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I bought another daily in the meantime.

This is not the R34, just for a car that I can actually drive around, still rego'ed, still runs fine, etc, just old. All the electrics work and the interior is fine. Seems like a shame to scrap it, but it may be worth more doing that and cashing in insurance and reg than trying to sell it.

Anyone know a reasonable contact for junking/wrecking a car? Googling results in a billion options. Are they all the same? /srs

Someone else buy this shizzle!

I guess I need 1200hp now

What could possibly go wrong?

People have been telling me to give up on the 25 and buy a R32 GTR. They don't really understand when I say "this is not a great idea..."

They knew what he was

Would be pretty happy with a LS anything right now! Also would be happy with an anything right now..

Alternately: Found out my "blown head gasket" is actually a cracked block... 7000kms after the build. $12,000 to fix like last time and 6 months+ Also stock neo, $2500-3k. mmmmmmmm...

The concept isn't a bad one. It's like working 3 12 hour days a week for 36 hours and then having 4 days off, just on a grander scale. What if it was 10%, instead of 20%? Having a year paid off ain't such a bad idea, because unlike the VWL regular elite most don't actually plan that well because life tends to get in the way.

Strange, the people I've seen get tunes on that dyno, and Racepace dyno, and Springy Motors dyno, were all within ~1kw of one another. People need to setup their engines to the maximum tractive effort supported by their tyres. Anything else is slower unless you're on the track and frequently 80-200+ kmh which is the only time you will start clawing back the car lengths you lost to the guy who makes 270rwkw when you make 500rwkw. The limit of current road tyres on the back of your average JDM car is about 280rwkw anyway. Wanting that extra ~10kw is just dumb. Every time I drive anything else and I can just floor it in the hills and have fun in it I have ragrets. I had more fun hooting around in a MX5 on BC's and tyres with the roof off in a sunny day with a pretty girl than I reckon I've ever had in a 400+rwkw R34.

Also "If you get water in your system, your car is gonna think that water is SUPER ETHANOL" and act accordingly... when it isn't.

Seems to be any setup that deviates from what they were designed on has some probs. Noticed it a lot when Tao was putting his Turbos onto the SR20 when he had the S14, things that worked fine in one setup just did not work at all on other setups, even his own cars. Not really surprising that others have issues when their setups are different. (like my RB28 ) For a hiflow on a RB you can't really go wrong with HG though. Then again, are there real options besides GCG for that kind of thing?

Yep, I made 400 (+? it is an auto after all) on the Blitz return flow. Which, from the outside looks exactly like the cooling pro one. But as mentioned, it could be very different internally. Or, perhaps there's a correlation between people who choose cheap intercoolers and other setup issues or corners cut elsewhere. nfi. Also yes, while I used E85 in my setup with the Blitz, it made well, well, well over 300+ on 98. Enough that the intercooler didn't even think to become a restriction at all. I never pushed the boost or timing on the 98 tune, it was there just to drive around on when E85 wasn't available. Point being though, "you can't make more than 250 on a return flow intercooler" is false.

As someone with the Deluxe Sydneykid setup, I am curious to see how well it works out for you, as MCA do quite know their stuff on the track! Though it doesn't look so bad in the video, but you can't see how it 'feels' when trying to throw the weight around.

This is what I still have - And up. Feel free to offer me. I also have a set of coilovers for a R34, they are "New SR Specials" which are considerably firmer than stock, and will pass a RWC. Useful for say, passing a RWC but they are pretty high, ride considerably better than stock though. $180? I also have a cat back exhaust from a sedan which admittedly is ugly as f**k but pretty quiet and flowed 400+RWKW. It has twin mufflers, happy to let this one go for a few hundred/offer me something. I don't know if it'd fit a coupe - But could be easily modified considering it's physically sitting at scotty nm35's place.

what

Me too, was an odd quote to make in the first place..

You can get a lot of flavour in a burger from things that aren't the pattie, sauces, relishes and all that jazz. The best chicken burgers out there are great, and chicken doesn't have a great deal of flavour. Its possible, I guess?

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I agree, but every now and then you see them pop up/appear with something already in it. Someone was selling a S13 with a LS2 in it for 6k before, with the gearbox and engine mounted. Someone with some know-how could easily pick that up and get it finished and enjoy it for quite a long time. I would rather a LS1-LS3 than say, a RB25 into a 180sx was my point to be made. Big difference than say... putting a LS1 into a Supra because "its better to run an engine at 100% than 200%".. I wasn't suggesting the neo for you, I was thinking about it for me. There is no reason to call it a day on something, because there is no actual demon involved. If I gave it up and started again, I would want/get something very similar to what I actually have. If you sold your GTST and started again (Ignoring the GTR) you would get... another GTST. With the same mods, with the same problems and things to consider. I'm not actually trying to push the envelope or do anything too unusual. I just want what is relatively standard to actually work correctly. I would never recommend anyone put a neo into a 33 because the benefits don't really make a lot of sense given how hard it is, for some very minor benefits if any at all. son of rajab knows I know what not to do, and what to look out for by now RE had a good reputation for a reason, for awhile.

It's entirely legal to V8 into things, if you do it correctly, which can be done. I know people who have engineered RB25's into things as well, but if your aim is hiflow RB25 territory for power, why not V8? There really isn't any reason not to.

A pretty valid point actually. There is a lot of merit putting a LS1-3-flavour into a RB, S13, whatever if your goal is 270-300rwkw. Response, Sound aside (both benefits for a V8) there's merit in it being legal, EPA wise and the main factor of it working near 100% of factory/designed power, vs trying to run something at 200% of factory power. v8 m8 is gr8

Yes, this is the power of a decade of hindsight and knowledge of what happens to others, a much larger sample size than 1. In theory, a proper rebuild should be fine. There's also the argument of how long or what better durability you actually get from a rebuilt 350RWKW engine. I don't think any amount of forged parts or expert assembly can get you 300,000kms at 350RWKW, it doesn't seem like that would be a reasonable expectation anyway. Or what would happen if you got a forged build and then only drove it like a regular road car, then saw how it looked/lasted 300,000kms. There's not really enough data for it. Race cars build race engines and they make 500hp or what have you, and they last four laps on a track every now and then. Whats that, 15kms per rebuild? Expecting a 2.5L to make 200,000 track kms just because FORGED is a bit much. Still would be nice to last more than 500kms of street driving.