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    I'm not saying you're wrong, see my rants about modern BMW M cars being unfun at any speed on the road and expensive at the track... ....but these are mainstream enthusiast cars now. What you're seeing less of... is classic/vintage cars being driven around in anger, as they are classic, vintage cars now.
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    Standing around having photos taken on insta. (sad but true). Go to a track day, what is actually there nowadays could suprise you, you need to update your cool car in the hill radar to include VW, Hyundai, BMW etc
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    I would, alas the car is in paint jail
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    Yes, this is why I end up being 'vocal' with executives. "I want it" can't be "Just because we should have it" you need reasons. It has way too big knock on effects to simply want something "Just because" at that level in orgs with 10,000+ employees. Currently, message labelling. Sounds great. Except there is no governance on how to actually HANDLE message labels, so I may as well implement the labels as "Pink Flamingo" or "Conrod" or "Massive Dildo" and force people to choose one for every message, with no framework underpinning any of it. It has no value and can actually have detrimental value if all it does is serve to annoy people into clicking something random, or just using the default for everything, especially if there's no repercussions for getting it wrong, no monitoring for people doing it right, and no guidance on what needs to be what label. "But we need message labels!" f**k sake.
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    I mean something people seem to be WOEFUL at is doing a proper cost/benefit analysis. Going cloud is great, if it saves you time and money. Does it? I have found a LOT of managers just want 'the new thing' with SUB-zero understanding of what it is and how it functions and why they need it. I spend a lot of time on that point nowadays too.
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    This is so interesting, because I manage a Hybrid Onprem/Exchange Online environment/M365 Tenancy. I find 365 MUCH more intuitive than our On-Prem systems running Exch2019 for example. If my email servers could f**kin tell me in plain text WHY they are unhealthy it would have made my week so much fkin better. I am reading SAU instead of re-reading the event logs right now. Not to mention the less technical overhead of managing servers which more or less run an app. Then again, once you are entirely in a cloud, any cloud... it's very easy for Microsoft or whoever to just up the price x% and you just have to wear it. I suppose right now we have the worst of both worlds by having a hybrid setup. If you look at Powershell versus something like Logic Apps, you can see it's by far a better setup, because purely on intuition it's much simpler for many people, who simply want to say "When X, Do Y, Tell Z" for 99% of their stuff. Yes, it's less powerful at it's core, but do you need it? If you can articulate what you want to have happen in human-readable language it's a big step forward than attempting to translate that into on-premise/powershell code. I will echo Mr No Crust - Working in IT where the core business does something valuable to humanity is the way to do it. And honestly you can see it. I've worked in various firms over the years, in various countries. When you see the people work there for ~2-3 years, you can see why. When they're all there 10-20 years, you can also see why. Especially if the people working there 10-20 years on lower than average pay. This stuff is valuable in any work environment tbh, and you should be mindful to take 'advantage' or at least appreciate the good/acknowledge the bad sides of either type of environment lest you go insane in both of them.
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    yes
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    Get them to put the cams in. Everyone has happier with cams installed. Be happier with the end result. Happier than you are now.
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    Tbh, as someone who has been in IT for 20 years, I too relate to what Dose is saying. It frustrates me to no end that an Executive EA who manages emails and calendar for some VIP is a whole pay rung higher than the people they trust to implement and figure out email for the entire organization, or lead the teams that implement and support it on a technical level. It feels mind-alteringly dumb to quit, become an EA, and earn $20K a year more. I suppose it is what it is. Seeing people in the finance industry earn double for 0 technical skill does drive me a bit nuts. I suppose that's what they get by working in a soul-less, money driven thing. It's like.. what do you people do and why should anyone give a f**k about it. It doesn't provide any value whatsoever. /rant IT Workers around the globe should strike at once, that would be f**kin amazing lol.
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    WTS T56 Magnum, pls add all the required parts to cart and install pls.
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    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.
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    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..
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    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
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    I find it stunning someone would leave IT and get into.... mortgage broking? Is it massively lucrative and easy AF?
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    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.
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    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
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    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"
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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...
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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