jdmtypes rebuild

[jdmtypes]

Well this has been an on going adventure, a major lesson in fantasy vs reality .
Here she was as I bought it 06


This was about as far as it had gotten to as of late August 08



And this is where I'm at now




If lucky the motor should be in the car soon,if more issues dont pop up

[Bruizer]

Be seeing what is attached to your engine, you'll be fine! Sweet supporting mods. Hope to see this through. I have similar stuff junking up my basement so I will be there some day. Keep it up! more pictures and info if you can!

[Daryl @ RightDrive]

Looking good so far, can't wait to see the end result!
I love the first pic of your car that is posted....

[jdmtypes]

All my build parts info is in the gtr tech section in the engine mod database thread, on a side note I tried to be budgety on the ehxaust manifolds u see in the pic...they look good but fittment really sucks so they have to go :hit_head:..

[jdmtypes]

thanks Daryl...that is one of the few nice pics of the car.......ops:

[mack519]

I love the gold painted valve covers. Looks great so far man.

[Bruizer]

On a serious note, why did you try to budget on exhaust manifolds, especially not cast but tube, when you have a nismo intake plenum? Kinda like a POS rustbucket beater with sweet 18" wheels... Or better yet good intake with crappy exhaust, kind of a waste?

[thought]

Since when are tube headers a cheap or bad thing? Since when is cast better? Did I sleep through something here???

[jdmtypes]

On a serious note, why did you try to budget on exhaust manifolds, especially not cast but tube, when you have a nismo intake plenum? Kinda like a POS rustbucket beater with sweet 18" wheels... Or better yet good intake with crappy exhaust, kind of a waste?

In the big grand scheme of things maybe it wasnt smart to try an be bugety...but even the the cheaper tube manifolds are a better improvement over the stock, for flow. If the cheaper set I had purchased would have fit properly I would have used them.

[jdmtypes]

Here are some pics of my fittment issues with the X brand manifolds.

As you can see the pipe bend is too short an wont allow the back botls on both turbos to be buttoned up unless I cut the bolts or mod the pipe


In the next pic you can see how the turbo hits the front pipe, this happens on both turbos. It was fixable but by the time I factored in the labour costs to get someone to mod the manifolds it wasnt cheap at all.


So it would have been smarter to just have purchased these in the first place,uless you have good welding skills or a friend that does.


On a side note for anyone who is looking into getting all new turbos,manifold pipes,ect...I'm thinking it may have been super smart to have bought the complete Tomei Arms turbo package. It would have been cheaper overall :hit newb:.