zippyobrien

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i no its not a ford, but i thought id stick a post up to show the work weve been doing on it,
payed 15k for the car 7 months ago (paid a bit much really) and it was tottaly standard bar some air filters.

this is a few weeks aftwer we got it









as you can see we added a front mount cooler and full 4" (pipe is 4") system and 5" back box straight away, along with a chip it made 355.6 bhp at surrey rolling road.


she then recently came of the road to be made a bit more special,
so ill pop some pictures of the new reincarnation up tommrow after a good clean,

what ya reckon then peeps,
and ideas welcome.

cheers for looking

Twins

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Love it

SaqsS2turbo

rated biachh

- Sim -

man.... give me your car !!!!!

I love the R33 but barely to get anything for it in germany.... even spare parts are a painwork to get....

Looking forward for updates!!!

zippyobrien

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spares arent to bad here,
got an account with jap performance parts, they constanly break them

major up dat today with power graphs

Paul Eggleton

Very nice - lovely colour and looks ace on those wheels

fezzajsy

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looks awesome

GazzaG

Fucking hell mate, were did you get 15k from, love thge car, i'd of got a cossie tho with 15k

zippyobrien

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why would you have gpt a cossie then gaz????

and its the old gits,
update in a sec when ive uploaded the pics,

and me and luke lav have achieved more with this car in one day than you entire project gaz

zippyobrien

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right,
the old man recently booked it in for a change of turbos, a power fc, apexi acvr, tein coilovers, new fuel rail, injectors, fuel pump, oil cooler ect

so it came back yesterday and to say theres a big difference would be a fucking understatement, it pulls so hard and the acceleration just doesnt seem to drop off until the late 170mph figures,


so as it now had the performanc, decided the bay needed a bit of a spruce up, as you can see in the first lot of pictures the engine bay was a mixture of white and balck paint and loads of boring engine looking bits,

so, on went the chrome rocker covers, carbon plug and cam belt cover, chrome tubo pipes, samco hoses (water and heater ones are still in the post, abbey oil breather tank, and a few other bits and pieces,

and finaly, luke89 gave me a hand and we stripped alot of the lump down and repainted the engine bay

as you can see from the these picis it was in pretty shity condition, most skyline bays are tbh, not sure why nissan didtn do them the same colour as the car from the factory.?

pipes of



as you can see, generally not very nice

every thing masked up, stripped down and primered and in first coat of matt black



finished articel, now starts the reassembly

after about an hour

nice shiney brether tank and fuse box cover fitted


whole bay shot, showin new slam pannel aswell


just waiting on the water and breather hoses now, and the oil coler and remote filter kit

now for the sexy spoiler blade ande end caps picture lol


and for the proof to back up the power,
courtisey of surrey rolling road

510.4 bhp at 1.4 bar
not bad for bolt on mods,
next on the engine list is cams, then once the standard engine gets tired, a 2.8 stroker kit,

also, cant rate the coilovers highly enough, just need a nice k sprt 8 pot front caliper conversion,

big shout to horsham developments for the mapping and turbo ( garret gt2860 rs just incadse your interested lol, 2 of them) fitting, abbey for the tank and knight racer for all the looooovely carbon bits,

what ya reckon then,

Shorty

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Cant see why you would want a Cossie over that tbh, hes probably only spent a few grand and look, 500 ponies and handling to suit!

I like that alot mate, nice and stealth under the engine bay, i didnt realise you could get that much power just off bolt ons too, fair play

zippyobrien

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could go cams and a wee bit more boost on stock head and bottom end,
but tbh,

i think this is a far as the stock set will be taken here ans the car is used rugularly,

old mans on the hunt for another engine to have strooked

cheers Shorty kinda wanted black silicon hoses but they were 2 month wait, so got blue, and going to continue the chorme/polished and corbon fibre look where ever possible,

strut brace is cumming of to be chromed soon

PeterD

nice machine

GazzaG

yes, but you have help, equipment, and someone to lend you the money to do it,

i've got fuck all,

if it would of gone the way i planed it i'd of done the escort and be halfway through an astra now

zippyobrien

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lavy slapped some masking tape on the wings and round the bay, and done the first coat, hardly mind bending (although cheers for the help bro)

still managed to strip all the anciliries and put them back on and chuck the spioler on in a few hours,


ill get some more picis up of the rest of the carbon tommrow, added door sill, new interior gauges, and boot trim as well now


cheers for looking

Charlie Chalk

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Nice liners, far better than a cossie LOL

zippyobrien

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and although there so much more in the engine bay, there easyer to work on i think lol,

although where the wings are low it did give me a bad back lol
(i do openly admit i sounded like a poooooooff then )

cheers for the comments

- Sim -

nice number.

i also want a r33 gtr....

that would be one of the few cars i d sell the escort for.....

Paul Eggleton

Very nice and decent power

luke89

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all back together then dude soz i had to shoot didnt get in agen till 4am grr dam gurls , to say this car looks so much better in real life is an understament and all that carbon really sets it off , did you get round to checkin that bottom boost pipe was on right after all the troubles workin frow the indercater hole in the bumper?




now lets go give blacky rst some lovin as welll

zippyobrien

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um yeah bout that lol

gave it a rev once all back to gether, sounded mint lol, then rev, ptchsssssssssssss and cut out

so ihad to take the wheel of and nearside fornt wheel archline and the fucking splitter to get to the pipe,

let me no when you need a hand to get them mounts dude, least i can do

and cheers once again for the help

zippyobrien

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oh, and balckey neees your attention dude, rear spioler is fucked and the roll cage deffinatly needs spraying lol,

ill get mick to leave it at ,mne when the weather cheers up and well have a play with that to

zippyobrien

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after an interesting incident with the stoppers,
its been decided that a brake upgrade is deffo needed,

so ordered up a set of k sport, billet 8 piston calipers and either 356 or 380 mm discs and bells (still waiting for them to get back to me, )

and ordered some silicon piping to plumb in the breather set up

also been eyeing up a greedy inlet plenum, not sur eon the benifits, perhaps starvos could comment ???

cheers for looking

xr4x4rs

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awsome car

my fave skyline out the lot is the r33 gtr

best colour and lovely mods

if the engine does get tired dont bother with teh 2.8 kit

get hold of a rb30 lump

zippyobrien

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well, its there to consider,
gets a bit dear to go any further though, as will need new turbos, gear box, clutch ect all over again, including the 8 ish grand for the rb30,

tbh, after the cams and maybe a freshen up on the current engine, i doubt the engine will be taken any further

cheers for the comments

xr4x4rs

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yeah thats true

but the rb30 is the daddy of all skyline engines

either way the rb26 can push out a fair old whack and be reliable

r33 will be my next car after ive finished with teh cossie

zippyobrien

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lol,
they are brilliant cars,
id be more inclined to get a r32 though if your used to a serria, alot smaller and light, personlay, i think the skyline is useless unless your on big wide a roads.

Stavros

Hate to tell you this mate, but apart from some non-black skylines that had BLACK enginebays, all enginebays were painted the correct colour.

So your dads or whoevers this is should be black or body colour, DEFFO not white, thats for bloody sure.

2.8 conversion is pointless and expensive too, RB30 all the way.

Dont bother with a different plenumn unless its either the Nismo one (even then, minimal difference) or he going crazy power and changing to a single throttle.

Not really sure if I agree with that big wide road comment. Although its bigger than a R32, R32s are still about the size of a Sierra, but wider, so no B-road blaster anyhow.

zippyobrien

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cheers for the info,

i couldnt work out how the engine back was black and white

had a scout around the car and cant find any signs or it having been a different colour previosly

but i do no it had a different engine in it before we bought it,

cheers for the advice starvos.

xr4x4rs

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the engine bay was whit beacuse the paint had gone

thast the primer underneath

my mate has a r32 and a r34 gtr

the 32 is just insane, hes just blew his oskien gearbox up

god knows how i dont know

but the car is just awsome

his 34 well what can isay its a 34 gtr n1

centre lock whees ap brakes, abbey maintatined running around 440bhp



i still like the r33 better think its only because there more subtle and not in your face like the others

alanfordtw-15

Class car lad seems to beat a cossie in a lot of areas.

Mr Sam

sure ive seen the car elsewhere

zippyobrien

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where abouts you from mate?

the car spends alot of time in kignston and bout it miles away (cant remember where from now )

been out for a bit of a play today, must have been mapped in hot weather as the boost seems to be creeping up a little, previouse max boost seen was 1.41bar,

saw 1.49 on the acvr today, not a prob though, its on the self learning mode through the gears.

also does any one no out about the ssqv hks dump valves, its got two plumb in (tuner fitted them) and there dumping to atmosphere (got the standard silver disc in at the moment) but fuck me there loud, dont think it helps that there pionting straight towards the air vent in the front bumper lol,
my question is, do these valves partially re circ as theyve got 2 pipes on them, one from the boost pipe, and another which is just blocked for now (our car had all the recirc pipes removed at some piont.

also, does any body have any info on the different coloured discs and what sounds they produce, cheers

zippyobrien

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time for an update,
as some of you may know, i changed the front splitter around 6 months ago, after the first one came into contact with a kurb.

so any way, fitted that one, went on ok, was very very strong, being 4 layer carbon, and had lots of vents in it.

problem was, it was a good inch lower than the original which ment it caught on every thing, got to the piont were the carbon was fine, but all the laquer had cracked, so pulled it off lol




the bumper on skylines is just a plastic skin with an impact bar behind, meaning there is no strength in them, so upon removing the offending splitter, it became apparent that the splitter had no damage and that all the mountings had snapped and been rpped of the bumper.

so off that came to

to leave me with this,

so the car was deffinalty white when it left the factory lool
and its also had larger n1 ducts fitted to the bumper, hence the horrid bodge to the impact panel.

so in the quest off minty ness



then a quick matt black

miles better

some tiny japanese cock some where decided that it would be a brilliant idea to tottlay fill the only air inlet to the radiator with horns (only one of which comes wired as standard )


so i found a new hiding place for them


more air



you would not believe the ball ache i had trying to get some more of these clips

in the end used m6 bolts and washers and nuts, sruggled like mad loool


seeing as all the rest of the pipes had been replaced with samcos (got the water and breater ones on order/ 6 weeks

decided to change the hidden pipes to, this was a requirment, as one of them collapsed on a top speed run (on lift off it vacumed so hard it popped of the intercooler) lool, at 174 mph

even the holdman got his hands dirty and helped out



shows the brake ducts and twin dump valves

new splitter and bumper back on, its a jun style splitter, in carbon fibre



bit of fancy photography



also got new light weigh racing wheel nuts, (20 grams each)
need to get some centre caps and a big brake kit now,

car is currently backat horsham developments getting a 30 row oil cooler and remoter filter piont fitted

also got this, stripped down and painted samco blue


cheers for looking people

SaqsS2turbo

Charlie Chalk

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good work Lee

fezzajsy

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looks awesome

Escy

Love that, the wheels are sweet and midnight purple is the best colour for a Skyline. It's gawgouse

Rab

You're stupid.....

zippyobrien

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whats gawgouse mean lol

cheers for the comments