Right, I know this is passionFORD but im heavily bored and seeing as im not a payed up member on SXOC.com I cant put a thread about the car in there, so deal with it
Basically the car started out as a customers at my work where we've spent lots of time extracting ponies and making the car stronger/reliable and generaly improving where the chap wanted, long story short he needed to sell up, and as I was looking for a sapph cos or something RWD and turbo at the time, I thought i'd take it off his hands!
I bought the car in september last year, and after a bit of time on the rollers and various tests it was decided that there was a head gasket issue, I kinda knew this when I bought the car but bit the bullet anyway and decided just to get on with it and fix it as the car has potential and has a few good parts fitted.
mods:
Nismo 'S' tune suspension
300zx front calipers, spacer brackets and 330mm discs
std front brakes, are now the rear brakes
S15 Viscous rear diff
partially stripped interior, momo wheel, sparco bucket seat and luke harness
300zx forged wheels with toyo R888's
Getrag Gearbox (kept blowing std ones)
padle clutch
pulsar throtle bodie conversion
JE low comp pistons
'cossie' T4 turbo
4" downpipe into twin 3" echaust
tubular ex mani
front mount IC
300zx AFM
Apexi power FC
hard pipe kit
ARP stud & nut kit
MLS H/Gasket
Saard 850cc injectors
uprated walbro 'in-tank' pump feeding external bosch 044 pump
was making between 410 and 420@the wheels with the pumped gasket, and peak power was around 500rpm lower, were expecting it to be losing around 50bhp, so we'll see what it does once it's back together.
prob a few more bits but the escape my mind atm...
Anyhoo, I decided to fix the car a few weeks ago, so head came off and suspicions confirmed the combustion had been escaping between all 4 cylinders and into the water gallery on #4 cylinder (had been pressurising the coolant above 1.2bar boost)
So, head was sent away to be checked, skimmed and valves re-done as they had some leakage.
machine shop confirmed 12thou of warp hence valve leakage and gasket failure (well gasket hadnt actually failed as such, it just wasnt clamped properly!) so engine must have been cooked at some point for this to happen as it was gone before it saw the rollers and had the boost turned up.
Got the head back, and built it all back up on saturday, other than the ex mani which im going to do tomo and hopefully get it fired up and back into the land of the living, to go back on the rollers and checked/map tweaked a little and then i'll get it insured and eventually get a drive of this car i've owned since september and drove once!!! (keep telling myself it'l be worth it lol)
heres some pics of the car and head rebuild.
Had to get a cossie part in there somehow!
Thats how it sits atm.
Future mods if it stays in one piece are, double the intercooler size, roller bearing turbo and possibly a set of mildish cams.
but, i'd be happy just to have it running and going well reliably right now, fingers crossed i can enjoy it after the head gasket swap!
cheers
