JustinOlson

I'm curious how much people are spending on insurance for your Z? Age: 22 Single/Married: Single Car: 77 280z 4spd yellow Infractions: Failure to obey a traffic control device. Location: Portland, Oregon Provider: Progressive Coverage: Liability(lowest coverage amounts in oregon) Cost: $84/month Please fill this out: Age: Single/Married: Car: Infractions: Location: Provider: Coverage: Cost: $/month

miata with hyper black 16" fn01rc

Heres a S14 with matte black FN01R-C. I'm notr really a fan of this color as it just blends in with tire too much. http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~spearma/FN01R-C/index.htm

Here you are Bob " Full-Race FrankenSkyline: The World's First Sport Compact Kit Car Story by David Pratte Photos by Mike Maez Do a quick Google search using the term “kit car” and you’ll find yourself browsing websites peddling all sorts of interesting replicas, mostly of vintage or exotic machines like Cobras, Super Sevens and old Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Porsches. What you’re not likely to find is anything resembling a sport compact. Sure you can tear a Miata apart and use the bits and pieces to build a Super Seven, but there has never been a kit car designed to convert a readily available and affordable Japanese chassis into a classic and highly sought-after Japanese supercar. That is, until now. You may be thinking to yourself: “Isn’t that just a pimped out S14 240SX?” but you’d be wrong. The Nissan seen before you is in fact a full-on Skyline GT-R under the skin, completely converted by the engineering mad scientists at Full-Race. From the double wishbone suspension and multi-piston brakes, to the all-wheel-drive power delivery, to the legendary RB26DET, this vehicle is 100% GTR. So complete is the transformation that it is fair to refer to this machine as a Skyline GT-R kit car (or R14 as Full-Race has named it) rather than an S14 with some GT-R parts bolted to it. Sure it may still look like a S14 on the outside, but it’s all GT-R where it counts. The creation of this one-of-a-kind Nissan, soon to be made possible for any S13 or S14 240SX owners via a chassis conversion kit (check out ProjectR14.com for more details), was inspired by the dreams of Full-Race owner and Head Engineer Geoff Raicer. As you may recall from our ŒMad Scientist¹ feature story (June 2006) on Raicer’s 800whp Honda Civic, we’re talking about a man who dreams big and has the skills and the shop to fulfill them. As Raicer himself put it, “I was looking for a car that would smoke a single turbo Supra, destroy a Viper or Z06, and embarass just about any car it might come across, yet do it on street tires and pump gas. I wanted something that would win a time attack, then go to a drag strip and run 9’s and then drive home with the stereo blasting. My 800whp civic was not doing this anytime soon and while I’ve had huge fun with my Honda and will always have my roots in the Honda camp, I needed something new. It was time to step up to a supercar.” But being the mad scientist that he is, you know Raicer and his top-notch crew at Full-Race were not going to be satisfied with some sort of garden-variety tuner car project. What Raicer really wanted, what he dreamt about (like so many of us in the spo com scene in America) was a Nissan Skyline GT-R. On the other hand, Raicer’s dislike for right-hand-drive cars and all the hassles owning one entails, not to mention the outrageous price genuine GT-R’s fetch on this side of the Pacific, as well as the impossibilities involved with making a GTR street legal meant that some other solution was needed. As fate would have it, Raicer had picked up a 1995 240SX with a blown motor for $1000 three years ago with the idea of swapping a Honda S2000 engine into it. Having been unable to find an affordable F20C1, the S14 was stored in his parents’ driveway and forgotten. Then while flying to SEMA IAS during the spring of ‘06, Raicer got a voicemail from a friend who had a complete R32 Skyline GT-R front clip for sale for $3500. After seeing how pristine the clip was, and despite being extremely hesitant about buying it (particularly because everyone he asked told him it would be impossible to do a proper GT-R AWD conversion on his S14 to go along with the RB26 engine swap) Raicer decided that his highly capable team of engineers, mechanics and machinists could do anything they set their minds to, and that this was a project that would allow him to realize his spo com supercar dream. Knowing full well that stuffing all of Godzilla’s running gear into a Godzilla Jr. sized package like an S14 chassis wouldn’t be a simple task, the Full-Race engineers started by making complete 3D computer models for every aspect of the GT-R’s suspension and powertrain. They also completely modeled the S14 chassis and engine bay, at which point they could digitally overlay the GT-R components onto the S14 chassis to see how everything lined up. This four-month process was exhausting and exhaustive, but Raicer and the Full-Race gang knew it would pay dividends in the long run. After that it was “simply” a matter of putting in 16-hour days, engineering and fabricating all the custom pieces needed to make the GT-R drivetrain, double wishbone suspension, and AWD system bolt up to the S14 sheet metal. Honoring the JDM tuner philosophy that intelligent performance modifications should allow the original sheet metal to remain unmolested (inspired by our recent Midori Skyline feature story) was another goal for Raicer. This meant that the boy geniuses at Full-Race had to come up with some seriously innovative solutions, especially in areas like the front suspension and driveline. The S14 is a RWD platform, for example, so the stock front frame rails do not have any clearances built into them for the front driveshafts. The Skyline GT-R, on the other hand, is AWD and therefore has notched front frame rails. Rather than notching and welding the S14 rails, which would go against the Midori philosophy and Full-Race’s desire to keep the installation as OEM as possible, they designed custom frame rails that lower the front subframe and in the process locate the engine and driveline such that the front driveshafts clear the unmolested S14 frame rails, and the engine/trans fit like stock. The Full-Race frame rails also provide significant reinforcement to the relatively puny S14 rails, which were not designed to withstand the forces that an AWD RB26 turbocharged engine places on the chassis. The Full-Race R14 front-end conversion also has the added benefit of lowering the car’s center of gravity, while still allowing the original Skyline GT-R forged aluminum engine mounts to be used. We think Midori would approve. A huge amount of design work was also done in the front strut tower area, where the MacPherson strut design of the S14 suspension did not make it easy for the GT-R double wishbone setup to make its home there. Having been inspired by Total Chaos’ desert racing suspension conversion kits, Full-Race’s engineers cooked up an ingenious system for mounting the GT-R upper control arms using the existing strut tower bolt holes for positioning. Given the unique R14 configuration, Full-Race contracted KONI to build custom shock absorbers using their double adjustable race dampers specifically for use on this project and future R14 conversions. Full-Race also added adjustable TC rods that help locate the front lower control arms and allow for adjustment of front wheel caster. Completing the suspension makeover is a Full-Race HICAS (four-wheel-steering) eliminator that also functions as a tie rod brace, as well as a custom LHD steering rack that duplicates the quick 2.6 turns lock-to-lock rack found in the GT-R. In addition, Full-Race chose to retain (again, in the Midori tradition) 100% stock rear links, a technique which has proven itself on Full-Races time-attack winning S14. With the front end thoroughly transformed to GT-R specs, including hubs and brakes, custom transmission mounts were required to locate the hulking RB gearbox and transfer case so that the shift lever, equipped with a GT-R shift knob, is perfectly centered in the S14 tunnel opening. Next Full-Race put a call in to the drivetrain pros at The Driveshaft Shop for a custom one-piece 4” 6061 driveshaft with a slip-yoke eliminator. This design saved over 20 lbs compared to a stock GT-R driveshaft, and does away with the vibration inducing rubber mounted carrier bearing. In the rear end department, the Full-Race brainiacs again had to bust out their slide rules when fabricating a custom R14 rear subframe, allowing the bulletproof GT-R rear differential (2way clutch type) and BEEFY 6 bolt axles to be used, as well as the GT-R rear suspension links and 2 piston 11.7” brakes mounted. With the all-wheel-drive system fully in place (but with ATESSA deleted), the final challenge for the Full-Race squad was to figure out how to design a torque split controller that allows the amount of power being sent to the front wheels to be adjusted. If you take a careful look at the interior of this very special Nissan, you’ll notice that there are two emergency brake handles. This isn’t some sort of super freaky drift setup, rather if you pull the second handle you’ll start to send more and more power to the front wheels the further up you go. In other words, when this “e-brake” handle is all the way down, the R14 is 100% RWD. If you lift it all the way up, power delivery is split 50/50 to the front and rear wheels. Half way up? 25% front, 75% rear. In fact, with the lever all the way down, this car can be dyno’d on a 2WD dyno without pulling driveshafts, a practice common on AWD vehicles. Helping transfer all this adjustable 4WD power to the ground is a Competition Clutch twin disc setup and Quaife limited slip differentials. Full-Race is currently working on finalizing a design for a remote mounted electronically controlled Torque Split setup which will allow for the elimination of the lever, being replaced by an electronic dial. As for power, there’s plenty of it, as you’d expect from a RB26DETT and Full-Race. The R32 Nissan Skyline GT-R drivetrain is renowned for its ability to make pavement-shattering amounts of grunt on completely stock internals, a reputation Full-Race plans on fully exploring by leaving their RB unopened, for now. However, the stock GT-R twin turbo setup was dropped in favor of a complete Full-Race spec GT42102R kit including Full-Race’s R14 twin scroll dual wastegate exhaust manifold, 4-inch Vband downpipe, S14 front-mount intercooler, 3-inch piping, and (2) TiAL 44mm Wastegates + 50mm blow-off valve. Handling the fuel load are dual Walbro in-tank pumps, a Full-Race fuel rail, and RC Engineering 1000cc injectors. Controlling the carefully timed commingling of fuel and spark is an Apex’i Power FC standalone engine management system, an easy-to-use and precise tuning tool. On the R14 the Power FC is equipped to read two MAP sensors, one signal from cylinder 3 and one from cylinder 4, in order to allow Evans Tuning to more effectively deal with the RB’s individual throttle bodies. Even the interior of this engineering marvel of a Nissan is stuffed full of Skyline DNA. Just take a gander at the R33 GTS-T gauge cluster and the R32 GT-R steering wheel, though the stock S14 seats remain in place with the front passengers being secured to them by Simpson racing harnesses. To entertain Raicer while he commutes to the track there¹s an Eclipse 5303R head unit and CDT 6.5¹¹ coaxial speakers, powered by a PPI 5 channel amp. Beyond that, a Full-Race roll cage dominates the interior, a safety addition this monstrously quick FrankenSkyline definitely needs given the kind of speed it’s capable of. As for the exterior, Full-Race had their homeboys Brandon Perry and Cesar D’Castro lay down a unique shade of paint called ŒBattleship Grey since, as Raicer pointed out, “this thing was built to destroy the competition.”Enhancing the Destroyer theme is a gorgeous set of gloss black Volk GT-U 18x9.5” forged wheels, wrapped in Dunlop Direzza 275/35-18’s on all four corners. That’s a lot of rubber to fit on a S14, but the Origin Labs Zenki Stylish body kit, carbon hood, carbon door skins and 20mm over fenders (with rears further pulled and flared by Champa) house the supermodel sexy Volks perfectly. Completing the exterior enhancements is a set of JDM black housing Zenki headlights and orange corner lights as well B&M power steering and oil coolers cleverly tucked behind the side vents on the front bumper. With the goal of building a car that is roughly the weight of a Prelude, with an engine as strong as a twin turbo Supra, is LHD, AWD, has power steering and is easy to register and cheap to insure, Raicer and his band of wrench-wielding madmen have succeeded in building what is quite possibly the first ever sport compact kit car. One-off show cars are impressive in their own right, but building a machine like the Full-Race R14 such that everything required to replicate this dream machine is an accomplishment on a whole other level. All we can say is, thank you Full-Race♥ we¹re shopping for a clean S13/S14 chassis already!"

Ok, Heres clifton's car with 8" wide up front and 9" wide in the rear Silver wheels: Heres Nopes 240z with 9" front and 10" rears mocked up(Matte Black): Heres the Audi TT Grey I'm thinking about: And Heres is the pearl lime green I like:

The top of the strut tube is a larger ID where the gland nut thread in. If one was to make gland nuts match the ID of the tube where the strut fits in, could you just cut the top off the strut housing and tap it for a custom gland nut? Does the gland nut need to cup the strut insert at the top? Justin

Heres a pretty nice supra with these wheels in bronze.

I would like peoples opinion on which color I should go with for my wheels on my Z. I'm going to be running 5zigen FN01R-C 17" X 10" +12 offset. I'm going to be ordering these wheels for my christmas present to myself. I'm pretty excited to get some wide wheels for the Z. I'm going to run 275/40R-17 front and rear. The car is currenly yellow. I'm will be repainting the car either dark silver(audi TT grey), or pearl green color. 1st Bronze: 2nd Hyper Black: 3rd Silver: Regards, Justin

I wanted to thank the administrators for creating the members project forum. Regards, Justin Olson

I'm doing a run of CNC cut flanges at 1/2" 1018 CRS. It will be 2 weeks before a run of 20 flanges are finished. The price should be right around $50-60 per flange. I will have a better estimate next Regards, Justin

This isn't a kit per say. You have to take your car to full race so they can put it on their frame jig and get everything in the correct spot. Justin

Exhaust first, then some intake flanges. Regards, Justin

I'm also doing a run of flanges over the next couple weeks. It will be yet another option. Regards, Justin

Found the thread size for the gland nut: 48mm x 1.5 pitch Regards, Justin

Is there a difference between the gland nuts on a 240z and a 280z? What is the size and thread pitch of each? Regards, Justin

Here is another forum that I'm apart of that has a nice project part of the forum: http://www.motorgeek.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=6 Its really nice to go back and look at ones progress over a couple months or a year. It has helped me in the past to keep my head up and finish a big project. Its just nice to be able to see how much you and others have done over a set amount of time. Being its own part of the forum makes it nice since everyone post their projects in one place where they can easily be found. Justin

No need. The catalog doesn't have any pictures of these flares, just part numbers. I'll scan the catalog tomorrow from work and post it up for you guys. Regards, Justin

1FZ-FE (Its the 2jzgte's big brother!) And who says you can't make big power with a audi 5 cylinder. Here is my personal car:

Jon, your case is a good example. I would like to look at all of the things you've been working on for your car as it progresses. As it is now, I have to search all the topics you've created and sift through those to see updates. I think the project forum would be a good place to post pictures and progress, but not so much technical questions about a build. Those should go in their respective forums. Should this be a poll to see how many people favor this addition? Regards, Justin

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I think it would be cool to have a forum for people to maintain there project progress. It would be nice to have them all in the same spot so we could see what others are working on and track the progress. I was about to start a project car thread for my personal car. I looked at all of the available forums, but was questioning where to place the thread. My car is currently an l28, so at first I thought I'd put it in the L series forum. I'm currently doing body and suspension work on my car. So it’s not really related to the L series engine forum. After the body and suspension work, I plan to move onto more engine work. I'm also going to be rewiring my car and adding standalone engine management. I could post my individual projects in lots of different parts of the forum. I was hoping that there would be a place made to have my project as a whole so I can show the start to finish work I put into it. Has this been requested before? Is there a reason this doesn't exist? Regards, Justin Olson

Honestly I don’t agree with swish cheesing the chassis to lose weight. You are really opening yourself up to a lot of spots for crack propagation.

What finish wheels do you think look best?

Clinton's setup has a 6.25" backspacing in the pictures above. I'm looking at running 250lb front springs and 275lb springs in the rear. I've read that this is ok for not coil binding. Justin

MAS is a compnau that sells lots of different products. They sell 2 different styles of flares for the S30. The ones I have above are the smaller of the 2 types. They also sell a IMSA style flare set for right around $200 four all for flares. Regards, Justin