My New R33 GTR - so it begins...

[ColinR33]

Power goal is about 375-400 HP this year with a safe tune, 500-550 next year with proper tune, bigger injectors, fuel pump, fpr, bigger intercooler. I am getting Impact Coatings to do my powder and ceramic coating.

Got the turbos out, took about 6-8 hours of fiddling and cursing all told. Didn't need all that skin either.

Gonna start cleaning and transfering all the oil and cooling lines, hardware etc., coatings should be done soon, then re-install everything. Turbos, manifolds and downpipes up for sale - see FS thread.

[GTRADDICT]

Didn't you say in the first page of the thread that you were going to wait before moding. lol I guess it's like the flu.
Looking good buddy!

[ColinR33]

Yeah....no will power....just have too much fun working on it, got a good deal on the turbos and couldn't wait.

[bellis_GTR]

Moree picss! My goal is 400whp for this year. Would love too see your parts list so I could get an idea of what I need. Cant wait to see more!

[ColinR33]

So I got my new turbos cleaned up and transferred over the oil and coolant lines:

And picked up my rocker covers and headers/elbows from powdercoating/ceramicoating:





So will clean up the bay and re-installing! Wanted to do the turbos too, but don't have gasket sets and didn't feel like taken them apart, budget for this year is used up too. Maybe next year...

[MarusGTR]

WOAH

[GTRADDICT]

NO PORN IN THIS FORUM!!!
Best engine color in the world right here people!!

[r33gtr]

Nice stuff! Where can I get those rocker covers ?

[ColinR33]

NO PORN IN THIS FORUM!!!
Best engine color in the world right here people!!

Thanks!

Nice stuff! Where can I get those rocker covers ?

Lol, take off yours and take them to you local powdercoater like I did! Piece o' cake!

[GTR-Dad]

Great work Colin!
Dan

[Daryl @ RightDrive]

Amazing looking valve covers! I'd love to do that as well, but with the rest of my engine bay being a mess I would have to hide them under my hood. Looks great though really.

[MakCustomsProject]

Good start to what appears to be a unique build. Unique for a short while. Sounds like everyone wants to wrap there dashes now, lol!

Back to the hicas removal.. make sure you remember to remove all of the hicas crap! should save you about 60-70lbs. and really helps make room in the engine bay for stuff like oil filter relocations you should be able to start to see the ground looking through your engine bay! yay

you probably already knew all that

keep it up!

[ColinR33]

So further update, I did get the rear turbo installed, but am waiting for a few minor fasteners to come in (and have been overseas), so not much done the last week. Did modify my Twin Turbo intake pipe with a divider:
First cut a slot in the pipe with my trusty dremel

Then take it into the shop at work and get the guys to weld it up for me...



some cleanup to do on the welds inside
Started to polish...

Hope to get it looking as good as some of the other pipes I've polished

[Ricky Ricer]

Coming along nicely. Have fun installing the turbos. I know I did!

[ColinR33]

Yeah, my neighbour helped when I put the rear one on, it was nice having an extra pair of hands!