Agents 99 VR-4 Resurrection (Complete)

[Agent|THC]

Pretty much a copy paste from my 3si.org boards

Enjoy :D

A little history on the car.

My father bought this car when I was 13 years old. I sat in this thing for the first time when I was only 13!!

Sadly he blew the motor on it in march of 2001, with a rediculous amount of nitrous.
Instead of getting it rebuilt, he thought it would be cheaper to buy a WHOLE nother 99 instead. Thats how we have two 99 VR-4s :P

He decided to sell it in the beginning of 2005, but I didn't have the heart to let it go, I was 19 at the time. So I offered him 9K for basically a shell of a car. I've been selling off parts I didn't need or had extra of, and spent most of my time acquiring parts, like the tranny, transfer case, and complete 95 VR-4 motor, and reading and learning, and lots of using the SEARCH!!

He did have a built nearly 3.2L motor, so I offered him 3k for it since he wasn't going to do anything with it :P and went from there. From the end of march of 2007 I began dissasemblying the 95 VR-4 motor I had just acquired from sundown13x, sold the shortblock from it, and cleaned up the heads a bit.

New gasket everything, new timing belt, tensioner, and water pump. I had an 11k mile oil pump, so I reused that :( 3sx underdrive pulley, and 3sx Oversized Headgaskets, and 3sx EGR block offs, and neatly slapped it back together :P

Two months of work later, and I managed to start the car, and it sounded beautiful and runs surprising very well except for the nasty lifter tick, and it doesn't help that I have 1st gen lifters :( That'll change soon.

Complete mod list: 3sx underdrive pulley, 3sx Oversized Headgaskets, 3sx EGR block offs. HKS EVC III. Gutted pre-cats. ATR downpipe to a 3inch straight through exhaust with no main cat. Vac-reduction. Greddy type-S BOV and a 3.15L sleeved block.

Total cost for a running car. A little under 15k. 1K over budget :P

I've done all the work myself with the help of some friends. (Tool and labor mules :P) and very knowledgeable club members when I had any questions!

Thanks to all that helped me!

The rest is Pretty much a copy paste from Florida3s. Enjoy.

COMPLETE 6/3/2007
I'll keep it simple and updated often, today's my birthday. And as a b-day gift to myself. I bought a vr-4 motor from sundown13x! LOL it just happened to get shipped near it.

Anyways.

Preparation for tomorrow.



That was at 9am today :P

About 6 hours of work later, I learn that liquid wrench is my new friend. I took off all sorts of rusted and heat "welded" exhaust bolts of without to much work. :D

Come Tomorrow morning there will be a complete motor hanging off of there.

The month of April = completetion hopefully, and Im in the coral springs \ coconut creek area. If anyone wants to help piece back together some history I have plenty to drink and eat :D

Out with the old...

[Agent|THC]

In with the NEW!!!

Everything pretty much assembled,I just finished doing the timing. I hella took my time... Too bad I broke my 15 dollar special pulley tensioner tool :(



Mmm 3sx underdrive pulley :D

Had my friend gut some cats whilie we waited for parts to arrive.

Next big thing on the list for this weekend is repairing my wire harness,

[Agent|THC]

Oh man, when I was tightening the Flywheel bolts to spec, the flywheel was turning everything counter-clockwise, and I didn't think much of it. I had a bad feeling once the engine was in the car, I decided to check the timing belt for slack, and what do you know SLACK!!! and a decent amount of it... I nearly threw up, then remember, the flywheel, so I stuck a 22mm socket onto the crank pulley bolt and turned everything and checked timing. Everything lined up and the tension was returned perfect, oh man was that a freaking scare...

And then I scratched my beautiful 3sx underdrive pulley a lil dropping the engine in. :(


UPDATE SHES ALIVE!!

Pics before the running.





I'm the dark haired guy, but im sure the car is whats important here :P


I will get a video clip tomorrow after I fix a coolant leak. Thank you to all that helped!!

[phizzalot]

Very nice vr4... Excellent work and car you got there Agent|THC

[quicksilver22]

veddy nice

[Agent|THC]

Thx for the nice comments :D

[o1naturalhigh]

:shock:

[00GalantMan]

kick ass!

[SkylineG1]

sweet

[fatal1]

nice bro good luck w/ that

[4g63lover]

wow!! its like you came back from the dead! I see the G in the background still

[Agent|THC]

Hey man, glad you remember me! I remember you 2 :P

and yeah I still have the G but sadly not for long :(

[cdipier2]

wow man thats beautiful....i didnt know they made 3000gt's in 99

[Agent|THC]

Yehp they were the last year produced in the US, and the 99 had a major overhaul in design. IMO the best looking of all years. Best part of all

They only produced 287 99 VR-4's, and we own 2 99 VR-4s :P

[4g63lover]

Hey man, glad you remember me! I remember you 2 :P

and yeah I still have the G but sadly not for long :(

of course! I even remember your quad gauge gauge pod!

its unfortunate that you letting the G go, but hey youve moved on to bigger better things a long time ago with the VR-4! lol. good luck man!

[mindwerkz]

That's slick :D

Now go buy my VR4 valve cover lol
https://www.thegalantcenter.org/viewtopic.php?t=57017