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  1. Kinkstaah
    The one that does my head in is the guy with a R34 GTR that's mostly stock and making content with it. Next to it in the garage is a C8 Z06.
  2. Kinkstaah
    Oh. Usually people do put a cam in to move the power back to resemble the OEM power curve of the 2.0, so you get more power more everywhere. Still a good example of how no replacement for displacement, and power under the curve, and under foot responsiveness and all that truly matter more than peak HP..
  3. Kinkstaah
    As someone who has had a 2.5, 2.8, and a 5.7 Skyline.... do what is most fun for you. I mean, I know which one of the setups is objectively the most fun. NO ONE ever goes back. But you might not know it's more fun unless you try all the options. I will say this though, every single RB skyline in the world is shit to drive now (for me). Having said THAT, you could just buy a C5 (or onwards) Corvette/Camaro. Diversity and different character is fun. We're all jaded and call all R chassis shitboxes. It's like having great pizza for the 700th time in a row. People tend to like what's new and exciting and such. My previous sentence could make you think "Ah f**k, I hate C5 Vettes and new Camaros, boring as batshit" and you will understand many views here on the humble R chassis :p
  4. Kinkstaah
    I find it stunning someone would leave IT and get into.... mortgage broking? Is it massively lucrative and easy AF?
  5. Kinkstaah
    Oh yeah, I know someone who just could have bought one with a 2.5 in it and a PRHT... Also, is it too late to say that people also usually throw a cam in there while they're pulling the engine out so that there's more power up top to go with the displacement? Please subscribe to my build by proxy thread for future updates.
  6. Kinkstaah
    Yea, it's also so they can be written down and referenced (and reproduced, really). My old forged motor was blueprinted... but also funny that a car would exist with a forged motor and nothing else. Entirely possible that a R33 GTST lived its life unmodified and eventually had an engine failure.... but most don't go that way and go down in fiery glory via a little extra air going into them :p
  7. Kinkstaah
    Yeah I was going to comment on this. Somewhat _unusual_ to have a built, blueprinted motor when everything else is stock? Nevertheless, the age old wisdom applies: What is your goal for the car? Be honest, and then you later find out what you need. The recipe in the other direction is sadness. The path is not necessarily "Buy shopping list, car become more fun"
  8. Kinkstaah
    I f**king told you to buy that built 2.5 one ready for the track from the get go that was 18K. God damnit you people need to listen to me Dose, the BMW M4 Competition the shittiest car ever. BORING on the road at low and high speed. BORING on the track relative to a truly fun track car. EXPENSIVE AND PRETENTIOUS. I also haven't driven my car since December, because it is in second paint jail after first paint jail. I find a way to have a car off the road for a year and it isn't even f**kin broken
  9. Kinkstaah
    It will work great. Water under the bridge by the time it's up and running. The G Series platform is probably the most absolutely rock solid option you could have possibly chosen. Some of us.....like me.... have travelled many paths and know from experience that some options, decisions, paths are better than others.... :p
  10. Kinkstaah
    Probably still better to sell/return and get the EFR7670 in T3. ... won't be twinscroll tho. So buy it in T4. The hype over transient response is real for those turbos. I'd rather have a fabricated manifold change and not have to change all your other stuff, versus using an adapter and have to fabricate your intake, dump pipe, and have a gasket, bolts that come loose. Plus all the other shit involved with mounting a turbo which I cryraged about many times with many failed f**kin turbine to manifold gaskets and shit, why double up. Get a f**kin twinscroll Vband manifold You could realistically also just change your manifold entirely. That may be cheaper or more expensive depending on what the quote is, versus buying a new manifold, selling current manifold cost, waiting for fabricator versus waiting for delivery on replacement item, then dealing with "It mounts in the same spot!" to find out that alas, it is slightly different requiring fabrication anyway Or you could just YOLO it with a single scroll rear housing... but we're well into 'but what's most optimal...' now.
  11. Kinkstaah
    Sorry for some reason I thought you had a T4 Twinscroll manifold, not T3! I wouldn't put adapters on adapters. Just another gasket to fail or thing to sit in the wrong spot or other annoying complication.
  12. Kinkstaah
    Awwww, the 7670 was the best turbo I ever had! But it (and the 660) is probably 'too big'. It also does come in twinscroll and T4, waaaah, return the Garrett! Realistically either is going to be great, presumably you can find a suitable housing for the rear. I had a T4 1.05 rear with the EFR (it's the only option, too) and it was great response wise, but I also had a 2.8. Garrett's 1.05 might be alright? I mean they make it for a reason after all. Surely they don't expect the G30-660 to be suitable for like a 4L motor only and couldn't conceive of having a smaller housing for a smaller motor...
  13. Kinkstaah
    G25/30 Series. Nobody seems to run a BW EFR anymore, and not at a 320kw power level on 95 gas. I did back in the day on a RB28, I don't think anyone ever ran a 7163 on a RB25. That said, a G series is going to be much easier to fit being physically smaller which is more helpful than you might think. The turbo is the only thing that really adds power to the car. It is the most important of all selections. Do not skimp on it. If it's a budget issue, save longer. The difference between a G series and these other options will be like 5% when all is said and done. What's an extra $1000 now when you look at it through the lens of all the $ already spent to support..... the turbo to do its job well. I see it in LS worlds too, where they spend $50,000 on the motor to run 2x $300 ebay china turbos on the f**kin thing. With engine consumables, well - they all are. Just less with less power. It's either already rebuilt... .....or it's a 25 year old engine you are wanting to boost to (at least) 200% of stock power. It would be very wise to consider what the plan is, and be ready for it, when something does go south. Don't be that guy with a just completed-now-broken-car because you didn't budget for things to go wrong, which is how a low of projects end up sadly.
  14. Kinkstaah
    Honestly: Buy a name brand turbo. Garrett or Borg Warner. Anything else you will be chasing "but why doesn't mine end up like the dyno graphs the sellers post?" Buying a brand name turbo gets your result right where other people with the same turbo experience. Also, 600whp in any country - expect your engine to become a consumable. If you're okay with that and can plan for that then all the power to you. Also consider your clutch will suck and your grip will be less than stellar. Aim at 450whp. You'll have a better car and more fun actually using it, and it'll probably be faster for every scenario with the one exception being drag launching it on drag radials at a drag strip where you might be a tenth faster. Sincerely, Wiser, cooler heads.
  15. Kinkstaah
    2.5 torque? 3.0 torque? Pft. Dude the van is right there. Consolidate your projects, put the LS into the R32 and have either a R32 with grunt, or a firebird that handles, however you want to refer to it. Either way you won't want to drive the Firebird or a RB powered Skyline ever again so this is the proper solution, and you cut down on projects. It makes sense even if you hate it.
  16. Kinkstaah
    My gut feeling was also blowby, it is absolutely crazy when you see how much engines actually breathe when they run a lot of boost or are heavily modified. If you can ever see a motor on a dyno it's pretty crazy, full on steam train action. I thought I was going crazy when filling a 500ml catch can in one 20 minute track session, or maybe two. It's been awhile. But then I saw how much _worse_ it is with harder running engines and I was pretty shocked. In any case I would definitely use more than 1L in 1000miles with that kind of load going through it :p It going nowhere.... is... unusual
  17. Kinkstaah
    No? The WTAC rules heavily favour certain JDM manufacturers. Plus, in the world of time attack, these are also the platforms that guys 20 years ago built and built experience from, now that they have hundreds and thousands of dollars of sponsorships and junk behind them and have a ton of R&D. From another continent we may see things like Lotus Elise/Exige/Porsche GTX and the Corvette platform smash things. The C6 at WTAC had a 160KG weight penalty. Have a look at Gridlife USA where they have a Ford GT absolutely massacring everything. If you look at Clubsprint (which is still a sponsored class) - but the most "bang for buck", not many Nissans there at all. In a field of 39, there was a 350Z in 17th and a R32 GTR in 22nd.
  18. Kinkstaah
    Welcome to modified Skyline ownership.
  19. Kinkstaah
    People just don't understand how good MX5's actually are and how fun they are to drive, park, manuever. You feel like you have got some fun cheat code, while everyone else is sitting in their luxobargeSUV like normies who missed the point of living. It really is that noticable. As long as you/your stuff fit, and you're comfortable (they are), a MX5 is the best car on earth to daily around.
  20. Kinkstaah
    Any reason you didn't, like... change it while at the Pie shop so you could compare them on the way back? (all the more reason to go for another drive I suppose)
  21. Kinkstaah
    It's just one of those bugbears that I bring over from Facebook. Lots of people think the dividing line between them is Sedan vs Coupe or Manual vs Auto for some/any feature but it's always NA vs Turbo (or GTV). I have no idea if GTV got the GTT rear end. I'm just gonna pretend I know and say "yes they did"
  22. Kinkstaah
    I believe (this is a great silviaz thread where we must all interpret) that he is asking how to put a GTR cluster into the car. But because the dials are reversed on the GTR (speedo and tacho are swapped positions) he's asking how to do it. The answer is you buy a R34 GTT Nismo dash, which also has 320kmh on it, and will plug straight in. The longer answer is it IS possible to configure a GTR cluster to work in a GTT, so if you somehow got one of those cheaper than the Nismo GTT cluster, you could configure it to work. Whether you have the time/skills to do it and whether it's worth the $ is another story. There's probably GTR to GTT cluster information out there. In threads like this one. I assume also what is being asked is he doesnt want to change the whole cluster. Just the KMH dial itself and put it back together in another cluster, then recalibrate the speedo needle so it doesnt show 320kmh when the car is doing 180, and is asking how to calibrate that. Which is doable with like a Dakota Digital speedo/signal interpreter box but jesus man just buy a cluster.
  23. Kinkstaah
    Nope, the R34 Non-turbos have literal S15 parts for their subframe, axles, diff, diff internals, and ABS system (including the ABS ECU and wiring/pinouts) The non turbo part is where the difference is.
  24. Kinkstaah
    I added one, it made the car hotter.... Mind you, that one looked great, did nothing so I sold it on. If you make actual good working ducts as above, it'll definitely work. This isn't that though, out of the box :p
  25. Kinkstaah
    That is what will seal with the bonnet closed. Follow it down while closing the bonnet to see where it ends up with the bonnet closed. The panels don't do anything other than spending money, which this one will do just fine. :p
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