Hi Guys.
Been a little bit busy around my neck of the woods lately, but I'm happy to announce that the rebuild is now complete.
Both skirts and the bumper have been reglassed and painted, and also the left front fender pressure crack repaired and painted.
My buddy from Final touch spent a solid day on the car, so it looks a million bucks now. (Wet Sand, Cut\Polish & Paint Protection)
After many years of driving it like I stole it, she certainly well earned some body repairs.
Moving on from the cosmetics it was time to address the braking issue.
Some may remember quite some time back I planned to install a bm57 brake master cylinder & braided lines, but wasn't to comfortable remaking my lines.
Well fingers crossed after finally reflaring the lines myself, that they never leak or cause any problems. (Touch Wood)
After spending a bit of time in the silvia which had a bm57 and braided lines, I'd grown used to liking how stiff the brake pedal was.
That and after hammering on the brakes in the skyline for several laps, the brake fluid would boil due to only using dot4 fluid.
Here's how the old BMC lines were configured:
Here's the progress of reconfiguring the lines & bleeding the cylinder:
Then it was onto replacing all the rubber lines with the new braided ones.
Admittedly I wish the front lines had an additional mount, that could be bolted to the uprights.
I may even go back over the setup and make an additional mount, just to ensure the lines don't snag or rub on the sway bar.
The rear lines could also do with an additional mount, to ensure they don't get snagged or rub on anything over time.
Now that it's got me thinking about it, I'll probably just do it anyway just for some peace of mind.
During the rebuild I also decided to fit an aeromotive 320lph silent pump, as I'd grown tired of how loud the old r32 gtr pump was.
Now I'd always had issues with overfueling at startup, but since fitting this pump it made it even more obvious.
After fowling a set of plugs numerous times (Literally Wet), I came to the conclusion that the factory fpr couldn't handle the extra load.
Throughout the fuel system there used to be 3 regulators on the return side.
One on the factory pump & fuel rail, and one on the return line between the rail and Pump.
So the factory fuel pump reg is now gone, and I also removed the reg from between the pump and rail and replaced it with straight line.
Since I had a genuine Tomei FPR laying around I installed it with a Redline Performance Tomei fuel rail adapter.
Then adjusted the idle pressure to 3 bar with the vacuum line off, and confirmed it to drop down to 2.5 bar at idle with the vacuum hooked up.
So the old plugs were thrown in the bin and then a good set of Platinums chucked in that I had laying around.
And lo and behold for the first time ever the car has fired up and idled happily, including run flawless on numerous occasions already.
It's time to draw your attention to the elephant in the room, that be the huge catch can and washer bottle combo!
I'm Extremely happy with Brendon's work from BNR Engineering in Drury, his fabrication work is unlike any other in the business.
Both rocker cover's had speedflow -12 fittings press fit, and for cert reasons we plumbed in the pcv valve as well.
While the bodykit was all being redone I'd also had some gas struts fitted, and omg that is by the best mod I've ever done.
And without further ado here is the complete engine bay:
All in all I'm extremely happy with how it's all turned out, and given the chance I'd do it all over again.
There are still little things I'd like to do like Replace the windscreen rubbers, and touch up some engine bay paint here and there.
But the overall package is exactly what I've been after for years, and should finally be reliable for every day use.
If anyone would like to check out more of Brendon's fabrication, then head along to:
https://www.facebook.com/BNREngineering/