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All up the conversion to RB30et will cost me about: Intercooler $35 Piping $50 Silicone joiners $free Turbo $50 Manifold $150 - $300 (depending on which I get) ECU $90 - $200 (depending if I get VLT or get a retune) Injectors $35 Dump / front pipe $50 Oil line $70 Misc $50 So all up $580 - $840 depending on a few things. I think this would make good responsive power, the end figure I'm not very fussed about, just after a responsive setup, with more power than I have N/A, which is a given. An engine conversion would be a heap more work, and would cost more than the VLT setup.

$600 for a bare shell? A lot of people pay $600 for a decent-ish complete R31 haha

271cc are the stock Bosch 'Brown Top' injectors which come in a VL Turbo, many people make 150 - 160kw (200 - 220hp) with these injectors. In an R31 setup, the fuel pump (Bosch 070?) runs out before the injectors, somewhere near 170kw usually.

Thanks for the help all, but my friend has decided to get it all fixed up at Trojan - the easier and quicker option. Thanks all for the help

Sweet mate, did much need fixing with the manifold? Pictures would be awesome.

Thanks for that mate, would you be looking to sell it? Cheers.

Yep those are the ones mate. I agree, even from some of the pictures you can see there must be pinholes / very thin welds in some places. Not a huge issue for me considering the price ($330 landed) my friend is a boilermaker, so if I do buy one I'll give it to him to look over, he will fix up any welds for a 6 pack, then I can repaint and have myself a fairly cheap manifold. Likewise, the quality of the flange is not great, there is not a proper merge pipe. Again, I feel the price reflects this.

Thanks for the reply mate .. Didn't happen to have a dyno before and after did you? Haha

Ah Okay, thanks very much for clearing that up mate. I don't imagine I will go that large, because that would mean changing my fuel pump and injectors for larger items. Perhaps steampipe is the wrong word? I think that's what they are, as the pictures indicate. I will send you a PM with where to get them mate. The welds can be poor sometimes, but they are easily fixed up if you are handy; I get my friend who is a boilermaker to do it for me.

Thanks for the quick reply mate. I would have the external gate welded shut while using the RB25 turbo. If I would see no difference between manifolds when using the RB25 turbo, when do you think I would see a difference? With an RB30 turbo? Or would it have to be substantially larger to make any difference?

G'day all, I am just finding my way through a turbo setup for the first time, coming from only n/a performance before this. The setup is on my RB30E in my R31 skyline, I realise this isn't the R31 club but my question relates to turbo motors in general. What sort of gain might I see, from using a stock cast iron log style manifold, to a mild steel steampipe style manifold? The price difference is maybe $150 - $200 for stock manifold and $330 for the steampipe style manifold, which is a highmount also, if that makes a difference. Here is a picture of each so it is clear which manifolds I mean: http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/1058/rb301.jpg http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/7128/rb303.jpg Stock manifold http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v211/das_moogan/VL%20Turbo%20conversion%20smaller%20pics/VLTurboTopView.jpg My setup isn't going to be huge, just an rb25 turbo for the moment, Bosch 271cc injectors, 2.5" exhaust with high flow cat, cold air intake, 10mm leads, front mount intercooler and 2" piping. I am hoping for a responsive setup, with at least 160rwkw through my 28spline minispool diff. Would I see any advantage with the better manifold? Or is it a substantially better base if I ever do go chasing more power? Thanks for your help / input.

I support the Hero HZ-1 tyre. Made by federal and offers the same compound as the 595 super steel, I'm a huge supporter of Federal tyres, for the money the grip is fantastic.

Thanks for that mate. I was thinking about something like that, we put 1 baffle in between the cat / cat back section of the exhaust and it was still 8dB too loud. Though the baffle we used still had a lot of holes in it. Could I run both baffles do you think?

No mate, my skyline is missing wheels, brakes, suspension, hubs, radiator, battery at the moment It sits on my driveway on stands haha hasn't had any rego in a fair while. Hope everything is alright though.

Yep haha that's why I am hunting around for my mate, see what I can find.

Thanks mate, I'll check that out. Torjan will lend us one for a day, but $300 for a day is pretty expensive.

As the title suggests, I am after 1 R32 GT-R RB26DETT injector. Only need 1, as one of them is leaking. Cheers.

Didn't see this thread! R32 GT-R exhaust anyone? For Dickson inspection, 8dB too loud at the moment.

Hello all, My friend has an R32 GT-R which is 8dB too loud (Dickson inspection). Would anyone have an exhaust lying around? Perhaps a bit of a long shot. We would take any exhaust, aftermarket or stock (prefer stock) but having a second exhaust we could put an extra muffler in it if need be, to make it quiet enough. Or if someone has one they would rent out for a day or two, that would be great also. Cheers, Anthony.

I wouldn't attempt it yourself, can go very wrong be being 0.5mm out etc. Any machining / engineering shop will do it pretty cheaply.

Is the engine complete? Or just bare motor? Does it come with turbo, ecu, bolt ons etc

As I suggested the other day mate, either have a tune done or put the standard ECU back in, you can't expect to buy an aftermarket ECU with another custom map on it, and plug it in without tuning it for your car.

Are these 10 x 114.3? PCD

Fairly rubbish, dry grip was awful, wet grip was worse, noisy. I didn't use them for long but I think you'd get decent wear out of them, they seemed pretty hard. I wouldn't go near them.

Would you sell turbo separate? Cheers.