My RB26 powered JZX81 Chaser

[Dori Mat]

oh balls

what happened to the bumper then mate ?

[JamesAE86]

great thread, if it was me I'd keep it as close as possible to the way it was in japan (rear spoiler, bm splitter etc.) best of luck with it anyway

[Stavros]

Originally Posted by Dori Mat

oh balls

what happened to the bumper then mate ?

the rear one? smashed in to a thousand pieces, like a fricking hand grenade hit it, but in fact it was a DTM front splitter at about 140

front is fine mind.

im properly spangled right now, but this is doing my tits, tempted to not even take it for cage 2moro...

[Dex]

stav! i want the spolier! how much?

[Stavros]

Car is gone



To Andy Robinson Race Cars for a badass rollcage

The journey down reminded me I love the car too, and love the engine too as it sounds the BOLLOCKS, straight 6 revving to 8k+ is mint.

Bwaaaaaaaaaapbwaaaaaaaaaaaaapbwaaaaaaaaaaap and you at 150 in no time.

Cage should be done in 2 weeks, cant wait.

[Cressyslider]

Im going to make a carbon front splitter for mine...Lucky i headed your warning and ill make sure its mounted propper solid!
Ive been busy too!

Dual rear R33 calipers...



Seam welding and front tubbing to fit more castor....

[young-drifter]

Love this car only read the mag to see this credit to ya Stavros.now if only i can get something like that out here in Malaga

[Stavros]

Cressy- AWSEOME! Keep it up man
Young- Cheers mate

Right, jus took a few pics...

Car is still down Andy Robinson Racecars (Andy Robinson Race Cars - roll cages, complete chassis, fabrication, setup, race car engineering) having a cage made, so no driving or anything fun, but in the meantime I been sorting shit out.

I needed a big oil cooler as when drifting the oil temp was going thru the roof, and I was all set to spend 150quid I didnt have on some Mocal or Setrab effort when I found a fricking big and good nick oil cooler on an early 80s LWB Shogun down the local scrappy. 7quid later and it was mine.

My gearbox is about to die, and no doubt many more in the future will too, and as im poor, spending 400quid every month on a gearbox dont really appeal to me, so decided id give the transmission as much help as poss, with diff and gearbox oil coolers.

Needing a pump and cooler each, it looked like I was about to be raped to the tune of 500quid by ThinkAuto etc for that lot, but then I thought frick it, S14 200SX's have it as standard, and paid 30quid a pop for 2 of them.

The coolers are decent enough nick, esp now I gave em a thin coat of satin black, but the pumps are still a bit rusty and crappy, so didnt take pics of them. But at 60quid all in, im happy, sure as frick beats 500quid...




I smashed my bumpers up a while ago (not) street drifting, and recently repaired them, pretty nice job of it too.

The thing is, a few days later, while (not) racing a BMW at high speed the rear bumper kind of exploded in to small bits, so I needed another.

I am poor, so spending 500quid+ getting another from Japan was out the question, but luckily BonBon had his old Kids Heart one still, so I crossed his ginger hands with silver (well, 20pound notes) and I had a rear bumper again.

Thing is, Bons has a Chaser rear end, which has the number plate in the rear bumper, and mine is a Mark II rear end, which has the number plate between the rear lights, so there a fricking great hole in the rear bumper.

I was gonna just fanny about and fill it etc, but then i thought about it and realised its an ideal place to wang the transmission coolers.

Once fitted properly ill put them on top of each other and fill the gaps a little, but for these pics, i jus luzzed em in place.







Also I finished modding the manifold, with the correct flange for the wastegate, quick released the turbine flange, and fully heat wrapped the whole thing.

Its a complete flange to fully wrap it, and i mean FULLY, no metal showing, mostly due to it being very twisty and having 6 branches.

If/when the wrap dies, it can frick off, im not doing that again




I planted a rubber tree at the bottom of my garden a while ago, and its starting to bear fruit, as you can see.

Its only bearing part worns at mo, but a good 30 odd 17s and 18s, so I cant complain.




My rubber plant isnt good enough to grow slicks yet, but luckily some top people have given me some they had lying around.

Tony Ryan had a pair of 2008 235 wide 17in BTCC ones that were too fricked to sell, but still useable, so he gave me them to try out, which was nice


And last Friday my mate Rich kindly gave me 4x 235 wide 18inch Pirelli P Zero slicks he had spare too






And thats about it really, hopefully very very shortly my car will be done at Robinsons, and I can get back to crashing, I mean driving, it...

[kam]

Sweet, whats the crack with gearbox coolers then?
What pump you going to use?
Do you just keep the oil as cool as possible?

[Stavros]

The pumps S14 diff coolers come with mate, saves spending 150quid on a new one.

And no, too cool is bad, like engine oil.
But too hot isnt good either.

Cant remember optimum temps off top of my head, but less than the setting on S14 diffs, hence why they never ever turn on! The 2x oil coolers i got are bone dry inside! On cars prob over 10yrs old!

How much it will save them, who knows, but id rather be sure, race cars dont have transmission coolers for nothing...

[kam]

Originally Posted by Stavros

The pumps S14 diff coolers come with mate, saves spending 150quid on a new one.

And no, too cool is bad, like engine oil.
But too hot isnt good either.

Cant remember optimum temps off top of my head, but less than the setting on S14 diffs, hence why they never ever turn on! The 2x oil coolers i got are bone dry inside! On cars prob over 10yrs old!

How much it will save them, who knows, but id rather be sure, race cars dont have transmission coolers for nothing...

Good luck finding a pump that works my diff cooler/pump/lines are full of white dust

That includes drifting, Nurburgring and some high speed stuff in Germany, never had the diff light come on.

Im interested in cooling the gearbox though, ive already got an s14 auto gearbox cooler as a power steering cooler

How you going to control the pump/cooler setup?

[Stavros]

Surface mounted thermo switches and an override switch.

The ones I got are all white corrosion dust inside, but cleaned out easy, and expect the pumps should work, they never have in their lives, but nothing about them shouldve killed em.

[kam]

Originally Posted by Stavros

Surface mounted thermo switches and an override switch.

The ones I got are all white corrosion dust inside, but cleaned out easy, and expect the pumps should work, they never have in their lives, but nothing about them shouldve killed em.

I'll whip mine off and hardwire it to 12V. See if it comes back to life

I'll watch this closely

[LiGhTnInG]

Whats the damage for the robinsons cage?

[Stavros]

Should be about 1500quid unless I get stung with something unexpected.

[turbo-tastic]

frick me, it's obviously some mega spec cage, not just some bolt in 6pt malarky

[Stavros]

Its nothing amazing, but sure as frick isnt a off the shelf bolt in, as its a JZX81 Chaser, not an s-body, it has to be custom made.

You find me a full custom one (ie not a cage already made so loads cheaper, ie S bodys), and not a complete pile of shit with dodgy bends and not even fully welded right around the joins (ie most of them, inc in some well known cars), for much less than that, and ill be rather suprised.

[turbo haus touge]

ahrrrr maN I SOOOOOO NEEDED THAT BUMPER TOO! LOL! its likea bidding war f these bits init haha

nice bit of inginuity wiv the coolers man

[Bon Bon]

Sorry sid I was gonna ring you to apologise and stuff but it's like, cash moneys waved under your nose is impossible to say no to

[turbo haus touge]

no probs man monies is good il boginate mine up wiv sum fibreglass