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Car came back today! Super happy with how it turned out! Makes me wanna respray the whole thing ? Got a few things back in today, auto brake pedal, booster and throttle cable all done so rest of it is engine bay work now. Tomorrow I'll plumb the A/C, bring wiring harness back through the guard and put the headlights back in.

Turbosmart gear arrived ?

Cars almost done at painters just baking atm. Comes home tomorrow ? 6boost is finished as well so should get it soon. Also ordered a RIPS NZ sump which will be here in the next couple weeks ?

Machinist sent me a snap of the block today. Action pic getting the mains ready for girdle ?

So she went off to the painter on Wednesday. Should be ready mid next week ? start putting all the stuff back into the bay and get the loom all cleaned up ready to go. Ordered plazmaman 100mm intercooler, 72mm throttlebody and flange to weld onto the greddy intake and a few 3" plazmaclamps. Hopefully be here in the next few weeks and start mounting it up.

Got the bay done yesterday after work! Not a fun job pulling the loom out with everything still attached... Car's almost ready to go to painter now. I want to weld up the stock intercooler holes so we have no drama drilling new one later. Ideally I'd like to get motor in with manifolds and turbo on and mock up piping and cut holes etc and then get it painted. Will see what happens though. Need to degrease the bay and give it a good clean with the gurney. My powersteering has been leaking for a while so its covered in oil..

So finally got some spare time this arvo and went and picked up my nitto stuff and bottom end to take to my machinist Hopefully a month and I'll have it back and if all goes to plan the rest of the parts will be ready to go as well! Super keen now it's moving along properly

Little by little! Loom is out of the front as is everything else except thr aircon. Almost have all the little clips pulled out except for a few that are under the inner guards that I cant get to. Might jack her up this arvy and pull the brake lines and rest of clips maybe even pull the loom back into the cabin.

So my old setup got picked up on the weekend I miss driving it already... On the other hand nitto gear arrived, flat out at work atm so gotta find some time to go grab it all and take it to the machinist. Been doing little bits and pieces in the bay after work everyday, slowly getting there. Just need to pull the fuse block out of the fuse box and pull the rest of the loom out, pull brake booster when I can get in on the drivers side, pull aircon and headlights and then just feed everything back into the cab and take her down for paint Probably get bay and underbonnet done to make it look schmick ?

Engine bay is looking slightly emptier than normal. Exhaust, intercooler, box, radiator etc are all out. Motor just needs to be craned out now to go to new owner. Goodies arrived this week ? Spool girdle, head drain and upgraded 0.250" pins. Also my Yella Terra Billet explosion proof flexplate turned up too! Nice bit of gear. Cant wait to get it behind the new motor Ordered most of the hot side bar the turbo which I'll be ordering next week. Will be running a 6Boost T4 twin scroll manifold with twin Turbosmart compgate 40's. Coming with the turbosmart stuff is also an FPR2000 and a 4port boost solenoid. Also found a new sump, pickup and dipstick for new motor because it didnt come with one as it was dry sumped. I'll get that next week and send it off to ASR Oilpans to be made into one of their drag comp sumps. Hoping to get engine bay stripped and ready for paint but looks like I'll be going away for work for a couple of weeks which will delay any progress

Spool gear arrived today, still waiting on nitto parts before I can send off to machinist. Ordered a Yella Terra Billet flexplate today which should be up here in a couple days. Will also be ordering my manifold and turbosmart fpr2000 and twin compgate 40s ? Also sold my setup on the weekend so time to take the old girl out for its new owner. Hopefully its not a prick to do. Ill pull the box out tomorrow and then just radiator. Unbolt all the ancillaries and should just pop out ?

I ordered 15x8 6.5 bs welds for the back. Will fit 255/60r15 or MAYBE a 275/50r15. Should be here soon hopefully

Been away for work the past 3 weeks but managed to pop back home for a breaky and laps 2 weekends ago. Had a good day out there. Quick vid I slapped together on my phone, sorry for potato quality... Have ordered bottom end goodies for the bottom end so should be off to the machinist sometime next week. Ordered Nitto oil pump, Nitto headgasket, spool girdle plate, 0.250" gudgeon pins and also got a head drain for it as well. Machinist is busy atm so 3-4 week wait on it so hopefully have it back mid-late next month. Fingers crossed all in and running in July

Price drop $6250!

Want to turn your tired boat into a yacht? Look no further with this 500WHP/10 second drop in package! Series 2 RB25DET 16X,XXX Head has been reconditioned and had the following installed - Tomei 256 Poncam Tomei 1.2mm Headgasket ARP Studs Performance Valvesprings Splitfire Coilpacks NZ Wiring Cam Trigger Kit Hotside CRG Hi Mount Manifold Turbosmart Hypergate 45 Garrett GT3076R 0.82 Rear Custom Rob Bliss 3" Stainless Dump Pipe with plumbable screamer pipe Custom Rob Bliss Cat Back with gutted cat and big muffler on the back. Turbo Oil/water lines Goleby's Turbo beanie Fuelling 1000cc Xspurt E85 injectors Raceworks Fuel Rail Turbosmart FPR800 Extras 600x300x76 Intercooler Intercooler Piping/Silicone/Clamps 3 port Mac valve boost solenoid Probably some stuff I've missed but that's the majority of it. Car is tuned at Tuned Performance. Made 460whp on 18psi 98 and 500whp on 20psi E85. Setup has been incredibly reliable, did what I set out to achieve, a 10 second pass on this baby setup. Have to sell to fund the rest of my new setup. Motor will remain in my car until sold! Will be compression tested when i get some time. Can take you for a drive ONLY with a deposit. Located North Brisbane Pickup only PM for any extra info $6750 neg

Finally she's done it ? Car felt awesome absolutely hooked off the line! First run ran a 10.983, second was a 10.91 then third was the PB. Called it a night as it was busy and achieved what I wanted. Now onto bigger and better things

Decided to pull the block down for inspection, gonna give it a freshen up while its apart. Probably acid bath the block, hone, new rings, new bearings and give the block a lick of paint. Custom oil rings on the pistons, might look at upgrading the gudgeon pins as well while it's all apart.

Had to day off today so decided to start stripping the 3.4 down. All looks pretty good. Sleeves have fire rings in them so should have a sweet seal with the HG. Also greddy plenum looks to have been port matched and cleaned up inside which is pretty cool 8) Nitto HG and pump should be ordered next week and throw it all back together. Fingers crossed this saturday will be the day and can finally start moving onto the next chapter 8)

Solid launch, fades off when i hit hi gear.

Success today! Had the turbo water return hose split, cut it off and put the fitting back on and no more leak. Jacked the car up to have a look at the band adjustment which is what google said was wrong according to the symtoms. Lone behold the nut had magically loosened off and the screw had come out about 10mm. Screwed it back in to where the nut was plus a bit and took it for a strap down in mexico. Vids below, had my mickeys on aswell... 20180422_133543.mp4 20180422_133725.mp4

Yeah man we'll see how the turbo sits on the mani, most ive seen with a 42 it sits really close to the rocker cover and can't fit a beanie on. Thinking about getting the mani pushed forward a bit more though like a promod style that will fit a 45r for future upgrades. I'm not a massive fan of the dump wrap but if I put a beanie on I might wrap the dump to match it.

No skid vids unfortunately, I had to work last night then got canned and got home, filled it up and now the box is slipping in low gear. Hopefully it just needs a band adjustment to get it going again. If not I'll pull it out and get it rebuilt with upgraded parts inside and replace anything weak in it so it takes the new motor no worries. Problem after problem atm ? Fingers crossed once the box is fixed we can go out and run a 10 so I can sell this package and start on the new setup asap! Pulled a few things off it today for a squizz. It has tomei cam gears in it already which saves me buying a set. Pulled the cam cover off and its bloody clean in there as expected! Can see where it's been clearanced for the big cams as well. Pulled the throttle body off the intake manifold and had a play with it, it's not the best quality TB so I'll probably end up getting a plazmaman one when I order my intercooler. Should be right with a 72mm TB with the plazmaman 76mm clamp to mate to the cooler piping no worries. Should keep it nice and responsive and flow a heap more through it. I have decided on a colour scheme as well. I wanted to go red covers but these ones are already chrome plated so might as well use them. Decided to go ceramic coated black for the dump, manifold and rear housing and ceramic silver for the front cover and intake manifold.

Was in a rush, had to go away for work this arvo. No pics/vids till wednesday when I hit the strip in search of a 10

New gasket and studs in, converter now stalls up 8) Test hit on the street proves it, 2 lines down the road 8)

Gate wasnt leaking but found this. Hopefully thats why its not getting onto stall properly...