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HCR32 (re)build, bringing it back from a hack job
Welcome, I'll try to keep it short and sweet.... edit, its not short at all sorry. Its as short as I could keep a year of updates.
I picked up an r32 just over a year ago, always wanted one. Found one on the cheap, paid 2,400 (canadian! so like maybe 40 bucks USD?) Had a few goodies to start, rb25det swap, minor upgrades and at least 10L of free gas that I drained out of the oil pan when I got it home.
Picked it up knowing there was some gas in the pan, knowing it was running rich. The more I looked at the car the further away from fixing it and driving it that summer was getting. By the time I had checked everything over the car was gutted. This was now a long term project with hopes of returning the car to its former glory.
I gave myself a small budget for the summer and did what I could, I tore the engine down, inspected everything (surprisingly all good) and re assembled with a new OEM gasket kit, cleaned and painted everything I could during this process. At this point I had the intention of keeping stock turbo and fuel in the car so I did'nt upgrade anything (oops).
Test fit my equips for shits n gigs
Picked up an S13 non hicas rear subframe, car got moved to a friends heated shop for winter build fun, ended up being me working on the car alone most of the time at least there was heat, painted engine bay, pizza n stuff, new used custom straight pipe with blast pipes on the end, Painted calipers, installed rear subframe with GK tech multilink.
Fast forward to now!
Last week I dropped the motor back in, hoping for first start by the end of this month.
Ended up changing plans last minute as I acquired a 180sx gold mine and parted it all out to fund big turbo things.
Using the funds I had I picked up an ebay gt3076, had it balanced locally, cx racing top mount manifold, DW 550cc injectors, rb20 ecu and nistune, freddy front facing plenum, Raw brokerage front plenum intercooler piping and couplers, hks ssqv, mishimoto front mount, isis aluminum rad, ogura orc 409 clutch blah blah blah. heres some pictures.
I picked up an r32 just over a year ago, always wanted one. Found one on the cheap, paid 2,400 (canadian! so like maybe 40 bucks USD?) Had a few goodies to start, rb25det swap, minor upgrades and at least 10L of free gas that I drained out of the oil pan when I got it home.
Picked it up knowing there was some gas in the pan, knowing it was running rich. The more I looked at the car the further away from fixing it and driving it that summer was getting. By the time I had checked everything over the car was gutted. This was now a long term project with hopes of returning the car to its former glory.
I gave myself a small budget for the summer and did what I could, I tore the engine down, inspected everything (surprisingly all good) and re assembled with a new OEM gasket kit, cleaned and painted everything I could during this process. At this point I had the intention of keeping stock turbo and fuel in the car so I did'nt upgrade anything (oops).
Test fit my equips for shits n gigs
Picked up an S13 non hicas rear subframe, car got moved to a friends heated shop for winter build fun, ended up being me working on the car alone most of the time at least there was heat, painted engine bay, pizza n stuff, new used custom straight pipe with blast pipes on the end, Painted calipers, installed rear subframe with GK tech multilink.
Fast forward to now!
Last week I dropped the motor back in, hoping for first start by the end of this month.
Ended up changing plans last minute as I acquired a 180sx gold mine and parted it all out to fund big turbo things.
Using the funds I had I picked up an ebay gt3076, had it balanced locally, cx racing top mount manifold, DW 550cc injectors, rb20 ecu and nistune, freddy front facing plenum, Raw brokerage front plenum intercooler piping and couplers, hks ssqv, mishimoto front mount, isis aluminum rad, ogura orc 409 clutch blah blah blah. heres some pictures.
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