About that time again....drift car build thread

[White Comet]

your sig is massive brohan

[Kwon88]

your sig is massive brohan

Thx I guess lol Guess I could make it a lil smallerThis better...

[240-SRT-4]

U fly RC too? awesome!!!!!!!

[the_garynator]

Nice build! Can't wait to see some more videos.

[jdmlovechild]

Niced build,looking forward to seeing it in person.When is the next event your gonna be participating in

[Ghost_silvia]

Are you going to the San Marcos drift meet Nov. 30? It's on San Antonio Drift web site?

[chixwithtrix]

Are you going to the San Marcos drift meet Nov. 30? It's on San Antonio Drift web site?

Didn't know about it, I'll have to check that out.

Dunno when the next event I'm going to make it to will be. The Mineral Wells event is Nov 16, but I'm not sure the car will be ready or I will have enough time. For now I don't want to run it much w/o oil pressure, fuel pressure and other gauges and possibly a tune. Today I'm working on bleeding the hydraulic lash adjusters so we'll see how long that takes.

Other than that I'll have to see if I can keep the heat from the exhaust manifold away from my turbo couplers; they were melting and reshaping by the end of the last event. And find a better 2" to 3" coupler that won't blow up.

[zerodameaon]

Thats a good setup you have going. Very clean install.

[chixwithtrix]

Ordered fuel pressure, EGT, water temp and oil pressure gauges yesterday so we'll have to install those when they come in.

Yesterday and today I bled the lifters so they hopefully won't tap anymore. Pretty much all of them had to be bled of air, took freaking forever! Engine is re-timed and the cam gears/cams are all installed now. Just waiting on the valve cover sanding/painting before I start it up to make sure everything came out alright. Here are some pics

[MastaYu]

nice job

[nikl240]

Awesome build! I've always wanted to do an rb swap but that college thing kinda puts a damper on the time and money available for such an endeavor.

Did you consider the rb26 at all?

BTW the car sounds awesome in your last vid. I got cold chills every time you went by the cam.

[chixwithtrix]

nah, never thought of the RB26. This engine swap was kinda sprung on us when a friend of ours said he was parting his R33 and had great deal on this modded engine. My KA was running like crappo so we went for it and the swap was actually really fun

[nikl240]

Well, I guess you cant beat that. Glad to hear you enjoyed the work. There's nothing better than a genuine appreciation for what your doing.

[silviaz13]

nice job man!!!!very nice ride!!!!!!!

[chixwithtrix]

Now we're down to the more custom work of the build. Not going to make it to the next drift event this coming wekend, too busy, too broke and too many parts that need to be put on the car. Plus this stuff shouldn't be rushed.

First thing after the lifter bleeding was to paint the nasty valve covers. Here they are before being stripped:

One stripped, on primered

Black paint drying

On the engine:

Ian working on the custom bumper; taking stock S13 bumper and modifying it to duct more air into the intercooler. Cut from the bottom back and cut the front opening bigger. Then mounted the lower lip higher as you see it here:

Helped to use expansion foam to hold the part in place before/after fiberglassing

Getting closer, front glassed in and waiting to be sanded down and reinforced some more

Bondo on there to smooth it out

After bleeding the lifters and painting the covers I put everything back together and started it up. Ran great, supoer smooth and in-time. Unfortunately after about 2 seconds of running a strange tap started coming from the front of the engine. Narrowed it down to the water pump, and/or something under the timing belt covers...time to pull everything apart again.

So after everything was removed again I pulled the water pump. The shaft was slightly bent, most likely from the front end wreck the skyline this engine was in had. Hard to tell, but it had a bit of a wobble. Lokked pretty new inside

Also pulled the timing belt tensioner and idler, the idler was old so wanted to order another one in case it was one of the problems

Finally all of the parts I ordered came in. Since most of the dash gauges are bad or don't work I ordered a little Greddy oil presure gauge, STRI water temp and EGT, and a Summit fuel pressure gauge/adapter. Picked up a new idler, and a N1 ater pump for increased efficiency at higher RPM to replace the bent stock one. Lastly a few reducing couplers from the intercooler piping to the turbo elbow (blew the old coupler up) and intercooler piping to the odd throttle body size.

I've been working on cleaning up the engine bay's appearance. Cleaned off the grime from the intake mani, tucked the injector wiring, bundled up the main harness and started work on re-routing the under-manifold wires/hoses. Still need to wrap harness, clean more and paint a bit, but its coming along.

Lastly the install of the fuel pressure gauge. Had a T adapter to screw into, separated the lines and started the install. Planning to relocate the fuel filter a bit higher above the wiring harness to have good, clean visibility of the gauge.

[MastaYu]

very nice!

[Nismo24zero]

Awesome! Do you have any pix of the RB motor?

I also noticed that you have very nice, how should i put this delicately, bewbs.

def stealing for my sig

[Barthezas]

nice build

[slide4satan]

glad to see the motormite "help" section is being used. i love that part of my store. nice build

[karism]

Very nice build!

You take allot of pride in the work you do.

Well done!

[Nismo24zero]

looks sweet looks like your not taking any shortcuts great build. You should post a vid of you driftingit when your mobile

[chixwithtrix]

http://www.rc-tvproductions.com/240/rbinstall.wmv

I posted this vid on the last page of it at the last drift event and the swap, not so much of me drifting, but you get to see it in action. I stayed up 42hrs that trip so I wasn't doing so hot, will get more vid next time though

[Nismo24zero]

sweet

[chixwithtrix]

Last weekend I got the new N1 water pump installed

New pump, idler and tensioner. Put the timing belt on again

Front covers are ugly, time to paint





Installed

Bay how it looked a few days ago. Did some more painting in the bay w/ satin black. Removed cruise control and wiring seems to be under control on the passenger side. AAC tube needs some relocation. Also installed new coupler to the throttle body

Yesterday I took it upon me to strip the interior (I needed to pull passenger seat to remove the belt to use in my other new 240 anyway). Starting:



Seats removed

Me about to rip out carpet

Racing zard!

carpet out



Thats all for now

[xX RB Xx]

that ****s hot! the interior looks like my corolla! nothing but the seats, dash and seat belts. of course my corolla weights around 1900 pounds

keep doing what your doing

[maik21]

how good was the finished fiberglassed front bumper? u only put 1 pic of glassed bumper =) do u have another pic of it? thanks and good job.

[chixwithtrix]

no new pics since its not finished yet. It'll work alright as a stop gap, but fiberglass on plastic does not work the best

[Nicks97SX]

You a

no new pics since its not finished yet. It'll work alright as a stop gap, but fiberglass on plastic does not work the best

You are amazing. lol Brings a tear or 12 to my eye(s.)

[Coolwhip]

build came together nicely. Job well done.

[gmac708]

Very Nice!.Keep the posts coming!