Well fast forward to now and I am building a new engine for it.
Reason being oil in the coolant. On teardown I found cracks in the deck (marked in green). The oil was seeping pass the cracks at the headbolt holes and into the coolant galleries. I thought at first it was the dreaded cylinder head. Fingers crossed no more oil in the coolant with this one.
The old engine has had 3 different turbo setups on it, gtx2860', hks T51r spl and '5's. She was a good donk since 2012 until the cracked deck.
So while I was getting another virgin rb26 block machined I went ahead and bought a nitto 2.8 stroker kit. One reason why I didn't reuse the tomei setup was the crank and shorter rods. It is not a full counter crank, so the setup was replaced.
New setup will run on e85 and the Gtx2860 turbos.
Setup as follows:
05u block 86.5mm
Ported head with bigger intake valves
Nitto 2.8 stroker kit
Arp studs
N1 water pump
Nitto oil pump
Ati 1000hp damper
High octane Crank trigger kit
Acl race bearings
Otomoto 260deg vcam
Jun 252deg exhaust cam
Haltec ecu
Frenchies performance billet fuel hat and twin walbro 450L pumps
1350cc injectors
Twin feed rail
Will be good to get it all back together and run in. Dunno what it'll put out on the dyno but it should be good.
Also got the getrag box freshened up and rebuilt with carbon synchros and a new 2nd gear, hub, slider etc, as the synchro teeth had seen better days.
Front prop shaft was also rebuilt with new uni joints.
Don't ask how much all this costs. I could of sold this car and bought a 35gtr, but couldn't bring myself to do it. Hope I made the right choice!