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CanadianGuy last won the day on July 15 2024

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  1. CanadianGuy
    This exactly. In my province (Canadian equivalent of a state) there’s 6 skylines that we know of, one guy is over an hour away and the others are all 3+ so it’s realistic to say people here have never saw one out on a drive. My GTST as it sits had people randomly pulling into my yard asking if they could take pictures and the local car clubs asking me to join and be in their shows and it’s FAR from being finished or what I consider nice (yet) Meanwhile you can go to a junkyard or down some back road in the country and find a dozen 90s/2000s firebirds, mustangs or Camaros with weeds grown up around them because they’re nothing special. Even corvettes are kind of looked at as the old man car, had a number of buddies make fun of me when I was considering getting one lol
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    I definitely get that last part ran into it a few days ago haha. Have a friend I met through work who just moved to Canada from South Africa, was over at the house for bbq and even though he liked the skyline he was nuts for the two 1994 Firebirds I have, near lost his mind when I said I bought it for $200 lol. To me it’s just a cheap old car that I might fix some day. Funny enough I was looking hard at C5 corvette’s before I found the skyline, could have picked up a fairly nice driver for the price of my project gtst
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    Putting everything down on paper and pricing it all out it is definitely thousands and thousands cheaper to go LS especially since I already have the 6 litre in a donor vehicle. It’s sounding to start appealing even if it’s just to get the car on the road and going for now while I build some sort of RB down the road. The price of just a rb30 block here gets me a t56 or a cd009 with adapter kit, engine/trans mounts are under $400, and the few things I’d want to do with the engine while it’s out are sub $1000… damnit lol
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    Haha honestly the thought crossed my mind but skylines are so damn rare here someone would probably hang me 😂 I’ve had a few LS swapped cars (280zx and a foxbody mustang) so trying something a bit different this time
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    I was reading that the other day, 25 heads aren’t too pricey here thankfully. Now just have to weight the cost vs what I’m getting out of it on doing a rebuild on the rb20, picking up a rb25, or building a rb30. Not really interested in doing a stock rebuild on the 20, but stock 26 cranks & rods seem cheap. Decisions decisions
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    I’ve gone down the Rb30 rabbit hole the past few days and it sounds pretty sweet, only thing that really turns me off is the $2500 price tag for a bare block people are asking around here. That being said I’ve got a snowmobile I could sell to get the majority of the bottom end done lol
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    I’m not sure if it was just the way coolant ran as I flipped the head for that pic but went out to double check and there’s nothing there, 100% looks like a crack in that picture though so will be doing some more investigating. Definitely doing something with the bottom end if I decide to stick with this engine, considering grabbing a rb25 as an alternative but we’ll see. Built my fair share of engines so only labor I’d be looking at is the machining/hot tanking if I just go for a rebuild but might be worth the bit extra to go bigger while it’s already apart
  8. CanadianGuy
    Well hit the first larger snag in the build! Car wasn’t running 100% right even before I took it for a drive, starting slow and felt like a bit of a miss so compression tested it once I got it into the garage and on stands for the winter. That would do it… Got to tearing everything out and was greeted with this Seat looks a little mangled but somehow the cylinder is fine Will check the turbine next wonder if the piece made its way in there and chewed up some fins. Once I survey the extent of the head damage I’m going to have to make a decision. Cylinder 4 is kind of low anyway so might not be a bad idea to take a peek at the bottom end while I’m already in it
  9. CanadianGuy
    Thanks! I haven’t 100% decided but I’ve always been partial to the R33 midnight purple even before I could drive
  10. CanadianGuy
    Really should be putting some time into other projects but screw it 😂 Got brave and cut back my hood, a lot of measuring and taking it very slow with a Dremel and it turned out not bad! Still need to weld the inner/outer back together and clean everything up but I’m happy with how it turned out
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    Little more work! Did some body work on the rear wheel arches and since the paint was a cheap spray job before figured I’d do something to tide me over until I wrap the car. Colour might not be everyone’s choice but I like it and it’s only temporary, just hate having primer from the wheel arches standing out. Keeping an eye out for a decent set of wheels to throw on now. Wheels and tires on the car are junk
  12. CanadianGuy
    Finally had some time after working on other projects to jump back on this thing. Pulled all 4 wheels to check the brakes over and lucked out, only needed to bleed them/change fluid to get everything working! Took it for its first quick spin (around 2km) up the road and ran great! Sounds like I have a left rear wheel bearing that needs replacing and there’s a shake in the steering wheel but the tires are absolutely junk on this thing and had been sitting flat when I went to first look at the car so we’ll see if that’s the cause. Tach randomly started working but I notice if my hicas light comes on the tach stops working 🙃 yay for electrical gremlins
  13. CanadianGuy
    I just finished fixing a similar problem on my rb20, I’d double check your AFM or the AFM wiring. Mine didn’t have 12v on the power wire, as soon as I ran a jumper wire it ran perfect. From my understanding there’s very few things that will induce that cut from the ECU so I’d be looking at the AFM for sure. Walbros are loud pumps so wouldn’t be too worried about that and it seems like you’ve checked the majority of the other spots
  14. CanadianGuy
    Not a whole lot done lately, front brakes aren’t engaging so need to get this thing back into the garage to see if I need to rebuild the calibers. Currently have the wife’s 1973 VW Van, my 2004 Mustang, and a 1994 Firebird in there I need to finish up first, the list of work never ends Stealing the 6 litre from the van and the interior from this parts Firebird for the other
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    Got this thing up and running properly! Traced my AFM wires and the signal back to ECU was good, ground was good but no 12v! With a jumper wire tied into what should be the 12v wire it fired right up and rev’d nice and strong! One thing down at least, now to figure out where the break or disconnect is. Tach is probably next, hopefully that’s just the signal wire from the ECU but I doubt I’m that lucky
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