Hey guys its bean a really long time since my last update. I had some issues irl but now everything (mostly) is fixed and I am back to my RP!!!!
So last thing u herd from me were that I went to Ireland whit STS Garage but actualy I stayed whit them for only 7 days untill I got a phone call from Megure-San (the guy that was building my R33 Engine) that it was almost time for him to build it and asked me if I wanned to help out. I jumped a plane emediatly to Japan and while in the air I got a lot ideas about my R34 as well.
Spoiler:
I arrived in Japan on May 26th and stayed there till yestrday.
#May 26 till June 8th - "Hearth surgery"
When I arrived in Japan we went for some finish and then tomorrow started the R33's hearth assembly, afther finishing that Megure had an R33 whit the same setup my R33 would be and tested and tuned the engine in that car, afther that we put the engine in a crate and then finished the 2nd crate that contained all the susspension parts and sent to my home adress in L.A. and called a friend to sleep at my place untill the crates arrive!
#June 9th - "The Idea"
On that day I saw a drawing of an R34 on a table whit a permanent marker and decided to write the name of the parts that I would like on my R34 on to that drwaing, and Megure started to laugh first but when I finished the only thing he said was Sugei and went to his office and came out 10 mins later with a huge smile on his face telling me that we are going to hunt them down!!!
#June 10th - July 1st - "The Hunt"
So on June 10th I went whit Megure in his car and one of his mechanics went with his doughter in her car and he gave them some adress to go visit and let them know what we are looking.
Contact by contact, day by day, eventualy we entered July untill we found all the parts necesary to build my dream 34, we found 4 parts on day 1 of the hunt and the rest of the parts took us 21 day,now someone will say "is quite a lot time considering that you are in Japan and looking for parts for a JMD car." The hunt was long but we were looking for rare car parts for a car that was built almost 20 years ago and getting the genuine stuff is hard but it was worth it. We packed all the stuff and sent back to the L.A.
#July 5th till July 29th - "Recreation and assembly"
For the rest of July I was working with Megure in his shop for free since he helped me track a whole lot stuff that I needed for my 2 cars, and on July 15th a customer arrived with an R32 GTR that wanned to swap it for the VR38DETT and tune it to 1K HP, so I took my chance and asked what are his plans for the RB and he said to sell it to somebody, and half an hour later I asked him for the price, he laughed and said "If u wanna buy an RB26 you have to ask for the price before the owner puts it for sale cause thats how fast they sell" and I felt bed for the rest of the day cause beeing shy to ask for the engine.
#July 31st - "Spreading the wings"
Yestrday Megure and his crew dropped me off to the airport and stayed with me untill my plane were ready to board. We were talking and having some funn while drinking tea and as I were saying goodbye to them all and heading towards my gate Megure said "Sayonara RB26DETT" and left whitout an explenation and it was bothering me trough the whole flight.
#Present
So afther I landed in L.A. my buddy came to pick me up in my 180SX and dropped me to my place when I saw a lot of shipping crates in the main house.
Went to check my babies in the garage the 33 and the 34, meanwhile the Z33 was in Oklahoma at STS garage, Lagano were asking me for it and I sold it to them for V$5000 I hope they will have as much fun with it as I did!
Since I slept the last 30% of the flight I had energy to start the assembly. I started with the R33, installed the whole HKS Susspension kit that I bought mounted my LM GT rims on and went to installing the engine, exhaust and the drive train.
Since everything was made to fit the R33 it was a pretty easy install that took me 4 hours in total since I didn't had anything to unbolt and remove. I installed the interior before I went to Ireland and now all thats left is to fire up the R33 for the first time in this setup!!!
The engine and the runing gear and the setup and testing costed me V$15500, and now somebody will say why spend V$15500 on an RB26 well its cause the engine is not an RB26 anymore its a full RB32DETT including the TOMEI kit that increased it from RB30 to RB32 and increased the REW limiter to 13 000 RPM, the engine power output 750HP.
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Megure setted it up that way and the wear on the engine is minimal concidering the power of it and all the parts that he installed in to it now make it more durable as well. If I wanned to I just need to change the turbines to a bit bigger ones and set the ECU and the car would make over 1K HP easily, but the life time of the engine would be decreased by 65%!!!! Also with Megures help I got my self new brake discs, calipers and brake pads from Brembo that look like those wich were used on a Factory R33 V Spec but the performance of this brake sistem is way better and more suitable for a 500+HP R33 then the factory kit!
Also managed to get some decals from all the manufacturers wich parts I am using on the R33.
If we go from the top :
-Tomei durable engine parts and 3.2l kit
-GReddy Intake,Exhaust manifold and turbines
-APEXi Exhaust sistem
-HKS Susspension kit
-Brembo braking sistem
-Toyo Tires
-Volk Racing
Now its time to change to page and go one generation ahead to te R34 GTT!!!
The parts that I were hunting for almost 1 month were Nismo Z tune front bumper, rear bumper, side skirts and front fenders, Mines hood, mirrors, and trunk lip. On the 1st day we went straight to Mines and managed to buy all the parts that I wanted from mines, as far as the Z-Tune parts it took us a long time but we found everything at a junkyard colectionar, that guy was colecting crashed cars and had a Silver Z-Tune with only 10 000km on the clock without the engine and rekt front end. We asked him for the price of the parts, at first he didn't want to sell them but afther a lot of begging he agreed to sell me all the parts that I need, he even brought me brand new fenders wich he bought and painted to fix the Z-Tune xD We couldn't find a front bumper so I satisfied my self with an M Tune front bumper. Now all I need to do is take the R34 apart sand it, prep it and respray it in the factory color!
Also I found the answer for what Megures "Sayonara RB" means, he bought the engine for me cause I worked for a whole month at his shop without a pay, and that was his thanks, the engine is an stock RB26DETT with around 350HP and RB25 drive train, now the 1.5JZ is in a crate I am not shure what to do with it maybe I will sell it not shure. One part that I forgot to mention was the Z Tune diff intercooler that I bought with all the other nismo parts. More changes on the R34 will happend in the next days as I will work on it without stopping. Now its time to call a truck to tow my R33 to the DMV to register it again afther a 6 months sitting!!!!!!
Spoiler:
Weekly income : 13x940 = +V$12220
Z33 : +V$5000
Total V$25816
R33 Parts : -V$15500
R34 Parts : -V$4500
Remaining : V$5816
ooc : since my save got rekt I resprayed the R33 in a bit darker red
