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I'll throw my 2c in - Getting a breather on your sump will help a lot more for oil control issues (rather then just enlarging oil drains). Have a read of the oil control thread if you haven't yet. You'll need a larger and baffled sump if you're running an upgraded oil pump. You'll probably get recommendations to look at a Nitto oil pump instead of the HKS pump. Would you consider going single turbo? The Haltech pro plug in is over 13 years old now, I would also consider it ancient. I'm still using one and can't wait to upgrade. You can do a lot better then a Nismo fuel pump these days. I'd be looking at a Walbro 525 or similar. I'm guessing your block hasn't been bored out yet? You won't get a 86.5 mm piston into a 86 mm bore, so yep it will need to be bored out to accept the 86.5 mm piston. Your machinist will use the pistons you'll be running to set the piston to cylinder wall clearance when you drop the block off for machining. Side note, the GTR looks really tidy

There are a few things to cover off here. Firstly, cops can defect you even if your car is not defective. You could drive a brand new car off the show room floor and be defected as you drive out of the driveway if the cop believes the car does not meat ADRs. Keep in mind that cops are not mechanics or engineers, they just have to believe the car is defective for them to defect it. (This is obviously hypothetical, so in this instance lets say the car has an exposed pod air filter from factory. Obviously its fine, the OEM put it there, but the cop thinks pod = defect, so now you have to get the car cleared to be put back on the road. Obviously this will not be an issue, the car is stock and it's just a slight inconvenience). So yes, even if your car is engineered, you can be defected. You have to use a bit of common sense here, say your car is "engineered" for the aftermarket exhaust however at idle you can't even hear that the cop is saying, it makes sense that you will be defected. In this scenario it is likely that you changed the exhaust after the car was engineered and the car is obviously defective. It would be very strange for a cop to defect your roadworthy car that is engineered, even though yes it is technically possible. Back to the hole in the chassis question. Has the car been certified by an engineer saying there are no issues with the body being cut up? If it's on the engineers certificate saying it's fine, yeah you should be ok to buy the car. (provided you're happy with the potential future issues and limitations you may find) There is one big thing to keep in mind though. Never ever let the car go unregistered and only buy the car if you never plan to register it in another state. If the car ever needs a blue slip in future, it is highly likely that the engineers certificate that you have won't be worth $hit and you'll need to get the car engineered again. You may not be able to find another engineer willing to sign off on your cut up car. If you transfer the car interstate it will require inspection, it is highly likely that the engineers certificate won't be recognised in that state and you may find you can't find anyone willing to sign off on the cut up car. Having said all that, I wouldn't buy the car (I've already transferred my R33 from NSW to QLD rego, it could happen again etc). Should you buy it? You're call, I don't know what your circumstances are.

Remember, clear ppsr does not 100% guarantee the car is not stolen. Just because a car isn't reported stolen now, it may be reported stolen in the future. There are many scenarios why a vehicle may be reported stolen in a future date, and you are left holding the hot potato. We went over this in another one of your threads. I'll link it here to save my typing the same story all over again.

So the car is stolen?

I thought so. If I could see the car in person this would be a lot more simple, as I can't let me tell you a story. This is the scenario. You have a lovely S15 silvia, looks amazing, pretty typical mods, exhaust, front mount. But the workshop that installed your front mount thought nothing of cutting a bunch of holes in the body to run the intercooler piping. You don't know anything about the engineering process and really, don't know what the workshop did to install the front mount. The next day you are frolicking through the fields in your S15, playing with the other woodland creatures when out of no where a wild highway patrol monster appears. You are stopped for a random defect check. Oh I mean, random breath test, and the highway patrol monster finds some holes cut in the cars body. Your car is defected and written on the defect is something to the effect of, "holes cut in structural component of vehicle chassis". No big deal you think, a workshop did the modification, surely the way they did it is fine. You start speaking with blue slip workshops and engineers. Turns out that your car has air bags and other sensors that are tuned to the factory chassis and the way it responds in a collision and now the chassis has been modified/weakened. Now all the engineers you speak with don't want to touch the car with a 10 foot pole, it just isn't worth their time/they don't want to risk losing their engineering licence. So now the beautiful S15 is unregistered. What are you to do? It gets sold to someone interstate who thinks they can easily get around the defect situation. I mean the defect is in another state right? Wrong. The car stays unregistered. And now the car is sold to the next person and the cycle continues. Maybe this story isn't relevant to your situation. I haven't seen the car. It's something to think about in any case.

Is the car modified?

I have a few questions. Is the car modified or defected (or defected in another state)? What do you mean blue slip is provided by the seller? You either need a pink slip or a blue slip, the one you need will depend on your circumstances. It doesn't have anything to do with the seller. With the details you've provided, I'm guessing it will be closer to the following - Step 1 - Get an unregistered vehicle permit from Services NSW Step 2 - Drive the car from the seller to my house and keep it stored Step 3 - Take your modified car to a blue slip workshop. Get laughed at. Drive home. Step 4 - Restore the car to stock or near stock. Return to the blue slip workshop and get it signed off. Step 5 - Pay for your green slip. Step 6 - Head to SERVICES NSW. Do paperwork. Get plates. Step 7 - Do a skid. Post vids.

Give MCA or Shockworks a call, explain how you use your car and what your budget is. Then be surprised at the transformation that has taken place after install/setup and kick yourself for not doing it earlier lol.

Welcome! Looking very tidy, good find

Thanks for posting that up. I wonder if the serious track/race cars are rebuilding their shocks as maintenance and it just isn't really discussed. I would be keen to hear from those with race cars/serious track cars what their experience is with this.

Have you seen any shock dyno data in relation to this? I would be very keen to have a look if you have.

I've never heard about this frequent rebuild business, what issues have you heard of requiring them to be rebuilt as routine maintenance? I've always thought that if they aren't leaking/no other visible issues then they are fine.

What are the chances something like this will ever exist for our cars? https://www.kwsuspensions.net/racing/competition_4a/

I thought this might be interesting / relevant. About 23:45 into the podcast they discuss putting big brakes on a modern car with ABS. Might not be applicable for our dinosaur datsuns though.

Checked for vacuum leaks?

Can you log every channel and post up the data? Would save a lot of guessing.

Nice Another vote for build thread please!

Have you tried fixing the ignition barrel that you broke earlier?

Are we just going to pretend this is Brembo OEM quality?

Genuine or reproduction? Looks like used genuine is still going for 2k+

Everyone has their own definition of what is fun and what isn't. As a guess, people saying big power builds aren't fun on the street is because when driven around obeying the road rules, the big power car is slow as hell. Then when you want to use the 450kw, you can't put the power down. Finally when you do manage to put all 450kw down, it turns out your doing 150kph+ on the motorway...

Is it all being done under warranty?

Sounds like they were just selling their R35 brakes. The big bucks are in the carbon ceramic rotors, those are about $20,000. When you're going for max looks, gotta have those carbon ceramic brakes. I don't see Attkd selling a carbon ceramic option, so do you really have any other choice then the R35 kit at this point?

R35 GTR brakes with carbon ceramic rotors look the best for sure. https://www.alphaomegaracing.com/product/r35-gt-r-brembo-adapters/ https://www.amsperformance.com/product/alpha-performance-r35-gt-r-carbon-ceramic-brake-package/ Some say you can't put a price on looks. Others say that you can and it's about $35,000. But think of the value because really, the looks are priceless.

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