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I'll have a trailer too please. So glad you decided to do something with it

Need a NisTune Daughter board for your ECU if you're going to change injectors. Prolly best to talk to Martin at Tas Mobile Mech. 6273 4777, he does Nis Tune installations and knows what's up.

tyres with nowelly has them R1Rs heaps cheap hey How much were you thinking for the ol' girl Jack? I got a mate interested. PM or facebook me if you want

a sales person talking up a product they sell... they must be the ducks guts. Toyo R1R, now there is a street tyre worth writing home about.

stop being soft and come race.

put a 20 in there, give the 30 mani and turbo to me for my VL

you're most welcome on the tyres Why don't you tell all the nice people how you went on Friday at the track!! (Shameless plug, tyreswithnowelly.com )

not sure if forsale or build thread... Either way it's pretty cool

If the bearings are within spec and give me the oil clearances I want, why wouldn't I want to use them? And yes, that is how I was using the dial bore gauge.

according to the racepak, it was perfect right up til the moment it wasn't. Getting a wideband and water pressure sensors before this motor goes back in though.

This makes me quite happy

forgot to show off my genius lifter oganizing skillz

So, as some of you may know, TSS2 didn't go to plan, with the head gasket failing on my new engine, kept it to my self a little as I was slightly embarrassed about f**king this new motor after just 2 days... Anyway, Got shit pulled down over the weekend with the help of this maaaaaaaaad set of tools I picked up for $999 from Kennedy's Welding Supplies, ($999 RRP, when shit's that cheap you don't need mates rates!) I really only wanted the rattle gun but it was $650 by it's self! The impact Wrench (rattle gun) is probally the best electric one I've ever used, feels like it's a quality tool in your hand, nice and solid. Ripped my flywheel bolts off no worries, on handed too, a child could use this tool. The impact driver was a tool I thought was surplus to my needs but I god the 3\8ths square drive attachment for it and it's just really handy for taking off all the little bolts around the joint, and with the impact screwdriver set, it makes short work on the machine screws too, like in the back of the oil pump. I haven't used the drill or angle grinder yet, but they look like good gear! But enough about my mad tools, engine tear down time. At Symmons I had a radiator hose come off while racing my 2nd heat, immediately got my boot out of it and limped it back to the pits, filled it back up with water and now water comes out the exhaust, excellent. Dropped the water out and put it back on the trailer and took it home and ripped the motor out. Here is where all the fun stuff happened. As you can see, head gasket integrity is low, quite low, but luckily there is no damage to the head or pistons. The conrods seemed to have taken all the punishment. This piston is at TDC too... yep shit's f**ked. So lucky the rod didn't break and f**k my amazing sump. The damage you see on the center of the pistons is from where I tried to measure the distance of the piston from the spark plug hole at TDC to see if I had bent a rod before I got the head off. This is the only badness that's happened to my head, all the moisture in the top end made it all rusty The integrity of the all the factory nissan RB25 conrods have indeed been compromised, they're all bent except for one, which is very surprising as water only got into one cylinder! Needless to say they're all junk now, their bendyness seemed to have also caused some uneven wear on their bearings, but the crank is in perfect condition still. All bent bar #3 (in order left to right) There was also this mystery gunk caught up in the oil pickup, no idea where is came from, or what it is; it's quite hard to touch but you can with a push, put your finger nail through it. Mystery chunks. Opened up the oil filter too and found a few more chunks in it but it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, looking back on my Racepak dash logs, there is no drop in oil pressure though, so I guess that's lucky! I was unable to take apart the oil pump that was on this motor to see how many chunks it blew because the cheap shitty obviously not rated for impact use screw driver set I was using broke But here are some pics of the N1 Oil pump that was in my old motor. Back of the N1 oil pump Back off, revealing the stock N1 gears. Gears out. Every RB owners worst nightmare, cracked oil pump gears. But what's this, a set of not bent conrods! hello old friends They say Nitto on them and everything! I wonder where these came from I reckon these should handle 300rwkw! All the bearings in these rods are in pretty good condition too, no egging or taper, only one has a tiny scratch out of it that goes all the way around, I'm thinking that this isn't such a big deal? I've got a selection of cranks now, I miced them up and luckliy enough the one with the nitto oil pump collar is the one that will give me the most desirable oil clearances. Measured my mains with Dial Bore gauge, which was fun to use as I've not used one before, soooooooo much easier than stupid telescoping gauges! Going to use the back one. So that's what I did on the weekend! Next step is to get the head and block machined so that it'll play nicely with a new MLS headgasket, I'm going to send my injectors away to get cleaned, as I'm thinking they might have had a role in the destruction of this motor... Better safe than sorry... again. I don't think I'll make time attack, but hopefully I'll be back on track before the season ends. Unless someone wants to gift me some machine shop vouchers, a gasket kit and clean my injectors? Cheers,

15th June, Time attack. Baskerville.

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Tas Mobile Mechanic sells them to drifters down here, I don't know where he gets them from or TWN would be selling them too 6273 4777

that sounds a little steep for steel wheels... Give TMM a call 6273 4777

Yeah sorry I didn't have a chance to catch up with you, I was so busy I didn't even have time to scratch my self! If you're looking for me at a drift event I'm usually at Pit Exit or Race Control

Sprints are on this weekend at Symmons Should be a good day! I'll be there Cheers,

this problem also seems to be causing a problem with replying to topics and PMs, where the window to type in won't appear or it will disappear.

yeah I've got it too Win8 x64 + Chrome and Win7x86 + chrome Happens on both my PCs

I saw your stag at the drifts Looks nice

should see if we can con Damo into coming down for a weekend and doing both our cars bushy Mine needs a tidy up

all of them?