Vic Wasteland Thread - 15.0

[Odium]

I'd normally give us a weekend for Engine Out / Work on it / Engine In...
Few beers, Few Pizzas, Few Greg jokes.

[Birds]

It's now not just about getting my car back on the road, it's about showing Greg what he should have done 3 rebuilds ago lol

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

Ponsardin...had a bottle of this, it wasn't much chop over the standard Veuve IMO. Perrier Jouet's Belle Époque on the other hand...

Vueve Clicquot Ponsardin is just the full name of the conpany.

Are you referring to the vintage (same bottle but gold label) or Le Grande Dame (more traditional "Dom Perignon) bottle?

The vintage is pretty similar but the Grande Dame is quite a bit nicer. But for $200 it's in Dom Perignon territory and Dom is far better.

I prefer Dom to Belle Epoque too TBH... dem flowers doe...

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

Lol @ paying 2.5x the price for a Neo

[Leroy Peterson]

Was gonna say there's a NEO engine for sale for $2500.

I can't even f**king pay people to do this kind of thing for my car, 100% confident a stock engine will last a lot longer than getting whatever the f**k has gone wrong with mine this time fixed.

I am very used to something like a direct engine swap, when I can get the engine there, just taking 12 weeks because reasons. If y'all can actually get it done in a couple hours I'll just go punch myself in the face some more.

Hind sight is a wonderful thing. If you knew there was an engine version of HAL9000 in your motor, you would have just gotten a replacement.

[Birds]

Forget Hal, Greg has Event Horizon

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

Look Greg, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

[Birds]

Vueve Clicquot Ponsardin is just the full name of the conpany.

Are you referring to the vintage (same bottle but gold label) or Le Grande Dame (more traditional "Dom Perignon) bottle?

The vintage is pretty similar but the Grande Dame is quite a bit nicer. But for $200 it's in Dom Perignon territory and Dom is far better.

I prefer Dom to Belle Epoque too TBH... dem flowers doe...

Am referring to the vintage Veuve - on the bottle they spell out the full name unlike the NV

https://www.vintagecellars.com.au/Sparkling/veuve-clicquot-ponsardin-vintage-750ml_37280

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

I was sure it was on both so I imaged searched VC yellow label, it appears they have had it with and without. Not that any of this matters, it just means I'm not going crazy(er).

Related... WTF do they call it yellow label when it's clearly orange?

[Mohsen]

Because he has to interact with you?

no, because the cars a mess, im what makes it tolerable

Get on my level brah

I try to tee up 2 weeks of holidays whenever you're booked in because thats how much time needs to be spent on yours to make it okay.

Nailed it.

tee up long service leave soon...

[Kinkstaah]

Lol @ paying 2.5x the price for a Neo

To be fair it comes with all accessories, manifolds, wiring loom, ECU, and stock turbo in working order.

If you remove all the costs of the extras, it only comes out a little more than a standard RB25.

I advise all people out there to simply go to where a hiflow will get you on a RB25 (i.e 320ish) because its the point of which everything else breaks or becomes very visible to Mr Plod.

Also its enough for driving as fast you can on the street.

And unless you're quicker than Richo... it's all you need on the track too.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

I advise all people out there to simply go to where a hiflow will get you on a RB25 (i.e 320ish) because its the point of which everything else breaks or becomes very visible to Mr Plod.

Also its enough for driving as fast you can on the street.
And unless you're quicker than Richo... it's all you need on the track too.

MY GOD... I have said this soooooooo many times... Y u spend $11ty billion b4 u listen?

To be fair it comes with all accessories, manifolds, wiring loom, ECU, and stock turbo in working order.
If you remove all the costs of the extras, it only comes out a little more than a standard RB25.

I paid $1k for an AWD stagea 25 with 70k on the clock from an Auto show car.... with everything... and sold the turbo for $300

[Kinkstaah]

MY GOD... I have said this soooooooo many times... Y u spend $11ty billion b4 u listen?

Did you say this 8 years ago?

The only reason I've persisted is because I got the Stroker kit for near nothing and had a free rebuild coming my way via someone who had a really, really great reputation 8 years ago. Someone who was recommended directly by someone else who owns a certain hub dyno, at the time.

I did initially put a stock neo in, it just got exploded before I took delivery of it, my options were

1) Free replacement neo, which could have the same problem.. or..

2) Near-nothing RB28 upgrade which would have 0kms on it, which you'd think logically would be better option long term.

Again, this was 2007. We all have 8 years of experience since then to see what works longer term and what doesn't seem to. I would still say, that if the engine was implemented correctly that option 2) should still be the better option to go down.

Even if you still only want 320rwkw, it's a better option to have a new engine over an old engine, assuming they are assembled to the same standard, which you would think would happen in most/all professional scenarios.

You'd think.

[Mohsen]

one day my grand kids are going to ask me about the one they call "gerg" and ill be like "come here child, let me tell you a story"

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

LOL

wasn't it R.E. initially?

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

Also, I'd take 20 year old nissan manufacturing over most builds any day... Al has had to have his built 3 times now aswell, as has Dean.

In fact Dean is like your skyline doppelganger... although he drives the pants off his for the few days it lives at a time

[Mohsen]

dean = obzest?

[UNR33L]

Put a v8 in it m8

[Mohsen]

nah, LS V12

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

Trent is selling Cat's undriven 1000hp built TT LS6 complete package as he's going ford Ecoboost now