Cosmic's Winter Pulsar Project

How much mate .... is that fr+rr ????

Nice find pleased for you

The full back end I polybushed with nolathane for just over £100

Thats an awsome find, strange one at that as the car hasnt really got that great a spec? What turbo was on it? You could sell it and have a free GTiR!

Stock turbo i think, it was refurbished by Midlandturbo last month and still in its wrappers,
Heres a pic after i removed it

Cool, seems odd that it had a quaife gearset but I guess you can never tell what people have done! Maybe their one blew up and they didnt want to put a stock box in place so shelled out 2k or more for a quaife! Well its a fantastic find for you anyway.

Wish I had a surprise quaife set......God knows I need it

Maybe Santa will pull one out of his big sack for you this Christmas

I'd do anything Santa wanted if he dropped me a straight cut gear set off this Xmas......anything

Happy New Year to you all,
I hope Santa brought you all the toys you wanted,

I didnt take much notice of this dent in my oil sump before, but from what ive heard theres very little clearance between it and the pick up so my engine must have really struggled to oil the bearings. Ill defintly be carrying out Bobs mod to the pick up!
Along with kink in the oil cooler hose its no surprise It wrecked the bearings  

Thought id use the Christmas holiday to clean up all my rusty engine brackets and mounts,

Every mount and bracket you clean up makes the difference when it's all back together

3mm (yes you read that right, 3mm) between pick up and sump pan floor. Not much at all.

I would say that is probably the sole reason for your engine issues

i heard it was 3mm too,
Its good to know that this rebuild stands the best chance of lasting the distance thanks to all ive learnt on these forums.
Id be stuffed without this R club.

Crikey what were nissan thinking 3mm?? Think i will look into this area a bit more during my rebuild

Im sure you're aware of this but for anyone else who's not, If you zoom in on the photo, the sump inlet has been snipped at the sides.
If the sump gets crushed it doesnt totally prevent oil flow,

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Oil-pickup-modified-unit-Nissan-Pulsar-Gtir-sunny-gtir-sr20det-rnn14-GTI-R-/121835744298?hash=item1c5df9ec2a:g:Zf8AAOSwfZ1WZzju

Cosmic73 wrote:Im sure you're aware of this but for anyone else who's not, If you zoom in on the photo, the sump inlet has been snipped at the sides.
If the sump gets crushed it doesnt totally prevent oil flow,

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Oil-pickup-modified-unit-Nissan-Pulsar-Gtir-sunny-gtir-sr20det-rnn14-GTI-R-/121835744298?hash=item1c5df9ec2a:g:Zf8AAOSwfZ1WZzju

Yeah i spoke to Bob about this so will be doing the mod myself

If you hitting the sump you have to soft suspension or the car is to low or you have done something silly. If it's a road car or track car. But this looks a good mod

Suppose it could be anthing like debris on the road specially this year with the wind and tree bits on the road and I have hit a exhaust the once which had fallen off a car but as I was behind a other vehicle I didnt see it until it was too late.

Cosmic whats going on you enjoying too many mince pies and beer to do any more work? Whats ocuring

shroom wrote:Suppose it could be anthing like debris on the road specially this year with the wind and tree bits on the road and I have hit a exhaust the once which had fallen off a car but as I was behind a other vehicle I didnt see it until it was too late.

Cosmic whats going on you enjoying too many mince pies and beer to do any more work? Whats ocuring

Just thought i'd give you chaps a break from my ramblings, but since you ask...

Ive been waiting for my new JE pistons and other rebuild parts to arrive from Erics and also the gearbox bearings/seals to arrive from Nissan
So ive mainly spent the last week cleaning up engine brackets etc.

The good news is ive had an invoice from customs, paid, and the pistons should be delivered on Monday

What about yourself? Been busy on your R?

another worthwhile mod is a stainless or thick alloy sump guard which easy made/fit & even easier if have front bumper guard & the lower brace .
You can also buy pre made sump guard plates for sr20s .

Reached a major milestone this morning,
After months of dirty stripping and cleaning (the R not me)
I rust treated and painted for the final time.
From tomorrow i offially start reassembling all my nice new, sqeaky clean parts,

The fun begins! Great to hear your onto the fun part of getting it all back together seems tidy underside wise did you need to do much?

Nah, just wire brush, degrease, Kurust rust converter, then a final lick of Rustbuster 121 paint.
Ive only done around the engine bay area and engine brackets while its accessible.
The entire underbody still needs sorting out, but ill get that done professionally once the cars running.

I collected the block, head and crank from the engineers yesterday,  



Block; tested and rebored to 86.5mm  



Head; tested and new guides fitted (port, polish and skim to follow)    



New CP forged piston fitted to rods,  



Crank; mains polished, smalls reground to -0.25  


Back on track chaps, just need to figure out how to remove that dastardly diff bearing,