This is more of a showing the stages on my z32 in the 16ish years that I've owned it.
Dating back to the earliest photo I have of it.
This was maybe 2008-2009ish. MB battles and Megan Coilovers that I saved up to get with my lunch money.
2010 graduated highschool, got a job, painted the battles white, and bought some aero that I had painted to a color that didn't match the car at all.
Thankfully the horrible camera quality of my phone at the time and intense lighting makes the paint look decent.
This was HIN 2011?
Sold the Battles, bought a pair of TE's, borrowed a pair of VMR's from Articdragon192, and bought some ganadors for not $100,000.
The amount of photos I saved of this thing off Tumblr crippled my computer. Stoked to see it progressing!
god i wish i had a NEO...
Such a pretty looking motor 😍 I wanna hear it so bad!
Got the engine and trans mated up and bolted in to the Z.
Then I took the car to Wisecraft Fab to get piping done and the GTR intercooler mounted.
That's all I have loaded up on the computer. I'll have to go in to the engine bay of the car and try to back track what I've done since then to show it's current state.
Picked up a Greddy Manifold, SARD fuel rail, painted the valve covers, and put it back together.
Big 6Boost manifold to hold the TO4Z that I had rebuilt by Boostlabs, and HKS 50mm wastegate.
RB Bellhousing bolted to z32 trans.
ORC twin disk for good sound.
Obviously had to put on 26 valve covers and a cool center garnish.
Baffles for the Valve Covers.
REIMAX oil pump gears, HKS timing belt, and HKS exhaust timing gear.
Forgot to mention earlier I did NEO specific TOMEI cams to keep VTC.
Back at work trying to act busy and avoid working. I figured I'd go in to some detail about the RB. Missing a decent amount of pictures but I think I have enough to get the point across.
Pulled the head to inspect pistons, cylinder walls, and do some upgrades.
Ordered new smaller oil restrictors to only find out that NEO's came with smaller ones than other generation RB's.
Box of cylinder head parts.
Head torn down and off to the machine shop.
Decked and Hot Tanked.
Now to reassemble.
Also added a oil head drain kit to hopefully keep the bottom end happy.
OG heat 🔥
Flame shooting pic arguably greatest tumblr car pic
They really need to change the therapist in charg of the RB swap z32 support group. I wanna see some progress! 😂
Agree with above.
also fuck the 605, all my homies hate the 605.
me patiently waiting for this car to be running.
Honestly should have just left the car like this. It felt incredible buuuutttt I got greedy and pulled the SR and decided on an RB25 NEO.
Won't get into too much detail unless anyone has any questions on stuff.
Tore it down a bit and dressed it up a little.
In the time of doing this swap I've also changed out my wheel set up.
I tried 17" CE's and then realized I hated the tire sizing.
And then went back to 17/18" but this time with my all time favortie wheel GT-C.
So this is now how the car sits. With lots of stuff I want to redo and not a very many things to actually get it going.
I'll update when I actually do work on it but it won't be anytime soon.
I have loads more pictures of all the other things I've done to the engine and interior that I may post later or if anyone wants to see something specific I'll post it.
I had enjoyed the car like this for a decent amount of time and acquired some new aero as well as power upgrades for the SR. Pon cams, Power FC, 740cc injectors, turbo etc. The SR starter pack if you will.
Another wheel swap to join the "split 5 spoke gang"
Fitted a URAS drag wing.
One night I decided to introduce my oil pan to the 605 freeway floor.
This gave me the "motivation" to start on the SR swap I had been wanting to do.
My apologies for the photobucket watermark.
Changed up my wheel set up and made them as shiney as possible.
This is probably one of my favorite stages of the car.