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My 3rd GTiR Story

Ok, so after checking my previous green pulsar, the shell wasnt looking to good with arch rust showing up and when checking under the arch it was all rotton



But at the same time a very good item came up for sale.
A mint shell

The Below was taken from the advert for the shell
The shell has every single whiteline option including all bush options/both ARB's/Anti dive kit/NEW bump steer kit/New powder coated front wish bones with new ball joints/Nismo KYB susp/2 new chassis rails/rust treated and painted underside/poly gear linkage bushes/poly steering rack bushes/new power steering pipe work/new brake lines/all non load nuts and bolts have been replaced with stainless/Walbro fuel pump and all other bolts holes and bolts/nuts have been re tapped and copper slipped for ease of dis assembly .
Oh and it's been re painted Ferrari Metallic Nero, I just had the one of the front wings and front bumper re done
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Most of the whinline kit was removed before sale, buts everything else inside and out was good and only needed a few things to be looked at to get it 100% tho.

These pics are from the previous owner..



Then the shell was delivered to HQ.






ext , I needed to swap Engine,Fit quaife gearbox,GT35R turbo Setup,Front mount intercooler,Rad,Exhaust,HiSpec Brakes,Link G3 ECU,Ecu loom,Steering wheel,Track rod ends,Front and rear anti roll bars.



I also bought the whiteline caster kit to fit the powder coated wishbones.

I started removing parts from the old rusty shell - Airfilter,headlights,Ecu,Down pipe,Backbox,Rad,Intercooler + all piping, Battery.
Hopefully not much more until the engine can be dropped.

Engine nice and clean ready for fitting into clean shell.



Quick bhp
Power was testing on some road dyno software which gave me the power at the wheels.

To work out power at the fly 20-25% for the transmission losss = 458hp - 477hp
These were taken at 1.5bar intakes temps at 19oC , 7000rpm rev limit



Engine getting fitted in HQ garage.




Next on the list to change was
Small P/S pipe
Connect large P/S pipe
Fit exhaust
Track rod ends
Radiator
Intercooler
intercooler pipework
Gearbox / Transfer Box Oils
Rear brakes
Brake fluid change
Clutch Fluid check
cv boots
drive shafts
Anti Roll Bars


All together, Some pics Corbs took on the high suspension.





Finished


And went to a few Shows



After the shows I had a problem with the radiator leaking, and the stainless manifold cracking so bought a new manifold and custom radiator and put back together, It was running well with new rad and manifold. I only did a few hundred miles, as i wanted to park up now over winter until the salt was gone.



Back on the road..
The manifold cracked again so ordered my 3rd manifold.
This time I Ordered a stainless cast top mount, Treadstone - 304 Cast Stainlss Turbo Manifold
This should last longer than the low cost ones, but still give good flow.
It moved the positon of the turbo a bit which means other bits needed to be redone.


All the studs were cleaned, and the manifold held on with some nice copper plated locking nuts !


Rad to engine block pipe was re-made - as turbo now in the way.
Evething I could get to cleaned and painted until I got bored


The filler needed to be reposition on the radiator dur to the turbo move.

Got everything bolted on , went for a test run, the the clutch slave cylinder failed
So ordered a new one fixed the problem so remade the loom for the ECU to get rid of that nasty tape the standard one has.

Ait filter repositioned


Fitted new read disc's + pads , wastegate fitted , screamer pipe moded , drivers side door controls fixed, new plugs , CV bootx checkdc and changed.

And the Pulsar is ready after 18 months ?



Rocker cover repaint


DONE!

Sure you can have have the engine ! , its a 517hp with charge cooling, oh wait I forgot the bloke took it out before I got the shell, shame.
Hes selling the engine for 5k tho.

I might have a look at the oil return, dont really want to mess it up tho as it not dripping anymore.

I belive the speed sensor is in the gearbox as thats were the plug is for it anyways?.

That red rocker cover is just on while the engine is getting fitted, as I dont want to scratch my new freshly pained met black one.

Both the new yellow whishbones are now fitted with whiteline anticaster kit and the 300mm hispec brakes.

Not much to do now, just some power steering pipes,holes to cut for intercooler,gearlinkage rods, then the egine can be re-fitted.

Pabz wrote:

Sweet nice to see you getting on with it slowly, will be great when it's on the road again

Or not so slowly it was only 3 weekend(s) ago when we started to remove the engine from other car.

And ive spend a far few hours cleaning oily bits

Ordered some mintex blue racing clutch and brake fluid today, as that what was in the car previouly and dont want to mix it with incorrect fluid(s) !

Bit more of an update, i'll put the pics on when i have a bit mote time.

Exhaust is now on ( I think ? )
Intercooler,rad,front bumper bar,prop,gearlinkage,redone the oil return pipe

Should be ready to start up for a test soon, if I can get some gearbox fluid on saturday and manager to put some it !

Dave

Almost finished now !!
Its all running and moving ok, the list of things left to do is...

Brake Fluid.
TAX.
Check and re-check everything.
Test Drive.