One of the main constructs for Project Leopard was to use OG companies and that included the ones that help build the car initially. This was P2M (Phase 2). If you read the magazine, they contributed a lot. My narrative would have been using their parts to rebuild the car. I found out that Marco …
Project Leopard – Old School HKS Electronics When I first got into Japanese cars/ Import tuning, I was mezmorized by the high end Japanese cars that had all these electronics on display. Easily HKS “Alphabet soup” or “Tower of Power” were probably the most notable ones to me and left an impression. The years before stand …
Project Leopard – Grounding One of the lessons I learned from the VG30E was grounding is important. Hung found ground that was attached to his VG head and it was the cause for all his issues. Starting with a fresh build, I was thinking of getting some kind of grounding kit. I had one on …
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Project Leopard – R35 coilpacks, harness and bracket I knew I would eventually have to get coilpacks. It seemed that it was going to be an expensive venture regardless. I initially started by keeping it simple. OEM coil packs. After some research, you would come across people saying how they upgraded to Yellow Jackets coils. …
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Project Leopard – Head Drain Building an engine from the ground up is an opportunity to make it better and address issues that every motor has. I previously never had an RB engine, but I would here about oil issues. Australian builders really took the RB engines to the next level with heavy research and amazing …
Project Leopard – VCT cylinder head drain kit upgrade One of the hang ups for 8 months was a VCT drain. At some point, Marco gave up on my project and would ask me to order stuff that he could get through his resources. I could get stuff, I ordered it because I didn’t want …
RB25DET BOLT LIST I underestimated how much goes into piecing an engine together. I thought many parts would be available and at decent prices. Bolts for the RB25det is both interesting and annoying. I found this out as everything I had to do, I needed to get updated hardware. While I’m sure I did not …
Project Leopard – 3 Year milestone Project Leopard has had a lot of setbacks and at times, I felt defeated. SR20store kept promising to get the RB25det done and kept delaying the car going to the shop. The engine was sporadically worked on, which never got completed. The main thing was I kept getting reassurance …
Project Leopard – GKtech ABS delete kit When I cleaned out the engine bay, I really wanted to clean it up. One way was to take out the ABS module. That thing takes up a good amount of space. Since this car was gonna be more of a cruiser/track car, I figure why not. One …
Project Leopard – Steering rack When I got Project Leopard, I took note on a lot of things, and it was still not enough. One thing I did want to replace/rebuild was the steering rack. I know nobody has replaced it and the last 9yrs before I got it, all the drifters were beating on …
