Hi everyone, Wondering if anyone is interested but Operation K is underway. Our project starts off with a coupe shell that i salvaged from the crusher which cost me $350 a tonne. It spent the last 3 months having all the rust cut out of it which includes lower rear quarters front and back, rear beaver panel, lower door skins, lower guard skins, roof gutters in and out and steel GT-R guards. The photos show some of the steel work that we've completed.

I've decided to install an RB25det with matching gearbox, and r200 diff centre with cv rather than the uni's. R32 rotors with the quad spots upfront and California vented rears and calipers up back, all sitting on z31, 5 stud hubs.

Most of the fabrication is completed and i will post more shots if anyone is interested...

Everyone has their own idea of what their car should look like, I couln't image it any other colour.........food for thought?...what if yoy built a convertable out of a sedan...use coupe doors and fabricate the rear seal, I feel the boot on a sedan doesn't angle up so drastically.....

Everyone has their own idea of what their car should look like, I couln't image it any other colour.........food for thought?

agreed i would never stray from my silver 240k :>

although yours is porn :>

...what if yoy built a convertable out of a sedan...use coupe doors and fabricate the rear seal, I feel the boot on a sedan doesn't angle up so drastically.....

like this?

Anybody wanna chop up a Sedan?? :classic:

Woooo - That's a little special and tricky. I thought you had just air brushed the back doors out, but it looks like you shortened the rear windows as well. Possibly chopping a couple of inches out where the doors used to meet in the middle? Maybe? Nice Job. I think a stretched version should be next, possible with an inche or two off the roof height.

Ive got a Spare Sedan you could do it too,

i have a 4 door thats not ever going to get a roady and i was going to bozo it when im done with my other stuff covert would be kinda cool but what i was thinking of doing was chopping the top shaving the doors and other stuff like that :> i think it should be pretty different :> what you guys think?

incredible car sir!!

i was forwarded this thread on SAU in my build thread for some ideas. i wish to do my c210 coupe in a similar manner. probably not as extensive or with as much budget as yet but we're on the same page in alot of ways man.

i have a few questions for you, but ill save it for a few weeks time when im knee-deep in tears (when i start my rb conversion ).

big-ups mate on a fantastic build!

cam.

hey are you doing the conversion your self?

yea as much as possible!

this is my build thread (warning, HEAPS of photos and text)

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/251107-yay-got-my-pics-back/

Hi Kid-K,

Fantastic work! You must be really pleased with the car. Any chance you could give me a list of what needed to be done to get the RB engine and box in? I'm thinking of doing the same in mine.

Thanks,

TK

Hi Tommy, thanks for the kind words.....I've kinda detailed all the bits and pieces involved in the conversion in this forum, but I'll try to summarize it for you...

engine mounts are standard r33, bolted in the original position on the motor but the front frame on the 240k is modified, can give you a template if you wish.

gearbox, used the standard r33 gearbox mount but made a new crossmember using two pieces of 50 x 100 angle plate and some round tube...also used two new front control arm nylon bushes as spacers...to allow for the perfect angle on the gearbox I did alter the gearbox tunnel about 40mm, Also I made a spacer setup on the gearbox mount, this allows you to shime the position up and down and made the diff angle adjustable just so all the angles would be perfect....(REMEMBER THE ANGLE OF THE MOTOR AND THE ANGLE OF THE DIFF NEED TO BE THE SAME).

radiator, used a r33 radiator, almost fitted in perfect. Had to check out about 10 x 10mm from the front rails to allow the radiator to sit properly, used two mitsubishi magna radiator mounts to support it. standard r33 radiator hoses fit perfect...

Custom made intercooler...refer to picture, this is optional.....look out for some new photos as I'm in the process of changing my intercooler pipes to make room for the new highmount Garret.

You'll need to make a surge tank, I run a standard nissan bluebird fuel pump from the standard tank to the surge tank with a return line and then a bosch 044 from surge to motor again with return line.

As far as wiring goes this is were I cheated, I basically pulled the 240k loom out and sent it away with the r33 loom...it came back in 3 days as one, plug and play.....

Other things of interest, the standard 240k oil sensor fits on the rb and works fine.

the standard 240k temp sensor screwed into the bunge on the aluminum radiator and works fine, I have later modified it to mount to the original position on the rb inlet manifold

You can use a nissan navara mechanical speedo drive to replace the drive on the gearbox, it will bolt on as normal but requires a conversion box to get the ratio correct...I can still get them.

There's a wiring diagram on the forum to get the original tacho to work as well.

You'll need a new tailshaft, I replaced mine as a one piece using again a nissan navara input shaft, they seemed to be correct spline count but a bit longer in length......

......apart from that I can't really think of anything else, I must say that this part of the conversion was easy compared to the front struts, the five bolt conversion, the adjustable rear camber and toe conversion and the universal to cv conversion...good luck

Future plans for my K....rb26 crank, forged rb26 rods and pistons, leaving the head as an rb25 with the vct, but with neo springs...a new garret highmount and external waste gate, turbo 6 manifold, 760 nismo injectors, have to change my hand made 2.5" stainless exhaust to something bigger and a power fc.....I'll be posting new pics soon.