Silvie Blows Her Motor, A Little History

Hi All!

Where to start? well its been a while... quite a while actually well quite a lot has been going on recently but this is the first thing that comes to mind as well.... blew up the motor in the Silvia on the weekend out at Queensland Raceway.

I Organized a lunch meet with happy laps around the circuit which is a big hit! as its cheap and we get a bit of track time! well eleven minutes in to the the half an hour session I noticed a few things going on, such as lack of power, oil temp being a little high, water temp being a little high and then the big end letting go!

I rationalized the fact the temps were high was because well it was a pretty warm day out at QR, but unfortunately its fate was already predetermined. To be entirely honest we expected the engine to let go last year but it was nice enough to hang on an extra twelve months :)

The engine wasn't the happiest of motors when I originally purchased it sight unseen from what I thought was a reputable company in Melbourne and had it shipped up to Brisbane and to its credit it was a pretty clean motor when I received it... but over time I started to realize it most likely had just been cleaned up.

I purchased it as a '96 Type-X Blacktop SR20DET with manual harness and a EPROM well when the motor turned up it had an auto harness with a standard auto ECU.. only really good little bit it had on it was the HKS 1 Bar actuator on the side of the standard T25G.. this all never really deterred me.

The Engine conversion was done by East Coast Customs, They removed the Silvertop SR20DE and installed the Blacktop SR20DET and was also all wired up by them.. well Nathan did.. that was was when I First met Nathan!

I was instantly in love! going from a SR20DE to a stock SR20DET with 14.7 PSI of boost is a huge step about 40-50kw difference and a completely different power and torque delivery system I was hooked! that said the car actually was a little bit sketchy... HAHAHA.. it had Non-turbo Brakes and still had an R180 Diff in it... and man did it make me shit myself a few times until I got use to it!

Looking back at this all from this point really makes me realise how far this car has actually come... The 180 we built in the space of 4 days and I love that car.. but Silvie.. its a different kind of love? we have been partners for.. god.. I don't know.. eight years now and its been a little bit of a love and hate relationship! but also an educational one to boot!

I literally knew nothing about cars when i first brought Silvie.. well.. I knew how to do an oil change and change brake pads.. check the coolant.. so all the normal stuff but when it came to in depth things like modifications, upgrades, pulling engines out.. I knew nothing!

Back before I knew Nathan or Scott or Dave and sometimes even then it was figuring out things on my own and stumbling along in the dark.. most of the time with Sean at my side and one of those first things that I did then was i replaced a water pump on the Silvertop.. well not such a big thing but back then I had no knowledge and it was all simply guess work! now I could do it a hundred times easier but that's experience for you.

I think the next biggest thing done to the motor after actually putting it in was i got a few different bolt on mods for it, it went from having stock injectors, turbo, computer and AFM to having an A'pexi Power FC ECU, Sard 550cc injectors, Sard Fuel reg, HKS GTSS turbo, Z32 AFM and a Walbro fuel pump. Drove it like that for a few months as the whole setup had come out of Nathans champagne rig and was already tuned for that specfic setup. A Few months down the road and we ended up having it re-tuned and it turned out a pretty responsive 206 RWKW @ 16PSI

Later on I swapped Nathan the GTSS for a Garrett GT2871r and re-tuned the car and went 220 kw @ 18 PSI

The motor lasted for three years making 220 kw, but in the end the inevitable occurred! it gave up. We honestly thought that it was going to happen last year but it lasted twelve months longer then we anticipated and it let go on a race track! what better way to go then in a blaze of glory? it was on a cool down lap -_- however Nathan did do a pretty good job of finishing it off so it wasn't a half arsed job!!


Video of the few laps I got around QR and the big end going

So knowing that the motor was Cactus at this stage we decided to drive it the 20km's home! well... we got maybe 10 kms down the road and that was it the motor had enough! Oil Tempurature and Water Temp went through the roof so we pulled over and called Nathans Dad who came to the rescue with the car trailer.. but the biggest problem was where we were it was going to be near impossible to load the car! so one last jolly jaunt to a better location 500m down the road! and it pretty near put a rod out the the block.

Since then we have built a motor and dropped it in. Stay tuned for the build posts!

Stay Safe

Bev

New home, new oil

Recently I've moved back to NSW and for the first time that I have owned my S13 I actually have somewhere to garage it!! So in celebration of this I gave her a wash yesterday and an oil change today!

Gearing up for Matsuri 2012

Just a couple of pictures to wet the taste buds!

Matsuri soon, I will also have a few posts up soon about what has happened in recent months!

As always stay safe!

Bev

STOLEN: Cefiro

STOLEN FROM: Camron's Bodyworks
DATE STOLEN: 23/1/2012
REGO: N/a
TYPE: Cefiro
MAKE: Nissan
MODS: Coilovers, front 5-stud conversion
WHEELS: Wantanabe 15x8 front, matte black S13 CA wheels
COLOUR: Autech blue - Drivers side front 1/4 and door is white
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: modified rad support,
VIN:
ENGINE NUMBER: N/a
CONTACT DETAILS: ME: 0434839302 - Nathan: 0414507414

Hey guys sadly one of my mates cars was stolen from Camo's early this morning late last night the car was a rolling shell with coilovers and a front 5 stud conversion with full interior. we had it down at camos getting the front rad support replaced as the previous owner (car was 01TAXI) had put in a removeable one. lucky enough there wasnt a great deal in the car but it doesnt matter.. scum have taken a car and if you have any information at all or have seen the car under a tarp at a someones house call us! also stolen was a number of parts off josh's Red s13. Currently working on getting the VIN. If the person who stole this car is reading this return it to camos or A1 nissan wrecking

Pictures Below - Wheels pictured not on it.






Please keep an eye out guys! to many cars are being stolen its not funny and now they are also taking cars with no engines... this situation is getting out of hand

keep your cars and yourself safe guys!

- Bev

The End Of One Year.. The Beggining Of Another

Its the end of Two thousand and eleven! the last day of the year, what are you up to? well obviously I am sitting in front of my computer writing to you and strangely enough it is not about cars at all.. have i gone insane? am I feeling ok? well to answer the first I've been insane for years.. and with friends and family like mine i would have to be! hahahah... I love you guys.

Something that always comes up on new years is the need to party.. well for some and for others it apparently dictates how they will spend the rest of the next year and the stupid tradition of kissing your partner on the stroke of midnight and you will be with them for the rest of the year... maybe its because if pretty much been single every new year... come to think of it i really do not remember being in a relationship once over new years.. maybe that is why I never got that one...

well this is where I spin off into a tangent that I do not even know if it makes sense but if you do understand it let me know and if you dont well let me know? but like I said im insane and it could be my crazy ideas!

and away we go!


I don't know about you but to me it seems that Some people take life way to seriously. Well in the sense of always needing to be on the go, doing this.. doing that, keeping up with the Joneses and having all the latest... well lack of a better word in my vocabulary... Crap. Computers for instance, I always have customers ask if they should upgrade and keep up with the current systems... majority of the computers that i service are used for internet and emails.. and that is it.. so I ask a simple question and this can be put towards anything really.. mowers.. microwaves.. coffee machines.. cars even.. Is it still doing what you need it to do? well if the answer is yes then no you do not need to upgrade.. just because Joe Blow next door has something that takes two seconds to boot or a coffee machine that makes the best cappuccino in the world in a second flat.

This to me is why there is a lot of wasted disused things around and I am not just talking about material things, I have seen people do that to friends, loved ones.. use them for awhile and then when they get bored they go find some muscle bound twit and get abused.

The more serious people get the more that they focus on just one thing and then they get to busy with that one thing and the world passes them by another thing is they fail to see what is right in front of them for instance.. that old topic of relationships and Love.

Woe is me.. that is what comes to my mind, these people that get it in their head that they need this perfect person that does not exists and they put that imaginary person on a pedestal and then compare everyone to them. They then proceed to have a good old cry about never finding the one for them, they fail to realize that maybe the person that could make them the happiest could be right in front of them staring them right in the face and they do not even realize it because A. Then have this imaginary person up on that ol pedestal presiding over their decisions on what makes the right person or B. They take everything all to seriously and it blinds their judgement purely because of the fact that they can not let go of what ever drives them once so they will never see the entire picture.

Now some people may not agree with what I say, oh his completely wrong and doesnt know what he is talking about, but I am willing to bet that their are other people out there that share my thoughts and are saying you know what he has hit the nail square on the head.

Example is that person that always winds up in exactly that same spot over and over and over again and that spot is the dreaded friend zone!

Read

"Dear "Females" I'm fedup. Done. Finished. I always hear stories about girls not being able to trust guys because they cheated, or treated them bad, or hit them, I always hear stories of girls saying they just don't want to be with guys because of past relationships. say that you're waiting for a good guy etc. But why the fuck when you get a good GREAT guy you ignore him, Call him your best friend or some shit like that and when he falls for you, you give him some bullshit how you're not ready for a relationship...then two hours later you're fucking some asshole who clearly didn't give a fuck about you before. Dear females....you constantly wonder where the good guys are. they're out there...I'm just letting you know that you're the ones making us scarce.

Sincerely

Good Guy....or rather New Found Asshole"

Now I did not write that as I read it on a friends facebook and shamelessly copied it to mine for one specific reason and that reason is that it is the truth, I have been in countless situations like above before and it all starts out nice and innocent, spending countless hours with each other doing things you both enjoy doing and share in common or just sitting doing nothing at all and just enjoying having company.

Then comes the harmless flirting from her which does make you believe that they may actually feel something towards you and in this case the "nice" guy starts to fall for the girl and spends a while hiding it because they have been hurt before the same way OR they do not feel the time is appropriate because he knows exactly what makes her uncomfortable.

I do not write this about myself in anyway but like I said I have been in the same situation before, I guess that the biggest thing that has made me write this specific little thing comes as a result of watching Definitely Maybe which is a silly little romantic movie.. the sad thing is I watched it alone which was actually the second time I have watched it.. and funnily enough the first time i was alone aswell... hmmmm

That and it being New Years Eve I guess, that old saying of "what you do on the stroke of midnight is what you will be doing for the entire new year" well for me its going to be exactly the same as i was doing last year... sitting on the computer or in front of the TV at my Parents place in NSW.

So I would like to wish everyone a happy and safe new year, To all those "Blind" people let go and for one day do not take life so seriously, do not use that excuse of ohh I can not possibly do that because I am to busy. Kick back have a drink and soak in what is around you because life is to short to take to seriously as you will not get out of it alive! and who knows you might realize something special maybe right in front of you. How ever like all situations there is always an equal positive or negative reaction and there might not be anything there at all.

As for me, I will be enjoying a cup of coffee and a good book with a beautiful view like so.

with a beer or two later on

View from my parents back veranda

As always stay safe my friends!

- Bev

Random Photo

Hello all!!

I'm back again!

I just thought I would like to share this picture with you all from my journey down south this morning.

Storm incoming

- Bev!

Another one for the stable! - Merry Christmas

Well... where did this year disappear to? With 2011 over and 2012 looming ever so closely people are rushing to finish things off.. close up shop.. and take a well earned rest to start the new year fresh. Some people are completely convinced that next year will be the last year we will ever experience and the end will be fall us... Now I don't know about you but I'm a bit of a Science fiction buff... anything SCI-FI I love! doesnt matter if its read, watched or listened to.. if it is good ill have a gander. I have seen movies like Armageddon where the earth is faced by a HUGE asteroid that is bent on colliding with the earth and causing another mass extinction event like what befell the dinosaurs.. mass affixiation. The movie 2012 focused on the earths poles changing and causing a massive landmass change causing everything to flood.. honestly... the person that wrote that story must have had a giant Noah's ark attraction.

In all seriousness with the level of technology that we have developed over the years I'd say that we as a race will have pretty much majority of doom day scenario's well covered... unless the planet just has a massive FML moment and just spontaneously implodes.. if that happens i will shout out "Someone must have googled google!!!!" so rest assured guys I am pretty confident in saying.. well.. nighty nine percent sure that we will make it through to 2013!! well unless aliens invade and we all become slaves or science experiments..

End of the world crap out of the way...

Below we have a video.. very rare that I will post other peoples things on my blog but I thought that i might share with the rest of you my trolling efforts! so check it out! its pretty cool and those Euros know how to drive and put together a drift car! - ENJOY

TANDEM OF DIE | Team Yellow | 2011 from TANDEM OF DIE on Vimeo.

I must say the Hutchi is my favorite in that video.. whats yours?

Well talking about Hutchi's there is a new plan for Nathans Levin Coupe.. i dont know if its been mentioned before.. but its been in a few photos!! at the moment the little rolla has a S2000 engine and gearbox in it... well thats been the case for a few years now just sitting under the house not being finished unfortunately.

The story goes that Nathan always wanted an S2000 and putting the motor out of one into his Hutchi was the next best thing! until recently.. when he found a decent rolling shell of an S2000 for a pittance that just could not have been passed by! It maybe rough looking at the moment but when we are finished with it... Lakeside time attack warrior much?

Like the Kristens Cefiro Nathan ended up finding this shell out in the middle of no where under a tarp being neglected, the owner putting the power plant into a KE71 wagon. So we arrived to its rescue!!

With Nathans dad in tow with the ute and trailer we banged on a set of wheels... and pulled it up onto the trailer

Might not look like much now but just wait.

Nathan checking out the inside

Honda obviously made the S2000 around these wheels!

Well with the car all loaded up and one of Nathan's sources living in the area we decided to go see Bevan and see if he had any parts for us and that he did... having a S2000 halfcut on the shelf he also had the doors and bits and peices that would make up for what we didnt have left from the original halfcut Nathan brought years ago.

With doors now bolted on the S2000 was now looking more like a car and less like some sort of weird shaped bathtub! basically the plan for this one.. when we get to it is to pull the motor and gear box out of the hutchi and put it in the shell, then build the shell into a time attack car.

As for the hutchi.. all I will say is SR!! HAHAHA

For now.. its the end of the year and like most I am going away.. Off to my home town of Grafton for a well earned rest and some non-stop gaming.. with a bit of work to do on Silvie as well.. if I find the motivation..

So for now Merry Christmas to all and enjoy another video below!!

As always stay safe my friends and drive safely over the Christmas / New year break

- Bev!