TWM Employee Rides Thread!!! (Skyline build inside )

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Hello everyone,

For the fun of it, I thought that I would post some pictures for genesisowners.com to see what our employees ride to work in everyday (during the summer months of course ) to show you guys that all of us at TWM share your passion in modified cars! I hope you guys enjoy the pictures even though none of us own a Genesis yet

Car #1 - Patrick from TWM Performance's 365whp turbo D16. The car was originally built to be his daily driver, but as time went on, it evolved into the track/street monster that it is today.

Car #2 - Mitch from TWM Performance's R32 Skyline GTR. Mitch bought this mint condition GTR only a few month ago and already has some big plans. The guys at TWM are going to be pulling the motor in the coming weeks for a rebuild to make some big power come summer 2010 Stay tuned for pics of the build!

 

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Car #3 - TWM Performance's WRX. This car was purchased by TWM as a shop car. Over the years it has undergone numerous modifications both inside and out. Unfortunately the car was sold, but all of us at TWM will remember the fun we had building this ride!

Feel free to leave any comments or questions!

Patrick
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Some pictures of the Skyline build!

Keep in mind that the shop doesn't have a lift yet so we did our best lol


Once the bumper was all dismantled, fluids drained, and jacked up.

Strapping the RB in

Engine being pulled...man these engine bays are tight...making sure everything is disconnected lol

Empty bay ready to be shinned up, and a new engine planted in.

Engine on the hoist and the end of two long days of work

 

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Patrick
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So this weekend was the engine disassembly. Everything went smoothly and now all the parts are off to TK Race Heads here in Montreal for some cleaning and machining.

Here are the pics!

I know that Mitch ordered alot of part in the past week for the build but nothing has come in yet, but you can be sure ill be posting up pictures when we have some new updates!

Thanks,

Patrick
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Parts have started to arrive!

New spark plug cover for the RB26:

Brand new R34 Crank Shaft!

More updates to come!

Patrick
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Parts starting to come in There should be more updates soon! Here's a teaser:

 

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Here are a couple more quick pictures of the cars in the shop. We had some spare time the other day so Mitch went and put some new shift knobs in the cars.

Here is my Turbo civic with the hugely popular TWM Performance Piston Shift knob (excuse the ecu and wiring everywhere...I'm in the middle of doing some wiring fixes lol):

And here is Mitch's Skyline with the TWM Performance Classic light weight aluminum shift knob!

Hope you all enjoy the pics!

Patrick
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Very nice!

 

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More parts!!!

Today Mitch went to the machinist with parts today. Everything looks good. We decided to go with a Nismo Oil Pump instead of the N1 Oil Pump because of all the bad gossip going around about the N1 oil pump failures. Mitch also took the flywheel today to get surfaced, looks pretty nice, we took off about .015". Here's some photo's:

Enjoy!

Patrick
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Quick picture of our Piston shift knob installed in Patrick's Turbo Civic:

 

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NEW UPDATE!


So the short block is done. The block was acid dipped, magnflux, honed, bored, and line honed. The pistons/rods/crank were balanced, then the machinist bolted on the flywheel and it was balanced also. I don't have a clutch yet so that wasn't balanced(can't decide on what to get, probably an OS Giken Twin Plate or ATS Carbonetics since a few people have ruined the Nismo Twin while racing, clutch is being ordered tomorrow!). The rods/pistons/crank are theoretically balanced for 11000rpm which this motor will never ever see EVER! The drain back at the back of the motor was ported hardcore, which is why I think the external drainback is useless (that is if you have another crankcase vent). The drain at the back is easily equal to 4 dash-10AN Lines in terms of cross-sectional area.

Anyways the block is looking nice and the head is going to be ported/flowbenched starting hopefully monday.

Here's some pictures of how everything looks as of now...Enjoy!

Mitch
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