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  1. Beaches will be big on the list but also want to see things that are special to Aus seeing as it will be a once of a lifetime trip !

    GPS will be a must im assuming as although im good with maps 1200 miles in another country could be pushing the luck although you do have the steering wheel on the correct side ;)

    Its all the little places that im starting to hear about that are not well publicised over here that are great so keep them coming :D

    Whats the story with the Gympie place though - reputation or genreally dodgy ?

    As far as Sydney goes ive been told to avoid :

    Carlingford Dundas

    Redfern

    Blacktown

    Eveleigh Street

    Hyde Park

    Kingscross

    How true any of it is about those parts I dont knwo as im a tad too far away lol

  2. Bit of an odd one but thought id ask the people in the know :)

    From November 3rd to the 20th ill be leaving England behind and flying into Sydney then roadtripping up to Cairns and then back down to Townsville :D

    I was wondering if there are any motoring events, shops, meets or just cool things to do on the trip that I may not know of from all the usual tourist information !

    Any ideas will be helpful guys :)

    Paul

  3. Bit of an odd one but thought id ask the people in the know :)

    From November 3rd to the 20th ill be leaving England behind and flying into Sydney then roadtripping up to Cairns and then back down to Townsville :D

    I was wondering if there are any motoring events, shops, meets or just cool things to do on the trip that I may not know of from all the usual tourist information !

    Any ideas will be helpful guys :)

    Paul

  4. To a point yes - but how much time are you going to spend on it?

    Looms are cheap, in UK money especially :P

    At the end of the day if you repair this one and so on, you better hope you get it 100% right. Later down the track all sorts of niggles can come up with butchered looms.

    I've been through it myself, was easier and faster in the end to just suck it and buy a new loom. Not worth the drama's sometimes as Nissan & electrics/looms from all my past cars and friends... are not all that friendly at times

    I understand exactly what you are saying.

    I think tomorrow ill see if its beyond saving and may then make the decision. IF I can get it back to standard ill be ok but thats quite a big IF at the moment ! :D

  5. Spot on chaps :)

    Think im going to have to trace everything from the ecu and check it against the pinouts I have saved :)

    From what you guys have said so far I think I can determin the following then !

    The main relays must be wrong in some way as they switch without the OS2, idle control etc :P

    Id also guess I dont need the speedo signal but ill wire it in correctly seeing as I need to sort everything anyways

    I dont have air con but ill wire the FICD anyways for future use maybe

    Im sure ill have a load more questions in a few hours :D

  6. Im quite a lurker, reader and searcher but less of a poster but hoping that wont matter :

    Long story but here goes

    18 months ago I did a RB25 (series 1) conversion into my S13. It was my daily at the time and I needed it to work so got someone to do it that was supposedly an expert at it.

    I did the swap and it didnt start. No power to injectors or coils so I got it running.

    Skip foward 18 months. Im now breaking my S13 and building a Onevia that the RB is going in. I cleaned all the unwanted wires from the car loom and then get to the engine one. Untape it etc and O.M.F.G its a mess.

    Ive already sorted out the bodged pins in connectors but have a few questions that I cant really sort without looking at another loom or someone knowing it :bawling:

    So here is what I know :

    The R33 harness connects to the dash harness at one point so mine was repinned to fit my dash harness. Currently I have 4 wires in it which ive traced as follows :

    Yellow/red - splits into two wires and goes to the tacho readout wire in the bay and the ecu

    Yellow/green - to the ecu

    Blue/black - Temperature gauge

    Orange -> grey/red - ecu

    And thats all I have in that connector as per pic

    DSC00124.jpg

    Im guessing this is the R33 version of what im using (but with more wires)

    DSC00119.jpg

    strange thing is that I have 3 wires going into this from the engine loom so they go nowhere !

    Ive traced them so here goes

    Black - goes to a purple inlent manifold plug - think its AAC (air con idle up) ?

    Light blue - Goes to a gray connector with an orange insert, not sure where but possibly front of inlet area. Heres a pic or two as im crap with words

    DSC00120.jpg

    DSC00121.jpg

    Blue/white - splits off into 4 wires after about a foot. These then go to a coil pack plug, what I think is the VVT (first pic below), the oxygen sensor and what I think is the boost solenoid (second pic below).

    DSC00122.jpg

    DSC00123.jpg.

    If you are still reading then thankyou :)

    The thing I find strange is that the car seemed to run fine on stock parts but did overfuel a bit and pulled 285ish on standard boost.

    Help very much welcome :(

  7. Im currently running a remote coil with wasted spark setup on my RB25 and have a very slight missfire as it crosses over from low boost to high boost (half a second miss).

    Over there (Aus) alot of you guys seem to run systems like this compared to over here where alot of people seem to slate them.

    Main question is : do you ever run a different ignitor/ptu to help the ignition system too ?. I think that MSD, Autronic and AEM do them and there is a HKS twin spark but not sure what that does yet.

    Do you guys have problems like this ?

    Stems from this product and this kinda topic :

    The setup

    The problems (takes a while for the writing to load (not my car)

    :D

  8. Just seen this and its a sad thing to read !

    Over here people will kill for someone like Ant that is so helpful and willing to give knowledge without charging the world.

    As always its the short sighted few that have brought a "well quick car" that spoil it for the proper enthuiasists :(

    Everyone is far to quick to look for someone to blame these days before even finding out what went wrong

    All the best Ant and hope you still enjoy what you are doing whatever way :(

  9. Thought I may aswell put a post in here after hiding for long enough :D

    As the title says im not from ustralia but have found such helpful people on here (guilt-toy for one) and so much informatio that im planning on sticking around.

    Im currently driving / tracking / drifting my S13 with RB25DET and have a rusty PS13 shell to fix up to then swap everything into for something looking half decent. Will prob end up as a onevia too.

    Anyways thats me - be gentle :laugh:

  10. emanage will be fine for your application mate.

    Good luck with it! please post some pics of your car.. just like seeing pics of skylines overseas etc etc.

    cheers

    Looks like ill be saving up for ultimate then if it works with my wasted spark setup.

    Its not really a skyline though.................................. :)

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