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pfitzner do, so do hollinger and so do PAR engineering - but only for the 5 speed box in the 32/33 - not for the 6 speed getrag in the 34. Farken everyone does stuff for the normal gtr box but no one does shite with the getrag box cause its too damn complicated.

I'm sure no one but me really cares but after 10 long weeks I finally have my car back on the road. It felt so good last night to slide into those seats and hear the roar of my RB again! :wassup: I just hope that this long lasting drama is finally behind me! For those that don't know here's the story of my wonderfull tail of woe. May 23rd at Sandown for a Murcott motorsport training day my 3rd gear synchro went. Disappointing but my own fault for having sucky gear changing skills. Pulled the gearbox out, pulled it appart and found the broken bits plus noticed that several others were looking very very average and needed to be changed whilst the box was appart. This is where the drama's really began. Contacted Nissan to source spare parts and was informed that Nissan do not do spares for the getrag 6 speed gearbox (wft!!). All they could offer was a brand new complete gearbox - $14,500. (double wtf!!!) Contacted the 3 major gearbox manufacturers in Oz (hollinger, pfizner and PAR engineering) about replacement parts and was again informed that they didnt have spares for the getrag 6 speed - no worries if it was a 33 box however. Again they could only offer a replacement box - all of them ranging from $9-18K) At this stage the stress was starting to build. I was then informed that the Supra 6 speed was also a getrag and that someone in Syd had rebuilt an R34 box with Supra parts. So we got copys of drawing from both boxes and sure enough it turned out that both boxes were basically identical with the excpetion of the input shafts. Toyota do sell spares for their boxes so this was the first piece of good news. There were 9 parts that needed replacing and 7 of them were available in Oz but 2 of them had to come from Japan. Was told that they would be here in 5 working days (this is going into week 3). A few weeks pass and they still hadn't arrived so after a few calls to Japan it turns out that the parts needed from Japan they didnt have either so they had to be made. Finally after a few weeks they were done and were shipped. They arrived in Oz..... and then somehow got lost in customs. Took them a week to find the bloody things which brings us up to about week 5. Parts arrive at the gearbox reconditioner - and you guessed it they sent a wrong part. Something about a part number on one of the drawings being the wrong number so off we go again. And of coarse the part we do need isn't in Oz and also has to be made so the weeks go by again. Eventually last week the part arrives and low and behold it is the right part. The box get re-assembled and everything SEEMS sweet. Put the box in the car at the start of this week but because my car hadn't moved for 9 weeks the battery was dead. So it was on charge for 24 hrs and on Wed it was ready to fire up. With the car in neutral but the clutch engaged the car was started and the farken gearbox sounded like it was going to disintergrate. *sigh* So the car was stopped, the gearbox pulled back out and returned to the reconditioners. After pulling the casing off what was discoved was that a small metal pin (about 8 x 1.5mm) from a guy working on another gearbox had flown through the air and amazlingly landed inside my open casing when it had been sitting on the workbench being rebuilt. This is about a 1 in a million change to happen. If thats not unlucky enough but if that was to happen normally the pin would have fallen straight to the bottom and got attached to the large magnet. But because the gearbox was just being built they use a white jelly like substance (like vasoline) to slide the gears on - this stuff melts the first time the gearbox is heated up. So it seems that this little pin when it has flown into the casing has landed in some jelly and got stuck rather than dropping to the bottom and onto the magnet. Another one in a million chance. So the gearbox was started, the jelly melted and the pin dropped into the gears. The first good bit of luck here was the pin dropped right on the edge of the gear and the damaed caused was extremely minor - just enough to cause a slight burr that was easily cleaned up. So that was done - gearbox was put in late yesterday afternoon and I FINALLY got to drive my car again last night. The big stress for those that don't know is that Im doing the Dutton Rally which is next week so I ws running out of time FAST. But damn it felt good to get back in my car after such a long time. I'm sure there are others that can appreciate that feeling as well.

Mate - my wife can't drive a manual. This situation suits me fine as then she'll never have an urge to drive the line! PS - My car is BACK so I'm definitely going.

Mate - I'll have to let you know. Sounds good but I may get divorced if I try and do that considering I've just come back from a weekend up there and next weekend Im back there for 3 nights with the Dutton! LOL

Yeah its not back yet - but I'm thinking surely this time it has to be ok. Btw - troy - Ben can steer. I'd be happy to let him behind the wheel of my car. Went karting with him and was forced to wave as he disappeared off into the distance! Also saw him pass a landcruiser on a cruise once (through the haze of Ash's smoke!) in a great move! haha.

Did the 2530's fall off mate?

you have semi's mate? hope not! seeing +300awkw's at Winton on street tyres will be funny funny funny!

Ben your car is so fast that Mr Wally isn't going to be anywhere near you except for the 0.23s it takes you to fly past him. Mind you Im mostly going just to get a feel for my car again - get a feel for my car at Winton - and if its raining getting a feel for driving my car quick on semi's in the wet! Winton is so far away that Im tipping there wont be that many people there. I'm not too worries about wallies (well unless Ben does come then there will be one! haha)

pfft - says fine both Sat and Sun. Its going to be fine. If not - Im not going to be upset. Supper Fun Happy Sliders here we come.

pfft - says fine both Sat and Sun. Its going to be fine. If not - Im not going to be upset. Supper Fun Happy Sliders here we come.

Meh - forecast looks good. http://weather.news.com.au/cap_index_frame...e_melbourne.htm My gearbox looks to have got better - get it back this afternoon so will know then. If all is well them Im there 100%. Rain or shine.

My car came with a mines ecu - used to run very rich at low rpm - and also very lean on high rpm. So I changed to a Power FC. No probs now.

Matt - did you call to confirm its on?

Are we sure this is still on? If my car is running I'll come up.

Cheers Simon - guys are looking at it this afternoon to determine whats happening. Its not the same problem - could ne a shaft or something I dont know but it rattles to death as soon as you engage the clutch even in neutral. If prognosis is bad I'll give you a call. The only thing tha will stop me from racing in Dutton will be if Im in Jail for murder.

yep - it starts next friday.

Battery was sweet - started car up this morning. Put it into gear - and the gearbox sounds like its going to disintergrate. Can't believe it. Somebody is going to DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its not my fault - these exitfilm guys weren't exactly that organised. Not a whole lot of notice really.

I'm out - the gearbox went back in yesterday but it seems 9 weeks at the back of a workshop hasn't done my battery any good - last night after being on charge for 5 hrs it still wouldn't start so I won't be getting it back til tonight.

Al - brakes - probably RB74's from racebrakes. Very popular. Oil cooler with Remote oil filter - mines a serck comes with remote filter - was about $850 fitted at Ice. Works great.

Adz - you were already in it.

Base - I'm there along with a few others already. I'll speak to Allison this am and find out how many she wants.

Hey Roy - I'm more than happy right now to let someone else take the burden of looking after accomidation this time. I have enough things on my plate right at the moment with SAUVIC to be more than happy to handball this task.

jezzrrr - I also spoke to Peugeot because apparently the new 206's also run a getrag - but they didnt have anything either. The only place I didn't try was BMW - but the M5's run a getrag as well. From what I can gather however - basically these Dextron oils etc are just a high quality ATF so I'm feeling ok using the redline ATF especially since so many of the Supra boys are using it without problems. (The only difference between the R34 getrag and the supra getrag is the input shaft. My gearbox was just rebuilt using toyota parts because Nissan don't supply parts for the R34 gearbox. And the gears, synchro's etc are identical)

BTW - one little piece of advice that you can choose to ignore if you like is to go and buy yourself one of those little 12V compressor pumps from your local autobarn/supercheap etc. Different tracks will require different "cold pressures" and by having one of these it will help you easily inflate/deflate tyres to reach your optimal pressure in each tyre after each warm-up session. It allows you to experiment a bit as well. IMO they are a great thing for about $40.