Juicemans Riceline - Back on the road.

Looks like a clean car Josh.
Probably wont drop oil like the old Pinto :-)

Good luck with it! and with the cops!!! [:x)]

Nice car dude....great bang for your buck buy. They go hard, stop fast, corner well and you can get parts easily.

BUT! I see maybe 10-20 a day in traffic.....I see maybe 1 to 2 Escort's a week if I'm lucky. If you wanted a car that stands out.....you've just taken a big step backwards. At least the power will make you happy!

RJ

P.S. - Maybe some custom plates??????? WANAB RS That would be Ok![88]

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Originally posted by racin jason

Nice car dude....great bang for your buck buy. They go hard, stop fast, corner well and you can get parts easily.

BUT! I see maybe 10-20 a day in traffic.....I see maybe 1 to 2 Escort's a week if I'm lucky. If you wanted a car that stands out.....you've just taken a big step backwards. At least the power will make you happy!

RJ

P.S. - Maybe some custom plates??????? WANAB RS That would be Ok![88]

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Yeah they aren't very rare to say the least. I don't mind that it won't stand out though, I like that it's kind of unassuming, and I mainly bought it because of everything you just said, bang for your buck, aftermarket support etc. The other reason I got it was because Japanese people know how to wire a car, and the British don't, I am so over Lucas electrics! [88]

I have some custom plates I just thought of, I'm just hoping for PPQ to release a new type of plate called the "whole sentence number plate". When they do, I will get "I am the biggest hypocrite in the history of the world" because I always hated Skylines (especially the R33!!), until I drove one!

Just thought I'd add this for the hell of it...it could be smoother, but right now I don't care, I'm just going to enjoy driving it for a while!

looks like a nice solid car. fare few of them around, but its for a reason.

just please please please dont get 20's a rice bodykit and 6" wide cannon..

Very clean, should be fun to drive.

Hahaha there's no way I'm getting a bodykit, stickers, big wing etc etc. I hate that sh!t. I bought it with a cannon, I want to change it but I just don't know if I can be bothered.

The power is incredible, once it gets on boost it just flys. It's got good Federal 255s on the rear and in 2nd gear it still breaks traction.

Tim I haven't sold the other car yet, I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it or not now, I'd rather sell it, but now that I have to drive to a train station every morning I think it'd be wise to use the NX for that!

Cheers for all the comments.

rb25 + screamer = awesome

get it bouncing off the limiter and it sounds like all hell is breaking loose! i wanna get one done up for my jzx100 and some straight pipes out the back instead of my current cannon style


nice clean 33, ive never been the biggest fan of the body but there are some nice stock looking ones pushing out sexy numbers like yours... and i cant hate on horsepower :p


dave, have you changed the turbo's on your gtr? if you haven't done that and your just adding a pfc to the low level mods most gtr's have your gonna be looking at low 200's at all 4, at best mid 200. that being said, my gtr went like a shower of poo poo and that only had around 180 at all 4!lol

Looks nice mate, just smooth and clean!

Went to test and tune tonight for the first time and cut a 12.9 @ 113mph. I launched with my skirt on so it bogged down. Also did a 13.08 @ 115mph, so I was stoked with that mph. All I need is some camber bars in the rear to get more tyre on the ground so I can launch like a man and bring the ET down to low 12's. It was the most fun I've ever had in a car I think.

Yeah I don't care much for street racing now. Luckily it was a quiet night so I pretty much drove straight out on to the track, no time to get shakey left foot.

I can't wait to get this thing out to Lakeside, when I got the screamer pipe made it was done with flange so I can plum it back in to the exhaust, otherwise I'd be way over the DB limit for Lakeside hahaha.

Yeah that was it me! Cheers mate, I heart screamer haha.

I remember the RX7 and the AE86. I think I saw the RX7 do a 13.1 even after bogging right down on the launch, that's pretty good!

Hey mate that would be sweet, my email is josh-sinclair@hotmail.com I don't have any footage from the night. Unreal mate, thanks!

Damn, 13.06 with a 2.5 60ft is bloody good.

New shoes are on! The dish on the rear does a lot for me.

-edit- I will get photo's up soon, for some reason they didn't upload with this post.

They look awsome Josh

Cheers gents! I'm really happy with them, Now all I need is to replace the GTR wing (still) then it'll be finished in the looks department. Then more boost, because you can never have enough of that.

Bit of a delayed reply but the rims look great!

I don't mind the rear wing to be honest, but it'd look good with or without!

On 13psi (heat soak is a b!tch) last night I ran a best of 12.6 @ 112.5mph which I was stoked with. I'm going to order a Cryo sprayer bar for the intercooler to freeze up the intake temps a bit to eliminate the heat soak issue. That will go in when I get the cams in and a 20psi retune. If I don't walk away with 450hp I'll be surprised!

I'm already planning my next Classic Ford though!!! And I'm terrible at keeping a secret, so - Mk2 Ghia in either white or silver with the vinyl top, stock restored interior, and either 13x7 Superlites (again) or RS 4 spoke replicas being the only external modification. Then it's going to have either an ST170 motor or a 2.3L Duratec with a small Whipple on it. Then everything else will be what I wanted on the last Escort - coilovers, sorted brakes, 4 link coil sprung rear, Quaife LSD, all the good stuff. It will be a neat sleeper.

Sleepers and 4 doors rock my world.

Thanks Damion!

I spotted a semi-decent Ghia (auto) for sale in Brisbane, but failing that I'm just going to have to convince Tim to sell me back my old car. Hahaha.

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Maybe she's holding out for a return to Queensland! [:u] [:p]

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Don't tease me like that! Hahahaha.

Like I told you, if you ever decide to sell it....you know the rest [:p]

Nice pics mate that old Holden aint looking to bad either.

Okay so here's my story. On Saturday I was pulling the harmonic balancer off to remove the timing belt and put my new cams in, and to my surprise I find the keyway on the balancer has been flogged out. Then after closer inspection I notice a cracked edge on the balancer which looks like it's from a hammer. Obviously some jerkoff in the past has tried to put the balancer back on and has had trouble lining it up on the keyway, so instead of trying again, they've bashed it on with a hammer. Not cool...here's the flogged out keyway (the picture is off my phone so you can't really see it, but it's the top side).



To make things worse, the key itself on the crank has been chipped off completely. So I was left with the following choices:
a) pull the motor down and put a new crank and balancer in (probably rings for good measure)
b) pull the motor down and send it away to get built properly
c) put an RB30 bottom end in

I chose option C I will most likely go for a R.I.P.S bottom end. If you haven't heard of them, they are pretty much kings of RB engines outside of Japan, they're in NZ.

So anyway, in true Sinclair fashion, my car is off the road. Again. Right before I had the chance to put my new cool stuff in!

Bosch 044 and surge tank


Cryo! There is a sprayer bar for the intercooler to go with these but it hasn't turned up yet, not that I can use it yet anyway!

nice pics turned out good, doesnt that just give u the craps when you go to fix something then you find out you got a whole bunch of other parts that needs to be done.

youll have to give me a head-up when you head out to willowbank next time, be good to take my new car out there see how it goes up against the 33.

yer it is but that is very true that you did pick it up,

sold the daily escort and got this http://classic-ford.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20873

well if you can achieve 10's out of your 25 thats defiantly a respectable street car for sure.

yer iam happy with it looks standard and not like a drift car, ummm he did say mph but i forgot but thats just by going off him wether or not it does it is another thing thats why i would like to find out for myself :)

yer if you want to go any lower then a 10, people say that you can pretty much say your looking at 10grand a second, still 10-11 sec that is a fairly bloody quick street car nothin to laugh about at all. I thought you had this up for sale?

Time for an update!
I ordered a RIPS RB30 bottom end with some extra goodies inside plus a high capacity sump. RB30's require an extra oil gallery for the VCT if you're putting the RB25 head on, but rather than do that I've been a man about it and I am converting the head to solid lifter which gives me more cam choices. This means the baby Tomei cams I bought at the start of the year and never got around to using are being sold and I've ordered some Tomei Procams (270deg 10.25mm), solid lifters and Tomei valve springs rated at 9500rpm.

I was going to have the head ported and put some bigger valves in but it really isn't necessary for what I want the car to do, plus I think I've already spent enough money on it this year!

500hp at the tyres is my goal and I know it will achieve it, however a lot of people are telling me that the 35/40 won't hold up at 500hp for long. I don't believe them, but if they're right then my plan is to use a Borg Warner S366 or S400. Guys in the States are making good 1/4 times on BW turbos in Supras so they seem to be pretty good and a heck of a lot cheaper than a GT42R or something like that.

More updates to come when the bottom end turns up from NZ!

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Time for an update!

500hp at the tyres is my goal and I know it will achieve it, however a lot of people are telling me that the 35/40 won't hold up at 500hp for long. I don't believe them,

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I wouldn't believe them either...... A 3540 is a 700hp turbo and has supported 500 +hp at the treads many times on many different engine combos.

Do you no what A/R the exhaust housing is? this will be your only limiting factor to what this turbo is capable of.

Hell........ im only 80hp shy of 500 at the treads with a 1.6L

RIPS baby!

Once I get things sorted I'll give the cam covers a clean up and a bit of paint.


Custom sump (needs paint also)

thats stealth look, nice. did you get a new turbo? is it a 35R.

Cryo sprayer bar!

Some people say I got serious, others say silly. I'm not sure which one it is yet hahahaha.
There will definitely be some testing videos. Aw yeah.

I seem to have a thing for broken cars...
I don't know who I will get to tune it yet. Godzilla is who I want, but they are super expensive. 101 Motorcafe are great too, but they take too long and I want the car tuned before 2012. APC are quite good too, and I've been told GT Autogarage are good.
Matty Spry did the last tune on my car but he was pretty lazy about it, the idle and cold start are perfect, but the way it comes on power is a bit weak.
Yep, I still have the NX and it's still doing 10L/100km and has still never broken down so it's great! Despite how girly it is...

Yeah 101 are fantastic and they do brilliant work, my best mate bought Robbies old Supra and it's fairly nuts haha, and Varuns GTR is spastic. They quoted me only $650 for a full remap which is awesome too. Only problem is they take forever to get sh!t done. Having said that it would probably be worth the wait in the long run to have it done right.
The cryo is just for the drags and a little bit of laughs. I've always had a heat soak problem with this car and I hate the look of turbo beanies so I'm gonna give it a go and see if it fixes it! If I have to run a turbo beanie then so be it, but the cryo will stay because it's pretty rad hahaha.

Yeah I've heard mixed things too, it was pretty cheap anyway so if it doesn't work I'm not gonna be too upset. If it stops me from needing a beanie and cutting holes in the bonnet then I'll be happy!

So the blokes at NPC assured me they have a 10" single plate button clutch that will hold 600hp at the wheels, which made me very happy seeing as it's half the price of their twin plate, and I won't get that much hp from the current turbo, so it'll hold up just nicely.

While I was at it I bought one of their lightweight finned flywheels.

Wow some nice gear there!

I did look in to HPC coating but I won't be able to HPC coat the rear housing on this turbo because the jerk who did the downpipe welded it to the turbo so I can't get it pulled apart.
I'm pretty p!ssy about that! So I may need a beanie after all.
I'm planning on getting a good manifold and a Borg Warner S372 in the future anyways so I will get the coating done on that one for sure.

I'm so sick of driving the NX...it's desperate for attention too. Drive shafts are knackered which means no more J-turns for me hahaha.

Haha I reckon!

Chose the Borg because they're cheap as to rebuild and the S372 from Bullseye has been proven to flow similarly to the GT42 at less than half the price. Plus they sound like a T51R hahaha.
Guys in the US are running crazy times with Borg Warners (normally S472s) on 1J's and 2J's, and I know JZ's outflow RB's, but I figure if I go for a slightly smaller one it should work out just nicely, plus I can 2-step the ar5e out of it and it'll only cost me $80 to rebuild haha.

hey juiceman
just wondering chap how good ur 33 was on fuel like how much to fill up and how many kms u get out of a tank..
im lookin for a new daily and u can get an alright 33 with like 80000kms on the clock for around $8000
i sit on the highway everyday for around 200kms aday need somthing with a lill comfort..

chris

yeah well if ur thrashing it its ganna use fuel hey lol..
thanks champ ill look into it..
might look at an s14 or somthin lill 4 cylinder would be better than the 6 anyday
chris

Finally fixed the rear of the car with a lip wing.



And one for everybody else who is fed up with "my family" stickers...



Also took advantage of the weak US dollar and bought some genuine Enkei RPF-1s in 18 x 9.5 with +15 offset all round. They'll go on when I decide weather I'm getting the guards pumped or lipped because they have no chance of fitting with +15 offset . Not sure which look I'm after yet.

Hey Josh, the car is looking good for a nissan hahaha....
best part is that sticker!! where did you get that?? classic!

The plan was to have the car driving tomorrow, but one thing I didn't consider was the extra inch deck height, so now the intake plenum hits the bonnet and it won't shut. I've ordered a new plenum with straight runners and a slightly bigger t/b and they should hopefully be here tomorrow. Also waiting on a fancy new catch can to turn up...

After that it will be many late nights of driving trying to run the motor and clutch in so I can go to the drags.

A little bit of disappointment late in the game. The angle of the new plenum and the sheer size of the new throttle body mean I can't use the awesome catch can I had made. So now I'm back to waiting on parts to arrive. I've stopped considering the idea of a deadline for finishing the car haha, all I know is it'll hopefully be sometime this month.

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Originally posted by maxrs

The oil catch would work well in front of the front tyre, in under the front guard. or the center recess in the boot would be a good spot.

I have some contacts that play with RB's if your after anything.

The rear wing should go back on it, your going to need it.
Looking good Josh.

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Should sell him the coke bottle mark :)

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so who u guna get to tune it?

Y dont u want varun from 101 to tune it?

Varun (owner of 101) is an awsum tuner he will be tuning mine n he tunes all my mates cars n theyv never had any troubles with them also tunes heaps of high hp cars... Im good mates with varun so if u wana go 101 let me kno man... Ill hit him up about rob n see wat he says...
Rob does full tunes... But only for som customers...

Yer gt auto seem to be pretty good haven't really had any thing to do with them
Matt spry is good...

wouldn't take it to motsons or EFI...

It's finally back on the road! Although I'm not going to get to drive it properly until the end of March. It's booked in for a tune next week, then my band goes on tour for a few weeks. Dangit haha!

The clutch is insanely snappy. I love it.

Matty spry actually! Were you at harries last night? I'm pretty sure I saw you, if not you have a double out there haha.

Car is looking good Josh.

Is Harry's Diner still happening is it? I rolled through there a couple of times last winter when I still had my orange mk1 and it seemed pretty dead.

Cheers,

Damion

They are a frickin excellent looking wheel [:p]
You can't go wrong with Enkei's. Fantastic stuff

Hey Matt I'm on tour at the moment so I don't have any pics of the tank but I'll put one up when I get back in a couple of weeks!

The car made 400hp on 20psi, the limiting factor being the fuel pump (040). I do have an 044 and surge tank at home but I want to get used to it first, then I'll put the 044 in and go back for 500hp or so.

It's pretty funny, with the RB30 bottom end it's on full 20psi at 3700rpm and holds full boost until rev limiter at 7200rpm.

I haven't had a chance to drive it properly though because it was tuned on Friday but it was raining all day so it wasn't fun at all to drive, and I left early Saturday morning to go on tour with the band. Unlucky haha.

Catch can looks good man...
U entering powerplay in may?

Nice coupl of my mates hav entered psi747 and a mate with a 10sec r31 n i think varun is trying to get his 32 ready as well should be a good day!

U guna hav a big tune or wat? Haha

Haha yer ull need it... Nearly every big name gtr will be going out

Yer varuns gtr is out of control haha ran 10.0@153mph at jamboree on street tyres lol

Haha yer it was making a fair bit of power 900+ Pretty good for street tyres jus kumo ecstas n there like 2 or more years old haha. it lifted the head at jambo so hes stripping it down atm n rebuilding it not sure how much power hel hav at powerplay... Find out wen it goes on the dyno haha

Hahaha that sounds like it!

Okay so little update. I've finally had a chance to drive the car, it spins 3rd easily which is pretty funny.
Just need to change spark plugs, it's got iridium plugs in it at the moment but the gapping is too high for the boost the car is running and you can't re-gap iridium plugs. So I'm just going to put some regular heat range 7 plugs gapped at 0.6 and it should be sweet.

I've been regapping Iridium plugs for years without issue[;^)]