Gotta love unboxing all of that kit. It doesn't matter if it is well made computer hardware, power tools or GT-R parts, there is just something satisfying about it.
I reached up to U.P before with some basic questions on the HKS kit they stock and they aren't big on knowledge sharing. Appreciate your videos since you shine a light on these products that otherwise (maybe do to language barriers in Japan) don't have accessible information. Geographically nowhere near you but @GoodeZilla seems very knowledgable on an RB26 Build having more or less done it himself with the help of a machine shop.
Glad to hear you find my content to be informative. That is my entire goal is to provide information to the GTR community. I make content that I would like to see, if I was going to buy parts or install them. I really enjoy Dustin's channel Goodezilla. After watching a few of Goodezilla's video's, that is where I became inspired to start my own UA-cam channel. Thanks for watching and supporting my channel by leaving a comment. 👍
You are doing exactly how I want to do with my R32. HKS (JDM) all the way through. Keeping it O.G unlike these young guys from San Diego putting unproven parts from their sponsors. I believe their rules and regulations when modifying these rare 90's cars. You're doing this right. Keep up the good work.
@@JDMRightHandDrive Shit, I'm working on the RB's grandpa (L series) in one of my s30's and I stopped complaining as soon as I saw the price tag on that HKS kit 🤣
I literally just copied your parts list and ordered it all from Black Hawk. I’m stationed in Japan so hopefully it gets here quickly. I did make one change, I went with HKS 2.8L STEP ZERO. Great content. Thank you 🙏
That's awesome man. Congrats on your engine build! Doing in Japan is going to be so cool. I hope your build goes smoothly for you. Thanks for watching.
I feel you on your local shop, I would prefer to buy directly from them also, but the price difference between ordering HKS directly from Japan and the local shop is too great.
I totally agree! As much as I would like to support a local business. I also think that local business's need to be competitive with the market. But, I also realize that they are a specialty shop and have that specific niche cornered with the GTR resto mod market. There are lots of customers who can afford to pay their prices. That is probably the reason Doug responded abruptly with his message, that my business was no worth his time. But, I am not one of those customers who can afford to pay those types of prices, not with my family of 5. My friend paid $65,000 to have his car build by those guys to do a similar build to what I am going for. For most of us that type of money would price us out of the GTR market. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. I appreciate your support.👍
I’m really enjoying your videos. Thanks for your thoroughness. Tons of great information for us other Skyline GTR owners. Looking forward to your engine build!
Been following you for a while. Glad to see that you are still at it. As a fellow Skyline owner in the PNW I’m rooting for you. Bummed to hear about the local Garage that’s no longer Up with helping the locals. And you used to help them out by promoting their shop. I hope the Skyline Gods will bring you luck with the rest of your build. And yeah I would have done the same with acquiring the parts myself to take full advantage of the yen to dollar exchange 👍🏼
Thanks for that long time channel support. Yes fingers crossed that those car gods bless me with a smooth engine build with no catastrophic problems. I would have loved to stay with the old performance shop, but after several times of rubbing me the wrong way, unfortunately I have to take my business elsewhere. Thankful for all the valuable information they taught me and everything I learned about my Skyline GTR. Also gratefully for the new people I met and relationships, / friendships I made in the community from their customers base. Lets more to come, stay tuned!
Following your build with great interest! I love your channel, thanks for the detailed teardowns and creative camera angles. I have a Stagea 260RS stateside and was watching Built By Blake’s channel from australia and he cited your twin turbo removal video. Keep it up! Good luck with the build, can’t wait for the assembly video
Thank so much, glad to hear people in the RB26DETT community find my videos to be helpful. Stagea 260rs is sweet. I have only ever seen one in person. GTR wagon for a family man. I will definitely share sore of the machine work and engine assembly process. I have never assembled a bottom end before, I am going to have a professional do this for me. I don’t feel comfortable with gapping the rings and all the bearing tolerances correct. Both shops are cool with me taking video of the process for my channel. More to come and thanks for your support!
Learned a lot from your channel! I’m from Seattle. I own a KL0 BNR32 just like yours. I did have some issues with UpGarage as well but I like the route you’re going. I might be going similar route with my engine build!
That's awesome John, so nice to know there is another BNR32 same color silver around here. My engine is coming along and will be done at the machine shop in the next two weeks. It's has been a slow long and expensive build process. Hope your GTR is running good for you, happy holidays.
So I was in the same boat a bit. I planned on going with a RB30. I knew the amount of machining I needed to fit the block brace and everything was gonna be some work. I called some places in the US and got some bs answers. I ended up just getting my block built with a Nitto 3.2 stroker by by Dahtone in Australia. Some of guys out here in the states think they have a game on customers with the RBs and they feel they can pull some bs on people. I hate how we're so far behind that we have to deal with higher prices and shops who think they're the only game in town.
Congrats on your Nitto 3.2 build. It will be so nice to have it done by a reputable shop in Australia. I hope everything turns out just as you dream of. Thanks for leaving a good comment down below. Nice to know what other people are going through and dealing with for their build processes. Thanks for watching and best of luck to you with your build!💪
@@JDMRightHandDrive same to you! You're on the west coast so I'm sure you'll find someone other that "garage" to build you short block. Your teardown videos helped me alot. I def appreciate your channel
Quick question I know you went with the hks oil pump because everything else you were getting was going to be hks and you didn’t want to mix Nitto and hks I’m in the same dilema lol. So my question is whats the difference between the hks and Nitto oil pump?
When are you going to start putting it together? My brother lives in Sammamish and I have plans to go visit. I can help you put it together or walk you through it if you need it.
I am probably about a month out due to starting a new job and getting that in order first. I will post a video when I am on my way for the machine shop. I appreciate the offer with the assembly process. I could use all the help I can get. Like I said I understand the process, but am very hesitant to make a crucial and costly mistake with assembly.
Yeah that response from the shop doesn’t sit well with me, I get that they need to make money too, but no way can someone be expected to pay a huge markup when prices are already high. They would make plenty from labor already anyways….
I get it that a shop is busy and has to make money, but considering they are at least partially responsible for you being in that situation, they could have been a bit more kind. Not cool
Geez blaming your tuner is a bit weak. They give advice, its general. Its your car, your choice. I am also not sure what actually went wrong with your motor , the backed out screws is a bit weird on a factory motor and the lack of bearing damage suggests is was never catastrophic. Good content otherwise, the detail on these parts is cool.
Thanks, my guess is that the turbo CHRA had catastrophic failure and that is what introduced all the metal fragments into my engine, which can be seen on the magnetic drain plug when I change the oil. Keep in mind that the engine oil only had 100 miles on it from the last change and the magnetic plug was perfectly clean at the last oil change. I wanted to disassemble the turbo and inspect it myself, but was asked not to by the manufacture for warranty reasons. Once the turbo tear down was done, I was shown pictures of an in tact center cartridge from the front turbo and was told that the turbos had excessive shaft play because there was a problem with my engine that caused the front turbo to fail. After disassembling the entire engine and inspecting all of the bearings, crank, head, oil pump I was never able to find the source of all the metal fragments. I could only find some light scoring 2 of the mains. Like I said, I am no expert and this is my 1st time ever doing something like this. I have gotten myself into this project farther than I ever expected when I bought my GTR. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
With all the drama going on in the Car Community i’m glad we get some good content coming out thank you man 🔥🔥
Glad to hear that, thanks so much I apricate the kind words. I will do my best to bring the 🔥 to my upcoming content.
Gotta love unboxing all of that kit. It doesn't matter if it is well made computer hardware, power tools or GT-R parts, there is just something satisfying about it.
Well said brother, it's very satisfying indeed. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. 👍
I reached up to U.P before with some basic questions on the HKS kit they stock and they aren't big on knowledge sharing.
Appreciate your videos since you shine a light on these products that otherwise (maybe do to language barriers in Japan) don't have accessible information.
Geographically nowhere near you but @GoodeZilla seems very knowledgable on an RB26 Build having more or less done it himself with the help of a machine shop.
Glad to hear you find my content to be informative. That is my entire goal is to provide information to the GTR community. I make content that I would like to see, if I was going to buy parts or install them. I really enjoy Dustin's channel Goodezilla. After watching a few of Goodezilla's video's, that is where I became inspired to start my own UA-cam channel. Thanks for watching and supporting my channel by leaving a comment. 👍
You are doing exactly how I want to do with my R32. HKS (JDM) all the way through. Keeping it O.G unlike these young guys from San Diego putting unproven parts from their sponsors. I believe their rules and regulations when modifying these rare 90's cars. You're doing this right. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, much appreciated!
Idk how I didn’t find this channel sooner
Glad to hear you find my videos interesting! Lot more GTR content in the works right now with the rebuild underway. Thanks for watching.
Oh man your skyline is gonna rip, happy to see you continuing the build 🤙
Thanks man, I wish I could finish everything sooner, but damn the RB26DEBT is a real struggle for sure. Thanks for watching!👍
@@JDMRightHandDrive Shit, I'm working on the RB's grandpa (L series) in one of my s30's and I stopped complaining as soon as I saw the price tag on that HKS kit 🤣
I literally just copied your parts list and ordered it all from Black Hawk. I’m stationed in Japan so hopefully it gets here quickly. I did make one change, I went with HKS 2.8L STEP ZERO. Great content. Thank you 🙏
That's awesome man. Congrats on your engine build! Doing in Japan is going to be so cool. I hope your build goes smoothly for you. Thanks for watching.
I feel you on your local shop, I would prefer to buy directly from them also, but the price difference between ordering HKS directly from Japan and the local shop is too great.
I totally agree! As much as I would like to support a local business. I also think that local business's need to be competitive with the market. But, I also realize that they are a specialty shop and have that specific niche cornered with the GTR resto mod market. There are lots of customers who can afford to pay their prices. That is probably the reason Doug responded abruptly with his message, that my business was no worth his time. But, I am not one of those customers who can afford to pay those types of prices, not with my family of 5. My friend paid $65,000 to have his car build by those guys to do a similar build to what I am going for. For most of us that type of money would price us out of the GTR market. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. I appreciate your support.👍
I’m really enjoying your videos. Thanks for your thoroughness. Tons of great information for us other Skyline GTR owners. Looking forward to your engine build!
So glad to hear you enjoy the detain in my videos. Thanks for watching, more to come!👍
Glad to see your back at it. Sucks that the shop in UP didnt advice you correctly
Been following you for a while. Glad to see that you are still at it. As a fellow Skyline owner in the PNW I’m rooting for you. Bummed to hear about the local Garage that’s no longer Up with helping the locals. And you used to help them out by promoting their shop. I hope the Skyline Gods will bring you luck with the rest of your build. And yeah I would have done the same with acquiring the parts myself to take full advantage of the yen to dollar exchange 👍🏼
Thanks for that long time channel support. Yes fingers crossed that those car gods bless me with a smooth engine build with no catastrophic problems. I would have loved to stay with the old performance shop, but after several times of rubbing me the wrong way, unfortunately I have to take my business elsewhere. Thankful for all the valuable information they taught me and everything I learned about my Skyline GTR. Also gratefully for the new people I met and relationships, / friendships I made in the community from their customers base. Lets more to come, stay tuned!
Following your build with great interest! I love your channel, thanks for the detailed teardowns and creative camera angles. I have a Stagea 260RS stateside and was watching Built By Blake’s channel from australia and he cited your twin turbo removal video. Keep it up! Good luck with the build, can’t wait for the assembly video
Thank so much, glad to hear people in the RB26DETT community find my videos to be helpful. Stagea 260rs is sweet. I have only ever seen one in person. GTR wagon for a family man. I will definitely share sore of the machine work and engine assembly process. I have never assembled a bottom end before, I am going to have a professional do this for me. I don’t feel comfortable with gapping the rings and all the bearing tolerances correct. Both shops are cool with me taking video of the process for my channel. More to come and thanks for your support!
JDM. Wow- professional ,
Wow, thanks for that. I appreciate it very much and thank you so much for your support and leaving a comment.
Awesome brother! Super excited for you man!
You and me both! Thanks for the support!💪
Learned a lot from your channel! I’m from Seattle. I own a KL0 BNR32 just like yours. I did have some issues with UpGarage as well but I like the route you’re going. I might be going similar route with my engine build!
That's awesome John, so nice to know there is another BNR32 same color silver around here. My engine is coming along and will be done at the machine shop in the next two weeks. It's has been a slow long and expensive build process. Hope your GTR is running good for you, happy holidays.
@@JDMRightHandDriveJust out curiosity, where are you going to get it tuned once the engine is done and back into the car?
Liking you channel a lot given I have an r32gtr and a 2022 wrx 😅
Congrats on you’re new career path!!
Glad to hear you also have good taste in cars. I am very excited for my new career. Thanks!
So I was in the same boat a bit. I planned on going with a RB30. I knew the amount of machining I needed to fit the block brace and everything was gonna be some work.
I called some places in the US and got some bs answers. I ended up just getting my block built with a Nitto 3.2 stroker by by Dahtone in Australia.
Some of guys out here in the states think they have a game on customers with the RBs and they feel they can pull some bs on people.
I hate how we're so far behind that we have to deal with higher prices and shops who think they're the only game in town.
Congrats on your Nitto 3.2 build. It will be so nice to have it done by a reputable shop in Australia. I hope everything turns out just as you dream of. Thanks for leaving a good comment down below. Nice to know what other people are going through and dealing with for their build processes. Thanks for watching and best of luck to you with your build!💪
@@JDMRightHandDrive same to you! You're on the west coast so I'm sure you'll find someone other that "garage" to build you short block.
Your teardown videos helped me alot. I def appreciate your channel
Great video! Keep the content coming!
Thanks! Will do sir. WWFD! 💪📷
Love your content mate.
Much appreciated! Thanks for checking out my channel and leaving a comment. 👍
Question for you, is anything besides the pistons, rods and crank required right away to buy?
Do you have a part number of the main bearings you used ??
Did you enlarge your sump to account for the increased oil flow?
What turbo you’re going to put with that new engine man? Looking great so far.
I have a new set of HKS2530’s that will be installed with new N1 oem manifolds.
Good thing I didnt let UP Garage work on my BCNR33. Their ridiculous prices was also a big turnoff
Yes expensive for sure. I could never get an accurate quote before they worked on my car. It was always a surprise getting the invoice at the end.
@@JDMRightHandDrive yeah that sucks. Hang in there brother and keep the content coming. Enjoying watching what you do to the car
Rad!!
Thanks you for the comment and appreciate your support and you watching my channel.
This is interesting, I like It!
How much hp are you going to be pushing? Or how much are you wanting to be pushing?
Going for 600 whp for now to start. Thanks for watching!
Quick question I know you went with the hks oil pump because everything else you were getting was going to be hks and you didn’t want to mix Nitto and hks I’m in the same dilema lol. So my question is whats the difference between the hks and Nitto oil pump?
Where did you order the HKS stroker kit from? Currently looking to do the same on my RB26
I got the stroker kit from Black Hawk Japan. bit.ly/3ElaULG this is the one I ordered.
Awesome thanks Man!
Are those the 87mm pistons or 86.5?
When are you going to start putting it together? My brother lives in Sammamish and I have plans to go visit. I can help you put it together or walk you through it if you need it.
I am probably about a month out due to starting a new job and getting that in order first. I will post a video when I am on my way for the machine shop. I appreciate the offer with the assembly process. I could use all the help I can get. Like I said I understand the process, but am very hesitant to make a crucial and costly mistake with assembly.
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Thank you again my friend!
Just FYI, that was HKS lip balm in the connecting rod box. 😜
I will have to put some on, my lips are a little chapped. lol
Yeah that response from the shop doesn’t sit well with me, I get that they need to make money too, but no way can someone be expected to pay a huge markup when prices are already high. They would make plenty from labor already anyways….
I get it that a shop is busy and has to make money, but considering they are at least partially responsible for you being in that situation, they could have been a bit more kind.
Not cool
Thanks for watching and I agree with you. Kindness and professionalism goes a long way.
Geez blaming your tuner is a bit weak. They give advice, its general. Its your car, your choice. I am also not sure what actually went wrong with your motor , the backed out screws is a bit weird on a factory motor and the lack of bearing damage suggests is was never catastrophic. Good content otherwise, the detail on these parts is cool.
Thanks, my guess is that the turbo CHRA had catastrophic failure and that is what introduced all the metal fragments into my engine, which can be seen on the magnetic drain plug when I change the oil. Keep in mind that the engine oil only had 100 miles on it from the last change and the magnetic plug was perfectly clean at the last oil change. I wanted to disassemble the turbo and inspect it myself, but was asked not to by the manufacture for warranty reasons. Once the turbo tear down was done, I was shown pictures of an in tact center cartridge from the front turbo and was told that the turbos had excessive shaft play because there was a problem with my engine that caused the front turbo to fail. After disassembling the entire engine and inspecting all of the bearings, crank, head, oil pump I was never able to find the source of all the metal fragments. I could only find some light scoring 2 of the mains. Like I said, I am no expert and this is my 1st time ever doing something like this. I have gotten myself into this project farther than I ever expected when I bought my GTR. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.