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I agree it has been an oil supply problem then continuing to drive, I supplied just a bare short block and had no input into anything else, such a shame for such a nice car and a forged bottom end. There's a few things of concern I have seen in the pictures and I've been over everything with the owner in about 50 e-mails over the last few days and am more than happy to help get him going again, Rob

Lol, you'd be surprised how much is still stock stagea. All we need now is to get the whole deal into a 1100-1200kg GTR, "on paper" (which is quite often different to reality as we both know) thats a potential of 7.90s @ 180 with the same power we used on the weekend.

We have done our own 4wd auto and it has decent axles. The driveshaft from transfere case to front diff is stock, the rear diff is stock R32 GTR and the front just has a 1.5 way lsd in it. All seems to love it so far but we havn't really layed into it power wise yet. Just need to get the 60fts sorted then we should be on for sub 8.50s Rob

1745kg with stock suspension

Looks great for a first time out. Although the timers don't start untill the wheel moves past the beam, the race starts as soon as the light is green so the other guy would be long gone. As it is it would really struggle in competition unless they have a creeper on the transbrake. I'm sure with a little NOS that'll all be sorted and it'll be fine. Awesome job for the first time out, looks like easy 7s. Robbie.

Nice one, sounds good, should be giving Jeffs street R34 drag-r a run for his money soon enough I would imagine.

For 700hp the brace is not needed and as said above I specificly wanted to test a non braced block in my own cars to see how far I could push them, keep in mind both of these (240z and FED) have been 2wd and auto) neither have had any issues at around twice the power your talking about. For the 4wd guys and specificly the ones doing drag anywhere from 800-1000+ its a good idea, I have a few kits in VERY quick street GTRs (8 and 9 seconds in street trim) and they all swear by them and when I havn't built the bottom end myself, the customers engine builders also agree its a very worthwhile strengthening aid. Be aware there are copies of my kit out there that I have been informed are being made from inferior materials, also, they are, as far as I am aware completely untested on an actual running engine and they are also more expensive, if you want PROVEN products, stick with the genuine RIPS kit. Rob

I told you months ago what I thought the problem was and I still think the same thing. Ages ago I asked you to e-mail me pictures, you havn't. Ages ago I offered to have your engine picked up from you at a FAR lower shipping price than you had been quoted so it could be assesed, rebuilt or replaced if required, I asked where exactly you lived so i could get you a quote, you never got back to me. You then started a thread saying you wanted to save some money and have someone teach you how to build you own engine. Not sure what else I can do, sorry I couldn't be of more help. Good luck getting your car sorted. Rob

I'm not sure what your getting at, I havn't made any comments about the car in the videos??? Just that in some cases, some cars 1/4 mile times or mph doesn't reflect the peek power figure measured on the dyno. Of course its also possible that a car doesn't have as much boogie as the owner might think. Either way I didn't knock the car in the vids or say that I thought it was a lag monster.

I agree, I've run 1.3 60fts in a 1700+kg skyline with original stock suspension. Try old stock first and see how you go.

I have......and??

I agree, I know of a GTR that makes a genuine 550wkw, runs low 11s @ around 125 as the power is just way too peeky and not suited to drags at all IMO. Just another example of how dyno peek power can mean very little in real life situations. Robbie.

John is running about the same power as I do running 7.2s. (1300-1400hp) Our motor went untouched for just on 3 years and I'm sure John gets a huge amount of runs/meetings from his motor as well, stripping a motor after every meeting sounds like something the old school V8 boys might do :-) Rob

I hear what you are saying, lets just see what Spool has to say.

I think anyone with 1/2 a brain can see whats happened here, no-one with a straight face and clear concience could tell me that spool thought of and came up with that design knowing nothing about mine, IMO, there is no question they've seen mine, thought that it was the best solution seen so far and copied it either by having some to copy or by drawing them up based on pictures they have seen of my kit. Its real sad when people like me WANT to spend time and money developing and actually testing new products to then sell to my customers, then things like this happen and I think f&*k it, I'll just keep the ideas to my self for my own engines. I'm still keen to hear what Spool have to say about it and see if he denies copying it or admits it and doesn't care. Rob

Spools 3.4 isn't a 3.4 anyway (my RB33 was well over 3300cc), spools girdle wasn't "created" to accomodate said stroker and the billet mains caps and block brace don't even come into play with a 95mm stroke so there's no accomodation required at all in those areas. The caps look so idendticle I wouldn't be surprised at all if you layed one set over the other that they wern't exactly the same. IMO Its just BS that someone can come along and promote this "new product" and claim they will be "very competitivley priced" etc etc and then show an exact copy of something I have spent alot of time and money developing, its just total disrespect and greed.

Well its not actually a no brainer to come up with the way I've done it and there's more than 1 other guy who'd designed and made caps a totally different way as it appeared to them that their idea would be best, it wasn't untill he'd had trouble with it that there was a discussion on here. Once someone see's a finished product that has had a lot of time and money invested in it, its very easy to sit there and say, "Oh thats simple as, anyone could have come up with that and any compatent machinist could make those" that doesn't make it right to just blatently copy what someone else has spent alot of time working on. Like I say, maybe it is more of a moral issue and we'll see what Spool has to say about it, if he doesn't give a flying f&*k and he's happy to just copy anyone's products and not give it a second thought, then we'll all know where we stand and go from there. Rob

God knows mate, it seems the search for the almighty $$ takes a persons morals from them pretty quick in some cases.

Its a moral issue as much as anything, the caps look identicle to me and everyone knows I desiged this system years ago. We'll see what Spools attitude is to the situation and go from there, Rob

WOW, you have balls posting pictures of something you have clearly just copied from me!! Maybe its OK in China to copy anything and have no shame or morals about it but I sure didn't expect it from you. Stop any production or use of those mains caps immediately and I hope you have a good lawyer and best you get him to get in touch with me smartly. Rob

1.35 is very do-able at that weight, we did 1.39 with 1740kg so you should be OK. My old "forklift" motor ran 7.26 on the weekend, still untouched for 2 years so I'm happy to stick with them for now, lol. Robbie.

There's at least 2-3 10ths to be had off the ET by working on those 60fts mate, thats 8.60s without getting gains in other areas, looking VERY promising mate!! Rob

Big well done mate! Now wind her up!!! hahaha. Robbie.

Well done mate, absolutly awesome result, get some pix and vids to me if you have them and I'll get something on my website. Robbie.

Now I can't say I have a huge amount of experience in dragging a street GTR but I have raced quite a few, many in the 10 second range and one running 9.4s. Every one had old stock suspension, all ran 1.4 60fts and the heaviest of them all at 1740kg ran 1.3 60ft on stock suspension. Maybe once your really getting ETs down to 8s and 7s firming up is needed but for most street GTRs I personally would go with the old stock struts and some real good tyres, Robbie.