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Hey all,
Welcome to my project page. I'm typing this up a little early, because I'm having trouble with my camera and I can't get pics up right now. But that's not going to stop me from rambling on about my car
INTRODUCTION
Well, unfortunately, I never took any pictures of the car when I first bought it. I do have some picture of the beast right before I started to really work on it. So hopefully sometime soon (maybe even as you're reading this) there will be pictures posted in some future reply.
I bought the car in May 2009 from a used car dealership in Ottawa. The owner of the dealership was telling me how he knew almost nothing about it, but was sick of having 18 year-old douche bags bring their girlfriends to the lot and fawn over the car. Meanwhile, the dealer can't really answer any of their questions anyway. From what I've learned the car was once owned by a fellow GTRCer whose real name is Cory, but I've never met the guy. At a weekly meet in Ottawa I had the chance to meet CDGuy, and his friend Andrew who knew "Cory" and are active members of this forum (CDGuy, if you're reading this, what up!).
I bought the car for $6500.
On the surface it seems like a killer deal: a 1991 Nissan Skyline GTR with "100,000km" on the odometer (It has a Mine's 320km/h cluster, we all know what that means). I'm going to ballpark the real KMs at 150,000. Everything works on the car, except for the rear turbo. Yay!
So I've been driving around the world's shittiest NA car. I'm sure my Saturn LW200 could beat it on the 1/4 mile.
But that doesn't stop me from buying it. Why you ask? Well this car has the potential to wreak some serious havoc! Here's a list of known mods to the car:
PART LIST
- NISMO Oil pump complete assembly: This part was bought by Cory, I guess the rear turbo had a leak, and it blew. Thinking that the oil pump was entirely at fault Cory bought and installed this unit, but it did not fix the problem of NO BOOST! So long story short, he got quoted "$5000" from a local Performance shop to do the turbo replacement job. I got quoted the same thing from the same shop (who remember Cory and the car vaguely). And Cory, not having $5000 cash had to sell the car.
-HKS Oil Filer relocation and oil cooler
- Full 3.5" Veilside exhaust with Cat Delete: The workmanship on this exhaust system is freaking immaculate. Try to spot the welds on the (future) pictures. You can't. They're that good.
- Brand new ABS unit. I don't really care, but the insurance company seemed to appreciate it.
- large FMIC: Not sure on the brand because it was sprayed black
edit: Stock FMIC, d'oh!
- Tokico Shocks: The rear suspension is a little bouncy, but this suspension is a great middle ground between soft and hard. The car sticks really well, but isn't stiff and rickety on the city roads.
- HKS Turbo Timer
- HKS Electonic Valve Controller II (EVC II)
- Oil Filter relocation kit: leaks a little at one of the braided connection.
- Mine's ECU installed, probably running the knock map
- Tomei ECU in a box: My guess? Cory bought this ECU to replace the sketchy "Only works in Japan" tune of the Mine's ECU, but found that Tomei's special "Blows turbos outside of Japan" tune was worse.
- New Timing Belt
- New Spark Plugs
And that's about it for mods. Delicious.
So the HKS electronic units can be ballparked at $2000.
Veilside exhaust with custom downpipe $2000
NISMO Oil pump $1000
Both ECUs retail $2000
aftermarket FMIC $1000
Oil filter reolcation with braided lines $1000
Coilovers $1000
So all the mods are about $10,000 worth of parts and labor.
PROBLEMS
It also looks like the previous owner did the complete fluid change, all the coolants look good. The main problem is that the rear turbo is blown and it's leaking oil into the exhaust.
The car idle is fine at 1000rpm. When I drive around though, I get RPM sag if I clutch in at "high" RPM. Let me explain: If I drive to a stop sign and clutch in at >1500RPM the rpm idle sags down and down to 500-300 and sometimes recovers to idle at 1000, but usually coughs the car to a stall.
The car also misfires somewhere in the 2500 rpm range, it's pretty consistent and I haven't figured out which cylinder is doing it yet. At some point in time I'll unplug the injectors one by one.
More to come.
Welcome to my project page. I'm typing this up a little early, because I'm having trouble with my camera and I can't get pics up right now. But that's not going to stop me from rambling on about my car
INTRODUCTION
Well, unfortunately, I never took any pictures of the car when I first bought it. I do have some picture of the beast right before I started to really work on it. So hopefully sometime soon (maybe even as you're reading this) there will be pictures posted in some future reply.
I bought the car in May 2009 from a used car dealership in Ottawa. The owner of the dealership was telling me how he knew almost nothing about it, but was sick of having 18 year-old douche bags bring their girlfriends to the lot and fawn over the car. Meanwhile, the dealer can't really answer any of their questions anyway. From what I've learned the car was once owned by a fellow GTRCer whose real name is Cory, but I've never met the guy. At a weekly meet in Ottawa I had the chance to meet CDGuy, and his friend Andrew who knew "Cory" and are active members of this forum (CDGuy, if you're reading this, what up!).
I bought the car for $6500.
On the surface it seems like a killer deal: a 1991 Nissan Skyline GTR with "100,000km" on the odometer (It has a Mine's 320km/h cluster, we all know what that means). I'm going to ballpark the real KMs at 150,000. Everything works on the car, except for the rear turbo. Yay!
So I've been driving around the world's shittiest NA car. I'm sure my Saturn LW200 could beat it on the 1/4 mile.
But that doesn't stop me from buying it. Why you ask? Well this car has the potential to wreak some serious havoc! Here's a list of known mods to the car:
PART LIST
- NISMO Oil pump complete assembly: This part was bought by Cory, I guess the rear turbo had a leak, and it blew. Thinking that the oil pump was entirely at fault Cory bought and installed this unit, but it did not fix the problem of NO BOOST! So long story short, he got quoted "$5000" from a local Performance shop to do the turbo replacement job. I got quoted the same thing from the same shop (who remember Cory and the car vaguely). And Cory, not having $5000 cash had to sell the car.
-HKS Oil Filer relocation and oil cooler
- Full 3.5" Veilside exhaust with Cat Delete: The workmanship on this exhaust system is freaking immaculate. Try to spot the welds on the (future) pictures. You can't. They're that good.
- Brand new ABS unit. I don't really care, but the insurance company seemed to appreciate it.
- large FMIC: Not sure on the brand because it was sprayed black
edit: Stock FMIC, d'oh!
- Tokico Shocks: The rear suspension is a little bouncy, but this suspension is a great middle ground between soft and hard. The car sticks really well, but isn't stiff and rickety on the city roads.
- HKS Turbo Timer
- HKS Electonic Valve Controller II (EVC II)
- Oil Filter relocation kit: leaks a little at one of the braided connection.
- Mine's ECU installed, probably running the knock map
- Tomei ECU in a box: My guess? Cory bought this ECU to replace the sketchy "Only works in Japan" tune of the Mine's ECU, but found that Tomei's special "Blows turbos outside of Japan" tune was worse.
- New Timing Belt
- New Spark Plugs
And that's about it for mods. Delicious.
So the HKS electronic units can be ballparked at $2000.
Veilside exhaust with custom downpipe $2000
NISMO Oil pump $1000
Both ECUs retail $2000
aftermarket FMIC $1000
Oil filter reolcation with braided lines $1000
Coilovers $1000
So all the mods are about $10,000 worth of parts and labor.
PROBLEMS
It also looks like the previous owner did the complete fluid change, all the coolants look good. The main problem is that the rear turbo is blown and it's leaking oil into the exhaust.
The car idle is fine at 1000rpm. When I drive around though, I get RPM sag if I clutch in at "high" RPM. Let me explain: If I drive to a stop sign and clutch in at >1500RPM the rpm idle sags down and down to 500-300 and sometimes recovers to idle at 1000, but usually coughs the car to a stall.
The car also misfires somewhere in the 2500 rpm range, it's pretty consistent and I haven't figured out which cylinder is doing it yet. At some point in time I'll unplug the injectors one by one.
More to come.
And I installed 2 dual-port BOVs for maxxxximum rice.
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