Frankiman's street/track GTR project

[RedEclipze]

how/where could it be published ?

Frank, a couple things you COULD do.

I work at CFB Gagetown in NB and there is a bit of a printing press there. If you sent me all the info that wanted put together, i could have a manual of sorts made for you. Don't quote me on the price but it should only cost between 10 to 30 dollars to have all the information you have done, with pictures put into a booklet. From there i could send the spine back, and you could do what you want with it. I.E. sell the manual mass copy, or to all the fellas on here!

It's an idea for you to ponder.

[GTRADDICT]

Frank, a couple things you COULD do.

I work at CFB Gagetown in NB and there is a bit of a printing press there. If you sent me all the info that wanted put together, i could have a manual of sorts made for you. Don't quote me on the price but it should only cost between 10 to 30 dollars to have all the information you have done, with pictures put into a booklet. From there i could send the spine back, and you could do what you want with it. I.E. sell the manual mass copy, or to all the fellas on here!
It's an idea for you to ponder.

What he said. +1

[frankiman]

^^ thats sounds isane dude !


32,000+ views in less than a year !! holy crap, 4th most viewed skyline project FTW

[RWD_GTR]

you shouldve repainted everything you grinded with at least a rattle can.. not gonna look pretty after a year

[frankiman]

all i've grinded is aluminum and stainless which aren't metal likely to rust anytime soon

[RWD_GTR]

all i've grinded is aluminum and stainless which aren't metal likely to rust anytime soon

rad support, rear lower control arms.. shall i continue?

[frankiman]

bah.. i'll just put a little bit of grease on it, anyway.. for the weather the car will see it won't have much opportunities to rust

[BrooklinsFinest]

rad support, rear lower control arms.. shall i continue?

Somthing tells me Franc is gonna be tearing this car down again as soon as he "finishes" it - lol

[NismoS-tune]

Much of the"views" are you checking on replies or updating every day. lol

[frankiman]

it doesn't count the OP
i checked :P

[RABBIT]

id buy one.
but only if theres pics of francois in it.

[frankiman]

id buy one.
but only if theres pics of francois in it.

like this?
(i'm the fat guy in the white/blue stripped shirt looking all kewl walking away from my gtr which is parking first in line for the next lapping session)

[RABBIT]

tits or gtfo,

[frankiman]

[frankiman]

Chapter 23 - Almost there, week12-13, part1


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Day 41

At the beginning of this day, i started to look around the car for the little i needed to fix; a bolt there, a wire here, etc

And I check around the intake manifold and spotted the bracket that used to hold the HICAS solenoid
Ok, well that’s of no use whatsoever anymore



So I took it out (3x M6 bolts), then cleaned the body around it




Then I took out the Power Enterprise 80mm x 80mm couplers I got from japan



Then fitted the intercooler back in place, and used a ziptie to hold it there



Then the fun began to reinstall the hard piping kit, Trust on the cold side, HKS on the hot side (don’t ask…)

I started with the stock hardpipe on the hot side, it took a while to remember the recirc pipe bolts from underneath on the IC pipe on top

Also, since I cut the recirc pipe a couple weeks ago, I cut up a piece of 2” silicone coupler and capped it with the custom cap JR@Autoworx made me, and tightened it with t-bolt clamps for safety (pictures well below)



I quickly ran into problems with first pipe, it was hitting the new HKS SSQV bovs



So I had to disconnect the coupler for the BOVs and un-bolt their bracket, to move them out of the way

Then I tried to fit the new couplers onto the intercooler cold pipe, and realized that the Trust intercooler for some reason has 83mm piping on each side, wtf
Because of that, the new couplers were too stiff to stretch well over those pipes, so I decided to used my old dirty Greddy couplers there instead
Then I spread a thin film of grease inside the couplers and slid them on



Simply tightening the Vibrant t-bolt clamps over the coupler on the IC’s pipes was a real PITA, the clamps weren’t exactly made for that size of piping and I couldn’t get the nut onto the clamp’s bolt
I ended up using nails and huge channel lock pliers to tighten the clamp enough for the nut to go on

You can clearly see on that last picture the difference in the remaining length of the clamps’ bolts between the 83mm pipe and the 80mm pipe

And theres hardly any space for the recirc piping



God was it raining that day, incredible



The monster-cooler is back



/day41

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Day 42

There was something that had been bugging me for a while, it was the darn “stripped” bolt for the transmission crossmember



So I looked my boxes of stuff from my old GTR and found the exact same bolt, in perfect condition
I put mucho lock-tite on it and torqued it back into place almost to spec



Then I went to install Nathan’s P/S pump
After a couple tries, I couldn’t get the pump onto its bracket at all, upon further inspection and comparison with my old pump, it seemed there was a spacer of some sort on the bracket that fitted with the old pump but not with the new one



So I took out my MasterCraft Racing edition caliper ( :P ) and measured everything and came to the conclusion that the new pump would fit perfectly without the spacer
I took my air tools with a very small sanding drum and made it flush



After that the pump went on with no issues

Then I used a huge T-bolt clamp for the p/s hose, since it was cracked a bit at the pump end and a new hose would take 7 weeks to get from Nissan, so this would do the trick



After that I took out both of my Garage Saurus 330mm rotors, which were in a sealed bag full of rust inhibitor, so I had to clean it with you guessed it… brake cleaner
Then I scuffed all the residues off for a nice even surface,



And I taped all the surface the brake pads would touch and applied 4 coats of clear high temp paint, to protect against rust



I also took the opportunity to paint my upper rad supports flat black



Then I took out my rare (discontinued) Trust SS braided rad hoses, and fixed them
The mesh had been torn under the anodized cap and the hose clamps were missing
So I took the caps off, taped the mesh with nylon tape, inserted new hose clamps into the cap, then slid the cap back on the hose



After that I opened boxes full of the old piping and started to putting it all back in place



All the rubber piping went on super easy

Then came the rear turbo pipe (doesn’t it look great in flat black?) that thing is uber retarded to bolt down, theres almost no way to get there with a u-joint,
it’s a real PITA, also the fact that, unlike the twin turbo pipe that fits onto studs, and doesn’t move afterwards so its easy to place the nuts, for the rear pipe you have to align it with the holes and the gasket then try to get the bolt on straight.. blah blah… arg



It was getting late so I stopped that, and decided to quickly change the spark plugs
I was running NGK-R coppers, which Haig@Autoworx told me would only last a season or roughly <10.000km
And sure enough, the spark plugs were the reason the car wouldn’t start at all on april 1st

But heres something kewl…
During winter, I bought from a GTRC member; the HKS boost controller, HKS turbo timer, Sabelt harness and gave me a pack of 4 brand new NGK spark plugs for free
I didn’t know what they were, but ok
So I decided I was going to use them, since they were brand new, but only had 4, I found a great website that ships locally where I got another box of 4 for 13$ shipped, within the week, yey

So I start taking the old plugs out and they are dirrrty, AND they look just like the ones I just bought, NGK-R written in black
So I check the p/n on the flange of the plug and its exactly the same number, NGK-R coppers
So I realize that I had 8 new plugs that cost me 13$ overall, when Autoworx charged me 12$ each last summer, heh?





And I searched through my dad’s tools and found the right tool for the job, I was tired of using a regular ratchet

Not sure what its called in Engrish :P but that thing was old!



/day42