GTSBoy

Ouch. Please take any comfort you can from the fact that we do send good thoughts towards people we hear about in these situations - even if we're too far away to do much else.

No I suspect when the GTRs surrounding the sequentials (that get transplanted in in the coming sequential craze) get drifted into roadside furniture.

Upgrade. Not stock.

It's a bit of a different thing though. H pattern dog box because you need something strong enough to handle monster torque. Sequential because you want snick-snick gearchanges (along with possibly the same strength as an H pattern dog box). The snick-snick is cool. Just not without cost (both $ and utility).

if the proposal is to put a turbo larger than 60lb/min on it at any time then you should budget on replacing the crank damper. It's a reasonable bet that you'll want one for a 26 if you use the 26 crank - but don't trust me on that, as I haven't played with both to know the differences. If you're going to want to make stupid power than you're looking at at least Camtech or Kelford cams with as much lift as the Neo head can be made to swallow (without shitting shims out! they are shim over bucket, remember), and at least 264° duration. Don't f**k about with Jap cams. If you're putting cams in, just put springs in too - especially if going for the largest workable lift and longer duration. There's no easily defined boost/rev/threshold for this. It just makes sense to do it.

To be fair, if I was awash with cash from my retail disco-bikkie sales network, I'd be wanting a sequential in my 32. Although, that would prevent me from doing my usual 1 - 3 - 5 or 2 - 4 - 5 traffic shifts.

Better the 2nd time around.

Dunno about videos. 2D line drawings are clearer than blurry cameraphone footage of the underside of a GTR plenum anyway,

I think once you are willing to spend billet block money on an RB in a Skyline, you are way the f**k into "why bother with an RB?" territory. Spend half the money and put an AMG V12 in it or something. Surely there can't be enough drug money going around to justify billet blocks for street Skylines.

Maybe. It depends on how the MAC has been plumbed up. The correct thing to do is to just make it like the vac hose diagram in the service manual. It's really clearly laid out.

Fours 'n' More, Pooraka. Very long experience with these cars. Has been doing these sorts of inspections a lot lately.

Don't worry about optics. They're just too bloody big to work nicely. You really want rubber bands for tyres?

Yeah, well if I owned one I don't think I could overcome the inertia required to do it myself. I only went 25Neo in my R32 because it was actually quite trivial - having had the original auto box banished many years before and being mostly just a case of swapping the looms.

Quality post. ^ This is a good reason why I say NA Skylines are only suitable for LS3 conversions. If you're going to have to go through bullshit to try to get 30 year old tech working, you might as well just strip it all out and make a 5 year old BIG V8 work.

CU is Control Unit. ECU is Engine CU. TCU is Transmission CU. etc.

I don't understand. That is not stretching the tyres onto the wheels at all. The correct tyre size for an 8.5 " wheel would be 235 or 245. A stretch would be a 225. Cramming a 265 on there is a big, baggy bulbour 1970s style fitment.

Yes, that is the definition of Nissan Consult. All the CUs are on the bus. Any Snap-On, or similar scan tol, as possessed by ANY decent mechanic these days, WILL read all the CUs. I worked out what was wrong with my HICAS using a workshop grade scan tool.....20 years ago.

This ^. Jap cams are bland.

It is an RB25. Definitely use a 25 map. The only thing that is "26" about it is the capacity, and capacity does not matter. The AFM will take care of telling the ECU how mush air it is breathing.

How is your TCU doing a good job of running the tranny when it is not communicating with the ECU? The TCU and ECU need to talk to each other and usually get quite shitty when they can't. The auto ECUs know how to talk to the TCU, but the manual ECUs are autistic and refuse to communicate.

No. That's the only difference in the engine wiring. Re-read what has been said above. But for clarity: The NA auto cars have a separate TCU. The tranny loom is wired to that TCU. The turbo cars have the TCU in the ECU. All the tranny TCU wiring reports to the ECU plug. Only, when you plug your ECU into the ECU loom plug......where are the tranny wires? Still on the other side of the car connected to a TCU that is not connected to the ECU. The turbo ECU does not want to talk to the remote TCU. It only wants to talk to the TCU that it has inside itself.

Ha. I skipped right over that part. Kinks is correct. GTT ECU is not going to run the N/A auto. Also will not run the GTT auto in the NA body unless the loom is also properly swapped in.

You get the base map from the Nistune ROM pack. You will need to do config to account for different injector size, etc, to get it to fire up. There is no "base map" for what you have.

Ha! Relevant thought is relevant.

Yeah, can't fault ACS. They gave me a near complete replacement on a clutch that I had been dailying for years when it did something weird and turned one of the springs inside out. They couldn't explain why it shat itself, couldn't blame me for such an odd failure, so just ponied up. I would have been happy with any contribution from them at all, let alone nearly all of it.