brent32

That car is hot but no price......pffft. what are you a second hand dealer or some shit.

any info appreciated......

LOL que homer simpson/yoda voice "RB30 me not have RB30" yeah it was a little bit like that!!!!! the guy from Queensland transport knew straight away it wasn't a 2 litre, from memory its about the fifth time i have been pulled over since the conversion(in about 18 months). The other times the officers couldn't find the engine numbers, and i would hardly admit it was the wrong engine if they didn't have the numbers as proof.

I got pulled over and was unlucky enough to have my engine numbers taken down by queensland transport. Now I need a mod plate for my RB25/30 conversion, and because its a hybrid the engine it must pass a IM240 (for a 1992 car) as part of the cert process. Who is the closest to Brisbane who does this test? Also anyone with advice, who has mod plate for a 25/30, it would be much appreciated.

I think you should see small bubbles coming through the radiator(with radiator cap removed) when you repeatedly crank an engine with a blown head gasket. Is this true, maybe im wrong? EDIT: just thought about it and this is a trick used in darwin where some cars have themostats removed. ie probably wont work if thermostat is closed. also i recently had a radiator leak and the first radiator pressure test conducted by a workshop that specializes in radiator repair *apparently* held pressure even though coolant had literally drained from the stationary car. I told them to do it again and then they found it had a crack. They never charged me for the test and I took my radiator elsewhere to be fixed.

Alot of ozzies are rev heads so here has got to be a big audience out there if a decent local show was made, but when you so blatantly copy TGUK and you only have one hundreth the budget its bound to come out looking like a poor copy of the real thing. I think maybe we should just be happy with some of the lower budget grassroots style coverage of local motorsport and car modifying scene created by real enthusiasts. Couldn t Sau help TGA out with a feature on some oz skylines, Im sure there is plenty of people on here who would love to have a person with the IQ of a goldfish attempt to drift their pride and joy into a tree while complaining about the lack of new car smell and excessive value for money of buying an imported car.

I have done a very cheap RB30/25neo conversion on my 32 gtst around 300rwhp @7000 internal gate small turbo i think this setup suits 2wd. Personally with 4wd i would probably stick with a RB26 as more tracton offered by 4wd copes with a steeper power curve better. The RB30 with 4wd could feel a bit soft in top end of rev range with a small turbo and if you go big with the turbo you would have to rev the engine hard(not good on long stoke, especially with standard rods). I am not an xpert on engine building but you kind of get the idea trying to rev such a long stroke motor hard is a bit of a engineering challenge that stretches the RB engines oil system to its limit. Not saying it cant be done just that engne internals will be pricey and oil system will require attn if previous posts on this forum are right. Also check posts by sydneykid regarding oil restrictor size modifications to prevent excess/starvation oil in the head. Two small issues with my build were clutch master had to be moved because it hits the inlet manifold, also a standard 25 cross over top inlet manifold wont fit under 32 bonnet, i had to use modified fibreglass bonnet because of height of engine, at the very least some reinforcing will need to be removed from stock bonnet. Depending on our gearbox speedo sender and tailshaft may need modifying. Just my 2c Edit: tidied up BBcode for you mate, IPB tried to turn the power figure above into an email link because of the @ symbol lol - Revhead

I had exactly the same feeling watching that segment, you get the feeling these old codgers with too much cash are making mountains out of molehills when they spend 500,000+ on an original 'aussie muscle car'that feature 351 cubic inches of boat anchor style performance. Then last weekend i went and watched the shannons sponsered muscle car series at QR and they answer became clear...... if you love old touring cars that feature a 8 cylinder soundtrack and you have that much dosh you would be cazy not to just buy a old race car and get some real bang for your bucks at the track. Dunno about the F40, maybe a winfield GTR for me.

Martin donnon would have rocked. As it is TGA is an epic fail for one reason THE PRESENTERS ARE MUPPETS. I cant watch it, its too painful. I can imagine TGA playing during the scene out of clockwork orange where the guy has his eyelids held open and is forced to watch all sorts of atrosities in an attempt to break his will to live.

I dont have a FC but i am curious about how you know you lost 200hp. Is it by seat-o-pants-o-meter or a new dyno run has been performed which states your engine now making less power with no signs of damage and same configuration of parts, same AF ratio, same ignition and full boost. If its now only making 200rwhp should be pretty noticable driving it!!!!. Also it should not take long to work out where the drama is if its sitting on a dyno. Sorry im not helping but this is a unusual post.

which city - pickups? otherwise nice wheels GL with the sale.

100% agree, the fixed loss drivetrain myth is SO ANNOYING. I beleive the principals of angular (rotational)accelleration are quite straight forward, applying more force to a rotating body will increase losses incurred in the conservation of angular momentum.

Thanks bill and baron, i think there is alot of people like myself with (dodgy) street setups that could get burned at the sprints, already lost a RB20 in darwin at hidden valley (38 ambient) because of slight overboosting for 5 laps. Not going that way with my RB25/30.

Dont fall in love with a car, normal people *GIRLFRIENDS* find it hard to understand why you just spend 20 grand on your car to make the engine bigger.

i think you will find the particular jap models your talking about would have been alot more expensive than local 4 doors of the era if they had been sold here new. More expensive cars always look better than ones that cost half as much. eg AUS new skyline GTR in 89-90 was 100k when a local Commodore SS Group A was about 50k so Im guessing if you could have brought a GTST new in australia in 95 it would have been more expensive than a similar mid spec commodore. Also you have to remember australian car import prices are artificially inflated by import tarrifs and the SEVS scheme which protects australian manufacturers like holden and ford from competition from second hand imports by artificially raising the landed complied price, in NZ which has no import tarrifs there is very few holdens or fords on the road and almost all cars are 2nd hand imports from japan. If you could just buy a car in japan and import it to australia with no complience costs, there would be alot less 10-15yo holdens and fords being driven by australians. Another thing is that import cars in australia are primarily two door sports coupes like Skyline, sylvia, rx7 and supra. There is plenty of cheap jap 4 doors which arent allowed in australia like nissan primeras, mitsibishi lancer GSRs, mazda familias, honda vigor and even toyota altezza which is already sold here as lexus IS