Project Greenstone.

Nice to see the car again BK
The car is looking great and i cant wait to see the end result.
Love that big radiator, big brakes.
Thanx for your time yesterday I really enjoyed it.
Big Up :!:

BigKriss wrote:

I could at long last take my car off the road for a while. Until now she was a daily.

Mods galore in stock for her, fitting the new radiator after the Mishimoto core disintegrated.
Literately so. To fit the rad I needed to modify a lot of frontal steel , also to clean up the airflow in the front behind the bumper for some streamlined airflow. Lots of gubbins an stuff in the form of brackets, hooters, wide metal members and stuff. It all adds up to inhibit proper flow to cool everything.

The chassis legs right at the front need to be sliced and diced by 25mm per side for the radiator, the lower cross member needs to be dropped by 30 mm and the intercooler needs proper mounting. Was always attached with pop riveted plates which don't last.

Im doing a frame that will hold the different components properly. The coolers will also get guides to direct the cooling medium to the proper areas.
Oil coolers will drop down and to the left and right of the inter cooler and radiator.

While its off the road, my brake conversion will also finally go on.
Updates to follow.

Will also set up the trigger for the ViPEC management system while its all open up front.
Oh, and a damn good clean up and paint. That is concrete/cement from the Rock Raceway..

Want to swap Neptune ?? 😉 😉

Just say the word man thats a great car!

Barry just for interest sake, the marks on the timing belt will only line up with the marks on all the gears with installation. If you line it ip 100% and turn the engine any amount of rotations they will not line up perfectly again.

neptune wrote:

Nice to see the car again BK
The car is looking great and i cant wait to see the end result.
Love that big radiator, big brakes.
Thanx for your time yesterday I really enjoyed it.
Big Up :!:

Cheers bud, what a surprise !!

Pulled the tensioners off yesterday and sat down before phoning my mate Mike at Clearwater Nissan.
Yup, he has for the RB20 which is the same but they cost R894.27 each. Ha ! Yea, not for me thanks.

Took them home last night and stripped them totally. Very easy and rather simple to re build with new bearings.
I thought at worst I may have to machine inserts so a bigger I.D. bearing could be used but no, no such effort needed.
The one tensioner uses a single deep groove ball bearing and the other uses smaller but similar deep groove bearings. This one uses two though.

Today I will buy three bearings, assemble everything and Bob`s your Uncle ,Fanny`s your Aunt and Pussy`s the big black cat.

Two rebuilt tensioners for under R150.00.

Pics to follow due to Photobucket maintenance this morning.

Pics .

AND THE FINISHED "NEW" TENSIONERS.
So, the bearings cost me R220.00. TWO new tensioners for R220.00 and a bit of effort ( 1 Hour) is not bad imo.. 😉

Brakes on the front are done.
Rears are in progress..

Also cleaned up the chassis where things need to happen today..

Looking awesome Barry, will have to come round and have a look 🙂

Those brakes look sooooooooo HOT !!!

And they work like a dream, have the same ones on the Celica

Cheers John, us lonesome two here again huh ?

So, latest for those who visit here.
Some grinding, some welding, fitting and viola !One radiator bottom mount almost done.

The radiator is friggin big ! I am worried about the low nose but it is still tucked up behind the bumper..talking of which, some mods here to make things work....

Got some Nissan new spec 350 wheels today, will stick on some semi`s and get out to the track with them. Must say, I think they will look pretty good once they`e on..

The intercooler is not my first choice here. chinese crap and ...well, just not what I would choose.
I may just get a Spearco job which incidentally is also what Garrett sell as a Garrett core.

Oh, and the headlamp clearance with the radiator.

Nice BK working overtime on her

love those 350z rims.. imho some of the best looking nissan mags out there..

What radiator is that?

Nice work

RB25SX wrote:

What radiator is that?

It`s an after market American V8 radiator sold by The V8 Shoppe in JHb.Saw it used on a bakkie wif V8 a while back. Worked extremely well.Dyno pull after Dyno pull and it took it in its stride..R2400.00

Any updates on this?

Daniel San ! Patience young man ..... 😉

A package arrived from Japan today, rather excited about this...

Garrett core inter cooler end tanks complete and ready to be fitted. Damn, it`s rather bigger than I had anticipated but what the heck, here we go !

May have to do some magic with the front bumper cover.....mmmmmmmmmm..

Ooh I'm really liking that!

😮 You going to paint the intercooler Red and just do Bumper side bits bud.

Looking good bud. 😀

O_o joh, bit big? its going to look awesome!!!!

Holy balls thays big!!:shock:

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