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  1. I know they are either loved or hated (mainly hated lol) but the mitsubishi gto/3000gt... i have one and i have people asking if its a year 2000 + model and its a 1990 model. even the interior is 100 times better than everry other 1990 model cars ive seen, it still looks pretty modern even now. It also beats 99% of new performance cars even in stock form.
  2. the comment on if you plan on driving like you stole it and expect it to drive home is soo true. I even trailered my registered car to the drags, etc for a while due to possible breakages from beating the shite out of it and not worry about trying to get it home with a busted gearbox/clutch/tailshaft/etc. The one time i didnt trailer it i busted 3rd gear and was making some horrible grinding noises when running i had to try and find a trailer and get it all the way home and it was the last time i do any trackwork without a trailer in waiting. Ive gone track car option myself, i couldnt stand the compromises trying to keep it suitable for road use. I also have a nice daily driver as going hard on the roads in a powerful car is just too risky these days anyway with all the new laws. Keep the hard driving for the track
  3. Bubba your not talking about the purple 32r drag car with graphics are you? That one is not a stagea box but is auto and still 4wd. I think its from a v8 cedric or something along those lines from memory. The stagea sump is a gtr sump, they are identical from everything i can tell except the diff gear ratios.
  4. i had a very similiar incident (except we caught then in the bushes 2 secs later running from us) and when the cop phoned me back saying nothing could be done about getting the money from there parents for the damage i said " i suppose we should of gave them some punishment of our own" and the cop didnt say it was a bad idea, he sort of agreed in a subtle way. Kids dont give a damn about older people anymore they are all invincible in there minds as the police cant touch them or anyone in society, and they love it. When i was young we used to always respect people older and never abused older teenagers etc in the fear of a beating. If it happened again i will be taking a different approach as mentioned.
  5. i'd be getting a degree wheel and dail in the cams as per the cam specs, i have read about alot of rb30 twin cam setups down on power and this always seems to be the outcome. My 26/30 is also similiar with low power for boost im running and this is the next thing im going to do after speaking to a few people in the know, i havent degreed mine up yet but its definately not going to be spot on unless you have done it when the engine was assembled?
  6. Hey mate ill be home until around 4pm as the last drag meet of the year is on at the motorplex. Have u got my mobile no? give me a buzz in advance and im sure i can be home. Ill chat to you on msn at some stage during the week anyway about some things.
  7. Good luck Neil in the future, im sure ill see you on the drift tracks with your 34.
  8. t78 runs a t4 flange, i run a hks t04z on my trust t78/88 manifold
  9. Hey Neil, yer its been sooo long i got the original engine shots done november 2008 lol and pulled motor and it took soo long to get back running and regoed with 30 setup i finally got the rest of the shots done a few months ago, so looking around the july/august or so mark going by the delay in articles, maybe earlier. Pity 99% of the pics i only had the 33 gtr rims on and not the nismo lmgt2s. I cant beleive yours is still for sale, especially being sooo cheap. The market is shocking at the moment
  10. im probably gonna get flamed for this, but seriously if you plan on any track work or anything other than street driving i would go for a gtr. Simon is doing the same by the read of his thread and so am i after running a 465kw at wheel combo in my stagea. i now run a basic 26/30 combo with small turbo in my stagea as a daily and its nice. Im sure an auto with stall and that power u mention isnt gonna be nice on the street. Also most stageas need a rear end upgrade and handling isnt that crash hot compared to a skyline, but great for a wagon. Dont get me wrong i love my stagea and have been on these forums since mid 2004 when i got it and did the 26 conversion but i have been through all the stages and all my running gear is going into a 32 gtr. My stagea will finally be featured in HPI magazine in the coming months too so check it out
  11. This is a post from another forum i visit from a guy who supposedly works at Garrett in the US and explaining how everything is soon to be done in Mexico and China and nothing done in the US. Quote: Originally Posted by mbtech I work at Garrett Turbos, now called Honeywell Turbo Technologies which there so proud of. When Cliff Garrett Owned Garrett He used to brown bag his lunch everyday and cared for a quality Product. If he knew what Honeywell has done now he would turn over in his grave. Honeywell bought Garrett In 1998 or 1999. After this they opened up a turbo testing lab in shanghai China and quickly moved there turbo overhaul to Mexicali Mexico, quickly after Garrett overhaul went belly-up. So they moved there whole production to Mexicali Mexico, as if that first failure was not a sign. Garrett Turbos made a quality product for a fair price. A turbo is a precision instrument. Garrett turbos was part of Garrett Air Research (on 190th st. In Torrance ca.) Where they have a huge facility designing turbine engines, and so on. Most of the senior technicians in our main turbo facility (Lomita Blvd Torrance ca) came from our air research. If you’re building jet engines a turbo is not all that difficult. Well Cliff Garrett dies. At that time ALL production of Garrett Turbos was at Lomita Torrance ca. Also all engineering and research was there as well. After we were bought and production was sent to Mexico to save costs. Our production numbers doubled. And cost was cut in half our failure rate tripled. Well who cares Honeywell is making money and lots of it. Turbos are considered Honeywell’s golden egg. They feel that turbos are going to take over big. Which it already has in the diesel market. We make ford diesel turbos, daf, Chevrolet, some Audi, vw, fiat, Perkins. Millions of turbos. And there now all coming from china and Mexico. Well up until lately the company figured if the product was designed in the US and assembled in Mexico we would be ok. Well to further there profit and **** the customer once again....the LAST of what makes turbo American leaves in January 2011. We will close the doors to the Torrance Lab. In Torrance we did all our racing turbos (wrc stuff, Audi racing etc..) then in the garret garage we did the turbos you people buy for your Subaru’s. Actually I take that back. They take turbos that were made on a production line somewhere else in the world, and change a couple of parts on a bench in Torrance (wheels, housing..etc) and send it to you the customer saying it was made in the us.....no it was not it was just repackaged and altered a little. Well as of Jan 2011 all your turbos will be made in Mexico or china or Czech Republic. This is the last Garrett facility in the United States. We have huge law suits pending due to turbo failures. GM is probably going to leave us.... ford has already sued us. Caterpillar has one of the largest recalls in garret history in the process. Our name is becoming ****. The last few VERY smart guys left in the company are being fired to save costs, but see our profit is already good.....they just want more. Please don’t spend 1500$ on a gt35r. Now that it’s costing Honeywell less to build turbos do you think you will see a smaller bill when you order there product? NO!. They are going to charge you even more for even less. There are countless procedures that are being terminated everyday that made our turbos THE BEST. They keep cutting corner after corner. Did you know that we shave metal off our turbine and compressor housings until they are at the EXTREME minimum needed to contain in the event of failure they are shaving every nickel off the cost of a turbo. Did you know that 2000$ gt40 you buy is all mark up. I won’t dare say the actual cost to the company in fear of a lawsuit but lets just say your sales tax is more then the production cost. Do not buy these turbos. BorgWarner and mitsu are trying there best to compete with us making a quality product. Honeywell is using its big name to back junky turbos Like Toyota is starting to do. I guarantee in the next 8 months you will see a huge decline in quality. All designing and production is in CHINA AND MEXICO. Honeywell is taking back all there benefits they used to supply us with as employees. That way when they lay us off its as cheap as possible. Instead of saying "Well after we take a hit laying those people off we will make tons" they are just taking back all there benefits so they walk away clean and clear. We used to get a severance package. Which they just took away. One of the head engineers involved in the t3 project. (Designing the first t3) he is still with our company. he was supposed to get 44 weeks of pay if he ever got layed off (30 days and 1 week for every year with the company. 40 years with the company)Due to the new Honeywell rules he gets only 16 weeks pay they stole all that pack after promising it to him for 40 years. My fingers and about to fall off typing all this and I am heated so I don’t care about grammar I’m concerned about you people not supporting a Nazi company. Take your business elsewhere. Somewhere where you will get what your money pays for. Have a nice day and don’t forget if you hear the name HTT Honeywell Turbo Technologies Stay away (They still use the garret stamp on the turbos) quoted from another forum I frequent http://www.3si.org/forum/f1/interesting-po...-turbos-487204/ thats the original forum i found it off
  12. ive ran 470rwkw through a stagea before but it did have gtr rear end and manual (ppg box), i doubt auto will handle that sort of power. The stock axles snapped with only 250rwkw range when motor was stocker with bolt ons. I chucked in a gtr diff/axles/uni joints and it handled all the punishment ive thrown at it. They are heavy cars that will never handle like a gtr but great sleepers. I'd just buy a gtr if i was you, save the stuff around and have an allround package. Im putting that engine in a gtr at the moment and the stagea now runs a 26/30 basic setup as a daily. Thats my 2c worth from doing the exact same things
  13. yer my stocker box lasted heaps of time on the street pushing it real hard without a care when slamming gears, but soon as i hit the drags the first pass i swear i took it easy into 3rd and bang smashed the teeth of it. This is a 32gtr box in a 1750kg stagea with a 2.7L running 560awhp. I was suprised how long it lasted on the street the way i was driving, but for some reason the drags were a different story even running the same street tyres. I went ppg straight cut dog option and its brilliant, fast shifts are simple and firm, its drivable on the road but maitainance costs would make it not suitable and the whine is pretty damn loud except for 4th gear.
  14. they sit way in the gaurds and look pretty weak to be honest, ill try and find a pic
  15. if your going to go to the effort of putting a 1j in then why not just go the 2j instead and use a r154 box? the 2j is worth stuff all more in the grand scheme of things and the 1j is not exactly a standout engine worth spending $7500 to get done. Buy a toyota supra mk3 or mz20 soarer and do the 1j it will cost bugger all as everything is bolt in.
  16. http://www.sportcompact.net.au/pdfs/2009%2...eral%20Regs.pdf checkout page 9 which is about rollcage regs
  17. the added bonus is the liners, they are easy to replace so if you happen to smash a piston or score the bore just rip the liner out and throw a new one in and off you go. The drag guys do the liners and it saves throwing away blocks left right and centre if things go wrong. As long as you dont punch rods through the side of the block its gonna last a very long time.
  18. its not that much, i paid 4k for an n1 block a few years ago. These are more for balancing out the cars front end weight problem more than anything. I'd love to see the weight of one though. Im pretty sure the stocker weighs 54kg from memory. Ill find out what a billet v8 block weighs for a rough idea as someone i know has one is his drag funny car.
  19. good work i hope you loctited the new one so they dont do the same thing!
  20. i think its got a rear dayz lip and nismo skirts, thats all. I got the rest of the nismo kit but unsure if i should fit it or not as i think it looks alright as is and dont want to go too over the top. I reckon the best look is the colour coded side trims on the doors which makes it look alot neater.
  21. as said above why bother with studs? waste of cash if its just a budget setup. Ive done 2 setups similiar with just rb25 bolts and they are fine.
  22. ive posted this list before from when i stripped my r32 gtr but most of the stuff would be the same as a gtst im sure... rear seat back 6.5kg rear seat bottom 6.5kg front ds seat 15kg (keeping this) front ps seat 15kg main carpet 6kg rear trims in back seat 5kg parcel shelf 1kg space saver wheel 15kg boot trims 6kg jack/toolkit 4kg boot brackets 3kg air con/heater/blower fan 10kg firewall sound deadener 4kg rear seat belts 2.5kg spoiler 7.5kg air con pump 8kg air con bracket 1.5kg charcoal canister/bracket 1kg washer bottle 1kg hicas pump, engine bay lines 7kg abs unit 8kg hicas undercar lines 2kg cooler piping/bov's 15kg fusebox loom 7kg front bumper support 6.5kg sound deadener 11kg dash loom 4kg fuel tank 13kg (fuel cell = 6kg) interior/attessa/boot loom 6kg rear wiper motor 2kg coilovers 6kg lighter than stock hicas pump rack 9kg boot with spoiler (no hinges) 15.5kg total 208kg so far front axles x 2 12kg sump/front diff(gtr=24kg, vl=2.5kg) 21.5kg air con condensor/lines 5kg battery 15kg wiring harnesses 8kg drum brake assemblies 5kg hicas ecu 2kg heater hoses 1kg bumper reinforcements 8kg transfer case 33kg oil cooler block 2kg total of stuff to go 114.5kg 1460kg-314.5kg = 1145.5kg gtr box 89kg gtst box 56kg rollcage 67kg roughly (CDS andra/cams approved full cage with additional barwork) Then add in what you are going to put in like big brakes, oil coolers etc and you can get an idea.
  23. i tried that on the first one but the dipstick was popping out every run on 18psi and rings were stuffed, and for the cheap cost of freshening one up (i do assembly work myself) its not worth the hassle to risk putting in used shitters imho. Maybe its just my luck but the last rb30s ive had are not in ideal health compression wise. should be interesting to see what will be first to go, id say rodbolts or rods if the tune is safe enough not to get the pistons first.
  24. im using the same pistons (endurotech i think they are called, made by Precision) in my 26/30, they were cheap and due to the lip on the bores i needed to go .20 oversize anyway and forgies were alot more, and then you need rods as well, so i said for $200ish they are worth it. If it blows up who cares Mines running 22psi with a gt3076r and is fine (though cam timing is not right so lacking power). I've just put together a second 26/30 right now with another set and going to be running a hks t04z on it and push it pretty hard and see what it can do.
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