Project McGoose

[dobergoose]

After years of this I'm gonna start one of these project threads on my noose.After spending more money than I should have, I should have more I'm sure but I have worn out, destroyed or swapped quite alot of the upgrades I've bought over the years . As it stands the cars sitting engine out and with still quite alot to do.I bought the car totally standard about 4 and a half years ago, having never owned a jap car but always being a fan of rwd, the 200 seemed to fit the bill. After about 3 months I found my 1st decent car, no rust bar a tiny blister on the tail gate, 70 odd thousand mile, L plate, only had to travel 14 miles for it. I was aware of the cars performance figures but was still quite surprised by it and loved the feel of the steering and the driving position seemed spot on. I was sure that this was enough and did tell plenty of people I was keeping it standard.: 2 weeks after buying it and a trip to Crail and a 14.8 quarter mile I drove it to Switzerland via Santa Pod and Amsterdam Toured the Swiss Alps and had a great time, late September dry empty roads.

[dobergoose]

While in Switzerland I ran out of oil due due to piston rings, I had good compression I think it was the oil rings that were passing too much oil. Car made it home but the tubo was getting the blame for the smoke and loss of oil. While searching for a good used turbo I spotted a car breaking ad on SXOC by Marty t3. Not too far away at his folks house was his pre facelift with HKS Hiper exhaust, lowering springs, ND chip, ND Hybrid T28, and a K & N. And so it started. The shocks got swapped, turbo, exhaust, Kev(also SXOC) swapped the chips and I stuck on the filter and some colder plugs. I soon fitted a blitz DV, Bosch fuel pump, and a volvo intercooler.Marty's old carMarty's old car lives on though as the Bodged Barby cooler.

The shocks didn't last long so they got binned and on went a set of AGX's with hks top mounts.Kosei Racers 17x7's with toyo proxes 215/45/17 all round were next and the toyos transformed the car especially in the wet.

[dobergoose]

I made my first trip to a rolling road and made 284.5bhp @ fly and managed to smoke out the place. Car was running like a dream scaring the crap outta me, but also depositing its oil out the exhaust, so a ball bearing turbo was bought as the compression tests were fine, but it still smoked like a chimney.I rebuilt the engine in my shed in a weekend with new oil pump, big ends and mains, metal head gasket and a rebuilt head. I fitted a poly steering bush courtesy of Wak of SXOC, a lightened flywheel, cusco clutch and cover, nismo clutch pivot, swapped gearboxes for a 3rd time, nismo engine and box mounts, pineapples on subframe, cusco front support, and a pair of strut braces. I got myself a Bee-r rev limiter and have ran it with no related problems for about 3 years.

[dobergoose]

I took the car to Crail and we had quite a gathering of 200's with fellow SXOC'er Mikes and mine being the fastest and on our second race after I'd had a solo run with the starting marshal holding me on the start for ages staged, popping and banging off the Bee-r's limiter set about 4500rpm, my cusco cluctch desided it like the flywheel so much it welded itself to it and proceded to break up. Killing the friction plate and the fly.So engine and box out again, swap gearboxes for 5th time while its out, Spec clutch from the states and a Jun lightened flywheel bought. Along with this I added a MSD Digital Ignition system, Apex FMIC, Stainless split turbo elbow, Z32 front brakes, swapped the AGX's for JIC coilovers, poly bushed TC rods, Splitfire coilpacks, FSE regulator, short shifter and a Profec B.The Jun flywheel was a great addition, Spec cluctch not so, my friend Kev fitted it for me and bled my brakes while I was at work as I was getting a ferry at Harwich the next morning and off to Switzerland again. I ran the clucth in for 1000 miles and in a traffic light drag near the border with Germany I got humped by a BMW 320@ when my new stage 4 clutch slipped its *** off. So it was clucth swap when I got home for an AP paddle and a Cusco cover.Clutch cover had snapped one to clips that holds the springy part in place.

[dobergoose]

It was now I got bigger plans for more more power, all started when I accidently bought a Greddy manifold on ebay, which ment I needed a TD06 20g turbo, which ment I needed internals. About this time I took out a small loan and bought SXOC member Barry Calenis freshly built engine which ended up in SXOC Trader Brens S13 and made 500+bhp after my life changed quite a bit due to a long term relationship messing my head up and I sold it on to Bren. I got Wiseco pistons and Pauter rods as part of the deal I done with Bren so I had a start and started collecting bits for the rest of it. I got external wastegate, front pipe, 550cc injectors, emanage, head gasket, oil pump, water pump, hks cams, jun valve springs, OS giken twin plate and most the other little bits, belts gaskets etc.

[dobergoose]

Next on the list was a pair of Cobra Suzuka seats which I made mounts for using the standard seat rails with brackets welded to them. To make sure my work was up to the job I went out one wet sunday and got a rear blowout and spun out of control done a straight bit of dual carrageway before slowing down on the barrier causing a bit of a mess. The seat brackets survived ok:thumbs: The car was a mess though.

[dobergoose]

Car eventually got taken to my mates work with a stripped and de-counterweighted subframe with alloy bushes and cusco top arms, all other bushes at the rear are poly bushes except the S14 diff bushes that are alloy.Also fitted 300zx rear brakes to match my fronts along with a matching master cyclinder. Wheels are now Advans 17's x 7 & 8". And a new HKS hiper stainless fitted.Rear Interior was removed and a Do-luck rear support fittedPicture tomorrow in day lightThe work my mate done was incredible, the most of it you don't even see, he made the inner and ouer sill, along with alot of little panels and the bottom few inches of the rear quarter panel that was cut from Marty's old shell before it became the BBQ. The swage line that runs along the top third of the wings and doors onto the rear quarter was also removed along with rear wiper, spoiler, and ariel. I had genuine Type X front bumper and sideskirts fitted along with fibreglass copies of the rear spats. Kouki rear lights also and the lower panel is a modified uk version. Also one of my favourite additions is the tiny little spoiler similar to those found on Audis and BMW's.Its now Porsche gaurds red with black roof.You'll have to excuse the rusty disks it not moved in a while.Thats how its sitting just now, Parked on bits of wood as a jack or the engine lift won't fit under it, and the engines out so its sitting a tiny bit higher than normal.

[dobergoose]

Next ups the engine rebuild again, I'll list the spec and that I've had it on the road for about 7 miles and its out again due to weird oil pressure and a bottom end knock. Bearings don't look bad but I'm replacing them as there is signs of some light scoring from some debri of some sort.

Tomei 2.0 Litre stroker crankTomei stroker 84mm pistonsTomei H-beam rodsTomei/OS Giken FlywheelOs Giken twin plateHKS Head gasketNissan Oil pumpRemote Oil filterNissan Water pumpKoyo RadiatorApex FMICGreddy TD06 20gGreddy Stainless manifoldGreddy External WastegateGreddy Oil CoolerStandard Head (basic valve job)Jun Valve SpringsHKS Step 2 camsHKS Vernier PulleysDenso 550cc InjectorsFSE fuel pressure regulatorCustom PlenumFord throttle bodyQ45 AFMApexi AIr filter

Apexi Power FCDatalogitMSD DIS4HO IgnitionSplitfire coilpacksGreddy Profec BGreddy EGT GaugeAutometer Oil Pressure gaugeAutometer Boost GaugeAutometer Oil Temp gaugeAutometer AFMInnovative LC1Bee-r revlimiter

S14 GearboxS14 diff

I'm gonna take pictures as I do the rebuild, I've been made redundant recently so it'll be when funds allow, I'd like to use ACL race bearings if I can afford it, and possibly lookin at getting the crank knife edged.

I've got new front arms poly bushed, Cusco TC rods, Tie rods, ends and spacers and Nismo rack bushes all sitting to go on.

Power figures are a long way off, I'm hopeing to get 400+ eventually but I'm gonna take it easy with the boost and mapping til I'm more confident with it all. All the parts are there for it, its mapping that'll be the deciding factor.

Future plans call for a head with alot more work, some softer coilovers, a roll cage, diff, probablly 1.5 way and a tougher box, my choice of box is very much to be decided on by cash, I'd love a PPG dog box to use with a Ikeya Sequential shifter but realistically, a 300ZX or RB25 might be the one. I do have an OS giken 3 speed kit built up but 2nd gear is mashed and its still gonna be pricey to replace that.

[oversteer180]

Thats a cool story, good luck with the build up!

[dickie]

Bravo! Excellent story, please keep us all updated.

[rico05]

Sick car. I love high power CAs!!! But I am a bit biased

[tyrannix]

"nice" (understatement)

+1 for tomei stroker crankwhere did you get it? (and the matching rods)

the only place ive seen online is takakaira, and they dont communicate that well

CJ

[dobergoose]

I bought the crank used from Japan, took me ages to track down pistons, Tomei have stopped making the CA stroker stuff, my friend Kev got the last crank they made. The rods are the same length as standard, the pistons are the only difference, while its apart I'm gonna measure up the piston incase I ever need replacements. I got the pistons by buying a complete stroker kit again from Japan and again it was also used, so now I've a spare crank and before anyone asks its not for sale.

[ca20det]

where did you buy your splifire coilpacks?? ****ing nice project BTW

[dobergoose]

where did you buy your splifire coilpacks?? ****ing nice project BTW

Used from Japan, they still list these on the splitfire japan website. Not sure if they sell them but oopparts are very good for stuff direct from Japan.

[r34 gtr]

i am impressed. love the car! youll have to let us know how much power it puts down, im sure itll be sick!

[ca20det]

oopparts?? excuse my innocence but what or where is that? more details please!

[dobergoose]

Sorry but its actually ooparts I had an extra P in there.

http://www.ooparts-internation....html

[ca20det]

they deal directly online? with exchange rate?

[rico05]

Bless you sir!!

[dobergoose]

I bought some hard to get bits from them for the stroker kit, they speak good english, well via email they did, think I paid with paypal or credit card.

[dobergoose]

Small update, still jobless and approaching breaking point but their is a small amount of progress with my car.

Decided to remove the front arms and tc rods to fit tein rose jointed tc rods and new front arms with polly bushes. Straight forward enough so I removed the arb, tc from front arm, and set about removing the brake caliper as I'd decided to remove my discs and clean the rust off them and give them a coat of paint. First problem was one of the bolts rounded very easily but I managed to get it off by forcing a smaller socket over the rounded bolt. Caliper off, so pop the disc off I thought. It wouldn't budge after getting a hammer and knocking it about so I had to resort to removing the whole front upright and battering the crap out of the disc til it came off, hour and a half it took and my discs probablly fit for the bin. While under there I managed to bend my steering tie rod, not a problem I've got Z32 ones and anti bump steer kit to go on. Noticed my coilovers are looking pretty much scrap, the chrome from the stanchions is flaking off and rusted. Also lots of little bits of rust appearing on the inner wheel arch, so its wire brush and some hammerite thats in order for that. Front tc rod should be a breeze, I'd replaced the bushes with poly ones a few years ago and everything was well greased. The bolt that holds them on to the chassis had seized into the metal sleeve that passes through the bush, so spent about half anhour grinding the head off the bolt and cutting the other end throught the side of the bush. So I've now got one new arm and one tc rod fitted, still to remove the steering rod as I didn't have a big enough spanner, 30mm I think it is.Also got the head off my block, removed the rods and pistons, my crank is in a machine shop getting knife edged and the rest of the bottom end internals will be getting dropped off soon as I get some clutch cover bolts for the OS to get balanced, I've also ordered up some new mains and big ends. Gonna strip the block back completely and clean it all out, same for the oil pump and water pump, I'm not happy with the amount of friction on the water pump.Hopefully the weathers gonna be ok and I can get cracking with it and get the other side started.

[float_6969]

Thanks for the update!

[dobergoose]

OK update with a couple of pics.

Yesterday I went out and took a wire brush to my drivers side inner arch area, cleaned any surface rust and dirt off, then applied this spray on stuff called Metal Ready, which prepares the metal for the paint I used POR15. This is used by the classic car people alot so its worth a try, it drys very hard and very tough, draws any moisture out and seals against rust. While I was waiting on it drying I removed the ABS unit, haven't done anything about the pipe work I'll tackle that at a later date. As I was doing this I took the caliper that was already unbolted and drained the brake fluid into a big tub which I managed to kick over when it was about full making a lovely mess on my driveway. Today it was dry and so I fitted my new lower arm and TC rod, re-attatched the brake pipe bracket which I'd sprayed in hammerite silver only because I had some kicking about. I removed the drop link for the arb as it was feeling a bit tight and the top bolt is seized in the bush centre pin, so its next to do, before I grease it back up and put it back on. Next up is get over to my friend Kev's to borrow his 30mm spanner and replace the steering rod and fit the anti bump steer kit. Cleaned up my brake disc a bit and painted the centre, didn't take alot of time over this as a front brake upgrades on my future plans.Tommorrow weather permitting I'll get the steering rod done get that side back together for now and start stripping the passenger side down, and I can't find my Nismo steering rack bushes.