Shoota_77

Yeah we don’t like parting with our hard earned much! When we do it’s with great pain and anguish! ??

Ha ha, trust me I'd love to! I have a few major issues with that unfortunately. 1. A hefty mortgage 2. Many other hobbies to support 3. I'm Dutch..... Paying people to do my shit is really a battle!

6 more months roll on by........ Too early to say I'm fully motivated but I'm taking baby steps towards getting back into it. I flatly refuse to make it a New Years Resolution to get it going this year as I've done that the last few years in a row and it's still sitting idle in the shed! So over the Christmas break I spent a few hours playing with a few things. It was 35-40 degrees most days during the break so bloody hot out in the shed even with the poor split system air con cranked to full noise! I'm still chasing a few issues that are currently causing non start. I've got injection, spark and compression but no go so there has to be a spark timing issue I think. Even with a squirt of "Start you f#$king Bastard" it still doesn't fire. It pops and carries on a little bit indicating presence of the two most important bits (flammable shit and sparky things) but they mustn't be happening at the right time to make it go broom. I need to go back through the whole diagnostic process again but the last time I was playing around with it it was all timed right but I've been stuffing around with a heap of other stuff in the meantime so will need to recheck it. Getting someone else out ion the shed to hit the key while I hold the timing light is the hardest bit sometimes! The other issue I'm having which may be related is that the coil packs themselves and the power and earth supplying them are getting really hot. To the point of melting the wire coating kinda hot! I've either got a short in the coil wiring (a supplied loom from coil over kit seller) or there's something going on that the coils are being triggered overtime which is causing them to cook themselves. I'm happy to hear some advice if anyone else has come across this before after undertaking a re-wire or coil upgrade?? Anyway, please wish me good luck in staying motivated long enough to at least get it running this time around! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

Looking great so far mate, well done! Nothing wrong with those welds, TIG is bloody hard to master. Your welds are far better than mine!

If you can't find the actual specs then I'd stick with standard RB26 specs, maybe just a touch higher. Being a stud as opposed to a bolt the actual clamping force will be greater than a bolt at the same torque so at factory spec you're actually at a theoretical higher tightening torque level if that makes sense?

That's a big sexy engine, looks amazing!

Mate, you're really getting stuck into it, well done! Looking awesome! I know where to go for panel repairs when I buy another Datsun/Rustsun! Things must be a bit quiet at Rubicon with all this spare time you have on your hands!? Keep it up, I bags first test ride for an SAU member!

Ha ha, I'll just shut up then!! I've never seen either in my 20+ years in the industry!!! Maybe the cars at my work are all driven like nanna would and don't get smashed through the gears enough!

If the slave looks to be pushing the clutch rod the full throw when you put your foot on the clutch then it sounds like your clutch fingers might be bent and the clutch is not fully disengaging. Unlikely to be the fork or the pivot ball, they're both pretty heavy duty parts. Sounds like box out sorry mate!

Actually @PranK you should come and buy an Amarok V6 off me, that will smash it out with ease! Such a great Ute to drive!

Not a great choice in my opinion mate. Even towing the R33 with my pretty heavy Ranger Ute I can feel it moving me around a bit on the road. A light little SUV like a CX7 would be dangerous in my opinion. A good gust of wind and you’ll be on the other side of the road! The average car weighs around 1400-1500kgs so you’re right, it doesn’t leave much room for the weight of the trailer if the total is 1700kgs!

Wow, the guy is an artist!!! It seems to be a dying art to hand fabricate components like that. Awesome to see! I'm glad it's you footing the bill not me!! Can't wait to see the finished result though.

Thanks @rbjunkie, let’s hope it’s this year! I’m definitely looking at it with a glisten in my eye again! ??

Ok, to most people giving your car a wash is not really a highlight but for me after not touching my car for so long feels like a milestone! So I finished my second roller door motor off last weekend which motivated me to clean out the shed a bit so I could take the car off the hoist and roll it outside for a bath. Obviously by the time I'd finished it was dark but it was a good feeling to see if nice and clean again! Still a few wiring bits and pieces to tidy up and finish of the intakes, etc. Hopefully this is the tipping point for getting stuck into it again. Time will tell...

Looks good. Do you only do tight radius bends like that or is it strong enough to do longer bends? How do you work out the size of the disc?

Wow, they're beasts of things those rods! Hows the weight difference between the aluminium and the steel rods. Obviously a lot more material but lighter metal so possibly much the same weight? Awesome job on doing something different! Great to see.

Well, that's a start I spose! I have been watching the MCM 240Z episodes. Hopefully that gives me a bit of inspiration. I might finish off the brake lines and roll it out of the shed for a wash next weekend. It hasn't seen daylight for a few years now! Hopefully little by little the desire to get stuck into it returns.

OK. This is a cry for help. The rego renewal for my car arrived this week. This will be the 5th time I've paid it without having even driven it. Being an RB30 conversion I'd really have to get it engineered to legally get it re-registered if I just let the rego lapse. I haven't driven my car since 2012..... I bit off more than I could chew back in a very busy time in my life (2 kids born, moved house twice in 12 months, new job, etc, etc). I need inspiration. I need something to renew the spark in my car and get me motivated to finish it off after 5 long years! There's way too much work gone into it to just walk away or sell it off as parts. Please inspire me (awesome GT-R videos, inspirational words of wisdom, smart arse comments, anything is acceptable!). Help!!!!

Sutton's Waitara? No mate, I’m in Shepparton, Victoria.

I work for a Jeep dealer (for another week anyway) and I must say the Grand Cherokee diesel is one of the best towing vehicles around for $60K on road. Now that they come with 5 years warranty it definitely gives a little more confidence to own one. Like most imported cars they're pretty pricey to own outside of warranty. They get the worst rap (undeservedly mostly) of any vehicle I've ever dealt with. They really are a bloody good car. (I'll still say that next week once I've left!) Any of the big cars with V6 diesel (Jeep, Audi Q7, Touareg, Benz GLE, etc) will smash anything else when it comes to all round towing ability, handling and fuel consumption. V8 diesel Toyotas are overated. Good if you don't mind 25l/100kms fuel consumption. Everyone has a budget and a preference so many may disagree!

Wow.... Peter you might be amazing at tuning WMI but your ability to communicate on a level that will lead people to respect you is horrifically bad! If you actually delivered your knowledge and advice in a completely different way you would earn respect from the people here rather than trying to demand it like you currently are. Pull your head out of your arse, stop presuming everyone here knows nothing and start offering constructive advice rather than trying to bash everyone’s heads in with your almighty-ness. If you do that from this point onwards, great, we’ll try and forget your initial pig headed arrival on the scene and possibly start to respect you and appreciate your input. If not, piss off. Go and find another forum to swing your dick around in.

Yeah it's a great read. Good to see a successful business sharing their findings and not being all secret squirrel. In saying that I do understand why some of the high end engine builders do keep some of their hard found knowledge to themselves as they've done the R&D and blown numerous motors to find it!

Hi mate, I've got one I bought but never used. I ended going with a custom intake setup. It's never been used since modification. It's finished in black Wrinkle Coat so looks really good. Let me know if you want pics. Chasing $160 posted in Aus. Cost me a bit more than that to get it done.

Magnaflow do one. I can't remember part number but I've got one out in the shed. You'll need to weld it in place and put a tip on though. As 95% of them will be for a 4" exhaust I guess!

I'm with you on most of it but pardon my ignorance and explain how the hell do you "shove a clean rag down into the cylinder" when the head is on???