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@Looney_Head they’re out of stock of the billet plates until December. They’re a great price too ($950) but I want to get cracking on it ASAP. Waiting to hear back about the PPG plate, hopefully they’re available immediately so I can hopefully have everything back before Christmas. Confirming final details about the gear set today. I like the idea of the longer 5th to give a better cruising gear. Should have the intake manifold back from the powdercoaters this week. Looking forward to seeing how it comes up!

Ok, done f.all lately waiting for bits and motivation... So seeing I ended up having to rob bits out of one of my older gearboxes they found that they had dramas and would need replacing anyway 🤦‍♂️. So......... I’m guessing this will agitate some people but I’m putting a Speedtek close ratio gear set in it.... I know there have been some less favourable reviews around but there are also some fairly high power cars running them so I’m taking the gamble! I’ve spoken to Neat and he has some direction to take once he gets it to rectify the issues he has seen in the past (overly hardened gears). I’l whack in a PPG billet centre plate at the same time to hold it all together. Fingers crossed this won’t have been a stupid waste of time and money! If it works then I’ll be thrilled as I’ll be clutch dumping at 8000rpm at every chance I get! There is zero chance I’ll be getting a sequential in the next 10 years so hopefully this setup will handle the power. I’ll sit here and wait for the anti Speedtek abuse! 😅

Sweet, I might get you to let me know who you're speaking to (if you think he's good). I'd like to talk to someone about the possibility of getting my RB30 engineered into my car. Probably too hard but it's worth talking to someone to find out.

Welcome back! Good to see you're still chipping away at her! Cant wait till she sees the light of day! What are you doing re engineering? Are you going the whole hog of getting it properly engineered? You know what cops can be like in Shepp..... TOG seem to be here permanently now.

Thanks mate! Slowly but surely..... Aaaaahhhhh, are you happy to wait another 8 years? Actually I can't even say it would be that quick..... Cheers! Just got the bolts off Ebay. There's heaps of different kits, I got the 825 piece kit. Thought I'd be better off over doing it than wishing I'd bought a few more! This is the kit - https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NUT-BOLT-KIT-825PC-SUIT-NISSAN-SKYLINE-GT-GTS-GTIR-GTR-R30-R31-R32-R34-R33-R34/163924964563?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 Away on the bikes again this weekend and still building more sheds at home (on to my fourth shed in total now....) so hopefully back into it in 3 or 4 weeks once that's done. I really don't want to leave it too long as northern Victorian summers get stupid hot out in the shed (40+ degrees regularly) and I stupidly didn't put in any insulation when I first built it. Another job for another day. Transmission is not back from Neat yet. They've started on it but no word for a week or so, I'm hoping it's close....

Not really a tow car but have been steering this beast (RSQ8, fastest production SUV around Nurburgring) for the last week. Unfortunately have to give it back to Audi next week. 😥😥 What a car! 441kW of Quattro goodness! Its not just how fast it us that impresses me, its just an amazingly nice car to drive as a normal car. Absolute heaven on wheels! When R33 GTRs are worth $280K I might trade up....

You're not sprinkling fairy dust on it, they're mechanical modifications that are proven to work. The variable turbo side of it isn't proven as a specific product yet but the concept is to make it a smaller turbo (which is well proven to add response) until you need it to be a bigger turbo once its spooled up. Even if it was "only" 400 rpm lower in the rev range that will make a massive difference to your response. Arse dyno can definitely feel the difference!

Holy moly, that will be one insanely responsive beast! RIP your driveline! 🤣🤣

I’ve been following it for a while. I think it will be brilliant. Will definitely consider giving it a go. It potentially makes a too big for your application turbo now get up on boost a heap quicker and then still maintain most or all of your top end,what’s not to love!!??

Top job mate, well done! It will be totally worth it in the end knowing it's all done right! You'll be doing full body resto's on 260Z's in no time!

Ha ha, what a journey! You must be stoked you still have it! A lot of people would have just gone "Ah fu(K it. I'll just sell it" and never see it again. The import wrecker here in Shepp was amazing 15-20 years ago! I still think about it from time to time. When I was doing my mechanics apprenticeship I used to go down there and look at all of the half cuts he had everywhere, it was heaven!!! I didn't even have a Jap car at the time (VL Commy so Jap engine!) but I still loved all of the awesome turbo'd engines and other random Jappo goodness. I would shudder to think what just got chopped up and chucked away from that place.... Shepparton was a pretty random place for a Jap import wrecker, it's never really had a strong Jap Import scene. I think the guy himself loved them but I don't think it paid the bills long term. A good story, keep it up!

Didn't get a chance to do much over the weekend. Fitted my newly powdercoated exhaust shields with nice new bolts. The little things! Finished off my jig. Hopefully get some stuff done during the week this week as we're heading away next weekend for AFL grand final weekend.

Snuck out to the shed tonight and quickly whipped up my k-frame jig to sit on jack stands prior to reinstallation of the engine/trans assembly from underneath the car. It should make it a bit easier to support the whole thing even with that.

Most of them will never be seen by anyone other than myself but I'll know!

@mr_rbman cheers, I think once you’ve got the hang of one type of tigging the other varieties are a lot easier to pickup. Once you’ve got the hang of puddle control and feeding filler it’s just a matter of understanding the idiosyncrasies of the different styles. In saying that I tried to weld up an engine cover I smashed on my motorbike on the weekend and made an absolute meal of it! That was junk alloy plus being oil soaked it just turned to poo. Binned that part..... Wasted $200 for a box of Jappo spec bolts so shiny new bolts for days! Most of the original ones came up ok after a good clean but you can’t beat brand new ones!

Speaking of GTHO's the one that sold at auction this month for $400K with NO MOTOR has landed here in Shepparton with an amazing body builder to bring it back to original spec. He's getting rid of the god-awful wheel arch flares thankfully.

Those kms if true are pretty amazing though. Worth $600K? Probably not but as @Steve85 said, I'd pay that on a 34 Nur that I would enjoy driving compared before I spent it on a clapped out GTHO that only feels fast because it's as dangerous AF!

Yes mate, its just an alloy spacer.

Here we go, not a great photo but hopefully you can get the idea.

It'll be fine. Get a small section milled out of the block and then fit a spacer in that milled section to achieve the desired height for the pulley to mount to. Mine is done this way. Can't remember if I've got photos anywhere....

Gave the intake manifold a sand blast and one last weld and she's ready for powdercoating. I cannot believe how much time I've wasted on this bloody thing.... I could have carved one out of a piece of stone quicker.... Ahh well, its been good for the alloy tigging practice.

Definitely winning zero awards for my alloy welding but as long as it lasts then all good. Once powdercoated it might look better! Next step is to make up a bit of a jig to support the k-frame on jack stands so I don't scratch the shit out of my new powdercoat! It's a bit sketchy just putting the stands under the k-frame as well so this should balance it a bit better.

Wow, please don't hesitate as you hover your finger over the "Delete Account" button if you find everyone here so completely unhelpful. You've so far shown great value to us too so thanks heaps for your input. Are you seriously that bitter that you would drop the lip because no one has something to sell you? Have you not noticed lately how the value of "this shit" and the speed at which it sells has gone crazy? Its hard to buy anything at the moment. If you've been burnt on Facebook go and take out your rage over there, not here.

Yes, not as bad but still f'ing bad! Not to be too much of a Danny downer but the thing that would scare me is that if its in there, its probably plenty of other places too.

Sold.