Slick's KA-T

[ak_slick]

Alright got the VD Stickers on there, and as Santa (Manny) mentioned I now have the RB26 AWD trans woohoo. This thing is beastly.





Looked into powder coating the rims... they want them for 5-7 days... no time before the event. Soon though.

[ak_slick]

Just wanted to let you all know that it is official. I am insane.

Ridiculous amounts of mods to come. Just ordered A LOT of parts.

Scheduled for this month...
-Z32 trans with Rb26 bell housing on a KA
-Rb20 Flywheel with a Z33 Clutch
-Custom Drive shaft
-Power Steering Cooler (I started boiling the fluid at the last event)
-Oil Cooler
-Front Bumper (yay)
- and potentially more... but I don't want to promise too much yet.

A shot from the last event courtesy of Chris W.

[s13yaobling]

decent list. hopefully you get that PS cooler first. kinda need it

[ak_slick]

decent list. hopefully you get that PS cooler first. kinda need it

You aren't kidding... that was the only mess in my engine bay. Really happy that the car held up so well through the first event. I expected to find some bolt I forgot to tighten or something, but all in all. I'm REALLY happy with it. Although the gas gage was WAY off... ran outta gas and the gage was saying I had a half tank left... lying whore.

[LVG]

ak_slick , your very talented and looks like you do great work!! Awesome build!!

[ak_slick]

ak_slick , your very talented and looks like you do great work!! Awesome build!!

Thanks, but I definitely cannot take all the credit for this car. I get a lot of help from my good friend Kyle (DDS). And thank God for good friends cause at times we all get burned out. They help keep me going when the car doesn't want to cooperate. Were you at the event?

[Go Go!!]

you sir have an amazing car! 

[ak_slick]

you sir have an amazing car!  

Thanks.

Update Time!

So got a lot of parts in order to take a pre-emptive upgrade/cooling strike and make my car fully legal and safe for competitions I went a little overboard but I am not done yet... before someone asks... the parts were not overnighted and are not from Japan but they came really quick anyway. Here is what has arrived so far.




Quick Summary:
Fire Extinguisher, SFI Padding, 5 pt harnesses, fire suit, underwear, gloves, shoes, rb20 lightweight flywheel, 350z clutch, accusump and manual valve, battery cut off switch, power steering cooler, and Yao's SPL endlinks.

Time to start the bolt-on phase.

[mello]

Looks good hehe.. Always nice to get some goodies in.. BTW which clutch is it? I was going to use the CC 6072 6 puck ceramic on mine + I have a toda light billet flywheel but it needs resurfacing..

[s13yaobling]

carbonetics clutch! never buy another one.

[ak_slick]

Prepare to laugh.... Ebay brand F1 Racing... Same one Brand I have been running but an inch bigger diameter with the rb20/350z combo. Checked one out next to a couple name brand equivalents and they seem exactly the same. Either way I know the pressure plate is good. I can always swap disks easily enough.  Flywheel is XTD Chromoly 12lb. I've had good luck with them. Plus Chromoly is 3 times the strength of steel

[mello]

haha nice! Will be nice to see how it works out. Yeah the chromoly wheels are the shit, that's actually what my toda one is I just spaced.. Needs to be resurfaced, know a competent shop? I guess Nv brake no longer does resurfacing. I took it to carquest near 15 and sahara and they were incompetent so I left.

[ak_slick]

EDIT: Removed previous company reference due to bad work received.

I now fully recommend DDS.

[ak_slick]

So I am officially beginning Rev. 2 of my project.

Here is the progress from tonight. Lots should be happening tomorrow.

Pulled out the RB26 AWD transmission.... The Beast.


Separated the Bellhousing


Bolted up a KA plate And began drilling out the holes that didn't match. Note how a bunch of them are right on this is before any drilling.


Big thanks to Chris for the rb26/z32 trans info... it is saving me bank over the Mazworks kit. Also thanks to THEDRIZZLE (Craig) the extra muscle was very welcome with the chuck of metal. More to come tomorrow.

[Exiled Lakai]

Not to hi jack. but I got to thinking. that aluminum was just chillin' in the earth. Most likely in the aluminum deposits of India. Some Indian Company decided to process it and sell in to Nissan of Japan... Nissan made it into a transmission that came out in a Japanese production car that never was released to America... YET... and I say YET!!! It finds itself in America being raped by three Americans??? WTF... End thought process...