Big Rizza

Find someone that will chip your existing ECU - that way everything is optimised for your car, rather than someone else's.

Yes, they're worth it.

Cheers Sydneykid!

Has anyone fitted an R32 GTS-T coupe spilt dump/front pipe and high flow catalytic converter to an R32 GTS-T 4-door? Does it bolt straight in without modification? The 4-door is longer than the 2-door, so some parts of the exhaust would have to be different, but not sure if that includes the dump/front pipe and cat. Cheers for the help.

Is this the hose where I install the boost controller? (Car is R32 GTS-T) EDIT: Oh well, no one answered me so I installed it there anyways and it seemed to work...

I quite like it, but for some reason when I saw the dead straight ahead view thought it could be the next Mazda RX-8 Facelift. Maybe it's just me... None of the other views remind me of Mazda, just the straight ahead for some reason...

I've seen R32 quoted at 250km/h on multiple occasions.

...i hadn't seen it...

The final 50 Monaros to be sold in the UK will be factory supercharged to make 500hp / 677Nm, and be badged the Monaro VXR 500. Plus, it will be cheaper than the standard 400hp model! And they're offering the supercharger as a retrofit for anyone who already bought their Monaro. All with a factory warranty! Driving impressions: http://www.pistonheads.com/roadtests/doc.a...=47&i=15379 Why is it that the UK market always get better cars than we do? Even when we built the car in the first place! We missed out on the Mitsubishi Evo VIII FQ400 MR in just the same way. Local manufacturers & distributers seem reluctant to offer factoy backed aftermarket parts that won't void your warranty, which is just crud because it happens overseas all the time. It's starting to pick up, with the sprintex supercharger kit for Magna and the Oettinger ECU reflash for Golf GTi both allowing you to retain the standard warranty, but neither are fitted at your local dealership. About the only true factory aftermarket kit in Oz is the Mini Cooper Works kit. So what do you reckon? Is the 500hp Monaro the shit, or just plain shit? Is there a market for the factory aftermarket here in Oz?

There's like 100kg between the SR20, an all alloy 4 cyl, and the RB20, an iron block 6cyl. I can't imagine the gap between RB20 and RB25 to be greater than the gap between SR20 and RB20... COuld be mistaken though...

Isn't the Scion really tiny? That car in the pic looks about the size of a people-carrier.

I call placaebo effect. The RB25 is on a very basic level essentially an RB20 with bigger holes in the engine block, so I wouldn't think the weight shift would be much. The amount of fuel in the car would have more of an effect on weight balance than the new engine IMO. Anyone got the actual engine weights?

The 240 volts isn't the problem (see attached Autospeed.com excerpt). I'd be much more worried about how much current you are drawing! You'll burn out your alternator and drain your battery everytime your foot hits the loud pedal! http://autospeed.drive.com.au/cms/A_2332/article.html

I'm going to tell you not to get a Skyline, but not because you are a P-Plater with a poor driving history. It's purely financial. A car worth $15,000, in a high accident and high theft risk category, should not be under 3rd party insurance - that will end in tears for sure. Third party fire and theft insurance with a maximum payout of $5000 is also not worth it. Such a car HAS to be fully comprehensively insured. Fully comprehensive insurance is, in this case, priced at 1/3 the purchase price. Basically, if the car isn't stolen or written off within two years of purchase, paying such insane amounts for insurance just isn't worthwhile. So, the dollars for third party don't make sense. The dollars for comprehensive don't make sense. Essentially, this means the dollars for ownership of this vehicle doesn't make sense. You could insure the car in a parents name, but you will not acrue a no claim bonus or insurance history, so you are only delaying the problem. Plus, it means that you cannot move out of home and keep the skyline. Plus, whilst the parents no claim bonus will be used to cut the premium down, the base price will still account for you as a listed driver - i.e. you're still looking at at least 1/2 the amount quoted. I do not recommend it. I recommend you use your $15,000 to buy a nice, safe and easily insurable car for $5,000, buy some stocks for $5,000 and take a trip to Thailand or something for the final $5,000. Plan it well and the holiday will more than make up for no skyline for a little while! In three years time, the money you have saved by NOT owning a skyline, plus the appreciation in stock value (and dividend payouts), plus three years of insurance history will allow you to purchase something REALLY good, and not only will the dollars make perfect sense, but you will have the driving experience to be able to handle a powerful car AND you will be able to honestly say that you DESERVE this car, because you were smart with your money, smart with your time AND smart with your life!

The RB into Silvia swap is not uncommon. In fact, it's to the point where it's not really unique enough for some people. Hence the birth of the Nissan V8 into Silvia conversion, but even that has been done a few times now... See http://members.iinet.net.au/~dcollins/silfiniti/ for one such example.

This will decimate all after we put about fifteen grand or more under the hood. If we have to, overnight some parts from Japan. But seriously, this would be like driving an unladen commercial vehicle, with all the weight at the front, nothing over the rear. So yeah, I want it... bad!

Well, Clarkson got 4 mpg on Top Gear from the standard car, and I'd imagine this would use more again... Like 2 mpg

I reckon this 5% power gain is probably due to replacing the standard airbox with twin pod filters, rather than any appreciable effect of the superchargers...

They are suggesting only a 5% power increase. Not worth the $$$ though IMO.

V8 Skylines have been done before. Most common v8 used in my experience is the VH45 engine. But the two best options in the universe are: 1GZFE with big N/A tune (imagine the sound!), or 1GZFE with twin turbos (got torque?) If you can't do that, then these three are runners up: LS2 with big cams 20B with bridgeport VH45DE with supercharger If you can't do that then these are the last options: SR20DET since its shorter and lighter than RB20 with equal (or better) power up capability RB25DET since its relatively easy compared to the others I have mentioned! Else you could be boring and drop an RB20DET back in . But that would be too predictable!

My personal choice would be to keep the R32 - you know the history of the car and exactly what's wrong with it. Buying a new car might bring on a new set of problems. Modifying the R33 isn't going to be any cheaper than modifying the R32. And as far as your R32 not being worth much anymore, at least it doesn't have too far left to fall, whereas the R33 will likely depreciate another $10,000 or so over the next few years... Of course the third alternative is to fix your R32 up and buy an already modified R32 - with the mods already done you're definitely going to save on labour!

Interested in group buy. Is this still open? If not, any idea when the next will be?

Compare to imports: 8.7 kg/kw 1988 S13 Silvia K's (CA18DET) 8.4 kg/kw 1992 R32 Skyline GTS-T Type M 7.7 kg/kw 1991 S13 Silvia K's (SR20DET) 7.6 kg/kw 1999 R34 Skyline GT-R V-Spec 7.5 kg/kw 1996 R33 Skyline GT-R V-Spec 7.4 kg/kw 1996 R33 Skyline GTS-T Type-M 7.3 kg/kw 1994 R32 Skyline GT-R V-SpecII 7.3 kg/kw 1999 JZA80 Supra RZ 7.0 kg/kw 1993 Toyota MR-2 GT-S 6.8 kg/kw 1998 R34 Skyline GT-T 6.7 kg/kw 2002 Nissan S15 Spec R 6.6 kg/kw 1991 Honda NSX 6.1 kg/kw 2002 Mazda RX-7 Type R Obviously some of these are misleading due to some models having actual power slightly higher than the quoted 206kw. I'm tired now... no more typing...

I am going to assume you are meaning 5.75 kg/kw not 5.75 kw/kg, since the latter would be the equivalent of a Toyota Yaris with 6,000kw, or a VE Commodore with 10,000kw... Best bet is Motor magazine - full list of performance cars currently on sale in Australia with their power to weight ratios. I'll chuck some in for an example, for a complete list just buy the magazine! Sedans: 12.1 kg/kw Audi A4 1.8T Quattro - ouch! 11.5 kg/kw Mazda 6 8.8 kg/kw BF Ford Falcon 8.8 kg/kw VE Holden Commodore SV6 7.5 kg/kw Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX 7.2 kg/kw Subaru WRX STi 6.9 kg/kw BF Ford XR6 Turbo 6.7 kg/kw Audi S4 V8 6.6 kg/kw VE Commodore SS 6.6 kg/kw Maserati Quattroporte 6.4 kg/kw BF FPV F6 Typhon 6.3 kg/kw BF FPV GT 6.1 kg/kw BMW 550i 6.0 kg/kw Audi A8 W12 6.0 kg/kw Chrysler 300C SRT8 6.0 kg/kw Jaguar S-Type R 6.0 kg/kw Mercedes E500 5.9 kg/kw VE HSV Clubsport R8 5.6 kg/kw Jaguar XJR 5.3 kg/kw Audi RS4 V8 5.1 kg/kw BMW M5 V10 4.7 kg/kw Mercedes E63 AMG Coupes: 10.2 kg/kw Hyundai Tiburon V6 9.7 kg/kw Audi TT 1.8T 7.9 kg/kw HSV Astra VXR 7.1 kg/kw Nissan 350Z 6.8 kg/kw BMW 335Ci 6.2 kg/kw Lotus Exige 6.2 kg/kw Porsche Cayman S 6.0 kg/kw Chrysler Crossfire SRT6 5.9 kg/kw BMW M3 5.8 kg/kw Mercedes CLK500 5.8 kg/kw Porsche 911 5.7 kg/kw HSV GTO 5.7 kg/kw Lotus Exige S 5.7 kg/kw Maserati Gransport 5.6 kg/kw Bentley Continental GT 5.6 kg/kw Mercedes CL600 5.4 kg/kw Porsche 911S 5.3 kg/kw Aston Martin DB9 5.0 kg/kw Aston Martin Vantage 5.0 kg/kw Mercedes CLK63 AMG 4.7 kg/kw Mercedes CL65 AMG - it takes a LOT of power to get something this heavy so far down the list 4.6 kg/kw BMW M6 4.6 kg/kw Ferrari 612 4.5 kg/kw Porsche 911 Turbo 4.0 kg/kw Ferrari F430 4.0 kg/kw Lamborghini Gallardo 3.9 kg/kw Lamborghini Murciellago 3.7 kg/kw Ferrari 599GTB 3.0 kg/kw Pagani Zonda C12 S ...and bored now. That better be what you want coz it took me like 15 minutes to type it all out... This one copied (not typed!) from Supercar's.net - the top 50 powertoweight supercars: 1. 1000.0 bhp per tonne : 2007 Caparo T1 2. 963.27 bhp per tonne : 2006 SSC Ultimate Aero TT 3. 902.56 bhp per tonne : 2000 TVR Cerbera Speed 12 4. 890.59 bhp per tonne : 2006 SSC Ultimate Aero 5. 862.07 bhp per tonne : 2005 Leblanc Mirabeau 6. 757.89 bhp per tonne : 2006 a.d. Tramontana V12 7. 754.12 bhp per tonne : 2004 Orca C113 8. 747.38 bhp per tonne : 2006 Saleen S7 Twin Turbo Competition 9. 727.27 bhp per tonne : 1991 Koenig C62 10. 724.64 bhp per tonne : 2006 Gemballa Mirage Evolution 11. 708.74 bhp per tonne : 1994 Dauer 962 LeMans 12. 683.05 bhp per tonne : 2006 Koenigsegg CCX 13. 673.68 bhp per tonne : 2005 Ultima GTR 640 14. 655.2 bhp per tonne : 2004 Koenigsegg CCR 15. 650.84 bhp per tonne : 2004 Chrysler ME Four-Twelve Concept 16. 640.0 bhp per tonne : 2003 Radical SR3 Turbo 17. 633.71 bhp per tonne : 2004 SSC Aero 18. 626.09 bhp per tonne : 2002 Laraki Fulgura Concept 19. 625.0 bhp per tonne : 1992 DP 962 20. 615.38 bhp per tonne : 1995 Renault Espace F1 Concept 21. 611.11 bhp per tonne : 1998 Koenigsegg CC Concept 22. 605.0 bhp per tonne : 2005 Radical SR8 23. 595.45 bhp per tonne : 2000 Koenigsegg CC 24. 590.91 bhp per tonne : 2006 Gumpert Apollo 25. 588.85 bhp per tonne : 2006 Sportec SPR1 26. 571.43 bhp per tonne : 2006 Mosler MT900 GTR 27. 560.54 bhp per tonne : 2005 Saleen S7 Twin Turbo 28. 550.09 bhp per tonne : 1994 McLaren F1 29. 550.0 bhp per tonne : 2006 Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina 30. 545.83 bhp per tonne : 2002 Koenigsegg CC 8S 31. 531.91 bhp per tonne : 2004 Caterham Superlight R500 Evolution 32. 524.81 bhp per tonne : 2004 Evans 486 33. 524.34 bhp per tonne : 2005 Edo MC12 R 34. 523.08 bhp per tonne : 2001 B.Engineering Edonis 35. 522.45 bhp per tonne : 1997 Dodge Dakota Sidewinder Concept 36. 514.47 bhp per tonne : 2006 Donkervoort D8 RS06 37. 510.2 bhp per tonne : 2005 Pagani Zonda C12 F 38. 507.81 bhp per tonne : 2006 Pagani Zonda C12 F Roadster 39. 504.41 bhp per tonne : 2006 Factory Five Racing GTM 40. 500.1 bhp per tonne : 2006 MB Roadcars EOS 41. 496.14 bhp per tonne : 2006 Carbontech Redback Spyder 42. 496.03 bhp per tonne : 2002 Morgan Aero 8 GT 43. 491.53 bhp per tonne : 1986 Ford RS200 Evolution 44. 488.89 bhp per tonne : 1970 Lamborghini Miura Jota 45. 481.75 bhp per tonne : 2002 Ferrari Enzo 46. 475.0 bhp per tonne : 1998 Westfield FW400 47. 474.15 bhp per tonne : 2004 Fuore BlackJag Concept 48. 470.59 bhp per tonne : 2005 Lotus Sport Exige 49. 470.17 bhp per tonne : 2006 Lingenfelter 427 Corvette Commemerative Edition 50. 468.75 bhp per tonne : 2006 Ascari A10

Both recalls have been the fault of 3rd party suppliers (probably doing things on the cheap), rather than the fault of Holden design and manufacturing. Yeah, it's fun to bag out the new Commodore, haha, but seriously, considering the magnitude of the design work, this car was done on a shoestring budget. Some manufacturers will spend as much on a facelift for an existing model...