GTSBoy

And also to moderate/mediate the various threads started with "I wanna get a seq box and woz thinkin ppg but the horror storiez bro".

The whine is barely audible in your video. There were some alarming clacking noises early in the video. The fan WILL come off with the radiator in place. We've all done it. Fan shroud off. Small ratchet. Job done.

Well, 2 points about that need to be made. 1. The factory compressor bypass valve doesn't do very much to relieve stress on the turbo, largely because that is not why it is there. It is not really a BOV. Keep in mind that the factory boost pressure on R32 RB20s is only 10 psi, and on RB25s is only ~7 psi. This is not enough boost to justify a "BOV" for the purposes of venting excess pressure in the intake tract. The reality is that the factory "BOV" is a compressor bypass valve. It is intended to be open when there is some vacuum in the inlet manifold, so that the intake air can go around the compressor instead of through it. This unloads the compressor (so there is less power required to drive it) so that it can and will be spun up to a higher speed just under those "cruise" conditions than it would if the air had to go through the comp wheel. Thus, when you add throttle opening and would like some boost, it is closer to making boost than it would have been. It is simply a device for improving response. Which is exactly what people claim it is for, just with the wrong reasoning behind it. 2. You will barely notice the absence of the bypass valve and many people claim that they actually work better without it anyway. So, don't panic. But fit a stocker if you like.

Welcome. But Don't do this.

Normal on every car.

50 shot of nitrous.

Are you asking what the procedure is? Is not the next thing to just type in to google - "ring bedding procedure" ?

Yes, hence why I suggested that the rings were not bedded in properly. There is a procedure to make a new engine work properly. If you do not follow it, you will glaze the bores and you can forget about it every being any good after that.

So, either the rings haven't been bedded in and it is burning oil, or it is running pig rich.

Say what? What does the colour of the sump matter? And the inlet side is the RHD driver's side of the engine....where the inlet plenum sits. Exhaust on the LHS.

f**king lots. Like, hundreds of amps. That's why car batteries are rated in CCA (Cold Cranking Amps) and those numbers are large.

Buy Radical, do it to that.

It is best that you put the gearbag back into the car and sit the engine as it will be installed, rather than trying to emulate the correct angle with blocks of wood and internet advice. Just do the work.

Yes, I fear the consumption rate of spares like that has ramped up since the various US and Euro owners have started in on them.

Gates are famous for it. Nowhere near as good as Pitwork/Nissan.

That logic doesn't really follow. The ports on the NA head are small. At least big holes in the gasket to suit the torque killer manifold that you're using won't get in the way.

Well, think about what you know that IS different between the engines (ie, the tiny tiny inlet ports) and what is not different (ie, the bore diameter and spacing!) and....

Depends on what gaskets you're talking about. Inlet manifold gasket, for example, probably different.

Technically, the thing you're holding in your hand isn't the clockspring. It's the steering angle sensor for the HICAS. The clockspring is inside the column shroud - it's what handles the indicators.

Well, yeah. Try loosening everything. Just because something is sold as "bolt on" does not mean that it will mate up with all the other OEM or "bolt on" parts that are there. Especially Chinabay exhaust bits. I would suggest, if you cannot get it all to go together while everything else is loose without leaving a gap somewhere, that you are going to have to pay someone to cut the flange off one end of something and weld it back so that it will mate up.

Had a look at the air filter?

Just look inside the ECU you have (in the car already, not the bare one) to see how it's done.

You didn't live through the 2000s? They were on every street corner. About 1 per every 10 metallic red ones, to be sure, but nonetheless.

Worst idea ever. Pay cash. As if financing a 30 year old Datto makes sense.

If you're going to that much effort (ie, buying an R33 ECU just for a case that you then have to modify), either just fold your own up out of 1.2mm sheet steel/ally or put it in a plastic kitchen storage box.