R34 Skyline Single Turbo & MORE!! | Poor Man's GTR [EP17]

Hey everyone, my name is Damian and welcome back to the channel as we continue making progress on the R34 Skyline, that's also known as the poor man's GTR, also known as the car that should have been done by now but is taking forever, but that's alright, we're getting there slowly. In today's episode we're going to be talking about people's favourite part of the build and it's talking parts, what went on the car, how much it was paid for it and I'll also run you guys through why we chose those parts as well and that alternatives do exist, you don't always have to pay top dollar to get something that is half decent, so yeah that's what we're going to be doing today and a bit of fabrication. So to start the episode we're going to be throwing the engine along with the gearbox in the car to make sure that everything is nicely in position so when we go to fabricate all the parts for the car such as the intercooler pipes, dump pipe and exhaust system, nothing really shifts or changes, everything is supposed to be where it's supposed to be. So we're going to start off by mounting the front mount intercooler, now it wasn't even worth buying a second hand GTR intercooler, this is a direct replacement for all Skyline GTR cars that I found on eBay for $288 brand new, it's black, nice and stealthy so that's what I decided to buy. So I hope this whole video isn't just me talking but I do want to share my experience and let you guys know what I would do differently, so we're going to start off with the fabrication. The next day came and I started off by grabbing our straight stainless steel tubing or piping, whatever you may call it, and I put it into the drop saw and started cutting up pie cuts. Pretty much once you have enough pie cuts you join them together and you get nice tight radius bends that you can use to fabricate your intercooler pipes from, dump pipe, exhaust system, whatever you may use it for. So the main reason we did it this way was we thought it was going to be more efficient and effective. How the deal was is my friend Dan would come in, he would do all the fabrication work and most of the wiring on this car and I would prepare his R34 Skyline, I'll put in primer and get it to a stage where it's ready for paint. So it was like a favour for favour deal so pretty much all I had to do was cover the cost of the material and the gas. So we figured alright let's go for the lobster back or pie cut look thinking well all we have to do is buy straight tubing and then we can make the bends ourselves. Now unfortunately this was not the case, it was very very time consuming which meant we used a lot more gas and to start off with we overpaid for the for the pipe or the tube so that wasn't a very good start to it and when I had a look online to be honest the bends would have been a hell of a lot cheaper and would have been a hell of a lot quicker saving us time and money in gas as well. So if I were to do it differently we would go straight to the bends instead of using the pie cuts. Alrighty so next up we're going to move into the engine bay and talk about probably people's favourite part of the car being the turbo. This is going to allow the naturally aspirated motor to make a little bit more power, it's going to produce a lot of cool noises and this one specifically is a Kinugawa GT3582. It's got a small little rear housing on it, I'm not exactly sure what size it is, I'd have to get it measured up. It's nothing over the top fancy, it's probably considered a older generation turbo at this point. Kinugawa has their GDX range, obviously you've got your garrets, your precisions but unfortunately none of those cost $700. This one popped up on Facebook brand new never used with the 90 degree elbow welded on for 700 bucks so it was definitely a no-brainer, pick that up. For what we're trying to do with the car, nice fun little street car that doesn't cost a lot of money, this ticks all the boxes and I've never really heard bad things about them. It's oil and water cooled so that's the turbo done. So next up and moving down we're going to be talking about the turbo exhaust manifold, obviously it's aftermarket since the turbo's sitting up here instead of being low mounted like they are from factory. This is something I really really advise not to cheap out on for multiple reasons that we're going to get to but this one is specifically made by Six Boost, I'm pretty certain they're made in Australia from Steampipe, they're also an equal length runner design I think. Man this whole talking to a camera thing is tiring. Yeah it was 900 bucks, it was brand new, came in the box, a dude that follows the show didn't end up using it on his project R34 Skyline so I ended up picking it up for a couple hundred bucks cheaper than what they are online which is great. If you want to go down the cheaper route you can do it a few ways, you can do the standard exhaust manifold which is made out of cast iron, keep the turbo low mounted but you're going to have to buy yourself a spacer if you want to fit a turbo this size or a little bit bigger and the reason you have to get that spacer is to space the housing from hitting the actual engine block, that's one option. Now the disadvantages with that is is the cast iron manifold is a very ---- design, you're never going to get your car to sound right no matter how good your turbo or exhaust is and you start pushing a little bit more power heat and boost through it you're most likely going to crack it as well and then if you want to go for an external wastegate you're going to have to weld something on the back of your housing or the actual manifold itself which is also an added cost along with the spacer. Next up you've got if you want to have your manifold up here you can get a China stainless steel exhaust manifold, something I really don't recommend, usually the design of them isn't that great, again the car's not really going to sound as good as it can and also being thin wall stainless and poor welds it's going to most likely crack on you, you're going to have to take it off in your engine bay, you're going to scratch everything up, it's going to be an absolute nightmare. So again if you can stretch your budget out a little bit more, buy something as quality as the 6-boost or thereabouts, I definitely would recommend doing it. The Silvia, my S14 Silvia has a low mount T28, it's a standard turbo but it's also running a 6-boost manifold, both Harry's and Danny's S15s also run 6-boost manifolds, they just make the car sound right even though the Silvia has a tractor motor SR20 but for some reason it sounds half decent. So if we go even further back we are looking at the wastegate, this one specifically is made by Teal or Tile however you may pronounce it, I'm pretty sure they're made in the USA, unfortunately I couldn't find this on Facebook for a good price so I think I paid 600 Aussie dollars for it from a local supplier and the model of it is an MVI I believe, comes with all the V-bands and springs that you need to interchange depending what boost level you'd like to run. Obviously we're going to dive deeper into that as we get to that stage and as the tuner also educates me about all that but yeah the reason I chose this wastegate was Danny got it on his S15 and also my friend with that GTR that I was saying, he was also running the same manifold, similar turbo and exact same wastegate, that thing sounded mental so we're just again just trying to replicate what he did. So moving even further back of the car we are looking at the custom dump pipe, my friend Dan built this from scratch from Pykart, he did an absolutely amazing job to make it fit the car, probably again another one of my favourite parts of the car and what it does it goes from a three inch V-band from the back of the rear housing and flares into a three and a half inch dump pipe and continues into the three and a half inch exhaust system that we're going to get to. I was told the more air you can get out of the back of the turbo the better, I know one of my other friends he's running a four inch dump pipe but for what we're doing three and a half will be more than enough so that is the dump pipe sorted. Let's quickly jack up the car and have a look at the exhaust system. So with the car up in the air we are looking at the exhaust system that's on it, obviously this exhaust tip will get polished up with all the surface rust removed but anyways it's a full R33 GTS-T X-Force three and a half inch stainless steel exhaust system, it was $150 and to be honest it's a really really good deal because all we have to do is modify this little section right here and it fits the car perfectly, Dan did all the work, yeah so it's got a rear muffler and a middle muffler, to be honest you can't even buy mufflers that cheap and to have most of the exhaust route the right way around was an awesome start. Then we've got our d-cap pipe, this thing is huge so it's got plenty of room if we have to put a cat in there one day with some flanges and we're going into our flex joiner and the custom dump pipe that goes all the way to the turbo, we still need to fabricate up the screaming pipe but other than that that is our exhaust system, it's going to be nice and quiet and it should give the car a nice note, keep us out of trouble from the police and one day when I can afford a nice titanium exhaust we'll throw on the car. So with the car back on the ground again we are looking at the intake manifold, fuel rail and throttle body, now this is something that I probably least trust on the car, I paid $700 for it, saved myself a couple hundred bucks compared to ordering it online, I'm not going to say what company made it, if you see the car in person you'll probably see the lettering that's on it, I might even rub this out to be honest, nope that doesn't rub out, but a lot of other companies resell this kit, it's a kit that's made in China, quite generic I'd say, it bolts straight to the RB25 cylinder head which was one of my biggest pros, that's probably one of the main reasons I bought it, it looks somewhat decent but I was advised by multiple reputable workshops and friends to stay away from these that they do crack on top and also where the idle air control motor bolts up, so we'll give it a shot, I don't think this will stay in the car for long enough and I don't think the engine will be producing enough boost for it to actually crack, but yeah just a heads up, I don't want to lose I guess the trust between me and the viewers saying that a product is good, then you go out and buy it and it fails on you, so just a heads up, it might work for some people, it might not work for others, but yeah, so for the people that have been following this rebuild series from the beginning, you guys can definitely tell that I haven't spent too much time in front of the camera talking to the camera for multiple reasons, I don't feel very comfortable doing it yet and also I like to get a lot of work done on the car itself, so when I go home I can just start editing the footage and try and make a decent video out of it, but as the following continues to grow, more and more people seem to really want more details about everything, so we're going to have to push videos of this style as well, along with the cinematic videos where we actually make progress, so yeah, when I talk about prices, this isn't me bragging how much is being spent on the car, we all know that project cars aren't cheap, some are more expensive than others, but I just want to show you guys that alternatives do exist, you can find cheaper parts that will do a similar job to the more expensive parts, I guess that answers that, and in the next episode, the next episode will be a working episode where we're going to get a lot of work done on the engine and it's transforming the gunky old RV25 Neo DE into what you see in front of you today, and to finish this episode off, I would love to give a massive, massive, massive thank you to Dan, follow him on Instagram, he's also got a poor man's GTR and rumor has it he's also going to be doing the all dry conversion, so definitely send him a few messages saying you've got to do it, we'll film it, that's not a problem, the guy spent a lot of late nights, one, two, three, four in the morning after work, and going to work the next day, trying to fabricate this car up and doing all the wiring, so a massive thank you goes out to him, hope you guys have enjoyed this talking video and we'll see you in the next one very shortly.