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I took my gearbox to driveline services at paget. A cranky dude, about 40-45 years old did mine, and he did a perfect job. Was pretty cool to talk to also. Showed me a few thing about the box. He was just cranky in general because he was flat out. and no one was able to help him.

He said the RB25 boxes were piss easy to do, and very much like a toyota landcruiser box inside. (Show me them next to each other)

Anyway, here are some points for you:

- I got my bearing kit from CBC bearings. They had a kit for the RB25 gearbox in stock. Cost $550. Had all bearings, pins, washers, springs (Whatever a rebuild kit consists of).

- I needed an input shaft because one of the gears that transfers power to the other shaft had the hardening coating wearing off between the teeth. (You could see the dark spots) The old dude said that it would probably last another 10,000kms to 20,000kms and start whining and put metal in the box. New Shaft from Nissan - $580.

- Driveline services charged me $650 to do the box after giving them all the parts.

- I didn't replace my synchros even though they were glazed and grinding between 1st & 2nd, and 4th & 5th. I simply bead blasted the cones on the gears so they were rough and the synchros could grab them again. I would probably bead blast the cones and get new synchros if I had to do it again.

After all of this, and about 2,000kms on the gearbox, some guy ran a red light and I crashed into him and wrote the car off. Sold the gearbox to a mate for $1800. lol. Its in a SR20 powered Datsun stanza now. They pulled down the box before installing it and he said that it was perfect inside. So driveline must have done a decent job.

Also, driveline offer a 5,000km 6 month warranty (Or some sort of warranty like that) on their work too. I think that's a winner. At least if they f**k it up, you won't be paying for it.

I wouldn't say piece of piss. Especially if you don't have the tools. Although drive line services would do. Mine was a bit of a pain. Pretty tight spots to pull gears and some of it takes a bit to get your head around, but not to bad

Also the guy at Cbc was also smart enough to tell me where they sourced the kit for the 25 boxes from (ATS, Auto Transmission Services from memory, Google it) and I got the bearing kit and synchros for 2nd and 4th for cheaper than just the bearing kit from Cbc. Got some other parts from Nissan.

Anyone seen the big shit fight between Powertune R34 and Mercury's Nitto R34 of Facebook. f**k me everyone one is getting dragged in to it. All over the off street drags session at powercruise it is quite entertaining. Both claim 1000hp yet both run slow 10sec 1/4 mile times all a load of hot cock if you ask me. They need to settle it on the strip where is even playing field. Powercruise is no way to measure you cars performance.

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http://www.facebook.com/PowertuneR34Gtr

There times and figures don't add up. Our R32 is full weight same as there cars over close to 1600 KG with driver and fuel and this is what we achieved:

- 19" Rims with street tyres with 700RWHP = 10.1sec @ Palmyra Dragway

- 17" Rims with ET Street radials with 800AWHP = 9.4sec @ Palmyra Dragway

- 17" Rims with ET Street Radials with a tad over 900AWHP = 8.9sec @ Willowbank

All with H Pattern Manual Gearbox running standard Attessa 4wd (has not been modified at all).

They both have Sequential Holinger and OS Giken Boxes

We have not made over 1000AWHP on paper yet no official print out, as far as I'm concerned they are both really nice cars would love to own them, but at the end of the day they are just show ponies looking for attention, take them to the strip and nut up or shut up. :woot:

Ben, got a question for you.

If you had a pair of HKS2530s & accessories sitting on your shelf, and then I handed you $40k and said you can only buy a GTR with that money, what would you buy?

R34, R33, or R32?

After I buy my house next year Jono I am buying another GTR, its your personal preference at the end of the day but I am purchasing another R32 GTR. I have driven them all and the best car I driven out of the lot is a R32. They are smaller, lighter, more nibble, less technology which = more fun, more driver skill required. A R32 requires no bodykit to look good they look tuff from factory, R33 and R34 on the other hand require lots of $$$ to look good.

If you can buy a really clean R32 for under 25K that gives you heaps of money to repair any parts you are not happy with, respray paint or re-trim interior etc. 300awkw in a R32 is so much fun I can't wait to own another one.

I wanna get a Gunmetal Grey R32 running either Bronze CE28,TE37 or LMGT4's 18x9.5, N1 Bodykit, Super Response engine running either N1 Ball Bearing turbo's or HKS GT-SS with about 300kw and Getrag 6 speed conversion. Ultimate street/ daily driver.

Thanks for the reply - I have been looking at an auction site (That views all Japanese auctions) and I could get a very clean R32 GTR with even some mods of Te37s for under $15k delivered. You should look for yourself, its not bad at all.

I've been looking at R34s again, mainly because I want the 6 speed, and something that stands out a bit. I haven't owned a decent car for a while and I guess its probably time I buy again. I'm in the same boat as you though, I'm looking at buying house #2 and that usually gets the priority.

Would you ever buy another R33? I like the look of them.

Jono you should have a chat to Iron Chef on here, he will tell you to be careful with the cheap GTR's and can help source you a mint one at a decent price, same with you benny. I've seen a couple of dirt cheap r32 GTR's on car sales etc and they look rough but I guess if its a project car or whatever then it won't matter, but I guess you pay for what you get.

I would buy another R33 but it would have to be a late model Series 3 V-Spec for sure low kms. I not a big fan on R33 Interior but. Nismo 400R Bodykit looks awesome on them.

If I found a rare model I would defiantly jump at it any of the following R32 Vspec II or N1, R33 N1 or LM Edition (Blue), R34 M Spec Nur, R34 MNP Midnight Purple came in 3 Different Shades 1,2 and 3 Or any Nismo edition S-Tune, R-Tune, S1 the list goes on ;)

I thinking of buying a front cut and building my engine first give me something to do and refine it to within a millimetre of perfection and show these Japs how to build a real GTR. My next car will be my pride and joy, I want if perfect in way possible may not be most powerful or outrageous but it will hold its own against any car on the street. I wanna do my own version of a Mines Super Response Monster, clean and simple with neck snapping grip and acceleration. I have built enough GTR's to know what works and what doesn't that's for sure

Hey Kingy, the exchange rate has gone awesome at the moment, its trading at 96 yen to the dollar.

I also have a friend that imports cars attached to a compliance workshop in Brisbane, and he's been looking at only good quality cars for me.

You can buy and R34 cheaper these days. When the exchange rate was 74yen I was going to pay around $45-50k.

Already know about the expenses of modding too. Not cheap!

Let the mighty RB roar at Palmyra next weekend, new titanium side pipe ready to blow your ear drums out. Twin 4" Exhaust with 2" into 4" Screamer. Not a bad effort for first time titanium welding :woot:

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Back from an Awesome week, I've wanted to go to F1 since about 2002 and I finally got to live that experience. So worth it if you have any interest in motorsport, such a great week of action

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Will most likely be heading there next year. Just have to get a longer lense so I can eleminate the fence completely in all my photos

The Mercedes cars sound awesome, I think most of us were going for them because they are such nice cars and sound amazing in person on upshifts, downshifts and when they are just blasting around, Nissans also sound better then the holdens/fords but not quite as nice as the Mercs :)

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