Blown Motor, Engine Rebuild/Replacement.

hjo1078

The osgiken w the rjm clutch is fantastic. Im in love w this new clutch setup.


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COSMO

Thats great to hear, thank you. I just ordered a fresh set of gtr ngk spark plugs and my new pedal should be delivered tomorrow.. Need BOOST!!!!

TBatt

Cosmo, I'm going with the popular Bridgestone RE-11 setup, 265 F and 305 R. I have not driven on them yet as I'm waiting on my custom powder coated wheels to arrive which should be this week. My 800hp Supra buddy swears by the Nitto tires he runs but most of his crazyness is straight line terror. His car handles like a pig in the corners. Probably not the tires but his setup. He gets to scare the crap out of me on the straight line shots but I get back at him in the corners. I love watching him tense up when I don't bother with the brakes while hitting exit ramps. And that is on my set of S-04 which are great DD tires. Can't wait to get the RE-11 scrubbed in and see what they will do. Good luck and I'll be watching for more from you and your latest build.

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RJM pedal, Hotchkis Sway Bars, FI TDX, FOG Light, Z1 Slotted Drilled rotors, Stillen SC, Quaife ATB, Z1 Oil cooler, AEM Gauge Set, Galeforce gauge mount, Avant Garde M590 Hypersilver w/RE-11, TopgunZ A2A kit., ECUtek tuned by Seb: ROLL TIDE!

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Mickey Thompson
19” ET Street Radial II Tires 3723R 305/35-19

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hjo1078

or nt05rs in that size

jwick

Ive heard good things about the new Nitto and of course R888 and Advans

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COSMO

Fingers crossed we go on the dyno tonight, wish it wasn't so hot though..

COSMO

Just got the call. No dyno tonight... It hopefully will be next sat, just a few days before I go to pick it up. Lets hope nothing comes up sat because it would really throw a monkey wrench in everything right before I get my car... One things for sure, I will never do this again because it takes so long. Try having your car in 2 shops for a solid year and tell me its worth it. If I cannot do it myself it won't be done... Kuddos to bryan because he had a ton of cleanup work to do on my car after the motor blew and such.... Bummed............................................ ..............

Z&I

Same exact thing has happened to me - I've been waiting almost two and a half years now ... 1 blown motor... been in 2 shops ... delays, delays, more delays, and daily missed deadlines.
Ditto the 'Bummed' on this one ...........................................
But I am Irish - and - I am Stubborn aaarrrggghhh

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COSMO

omg man, what exactly are you having done to your car and who has it now?

COSMO

Here are the 3" lower charge pipes I had bryan make for me to allow my 6466 to breathe..

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Z&I

Went in 1st for Stillen SC'r upgrade _ Impeller, plugs, injectors, fuel pump, Frozen Boost heat exchanger, and TUNE.
2 weeks promised on that one turned into almost 6 months.

Got the car back for 1 day and blew the motor 1st time down the track.

Back in the shop pulled the motor and sent it down to Import Parts Pro for rebuild. That took almost 6 months.
After it got back from IPP the motor then sat in the shop for another couple of months until they actually started work on it.

The shop owner then decided to take a few months off and stay at home to take care of his brand new baby boy then went on vacation for a few more months to Florida.
That accounted for another 5 months delay in progress.

When he got back we had a little disagreement and I decided to pull the car out of his shop and ship it down to AAM Competition in Maryland - a little over 200 miles away.
This was just before FI was launching it's TT design.

It had been at the 1st shop for a little over a year before shipping it down to AAM.

It's now been at AAM for 15 months or so.
Not all their fault...there have been some legitimate delays due to other after market parts inavailabilty specifically the CJM twin fuel pump that they were upgrading the R+D on.


Since the car has been at AAM:
The TT install has been upgraded and I've made some additions to the build "as long as it was there" anyway.

The changes that have added more time to the build than anticipated.
New Technology and Products have been introduced and now filtered in to the mix.

Flex Fuel Capabilities
Twin Fuel Pump [R+D] and other fuel system components of AAM design.
Upgraded to Stage II TT's - now Borg Warner 7163's
EcuTek TUNE with Launch and Slip Control capabilities.

I'm doing a custom system to drop out the ABS/ABLS and power the Line Locks.
Also incorporating a separate Rotary Switch to control the Slip portion of the EcuTek T/C capability in conjunction with the ABS/ABLS Line Locks.
I've done all the operational design for this and have worked with the AAM engineering dept to make it work.

The dash has been totally reconfigured to accept a full compliment of guages and a Defi Tach.
Jason Gale has fabricated a Cubby panel to accept 2 more guages - that has turned out really nice.

Another mini project along the way was to convert to smaller brakes in order to allow the fitment of 17" wheels and larger tires geared for the 1/4 mile.
I went with Racing Brake - they have a kit for the 370Z just for this purpose.

What's left to do down there is the final engineering acceptance of their new upper intake manifold.
That in itself has taken some time to develop properly having gone through a few design refinements and test castings.
But I was waiting any way.

Once the car gets back up here I will be changing out the FD to Quaife and Automatic gears and adding a Z1 Diff Housing.
That has already been paid for to the original shop and I just don't want to have to pay for it again.
I did leave the original shop on sort of good terms and have gone back to say hi a few times.
Can't afford to burn bridges here.

I drove down to AAM a few weeks ago to check on progress - dropped off the little wheels with the big tires - looks pretty good on the car - I prefer the fatties look anyway.

So we will see ... I do plan [hopefully] to run the car in the fall season after a 'getting used to and break in period'.
hmmmm ... I seem to have said that 2 years ago as well ...

When it's finally done I will have a complete AAM Twin Turbo System with Flex Fuel capabilities.
Extended AAM Oil Cooler Performance and a host of other supportive performance gizmos to keep it safe and cool.

That's the short story

Wishing you the best with your build as well

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Z&I

Here's the Z at AAM ... but that's not my crank in the foreground.
The Center Caps aren't on and I took the photo from under another car ...

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zguynate

DIY isn't exactly very quick either because you end up having to work on other peoples time a lot. The machine shop was a big hang up for me. Then getting parts in and what not. Granted I'm sure it's probably getting done quicker than if I were to send it somewhere.

I hope they can get to it next Saturday. What was the hold up for today?

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COSMO

One of the issues was my new clutch over extending because joe from zspeed didn't exactly know what size bushing to send. The next thing was having to get bryan to make new lower charge pipes because when bobby built my turbo kit he decided to go cheap and throw 2.5" piping coming off the intercooler then connecting to 3" piping that goes the throttle bodies. Major bottleneck for that size turbo. I also had him bore out my lower intake. He also had to fix a lot of items that needed to be addressed after bobby had my car for over 8 months. All of that along with removing my old motor, having a new block bored and honed, install a both heads, leak down test, injectors were sent off to be inspected and cleaned, and of course anything else that it takes to button everything back up and checked..
If it wasn't for bryan brooks (BBR racing) I'm really not sure who I would have used. He has given me faith again in honest people that do great work an for that I would highly recommend him to anyone.

I feel this time around the car will be right and fun as hell to drive. Now based that I'm really looking forward to the next project and depending of the new supra or z we will just have to see....