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Engine bay looks immaculate, love the engine cover, partition, brace... awesome! :D u post on SDU quite a bit yeah?? i think u see u on there quite a bit... a whitish avatar? GTR logo, white background?? or am i thinking of someone else?

oh yeah, and did u have trouble with ur car or something, like it kinda died but came back to life?? :)

anyways, beautiful engine bay/car....

cheers.

Yeah that's me dude, just look up top 10 posters and you'll find me!

Actually I was the number one poster on this board for a while, then things got busy and I didn't post for a year or so...

Anyway the car has been off the road for a year or so basically. Fuel pump died causing it to run lean and detonate, then they rebuilt it and didn't do a good job so near the end of that drag run that's posted above a big end knock occured.

Got them to rebuild it a 2nd time and was still having problems!

3 front cylinders are lean, rear 3 are rich but very noisey, cambelt too tight, piping etc very dirty, camshaft scratched as they didn't put everything back together properly and just found out yesterday that my new turbo's have gone because of all the problems!

It pays to pay proffesionals, I went against my better judgement and let a friend point out a garage that seemed really good. Guess they weren't!

Anyway it is now with Nissan and they said a new engine would be the best way to go...

Will keep you updated :D

Basically the place that done my 2 rebuilds didn't get it right either time!

3 front cylinders are leaning out, rear 3 are running rich but making noises. Cambelt was done up too tight, the caps under the camshafts were put back in the wrong order, the clips that hold the camshaft down were put around the wrong way, they left gunge in the piping which went through the turbo's causing them to give up...

So it's start again time!

Nah it won't be ready for Dyno day bro, to be honest it's not looking like it will be ready for Autosalon either!

If it were 100% I'd be looking at the 280kw mark at the wheels, hopefully more than that...

Sorry I haven't been in touch Troy, trust me when I say they don't pay enough. Im just lucky I still live at home and don't have to pay much rent, sacrifice for wanting to own the car I have lol :)

Hows your baby going anyway dude???

Im hopeing the people that stuffed up will pay out for it, will be over 10k worth so I don't think it's going to simple. Im getting evidence together incase it has to go to court!

Originally posted by Anguss R33

Hey bootiful, long time no... email! :)  

What happened to my daily emails huh? Seems like you just couldn't be bothered anymore :)  :shake:  hehehe.

Hope things are all good, hows ya beast anyway???

will be in touch soon Anguss...got lots to tell ya :D

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