most like grinding away the thick coat of S##t. Edited May 30, 2015 by Geo92 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo92 Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 Spare, for update 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Finally! Another proper build thread! Very, very nice, buddy! Wait, you ordered something from GTM and you're hoping to arrive?! 0.0001 chances unfortunately, although I've seen Sam becoming active on US forums. Looking forward to the next updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodyboarder81 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 So was the engine built before you bought it .....and then you built the bottom again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo92 Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 So was the engine built before you bought it .....and then you built the bottom again? Yes the engine was previously built with a high CR, naturally to go turbo I needed to lower the CR hence the rebuild. I also loosened the bearing tolerances, hopefully to alleviate any issues further down the line. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choptop Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Looking good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Great build thread Keep the updates coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nissanman312 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Great read thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Finally! Another proper build thread! Very, very nice, buddy! Wait, you ordered something from GTM and you're hoping to arrive?! 0.0001 chances unfortunately, although I've seen Sam becoming active on US forums. Looking forward to the next updates. GTM have gone out of business Good riddance to them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilscorp Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Very cool! If you don't mind me asking what machine shop did you use and did the bore out the block with a torque plate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo92 Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 I used AMAC Engineering in Northallerton; http://www.amacengineering.co.uk/ Very proficient company. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slickcell Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Holy crap!!!!!!! Awesome!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacky Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Loving the nexus install. Looking forward to updates. What's your future plans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davectr Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Great build thread there 👠Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmanji Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Interesting reading this thread, keep us updated how it fo Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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