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How many times have you seen someone bag out Skylines because they are too common? People are willing to pay for individuality and the NSX has it. Plus it's probably the best Honda has to offer in that area, and some people really like Honda.

I wouldn't use a semi-synth on a turbo car. The biggest difference between mineral and synthetic oil is the temperature at which they break down. Synthetics break down at higher temps and so last longer in cars which run hotter combustion chambers such as turbo cars. You can still use a good quality mineral or semi synth oil, but you need to change it sooner.

Yeah that was a typo on my part I can prove this by the bit where I said they were the same thickness when warm. Edited now.

4100 is 10W-40, 8100 is 5W-40. So it's thinner when cold, and same thickness when hot.

No problems mounting 040 or 044 internally.

Get whatever size the guy you're buying the stolen turbo off has in stock. Probably score a 600x300 HKS one for $100.

$20 for the gearknob.

Even if not on a Skyline forum the NSX is an overpriced pile of crap. It's often referred to a rich man's Civic. The only reason it does so well in racing is because the track version is so far removed from the street version you're essentially only identifying the car by the shape.

SK, on a related note, is it just as easy to lube up an RB25 80mm intake and slide it onto a Q45 AFM? The size difference is smaller so it should be easier, but I dunno, maybe GTRs use more flexible rubber or something. Man this post looks rude when I read back over it.

If they're the same price, there's little reason not to go with the 044. It'll be a bit harder to fit because it's wider, but not fundamentally so.

The first tune will cost a lot more than the second because they have to go through every load point to start with. The subsequent tunes should cost $200 or less. Even the first tune often costs way more than it should, rather than starting with a base tune a good workshop can start with one they know works good with similar mods and save a fair bit of time. But you still get charged the full amount

Did you read what Ben said?

I don't know if these things get much more outright power, but they do help eliminate a fair bit of heatsoak that most standard intakes on RB20/25's suffer from. That might be enough to give you a little bit more power and reduce leaning out slightly, but I find the better purpose of these plenums is to improve throttle response. I have a home-made, unscientific one and I don't suffer from any leaning out. I would get a more professional one if I was racing it or had more money, but for mild mods I don't think anyone is going to have any problems with this plenum. If you're considering buying it, do it for the better throttle response, which is why I did it and I don't regret it at all.

Jealous of what? That you sell fuel pumps and I don't? There was a thread way back by someone (I think Steve, could be wrong) who had a standard Walbro pump and he found that it wouldn't hold up above 230rwkw or so. The HP version may well flow more, but you didn't specify in the initial post that it was the "top of the range" so I assumed it was the lower pressure. If you do in fact sell the HP version then I apologise, but I still think you've inflated your figures at least slightly. Whatever the case, how can you even attempt to say that 255lph is slightly less than 330lph? Anyway, free bumpage

Man, give it up. 255lph with no fuel pressure is nowhere near 330lph under 5 bars of pressure. Not "slightly less". Yes they are easier to fit than Bosch pumps, no doubt about that. But most Bosch pump failures seem to be due to improper fitment so you can't really blame the pump. The Walbro pumps flow more than most factory ones, but to suggest yours will flow 600hp is just wrong. I've only ever seen them referred to as 500hp pumps, and even then that's overly optimistic except maybe for the HP version. Don't spread lies to pimp your product.

I bet he never got 600hp out of one either. A Bosch 044 fuel pump does 330lph at 72.5psi (5 bar) and can support up to 700hp. Walbro pumps are not known for their efficiency under normal fuel pressure, that's why they released the HP (high pressure) versions. Since the original post does not say it's the HP version, I presume that it's the original pissweak version. Do the math. But don't take it from me, take it from a site that sells these pumps. http://www.prostreetonline.com/buy/walbro_...el_pumps/honda/ "For example, at 80 PSI the standard 255 lph pump will flow around 132 liters (35 gallons) per hour. At that same 80 PSI the equivalent HP (high pressure) fuel pump will flow over 210 liters (50 gallons) per hour." Even the HP version will be lucky to crack 500hp, so I think this thread title is false advertising. If anyone buys one of these pumps and gets 600hp out of it, I'll eat my hat.

Yeah wtf is this thread about anyway? At first I thought it was a question about wastegates. Now I realise it should have just said "I can get my hands on a stolen turbo, and I want to know how to hook it up best with the money I saved". This whole thread should be deleted. Or maybe just change the thread to "hints and tricks to get your own stolen parts for a cheap hipo car"

I don't have any stats on being maimed on a bike, but I can give you my experiences and one story about a friend. I've crashed my bike while learning several times, almost all of them due to locking the front wheel due to over braking. Every single one of them occurred at or well below the speed limit (as in slowing down for intersections, roundabouts etc). Most of the non-lockup ones occurred because I either stalled it at the top of my driveway and it keeled over, or it rolled off the stand as I was putting it away at the bottom of my driveway. I don't think the latter ones count though because I'd already gotten off the bike The worst one was when the speed limit was 100kph, at 100kph. I locked the front by over braking and down I went. I had misjudged the speed at which the bikes in front of me were slowing down. Despite this, my bike slid to a stop well before the other bikes and it didn't hit. If I had just braked properly I would have stopped fine. I hurt my wrists and bruised my ribs where my mobile phone hit, but other than that I was ok. Not a single scratch on me due to my protective gear. With the other accidents I still would have been all right if I hit something because the speed was low enough to hit something and not get badly injured. Even then if you hit something you're not a total write-off. A friend of mine crashed her bike into the back of a stationary car at just under 60kph a few weeks ago (she was slowing down while swerving around someone that went into her lane and cut her off, but didn't have a chance to slow down much at all). She went head first into the back of the car. She hit either the rear windscreen or the boot lid or something (I forget, but it damaged the car). She bruised her legs, got a big red spot on her forehead from the helmet impact, but other than that she was ok. Didn't have to go to hospital. The bike was also repairable, though at around $5000 cost (they didn't get the plate of the guy that cut her off). If you have a head on into a car, then you either go over it and be ok, or you will probably die on impact or get run over by the car behind the one your bike hit. I don't think there's much chance you're going to be maimed. You'll either die or get up and walk off the road. If you go through the windscreen, then more than likely you'll also kill the driver or front passenger of the car. All I'm saying is that bikes aren't as dangerous as everyone seems to think. I do understand and agree with part of what you're saying though. I wouldn't like my teenage child to learn to ride on a bike as his first vehicle of choice. I would try to make sure they have at least a couple of years driving experience under their belt before learning to ride, but if/when they learn to ride, they will find that they will be safer all round on the road, even as a pedestrian. Here's an accident that was in the news today, just proving that you're not invulnerable just because you were in a car. In fact, if it was 1 or 2 people on a stalled bike and they saw the train at the last second, they could have jumped straight off to safety rather than wasting time undoing seatbelts and opening the door. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/05/...1557954678.html

I know you didn't say it was stolen, but bollocks if it's not. Hang on, "they" are cheap? He has a case full of them? If you are still naive enough to seriously believe they aren't stolen then you're, well, naive.

Did you know that you have more of a chance of winning the division 1 prize in the lottery than you do of dying in a road accident? Whether you're in a car, bike, truck, whatever That is one statistic that the government isn't going to promote. Given those odds, I don't think it really matter what kind of vehicle I'm in or even if I walk along the footpath. I can't even remember if pedestrian deaths were counted in the statistics I found. If they weren't then the lottery is better odds still. I drive and ride to cater for other people's stupidity. No, it's not 100% foolproof, and there is a slight chance I'll be involved in a fatal collision. But it serves me well and continues to serve me by getting me to work in around 1/3rd the amount of time it would take to use public transport and under half the cost. I also get free parking, whereas the chumps that drive because they also hate public transport have to fork out $8-20 a day depending on how close they want to park to work. I park outside the elevators. If I planned to immunize myself against fatal road accidents I wouldn't go on the road even as a pedestrian or on my bicycle. More bicyclists and pedestrians get killed than motorcyclists. Yes I know that that's because there are more bicyclists and pedestrians than motorcyclists, but my point is there is no 100% safe form of transport. If everyone learned to ride a bike properly, they would learn to appreciate how easy it is to get hurt in an accident and take a lot more care when they are in their cars. Fatalities would drop because accidents would drop. No it's not practical to make everyone learn how to ride and I'm not seriously suggesting it would happen. I reckon if you did the statistics on drivers that died in road accidents in car vs car accidents whether at fault or not, the ones with both car and bike licences would represent a lower proportion of the drivers killed, and I daresay would be much less likely to be at fault. One statistic I would like to know is the likelihood of dying if going out in a carfull of your drunk mates on a saturday night in the highest powered sports car that any of you own (whether or not the driver is drunk). I appreciate the risks when riding and driving normally, but the above situation scares the crap out of me. Sorry about this rant, I'm just sick to death of this whole "bikes are dangerous, you will die if you ride one" thing. Having said all that, I knock on wood so that I don't get taken out by a clueless car driver on the way home from work today

Don't buy stolen parts. It makes you no better than the thief. Plus you will have no right to whinge if your car ever gets stolen.

Maybe they just want to charge you more because they thought you sounded like a dipshit.

Ester oils also smell like lollies

I would much rather be in a truck or a bus than a car if I had to be in a crash. But if you learn to ride a bike properly, you will improve your reflexes and develop a sixth sense which you can use even when in a car. It all depends on whether or not you feel capable of riding a bike competently rather than the minimal crash protection it offers. There are heaps of situations I could have been involved in a minor bingle had I been in a car or truck, but just zipped easily out of the way on the bike. That's not to say I *would* have had a crash, just that it would have been a close call. I'm not saying that bikes are safer than cars in a crash. All I'm saying is you're not invulnerable in a car, and I think the benefits of learning how to ride outweigh the possibility that you'll get killed in a bike accident.

I see you've got no comeback about not being able to write English properly