RB26 SWAPPING MY NISSAN S15 SILVIA

Hey everyone, so it's been a few years since I've filmed any YouTube videos. This is my car that I built a couple years ago as well, which I've never released. So it's an RB26 swapped S15. Today we're going to use episode one as a bit of an introduction to the project and explain to you guys how to bolt in an RB, or specifically an RB26, inside an S15 chassis. For those that have been following the channel from the beginning, you guys know that everything began with my red S14 when I crashed it, and I'll give you guys the full story at a later stage. But pretty much, I had an S14 when I was 17 years old, and I ended up putting an RB25neo in it. It's the car that I ended up with, and the engine that was affordable, and I made it work. But all in all, what I'd always wanted was an RB26 S15, and it was just out of my budget at the time. So I'm 26 now, and I've got one, and the feeling definitely is not the same as when, let's say I was 18 or 19 if I had it at the time. So I first had the RB26 engine stashed on the shelf, and I was thinking, what chassis should I put it in? Now at this point in time, I'd already moved on the poor man's GTR, and I was thinking, do I put together another car for myself? And the conversions became really expensive. When I say conversions, I mean the R34 GTT to GDR conversion that I did back in the day. A lot of the parts went discontinued, and second hand items were overpriced, and I just couldn't justify building another one. It got to a point where you might as well just go out and buy a real GDR. So this shell popped up for sale a few months after I had the engine on the shelf, and it was a registered rolling shell. The condition isn't perfect, but it had a really nice full interior. So I figured, you know what, let's use it as a base for the build. The idea behind the build is for me to have a fun street car, to get a little bit of seat time, and just have a beater that I don't really care too much about, but still well put. So how do we bolt in an RB26 inside an S15? I first tried using an R33 or an R34 rear wheel drive crossmember, and for me it didn't work. For other people it does. The engine sat too high, and it hit the bonnet, so instead I just reverted to using the R32 GDST front crossmember, engine brackets, and engine mounts. The engine bolts right in, sits at the right height, the engine's pushed back, and it doesn't interfere with my bonnet. Another thing that we did do is we did slightly overlap the holes in the engine brackets to further move the engine down, give it a little bit more clearance to the bonnet, and all I had to do was make a custom gearbox mount. So pretty much within a day, you can have an RB25 or RB26 bolted right into your S14 or S15 chassis. But before the engine could go in, I first had to take some components off. I first stripped the Apexi turbo kit off the RB26. It's an engine that was imported from Japan probably a decade, a decade and a bit ago, and it just went from one owner to another before it finally got to me. So the turbocharger isn't going to make the power that we want, and it's probably not an item that's overly serviceable. Along with the cast iron manifold, it's not going to produce us with the sound that we want. I'm going to show you guys at a later stage, I did design and build a custom one-off equal length exhaust manifold that gives this car a very unique sound. The components that were once upon a time on the car, such as the fiberless body kit, that all ended up in the bin. We're slowly cleaning the car up and working towards the fabrication stage. So another thing you have to do for the engine to be able to fit is sort out the sump situation. So the RB26 is an engine that comes in the GDRs, which has a four-wheel drive system. It's got a rear diff and a front diff. The front diff is part of the sump, so remove the entire sump and just bolt on an RB25 sump like I did. Now the engine has, at the bottom, has two sets of holes. The first set of holes is for the factory four-wheel drive sump, and the smaller other set of holes is for the RB25 rear-wheel drive sump. The only modification that you're going to have to do in form of fabrication is the oil pickup of the RB25 is going to have to be kind of custom made for it to actually live in the right location. It's not a bolt-on fare, but any fabricator can sort that out in a couple of hours. So it's a pretty cruisy swap and that's pretty much it. The engine bolts right in. So that pretty much concludes episode one of the S15 build. Feeling a little bit rusty. Haven't filmed YouTube videos in quite a while. Just a nice little breakdown on how to get the RB26 in there. In the following episode, we're going to start on the fabrication work on this vehicle. On this vehicle. Bro, what is this? Too proper. Too profesh. We're going to start the fab work on this shitbox according to Maka. So yeah, episode two. Stay tuned.