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Car is going in for a tune next Monday, finally almost there! I'll be in Tassie from the 6th-16th of June and super keen to get some track time if anyone is about?

Looking awesome bushy. Any estimate as to when it will be at the track? My one and only car is sitting under the mechanics house, but I'm back in Tassie in June and he's said it will be ready for then. If yours is done (and mine is finally finished) we should head out to baski Jay

Paid, with a small tip for effort. Thanks for organising this mate

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A mate said there's a relatively new (just recently started wrecking) R32 around Hobart, I'm not sure of the details but I can find out if you want. Someone else on here probably knows a few off the top of their head though.

I have a z32 and rb25 ecu laying around but no rb20 sorry if you're looking for a stock item they're generally pretty cheap (~$100) and a fair few floating around. Hopefully someone on here has one you can borrow, good luck

The car is now moving under its own steam, dump pipe is all mocked up and just needs to be properly put together. Slowly getting there!

Great to deal with, definitely would recommend to anyone. He was really helpful and very quick to get the PowerFC down to Hobart, also flashed the ECU to the right injector size and AFM before posting it down.

Down for Christmas and just got back from looking at the car, ordered a new ECU from Brad before I came down and it has been installed in the car with no problems. The 6boost manifold has been mounted with the Tial wastegate plumbed in, and the 3076r is hooked up properly as well. The only thing (that I'm aware of) that needs to be done is building the dump pipe and some of the intercooler piping, then it's a bit of tidy up and a tune. He started it up and it was as loud as hell, to be expected with no exhaust set up yet, but sounds like an absolute beast. Glad that all the electrical issues are out of the way (or appear to be for the moment) so we can focus on getting everything else set up and running. Once it's all done I'll be catching the first flight down to take her to the track. Thanks to Brad for a super quick delivery of the PowerFC

I think he's talking about the R32/R33 PowerFC ECU's Looked into Nistunes, it appears they really aren't that much cheaper if you're starting with nothing (no base ECU, no consult cable etc) and want the tuning software. I also briefly looked into Haltech, but seeing as I'd need to change the loom _again_ to do that I'm pretty hesitant and don't see any major benefits for what I'll be doing. I called the mechanic up to talk about the Nistune option, and at this point I wasn't certain it would even run with an RB26 PowerFC, but he assured me everything was working except for spark with his mates ECU, and now the ignition module has been replaced it should be good to go. He's getting his mates PowerFC back and will get her started with that over the next week, and will pass on the model number just to be sure. Does anyone know of any ridiculously cheap R32/R33 GTR PowerFC's around Tassie? If not I think I'll go with a brand new one from somewhere which will give me a 12 month warranty, I want to be 100% certain there's nothing wrong with the ECU when we put it in because of all the dramas we've had up to date.

f**k you, my car only just started and you're shoving in and RB25/30. You said you had bought a new engine, I was wondering why you went so damn quiet when I asked what it was... Seriously, f**k you buddy. So f**king jelly. f**k.

THE ENGINE STARTED!!!1! Had a call from my mechanic yesterday, when the ECU was fried the other day they actually went through the whole process again but with one of his friends GTR Power FC's (brave move). This had the injectors firing again, and after hooking everything up it still continued to function though there wasn't any spark, where my ECU turned into an expensive (though shitty) toaster. A few days later he shoved in an RB20 ignitor module, and hooked up a stock standard RB20 ECU. This gave it spark, it started, and he ran the engine for around 20-30 seconds. Everything sounded healthy, oil pressure built up etc. Now when he called he said his friends ECU was a PowerFC for a R32 GTR, whereas mine is for an R33 GTR and that may explain why mine exploded and his didn't. As far as I know (and as far as I can see online) the PowerFC released versions for the R32/R33 GTR (combined, with Autech Stagea also?) and the R34 GTR and GTST variants were separate. They opened up both PowerFC's side by side and the internals are completely different, possible different models? I've asked the mechanic for the model number of his friends PowerFC which worked so I can check a few things out. He suggested that there was simply an issue with my old ECU after the first encounter which caused it to fail again, and that buying a new PowerFC would fix the issue. Seems strange to me that a stock RB20 ECU works though, as the wiring is meant to be different? Either way, the engine sounds healthy and actually works, that's the most expensive part of the whole operation so it's a relief to finally hear it turn over. At this point I'm looking at buying a brand new R32/R33 GTR PowerFC to put in the old girl, but I want to be certain it will work before I do. Any thoughts on the above would be much appreciated TL;DR My engine started, it's healthy. I ejaculated from pure excitement. Shit's still broken.

Well, it has been ages since I've posted on here, and basically nothing has happened with the car... A lot of stuff happened for me though, I was offered a job up in Sydney and am now living and working here, sold my ute and R33 skyline but kept the R32. The plan is to come back on weekends and take it out to the track every now and again, do some super sprints and hill climbs etc to get back into it. I don't own a car up here (close enough to the city there's no need) so I need to get back into driving properly. I've been waiting on some stuff with the mechanic for a while (have been pestering him with phone calls) but got a call last week with some good and bad news. Good news: My mechanic had his auto electrician friend around and they isolated the ECU on the loom from the rest of the car and were able to get the injectors firing by turning it manually, the PFC was functioning perfectly. There were also a few wires found which were seemingly disconnected when the car was stripped out and hadn't been reconnected. At this point everything was looking good for getting it to finally turn over properly. Bad news: They hooked up the splitfire coilpacks and tried again, the PFC turned itself off and started to get a burnt smell. They disconnected the coilpacks, but after this the injectors no longer worked and the PFC didn't come back on. I got in contact with my mate who fixed the PFC last time, he went and picked it up from the mechanic the next day. The exact same two chips have burnt out, which means it should be fine (RAM chip and another, no ROM chips as far he can see), but still needs to be fixed. They were thinking the coilpacks may have issues (I know there's two types for RB25's depending on your engine?) or a resistor pack which my friend has taken and will be testing also. Anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this? Previous experiences or knowledge in this area would be great as I don't particularly want to be playing the "toast the ECU" game each time they plug it in.

For science.

This post confuses me greatly. Wut?

Honest to god, I swear I read this...

Found it, even has pics of how it was in January 2010. Reading my posts it seems I have a pretty different opinion of the car and driver, maybe time has made me into an arsehole? Either way, this is the post I was looking for: Here's the rest of the thread for context: http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/152949-tassie-spotto/page__st__540

Blue R33 with a dodgy R34 front end conversion? I used to see it around every now and again in Hobart when it was still registered a few years back, I thought it looked awesome when I first saw it but on closer inspection it looks like it was a little bit roughly put together (never saw in too much detail though). The guy who owned it at the time drove it like the king of douche bags. Only general douche baggery in traffic and throwing it around, seemed to like the image, never saw him sitting on limiter or anything like that though. From memory when I was initially praising the cars looks Funz32 didn't seem to think much of it, I don't know how much experience he had with the car but he knew the driver by name (daniel? I think?), could be worth asking him A lot of people from here should know the car because it stands out like a sore thumb, good luck mate

Damn, we are down on the 17th

Jelly level: 12 out of 10. My R33 is sold, the track r32 is at the mechs waiting to be worked on still, and I've been on trains only for the last 3 months or so in Sydney. When is the super series round you're going in? Might possibly be in tassie

I take it back, just logged in with the computer and this feels horrible... iPhone is heaps better though

Yeah this was good to watch, some nice close battles and you were always up front. Bloody awesome work mate

I actually like it much nicer on iPhone where the old version _was_ broken in multiple ways. Haven't used the desktop version much yet though, mostly because using it via my phone is so easy now Web development is only difficult because it's hard to take into account all of the different browsers (mobile included), anyone can build a website, but supporting it is a bitch. At work we generally just do ie8+, and latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari unless the client asks specifically for a certain browser. That's for internal projects, external you need to go back to ie6+, Firefox 3.6+ etc.. Testing and resolving issues becomes more difficult as you expand that, each change will fix one browser and break another. Mobile browsers being generally fine, but a chunk more work due to thousands of screen sizes, 3 popular OS's which span across bloody hundreds of operating system versions... A lot of the features you can use on phones aren't even supported by windows mobile, so it restricts you to that which they do support. A lot of mobile websites don't even support windows mobile, anything based on sencha touch or jQuery Touch (or any of it's variants) frameworks just get a blank screen when someone uses Internet Explorer. God I hate Internet Explorer. </rant> As an aside, who's coming to super series this weekend?

I don't know from experience or anything close to it but wouldn't it be pretty damned hard to get them up to a good working temperature at the start of the runs, giving you less traction than normal? Maybe someone like Djrift or zoid (or anyone with drift experience) could confirm?

This up and running yet mate?