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Hi, im new on this site but really look forward to learning a sh*t load about skylines!

um, i no abit about CA18's and SR20's, but not alot about skyline motors, other than they sound fkn awesome!

im lookin into buyin an R31 for my first car, and iv found one thats an RB30E that is about $2000...wat sorta mods should i b looking into doing to get more power, other than a turbo conversion...or, do u guys think that it would b more worth it dropping another turbo motor from the RB range into it with the money id spend on getting power out of an NA RB...could ppl giv me approximate costs for either scenario?

thankyou very much, i look forward to spending many hours on skylinesaystralia.com,

Crispy

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ok here goes

don't go with a motor transplant there is a better option get a RB20 head and put the rb30 block which will give you a RB30DE DOHC instead of a RB30E SOHC which will have the capacity to create much more power than a RB20 or RB25 ever could, you can find the info on the conversion on the R31 club.

some other mods you could do to the RB30E are

.a mild cam (stage 1) will go straight in $300-$500 if you go with a more agressive cam (stage 2/3) you will have to get the lifter blocks machiened and run a piggy back ecu $1000-$2000

.loose the restricting air box and go with a pod filter and a cold air intake from the front of the car

.extractors and a good free flowing exhaust $700-$1000

.get a PowerChip chip the claim to increase your power from 118kw to between 128kw and 134kw $490-$690

.a Ford XF throttle body they ar bigger and they are a common upgrade for the RB30

.a performance coil (MSD blaster) $70-$100

.a set of performance plugleads (TopGun are good)$70-$100

.a ignition controller (MSD 6A) $330

.get the head ported and polished

with all that 160kw-200kw could be achievable

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RB20 head on the RB30 block... Biggest waste of money and time. This is 2006, not the mid 90's when people didnt know better.

And to say it will make more power up top and RB20/RB25 is totally inaccurate.

www.r31skylineclub.com

All the info is there, if you wanna turbo, N/A or supercharge it.

Its all there

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