V8skylineMAN

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Here is a list what i have done in the last three days Keep in mind I did all this without any help. Auto box is sitting next to the car... motor sitting in engine bay but not bolted in.... crank is different to the engine i pulled out...fark...need a manual get clutch fit clutch get pedal box and clutch master and slave cyl from r31 and 200b and modify to suit application manual in... all anciliaries bolted to motor gearbox is 5inches shorter than the auto fark....manual out.....run around like an idiot looking for a long 5speed(impossible to get one atm) find out that crank is NOT different... there is an adapter on the end of it....pulls off with two tyre levers put auto back in.... realize that i cut all the lines that the auto uses when i took it out as i wasn't using it run around like an idiot again to find the cooler lines... find some at murrarie. remove clutch master slave and pedal and go get auto lines. go cruising Sat night in Nismogirls car..... get a defect in my bog stock silvia fit auto lines to gearbox....remember that the motor doesnt have an oil pickup in it yet... undo engine mounts lift engine and remove sump.... go 1/2 way to toowoomba to get oil pickup fit oil pickup fit sump...lower engine....do up engine mounts... fill with oil...fill auto with tranny fluid fit tailshaft try to start car,,,....nothing find that wiring is all wrong on the auto... fix wiring...try to start car.... car starts.!!!....exaust isnt done up.....FARK its loud! turn car off. fit exhaust start car.....runs on 5 cyls only..... begin diagnosis find that no2 cyl is not firing..... plenty of spark..... check exhaust....no popping....not a valve must be fuel suply to Injector....nope...plenty of pressure.. guess that injector must be the problem...remove injector(cvnt of a job) replace injector start car...WOOOOOO firing on all six! fit radiator and hoses fit fan fill with coolant let the car idle for 20 mins not getting hot, go for a small drive....temp on 1/3....sweet sit down and relax

A weekend in the life of V8skylineMAN: Here is a list what i have done to that in the last three days motor in.... crank is different...fark...need manual get clutch fit clutch get pedal box and clutch master and slave cyl from r31 and 200b and modify to suit application manual in... all anciliaries bolted to motor gearbox is 5inches shorter than the auto fark....manual out.....run around like an idiot looking for a long 5speed(impossible to get one atm) find out that crank is NOT different... there is an adapter on the end of it....pulls off with two tyre levers put auto back in.... realize that i cut all the lines that the auto uses when i took it out as i wasnt using it run around like an idiot again to find the cooler lines... find some at murrarie. remove clutch master slave and pedal and go get auto lines. fit auto lines to gearbox....remember that the motor doesnt have an oil pickup in it yet... undo engine mounts lift engine and remove sump.... go 1/2 way to toowoomba to get oil pickup fit oil pickup fit sump...lower engine....do up engine mounts... fill with oil...fill auto with tranny fluid fit tailshaft try to start car,,,....nothing find that wiring is all wrong on the auto... fix wiring...try to start car.... car starts.!!!....exaust isnt done up.....FARK its loud! turn car off. fit exhaust start car.....runs on 5 cyls only..... begin diagnosis find that no2 cyl is not firing..... plenty of spark..... check exhaust....no popping....not a valve must be fuel suply to Injector....nope...plenty of pressure.. guess that injector must be the problem...remove injector(cvnt of a job) replace injector start car...WOOOOOO firing on all six! fit radiator and hoses fit fan fill with coolant let the car idle for 20 mins not getting hot, go for a small drive....temp on 1/3....sweet sit down and relax

copz are teh sux0r of b4llsax

/rant Cops are teh suck Picture this....carpark semi full of a mix of imports, domestic cars and smoky shitboxes. me rocking up in a stock standard CA18 automatic non turbo Silvia.....I mean this thing doesn't even have a chrome exaust tip(which im sure EVERY car that doenst have an aftermarket exhaust has) Two police Cvntstables booking me for having the number plate fittied as best posible to the factory position... Holden commonwhore next to me has a dirty great big tacho mounted on the dash and he gets told "thats a major defect, fix it"....no futher action taken...... Me minus 75 and one point..... /end rant

no car, hence the need for a ride

Everyone is out laughing, and smiling, driving skylines and doing dyno runs, shenanigans are in the back of everyones mind.....and here i am looking at a puter screen. sux0rs to be me.

home....but thats irrelevant now....was trying to suss out a ride.

Eleanor , Hands down.... Twin turbo 460 with SVO stroker pushing it out to 600cu in.. but thats MY dream.

where are you located, Ed G?

/me twiddles thumbs

0400 039 899

i need a ride if some one wants to do a small detour to pick me up......

forget that....i just read back up the thread....

whos goin to the bbq tonight?

you dont have to have seen himm.....he prolly doesnt...i dont know.... the laughter was at that line......as if anyone would believe THAT in an ad

u,mmm....arent you goin home again?

Hahahaaaaaaahahhaaahaa mmm hahahhahhaa

When white pants go bad.....

wtf...my total posts since joining is 29....lmao

woo...im climbing the post whore ladder.......#32 now

12:00 food

gearboxes are not light

gearbox=in and bolted up

clutch and flywheel=in