GTSBoy

Just cut away the extra material on the outside of the bush. I did it on a belt sander.

Check all the coolant and vacuum hoses under/around the inlet manifold and behind the engine. They're all old enough now that there might be some cracking. Check for missing exhaust manifold and turbo-manifold and turbo-dump bolts and nuts. Pressure test the cooling system. That's about all the other easy and worthwhile stuff I can think of for the moment.

The sensors from the small & big boxes don't cross-pollinate. If it's not the right one, send it back. Also, you say that you have a GTST with a DE motor......what gearbox does it have? The original turbo box, or the small NA box?

And in all seriousness, don't buy a Z32 AFM. The card type AFMs are infinitely superior.

Absolutely not. ECU will have no idea what the air flow is if you change the AFM and don't change the voltage to airflow curve in the ECU

Yes, it's a lot of money to throw at a dirty old Skyline. Had I the drug budget, I'd be all over it, because the sound is amazing.

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Less adjustment needed than is available for sure. But....on that topic, successful retros of proper HIDs retain the adjustment.

If you advise your insurance company of a modification and that modification is not actually approved by the vehicle standards department, they can still crap on your claim. If you read these clauses in most (if not all) insurance documentation you will see weasel words hidden in there about how the mods have to actually be legal. If I told my insurance company that I'd put a forward facing hornet scoop on my car, over the top of a tunnel rammed carb fed 600 cu.in V8, they'd say, "Thanks for the advice". It would not be any good if I had an accident where I scalped a pedestrian when the throttle cable jammed open in a carpark burnout and put the car into the crowd though. They would be well within their rights to point to the pedestrian maimer on the bonnet covering the non-emissions compliant, 3x too large engine and laugh at me.

The actual truth is that the "illegal" / "unroadworthy" / "unapproved" modification has to contribute to the incident that causes the claim for the company to deny the claim. If the insurance company cannot show that the mod was at least partially responsible for the claim, they cannot deny the claim. That's a pretty low bar though, and one would have to be pretty wary about things that would be very easy for them to make a statement that you couldn't refute. Wheel spacers would be an easy one for them, for example. An illegal, much bigger than permitted, non-engineered engine swap would be something that they would have to have seen a lot of times before and be well prepared with statements about how that could cause just about any incident. I wouldn't ever bet against a motivated insurance company.

Well, the RB24 was born from jamming the 25 crank in and boring it out, wasn't it? Or was that RB23 and you get 24 from a 26 crank? Either way, you could enbiggen it reasonably easily. 'Twere me though, having to live with an RB20 again, I'd strap a supercharger onto it down low on the exhaust side and twincharge the f**ker. Make an effective 3L out of the 20+blower and then turbo for that. You know you want to.

Well, fair play. But I just think if I'm going to the effort of baking my headlights open and sealing them back up, that I'm going to make the best use of the opportunity to improve them as far as they can go.

Well, they were...until someone painted them.

Those are standard wheels and you should not have rubbing problems with those tyres on that wheel. Control arm bushes could be stuffed, upper arm bushes are probably completely rooted. Both of these could cause the upright to lean the wrong way. it could have taken a hit into a kerb and moved the subframe under the chassis rails. You'd be best off taking it to a (good) wheel aligner to see if they can work it out.

He said NSW. I'm thinking......no.

26 can easily rev to 8500. Stock limit is a sensible choice, though, as they're not making wads of power above that anyway.

Do some thorough googling. There is much information on these very forums endlessly covering these points.

Spacers are not legal in Oz. Wheels that fit correctly are the best solution - assuming that the wheels that you have are the wrong offset. If the wheels are fine, you may find that you have something bent in the front end. No, we cannot diagnose that sort of thing from photos. What wheels are on the car. Width and offset.

I do believe that R32 AWD & RWD front caster rods are not compatible.

Good work. FWIW, the loom plugs on the rear have little tangs that you have to squeeze inwards to get them to release.

The solenoid could be stuck. Shit doesn't have to just "fail" electrically.

Yeah, that shouldn't happen with "stock" sized tyres. What wheels have you got on there? They must have a crappy offset - way too little poking outwards.

You won't get an answer until you pull it apart. And even then, it's only 50/50 that the answer will be evident.

Even just photos would tell the story.

Absolutely not. Have you ever looked at the two cars side by side?