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ahhh so his name WAS Sam. hehe dun tell the big man tho, I dun want a big hairy leb raping me when I come down to brooklyn next time.

Anyways, troy, how come it looks like your engine bay has a million and one rivets in it? Is it like that from factory or is that your doin? I thought you joined the front half somewhere on the A-Pillar. I've seen tons of car in Option mags which looks lik they went crazy with the rivet gun.... wuts the deal y0? :)

ahhh so his name WAS Sam. hehe dun tell the big man tho, I dun want a big hairy leb raping me when I come down to brooklyn next time.

Anyways, troy, how come it looks like your engine bay has a million and one rivets in it? Is it like that from factory or is that your doin? I thought you joined the front half somewhere on the A-Pillar. I've seen tons of car in Option mags which looks lik they went crazy with the rivet gun.... wuts the deal y0? :P

Rivets????WTF????And you go to uni???What do they teach you there??The future looks scary when its in the hands of the youth of today!

probably just jacking.. or forklifts at the extreme. I'm sure once they put them on the boat to be shipped to australia the last thing on their mind is the happiness of the final customer.

But coming togther really well there troy. .its been a long while since the "incident".. can't wait to see it all back together.

no you mong, i was talkin bout all the dots on your engine bay, reminded me of this engine bay I saw... hence i asked what's with the rivets...

Check out the pic n tell me why there's so many in it.

no you mong, i was talkin bout all the dots on your engine bay, reminded me of this engine bay I saw... hence i asked what's with the rivets...

Check out the pic n tell me why there's so many in it.

looks like a dodgy way of stiffening.....id rather weld the seams if i was doing that...i have factory spotwelds and maybe what you see is bolt holes?

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well my pc has died and havent been able to load any pics up on the pc i am using but i have fitted the dash,engine and the front suspension....i ended up building up the engine/gearbox/ front suspension as a unit on the floor then lowering the body over it all.Check the link for the engine mods i have done...car shouldnt be to far away now....http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=34937

well my pc has died
hmm do you break everything you touch?... :P

Quick question, is the engine mountable from the top or does it have to be done from the bottom. I'm thinking of doing an engine swap in the near future and go no access to a hoist to lift the car, can you put an engine in from the top? Or do GTR's only allow em from the bottom.

I've seen pics of RB25 swaps into R32's where the engine is being put in at an angle, I'm assuming the gearbox is out and the engine has been connected and then both are sorta pivoted into place?

its possible to take out or put in from the top...but personally i dont like doing it that way....especially when you got new paint on the engine bay and fancy shit on the engine....its very easy to scratch going from the top......

and did it run?

I turned to my brother and said the following...."I,Doctor emit brown,am about to embark on a historic journey"(as quoted by none other than doctor emit brown from back to the future)Turned the key...and it rumbled into life :)

lol well you'll have enough power in that car sooner or later to cause a time warp guranteed... now if only you can stop droping your phone in your own doo doo...

have all the other goodies been put in, or was this a dry run with the engine outside the car, in whhich case I'd say... did you do an engine dyno on it?

Thats great news Troy. If the engine is in and running whats left to do now other than put the interior etc back in place?

But its also great to see that in the tradition of all good mechanincs the car isn't ready by the date you said it would be...........

:D

in that case Troy must be the best mechanic around, lol he's over a month overdue... then again he's the firt mechanic I know who's attempted to rebuild an R34 from ground up without a service manual :D

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