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With you huge power goals and being seemingly unfussed about cost you'd be mad to not got a 3L RB30 or a 2.8 stroker, will make the car MUCH better to drive.

Providing you saved the advert and had a good lawyer you could almost certainly get your money back, providing he didn't spend it all on drugs. It is false advertising which there are laws against.

At lot of people saying this but I still don't get it. Lets look at the two scenarios: Buy a stock car for $15k and spend $50k getting it to show car spec how you like. Buy a show car for $25k and spend $15k tweaking the things you don't like about it. Scenario 1 takes years and costs you $65k Scenario 2 takes you maybe 1/4 the time and costs you $40k You still end up with the same result, you just take some of the guess work and hard work out of it, you also save a lot of coin by buying someone elses money pit. That is the way I look at it anyway.

Tell you will pay cash asap when he sends them.

Added 15kw in the midrange for me, pretty huge improvement.

no such thing as a neo rb26

I like the cross over pipe he is using

Not true, there are power to weight ratios that are required to be met. For example you can no longer engineer an rx3 with a 13b turbo rotary, they flat out deny the request to modify vehicle. There are also limits on engine size. For example in a R32 a turbo charged 4.4L v8 is the largest engine you can get engineered in it, Or a 7.3L NA engine was what I worked out when I was looking at it.

If you could cover the entire thing with a 4" hose I reckon you could fool an inspector.

Aren't some of the sensors different? I had to rewire my CAS plug though I think that is only a neo thing. If not then that is even more win!

You can run R34 but it means rewiring a lot of stuff for not a huge gain.

If you don't know how to wire in an ECU you are best to just pay someone to do it all for you, probably end up cheaper.

It has a resolution suited to higher airflow, so if you max out the stock one (~240kw ish) then you need a Z32 or it makes tuning very difficult. Re the ECU no it isn't that simple, you cant just plug an R32 ECU into an R33, you need to wire it in.

You always have peak cylinder pressure at peak torque... that is what peak torque is. What I am saying is you can increase your midrange torque for any given redline torque if you are running flat boost. Assuming of course you are not limited by detonation due to fuel etc.

If it is a half cut then it is pretty good, but if it is just the block then yeah rip off.

nistune have raised the price to 400 for an ecu, so usually close to $1k tuned and installed, sometimes more. If its stock engine it is easy to tune so usually a lot cheaper than if you have injectors + turbo etc.

Was it a neo for $1700? that is hell steep for an r33 25. I sold a forged short block 25det for $1k, pistons, bearings, rod bolts etc, almost $4k of parts in it, took almost 4 months to sell it even though it was running. If you haven't picked it up yet keep looking imo and just make sure you do an oil analysis AND a compression test.

nistune has coolant temp trim tables. but yeah do what you said re just tuning for summer and itll be fine all year

Why don't you just buy a show car with everything already done? It will be a hell of a lot cheaper and quicker.

A safer way to tune is to make a intake temp ignition/fuel trim table, and another one for coolant temp. That way if you do stupid stuff like do a burnout in summer you wont cook the motor.

From a traction perspective totally agree, in fact you see a lot of factory cars do tricky things to do exactly this, a sharp rise in torque almost always induces wheelspin. Look at the 3L TT inline 6 BMW engines, all sorts of trickery to keep the torque flatish and not have massive peaks like our cars.

See the way I see it if you are running the max airflow a turbo can provide at redline, then that same airflow at x psi will be x+y psi in the midrange, hence you should run more boost in the midrange to make the most of the turbo. Like if you look at the compressor map then the same airflow at redline at 20psi is 25psi in the midrange. So if you can get away with running more boost at redline, you should increase the midrange boost to make the most of it. Which is why I think turbos should be set based on airflow not psi. Though if you do it this way you are always going to have a massive midrange spike and have torque fall off by redline which just doesn't feel as good for some people, though for drifting etc it is perfect. Thoughts people? 625nm of tractive torque, not torque at the engine, dynos don't measure engine torque they measure tractive effort. if you are making 530nM at 4200rpm then you are ALWAYS make 233 kw at 4200rpm, it isn't possible to be anything else.

PowerFC isn't as good as say a Vipec etc and is just poor value imo. I would get a Vipec/Link G4 before buying a PFC.

What kind of pussy are you? just weld it shut like all the cool kids

One of my "mates" got busted doing the dodgy call up mr RTA guy and give him $500 to clear a defect. Has been to court ~6 times now (over the past 2 years) keeps getting adjourned over and over again, he lives in Kal in WA now so he has to come down to SA for court every few months whilst they stuff him around. He didn't even get his own car off defect, all he did was pass on a phone number for someone else. Just something to keep in mind if your bloke ever does get busted, they will go back and look at EVERY SINGLE CAR he has approved and re inspect it. Something like 400 cars had to be reinspected when this guy got done. You WILL get a record for it if you get caught. Bloke is getting charged for fraud and some other fairly high level charge.