Roy

Yeh i know. Its killing me spending the money i am on it right now. It woudl haev been easier to buy another one, but cost blow outs can happen and at the end of the day... it will be fun blowing all those fancy homo cars away with a 4k barge. That must mean i am the greatest driver to ever hit the track And when i get a back yard and garage space, you watch me buy a bunch of R31 shells, cheapest dog kennels going

I need to spend 4k on jsut fixing stuff wrong with my car to do 1k worth of track days

I will go as far as saying that for the sort of track work that most of us do, you wll end up with a faster car if you spend 3k on shocks, and 5k on gearbox then if you were to spend 8-10k on shocks alone.

When lookng at the pricing of stuff out of Japan, its no longer the black art it was 10 years ago. There are enough agents over there now who can help you out with trade prices or at least allow you to hunt down some decent prices on gear. And technically, very few forum ppl are willing to buy shocks and spend thousands on labour for re-valving, different springs and wheel alignments, getting something to work a fraction better when you can spend 1/3 - 1/4 of the price for a good solution off the shelf. Not sayng any of this is wasted info or wrong. Far from it. But i woudl say 60-75% of cars at the tracks would handle better just with a better-proper alignment...so really

I thought the 20B Cosmo had more torque std then an RB26!

i kind or remember the race, so wasted, i remember Webberw went out erly and Vettel was nowhere

I have been drinking sice 11am, so i am sure wen i watch the replay Rubens winning will soneohow make sense

Yeh, kiss Jap GP and Abu Dhabi goodbe. RBR will be nowhere! Maybe i should just stay home home and have a hand feed

Well there gos Webber's season if it wasnt already sunk. Thanks Kubs. Come on PI

LOL... the Two Troys Racing One Make Series

Keep your paws off it. I just need to cheat the Tax Man out of a few dollars and its mine

That lat pic, any more pics of that car? Looks great!

The guy has 3.5k to spend. Of course an Rb20 will maxe out before an RB25. An RB25 will max out before an LS2! The guy has a budget of 3.5k so i dont think yo uhave to worry about maxing out either engine. Consider that a decent turbo upgrade will cost you 3.5k for the turbo, exhaust and inlet change, gaskets, coolant and oil change and tune!

Man, every time i watch your R34 vids i cant help but sit back and wonder...... just how fast it woudl be with a Powerglide

Yeh, it seems cams really wake up the SR20s

I cant think straight in a car unless its over 40 in the car. Dont get that hot unless i have the heater core bump up the temps

Do you have to software to go with it for tuning?

Well good thing PK Jr has little chance for another seat/ It seems with all his trouble with Renault management that he wont be able to work with the equally difficult management of Williams, McLaren & Ferrari

Oh yeh, 180,000kms for a turbo RB20 is a cake walk. Do not rebuild the motor, especially if the thing is still running. For example, my interanlly std RB20 had 70,000kms done on it when it was imported in 1999. Between 2000 and 2003 i did 50,000kms with the std turbo at 13-15psi and a hell of a lot of days at the track (Wakefield and EC) At around 120,000kms in 2003 i threw a TD06-20G on it and started making about 215-225rwkws. It continued to get tracked. In mid-late 2004 i got hungry thinking i could get more power and at 150,000kms (i moved from Sydney to Melb that year, and had some work in SA so i racked up a hell of a lot of kms even though the car was in the workshop for 3 months) i played with cams gears and removing the remapped ECU and installed a Power FC. Some bad luck with spanner work and the mods meant the head was damaged at this time. The bottom end was still fine. In fact when the sump was removed the bottom end looked to be in perfect operating order. So in went the new wrecker engine and i finally got the power i was after, and since then have done another 40,000kms on a wrecker engine makign 235-260rwkws, again with plenty of track work. So that is a long winded response supporting why you should NEVER even think about doing a pre-emptive rebuild on an RB20, especially when you are only running a std turbo. If not for some wayward spanner work i am reasonably confident my original RB20 woudl still be ablive at 190,000kms

Fark me, i have a 6 boost manifold waiting to go onto my car. First i read on Wednesday of one cracking running the same turbo i run, and now it seems i have to get rid of my uber new titanium strut brace

he is just proving what a spoilt little bitch he is! My issue isnt with the team telling him to crash (i cant believe that they ddi, i just done get it) but the fact that d1ckless hack agreed to do it. Is he retarded as well as slow? If they told hm to do it then he is the biggest joke of a driver to come through the F1 ranks in my recent memory. If its not true he is the most pathetic individual i have ever seen in the sporting arena for throwing a fictional hissy fit at ex-team. Its not like he was like Bourdais and there abouts and was a call that could be debated, but agreed was the right call. He was SLOW, and CRASHED and was getting worse, not better.! Take the family name and jam it up their precious a55holes!!!!!!!!!! phew....feel better now

Those complaining that its hot???? Come on guys. I havea std radiator so drive at the track with teh heater fan on high and full blast to try and take heat out of the coolant. My AC never got regassed after the engine came out years ago, then a line melted with the high mount so out it came, 10kgs is 10kgs

There is no way you should start doing an an RB25 conversion if you only have 3.5k in the bank. Some very quick numbers; $2000 for a complete RB25 with loom and ECU. $800 labour is cheap for a typical remove and replace charge from a mechanic. $100 evacuate and re-gas air con $500 for new timing belt, idler bearings and tensioner $150 for coolant, oil and oil filter So depending on what you have as current mods, intercooler, cam gears, exhaust then this gear will work with an RB25. But the above is a very simplistic view using very optimistic figures for what you need to get done. It doesnt even look at legality or going to the registry and getting the engine number changed on your registration. It doesnt allow for the fact that the wiringhanress needs to be modded. It doesnt allow for the fact that many people have trouble getting the RB20 gearbox to hang together behind an RB25. It doesnt allow for the fact that when you do the conversion you could find your clutch is fried so best to throw a new clutch in there and machine the fly wheel while its all apart to save on future labour costs. So, the RB25 conversion is a good thing, but after posting here, make sure you do your own homework with your mechanic for pricing. If you had 5k i think you cuold entertain the idea of a conversion, but still have the legality issue. And all that money will only get you 180-190rwkws And Femno..up yours. RB20s are not POS. If they were then many would have a hard time explaining why when we go to Sandown-PI-Winton why their GTRs/Silvias/GTS25ts are all slower then my car with a std RB20 with bolt on tyrbo upgrade

Yes they will fit guard wise, but at a front offset of +30 and that spoke design, just be careful they do not foul on the caliper

[shakes head] A high mount single turbo on an RB20 as a total package woulld be cheaper then Barons exhaust mani, dump and front pipe arrangement for a 26 LOL, thats why i am getting rid of my RB26 head