Head drain and oil pan It’s been a long time coming. I was in LA at the end of January 2022 and I was suppose to stop by the SR20 Store. Marco messaged me that his family has Covid, so they were quarantining. It’s been awhile since he’s touched it.. but today… I got some …
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Project Leopard – Engine mounting When I got the RB25det, it was in pieces. For some reason, I thought “most of it” was there. Now that we are in the home stretch of the build, it’s finding the small stuff and sometimes the small stuff is back ordered or out of stock or delayed due …
After over a year of waiting and ghosting.. B3 Tuning came through. He wired everything up and got it going!!!
Project Leopard – ARP timing tensioner kit When I started to buy everything for the RB25det, I was thinking a lot about this kit. I knew I was going to get a new timing and idler. Only place I found it to be was on Boostfactory.ca. They broke down what they did. For some reason, …
Project Leopard – Boost Doc Water fitting When the RB25det was finally getting worked on, Marco hit stump. He said the water inlet pipe is eroded. This common of this piece. He said it could still be used, but if we can get a new one, we should. I looked at first and I didn’t …
Project Leopard return to LA: Start putting it together I needed movement on the car. It has been in Arizona for 16 months and it looked like it was progressing slow. I decided to set a deadline for the end of September. There was a promise of getting it done.. but 2 failed attempts to get …
Rebuilding the RB25det – Machine shop Table of Contents Machine shop The RB25 was pretty much disassembled when it arrived. A couple weeks after, it was put in the machine shop. This is when we started to formulate the list. Marco wanted to do it step by step. Wanted to make sure the block was …
Greddy Intake Manifold and Boost Doc water inlet A key component to the original build was the Greddy intake manifold. When Cameron replaced the RB25, he took off the Greddy intake manifold and installed it on his new engine. The Greddy intake manifold for the RB25det is no cheap piece. It did cross my mind to …
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Project Leopard – ATI Damper for RB25det During my original RB25det build list, I was thinking of an damper. Ross Performance and ATI came to mind. During the pandemic, international shipping hit everyone, so I didn’t pursue a Ross piece. I then looked at ATI. They didn’t have one at the time. ATI doesn’t officially …
Project Leopard – Tomei Poncams, Fuel Pressure Regulator and adapter One of the components I have been kind of battling with was camshafts. Since I wasn’t going to go big power, I just thought my normal cams would do enough. If there was ever a time to put something into the new engine… it is …
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