Nissan 200SX Club - South Africa

Ahhh...that's better. Now I can take as long as I need to afford my rebuild on the engine! That's if I don't go spending all the money on drift days.




328i
Welded diff
Low

All you need

djtreble wrote:Ahhh...that's better. Now I can take as long as I need to afford my rebuild on the engine! That's if I don't go spending all the money on drift days.




328i
Welded diff
Low

All you need

awesome toy

Yeah it's proper fun and quick! Power on tap!
Much better than the compact

haha pretty neat. and what did that cost?

Daniel wrote:haha pretty neat. and what did that cost?

I would guest 800 Pounds.

No, I actually bought my compact for £400 and I did a straight swap for this...so I got a very good deal!

lol thats so not fair!!

Could have got a z32 for 900 pounds when i was there.

I'm deffinately going to miss the cheap cars here when I come back!

So the flameface of the head looks good


BUT then I came across this pit in the head:


Which has done this to the cam:





How the hell does this happen. Looks almost like someone has taken the cams out, put it back in and there was a piece of metal stuck between the cam and head. I havn't put the cams back in place and tightened them down since I've had the engine out...


Example of a few with gumph buildup that the cams have been running on (3 like this)


So I did all the cam measurements and they are still within manufacturer standard measurements (No where near the limits) odly!
But then I found all this pitting:




I never saw any of these problems when striping the head! I guess this means the head and cams are scrap.

So long time since an update.

S14:
Sold of the engine in parts and ordered a sub 50K SR from Japan. Should be here in about 2 weeks so all I have done so long is remove the air con system and gather all the parts to put it back together and get it through MOT.

BMW:
The daily slag has been used for exactly what it was built for, it's kept me sideways so long and has been fun! So much fun that this is what I eneded up doing this to a half shaft:

he he


what are your UK second hand / import engine prices like?

For a sub 50K SR20DET that I have bought from Japan, including all costs came to £650. That includes a 14 day guarantee.

It's the engine with everything minus exhaust side (manifold, turbo and elbow)

Why, you on the hunt for an engine? If so I have contacts that import engines from Japan and can probably get it sent stratight to you.

djtreble wrote:For a sub 50K SR20DET that I have bought from Japan, including all costs came to £650. That includes a 14 day guarantee.

It's the engine with everything minus exhaust side (manifold, turbo and elbow)

Why, you on the hunt for an engine? If so I have contacts that import engines from Japan and can probably get it sent stratight to you.

nah.. not on the hunt.. just for interest's sakes.

Well there has been a delay so I won't get the engine till November now...so all I've done is cleaned the engine bay and fitted a Z32 fuel filter.

The rest of my time has been spent doing this: