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    Experience with electric fan and road racing

    in Nissan RB Forum

    Posted

    I havent got mine running yet but not far off, and I am concerned about the cooling.

    I have a specially fabricated ali radiator which I think will be good, but of course I have to load up several other components that will physically block the airflow to the radiator.

    ie From the front back - oil cooler, then intercooler, then 10 inch fan for aircond condensor, then aircond condensor, then radiator, then 2 12inch pull fans for the radiator.

     

    One of my mates has suggested leaving the aircond condensor fan off, however I am concerned that this will make the aircond pressures go up when standing idling, however do you think the radiator fans will pull enough air through the condensor to manage this?

     

    Also he reckons 1 16 inch will be better than 2 12's as each motor blocks off airflow?

     

    Complicated eh - any feedback?

    Is anyone installing a external oil cooler?

    in Nissan RB Forum

    Posted

    Stroker I notice that you have the same problem as me with the offtake for the aircleaner on the front turbo - have you any ideas on how to deal with re-routing the pipework to sort this?

    I have the rear turbo aircleaner sorted very easily but the front one, the flange off the turbo is going to have to be completely refabricated (in original fitment faces straight to the side of the engine bay). I am going to see if I can get a generic flange and then weld on pipework coming straight out to the front whilst missing the aircond pump.

    What are you going to do?

    rear turbo aircleaner_thumb.jpg

    rear turbo aircleaner2_thumb.jpg

    front turbo aircleaner_thumb.jpg

    Clutch hydraulics Expansion loop

    in Nissan RB Forum

    Posted

    Below is a photo of the clutch slave cylinder pipework off my R32 GTR halfcut. You will see at the union that there is a large loop of pipework that I can only imagine is an expansion loop of some kind?? Any one know why this is there and have any of you used this setup in your Z?

    thanks

    Clutch slave pipework_thumb.jpg

    RB26DETT into 240Z Beginner Progress

    in Nissan RB Forum

    Posted

    Yes, I'm crossing my fingers.

     

    On a side note, I believe I have confirmed that I will need the 280z stubs because the 240z don't match. The modern motorsports companion flange is 27 spine to match the m/t 280z and the 240z's all were 25 spline. So it looks like I'll be doing the whole shebang in one phase.

     

    My car is a 240Z as well and I'm sure all I did was get the companion flange from M/S. Mind you mine had discs on the rear so maybe the stub was replaced at the time?

    RB25DET Gearbox Slave Cylinder

    in Nissan RB Forum

    Posted

    Matt, thanks very much, I was hoping you might chip in.

    We are in Nagano at the moment, back to Tokyo tomorrow and then home to Perth Aust. Disappointing re cars - havent seen one interesting car on the roads or come across any Car Business or Parts place. Am going to have a quick look around Tokyo tomorrow for Up Garage or something similar. Love Japan and the people though - absolutely organised, clean, safe and friendly.

    regards

    RB25DET Gearbox Slave Cylinder

    in Nissan RB Forum

    Posted

    We have discussed this a bit previously in another thread, however I would like to know what slave cylinders others have used with the RB25DET gearbox? Mine is an R34 RB25DET gearbox bolted to the back of an RB26. The clutch is a pull type.

    Attached is a photo showing at top the R32 GTR slave cylinder from my halfcut and the new slave cylinder I am going to use at the bottom.

    My concern is that the new slave cylinder is a lot longer in size than the GTR slave, and I am wondering if it will release correctly etc and will not be too heavy? What have others found?

    My halfcut came with a clutch booster (see attached PDF), but maybe this was because the original slave was so short?

    Any feedback guys?

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    The Clutch Booster.pdf

    SoCal 240Z RB25det Build Thread

    in Nissan RB Forum

    Posted

    love the wheels. Are they Watanabe (?), dont get these in Aust - we have a similar one called Performance Superlite. What offset are they - they look like you dont need to run flares? Did you have to use spacers?

    Where did you get then from? How much? And do they come in 16 x 8/8.5?

    thanks & regards

    240z RB26- heater core connection to RB26

    in Nissan RB Forum

    Posted

    Hi Stroker I am at about the same stage as you.

    A lot of your questions (other than heater hoses) have been discussed recently if you search the threads over the last month.

    Other than that the brake booster hose for the 26 comes off the back of the spider thing you are talking about, I will try and attach a picture from the manual

    Yes there is a clutch booster it was on my halfcut - probably not required, others havent complained about it being too heavy

    Yes I am keeping the spider for that and aircon reasons

    regards

    iCollector hoses.pdf

    Petronix,MSD 6 and Petronix coil

    in Ignition and Electrical

    Posted

    Yes on my 240Z with the Crane Ign, a board was added by the electrician and all is fine, just needed to find the tach signal output from the Crane which in this case was green.

    The Electrician believes the same mod will work with the ECU from the RB, again once we find out what lead is the tach signal output - has anyone already established what lead out of the ECU? I will be using an Apexi so again will need to find the correct tach output lead.

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