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it's not performance nor engine temp you'd be worried about bryn, it would be not trimming them evenly.. centrifigal forces on an unbalanced fan can get pretty carried away if you don't do it properly :S i managed to keep my piping out of the way with a bit of playing around, ended up throwing a zippy tie or two around where the L shaped pipe bolts to the drivers side of the head as my dodgy piping didn't come with the mount welded on, and accidently snapped it playing around in the engine bay with the engine running one night and the fan blades trimmed themselves perfectly on the sharp edge of the pipe clamp good times, good times.. definently remove the neo cover though EDIT: About the water bottle - he doesn't have one anymore

well, got overly enthusiastic tonight and pulled the whole intake down from the plenum to the turbo, gave everything a good clean, went over it with a fine tooth comb, then cleaned all of the electrical plugs.. put it all back together and she's running.. still a bit rough but i've yet to properly setup the timing, so a win for the rb30det at last thanks for your help guys, much appreciated

afm checks out as okay, swapped it in with another one and still the same problem while fooling around wtih the afm's i though't i'd cracked it when the car held idle by itself indefinently hunting around (pretty badly i might add).. also noticed that if i can manage to hold the revs almost steady then the blow off valve is continiously sounding, even though the throttle is open..

will do, cheers for that

trying to brainstorm a few other idea's and i'm thinking that perhaps the AFM is dirty.. fair bit of oily smoke was flowing out through it when the last bottom end let go so i'll give it a whirl tomorrow

hrmz.. fuel is 3 months old at the most, would it go stale this quickly? sort of starting to feel like it might have a misfire once it get's revving.. i just get this feeling that the base timing must be out, but it all seems to check out

is it running rich? did it happen straight after the 100,000km service? if so is it possible that base timing might be a tad out? sounds much like coils to me, so perhaps if the base timing was a tad out this could have been the straw that broke the camels back so to speak

hey again, really sure there's no boost leak, no hissing, been over it all including intake manifold.. as for specs, running a power fc (swapped back over to stock ecu but no luck) stock injectors, stock afm, stock turbo, fmic.. checked timing and it's all okay.. really starting to stump me :S

heya, Just finished putting the rb30 together and i'm having a few issues.. the car turns over but hesitates massivly to fire, the only way to get it to run is to give it a bit of throttle, and even then it's sketchy, it's either give it throttle and watch it rev up, or back off and she dies.. feels really like a boost leak issue, except it will actually rev when given throttle, although been over it many times and can't find one nor hear one when it actually does turn over. when it does turn over it is running massivly rich (black smoke), so i was thinking that perhaps one of the cam gears has slipped when i was tightening it up and is now running an extra tooth retarded or something, i guess this will be the next thing i'll check but i'm stumped for idea's.. it's obviously getting both spark and fuel as it turns over.. any advice would be great thanks alot guys, mark

7.62 hey, i had my mag58 qual, it's like an automatic elephant gun.. out of curiosity, what marksmanship awards did you recieve?

yeah actually that reminds me we got that - but we were fed bullshit about having to keep these as proof that we'd been out bush to recieve our bush pay, kind of wish i could go back to kapooka as an RI maybe for 3 months to pull some of that stupid shit. "RECRUIT SMITH, IF YOU SO MUCH AS EVEN LOOK AT ME AGAIN TONIGHT I'M GOING TO LITERALLY f**k YOU UP THE ASS WITH A PINEAPPLE"

EDIT: Yes i'm retarded, there were spots for them there the whole time, thanks for the info though, much appreciated <begin flame now>

far out, another AJ.. i think i saw your car out the front of the RAP at Simpson Barracks a few times when i was down there, think i may have even said gday to you at some stage welcome back to qld

just a couple of questions.. probably been covered before but spent the last 20 minutes searching and came up with a few hits but no solutions first of all, the oil drain that is located behind the exhaust cam gear, are you guys just T'ing it back into the turbo oil drain? Is this something to do with the PCV system so it would need another hole tapped so it can drain back into the sump? and last one, the two green water temp sensors (i think that's what they are..) that are present on the rb25 have no place on the rb30 block, and no place machined flat where they could be tapped in (from first impressions anyway), are they being T'd into where the radiater in and out pipes are attatched? cheers guys, mark

EDIT: dammnit, wrong rb30 post

haha, that's gold.. one of my mates at the school of sigs scored himself a set of pips from the clothing store and used to walk into the new recruits who'd arrived straight out of kapooka's bedrooms and go nuts at them, some of the funniest facial expressions i've ever seen in my life, you don't realise how much bullshit they put you through until 6 or so months down the track and you take the time to look back

Haha i'm planning my move back to old greensborough shortly, i miss melbourne too much, *blasphamy*

looks great, good work! can't wait to share the same feelings when my timing belt arrives later this week and i get to crank over my backyard rb30det for the first time (assuming it works )

i'd be tipping next to nothing until you start pushing near 300rwkw, but for the cuts and bruises it stops when you go to pull the f**ker out and simplicity it adds to the engine bay justified the extra $200 to me ($200 (for the plenum only)

pffft you won't do it, and, for the records sake the only reason i was caught doing silly things and you weren't, was because you'd already lost your license for dragging a cop in a WRX.. f**king street racing wannabe hoons

dehydrated egg trick? haha it was ages ago i don't remember so probably not , you're not a real soldier until you can kill another platoon with nothing but your FRED

my vip card says "THE" family i'd say it's more eccies and speed than ice

i frequent the family more than the beat, i thikn i've seen you wearing phats downstairs (i don't go upstairs )at the beat a couple of times but could be mistaken.. usually pretty far gone by the time i end up at the beat if i spot you next time i'll be sure to say hi

congrats on the licence.. best feeling in the world when you get it hey on another note.. i looked at your myspace cus i was bored, do you go to the family / monastry / beat much? swear i've seen you out..

haha i woke up just as it started raining and made a mad dash downstairs to make sure all my shit was covered up (car disassembled doing rb30 under the back porch) incase rain started to blow in.. ended up bringing the head back to bed with me nothings too good for my baby