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I also know nothing about plumbing, so I can't say whether age and deafness are going to cause a serious concern to being able to get the job done. I wouldn't have thought so, but I have no idea on what plumbers must go though on a daily basis.

People are f**king with you for lols dude. Do not modify a N/A skyline. Nothing you do will do much. Having driven a stock turbo one recently, my mind exploded with how non amazing it is. A non turbo would ostensibly be worse. If it takes 20K in mods to get to the point of a standard turbo car I am joining the bandwagon with "don't mod it unless those mods WILL go onto the turbo car you buy later on"

+1 to you seem to be angry and resentful and bitter in this complainy post. Then you seem to say "People don't like me" as though it's "People's" fault. Rarely I have found in the real world for this to be the case. Especially in the working world. Attitude matters. People can see it. If you came to me with an attitude similar to these posts (I'm not saying you're like this all the time, I've never met you, I don't know you, I wouldn't hold it against you if I meet you at Scotty's backyard one day), but if you came to me with an attitude like this I'd feel the same way. I visualized, and I may be wrong someone who is almost forced to attend an interview, to obtain experience, to blablabla, in short, someone who is forced to do something they don't want to. People see this shit instantly man. Its the first thing you notice in a millionth of a second. Attitude and a willingness to learn is the most important personality trait I have ever seen in any field, professional, personal, or otherwise. Edit: Stuck cause you can't get what you want? What do you want? Why can't you get it? Solve the problems logically, obtain what you want. Most of the time, it breaks down that way.

Attitude with my car is no problem, I reckon I'm more determined and enthusiastic about an unsatisfying bucket of s*** than most lol. And it puts your kids through school! (also I need a cheque to clear to pick up my new victim of molestation) I can't give any solid advice to Mr Grant cause I don't know his exact situation. But in all honesty you have to find something you find interesting and do it based on that alone. Money has to be a secondary aspect of what you want to spend a large majority of your life (8hrs a day+) doing. I would say its far 'better' to do what you want in work, and cater your 'off work' lifestyle to suit the amount of money that brings in. If you want to surf all day then yeah man you're not going to be driving Bentleys unless you're REALLY good at surfing.

Success in life, in any job, in any relationship, in anything at all you can think of, is 90% attitude.

Um, I think you haven't talked to many IT people who are doing support, if you're reckoning they will prefer Mac over Win based machines for clients. It's still the exclusive choice of hipstery web designer guys who think their right to do what they do best ("creative things") is throttled by the tyrany of using a Windows machine. These are the same guys who ride skateboards in the office because it helps them get put into a 'creative space'. Now, if you have a small business with ~50 people total, and everyone uses a mac - Sure, you can get away with it which is what I imagine Odium is talking about, if everyone knows how to use a mac. If you have 7000 clients, with 200 mac users, you're gonna have irritating times ahead when the people who are expecting everything to "just work" find out it just doesn't quite work that way.

I have gone from the standard shift kit to pretty much everything you can do to a R34, and the difference is beyond night and day. Absolutely absurd. I drove a stock one and almost laughed myself off the road. You have two options 1) Stick with and upgrade the auto (no one really does this long term other than stupid me) 2) Go manual I entirely understand why people driving stock Skylines pretty much go LOLZ AUTO LOLOLOLOLOLOOLO.

I have the SK ones and man, I don't think I'd do anything else. I went for the bees knees, and spent 4k+ and immediately after putting them on, realised they're the best upgrade for the car you can get. Way better than any engine mod for driving pleasure

I still have these for sale!

I've made just over 400RWKW with a GTX3076R on E85, off the stock manifold with a WG welded to the turbine housing. I actually made 377kw, but it was through an auto which had 8% slip. Some crazy mofos have made up to 455rwkw on one, but uh, at 45PSI. I don't think that is really going to work too well in a stock engine setup, especially if you don't have a GTX and have a GT3076 instead. Also +1 for getting injectors well, well, well above 555's. You never know when you will need them and the cost difference is almost zero.

Working in IT, being around IT people, I am yet to see 1 IT person go from Mac to Android and then go back to Mac, ever.

In comparison, my R34 GTT was insured for Just cars for 21K, $1000 excess, their choice of repairer, and I had to provide documentation of every mod (which I didnt mind doing). Premium: $1725 For shannons, same car, got 27k agreed value, my choice of repairer, $500 excess, and it cost $1100 for the year's coverage, and didn't need to see it, but I had that option to increase my agreed value. Not even remotely close, lol. Which is great for obvious reasons. I for one hope scotty's evo is really boring so he can do something really exciting like swap my entire car over while I'm at work. Thats waaaay more fun than a stroked evo, yep.

In my experience, with a HG turbo I've gone from bad results, to better results every time I went back to the dyno - My car was dynode a good 4-5 times at Chequered after some random bit was fixed, or part altered, or setup changed, etc. Every time I made changes they reflect. I would NOT be surprised if people are rocking up with HG turbos because THEY ARE CHEAP and not really paying much attention to the rest of the setup, and get a sub-optimal result. People gotta remember Stao's turbos were designed on Stao's engine with Stao's setup where he has a vested interest in making it as efficient as possible. Remember what happened when he put one of his RB SS turbos onto his SR? Even he was surprised certain things didn't apply and the result was pretty bad. I wouldn't be surprised if these turbos are going on different cars of questionable setup and having varying results. son of rajab knows I got 3-4 different results on the same turbo every time I went back changing things.

Ok. So. I am going to take my car to a non chequered dyno, just to answer this one. Once it's on the road again. Stay tuned between now and some time in the next 17 years.

Sorry mate, I don't have the original parts, original cams, pistons, crank etc, was living in an apartment with no garage when the engine got built, so I didn't keep those for storage reasons.

Drive it down a winding, fast dirt road in the middle of winter, and never clean it. Look at it, go LOL its ugly as fark then just drive it hard, daily and on the track, giving little f**ks about what you cannot see when actually behind the wheel

Apparently 45psi, someone has done it on a SR20. That said, was in a magazine. I was sceptical, but given I got 405 on 28ish psi, I see no reason that 15 extra psi wouldn't result in 50kw...

Buy my entire setup.

I'd like to regret selling my wreck............

It's all fun and games until you can't run Nistune on R34 N/A's and you get an e-manage and then can't get it working and/or legal or RWC so you put a standard GTT engine in and then the wiring doesn't work right so you give up on Nistune because nothing talks to the auto correctly so you end up saying forget it use an e-manage then the engine blows up and you wait a year for a rebuild and then everything else explodes and scotty fixes it after 6 years of crap and then you slightly bend it just buy a gtt

It wouldn't be the long motor, it'd be everything in the engine bay. Could literally bolt whatever you want, or use my working bits. The more people want, the cheaper it gets. I'd definitely be picking this one over a 25 for 12k. And I'm negotiable, and I would ship it. I'm only concerned as I wouldn't like to have it get damaged while being shipped or something which would be rather bad for all parties (hence the 'can see it running!') thing. I realise the price is high, and I don't mind murdering that price if someone actually makes an offer. Doesn't have to be here, send a PM. You may be surprised on just how much I can throw at people when it comes to convenience. Do some tire kicking. I can attest my PM box is full of people who want everything except the engine. Buy the wreck and you'll make the cost of the wreck back in frigging extra bits people want. I'm quite aware that the number of people who are like "oh, I am about to forge an engine for a GTT or GTST or Stagea" is quite low. It just doesn't happen often. People seem to build RB26's which are arguably not as good as a Neo anyway. Failing that, it'll go into a GTT or GT Four (if I can find one for sale...) I don't mean to keep bumping my thread - Send a PM with a ridiculous offer and see what happens. I have low expectations of selling it, but you never know

People do often forget that. Most/all cars are excellent at what they were designed to do. An XR6T or a SS commodore is actually very excellent at what it was designed to do. (especially the XR6T!) People often make cars do things other than what they were designed to do and get a bit upset when something more suited to the task does it better.

But why would you want to eat an eggplant?

Blitz will work if you are prepared to make it fit with an angle grinder. (yes rly)

In all seriousness I am considering putting my wreck into a 4WD GT-Four, because that would be awesome. In theory you could run a high comp N/A with turbo with E85. I would, if I could go back in time I would consider a higher CR but I'd never recommend it. I'd say conversions are really only viable if it doesn't exist in any other way, like Hamish said, a LS1 in a R34. But a Turbo GTT does exist, a manual GTT does exist. Time is money, especially if it's someone else's time.