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03-23-2014, 08:47 PM
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Zilvia Member
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When my adapter plate and shifter arrived, I cracked into it. Bolting it all together the same night, making sure the clutch setup worked etc.
 Knocked up a crossmember to suit the new gearbox.  And made up a shifter bracket in a similar fashion.  Cut the tunnel slightly, sealed it off from fumes, and spun up a small extension for the shifter itself, to bring it up a bit higher. The throw is really nice now.  Threw the rest of the engine bay back together, much the same as it was, aside from a bit of tidying up, and rewiring of the charge circuit, and vacuum/boost feeds.  Got a custom 1-Piece driveshaft made up with the Z33 yoke.  Then took it for a drive and realised the box sat retardedly low, so I raised the car 6mm in the rear, and 12mm in the front, something I'd been meaning to do since I entered a car show a few months back. The car was just retarded at that height. My sump bash plate was half worn through after about 200km of driving.  Visually you can barely tell the difference, but to drive, the difference is night and day. So good.  Tune is booked in for next Friday, so will see how she goes when we feed it 20psi or so of boost and 7800rpm |
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03-24-2014, 09:21 PM
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Nissanaholic!
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Love this build. Such a good and complete process.
Pretty cool that you went Z33 box. Did you run into any problems?
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03-25-2014, 12:09 PM
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Haha thanks man.
Biggest issue was the lack of information on what exactly you needed to do. George from Maverick Motorsports was super helpful about it all. It's probably not a conversion you really want to do unless you can weld, or can afford to take it to a shop to get done. There's probably about 20 hours worth of fab work in that shifter bracket, and crossmember. There are other ways of doing it, like a Mazworx CNC bracket, or getting George to do it, but it's fun doing this kind of shit yourself IMO. Last night we replaced the flex join in the exhaust, as it was a little worse for wear after 5000km's of abuse.  Now it's good as new, and sounding much better without the exhaust leak. |
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05-23-2014, 04:26 AM
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F*cking love this car ! Since the C's Garage days ! Glad to see its in good hands.
Iv also got a 97 MNP 180sx Full Type X Project on the go Need to get some Pics up. |
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10-21-2014, 04:01 PM
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Long time no update, where do I start?
Did some street driving and picked up some 555 Knuckle's. Did some more street driving and ended up with my sump guard looking like this. Got pulled over and the car was ordered off the road. So did some of this. Swapped my Zeta 2 & Brix combo for an Artis 2 & Zeta 2 Pro model. Got worried I was gunna break axles so put a GTR rear end in. Did some more driving and got a mini feature in a magazine I've been reading since I was a kid which was pretty cool. Changed turbo setup to a 2876R, had that shit out on the dyno after 3 pulls so fronted up and bought a brand new one off the shelf. Ditched VCT after getting fed up with it's constant issues. Bolted it back up to the dyno 2 days later & changed fuels to E85 from 98 octane pump gas. The result? 306kw at the wheels on 17psi. This photo was taken after my first thrash down the straight. Stoked. Now to learn to drive it better! |
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10-22-2014, 09:18 AM
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Cool update! I've always enjoyed your work.
I did not know you could weld all proper like. Why was the car ordered off the road? I though it was only Oz that was very strict in those regards.
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10-26-2014, 02:01 AM
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Zilvia Member
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Thanks lads.
I don't do the welding, my buddy/team mate does all out welding. Our rules are getting stricter, my car had no certification to be on the road and I got away with it for 9 months of pretty regular driving. That's life. Made the decision to make it a track car that little bit easier. |
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12-22-2014, 08:11 PM
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This is on of my FAV 180SX my man! Thanks for the updates!
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