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Have you noticed any drops or puddles under the car after its been sitting for a little while?

give Tony aka Fridge from eurotow a call 0408487385 a few people on here will vouch for how good he is and how well he looks after the cars he tows

Good. I should hope not.

hold on a sec..... didn't you just finish building that one? why would you even think about selling it?!

i saw this earlier today as well. hope it all works out. looks like a very nice 34

How many gold bars? Exactly what would I be getting? Lol

Haha I can only imagine how much fun 800hp would be. At the moment, long term, I'm thinking it would be awesome just to be able to drive this thing around. Build it so it's nice and solid. Nothing crazy but at the same time maybe spending a bit extra on things like oil pump/bigger sump. The gtr will definitely see the very occasional track day once it's driving again but we've decided it won't be the super sprint racer that I originally planned it to be. Once the gtr is back on the road I'll be looking for something else to be the dedicated track car. No idea what yet lol won't really worry to much about that til the gtr is back on the road. I'm open to ideas though of you guys have any

There was a brief moment there where I got blinded by the thought of crazy amounts of power lol. I'm very glad that Jess stopped me from throwing all our money at it. I've had a chance to kind of step back and think and see that aiming for 800hp was a very bad idea. I don't need anywhere near that much power, especially on a street car lol. Thanks for the advice Richard

Haha yeah don't worry, if or when we sell the turbos you'll be the first to know. I'll keep you posted Verms. At the moment I'm not so much after crazy amounts of power, more interested in response. Cheers

Yeah actually that would be really good. Let me know when you're free and then I can check out this new A70 of yours. I'm definitely leaning more towards something nice and simple instead of something crazy. Purely for a good reliable engine that we can just cruise in. Originally I wanted to track this thing and maybe enter some super sprints or something but after all this I'm starting to see that I won't be able to afford the upkeep of a track going gtr for a least a few more years. Might have to buy a beat up gtst to play with lol

Just a bit of an update for everyone. So today after work I'm heading to ESP to pick up all the bits and pieces of this engine. Me and Jess sat down and had a big chat about exactly what we want to do and have come to a decision. The GTR has officially been put on hold for the moment. We decided that we're gonna take the money we have saved for the gtr and go to Japan for a month or so early next year. Kind of spoil ourselves a little bit after this massive run of bad luck we've had lol. Once we get back we're gonna save up some more money and fix the damn car. As of right now I'm really not sure which direction we will end up heading engine wise. Now that we've got heaps of time to think about it knowing me I'll change my mind at least 50 billion times lol. Do we stick with a 26, use this N1 block and build a monster? Do we sell almost everything and build a crazy rb26/30? Do we stay twin or go the single turbo route? Or do we source a very nice low k stock 33 rb26? So many options!!! Lol I'm sure Japan will give me even more ideas haha but at least we've got a lot of time so we don't rush into anything and make a bad decision. Will tackle this with a clear mind early next year and hopefully will be on the roads showing off before this time next year. Don't worry though, I'll still be around asking stupid questions like the noob that I am lol. Hopefully catch up with some of you at the track day next weekend. Hoping to get dad to come and see what he's getting himself into now he owns my old gts lol. Cheers guys! Drew

Don't worry, I had to drive back from wakie in the gts at 80km/h on a space saver a few months back so I know your pain lol

Yeah definitely ate something lol. Oil pump seems perfectly fine though. We were gonna open up the pump but after seeing the internal damage of everything else decided it wasn't worth it. So no idea what it ate lol. Cheers for that Eiji

It sounded pretty beast lol

Spotted a black on black 33 GTR driving past my shop on Newcastle street in fyshwick just now. Sounded very nice

Cheers Eiji, i'll send you the pics tomorrow. the only thing i can think of that we'd be able to do in the immediate future is have a look at all the wiring lol we're still deciding exactly which way to go engine wise

As you can imagine, at first i was extremely far from happy lol But shit happens hey. getting/staying angry from here will only make things seem a million times worse. plus i'm getting pretty old now (24 lol) so maybe im just a lot wiser with my old age lol Have to just cop it on the chin and fix the bloody thing. at the moment im probably more excited than anything else. we're closer to being able to drive it again now than we have been in 2 months

Thanks heaps Richard. i can definitely think of at least 3 things more fun than destroying the engine in your fancy new gtr haha

yeah took a couple of pics on my phone and i have the pistons and rods in a box at home lol little bit of a momento haha when i work out how to post pics (coz im a forum noob lol) i'll post some up

Ok so as a few of you know, Jess and myself bought a 32 gtr not long ago and the day after finally getting our hands on it the engine decided to produce a very lovely knocking sound. We made the decision to pull the engine and pull it apart to find out exactly what went wrong. in short....its pretty bad lol. From what we can see there were a lot of corners cut when this engine was being built and it also seems as though it wasn't really run in after being put into the car. so its been slowly killing itself since day 1. on the plus side, i feel a lot better knowing i couldn't really have avoided the damage. knowing exactly what went wrong and why has given me a bit of closure lol. the only bottom end parts that are really re-usable are the block and crank, although both will need a little bit of work to be good again. the head also copped a bit of damage from piston no. 3 smacking against the bottom of it so the head will need a little bit of work also and the turbo's can be re-used but in the not to distant future would need a bit of a freshen up. also seems as though theres been a fair bit of dodgey work done on the engine bay loom so that will need to be fixed up before anything. we have a few options in terms of rebuilding at the moment but unfortunately with the extent of the damage a rebuild is going to be out of our price range for a while. i think at the moment we're leaning more towards sourcing a stocker to throw in just so we can drive the beautiful thing around instead of leaving it sitting there for what could potentially be over a year while we save up money to rebuild. so i need everyone on here to keep an eye out for preferably a stock r33 rb26 or a late r32 rb26 that we can throw in lol i might even have a bit more of a chat to fatz about the one he's selling at the moment. i'd just like to say thanks for all the help and advice you guys have provided over the last 2 weeks or so. it means a lot that complete strangers would go out of their way to help us out and offer lots of advice. cheers guys!! Drew

How bout a gtr with an engine in pieces ready for a rebuild?

Hey mate got any pics of the engine? Where/who was it built by? Has it been in a car yet? Cheers, Drew

Good news and bad news.... Good news is that the engine is out and the process of pulling it down has begun. Can confirm that it is an N1 block so hopefully the internals aren't to bad. The clutch is in awesome condition and the head has had some serious recondition work done with some Grex camshafts installed, no idea what the specs for them are yet though. Also have a pair of trust/greddy T517Z's bolted the the hot side. Bad news is that the front turbo had a fair bit of oil in its intake pipe and looks like it has a bit of shaft play. We're most likely gonna be up for a new sump/diff as the right hand diff/driveshaft connection has seized. The engine and engine bay loom look like they've had some dodgeying up at some point so going to need to fix that up. And one of the nismo airflow meters doesn't look to be in the best condition so contemplating ditching the power fc for something that doesn't use AFM's. So work has begun and hopefully by the end of today we'll know exactly what kind of costs we're gonna be up for to get the engine back in and running well. Drew

Personally I really like the whole idea of it. i love the look and I'm not fussed it has a boxer engine. got to see the ft-86 II concept at the melbourne motor show this year and could barely keep my eyes off the thing. but thats just me and i completely understand if other don't feel the same. something i did find though is that it seems the subaru version will still be rear wheel drive >>> subaru BRZ

Lol sounds good enough for me then. I'll PM you a little closer to the weekend if we end up needing it (I have my doubts about whether or not this is going to work lol) Cheers