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BiGMaN

By BiGMaN,
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4.73 sec to 100 stock didn't come cheap in 1989, and it never will. But the R is a great machine - ask about rebuild price for a stock 930 turbo or similar peer. Or even something like a Gen III that produces the same power. The RB26 is extremely cost effective if properly prepared, as is the 26/30. Just my 2c.

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Either way you go, the engine has to come out of the car. If you can do this yourself, youre going to save yourself around $1500 in labour, but it is a bastard of a job and you will need several freinds and probably a few weekends if its your first time.

As for places to check out the engine and rebuild it, my loyalty lies with pro engines, so of course im going to reccomend them :( Greg is a great bloke, does excellent work, and stands by it. I had a problem which wasnt related to how Greg built the engine at all (more so a "fault" of the piston manufacturer), however when he found it he fixed it up at little to no cost to myself. You will not find many engine builders who stand by their product to this extent. He may not be as cheap as some other places around, but all he does is build engines, thats his core business so you know your going to get a top quality job.

Anyway thats the end of my shameless free plug :P Keep us informed of how it goes.

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Ahh, went up to have a look at my engine at the shop today, not all that bad, just ran a bearing on number 6 and the piston was slapping the head, the crank is stuffed from that, and the head has some detonation that needs to be cleaned up...

getting another crank, forgies, rods, full head service and the head repaired and all should be good to get it back next week :) should set me back about $3500...yay :D

it is lucky the guy doin my enigne does heaps of rb26/30 conversions as he has lots of rb26 bottom end parts sitting around as spares as my crank was a its limit and couldnt be ground down any more so that saved me about $1000 or so...

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Ahh, went up to have a look at my engine at the shop today, not all that bad, just ran a bearing on number 6 and the piston was slapping the head, the crank is stuffed from that, and the head has some detonation that needs to be cleaned up...

And this is a prime example of why when you run a bearing its worth stripping the engine down to find out how much other damage has happened :huh:

Good luck with the engine :rolleyes:

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