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Hamish found a video of you on the internet

House time is overated unless you dont get freedom at home or you want to have regular parties or you want to settle with a missus. Though some like to do it for the self independence. *Thinks of the money saved if I still lived my parents lol

Haha dat commission

You guys should just hire Alvin as a personal house chef

Pretty good time to buy I think, house prices seem to be stabilizing and interest rates are low Alex can throw in his 2 cents! Yeah Alvin said he'll make more so I can get some too lol

Mmm to rent or to buy? Which area you thinking? Come move next door to my house lol Oh yeah drop some of Alvins Honey pork at my house

Saw your payment go through SmokeyV35 so shouldn't be too long

Mohomo Post up details on what you plan for your engine build brah

We are rebuilding the whole engine, the head and the bottom end. Most of the stuff I've taken off will need to be taken off in any case, i.e. manifold, turbo's etc. I'm just taking the head off first to have a quick looksie at the damage done, out of curiousity. Won't take that much extra time Going overseas soon, so will be away for over a month, so the extra time it takes for when it gets sent away for rebuild won't add that much extra time. There may be a chance I'll need a new block, out of curiosity is it a neo? If so PM me details brah Haha yeah I need to do that

Haha maybe moh Progress from today: Pulled out turbo, dump, manifold and rocker covers

Haha if anything would be a neo 25/30. Neo head is still good. Has solid lifters like the rb26 head but has vct in the head as well

Need some work to keep up with your cheater Evo at the track Maybe not Frank but the other guy who builds engines lol RB30 crosses in and out of my mind, don't want to over-complicate the build. But if we find out the block is farked then it might be an option. Not sure yet

So now we are at today! I have tried to keep the budget to around ~10-12k (parts & labour) I have thought about a stroking it (rb26 crank), rb30 or high comp but think I will just go with a standard build? Plan for the car is 300-330rwkw on 98 octane. I think anything over 300 you start to lose tractability on the track. So are here is the list of parts I have come up with: Parts Pistons - CP Piston Rings Conrods - Carillo H beams Big end bearings – ACL Race Main bearings - ACL Race Oil Pump? - Rebuilt with Reimax Gears? Water pump timing kit Full gasket Head gasket - Cometic Valve springs Valves? Pending on condition Radiator hose kit Head studs - ARP Main studs - ARP Cylinder head reharden – Might need a new block if warped Crankshaft ground & balanced All work invloded in block prep including: -check block for warpage, damage and softness -bore and hone .020" (.5mm) oversize (pending block condition) -line bore main tunnel and re-square deck face -grind/balance crankshaft -blue print engine -full recondition of cylinder head (with porting) Other bits and pieces: Coil packs NPC clutch Diff Nismo/Kaaz 1.5 way Custom/Brae/6boost Manifold Oil cooler VIV Roadworthy Any feed back would be great!

So 3 days before Sandown my car got stolen It was seen get thrashed and filled up with 91 Octane fuel, there was CCTV footage of the guy at the petrol station. Due to the power of facebook there were sightings and it was eventually found 3 days later in the same area as the petrol station. Car was broken down and engine was gone. Car got so hot the coil packs looked like this: These are the brand new JJR coilpacks. Note valley cover was removed so coil packs exposed, and my bonnet hinges also up to allow air to pass through under the bonnet as well. We used a bore scope to look inside and so far we could see some cranked pistons. Engine still cranks over. All the coolant from the engine had gone and the new Castrol 10w60 smelt really burnt. We also filled the radiator up with water for a test, and could see that the water was filling up the head. And also pissing out the back of the block. So it is likely the head gasket blew, lost all coolant but the theif continued to thrash the car causing the engine to die. The plan was to get a R34 GTR but circumstances changed, so I decided to keep the car and use the insurance payout proceeds to fix the car and get back on the track

Bought the car in May 2006 with the following mods off a fellow SAU forum member: 18" Rays TE37s TEIN Adjustable Suspension HKS Cat Back Exhaust 3" Split dump and Front Pipe Hybrid Front Mount Intercooler Drove it for a few years just replacing maintenance items in between, Walbro high-flow fuel pump, and extreme heavy heavy duty organic clutch. Drove it stock for a while then got a Nistune tuned by Trent @ Chequered tunning, made 200rwkw: Rotors decided to give up so replaced them with the new style DBA 4000 slotted rotors with HPX pads: After a little while I noticed my oil temps where hitting 130 on just normal drives, a little while later my radiator blew up and the engine boiled over. So replaced the stock tiny radiator with a 55mm alloy radiator. Straight fit no real issues: To Keep an eye on water temps, as the stock one is useless I installed new Autogauge gauges: In the 6th year of car ownership I decided to get into Track racing, so firstly had to mount a fire extinguisher: Custom made allow bracket. Had to be sturdy to pass scurtineering at the track days First time out at Sandown, it was raining that day but my best time was a 1:47. Tyres were Ku31 front and Nitto Invo’s on the rear. Month after the next track day was at Winton, best time was a 1:49, intercooler hoses kept blowing off. So replaced them with Norma constant tension hose clamps and new silicon hoses. Also did a compression test and was 165 to 170 across all cylinders This was the result at Winton after blowing off an intercooler hose. Massive flames and burnt rear bar: New seats and harness as I was being thrown around the car on the track days: The following month was another round at Sandown this time in the dry, my best time this time was 1:33. Was pretty happy with that! Pads gave way on that day: Decided to upgrade the turbo, as it was still on the stock turbo at 12psi, and didn’t want the turbo to take out the engine on a track day, especially at a place like Winton where towing costs would be ~$1K. Following mods where done to prep the car for the next Sandown Round in Dec 2012. · Hyper gear SS2 Turbo · Manifold from Stao which had been ported for better flow · ID 1000 Injectors · 3Inch JJR bellmouth dump pipe · Cometic manifold gasket · Genuine turbo gasket kit · Inconel nuts and bolts · Scotty 3inch metal intake Dump pipe didn’t really match up to the gasket so had to open her up: Gasket was fine around the SS2 turbo: Bought a cometic intake manifold gasket listed for a R34 GT-T but didn’t fit. Seller said it was for an R33 and R34 but as you can see it wasn’t the same, never got a refund for it either lol Off to Trent @ Chequered Tuning for a tune: Car made 265rwkw with coil packs missing all over the place 19.7 psi down to 15.7 psi drop So got some Yellow jackets: Re-Tune with Trent before the manifold burnt a hole through a new turbo silicon hose: Final Tune with Trent, where I bought another new silicon house and heat wrapped it: 20psi going down to 16psi up top Car was now ready for Sandown, hoping to crack under 1:30!

Should be pulling off the head soon, i'll keep you brahs updated on the damage to internally. Might do a build thread actually

FYI they were brand new coil packs and melted in a few days. Valey cover was removed so coil packs exposed Wouldn't be a blue one would it? Might be an SAU member lol

MMm Waygu Still got dat taste in my mouth from Aaron's bday nohomo

I normally get home from work at about 7ish

Yeah you might be waiting a few months at least

I don't get home till late and was planning to continue pulling the head off my car. Come past on the way home! or help me pull the head off the car lol

Would you want an ss2 turbo? I have thought about selling it.... Only got used for a dyno tune, 3 weeks on the street, before some guy stole it and blew up my engine I've checked the turbo stil pretty much new

Standard injectors should be good for 220-230rwkw Same with the AFM So yeah if your stuck with money stick to under that

Fair enough! What other mods you got at the moment? You need to come out with Aaron next time, don't think I've met you before!

Get a new job Alvin Mon-Fri 9-5p.m