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...

KID-K

To see a project like this really inspires me. I too am working on a restoration but it appears to be moving along much slower than yours. I like others can appreciate the time and effort, not to mention the expense, involved in something like this. Your particular car was not shipped to North America in very many numbers if any at all. When they were brought here the owner had to travel to another country to get them and bring them back. But nevertheless my hat goes off to you and your brother for the awesome job the two of you are doing. Good Luck!

I COULD BE THE LAST PERSON IN THE WORLD TO HAVE A 240K PINCHED. Last Sunday night a very thoughtful person helped himself to my parts car....The whole thing!!!!!

Sorry to hear that KID-K. But always keep this thought in mind,"CHEATERS NEVER WIN, EGGHEADS NEVER PROSPER" Whoever took your parts hog will probably crash the car they plan to use the parts on. No worries. KARMA will take care of him.

^^^ i agree arabs can't drive... just kidding but yes it did suck to hear that your parts car got stolen. funny story, I think one of my neighbors called kellys wreckers because a guy came to my door asking if my parts car was ready for removal :<

Had to be on site at 7.30 this morning for our very first photo shoot. Jun, our photographer took over 300 photos of the two cars for hopefully an article in an upcoming edition of Performance Imports. Here are some snap shots of the day from my phone, will post some real photos when I get some.......worked all night to get it ready as I somehow managed to break an inlet cam on Thursday night!

Photos look good, hope to see the article, should be a good read. Congrats champ

Finally got some time to play over the last few days..just a shot of the new turbo...hopefully I'll have time on the weekend to bolt everything on....

Edited June 2, 201113 yr by KID-K

gee-zus! that could quite possibly go fast perhaps ;-) im running a screamer on mine .

hey thanks heaps for the info man that was a great read. i'm coming along really well with my project. thanks for the tip with the tailshaft and diff alignment. i didnt think it mattered cause there's a uni at both ends? well there is on mine anyway.

when is your car to appear in PI mag?

oh and hook me up with that converter for the speedo ratio man. would be a massive help!

Edited June 4, 201113 yr by Silent Shadow

no probs Mr shadow, is your motor in, I still have a template for the crossmember if you need one...

yea my motor's in woo! i'd love to look at your template though. we just slotted the k-frame from the mount holes upwards. so the rb slides down the slots and sits on the original holes. it does sit a little high though. gunna need my plenum modded at this point. but ive already found someone to do that.

cheers bud.

please check the angle of the motor, I had to lift the gearbox to compensate for the angle of the motor, I think mine sits lower as I took some off the K frame, and probably in hindsight should have taken even another 5mm off.

the back of the gearbox can only go about an inch upwards before it's hitting the car and the engine can only go down an inch before it's sitting on the x-member. i had a look at your pics and the mounts and x-member are heaps different so i dont think i can apply the same technique you used. apart from that stupid high plenum, the motor sits really well. almost factory . but yea as i said, i got a mate who's gunna re-mod the plenum so the throttle body sits lower and bonnet should close properly.

can you link me to the speedo ratio converter thingy?

you're running a rb20? I think that the gearbox is smaller, almost the size of a standard stubby gearbox..would almost be a stock looking conversion......I just finish modifying my induction manifold, made it pointing forward, need to remove the cross-over pipe to allow room for the new turbo.....post a pic when I get back.....

RINGWOOD SPEEDO SERVICE

693 Whitehorse Rd, MITCHAM, VIC, 3132

Phone: (03) 9874 2260

I'm actually in Sydney at the moment, but if you wish I can organize the worm drive for you.....only problem when they calibrated mine (having the 3.9 diff ratio) I did a distance test...will need to know what ratio your running

any chance you can post a pic of the r230 conversion...thinking thats 2 cool!!!!!!......any plans for brake upgrades?

Edited June 7, 201113 yr by KID-K