Why are engine rebuilds on Nissan Skylines so common?

[Hoofy]

babo456 said:

Hoofy said:

Had an R33 GTS-T that was virtually standard and an R32 GTR that was highly tuned in Japan. Neither experienced engine problems.

The R32 gearbox did do this to itself, though:


OS Geiken box... requiring new OS Geiken internals. £4k to you, sir.

Bloody hell, it has eaten itself.

Teething problems.

[BigBo]

most of my experience with RBs is from working on fresh import R32 gts-t's, lightly moded there fairly trouble free as said oil pumps are a weak point but only if hard driven ie. drifting same with oil getting stuck in the head, I've know hassle free R32,R33and R34's, the only troublesome ones were hard driven un-maintained or badly set-up, A friend kind of got stung when he paid 12.000 for a ex-demo car from japan- the list of mods was endless supposedly the RB20 had a TOMI 2.2 stroker crank, HKS this HKS that, when mapped for Irish fuel it made 408bhp loads of shiny bits and a dinner plate sized turbo, he ran it in a drift car for at-least 3years till lost compression, when opened they found a standard block and a polished head with a set of crazy cams,

from my experience the most common problems are coilpacks + igniter/amp thingy and prop carrier barings

[k-ink]

BigBo said:

he paid 12.000 for a ex-demo car from japan- the list of mods was endless...

when opened they found a standard block and a polished head with a set of crazy cams

I've often wondered if this might be the case on a lot of Jap cars for sale. Many are sold with little history, but advertise a huge shopping list of after market parts. Not that you could ever check, unless the engine was pulled apart for a proper inspection.

[NomduJour]

LiamM45 said:

My friend had a (dyno proven) 450ish-bhp R32 GTR ... Not *that* fast for the power, in a straight line about as quick as a 320bhp Astra VXR!

I'd be having a word with the dyno people. First one I had made around 420 bhp and would stay with a 996 Turbo (as you might expect given the similar weights and power).

[k-ink]

NomduJour said:

LiamM45 said:

My friend had a (dyno proven) 450ish-bhp R32 GTR ... Not *that* fast for the power, in a straight line about as quick as a 320bhp Astra VXR!

I'd be having a word with the dyno people. First one I had made around 420 bhp and would stay with a 996 Turbo (as you might expect given the similar weights and power).

I've been in a 450bhp Nissan 300ZX. Believe me, there is no way a 300 pony Astra would even keep it in sight. Night and day.

[bloomen]

I had an R32 GT-R for a few years. It sucked every penny out of me and a fair few I didn't know I had. Funnily enough the engine (or at least the core metallic items) was the only bit that didn't go wrong.

I'd love another one. I'd love to be renting it and handing it back even more.

[anonymous-user]

bloomen said:

I'd love to be renting it and handing it back even more.

Good Idea for a business there
1. Buy Skylines
2. Rent them out on medium term leases
3. ???
4. Profit

I always thought I'd own a Skyline. Like many, it was a car I idolized when growing up, but their general rising purchase costs and then the prospect of running one, I don't think I could hack it after years of being spoiled by JZ engines never going wrong

[GravelBen]

Mate had an R32 GTS-TM with an R33 RB25 dropped in it... had to rebuild that one because the previous owner didn't like putting oil in it. Can't really blame the engine for that one.

[k-ink]

bloomen said:

I had an R32 GT-R for a few years. It sucked every penny out of me and a fair few I didn't know I had. Funnily enough the engine (or at least the core metallic items) was the only bit that didn't go wrong.

I'd love another one. I'd love to be renting it and handing it back even more.

I seriously looked at getting one myself. However the running / repair costs made me bottle it in the end. I suspect these cars would end up owning me, rather than the correct way around.

[BigBo]

k-ink said:

I've often wondered if this might be the case on a lot of Jap cars for sale. Many are sold with little history, but advertise a huge shopping list of after market parts. Not that you could ever check, unless the engine was pulled apart for a proper inspection.

I have known afew the above mentioned rb ran like a dream and was an absolute animal, I don't believe anything's fitted until I see it, a DC2 teg that actually had a welded diff instead of the Spoon sports 2way was another, best I think was a friend bought a gti sunny that was ''cammed'' had a lumpy idle from damaged valves, in my experience its quite common for people to bulls#it about internals

[Ej74]

I was looking at going the r33 gtr route for a track car

Does anyone have any experience on track with them ? And before you say I know it's a heavy car

As a side note my current track car is a Lotus 2-11