Shoota_77

$10K? Good luck finding one for that! I haven't seen one under $12K for nearly a year now. I believe they've now gone beyond the point of considered good bang for the buck. I remember looking at them advertised for $6K for a full bolt in kit 4 or 5 years ago and thinking I'd love one but that it's way too expensive! Hindsight is a glorious thing! This is what Speedtek list as the ratios (identical to the OS Giken gearset ratios except 5th which OS use 0.826 which would be revving it's arse off at 100 km/hr)- GEAR RATIOS 1st: 2.695 VS 3.214 STD 2nd: 1.703 VS 1.925 STD 3rd: 1.236 VS 1.302 STD 4th: 1.000 5th: 0.7 VS 0.752 STD (0.7 is what I chose) In effect i guess they're longer rather than shorter gearing throughout the whole range. OS Giken has the shorter gearing on 5th which would help keep it in the revs going into 5th but Shouldn't have to change out of 1st gear quite as quick which is nice. With the normal box (from my very distant memory of driving it....) it barely felt like you were rolling off and it's time to go up a gear.

Ha ha, I hate when I mistype words, I'm such a clutz!

Right so I'm either dumbest, most gullible person on the planet or a fiercely brave groundbreaker! I've ordered the Speedtek gearset and will hopefully see it early to mid December. I got the assurances I felt I needed from him (Alex) and I also spoke to a guy in NZ with a 610kW R33 GT-R running the gearset. He's run a 9.7 sec quarter mile on it. I specifically asked him about a) the service he received from Alex and b) the product itself including fitment. This guy had nothing bad to say. Alex's remarks (be they right or wrong) were that at this point he wasn't too fussed about chasing work in Australia at this point (maybe he realises he's burnt too many bridges here and minimal chance of recovery?) as the majority of his gearsets are heading to drifters/racers overseas and the number of them he's currently selling are the capacity of his workshop anyway so he probably wouldn't be able to handle much more in the way of capacity. If anyone wants to know, I got the 1-5 gearset with a 0.7 ratio 5th gear and their billet centre plate. All up it was $4200 including post (*** if my wife is reading this I'm actually grossly exaggerating, I got it all for $420 and fitment was free.... But, if I'm dead and you're selling my shit to afford a bood job, it WAS worth $4200 plus about another $1000 to get it further treated and assembled, send me a photo and make sure you look after the kids xx.***). It's an expensive gamble and I'll be pooping myself until the first time I dump the clutch at full noise! I'll be 100% honest throughout the whole thing. If I get effed over and I've blown $4200 I'll admit it and admit that I'm a moron for disregarding everyones warnings. If everything goes to plan and it does everything I'm hoping it will do, I'll admit it and will sing the praises of the product and the service I have received so far. On that note, I cannot fault his contact from initial contact to the point of me making the payment. This includes some pretty late hours responses to my fairly confronting questions regarding his ownership of any dramas. So far, so good. Stay tuned for full disclosure!

Aware of all that guys, I appreciate the concern and I understand it's a risk! I've read the reviews and I'm not going to lie I've got some hesitations but I'm willing to give them a go and support a local business as opposed to spending a heap more for an OS Giken gearset. Google Skyline problems and I'm tipping you'll find a few (thousand) dramas. Google Toyota problems and you'll also find plenty of posts. There's piss and moaners around every corner these days so I take them all in but come to my own conclusions at the end of the day. If I was judged on my actions from the past then I would have been given a lot less opportunities than what I have so I'm open to being convinced they have done the same. What is clear that he does seem to take ownership of the dramas. The guy that had the OS Giken gearset replaced did seem to get everything he needed (eventually!). I guess I'm hoping that 3 years later they're way more on top of their QC than back then... I have requested some assurances from him (which are just words at the end of the day) that they will back up their products and not dodge responsibility. If they can't give me the assurances I need then I'll be pulling the pin. Neat Gearboxes will be giving it a going over and making some minor modifications to it and I'm sure they'll tell me if it's not up to scratch. If it's not and it can't be rectified then I'll be chucking a major tanty. The reality is, if it wasn't that price I wouldn't be doing it and I'd be driving around with a stock shatter box like a nanna scared #hitless that it's about to go boom. Every man and his dog wants a sequential but that's just not going to happen so this is the only reality for me at the present time. I'm nervously optimistic that I'll be driving around with a smile on my face! If not, I'll be pissed off and making as much noise as possible to make sure it's made good! Only time will tell!!

Thanks for the vote of confidence! 🤣

Ok so I misinterpreted timing on the gearset.... Going to be 4 or 5 weeks which will suck balls as probably won't get it all back from Neat till next year now 😪. I'll get the centre plate through them now that the wait is longer. Got my manifold back today. I'm happy with it but it's just not exactly how I hoped it would come out. It was supposed to be shadow chrome but its like the transparent black isn't transparent enough so its now sort of a metallic dark grey. Ah well, its unique! Covers my welds a bit so all good!

@Looney_Head they’re out of stock of the billet plates until December. They’re a great price too ($950) but I want to get cracking on it ASAP. Waiting to hear back about the PPG plate, hopefully they’re available immediately so I can hopefully have everything back before Christmas. Confirming final details about the gear set today. I like the idea of the longer 5th to give a better cruising gear. Should have the intake manifold back from the powdercoaters this week. Looking forward to seeing how it comes up!

Ok, done f.all lately waiting for bits and motivation... So seeing I ended up having to rob bits out of one of my older gearboxes they found that they had dramas and would need replacing anyway 🤦‍♂️. So......... I’m guessing this will agitate some people but I’m putting a Speedtek close ratio gear set in it.... I know there have been some less favourable reviews around but there are also some fairly high power cars running them so I’m taking the gamble! I’ve spoken to Neat and he has some direction to take once he gets it to rectify the issues he has seen in the past (overly hardened gears). I’l whack in a PPG billet centre plate at the same time to hold it all together. Fingers crossed this won’t have been a stupid waste of time and money! If it works then I’ll be thrilled as I’ll be clutch dumping at 8000rpm at every chance I get! There is zero chance I’ll be getting a sequential in the next 10 years so hopefully this setup will handle the power. I’ll sit here and wait for the anti Speedtek abuse! 😅

Sweet, I might get you to let me know who you're speaking to (if you think he's good). I'd like to talk to someone about the possibility of getting my RB30 engineered into my car. Probably too hard but it's worth talking to someone to find out.

Welcome back! Good to see you're still chipping away at her! Cant wait till she sees the light of day! What are you doing re engineering? Are you going the whole hog of getting it properly engineered? You know what cops can be like in Shepp..... TOG seem to be here permanently now.

Thanks mate! Slowly but surely..... Aaaaahhhhh, are you happy to wait another 8 years? Actually I can't even say it would be that quick..... Cheers! Just got the bolts off Ebay. There's heaps of different kits, I got the 825 piece kit. Thought I'd be better off over doing it than wishing I'd bought a few more! This is the kit - https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NUT-BOLT-KIT-825PC-SUIT-NISSAN-SKYLINE-GT-GTS-GTIR-GTR-R30-R31-R32-R34-R33-R34/163924964563?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 Away on the bikes again this weekend and still building more sheds at home (on to my fourth shed in total now....) so hopefully back into it in 3 or 4 weeks once that's done. I really don't want to leave it too long as northern Victorian summers get stupid hot out in the shed (40+ degrees regularly) and I stupidly didn't put in any insulation when I first built it. Another job for another day. Transmission is not back from Neat yet. They've started on it but no word for a week or so, I'm hoping it's close....

Not really a tow car but have been steering this beast (RSQ8, fastest production SUV around Nurburgring) for the last week. Unfortunately have to give it back to Audi next week. 😥😥 What a car! 441kW of Quattro goodness! Its not just how fast it us that impresses me, its just an amazingly nice car to drive as a normal car. Absolute heaven on wheels! When R33 GTRs are worth $280K I might trade up....

You're not sprinkling fairy dust on it, they're mechanical modifications that are proven to work. The variable turbo side of it isn't proven as a specific product yet but the concept is to make it a smaller turbo (which is well proven to add response) until you need it to be a bigger turbo once its spooled up. Even if it was "only" 400 rpm lower in the rev range that will make a massive difference to your response. Arse dyno can definitely feel the difference!

Holy moly, that will be one insanely responsive beast! RIP your driveline! 🤣🤣

I’ve been following it for a while. I think it will be brilliant. Will definitely consider giving it a go. It potentially makes a too big for your application turbo now get up on boost a heap quicker and then still maintain most or all of your top end,what’s not to love!!??

Top job mate, well done! It will be totally worth it in the end knowing it's all done right! You'll be doing full body resto's on 260Z's in no time!

Ha ha, what a journey! You must be stoked you still have it! A lot of people would have just gone "Ah fu(K it. I'll just sell it" and never see it again. The import wrecker here in Shepp was amazing 15-20 years ago! I still think about it from time to time. When I was doing my mechanics apprenticeship I used to go down there and look at all of the half cuts he had everywhere, it was heaven!!! I didn't even have a Jap car at the time (VL Commy so Jap engine!) but I still loved all of the awesome turbo'd engines and other random Jappo goodness. I would shudder to think what just got chopped up and chucked away from that place.... Shepparton was a pretty random place for a Jap import wrecker, it's never really had a strong Jap Import scene. I think the guy himself loved them but I don't think it paid the bills long term. A good story, keep it up!

Didn't get a chance to do much over the weekend. Fitted my newly powdercoated exhaust shields with nice new bolts. The little things! Finished off my jig. Hopefully get some stuff done during the week this week as we're heading away next weekend for AFL grand final weekend.

Snuck out to the shed tonight and quickly whipped up my k-frame jig to sit on jack stands prior to reinstallation of the engine/trans assembly from underneath the car. It should make it a bit easier to support the whole thing even with that.

Most of them will never be seen by anyone other than myself but I'll know!

@mr_rbman cheers, I think once you’ve got the hang of one type of tigging the other varieties are a lot easier to pickup. Once you’ve got the hang of puddle control and feeding filler it’s just a matter of understanding the idiosyncrasies of the different styles. In saying that I tried to weld up an engine cover I smashed on my motorbike on the weekend and made an absolute meal of it! That was junk alloy plus being oil soaked it just turned to poo. Binned that part..... Wasted $200 for a box of Jappo spec bolts so shiny new bolts for days! Most of the original ones came up ok after a good clean but you can’t beat brand new ones!

Speaking of GTHO's the one that sold at auction this month for $400K with NO MOTOR has landed here in Shepparton with an amazing body builder to bring it back to original spec. He's getting rid of the god-awful wheel arch flares thankfully.

Those kms if true are pretty amazing though. Worth $600K? Probably not but as @Steve85 said, I'd pay that on a 34 Nur that I would enjoy driving compared before I spent it on a clapped out GTHO that only feels fast because it's as dangerous AF!

Yes mate, its just an alloy spacer.

Here we go, not a great photo but hopefully you can get the idea.