NickR33

cooool... was a long time in the build, but looks as tho it will be more than worth the wait! I just had my car sprayed to fix the 'dings' ... only after about 3 years of driving it around looking like it had been in a demo derby lol ps. that exhaust looks mint, is it a custom jobbie?

I'm in!

man I'm jealous of that RB20 Roy, blow it up, head to the wreckers, couple of days later your back on the road... keep the tuning spot on, don't run it too hot and bobs your uncle... sure you might miss the extra .5L when putting around town but its a small price to pay and when its on boost it flies if I had my time again I would have gone down the 32/rb20 path... I was even seriously considering buying your car when you had it for sale a couple of years ago... should have it was good value

dear god guys tell me you got to drive that thing! terrible colour but I'm still sooo jealous its physically painful! I am posting a group buy hitman to take out james and jarrod and any other people who get to drive cars I can't afford to breathe on... who is with me?... I reckon if we get enough people we might be able to get chopper to do it for us... ready for the blow torch and pliers guys?

well I know who to call next time then... any turbo efi motor is plenty of work to take out, but 2 hours solo is damn quick, does that include stripping it?

congrats on being back in action Paul! looks like a good cruise... if I had something better to drive than a '92 Magna exec I would have come along! go Magna power...

I agree.... just drive it til it breaks dude... RB's are a pain to take out and if its going to hold together let it do so for as long as possible... if the tune is spot on and you don't overheat it you might be lucky and get many laps from it... I think tune is the MOST important factor... once we stripped my motor it was evident that the failure was in fact caused by detonation in cylinder 5 that has slightly twisted the rod, bent the crank and of course hammered the bearing to death... so not oil control as was first thought (but it really didn't help that I was running with zero oil control mods) so to keep costs within my budget we are going to do everything except machining and tuning... as Ronin points out as long as it is correctly assembled and the machining is spot on (I'm using Saliba engines for the machining) it should run fine, leaving tuning as the most important factor... afterall it doesn't matter how strong the motor is if you run it too hot or to lean or even too cold or too rich you are going to damage something and its not going to be cheap at the end of the day I would have preferred to park the car at RE or Racepace and hand them my credit card... but I don't have a credit card and I want to get my hands dirty... as clearly I'm sick in the head;)

street legal! WTF! well at least the yanks get some things right

haha yeah you did (I wouldn't have expected anything less, aren't you the reigning rwd deca champion?) ... oh well, i still think I'm funny;)

the car I have been driving for the last few days... might be interesting for any Lancia fans out there... Zagato sure knows how to make a car look cool if anyone sees me around Prahran this weekend in it say hi!

your all lucky b***ards... Troy less talkin more drivin Jarrod you have been driving too many exotics dude, you won't know what to do when you get into the Sil... probably just cruise round the cones at 5km/h with the windows down, sunnies on, fat arming it, reving it out in neutral haha

Man I love F40's... They are it for me, kinda ugly but in an Italian way which makes it okay lol

Congrats Ant!!! that pic of the kids is gold mate, they are both adorable so did you take the GTR to the hospital... haha 7,000rpm clutch dump into the hospital car park to handbrake turn in the ambulance driveway was totally necessary officer lol

word... motor is a joke... I usually can read any old drivel about cars but I can't read motor

I have to see her in papers and on TV and everytime I turn around.... now there is a thread about her on SAU... great... good work mate

thanks Geoff, great reply:)

hey Geoff do you see a real advantage in going for the higher flow oil pumps like the Jun or HKS? they are twice the price of the N1 but are they worth it on a circuit motor in your opinion?

no idea what the difference is between the OEM - Nismo mounts are... but Nismo FTW;) Thanks Adriano I wasn't sure if I could use the 26 crank and rods with the Arias pistons already in there... but when I bought the pistons they were 26 spec anyway as arias don't make 25 spec??? very true ash, it gets a little less fun every time hehe

can you pm me with a price for the motor/turbo package please?

oh... dear... god... can someone please explain to me why these poeple have so much money and I, with my excellent taste and style;), am borderline broke... all black looks good... I hope Ralph crashes it into a tree... I hate that guy, he's a f**king idiot and a predjudiced, racist asshole... but yeah, nice car hehe

thanks for the input guys:) GTSt-Vspec - I will look into the Nismo bearings, just don't want to go with aluminium again as it isn't as resiliant as the lead/copper RB30 will definately be more expensive than this build, just due to the little fiddly extras (like plenum and rerouting the cooler pipes etc), I don't really want to go back to cast pistons and I don't want to use high km second hand parts if I can avoid it... GTR rods would be okay I guess and would save me enough to get a baffled sump or the JUN/HKS oil pump... I will be blueprinting/balancing everything I can lay my hands on anyway yep Ben would do a better job than me but where is the fun in that;)

LOL I want to see a Veyron in cammo! seriously tho... its not a pretty car in any colour...

yep you will be running really rich with those mods... SAFC will give you approx 20rwkw more and you will get better economy (providing you don't drive it faster with the new power) get it tuned at a workshop on a dyno

hey mate I just posted a very similar thread http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...howtopic=178004 I'm using the R33 RB26 crank so I was under the impression you don't need a collar?

Hi guys, I recently spun a big end bearing in my RB25 at a track day... this is the second time I have had to rebuild so it was a relatively fresh engine (25,000km)... I have already been over most of this but wanted to throw it open to the whole forum, see thread here for more info http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...howtopic=173225 I don't know whether the problem is oil starvation, oil contamination or misassembly from the previous build... so I'm going to try and cover all 3 with this build... I don't have any pics of the bearings but #2 took most of the punishment ... my mechanic and myself will be doing everything excluding machining so I need all the info I can get engine will be used on the street as well as frequently at circuits and motorkhanas... will only be pushing 200rwkw for the time being but when my bank balance recovers we will be going for no more than 300rwkw... reliability is the number 1 thing I want to achive, I want to be able to thrash the living hell out of it and not have to take the engine out again any time soon (ever if possible! pain in the butt to take an RB out!) parts list: New RB26 crank ACL race bearings (no more aluminium!) Eagle rods with ARP bolts Arias pistons and rings (already in there from last build) N1 oil pump N1 water pump ACL gaskets Nismo engine mounts (current ones are shagged) Oil cooler (yes I should have already had one!) oil control: block off front oil feed to head, 1.25mm restrictor in other oil feed, leave VCT feed alone external oil drain from back of head to sump clean up of oil galleries for improved flow That's about it but I have a couple of questions: is the JUN oil pump worth $450 more than the N1? I am happy to pay the extra as long as its not just for the brand name... If I were to go a stroker crank would the extra .3 of a litre be worth an extra $2000? been thinking of RB30 but that would be a similar additional cost as I would have to buy new pistons in the other thread there was some argument about a baffled sump, do I need one? Cheers, Nick