oh what a nissan feeling!

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t235/sr20detme/Mobile% been cruising around every excuse i get. Going to do powerplay in feb, then a month or two off the road to sort out the rear end.

Nice car mate. Welcome to the rollaclub.

Keep in mind guys a smaller turbo is not necessarily a less laggy turbo. Some of the laggiest cars i have been in were standard. A correctly sized turbo is always going to give the best results, a lot of standard cars from the 90s have too small and inefficient turbos on them.

I know jordan used a 155/55/14 on his to get that stance.

Ha ha nice one, quick hide the jar before the missus finds it!

I agree that it depends on the degree of modification planned for the car, i figured that if r&p is going in then the car is (surely?) not standard. The only reason you would bother with a rack is to improve the steering for use around corners, in which case it would pay to sort out the steering to suit non-factory ride height ect.

Nice work Reed, 9000rpm, does it rev that hard!?!

Really why? The original geometry is flawed rob corrected the problems with it.

Username Rob J did a write up many years ago with all details, it was a track car and the setup was worked out very well. I will see if i can find the link when I'm on the laptop.

I was going to help, but then I realized I don't have a ke55 with a hilux diff in it. In fact i don't even own a ke55.

bw78 will handle your power fine for your intended purpose, if shortened the weak point will be the cut spline axle in one side.

Cheers mate. The dump pipe and turbo manifold are ceramic coated, and i have now made a heat shield for the turbo housing. Heat wrap on manifolds causes premature stress to the metal. There are no gains to be had from a turbo beanie other than containing engine bay heat.

Thanks mate, i did get moving on it but it is all pretty easy with no changes, just had to assemble it really. No other plans for it, its just to drive to work in as I no longer have a company car. Will see what happens but will probably just stick with the k motor, maybe stuff around with it a bit, carbys don't like me.

Thanks gents, i need another lifetime for the next project. So much rust.

cheers mate lots of changes, can't wait to get a new diff built for it with some higher gears, then i can do some racing. When i was there a few months ago on 15psi i ran 118mph and crossed the line at 8000rpm in top. This thing is supposed to run at least 130mph+ on 25 psi, so would top out at half track!

woa, thats sick!! absolutely flawless.

I got this all regoed last week or the week before, gave it a buff, polished all the chrome and stainless. It looks really good, and is as straight as the day I painted it about 8 years, its pretty damn straight. Its done almost zero ks in its life i would think, everything underneath is original even the shocks, yet it drives really really tight. Forgot to add. the longchamps didnt sit proper for the rwc, need different tyres or offset. These wheels wont last long, i don't like them.

this has been up on stands for about a month now, sorting a few things out. My boost control started to hit the limit after i fixed a few little leaks in the plumbing. So i decided to redo the plumbing in 4an type fittings, then i can set and forget the boost hopefully. I'm also going to put a switch on the dash to change between wastegate pressure 15psi, and 25 psi, will just put it in line with the boost control solenoid. all these pics are from under the car, none of it is really visible from the engine bay. I also put new water lines to the turbo, one of them had a tiny water leak i foound while i was under there. And the major task of relocating the trans cooler to the front of the car, it was under the drivers floor at pretty much the centre of the wheelbase. So it scraped on my driveway, and on and off the trailer even though it was well legal height. It also failed to keep the tranny cool, running 120 degrees after half hour of driving, and lots more after quite few laps of powercruise. old cooler. So i bought a wrx radiator to cut down, perfect width core, i cut the height down, and made it double pass the short little 100mm core. The space it has to go in, its reduced further once the top panel is on. dowels to mount the top. I had to change the intercooler mount around, the bonnet latch had to shuffle around, and few changes to the top radiator panel as well, was actually a heap of work in the whole thing. had to weld the latch mount on, no room for bolts, so new paint is now required. I got it all back together on friday, started to to put some oil in and there is a needle hole where i divided the end tank of the cooler, an easy spot to weld up but it sucks pulling it apart again. oh well the weekend shows and stuff all got cancelled because of the rain anyways.

Made up a turbo heat shield. The paint on the hot side of the car has started to bubble, so before powercruise i used some bathroom silicone to glue on a temporary fix. I got this bit of stainless from work a few years back so started cutting it up. I welded a few tabs on for mounting off the compressor cover. polished and mounted.

Yeh true, just checked the radar too, i think i will just move it under cover lol.

I might cruise down in the 25, better check the radar first.

4mph!!! at that level thats a good amount of power, because of the cam change, or just the freshen up?

Great update mate, the new pb must have felt pretty rewarding after all the setbacks. Better mph as well?

might even get matty to break the nicest one out of the shed again!! ;)

sounds like a good idea. anyone got a date, feb is it? Meet up and cruise in me thinks.