PS13 Silvia - Origin Lab x Skay Japan x Okishima - Drifting forum

**Jord** · 12-09-2007, 19:37

Well as some people know I collected my 2007/08 drift car yesterday, much thanks to Meester Smeeth for piloting the green machine to tow her back, and putting up with 5 hours of my fonejacker impersonations, goooooooood afternoon madaaam.

Anyway, I have big plans for the car, the first goal is to get it running 100% and iron out all the minor niggles I have found, the second is to get it up to EDC spec and the third is to tart it up gooood and proper.

The Car

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The Spec

Engine
Rebuilt SR20DET
Apex-i headgasket
Apex-i cams
Greddy FMIC and Greddy Hardpipe kit
Tomei Power Extreme Tubular Manifold [lagged]
ARC Larger Winged and Baffled Sump
Oil catch tank
Z32 AFM
Apex-i Power FC and commander
Apex-i T28 Inlet Elbow
Apex-i Hard intake pipe
Apex-i Super Suction Intake
Garrett GT2871R Turbo with 0.64 housing built by Turbo Dynamics
Turbo Dynamics Adjustable actuator
Greddy Profec B Spec-II Boost Controller
Greddy Intake manifold
555cc injectors
NGK 7 plugs
Larger Nissan rad and fan inc. larger cowling
Stainless turbo elbow
Down pipe
Decat
Kakimoto cat back exhaust [2 box system]
Aluminium sump guard
Wiring loom relocated through engine bay

Transmission
5 speed box
SPEC Stage 3+ Clutch
DW Lightened Chromoly Flywheel
Tomei Short shift
Cusco Pro 2 Way LSD

Inside
Sparco Prodrive PRO-WRC driver's seat on DW subframe
Sparco Rev passenger's seat on custom subframe [to be fitted]
Ricco Racing FIA 3" driver and passenger harnesses
Fabricage 6 point cage with door bars and harness bar, powdercoated white
Apex-i EL2 Boost/Water Temp/Oil Temp/Oil Pressure/EGT Electronic gauges
Apex-i EL2 gauge control unit
Nismo white gearknob
So-Cal style white 330mm dished steering wheel
Lifeline ZERO2000 plumbed in extinguisher system.
Custom centre console housing kill switch and extinguisher T-pull

Suspension and Chassis
Buddy Club Spec R coilovers with camber adjustable top mounts
Tomei Hicas locking kit
5 Stud conversion front and rear
Front pillow tension rods
Anti bump steer tie rod ends
Spacers in the steering rack
Steel Steering rack joint
Stainless braided brake lines
Stainless braided clutch line

Wheels
6 x Rota Torque 17"x 9.5J ET+12 [3mm front spacers, 5mm rear spacers]

Exterior
Vertex copy-stylie aero front bumper
Type-X copy-stylie side skirts
Bomex rear valance
Flared steel rear arches
URAS rear lights, Clear front indicators and side lights
GTR style grill
GT Front tow strap for track, hidden when in road spec.
Steel bonnet pins.
Exterior pull cables for Kill switch and Fire system.
Painted in Bayside Blue, for now.

Car is mapped by Steve Sadler of FCTuning - 348bhp and 321lb/ft torque at 1.2 bar.

PS - I'm updating the spec above as I go along to keep it all in one place

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After collecting the car yesterday we swung by DWHQ in Birmingham to pick up some toys, despite Bon Bon's sales patter I resisted a set of the new DW Control System coilovers [although holy shit they are cool bits of kit and I might still get some!], and despite Melissa force-feeding me Wham bars [honest Phil]

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I walked away with these-

Awesome service as every guys

PS - Gimme a job!

That little lot should keep me busy for now, I also have to figure out why none of the Apex-i EL2 gauges are working [they light up but don't read anything] as I'd really like to keep them as they look awesome.

Also on my immediate todo list is mapping of the PowerFC [the engine should be good for 350hp+] and sorting out the idle problem - the idle rises and drops when the lights are turned on - any ideas?

I might also get the front aero repaired and touch in the other small marks as a temporary fix until the new kit arrives.

I'll update this thread as things progress and I'll be using it as a todo list. Don't go expecting anything spectacular as the cars pretty much where I want it to be mechanically, plus Im not taff!

All comments/ideas suggestions welcome.

**Jord** · 18-09-2007, 18:18

Update!

Had the day off today [you'll find most of my updates will be on Tuesday evenings as is the only day I get to work on the car].

Decided to start out by looking at the Apexi gauges and try and figure out why they weren't working. Found out they are all daisy chained together so HOPED that one gauge was faulty and this was breaking the chain. It wasn't. They are all bustereded. Looks like there has been a hell of a lot of heat near the wires for the water temp sender [its melted the protective cover] but the wires looked intact. That still doesn't explain why none of the gauges work. I tried plugging them in one by one alone along with the relevant signal wire from each sender but to no avail. Its a weird one because the control unit is powering the gauges, the peak and warn lights on each one can be selected via the control unit, but there is no signal for readings going to any of them.

My solution for now -

I need to either try some of my gauges in someone else's car or try a working gauge in my car so I can rule out either the senders/control unit or gauges themselves. I just find it REALLY hard to believe that ALL of the guages have packed in [theres 5 in total!]. If anyone has any suggestions or has these gauges fitted I'd like to hear from you!

After failing miserably at sorting that problem I decided to do what I do best, start taking useless crap out of the car.

And yes, I said I'd never do this again after the S14 but out came the hammer and chisel.

Most of it was really easy to remove except on the wheel arches and rear turrets. Complete ball-ache.

Thats all really from today, I'm waiting on my boost controller to arrive so I can get that plumbed in and then get the car over to Steve Sadler at FCTuning for him to work his magic and get it making powers.

Oh and I found out the turbo is the B60 model rather than the B70 I had in my S14, need to do some research and find out the specs.

Before I go - anyone know what this is/does? Its behind the rear panel/doorcard thing in the back on the n/s.

Till next time, sexy back.

**Jord** · 18-10-2007, 22:08

No updates yet people, just got back off holiday so will be back onto things soon.

Bought a Greddy Profec B Spec II to take care of boost and a mechanical Apexi EL2 boost gauge to use until I get the electric gauges to work. Once the Profec is fitted it'll be mapped and Ill report back with the magic figures!

**Jord** · 16-12-2007, 17:55

New seat!

Sparco Prodrive Pro WRC [Frp, Carbon was a bit rich!] - fits lovely, really comfortable and a bit posh.

Chandler says yes

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I'll take the decorations off it before it goes in the car

**Jord** · 19-12-2007, 18:04

Seat and steering wheel fitted. I' gona have to lose a few inches as the seat is snug!! And anyone that knows me knows I'm not exactly fat!

Test fitted one of the 9J Work wheels, these will do until the wheels I want become available in a few weeks.

Gonna need a slight pull on the rear for them to fit.

Also did some minor tidying today too, getting ride of wiring not needed and connecting up all hoses from Profec B etc. Upon reflection, theres not THAT much needed to be done to make it worthy of being drifted.

Front bumper and broken Apexi gauges are now with Garage RippleDrift [tm] also. Paul and Roger are going to make the bumper sturdy again and see if he can bring the gauges back to life, much appreciated

**Jord** · 20-12-2007, 22:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt_S

Is that seat FIA tho?

**Jord** · 21-12-2007, 10:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ian.G

Nice one Jord.

Did you manage to get your shopping list of goodies together yet ?

Have a nice list together of all the bits the car NEEDS and all the bits I WANT to get done. Good news is the NEEDS list is fairly small and cheap. Its the WANT list that costs

. In terms of the HICAS removal I have at my disposal -

JDM 180SX Rear Subframe
UK 200SX S13 Steering Rack
JDM 180SX PAS Pump

I need to get [I believe, correct me if Im wrong/missed anything] -

Solid Subframe Bushes
2x Polybushes to replace HICAS Ball joint
4 Polybushes for rear lower arms
DW Adjustable Toe Arms
DW Adjustable Traction Arms

.

But I've come to the realisation that being this close to the start of the season my priority has to be getting the car up to spec and running right. The subframe and bits can be built up off the car and swapped in inbetween Rounds 1 and 2 possibly. Or maybe between licensing and Round 1, funds pending.

Otherwise, last night I took the dash panels over to a mate of mine who is handy with metal and fabrication etc to make up the mounts for the kill switch and fire pull cable, both for in car and the scuttle panel. Also got a call from Peter @ Fabricage to say my cage is back from the powdercoaters and it should be with me the first week of the new year [didn't want it sitting in some postal depot over Christmas/New Year].

Gathering momentum now and I'm actually excited about getting the car finished!

**Jord** · 03-01-2008, 23:43

These arrived today from the lovely Rare Rims, next day delivery

....

So Paulo Smithio kindly slapped some tyres on for now..

Mmmmm whitey flushness...

Got them on the car tonight, sorry for the lack of good pictures, battery is deeed plus it was dark so it was pointless getting it out of the garage for pics.

I need some slight flaring on the rears. But they is still flush.

But to say I'm slightly chuffed with them is like saying the Pope is slightly Catholic, they look awesome in the flesh!

Also got the centre console back in, just have to run the wires/cables now and start on the scuttle panel.

**Jord** · 08-01-2008, 21:04

Konichiwa bitches

No pictures in this update unfortunately as I forgot my camera.

The roll cage arrived from Fabricage yesterday so thats another job on the 'to-do' list

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Today I did some small fiddly jobs like plumbing in the fire extinguisher and fitting the nozzles, refitting the passenger seat and centre dash tunnel whilst Paul flared my rear arches.
Now he'd obviously had his Weetabix this morning as the wheels sat flush/proud before and I now need at least 15mm spacers

. However, he did a cracking job and I'm chuffed with how they came out.
I've lost some paint on the arches, as I'd expected too so as soon as I've decided which front wings I want it'll be going over to Garage Rippledrift to have the front and rear wings sprayed.

My plan was to get the car taxed tommorrow ready for the drive over to FCTuning next Tuesday however I've noticed my MOT has expired so I need to sort that now next Tuesday and maybe get down to see Steve Sadler towards the end of the month. I just hope it passes emissions as its running a bit rough and very very rich.

Thats all for now, hopefully next update Ill have some new bits to fit and some pictures of the flaring.

**Jord** · 08-01-2008, 21:27

I lied, just remembered I took some pictures on my phone, exucse the quality.

Car outside pre-flaring.

Cage.

With flaring done.

**Jord** · 16-01-2008, 10:27

Quick update, no pictures.

Went over yesterday afternoon to get the car ready for MOT. Lost count of how many fuses I blew trying to wire the rear fog lamp in, I REALLY hate car electrics

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Gave up on that in the end until I get a multimeter and figure out what Im doing wrong. The wiring on this car is dodgy to say the least - proof that JDM people don't always know best!

I also recieved some items from DWHQ yesterday -

17mm wheel nuts for Rotas
Pull cable for battery cutoff
Bonnet pins
Spin turn knob
Pack of cable ties
2 x Fruit Salads

Ate the Fruit Salads first, then fitted the spin turn knob, then onto the bonnet pins.

I have NEVER measured and remeasured so many times in my life

. Seriously scary stuff drilling holes into a perfectly good [and hard to get hold of] PS13 bonnet! Made a good job of it though and despite taking the wrong spring off the stock bonnet catch 3 times [to disable interior pull cable] it all works fine now.

I've just got to get back over to the car at some point this week and figure out what I'm doing wrong with this bloody foglamp

**Jord** · 16-01-2008, 18:05

Thanks

I'll be using it on the road from time to time. I have my iPod for these occasions. I also plan to be able to drive it to and from the track.

Obviously it will be designed for drifting but I plan to have a go at some 'grip' track days too this year, hence going for all FIA safety gear, both for the car and myself.

Further plans for the interior include respraying it all one colour, obviously fitting the cage, finding a reclining passenger bucket seat and flocking the dash. I've also sorted out some replacement Apexi gauges to fill the dash holes which I'll post up the news about once I've paid for them.

**Jord** · 17-01-2008, 20:38

Small parts arrival update!

4 Point 3" strap FIA [2013] harnesses from Ricco Racing. Puzzles me why people spend so much on Takata harnesses when the quality on these is equal for a snip of the price. Excellent service from Richard @ Ricco Racing, despite the Royal Mail's f-up!

Chuffed as nuts with them, so much I might get a set for the passenger side when funds allow!

**Jord** · 17-01-2008, 21:11

The spec of the engine is pretty good [see page 1]. The car is booked in for mapping with Steve Sadler of FCTuning on Sat 26th Jan. I want to see what sort of power I get from it as is, more importantly I expect it to be pretty responsive with the Apexi AX53B60 turbo I'm using, it won't set any power-records, I expect around 300hp, but it should be nice and responsive to drive.

I'll go from there, different cams and a different turbo maybe on the cards if I don't get the feel I want from the current spec.

**Jord** · 18-01-2008, 08:51

I'm planning to do the Feb licensing day at Silverstone, the Norfolk Arena one if it goes ahead and possibly a Teeside day before Round 1. Santa Pod isn't too far from me so might try and get to one of Lex's DWYB days if there is one before then.

I've still got the job of the HICAS swap out to do, which Im putting off until the last possible minute

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**Jord** · 25-01-2008, 09:14

Mini update.

The PS13 is booked in at Motorworx in Marlow, Bucks, tommorrow morning at 10am for Steve Sadler of FC Tuning to work his magic on it. I have some new NGK 7s to go in whilst mapping to see what difference a fresh set of plugs gapped properly does to the power/torque readings.

Its make or break time as this will either cure all my running problems or point out something is seriously wrong, but either way the car is in good hands with Steve and I'd thoroughly recommend him!

Cross everything for me please

**Jord** · 26-01-2008, 22:31

Well theres good news and bad news.

The good news is the car made 310bhp and 262lb/ft torque and has one hell of a torque curve. It also boosts very early and is VERY responsive so should be ideal for drifting. We also only ran the car on low-boost mode on the Profec B because.....

The bad news, the turbo spat its seals out the back of the car after about 30-odd dyno runs, so lots of white smoke and unfortunately we didn't manage to finish mapping it for high boost

I have to say if anyone wants any Power FC mapping doing, Steve Sadler is THE MAN. He spent nearly all day on the car, got exactly the results I was after and is VERY knowledgeable about, well every damn thing! He is a serious boffin when it comes to Nissans and engine mapping in general and my head still hurts from trying to follow everything he was explaining to me!

Steve also threw in some new NGKs and gapped them to 0.7 for me and Carl from Motorworx ran a compression test while the plugs were out, all good across all cylinders so the engine is a good-un.

So the next stage is to whip the turbo off and send it off to somewhere to throw some new seals on and check it over. After that Steve and I will do some road mapping to finish it off, setup high boost mode and Steve is also going to visit Silverstone at a practice/license day in Feb to live map as I drift. Cannot fault the service one bit.

I have to say a big thankyou to Carl @ Motorworx in Marlow too, top man and stayed all day with us to run the dyno. Also thanks to Paul again for the trailering, top man.

Anyway, heres some pictures and the videos are still uploading

Loading up VERY early

Off the trailer at the other end.

Ready to begin.

Carl's missus's very nice EVO

Compression on cylinder 4, all good.

Power graph before and after.

The two red lines are before and the green lines after, the dotted lines are torque and the solid lines bhp. You can see the torque is up 50-60lb/ft in places! Also, check the torque curve, it peaks at about 4800 and then hold really nicely until about 6k. Perfect for drifting!

Videos to follow....

**Jord** · 28-01-2008, 09:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mitch

Nice one Jord. Sorry to hear about the turbo but once that's repaired, it'll be spot on. Will it have to be mapped again, or did it give up right at the end?

We managed 31 runs before it gave in so the mapping was pretty much finished on low boost. Theres high boost to map for still and the live mapping at Silverstone on the 16th should finish to job. At least its drivable and it idles nicely now, it was running SOO rich before it unbelieveable. Its worth noting that the graph on the last page with the 'before' and 'after' was after Steve sorted it from running rich. On the first dyno run it only made about 230-ish HP! The 'before' was after about 6 or so runs.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt_S

Thats what me and Carter bought too. Theyre rather nice arent they!

Aye very good quality and they look nice too!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr Bizzle

Sadler is the nuts huh?

Indeed he is mate, I cannot stress how pleased I was with the service!

On a positive note too I have to say a VERY big thankyou to Stephen @ SKAY, Japan [he is sorting out all of the GhostDancer/Rick problems off his own back and doing a stella job].

He is helping me out with a full set of Apexi EL2 gauges/senders and control unit shipped over from Japan to replace the ones that I got with the car that don't work. The man is a legend

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**Jord** · 30-01-2008, 22:07

Couple of dyno videos pre-turbo-death

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pp9RtpUAlZk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r5vJFnnnIfg

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IzbrGAaTjb0

I've pretty much decided, thanks to Steve Usher bullying me, to change my turbo for the GT2871R. Steve Sadler is going to do me a remap and we are going to aim for 350-ish hp and lb/ft torque.

In other news, I temporarily covered up the bare metal from the arch rolling so the car can sit at work for a few days [where it'll need to be outside] while the cage footplates get welded in.

I also had a mishap test-fitting the cage and managed to crack the windscreen. Thank the sweet lord it was my front screen, which is easily replaceable under insurance, rather than one of the uber rare rear pieces of glass!

So, a pretty shitty week all in all as far as progress goes, but every cloud right?

Brunosr13 · 30-01-2008, 22:35

Yea, 2871r

12-09-2007, 19:37	#1 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	PS13 Silvia - Origin Lab x Skay Japan x Okishima Well as some people know I collected my 2007/08 drift car yesterday, much thanks to Meester Smeeth for piloting the green machine to tow her back, and putting up with 5 hours of my fonejacker impersonations, goooooooood afternoon madaaam. Anyway, I have big plans for the car, the first goal is to get it running 100% and iron out all the minor niggles I have found, the second is to get it up to EDC spec and the third is to tart it up gooood and proper. The Car ================================================== ======================= The Spec Engine Rebuilt SR20DET Apex-i headgasket Apex-i cams Greddy FMIC and Greddy Hardpipe kit Tomei Power Extreme Tubular Manifold [lagged] ARC Larger Winged and Baffled Sump Oil catch tank Z32 AFM Apex-i Power FC and commander Apex-i T28 Inlet Elbow Apex-i Hard intake pipe Apex-i Super Suction Intake Garrett GT2871R Turbo with 0.64 housing built by Turbo Dynamics Turbo Dynamics Adjustable actuator Greddy Profec B Spec-II Boost Controller Greddy Intake manifold 555cc injectors NGK 7 plugs Larger Nissan rad and fan inc. larger cowling Stainless turbo elbow Down pipe Decat Kakimoto cat back exhaust [2 box system] Aluminium sump guard Wiring loom relocated through engine bay Transmission 5 speed box SPEC Stage 3+ Clutch DW Lightened Chromoly Flywheel Tomei Short shift Cusco Pro 2 Way LSD Inside Sparco Prodrive PRO-WRC driver's seat on DW subframe Sparco Rev passenger's seat on custom subframe [to be fitted] Ricco Racing FIA 3" driver and passenger harnesses Fabricage 6 point cage with door bars and harness bar, powdercoated white Apex-i EL2 Boost/Water Temp/Oil Temp/Oil Pressure/EGT Electronic gauges Apex-i EL2 gauge control unit Nismo white gearknob So-Cal style white 330mm dished steering wheel Lifeline ZERO2000 plumbed in extinguisher system. Custom centre console housing kill switch and extinguisher T-pull Suspension and Chassis Buddy Club Spec R coilovers with camber adjustable top mounts Tomei Hicas locking kit 5 Stud conversion front and rear Front pillow tension rods Anti bump steer tie rod ends Spacers in the steering rack Steel Steering rack joint Stainless braided brake lines Stainless braided clutch line Wheels 6 x Rota Torque 17"x 9.5J ET+12 [3mm front spacers, 5mm rear spacers] Exterior Vertex copy-stylie aero front bumper Type-X copy-stylie side skirts Bomex rear valance Flared steel rear arches URAS rear lights, Clear front indicators and side lights GTR style grill GT Front tow strap for track, hidden when in road spec. Steel bonnet pins. Exterior pull cables for Kill switch and Fire system. Painted in Bayside Blue, for now. Car is mapped by Steve Sadler of FCTuning - 348bhp and 321lb/ft torque at 1.2 bar. PS - I'm updating the spec above as I go along to keep it all in one place ================================================== ======================= After collecting the car yesterday we swung by DWHQ in Birmingham to pick up some toys, despite Bon Bon's sales patter I resisted a set of the new DW Control System coilovers [although holy shit they are cool bits of kit and I might still get some!], and despite Melissa force-feeding me Wham bars [honest Phil] . I walked away with these- Awesome service as every guys PS - Gimme a job! That little lot should keep me busy for now, I also have to figure out why none of the Apex-i EL2 gauges are working [they light up but don't read anything] as I'd really like to keep them as they look awesome. Also on my immediate todo list is mapping of the PowerFC [the engine should be good for 350hp+] and sorting out the idle problem - the idle rises and drops when the lights are turned on - any ideas? I might also get the front aero repaired and touch in the other small marks as a temporary fix until the new kit arrives. I'll update this thread as things progress and I'll be using it as a todo list. Don't go expecting anything spectacular as the cars pretty much where I want it to be mechanically, plus Im not taff! All comments/ideas suggestions welcome. Last edited by Jord; 26-08-2008 at 10:56.

03-01-2008, 23:43	#8 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	New shoes! These arrived today from the lovely Rare Rims, next day delivery .... So Paulo Smithio kindly slapped some tyres on for now.. Mmmmm whitey flushness... Got them on the car tonight, sorry for the lack of good pictures, battery is deeed plus it was dark so it was pointless getting it out of the garage for pics. I need some slight flaring on the rears. But they is still flush. But to say I'm slightly chuffed with them is like saying the Pope is slightly Catholic, they look awesome in the flesh! Also got the centre console back in, just have to run the wires/cables now and start on the scuttle panel.

16-01-2008, 10:27	#11 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	Quick update, no pictures. Went over yesterday afternoon to get the car ready for MOT. Lost count of how many fuses I blew trying to wire the rear fog lamp in, I REALLY hate car electrics . Gave up on that in the end until I get a multimeter and figure out what Im doing wrong. The wiring on this car is dodgy to say the least - proof that JDM people don't always know best! I also recieved some items from DWHQ yesterday - 17mm wheel nuts for Rotas Pull cable for battery cutoff Bonnet pins Spin turn knob Pack of cable ties 2 x Fruit Salads Ate the Fruit Salads first, then fitted the spin turn knob, then onto the bonnet pins. I have NEVER measured and remeasured so many times in my life . Seriously scary stuff drilling holes into a perfectly good [and hard to get hold of] PS13 bonnet! Made a good job of it though and despite taking the wrong spring off the stock bonnet catch 3 times [to disable interior pull cable] it all works fine now. I've just got to get back over to the car at some point this week and figure out what I'm doing wrong with this bloody foglamp __________________ Last edited by Jord; 16-01-2008 at 19:42. Reason: Added a picture.

16-01-2008, 18:05	#12 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	Thanks I'll be using it on the road from time to time. I have my iPod for these occasions. I also plan to be able to drive it to and from the track. Obviously it will be designed for drifting but I plan to have a go at some 'grip' track days too this year, hence going for all FIA safety gear, both for the car and myself. Further plans for the interior include respraying it all one colour, obviously fitting the cage, finding a reclining passenger bucket seat and flocking the dash. I've also sorted out some replacement Apexi gauges to fill the dash holes which I'll post up the news about once I've paid for them. __________________

17-01-2008, 20:38	#13 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	Small parts arrival update! 4 Point 3" strap FIA [2013] harnesses from Ricco Racing. Puzzles me why people spend so much on Takata harnesses when the quality on these is equal for a snip of the price. Excellent service from Richard @ Ricco Racing, despite the Royal Mail's f-up! Chuffed as nuts with them, so much I might get a set for the passenger side when funds allow! __________________

18-09-2007, 18:18	#2 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	Update! Had the day off today [you'll find most of my updates will be on Tuesday evenings as is the only day I get to work on the car]. Decided to start out by looking at the Apexi gauges and try and figure out why they weren't working. Found out they are all daisy chained together so HOPED that one gauge was faulty and this was breaking the chain. It wasn't. They are all bustereded. Looks like there has been a hell of a lot of heat near the wires for the water temp sender [its melted the protective cover] but the wires looked intact. That still doesn't explain why none of the gauges work. I tried plugging them in one by one alone along with the relevant signal wire from each sender but to no avail. Its a weird one because the control unit is powering the gauges, the peak and warn lights on each one can be selected via the control unit, but there is no signal for readings going to any of them. My solution for now - I need to either try some of my gauges in someone else's car or try a working gauge in my car so I can rule out either the senders/control unit or gauges themselves. I just find it REALLY hard to believe that ALL of the guages have packed in [theres 5 in total!]. If anyone has any suggestions or has these gauges fitted I'd like to hear from you! After failing miserably at sorting that problem I decided to do what I do best, start taking useless crap out of the car. And yes, I said I'd never do this again after the S14 but out came the hammer and chisel. Most of it was really easy to remove except on the wheel arches and rear turrets. Complete ball-ache. Thats all really from today, I'm waiting on my boost controller to arrive so I can get that plumbed in and then get the car over to Steve Sadler at FCTuning for him to work his magic and get it making powers. Oh and I found out the turbo is the B60 model rather than the B70 I had in my S14, need to do some research and find out the specs. Before I go - anyone know what this is/does? Its behind the rear panel/doorcard thing in the back on the n/s. Till next time, sexy back.

18-10-2007, 22:08	#3 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	No updates yet people, just got back off holiday so will be back onto things soon. Bought a Greddy Profec B Spec II to take care of boost and a mechanical Apexi EL2 boost gauge to use until I get the electric gauges to work. Once the Profec is fitted it'll be mapped and Ill report back with the magic figures!

16-12-2007, 17:55	#4 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	New seat! Sparco Prodrive Pro WRC [Frp, Carbon was a bit rich!] - fits lovely, really comfortable and a bit posh. Chandler says yes . I'll take the decorations off it before it goes in the car

19-12-2007, 18:04	#5 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	Seat and steering wheel fitted. I' gona have to lose a few inches as the seat is snug!! And anyone that knows me knows I'm not exactly fat! Test fitted one of the 9J Work wheels, these will do until the wheels I want become available in a few weeks. Gonna need a slight pull on the rear for them to fit. Also did some minor tidying today too, getting ride of wiring not needed and connecting up all hoses from Profec B etc. Upon reflection, theres not THAT much needed to be done to make it worthy of being drifted. Front bumper and broken Apexi gauges are now with Garage RippleDrift [tm] also. Paul and Roger are going to make the bumper sturdy again and see if he can bring the gauges back to life, much appreciated

08-01-2008, 21:04	#9 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	Konichiwa bitches No pictures in this update unfortunately as I forgot my camera. The roll cage arrived from Fabricage yesterday so thats another job on the 'to-do' list . Today I did some small fiddly jobs like plumbing in the fire extinguisher and fitting the nozzles, refitting the passenger seat and centre dash tunnel whilst Paul flared my rear arches. Now he'd obviously had his Weetabix this morning as the wheels sat flush/proud before and I now need at least 15mm spacers . However, he did a cracking job and I'm chuffed with how they came out. I've lost some paint on the arches, as I'd expected too so as soon as I've decided which front wings I want it'll be going over to Garage Rippledrift to have the front and rear wings sprayed. My plan was to get the car taxed tommorrow ready for the drive over to FCTuning next Tuesday however I've noticed my MOT has expired so I need to sort that now next Tuesday and maybe get down to see Steve Sadler towards the end of the month. I just hope it passes emissions as its running a bit rough and very very rich. Thats all for now, hopefully next update Ill have some new bits to fit and some pictures of the flaring.

08-01-2008, 21:27	#10 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	I lied, just remembered I took some pictures on my phone, exucse the quality. Car outside pre-flaring. Cage. With flaring done.

17-01-2008, 21:11	#14 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	The spec of the engine is pretty good [see page 1]. The car is booked in for mapping with Steve Sadler of FCTuning on Sat 26th Jan. I want to see what sort of power I get from it as is, more importantly I expect it to be pretty responsive with the Apexi AX53B60 turbo I'm using, it won't set any power-records, I expect around 300hp, but it should be nice and responsive to drive. I'll go from there, different cams and a different turbo maybe on the cards if I don't get the feel I want from the current spec. __________________

18-01-2008, 08:51	#15 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	I'm planning to do the Feb licensing day at Silverstone, the Norfolk Arena one if it goes ahead and possibly a Teeside day before Round 1. Santa Pod isn't too far from me so might try and get to one of Lex's DWYB days if there is one before then. I've still got the job of the HICAS swap out to do, which Im putting off until the last possible minute . __________________

25-01-2008, 09:14	#16 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	Mini update. The PS13 is booked in at Motorworx in Marlow, Bucks, tommorrow morning at 10am for Steve Sadler of FC Tuning to work his magic on it. I have some new NGK 7s to go in whilst mapping to see what difference a fresh set of plugs gapped properly does to the power/torque readings. Its make or break time as this will either cure all my running problems or point out something is seriously wrong, but either way the car is in good hands with Steve and I'd thoroughly recommend him! Cross everything for me please __________________ Last edited by Jord; 25-01-2008 at 09:16.

26-01-2008, 22:31	#17 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	Well theres good news and bad news. The good news is the car made 310bhp and 262lb/ft torque and has one hell of a torque curve. It also boosts very early and is VERY responsive so should be ideal for drifting. We also only ran the car on low-boost mode on the Profec B because..... The bad news, the turbo spat its seals out the back of the car after about 30-odd dyno runs, so lots of white smoke and unfortunately we didn't manage to finish mapping it for high boost I have to say if anyone wants any Power FC mapping doing, Steve Sadler is THE MAN. He spent nearly all day on the car, got exactly the results I was after and is VERY knowledgeable about, well every damn thing! He is a serious boffin when it comes to Nissans and engine mapping in general and my head still hurts from trying to follow everything he was explaining to me! Steve also threw in some new NGKs and gapped them to 0.7 for me and Carl from Motorworx ran a compression test while the plugs were out, all good across all cylinders so the engine is a good-un. So the next stage is to whip the turbo off and send it off to somewhere to throw some new seals on and check it over. After that Steve and I will do some road mapping to finish it off, setup high boost mode and Steve is also going to visit Silverstone at a practice/license day in Feb to live map as I drift. Cannot fault the service one bit. I have to say a big thankyou to Carl @ Motorworx in Marlow too, top man and stayed all day with us to run the dyno. Also thanks to Paul again for the trailering, top man. Anyway, heres some pictures and the videos are still uploading Loading up VERY early Off the trailer at the other end. Ready to begin. Carl's missus's very nice EVO Compression on cylinder 4, all good. Power graph before and after. The two red lines are before and the green lines after, the dotted lines are torque and the solid lines bhp. You can see the torque is up 50-60lb/ft in places! Also, check the torque curve, it peaks at about 4800 and then hold really nicely until about 6k. Perfect for drifting! Videos to follow.... __________________ Last edited by Jord; 26-01-2008 at 22:35.

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Brunosr13 Woooterrrrrrrr Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,247	Yea, 2871r __________________ Cant wait for 2010 season www.teamtwisted.net

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30-01-2008, 22:07	#19 (permalink)
Jord Megan Fox! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Peterborough Posts: 11,390	Couple of dyno videos pre-turbo-death http://youtube.com/watch?v=pp9RtpUAlZk http://youtube.com/watch?v=r5vJFnnnIfg http://youtube.com/watch?v=IzbrGAaTjb0 I've pretty much decided, thanks to Steve Usher bullying me, to change my turbo for the GT2871R. Steve Sadler is going to do me a remap and we are going to aim for 350-ish hp and lb/ft torque. In other news, I temporarily covered up the bare metal from the arch rolling so the car can sit at work for a few days [where it'll need to be outside] while the cage footplates get welded in. I also had a mishap test-fitting the cage and managed to crack the windscreen. Thank the sweet lord it was my front screen, which is easily replaceable under insurance, rather than one of the uber rare rear pieces of glass! So, a pretty shitty week all in all as far as progress goes, but every cloud right? __________________ Last edited by Jord; 30-01-2008 at 22:41.