ive moved to the dark side and im regretting my decision. help with r33

[Sagluren]

hey well.. i brought a r33 skyline, ( wait for the abuse to die down) and it turn out that they are no match for a Toyota as i have blown the head gasket..
does anyone recommend a good gasket manufacturer i would prefer one who do a vrs / head gasket kit..

cheers Sam.

[punkture]

Haha, I recommend getting the eBay brand selling kit for the import commondore and get a supra as an extra na acl does a kit for them I recon

[beerhead]

Skylines have many air lock issues, if you drained the radiator and refilled without undoing a pile of bleed valves and not run the motor without a radiator cap with a tube in the top to get a foot above the radiator until the motor warms up you would have got an airlock and blown the gasket.

Genuine Nissan or ACL race are both good gaskets. HKS do a MLS gasket too, they're well made. Probably better off on a skyline forum to get responses from people that are more than just a person with a mate who destroyed a Skyline who helped clean up the mess

[fixeruperer]

the rb25 isnt that bad of a motor.
if it got hot, id be checking for warpage and if fitting a mls gasket, the surface has to be pretty dam perfect.

as beerhead said, all those gaskets are good.

[Duk]

You'll also need new head bolts. I just stuck ARP studs in my RB20 for ease of actually getting them.

[thechuckster]

There's some interesting engine pics from a failed oil pump on an R32 RB26. The pump fits over the snout of the crank and doesn't use a positively engaged cog or spline to transfer drive (relying on a flat machined into the snout. So they fail pretty spectacularly (and stuff the big-end in the process if you don't catch it).

Thead on PF.

cracked inner rotor with flat drive section 'machined' off by crank.

[fixeruperer]

yeh i seen a few of them 26 pumps give up too. but those 25's can make 400-450hp at treads with just bolt ons and live after some decent thrashing.
still a nissan tho.

[mullett]

Haha, I had one for a while. Sold it when I realised that it was:

1) Incredibly boring to drive
2) Incredibly tempramental
3) The same size as an AU falcon
4) did I mention boring?

-RM

[2004lowlux]

hmmmm yeah as an ex nissan mechanic i can vouch the 25 bleed process is tedious and a 1jz is better lol!
failing that fire solves everything

[Sagluren]

haha yeah, i bleed the system properly a few times. but i think the large plumes of coolant flying out of number 6 when the coolant is under presssure tells me its fubared. cheers to everyone for the info, im going acl head gasket and apr head studs.. hoping to get it on the dyno at work and pull 250kw out of it when im done..

cheers sam.

[Admiral coFF33]

hey man
i think you posted on the wrong forums

here:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/

[trdee]

kind of understandable if he doesnt want to post there though?