Our R32 Skyline GT-R gets even more Serious - Project Supercar Killer R32 GT-R Pt2

hello everyone in this episode of motive garage we say goodbye to project budget supercar [Music] [Applause] [Music] and now we say hello to project supercar killer [Music] with a built engine sequential gearbox and all of the fruit in a suspension braking department and the interior our gt-r isn't exactly a budget build by the average Corinth easiest standards although it is still a lot cheaper than a supercar that has even a fraction of the performance the entire purpose of the build has always been to only modify what needs modifying as it needs upgrading this means the car had a lot of bits tacked over other bits and parts tacked over other parts and we also stretched a lot of the factory parts to the limit the best thing about the car though was that viewers could pick the performance level they wanted and the budget they wanted from low mount twins running tens on street tires all the way through to nines on a stock bottom end and you could pretty much just copy our formula saving time and money we even put together a video on this last year covering everything all the way down to high nines check out the link if you want to have a look we now want to take the performance of the car to the next level but we don't want to ruin the drivability or the fun factor it would be pretty easy to just throw a monster turbo and nitrous onto a 3.2 liter stroker and go all-out with the build however we want to remain budget conscious steel and we're going to continue using a factory crank and a factory block as well we want to keep the reliability drivability and the fun factor of the car it's no easy task but it can be done with the GTR our new goal is to run low nines at the drag strip one day and then go to the track the next and spin out some supercar rather lling lap times as well now in our last episode you saw what parts were used inside the engine in this episode we're going to take a look at all of the support gear and other mods we've done to the car for this new stage of the build [Music] now the first thing on the car that needed to be massively overhauled was the fuel system the old factory lines as twin feed and a dash out returned and the factory rail just weren't gonna cut it anymore for what we need to do with this car in the future now the car had been sitting around in 85 for a while the first time we started it up we had massive base fuel pressure which I traced to these two fuel filters inside the surge tank being gummed up on 85 so they got removed for now and we found that the base pressure was still pretty high and that's due to the fact that we installed a race works our b-26 twin entry fuel rail which was way less restrictive the new one has twin dash 8 inlets and a dash 8 return while the factory fuel rail that we were using that was modified had eight millimeter twin entries and an eight millimeter returned the factory fuel also had some choke points in it and basically the fuehrer was providing a restriction to the fuel system so the fuel pressure regulator didn't really have to do any work the actual rail itself is what was causing the base pressure to remain where we wanted it now when we put the race works fuel rail on the fuel pressure went up because we now had no restriction in the fuel and the fuel pressure regulator now had to do some work now we had on the car one of these an F P R 800 and as you can imagine being called an F P R 800 it's rated to 800 horsepower but we had probably a thousand horsepower worth of fuel pump in the setup that we had so the pressure went up and this thing wasn't able to keep the pressure down which means we now needed to upgrade our fuel pressure regulator turbosmart has an F P R 1200 and an FP r 2,000 knowing what we had planned for the future and the amount of fuel pump we had coming we skipped the 1200 and went straight to the FBI 2000 it's designed for you guessed it 2,000 horsepower fuel systems with twin dash 8 inlets and a dash 8 outlet it's adjustable for base pressure from 30 to 90 psi and can be used with any fuel so we know it's good on e85 we could now control our base pressure really easily but we encountered our next problem our first time on the dyno we were losing flow and pressure from our Holley Dominator pump now we'd heard reports of these filing on 85 before but it hasn't been pretty good for the last four or five years however with so much time spent with that thing in the car we decided it's time for a big upgrade the guy from CID basically said take the car home and overhaul the entire fuel system to handle over 1,300 horsepower so we can future-proof it after doing a feature on mechanical fuel pumps as part of our platinum tech series with platinum racing products we were weighing up going mechanical fuel pump or going for multiple external electrical fuel pumps now looking at the pros and cons and both were was a pretty simple choice what are the pros for a mechanical fuel pump well the first one is they don't draw any current so you don't need to go upgrading your alternator or redoing all the wiring in your car when you install the mechanical fuel pump the factory in tank pump will probably good enough for your surge tank however you'll probably upgrade that anyway another big thing about mechanical fuel pumps is that the flow doesn't really change when you change the pressure like you do with an electrical pump in other words they can keep up the flow even if you want to have a really high base pressure and of course they flow a ton of fuel in other words you're really not going to run out of fuel when you put a mechanical fuel pump on the car that's the right size if you want more information on mechanical fuel pumps you can check out the Platinum Tek feature that we did just click on the link that's on screen now we're also going to be putting together another massive feature on how to design and size your fuel system so keep an eye out for that so other than the race works fuel row and the bosch sixteen hundred and fifty CC injectors from quick bits that were already in the car I ripped out the entire fuel system and started again first up we worked with Dion and the guys from fabtech global to design a new surge tank for the car that would work with a prime pump and a mechanical fuel pump we went for a nearly 10 liter surge tank slightly larger than required but we had the room and why not have some more fuel capacity in the car we put two outlets under the tank one for the mainline and one for the prime pump we went for - 12 on the main line so we could put a dash toward one-way valve to not restrict flow before it steps down to - 10 for the line to the front the one-way valve is so that the prime pump that is tidak knew the system only flows the right way and not back into the surge tank we could have gone without a prime pump if we had put our surge tank in the engine bay like a race car but this is a street car and we didn't want to put a fuel cell up in the engine bay now with over four liters of dashed han line to the front we have to use a prime pump so we can pressurize that line to the mechanical fuel pump now we decided to go for an external pump on our prime pump setup with our surge tank and we chose one of these Deutsche Works DW 350 inline pump that we got from gcg turbochargers the Australian distributor why did we choose this well it's 350 liters per hour is overkill for what we need for a prime pump however it's an external pump in a fairly universal size that's rated to handle a 85 all of the time so we know that it won't fail and it also means that the surge tank setup that we've built can now be quite Universal and fabtech can sell it as a production item now we also decided to replace our in tank lift pump with a DW 400 pump why well preventive maintenance really for the same reason the DW 400 is rated for 85 and motorsport use so it's really good peace of mind now another thing about these DW 400 pumps they are the highest flowing in tank pump on the market at the moment now it's overkill for a lift pump but with no pressure it can flow over 500 litres per hour so our surge tanks never gonna run dry the surge tank and prime pump is all one piece so it's pretty easy to install and remove it looks killer and the finish is what we expect from the guys from fabtech global next up we had Herman from Platinum Racing products pays a visit to choose a mechanical pump and to help us install it now we chose a Kinsler tough pump 500 don't let the name fool you though is that 500 has nothing to do with flow or power it's got to do with the size of the gear inside the pump now every one of them comes flow tested and you get this little chart with the results a 2000 rpm which is 4000 engine rpm this pump flowed 2.39 gallons per minute at 50 psi which equates to over 540 litres per hour that's more than two Bosch Oh for four fuel pumps now the best thing is when the engine p.m. doubles to 8000rpm we're gonna have over a thousand liters per hour worth of fuel flow more than four Bosch oh four four fuel pumps and some would say capable of 2,000 horsepower just goes to show how effective these mechanical fuel pumps are we use the Platinum Racing products double cast bracket to mount the pump and drive it on the inlet cam the Platinum kit makes mounting the Kinser pump pretty straightforward with the rail surge tank and pumps all sorted the next thing we had to do was totally plumb the car from front to back for that we went to motorsport connections so that we could use speed flow as we like the idea of using australian-made and a high quality product when it comes to oil and fuel fittings you really don't want to use an inferior product and risk having leaks we went for the 200 series teflon braided line as teflon is designed to be used with e85 and doesn't break down like the rubber braided lines can in some brands and we need the braid to protect the line under the car we went for a dash 10 feed line to the front and a dash 8 return line to go back we installed bulkheads into the boot four which is the safest neatest and easiest way to get the lines from the surge tank through the boot floor and up to the front of the car new feed and overflow lines from the factory tank to the surge along with the Flex fuel sensor were reinstalled in the boot as well it's important when installing fuel lines to keep them clear of any moving suspension and drivetrain parts and make sure they are secured as high as possible and don't dangle down we always run them by the chassis rail so in theory something will hit the chassis rail before it hits the fuel lines we're of the belief that hard line or braid should always be used under the car where it's susceptible to being hit as a ruptured fuel line can make for a bad day we put a breakpoint in the dash 10 line under the car which makes draining the fuel system much easier and less messy the dash 10 line goes to the Kinsler pump before splitting two twin dash eight after the pump before going into the race works rail a dash eight returned to the turbosmart reg and a dash eight back to the surge tank in the boot all up this fuel system should be capable of 1,500 engine horsepower no problem except for one thing the actors we've currently got botched stainless 16 hundred and fifty CC injectors from the guys at quick bits however they're starting to reach their ceiling and we're going to have to upgrade these before we do our full tune on the car we'll probably go for something around 2,200 CCS with a big head now on the car we wanted to help the RB 26 breathe a little better and make some more grunt so we upgraded our turbochargers rear housing from a 101 to a 1-1 five twin-scroll t4 rear housing from our friends at Garrett now this turbocharger might be the budget option from garrett but our GT w38 84-67 mill has been an awesome turbo up to date it's super responsive great for a street or circuit car but can still run single digit times at the track as well now the other thing we wanted to do to the turbo was that sweet sweet tee 51 our sound and you can do that now thanks to the guys from turbo mod pro I've always wanted that t51 our sound but didn't want the old-school laggy tech I wanted something responsive and fun and these guys modify the compressor cover to give you that sound check out link and see where you can get it done now we've found when we put the car on to the diner for the first time with the big head and the bigger rear housing we're starting to get a little bit of boost creep on our 50 millimeter external wastegate so rather than change the manifold we decided to upgrade to the new turbo smart gen 550 millimeter external wastegate as it is a higher flowing item the Gen 5 wastegates got water cooling option and you can also move the location of the ports on the wastegate it flows more than the previous model which is exactly what we needed we also decided to go for lower spring pressure this time with 14 psi why because we've moved to a four port solenoid boost controller from turbo smart our old external wastegate setup had a 23 psi spring in it which is great to try and run high boost with a 3 port solenoid but the problem was is we were forced to run big power in every single gear and now that we're making more power again that's going to make it really hard to get it down the drag strip and to manage the power levels in gear or under racetrack so by going to a lower spring with a four port solenoid we can have a lower base setting which means we can lower the boost and the torque in each gear to help make the car get better traction around a racetrack and obviously launch better down the drag strip now a four port solenoid puts boost to the top of the gate and the bottom which is why it can control boost better end run higher boost pressures than a normal three port solenoid we also had to make new lines for the boost controller and wastegate and once again we went for speed flow black braided lines it costs a little bit more but when it's near a hot manifold and wastegate it's better to be safe than sorry for a few hundred bucks rather than using silicon hose that could melt now another area that needed upgrading in the car was the clutch when you were going to end up making more power but our profit was we wanted to keep the car drivable luckily direct clutch services had a solution for us that was their new nine inch twin plate clutch it's similar to the old twin plate clutch that we had except the clutch plates have been increased in size from eight to nine inches and they now have an option to cross drill the plates to help handle even more stress even if everything else was the same the 37 percent more surface area gives more power potential with the same clamp load exactly what we're looking for so we can up the power but still keep it drivable our previous direct clutch services twin plate has copped hundreds of launches and plenty of hard driving so we've stuck with them and the new larger clutch should be even better again [Music] now the next thing we had to tackle on the car was the cooling system and we went straight for the best P WR now we've been using their products on jet 250 Li 15 years now with great success and to be honest if it's good enough for f1 and good enough for supercars well it's good enough for us we really wanted the reliability and the quality that PWR provided and being Australian made is pretty cool as well we chose their 55 millimeter cross flow radiator stick so it has a lot of volume to help absorb heat and the cross flow design means better cooling in an RV 26 the water inlet and outlet are on the same side if you have tanks on the top and bottom and all of the flow is vertical you can essentially have a cold side and a hot side to the radiator and don't always get even cooling and the water isn't in the air stream long enough to get effective cooling with the cross flow the radiator is essentially split into half water comes out and flows across the top half of the radiator then down the end tank and back across the bottom half of the radiator some people call it a dual pass radiator for that reason it means there's more time in the air stream to cool the water down we went for one big spout thermo fan as they flow much more than the factory clutch fan and also take up a lot less space something we desperately need they're the best in the business when it comes to thermo fans we also added a new PWR oil cooler when you break an engine you generally get debris in the oil cooler and it becomes a throwaway item it's just not worth the risk reusing the oil cooler you can see under the car here we have a remote oil filter and oil thermostat housing as well to help warm the car up quicker and you can see the accumulator and fuel lines under here as well now while we're under here we can take a look at the next section of upgrades for our gt-r which is the electronics now GTRs have quite a few sensors hooked up to the gauges inside the car but they're not actually connected to the ECU so when you upgrade your computer even if it's plug-and-play there's not a whole lot of information going into that ECU so to help modernize the cars electronics we've got Dave from how tech to come and help us install an oil pressure and/or temperature sensor here under the car and also a fuel pressure sensor up on the fuel pressure regulator now while we're here we can also take a look at our new Ross trigger kit we already had the Ross balancer which comes with a toothed trigger wheel so now we've got the whole effect sensor on the bottom that picks up the crank signal here is a tip for young players though if you have the Platinum Racing products brace in your engine which you should it's ten mil thicker so what it does is it actually moves the Ross trigger kit ten millimeters further away so we have to shave down the bracket to get it back in the right spot and then we just use those little shim spacers to get the distance between the sensor and the toothed wheel correct and we get our trigger reading on the crank in the engine bay you can see the Ross trigger kit on the exhaust cam replacing the factory cam angle sensor which is known for having a bad signal at high rpm and for failing pretty regularly with the higher horsepower and higher rpm that we want it to operate in we needed a more reliable trigger and we had to upgrade a trigger kit gives better signal enabling for more accurate tuning no misfires no dramas the Ross trigger kit is pretty easy to install and looks super neat it uses Honeywell Hall effect sensors on the crank and the cam and is fairly easy to set up in the ECU we also upgraded the factory air temp sensor to a Bosch motorsport item as it suffers from less heat soak problems and gives a more accurate reading the last part of our electrical system we upgraded was the alternator we probably didn't need to so much anymore now that we've got a mechanical fuel pump but we installed that before we knew we're going to go this way plus it's good to have peace of mind by having a brand new alternator on the car now we decided to use one of the clockwork customs ls1 alternator kits which basically comes with a couple of billet brackets and an ls1 alternator which now enables you to bolt it straight in don't have to change any wiring or belts and you get yourself a hundred and fifty amp alternator for the gt-r now I have to admit the engine burnout GT I had always looked a little bit well kind of crummy which is a byproduct of the way that we modified the car in stages and remaining budget-conscious we decided with this round of upgrades not only will we need to prove some things in the engine bay we wanted to make it look a little bit better as well we needed a larger catch can and larger breathers so we took the car to fabtech global so Dion could work his magic the larger catch can has baffles inside and a filter hidden underneath to keep it all looking clean and there's twin - 12 inlets and it also has a - eight drain that you can use or you can plug it up being much larger than our old catch can we lost the ugly factory radiator overflow which is a good excuse for fabtech global to fabricate up a new one it looks and works much better Plus who doesn't like shiny things we also move the isolator and made up a bracket for the fuel rig overall and neater and better layout for the breathers we finally ditched the factory outlets from the rocker covers you can buy the speed flow pushing - twelve fittings designed for RB 26 cam covers from motorsport connections it means you don't need to pull the covers off to install them we then use some black braided - 12 hose for the breeders with K&N being the official air filter of motive garage we decided to install a new pod filter onto the car as well [Music] as you can see it's transformed the engine bay and it looks a hell of a lot better than it used to now the next thing I wanted to tidy up was the wiring in the interior now because we had some sensors going to our how tech ECU now I could remove the analog gauges and we could calibrate our how Tech's street logging - so that it would read more information we also installed some buttons on the dash as well so that you can cycle through different pages of information the main page being for driving and we have another two pages that we use for Diagnostics another thing we did to tidy up the inside of the car was install some JL Design & fab Floor Mats they look pretty cool they've got good fitment they've got a choice of different badges you can put on them and they don't have mismo tax added to them either now while tidying up the engine bay and interior of our GT I also decided to tidy up some exterior things that really have been needing our attention for a very long time we finally painted the rear Brembo brake calipers red to match the CC brake kit up front although they do look good the tires aren't a cosmetic upgrade but a performance upgrade we decided to opt the tire budget and went for some Advan 8008 for their ability to cut good lap times and remain perfectly streetable our friends at import monster are dealers for them and were able to do us a pretty good price can't wait to test them and give some feedback continuing the tidy up we painted the outside window door trims which was shocking before like on many old GTRs we also finally replaced the chipped poor condition fiberglass carbon skimmed a vented bonnet or hood for you americans although we're not sure of the manufacturer and we'd love to know the new bonnet is much higher quality and a true carbon bonnet inside and out you can see inside there is no ribs and it's very thin making it very light there is also properly designed vents to extract heat and the n1 lip is built into it there is no factory bonnet latch so we had to install some aero catches which is a safer option anyway we also gave the car a new look with the addition of some vinyl graphics to advertise the 2019 Nido performance engineering gt-r festival we decided to use the 50th anniversary wreath we designed for our merchandise and from there we took inspiration from the John player special black and gold livery when it came to designing cutting & fitting the vinyl graphics we called the man we always call Graham from Tintin protect to work his magic [Music] [Music] [Music] well there you have it the evolution of our r32 GTR into project supercar killer now we've already had the car on the dyno for its running and some initial tuning and it's looking very promising so far now we've got a few more things to do before the 2019 Nido performance engineering GTR festival such as fit bigger injectors a new race seat and we need to install some new sensors for road speed and flat shift and then we'll get serious in turning up the power and going for our goal of low nines one day and some great lap times the next now before we get to all that you're probably wondering how does a mechanical fuel pump equipped big cams big head big twin plate clutch and sequential gearbox equipped GTI drive on the street glad you asked let's go [Music] all right so with a mechanical fuel pump and a prime pump this is what it starts like same as they all do and now you guys want to see what it drives like well the direct clutch drives pretty much the same as the old 8-inch one but can handle more power which is exactly what we want so we've got a little bit of driving to do in some back streets as we come out of CID you can see that thousand rpm in second gear draw is perfectly fine that's the thing that spins me out about this car the most is it's a nine second fifty are paid to dub sequential between five mechanical fuel pump me gate be cams and I can drive it around at less than two thousand rpm eat fifty zones without a problem [Music] now I've talked about the PBGC sequential on the street before yes does make some whining noises but what do you expect for a gearbox they can handle eight-second passes with me to our and you can use it for circuit it's be a little bit noisy that's just the nature of up riding gear sets and doggy boxes etc you want to have no noise either get a 95 or maybe go put an auto in it [Music] now be done with the gearbox noise one thing to do is just put it in faith one to one no gearbox noise so I wear a two and a half thousand rpm speed we are doing 75 miles an hour three the fleur-de-lis with a boost already am i doing a hundred not easy well he's saying how he's bruising [Music] got enough grunty on low to scoot through traffic and get a move on now say 10 15 years ago if you had tried to drive a nine-second jr. in traffic you would just be crazy wife I would be super grabby we really don't me down low jerky and just there wouldn't be a breaking the drive but now with modern technology and the parts the electronics if you have 85 as well he can't Rob and on second Jania even a man you won on this break bringing it easily to be honest book other than a few extra noises from the box and maybe a little bit crabby encroachment factory not really a hard thing boss pretty normally even even a Cairo city traffic school zones all right for those either just want to see how it drives nice and raw here we go [Music] [Music] [Music] you live in Sydney you need to have a car that can handle sitting at traffic lights for a long time luckily the PWI radiator big fare no problem [Music] now first impressions of the Advent 8008 are pretty good the performance they offer I was expecting them to be noisy they're not in fact acquired a phrase on the cob they would Trammell and just as much as the Achilles but they don't in fact I can barely tell about a performance road tour of this car when I'm driving normally I haven't really done any hard cornering or launches or anything on him yet but the feedback so far from the story is pretty good I need to be driven in anger before I can really tell you what they're like part you've seen the lap times they do a world farm attack so we know the performance is there you guys are probably sick of watching me drive really slowly huh [Music] [Applause] now unfortunately Sydney traffic doesn't really cater for having any fun in the GTR it's not really enough room to kind of show you guys what it's capable of but save that for next time shall we [Music] [Music]

Channel: Motive Video

Views: 122,294

Rating: 4.9363542 out of 5

Keywords: Nissan, R32, skyline, gt-r, rb26, nitto performance engineering

Id: LYK0yEUMhec

Length: 31min 13sec (1873 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 04 2019