Petes FC rebuild again

[waynos]

i was thinkin a 16 inch rim with 60 series tyre old school bag ,not rubber bands,i know series depends on width..........

[NES304]

wish i could have more days away from work to work on it more thoroughlly enjoyed today

You must have Monday off?

[FCRB26]

Damm long weekend not much has happened except i sniffed out a few bargains.

Been wanting aftermarket exhaust manifolds but decent Tomei or trust ones are over $1200 found a set on ebay brand new in newcastle for $350 so cheering .
He also had a fully reco,d (with reciepts) balanced set of N1 trubos for a GTR with larger  exhaust flapper balanced steel turbine wheels and match ported exhaust to the tomei manifolds .
So that 500 RWHP is looking achievable 450 on a safe tune.
Bought a new gates triple layer cam belt and new tensioner pulleys to be on the safe side.
Will fit a JUN aftermarket oil pump to keep it all happy as well.




Pete

[waynos]

very nice..................

[FCRB26]

Rear crossmember finished and installed

[FCRB26]

Very annoyed with the Dellow bellhousing Its been bolted up to the motor for over 12 months.
Well i didnt notice but i went to fit the starter motor and its over 10mm off centre so the starter motor will not fit in the hole.
Also there is no way to do up the convertor bolts so i will have to cut a access hatch in the bottom sandwich plate to get the bolts in.
I rang dellow this morning they really did not give 2 shits
His suggestion die grind out the sandwich plate. I said why would you do that wouldnt the starter not mesh with the flywheel properlly.
 pretty much said do you know someone who can weld alloy after that.
So lucky me guess im tigging up the holes and re machining the bit where the head of the starter goes.
Just annoying i have to fix something i paid top dollar for its not a matter of filling the holes as alloy needs good penno so i have to cut from the side into the treads and fill it from the side so i get full penno and the tapped hole will have a clean thread.

I should have bought a spun billet one from melbourne.

All 4 link brackets were cut and delivered so we should have an arse end it very soon.



Pete

[NES304]

Oh man what a bummer. There are quite a few companies round with this attitude. Once sold they don't want a bar of you. Not just in the car industry either

[FCRB26]

Yes not very happy.

[waynos]

when i got my ute it had stripped holes in starter with nuts on the other side.
half the car was like this by the way......
anyway i welded the holes and retapped em,
but hell ya shouldnt need to be doin that sort of stuff on a new one
building the sides up too ,
poor bugger......
i would be very irate too.
i work near dellow i want to go abuse them for ya..........
cant believe they didn't wanna help at all.

[FCRB26]

You would think there would be a lot of pissed off RB Nissan owners out there or is mine a 1 off and something moved whilst casting?

[NES304]

You would think there would be a lot of pissed off RB Nissan owners out there or is mine a 1 off and something moved whilst casting?

If they took on board what you had to say they would at least be able to come out with a better product. Not in their interest I suppose

[FCRB26]

Air bags arrived today

 

I cut stiffening sections and sent them yesterday Laurie installed them today.


Im allowed out again tommorow wooo hoooooo thats why i put managers in .

Cant wait we are designing the exhaust, fuel tank , and a full custom front end watch this space its going to be wild full on custom 1 off front end

getting very excited hopefully i can put this one together as well..


Pete

[TTV6FC]

Man this is some awesome work,wish I was doing another one....No,not yet...........

[Ed]

Looks great Pete,

Where do you get dimple dies to flange the hole edges?

that rear x member looks well thought out.

Cheers

Ed

[FCRB26]

Laurie just machined up a set from solid steel and has a bearing press.
I made some on the waterjet and machined a radius on them and i have an old john heine fly press.

[FCRB26]

What a Day today absaloutley flat out.
hot as hell
but glad i had the day off achieved a heap today.
I assembled the parts for the 4 link i cut the other day Laurie did half of one of the rear bag mounts thru the week and i finished them both off and we squared all the brackets up in his diff jig.
After 500 measurements we had everything spot on i peeled off some smick welds on the diff he must trust me letting me go to town on all the 4 link brackets.
We ended up offsetting the pinion as apparentlly you never set up a diff centre dead centre offset to one side 4 degrees and down 3 degrees which i didnt know.
We wanted to make the diff look central so the pinion is offset more than 4 degrees but he assures me this is fine.

the pinion angle stayed dead straight right thru nearlly 400mm of articulation so i guess he did his homework.
We measured up fuel tank today so this is my time to shine im assembling in in the next few weeks while he is at SEMA worked out roughlly 65 litres off our guesstemations.
We also measured and have worked out the exhaust 3 inch with high flow cat and high flow muffler and a nasco deflector modified.



welder went into thermal overload just before i finished welding


After die grinding takes a steady hand  2 coffees helped





Rear shock mount tower next.

Picked up new turbos this afternoon
ordered 1000cc injectors
Ordered new injector rail
picked up new turbosmart fuel pressure regulator.

Pete

[FCRB26]

New turbos, manifolds, gaskets.

[customFC]

Wow, beautiful work. Almost seems a shame to cover it with a floorpan.
Regards
Alex

[FCRB26]

Thanks

The floor pans going to be a work of art as will be the tunnel and the rear shock tower.
They reccessed the engine another 80mm so the firewall has been chopped i want it to handle so the weight distribution should be about right now.


Pete

[fink fc]

Nice work !

BG.