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OK found my invoice....it was $368.35 in parts and $893.75 for labour.

You'd save a bit on parts as they needed silicone hoses and a couple of bits with my set-up as it was a butchered R33 manifold...whereas an R33 intake manifold will bolt straight up to yours. Also the dump-pipe gasket and manifold gasket + welding the exhaust was over $100....the stock R33 dump will bolt in place for you...the R34 has a longer front section so I had to pay for extra fitting.

Hope that helps!

It was 16 hours of labour...but spread over 4 days, they could have hit it in one go and done it in 2 days I suppose...I'd imagine bolting the bits on a 33 would be a hell of a lot quicker.

They didn't tune it, it was sent to APC to tune the e-manage, but the least said about that the better....depending on what you decide with the ECU will depend on what path you should take.

Aaron, I’d recommend getting hold of a GTSt ECU and plugging it into your car to see if you get any error codes…I’m 99% sure after looking at the wiring diagrams that the ECU won’t see ANY difference…unlike the R34 ECU *sigh*

Just get a loaner, it’ll only take a few minutes to swap over and see, ideally just swapping the ECU and dropping the base timing a few degrees may be all you need to do.

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i am going to contact perFOURmance and see what they think - lost my license for 6 onths - seems like perfect time to do it...

i reckon once i start it back on the road in 1 month i hope - need to get bits then get someone to do it - need to get my hands on a ECU too - then get the timing advanced a little....so much to do so little money :rofl:

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got an idea about water/oil lines.....

rather than getting holes bored in my block/sump etc a guy was telling me he did a bit of a **** around job on a old ford ute - bodge job but what he did for oil/water lines he simply tapped from say oil pressure line and radiator hose (or similar).

I 2was wondering if this would work with the rb25DE - be a hell of allot easier and cheaper

got an idea about water/oil lines.....

rather than getting holes bored in my block/sump etc a guy was telling me he did a bit of a **** around job on a old ford ute - bodge job but what he did for oil/water lines he simply tapped from say oil pressure line and radiator hose (or similar).  

I 2was wondering if this would work with the rb25DE - be a hell of allot easier and cheaper

Ive been looking to do run oil/water lines without having to drill into the engine too. I dont have a digital camera on me atm but there is this copper pipe that looks like an oil line to me :rofl: its located towards the left of the exhaust manifold (underneth the nissan lable printed on the head (looking at manifold which on my right). What do u reckon... is this an oil line?

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