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Um........ my 31 has a forged engine with multilayered head gasket To4e, external gate, Nisstune ecu, 440cc injectors, adjust FPR and a whole bunch ov other crap and was all done a Collier engines in adelaide for 6,000 with records..... so thats y everyone seems to question your 5000 to reco an rb20.

A VRS kit cost about 200 bux from motor traders and even with timing tensioner kit proly 500 for both then a few hundred for metal HG and while u doing the Head gasket u can slap in the seals from the vrs kit would take no more than 10 hours of work if u did it slow as f**k and even if u charged $100 per hour lab job would cost no more than 1500 - 2000 for rb20 so please expalin what the other 3000 was spent on so we can ALL understand.

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Um........ my 31 has a forged engine with multilayered head gasket To4e, external gate, Nisstune ecu, 440cc injectors, adjust FPR and a whole bunch ov other crap and was all done a Collier engines in adelaide for 6,000 with records..... so thats y everyone seems to question your 5000 to reco an rb20.

A VRS kit cost about 200 bux from motor traders and even with timing tensioner kit proly 500 for both then a few hundred for metal HG and while u doing the Head gasket u can slap in the seals from the vrs kit would take no more than 10 hours of work if u did it slow as f**k and even if u charged $100 per hour lab job would cost no more than 1500 - 2000 for rb20 so please expalin what the other 3000 was spent on so we can ALL understand.

^^ exactly. paying 5 grand to put a metal head gasket and a recod head on an rb20 is f**kin ridiculous

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mate no argument its priced well, but when you state things like its had 5000 bux worth of work done,

it rings alarm bells in most peoples heads and makes us wonder IF it really has had that work done why is it so cheap? and it makes no sense 5000 for a head job and new seals on an RB20??

i have a 6000 dollar engine in my car and there would be no way in hell i would get rid of it at 10% of its value,

so im in the same seat as everyone else what has really happened to this engine for it to hav 5000 spent on it and the only upgrade was a head gasket

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oh my gosh some people must have never stopped pushing pencils for a second to see what labour costs.

for example. to replace all the exhaust manifold studs on an rb20 with the motor still in the car your looking at close to $1000.

$$$ really do add up quickly.

for exapmle, i ifitted extractors to a triton the other day, it was meant to be a $400 job, by the time the guy left my shop he was up over $1000, when i undid the manifold, every second stud would the thread out of the alloy. so i had to helicoil all the studs and fit new studs.

it may cost $700 in parts to do the work that was done to the rb20 but labour is the killer~!!!

AND THE REASON THE MOTOR IS BEING SOLD IS BECAUSE IM PUTTING A 1JZ IN MY SKYLINE SO I DONT NEED THE RB20. FAAAAARK

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Um........ my 31 has a forged engine with multilayered head gasket To4e, external gate, Nisstune ecu, 440cc injectors, adjust FPR and a whole bunch ov other crap and was all done a Collier engines in adelaide for 6,000 with records..... so thats y everyone seems to question your 5000 to reco an rb20.

A VRS kit cost about 200 bux from motor traders and even with timing tensioner kit proly 500 for both then a few hundred for metal HG and while u doing the Head gasket u can slap in the seals from the vrs kit would take no more than 10 hours of work if u did it slow as f**k and even if u charged $100 per hour lab job would cost no more than 1500 - 2000 for rb20 so please expalin what the other 3000 was spent on so we can ALL understand.

Thanks for telling us all about the size of your dick mungy.Would you like to know the specifics of my personal build as well? why doe we need to know about yours in this thread when im selling mine? you obviously have no interest in buying my motor so gtfo of the thread.

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