Birth Of An Rb25

[Lithium]

Still soon or do you have dates in mind? Its been soon for a while now

[T04GTR]

40k,9 months,5 mates,2 builds,1 insane owner.

Insane? or Car enthusiast?

Im glad im not alone

86k later and refer to sig...... lol.

[T04GTR]

i agree that a good quality kit is much less of a headache to fit, but some cars are shit to work on regardless. i replaced a set of low mounts on a 33 gtr last week. used some manifolds with a balance pipe on top so had to fabricate water feeds, also fabricated oil feeds as the hard pipes are a mongrel. after 2 days of f@%KING AROUND I WENT HOME AND TOLD MY WIFE I DIDNT WANT TO DO THIS ANYMORE. im closing the shop at the end of december. from know on i am only working on nissans with chevs in them. you can all jam your 300s, gtrs, gtirs etc. funny that nissan build the best sports cars but also the worst to work on. i now agree with he mentality of other shops to charge like wounded bulls to work on these heaps of sh$t. charging fairly never got me anyware. the day of the modified street car is dead as most shops cant be f@cked and people wont pay the money the job is worth, unless your from sydney where it seems you can charge anything and people pay. plus cops are sending everybody to EPA testing. looks like dedicated track cars are the go and people will be doing there own work. thats my rant and before you ask, yes i have had a few beers.

thats why i work for a race team. as soon as the welder or lathe or mill gets used its $140/hr...... but we only do race cars. and the pay is shit people dont seem to understand that a "custom" job isnt like a "bolt on" kit.. ive f**ked around for 2 days now doing the diff and gearbox coolers for the ute that we are running in the 12hr.. just takes ages..

end rant .. bring out your car adrian i live 10 mins from the wsid..

[2rismo]

I'm entered for the Australia Day meeting at WSID.

[benm]

In what car?

[2rismo]

lol

33 mate.

[JAS-25T]

make sure it's still working in 4 weekends time!

[2rismo]

Make sure that if you ever get married again it isn't on the SAME WEEKEND AS THE SUMMERNATIONALS FFS!!!

[JAS-25T]

LOL!

good to see your priorities are there!

[2rismo]

Hektik!

[Swiper the Fox]

I'm entered for the Australia Day meeting at WSID.

1 crew here

[2BNVS]

monster tacho ricer pfffft lol

[2rismo]

Had Leigh from Extreme Turbo Manifolds make me up a custom catch can today. The guy is an artist, what can I say?

These are the push-in fittings that tufrx3 turned up for me. They were a tight fit (a good thing) and I'm happy with the finish.

[shanef]

expecting it to breathe heavy or something?

[JAS-25T]

so it's ready for a skid

Looks like a ricer! too many shiney bits!

[2rismo]

expecting it to breathe heavy or something?

There is nearly 10 litres of oil in the engine. Should something go wrong, I'd prefer that the catch-can will be able to deal with a large-ish breathe before dumping it elsewhere (under the tyres for example). It's for safety's sake. What's wrong with that? For a smart guy you sure come out with some weird ones.

Jas, first skids on Monday.

[2rismo]

Cheers.

It just looks like a nicely welded, shiny box in those pics but I got to see every step from design to finished product and it's all incredible.

Better welding than my car deserves, that's for certain!

How's this for good lookin'?

[shanef]

There is nearly 10 litres of oil in the engine. Should something go wrong, I'd prefer that the catch-can will be able to deal with a large-ish breathe before dumping it elsewhere (under the tyres for example). It's for safety's sake. What's wrong with that? For a smart guy you sure come out with some weird ones.

Jas, first skids on Monday.

tongue in cheek

well its good to finally see its done and ready to race

[whatsisname]

Good choice with the plenum and the ETM products

[2rismo]

Between the Plazmaman plenum and throttle and the exhaust manifold and other fab stuff from ETM, I've grown a new appreciation for excellent welding and design.