GT-R > Carrera GT

For those who haven't seen the new Top Gear episode, heres a spoiler:

http://www.gtrblog.com/index.php/2008/07/2...the-to-1?blog=4

Impressive.



*starts new savings account*

Singh Garage

Welcome to SINGH GARAGE; here you will most knowledge and resources speciliasing in CA18's. Two cars are featured below:

Bought this car over a year ago, sorta went halves with bro, his daily, my weekender.

This is the setup that made ~270rwhp @ 16psi (stock headgasket/internals - compression was about 160 even across all cylinders), note: it wasn't fully tuned, nor were cam gears dialled in, and it had few issues, like butterflies were disconnected and causing loss in power due to running slightly lean off boost, other than that it AFR's were safe.

1989 180sx

Engine
CA18DET
GTiR T28 Turbo
Denso 510cc Injectors
HKS 256/256 Cams and Camgears
Gates Racing High Performance Timing Belt
Z32 AFM with Apexi Power Intake on custom metal intake pipe
600x300x100mm FMIC with custom stainless steel piping
3" Turboback exhaust with twin cannon
Turbotech boost controller
Oil Cooler kit
R32 Radiator

Exterior
Nismo Front bar
Nismo Sideskirts
Type X Taillights

Suspension/Brakes/Driveline
Front and rear slut braces
Buddyclub P1's
17x8"+32 Front
17x9"+37 Rear
R32 Skyline Front Brakes & rotors redrilled to 4 stud.
D-Drug Coilovers (11/8 springrates)
GTR rear swaybar (in the shed)
Xtreme 6 puck clutch with heavy duty pressure plate
Tomei 2way 4.3 LSD

Interior
OMP deep dish steering wheel
240km/h Instrument Cluster
Recaro SR3 bucket seat
Nismo gearknob
Bee*R Rev Limiter
Sony Xplod Deck
Panasonic 6" front speakers
Panasonic 6x9 rear speakers
Autogauge oil pressure, boost, water temp on A pillar


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Unforutnately, the oil pump randomly died (could've been caused by old T28bb that blew and sent ball bearings to the sump) and also the compression had dropped on one cylinder, so;

New parts going on:

Greddy Forged Pistons 84mm
Tomei 1.5mm headgasket
ARP Headstuds
ARP L20 rod bolts
Rods shot peened/balanced
Machined/balanced/blueprinted/etc bottom end
ACL race bearings
Nissan oil pump/gaskets/heater hoses etc.

Garrett GT2871R 52 trim 0.64 A/R
Turbosmart 45/8 external gate
Nismo 600cc injectors

Also been contemplating a respray in Yashio Pink

Thats all I can think of...Hoping for ~300rwhp with safe tune.

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My daily, which I bought stock as a rock in early 2005;

1989 Silvia

stock CA18DE manual, which I had planned to convert to SR, but found more fun in chopping SR's with CA18's

Interior
Nardi Steering Wheel
'Silvia' El Dials on HUD
Bride Brix driver and passenger seats on Bride Low Rails
Alpine deck, 6.5" Splits and 6x9's speakers.

Suspension/Brakes/Driveline
Work CR-Kai White Wheels 17x8" +32
HSD HR Series Coilovers
R33 gts-t front and rear brakes with braided lines

Exterior
MFX Vertex "Big Mouth" Bodykit
Carbon Fibre Hood
Carbon Fibre Bootlid
Carbon Fibre B Pillars
Carbon Fibre Ganador Mirrors

Plan is now to CA18DE+T using most of the parts that are coming out of the 180 after its finished.

Engine:
CA18DE+T
GTiR T28 (recondition with 360 thrust bearing)
CA16DE inlet cam (still looking for one...)
Denso 510cc Injectors
CA18DET sump
CA18DET braided oil and water lines
Tomei 1.5mm Metal Headgasket
Gates Racing High Performance Timing Belt
FMIC
3" Exhaust (Got a CES dump pipe to suit S13 SR, still got to check if it'll fit the CA)


More info can be found of the Silvia's progress at (Needs updating )http://51NGH.blogspot.com

Although it is predicted that the ETA 2008.. All parts have been acquired, just a matter of finishing uni first - 3 months to graduation!!

Here's some pics of the Silvia back from the painter (Don't mind the lift kit - I've got new coilovers since)

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Most of the work done myself, with help from mates, when the going gets tough, hats off to Roy @ Kensei Garage.


Cheers


Shaun

Garrett Gt2871r Group Buy $1400

Cheap group buy happening here, just thought I'd let some people know, very keen to make this happen:

http://www.nissansilvia.com/forums/index.p...owtopic=226645#


Garrett GT2871R 0.86 52 Trim aka Garrett GT-RS, almost identical to the HKS GT-RS turbo, one of the most popular turbos in Japan for SR20s!

At $1400 including actuator, thats $200 saving off RRP!


Cheers

Shaun

Clutch

Hey,

Forgive me if I don't know what I'm talking about, but the other day, I was driving home, and car lost drive. Basically, the engine was still running, and I could change gears, but there no drive, I just got revs.

Now, I suspect the clutch, but I have never experience any slipping or anything in the past... I was wondering if the clutch had a cable, and maybe that snapped? I can't seem to see it, I am a bit unsure.

Cheers

Shaun

Headlight Bulb Type

Was wondering what the bulb type is for the S13 Silvia.

With the tri projector lights are there differences between the CA and the SR?

Also difference between square light bulbs type and tri projector bulbs type?

I have CA tri projectors lights, and also if you have H3 bulbs can they be modified to H3C somehow?

Cheers

Shaun