haha Awesome idea for the oil drain. As for skylines in the US... I plan to bring mine to the US when I buy a house down there (2016)... it's such a shame to have to drive it on our bombed out horrific Canadian roads (riddled with potholes...you'll see what I mean with my new post today)...the US roads are just sooo perfect.
thanks for all the great words guys, much appreciated!!!
Well I know its been a while since my last update but what can I say? when summers here I spend a lot less time updating thread and more time driving the car!! LOL...
2 weeks ago I left for a trip the South Carolina USA... we drove (a VW Jetta) basically all up and down and across the USA eastern seaboard, we hiked, climbed mountains, surfed the oceans... pretty wild trip. I'm finally back home.
The plan was originally to take the GTR of course but when I crunched the numbers on fuel pricing we just couldn't afford it!... It would have cost $1300 in gas for the GTR... and the Jetta cost $380... so the choice was clear... or so I figured. OK, the car has 2 weeks to chill, and a little money to be spent on it since it wont be spent on gas!... So the day I left I dropped the car off at Autoworx with a big list for them to tackle..... and so here's where we stand on the car at the moment:
- All 4 wheels have been filled with nitrogen instead of air (bigger molecules apparently is better? No clue...lol)
- My front right rim has a bad bend across the barrel from hitting a pothole, so that's been diagnosed properly now, as it was previously thought to be just off balance. I'm going to go see P. Jacques here in MTL. He does all the magnesium and light weight rims for the drift guys out here... He should be able to help me out, or so I've been told.
- My AC was non-functional due to a blown AC-high pressure line. Bought a new one off frankiman (thnx for the great deal bud!!) so Autoworx swapped the lines and put a huge vacuum on the AC system to test it, was non-leaking anymore. TEST PASSED!! woohoo.. So they filled it with new refrigerant. Now there is a problem with the AC electrical control unit, so I'll get to that soon.
- Then I had one burned out Oxygen sensor, so I figured replace both with brand new OEM sensors... Now the car runs a lot better, no more spitting or hesitation!! yeeeee!!
- The E-brake needed to be cleaned (shoes) and adjusted as I was not able to lock up the wheels at speed... Now it locks up quite well!
- I had some sort of stupid coolant leak which I though was coming from the rear turbo... turns out Autoworx found a broken hose clamp on the heater core lines.. problem gone.. turbos still perfect!
- The clutch job: so I first measured the thickness of my second hand ACT 6 puck disk... it came it at 0.305" (inch thick), so I called up ACT usa... asked for the spec.. New the clutch is 0.315".. so I'm good. It's essentially brand new. They said the minimum thickness before slipping will be 0.250... so that was awesome news.
The difference in weight between the Toda light weight flywheel and the OEM was roughly 20 pounds (10kg)... so that's also awesome. Then at Autoworx they did a full clutch job... took off the old stuff (pictured below) installed the new. They removed the full clutch dampener circuit and replaced it with a stainless braided line, they bled the clutch and put in ATE high temp rating blue clutch fluid. And of course the pilot bushing and release bearing at the same time.
After driving the car the first time I gotta say I'm really enjoying the cluytch feel, its not at all super heavy. I'ts like 75% heavier than OEM feel, it grabs like there's no tomorrow, it's sort of "on/off" button style, but I'm getting used to it.. love it!! Gonna try a couple launches in some time... once I'm more acquainted with the setup.
So here's my "to-do" for the near future:
1) Diagnose electrical problem with climate control unit ... may end up buying a new one, so if anyone has one for sale... lemme know ill take it!
2) Bring rim to get repaired. If its UN-repairable, I may end up ordering 2 new SSR type C-Rs from Japan. Only difference is I will match them exactly to my rears so I wont be staggered any more. We'll see tho, that`ll be a lot more expensive than repair. lol
3) Buy and install Blitz SBC type R boost controller.
Then its onto the bigger picture which is the final touches of:
- Denso 280 lph fuel pump
- dDenso 700cc injectors
And followed with a re-mapping at the dyno...
I'm almost there guys... almost reached my goal for this car!!! then what after!? hahaha.... Here's some photos of the stuff.
Old clutch system:
Old O2's, clutch circuit, and blown AC line:
And that's the replacement line for the slave: