DannyC33

looks soo good man. perfect fitment and one of the only cars actually like vskf's on. where did you get the clear side indicator lights?

ok more updates fuel system is all plumbed up cooler piping sorted (still need to get a fitting welded in for the AIC) a few other little bits and peices done here and there. sold my work equip anhelos on thursday just gone. very sad. but decided itd be a better idea to have a matching set of 6 wheels. so i plan on buying 6 XXR 531's in 17x9+25 all round . so i thought id better test fit a 9" wheel to the front. this is a 17x9+38 with a 25mm bolt on spacer.

Haha the joys of havin mates ocd about things being shiny. And yeah that for through the headlight hole. If ya know what I mean. Also not redhead just coloured.

So very productive weekend was had. Just gotta few more plugs to plug in and extend. Bell housing bolts. Bolt power steer pump back up. And modify my cooler piping. As can be seen here.... And this is my mates wife. She got bored and decided my clutch was to dirty. She went on to clean the entire motor haha.

I've bypassed it. So no water can get to it anyway.

so manifold is on, bypassed the heater as the core leaks and the oil warmer. next problem. is that my injectors dont fit my rail because its so badly made that the ports the injectors fit into are different depths ranging from 8.4m to 11.9mm. so gotta get another rail, and i have to do somethin about the dowel thats in my crank. for some reason my flywheel doesn't have the hole to accept said dowel.. anyways. no one really reads this crap, so here's some pictures

Yeah mine has already had the ports cleaned up. And its been fitted to another engine. But im gonna check it before install

Mines raw finished. And yeah im gonna be painting it satin black.

haha yeah as far i was aware they were all made to fit stock manifold.... but thats right. will look sexy and lets face it, the stock manifold and piping isnt exactly the nicest thing to look at. as for the loss in midrange, im sure i wont even notice it. coming from a 20. everything gonna feel torquey as hell haha. and for a "freddy" manifold it looks pretty good, to be honest.

engine came out on thursday night. stripped down the block friday night. spent saturday morning fitting the exhaust side to the new block, then attempted to fit my top feed injectors and fuel rail to my inlet manifold..... ....thats where everything went to shit. the rail doesnt fit. at all. was going to make up some brackets to make it fit, but then I found a greddy copy front facing plenum on gumtree for $200 so grabbed that today. I know they aren't the best things in the world, but this ones been cleaned up and faced so should be all sweet.

Rad cheers

Hell yeah! Nice numbers considering the low rpm limit.

Picked up my recon long block last night. Time to start the tear down of the laurel.

Its goin to be very mildly tuned to start with. Goin from 180rwkw rb20. Ill be more then happy with a measly 220rwkw for now. Need to try and prolong the life of the rb20 box till I can afford an rb25 box and tail shaft

Picking up new engine on thursday night. Picking up some 850cc denso injectors tonight. And have got a tomei fpr and top feed rail ordered from fleabay. Gonna run it on e85 this time. Just need to get manifold gaskets and studs. And then start swinging them spanners again. Eta 2 weeks.

Well I just bought a new engine. Picking it up next week. Recon head. New bearings. Waterpump. Timing belt. Which means ill have a series 2 rb25 long block for sale with a spare recon head. Paid $600for the head on sunday... found the full motor yesturday. Always the way. Haha

have neglected this thread as much as the laurel lately. after the comp test i got a leak down test done on it. which confirmed the valves are f**ked in number 5. 75% leak trough the exhaust valves. ive since sold my statesman and bought an r31 as a daily. so the money from the statesman is gettin dumped on the laurel. have bought a recon head for it. and this weekend ill hopefully find the motivation to pull the engine out. then its time to pull it down. measure up and buy parts. will be gettin forged pistons and new bearings and as i got the recon head for half the price of havin mine done ill likely slap some pon cams in it also.

haha nope. not yet... waitin to see how long the 20box lasts behind the 25 sorry for chit chat.. anyone got any answers? would really like to drive my laurel again while it has rego

i plan to when i eventually go to a 25 box. but not point wastin money on a 1 peice shaft for the rb20 box

anyone got the part number for the universal joint in the tail shaft of a c33? or know what else fits it? I assumed r32 would be the same, but ive been to a few spare parts places and they have no listing. wondering if r31 is the same also.

this is my daily for now. 5ltr v8. lowered (to much. its stiff as shit considering its ment to be a comfortable daily driver) shift kit exhaust thats way to loud and drones like crazy between 1500-2000rpm only good part is it has a killer stereo. haha its currently for sale as ive decided i need a cheap run around. not somethin that uses more fuel then my laurel haha

Dan what happened to sending me one ey?? haha

got bored. decided i should paint my wheels. original first idea final product plastidip is amazing shit. so easy to work with.

aww thats a bugga. not sure how mine are fittin in that case. haha.

and we have game over.... finally decided to do a compression test on the 25 to see if it would tell me why the cars a pig to start cold, random idles on 5 cylinders (but will rev and drive on 6) and why from time to time itll just blow a massive cloud of blue smoke as i pull up to a set of lights/stop (never does it driving or under boost). so compression test results returned this cold 80 80 110 120 80 120 warm 140 120 145 145 100 135 i wasnt to worried till i got to number 5 on the warm test. put a little oil in the bore to see if itd bring compression up a bit but it still only read 100psi. so im assuming rings are real happy in general but somethin else. maybe head gasket/head is the cause of the low readings on 2 and especially 5.