Bob Morgan - Nissan Skyline R33 GTST

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Nissan Skyline R33 GTST

Bob Morgan

Instagram: @midnight44club

I live in sunny Devon, near Exeter after moving from Wales to live with my wife. What got me into the car scene? My dad got me into the car scene and my love for cars, I would watch formula one and touring cars on TV with him and go to car shows with him and with his classic mini. My dream car has always been a Skyline after playing Grand Turismo on the original PlayStation as a kid.

My first car was a classic mini 1986, which I modified. I then got a proton Satria which I absolutely loved, unfortunately, a motorway accident caused the car to be written off, so I decided to buy another Proton, which was featured in lots of magazines after I did a lot of modifications to it, such as supercharger, nitrous etc. 

My current pride and joy that has caused many headaches is my dream car, a Nissan Skyline R33 GTST which I purchased for £2,069 back in 2011. It had a couple of mods when I bought it, it had a standard turbo stage 1 tuned. In those 11 years since I have had the car, I have modified it quite a lot, the current spec list is as follows-

Spec List

Engine:

• Petrol blue cam cover bolts & blue dress-up washers
• Kandy blue rocker covers with lightning graphics
• Carbon fibre cooling panel
• An-10 GReddy oil cooler kit
• Freddy intake plenum
• Turbo smart 1200 fpr
• Torques fuel filter 
• Hel an-8 Teflon braided feed fuel line
• Hel An-6 Teflon braided fuel return line
• HKS earthing / grounding kit
• Japspeed alloy radiator
• Carbon fibre strut brace
• Gtech cooling fan
• 90mm throttle body
• Boost junkie’s silicone hoses
• Brake stopper
• 3-inch inlet/outlet Aluminium intercooler with custom-made pipework
• K&N air filter
• Bosh 1000cc top feed fuel injectors
• Billet fuel rail
• Holset hx35/40 modified turbocharger with bigger billet comp wheel
• Custom Aluminium power steering reservoir
• Aftermarket screen wash reservoir
• Aluminium An-10 oil catch tank
• An-10 stainless breather pipes
• Rb26dett longnose crankshaft
• Rb26dett Manley conrods
• Rb26dett oversized Cp pistons 87mm
• Rb25det head with 1.6mm Cosworth head gasket
• Uprated intake and exhaust Supertech valve stem seals
• Acl race bearings (big end and mains)
• R35 GTR Coil pack conversion kit
• Hel braided turbo oil lines
• N1 oil pump
• N1 water pump
• Engine fully balanced
• Tomei poncams
• Tomei oil restrictor
• Link g4+ ECU system
• AEM cas trigger disk
• Engine torque damper
• Twin Turbosmart 40mm waste gates with screamer pipes exit at the side skirt 
• Hybrid performance steam pipe exhaust manifold
• HKS dump valve
• Walbro F90000274 (455LPH) Fuel Pump with Direct Feed Separate Relay Wiring
• Custom 3-inch turbo-back exhaust system 5-inch exit
• Orc 559 twin-plate clutch
• MRL Stainless Steel Braided Clutch Line Reservoir to Slave Cylinder
• Supra exhaust manifold studs

Brakes, suspension, Wheels:

• BC Racing Adjustable Suspension: Set Soft On the Rear & Medium On The Front
• Driftworks Hicas eliminator kit
• Hel blue braided brake lines
• Front and rear strut braces
• Ferodo DS2000 Front & Rear Brake Pads
• Brembo rear grooved brake disks
• Electronic Line lock system
• 30mm hub-centric wheel spacers on the rear
• Big front brake disk conversion
• 18" X 9.5 ET30 Gunmetal Rota GTR Alloy Wheels

Interior / Exterior

• R32 GTR front seats
• GTR Middlehurst floor mats
• Sunroof solar panel and headlining replaced with a non-sunroof model
• GTR clock clusters
• Top secret Gear knob
• Top secret gear and handbrake covers
• Auto Meter Monster Rev Counter with shift light
• Auto Meter Turbo Timer
• Snap off the steering wheel
• Sony rear speakers with kicker front speakers
• Cusco dash dodger roll cage with door bars
• Car painted in a custom silver with 3 stages blue pearl 
• Gtr carbon fibre grille 
• Gtr Top secret front bumper
• Gtr Doluck rear bumper
• Blue air horn
• Modified headlights 
• Led smoked indicators on the bumper
• Greddy gracer side skirts
• Nismo smoked side indicators
• Gtr original front wings 
• Ganador Rare E-01261 mirrors
• APR Carbon fibre Big Gay Wing
• Gtr Top secret bonnet with aero catches
• Fibreglass flush fit the boot lid
• light up rear skyline panel
• fog light removed and installed in the offside rear tail light
• GTR rear over fenders
• GTR fuel flap
• Hornet Maxx 1 alarm system.

Most of the work I have done myself, but the tuning has been done by ‘Whifbitz’ in Caldicot. Parts for the build have come from ‘Auto-Extreme’, ‘JDM garage’ and ‘Conceptua tuning’ The amazing paint job has come from Carl at Pristine finish. And a big thank you to Sean Franklin and his family, Sean sadly passed away a couple of years ago, I turned to him when I needed some help and extra parts. I have been through several stages of tune, and I managed a 13second 1/4mile 115mph @ 480BHP at Santa Pod raceway.

Currently the cars last dyno reading was 579BHP which is 483.2BHP 368.6LB-FT @ the hubs @ 1.2bar. I started making changes to the engine/drivetrain after being beaten on the drag strip by a 70year old lady driving a Rover 75 on the drag strip at Santa Pod, the video can be found on YouTube, I am still friends with her and her family and still joke about me now. Hopefully, when it is all complete the car will reach 700BHP or thereabouts! I am hoping next time I go to Santa Pod I will run a low 11second pass. Once I am happy with the engine it will be off to be mapped for the final time

I am also the owner of Midnight44club, we can be found on Facebook @midnight44club  and Instagram @midnight44club, The link for our YouTube page is  Midnight 44 Club

We attend many shows and have won several trophy’s as a club and for my car.

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