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15 hours ago, GTSBoy said:

You'll need a 25 head. It's no bueno doing it with the 20 head. The bore diameter is....different. Very different. Hasn't been done in the wold since the larger bore twin cam heads became an option (ie, not since the early 90s!)

I was reading that the other day, 25 heads aren’t too pricey here thankfully. Now just have to weight the cost vs what I’m getting out of it on doing a rebuild on the rb20, picking up a rb25, or building a rb30. Not really interested in doing a stock rebuild on the 20, but stock 26 cranks & rods seem cheap. Decisions decisions

2.5 torque? 3.0 torque? Pft.

Dude the van is right there. Consolidate your projects, put the LS into the R32 and have either a R32 with grunt, or a firebird that handles, however you want to refer to it.

Either way you won't want to drive the Firebird or a RB powered Skyline ever again so this is the proper solution, and you cut down on projects.

It makes sense even if you hate it. :D

35 minutes ago, Kinkstaah said:

2.5 torque? 3.0 torque? Pft.

Dude the van is right there. Consolidate your projects, put the LS into the R32 and have either a R32 with grunt, or a firebird that handles, however you want to refer to it.

Either way you won't want to drive the Firebird or a RB powered Skyline ever again so this is the proper solution, and you cut down on projects.

It makes sense even if you hate it. :D

Haha honestly the thought crossed my mind but skylines are so damn rare here someone would probably hang me 😂 
 

I’ve had a few LS swapped cars (280zx and a foxbody mustang) so trying something a bit different this time 

On 10/9/2024 at 1:37 PM, GTSBoy said:

I would never LS an R32 either.

I do have truly evil thoughts about VK56s or the Toyo V12s out of New Zealand though. Very hard to justify for my daily....

What Toyo V12s from New Zealand specifically?

On 13/10/2024 at 11:23 PM, funkymonkey said:

It's just a GTSt. LS that sucker and send it to the moon.

Putting everything down on paper and pricing it all out it is definitely thousands and thousands cheaper to go LS especially since I already have the 6 litre in a donor vehicle. It’s sounding to start appealing even if it’s just to get the car on the road and going for now while I build some sort of RB down the road. 
 

The price of just a rb30 block here gets me a t56 or a cd009 with adapter kit, engine/trans mounts are under $400, and the few things I’d want to do with the engine while it’s out are sub $1000… damnit lol

6 hours ago, CanadianGuy said:

Putting everything down on paper and pricing it all out it is definitely thousands and thousands cheaper to go LS especially since I already have the 6 litre in a donor vehicle. It’s sounding to start appealing even if it’s just to get the car on the road and going for now while I build some sort of RB down the road. 
 

The price of just a rb30 block here gets me a t56 or a cd009 with adapter kit, engine/trans mounts are under $400, and the few things I’d want to do with the engine while it’s out are sub $1000… damnit lol

As someone who has had a 2.5, 2.8, and a 5.7 Skyline.... do what is most fun for you.

I mean, I know which one of the setups is objectively the most fun. NO ONE ever goes back. But you might not know it's more fun unless you try all the options.

I will say this though, every single RB skyline in the world is shit to drive now (for me). Having said THAT, you could just buy a C5 (or onwards) Corvette/Camaro. Diversity and different character is fun. We're all jaded and call all R chassis shitboxes. It's like having great pizza for the 700th time in a row. People tend to like what's new and exciting and such. My previous sentence could make you think "Ah f**k, I hate C5 Vettes and new Camaros, boring as batshit" and you will understand many views here on the humble R chassis :p

If the R chassis actually had a suspension design that wasn't based on borrowed 60's Mercedes ideas (hello half arsed multi-link rear) and late night karaoke bars drunken engineer hangover design ideas (hello R32 FUCA!), it would be an excellent platform. The fact that you have to replace almost all of it to make the car work is either half the fun, or a sure sign that the car was only even intended to be a mass produced Ginza strip cruiser.

2 hours ago, Kinkstaah said:

As someone who has had a 2.5, 2.8, and a 5.7 Skyline.... do what is most fun for you.

I mean, I know which one of the setups is objectively the most fun. NO ONE ever goes back. But you might not know it's more fun unless you try all the options.

I will say this though, every single RB skyline in the world is shit to drive now (for me). Having said THAT, you could just buy a C5 (or onwards) Corvette/Camaro. Diversity and different character is fun. We're all jaded and call all R chassis shitboxes. It's like having great pizza for the 700th time in a row. People tend to like what's new and exciting and such. My previous sentence could make you think "Ah f**k, I hate C5 Vettes and new Camaros, boring as batshit" and you will understand many views here on the humble R chassis 😛

I definitely get that last part ran into it a few days ago haha. Have a friend I met through work who just moved to Canada from South Africa, was over at the house for bbq and even though he liked the skyline he was nuts for the two 1994 Firebirds I have, near lost his mind when I said I bought it for $200 lol. To me it’s just a cheap old car that I might fix some day. 
 

Funny enough I was looking hard at C5 corvette’s before I found the skyline, could have picked up a fairly nice driver for the price of my project gtst 

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3 hours ago, CanadianGuy said:

I definitely get that last part ran into it a few days ago haha. Have a friend I met through work who just moved to Canada from South Africa, was over at the house for bbq and even though he liked the skyline he was nuts for the two 1994 Firebirds I have, near lost his mind when I said I bought it for $200 lol. To me it’s just a cheap old car that I might fix some day. 
 

Funny enough I was looking hard at C5 corvette’s before I found the skyline, could have picked up a fairly nice driver for the price of my project gtst 

Feel free to send a few $200 Firebirds over here, and a Corvette or too as well please.

 

I'll send all my RB stuff I have left your way, and see if I can find you some RB30 blocks too.

Oh, and send that 6L LS you've got too.

 

Thanks!

 

Yes, I am annoyed at how many cool awesome cars are in America stupidly cheap, and comparatively Australia wants billionaire money for a VN commodore that's rusted out...

12 hours ago, Duncan said:

That is simply a very good example of the important of perspective. The c8 is no big deal if you see them all the time, just like a GTR is no big deal to us

This exactly.

In my province (Canadian equivalent of a state) there’s 6 skylines that we know of, one guy is over an hour away and the others are all 3+ so it’s realistic to say people here have never saw one out on a drive. My GTST as it sits had people randomly pulling into my yard asking if they could take pictures and the local car clubs asking me to join and be in their shows and it’s FAR from being finished or what I consider nice (yet)

Meanwhile you can go to a junkyard or down some back road in the country and find a dozen 90s/2000s firebirds, mustangs or Camaros with weeds grown up around them because they’re nothing special. Even corvettes are kind of looked at as the old man car, had a number of buddies make fun of me when I was considering getting one lol
 

 

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