Just thought i would post some pics of my R33GTR circuit car. I am still in the process of building it but am starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel. Have just got the car running and am running the new engine in at the moment 40klm's so far but still plenty of work to go. Build time so far has been around 18 months. Specs are as follows.

1995 R33GTR non vspec (dont let the sticker fool you)
Interrior: 6 piont roll cage, Cobra suzuka seat, 6 point Willans harness, Seabelt seuade wheel

Suspension: Tien super street coilovers with EDFC, Whiteline front and rear sway bars, Whiteline front camber kit, Tien adjustable castor rods. Hicass will be deleted. This suspension set up will get some attention as soon as the budget permits.

Brakes are currently Brembo F50 front calipers with 355mm rotors on flaoting hats with ferrodo ds3000 pads and standard brembo rears with project mu pads.

Engine: N1 engine block, HKS step 2 2.8lt stroker crank, HKS rods, HKS step 2 2.8lt piston kit (different pin height), full Tomei metal gasket kit inc head gasket,inlet manifold,throttle body,exhaust manifold,turbo & dump pipe,
Head has been mildly ported and fitted with HKS inlet and exhaust cams 264 10.2mm & 272 10.2mm respectivly, Tomei type B valve springs and retainers, Tomei cam stud kit, ARP head stud kit, HKS cam gears, Nismo timing belt.
Hi Octane modified sump with a custom dry sump set up running a peterson 5 satge pump 3 pickups from the sump and on off the back of the head, Peterson 3 gallon oil tank, ARP main stud kit, ACL race series bearings, N1 water pump, Tomei exhaust manifolds, HKS gt2530 turbos, Hks adjustable waste gates,HKS hard piping kit, Tomei 3" dump pipes, Custom front pipe twin 3" into 4", Full 4" exhaust.

Fuel system: standard fuel pump used as a lift pump custom serge tank, Twin Bosch 044 fuel pumps running thru two -6 delivery lines and 1 -6 return line to a HKS fuel rail, Sard 700cc injectors am currently undecided on wich brand of fuel reg i will use either a Magna fuel or Turbo smart

Cooling: ARC 120mm intercooler, ARC swirl pot & Breather tank (not yet fitted), PWR custon radiator cross flow 75mm core with inbuilt water to oil oil cooler.

Drive train: Is currently running a standard 5 spd gearbox with ATS carbon twin plate clutch. This will be swapped for a Getrag 6 spd (R34 gear box) with Ats carbon twin plate clutch a one piece carbon tail shaft as soon as the engine is tuned and will also be looking at fitting a ATS 1.5way front diff as soon as the budget allows.

Electronics: Running the engine in on the standard computer injectors and afm's at the moment will be fitting a Motec M800 ecu as soon as I have enough klm's on the engine with motec boost control. Ruzic engineering (user name mountain runner) series 2 engine monitor, Ruzic engineering Race logger (in beta testing now) and will be looking at fitting a Ruzic engineering 4wd controller once the data logger is fitted so i can maximize my set up.

There is probably a heap of other stuff i have forgotten but as like nearly all race cars it will be constant and ongoing deveolpment. All work on the car apart from the roll cage and exhaust fabrication has been done by myself in my shed out the back without the help of any sponsors so has been a long hard slog and kept me poor but am starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel and is starting to make all the hard work and sacrifice worth it.

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This is nice!

I like!

very nicely done.

Curiosity are you running filters on the dry sump prior to the scavenger pumps?? Or only the one at the rear before the tank??

Very nice car mate, i can see that a lot of work has gone into it!

Just wondering how many kms you are going to do for break in and whether you are using the hard method? I am currently breaking my engine in at the moment also...

Risking I am running filters in all the scavage lines before the pump and also the one in the boot before the tank although the filters that peterson supply will not stop any bearing material going thru the pump if you happen to have a catastophic failure but the pumps are very resilaint and need to have some fairly large size schrapnel go thru them before it will damage them. The filter in the boot before the tank thou if much finer and will catch any bearing material (hence the size of it so as not to impeed flow) should you ever have that problem. I will be doing betwwen 500 and 1000 klm's on the engine before the ecu is fitted and in sees a dyno.

Same as mine then.

Im using the earls filters before the scavengers as well as a gauze inside the sump before the scavenger ports.

looks good mate

I have a horn. Nice work.

Looking great Daz !!

should be ready to rumble real soon

Will be coming for a trip up to your place this weekend sometime mate will get some k's on the thing and take you up on that drive of the R35 . The missus has the weekend off and is hasseling me to get up there and suss out your new beast for herself aswell. Will definatly sell her on the idea and get me off the hook for a purchase down the track

nice work mate, looks like a clean well thought out setup i see you have gone without abs aswell, makes the engine bay look alot cleaner without all the hardlines and unit in the corner.

Makes everything a lot easier to work on as well have been keeping my eye on Mark & Duncans build as well and there is some talk about removing the booster to get a better more consistant pedal feel. So will look into this aswell seems like just a bit of fiddling around to get the right pedal ratio as at this point I am not really considering a pedal box. This may change down the track if a better brake upgrade is done but first i need to finish it and let the bank balance recover

That's awesome!! Very nice.

Great work Darren....if I didn't want my car to still do a blast down a public road this is what I'd be doing to mine

Interesting that you are considering putting in an R34 box....speak to Snowman (Andrew) for details but he found out the hard way that the R34 box can be fragile and that the R33 ratios are better for track use....in fact his R34 track car uses R33 running gear now.

Awesome build!!!!

Man, I really need someone like you guys to build me a car lol