Eternal's Straight 6 Build Thread

[Johno]

As always
Cars looking really sweet buddy.
Hope you're going to put a wheelie bar on that cus that's the only thing going to keep your front wheels on the floor...LOL

[jasongray5]

This is without doubt my favourite build!

[Eternal]

Just looks right! The car has 50mm lowering shocks and springs but the trailer made it quite a bit more.... saying that it drove from Dorset to Bristol with no probs at all!

[Eternal]

Hello all!

Just a quick msg to let you all know I'm back!

Right today made a massive list of all the jobs i need to do. Along with stuff to buy lets just say its not a short list!!!!

If anyone around the Bristol area can tig weld ally please let me know as i need some help with my plenum.

First port of call is to get the fuel lines and brake lines installed. Need to work out the best size of fuel line and best way to fix them.

Anyhow look forward to posing some more updates soon! Until then here is a pic of its current state.

[Oscar]

Had a nice long break then, other commitments or lost enthusiasm for a while?

I had a slow couple months before december, put off by the amount of cleaning and painting needed by the chassis! Short break makes all the difference.

I'm looking forwards to seeing some more progress and ideas that I can steal!

[Eternal]

Well i just moved back to Bristol and had to spend over a week non stop work on the car to get it ready to move after that i wanted to let the pain really harden for a while so decided to leave it till the new year before starting on it again.

Trying to work out what type of ECU to use i toyed with the idea of leaving it stock but i dont like the factory wiring and all the diagrams are in Japanese as that engine and loom is an import. Soo i think I'm going to go the MegaSquirt route as i have built one before for my old Corolla AE86. Boy have they gone up in price!

My main goal atm is to get the thing running. So Fuel lines hoses and electronics are top of the list atm along with break lines. I'm thinking 8mm fuel lines but not sure about all the sizes as some people have said 8mm ID and 8mm OD.

[wylliezx9r]

Good to see you back ,the forum has been really quiet due to a spam attack. I'm currently converting my car from bike engine to F20C vtec, when I was looking at ECU's I settled on Omex in the end as none of my local rolling roads would touch megasquirt.
Best of luck.

[rapidtornado]

8MM needs to be the OD of your copper tube so it's the ID of the rubber tube

[Eternal]

I see just worried that 8mm OD will be around 6.4mm ID and not sure if that will be ok with a 300bhp forced induction car running a 255 walbro fuel pump.

From what i have seen on alot of the skyline owners clubs and forums 5/16 (8mm) id is good for around 300hp

"Up to 250 HP = 5/16" or -04 AN
Up to 375 HP = 3/8" or -06 AN
Up to 700 HP = 1/2" or -08 AN
Up to 1000 HP = 5/8" or -10 AN
Up to 1500 HP = 3/4" or -12 AN"

Something like this.. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aluminium-...item416896387e

[AshG]

8mm is good for 350-400bhp easily. i have a 10 bar 300 lph 15mm inlet 8mm outlet pump on mine it then gets regulated down to 3 bar at the fuel rail.

if you get really stuck welding the plenum up then i can do it for you but its a bit of a drive up to kent.