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bought a 180 with the front smashed in witch we will be converting to a sil80 and dropping an RB into.

some people believe that they can be a bit front heavy for drift but gonna give it a crack anyways.

it will have FMIC, pod and probably bigger fuel pump. and will be running higher boost on stock turbo (about 12 - 14 pound)

will be getting coil overs and strut braces as well.

how do you recon it will handle and what sort of power do u recon i would get???

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My drift car is a Onevia with a Rb20 in it and a RB25 box.

Completely stripped interior just a RB25 highflow, remap, 3" exhaust, front mount, Tein coil overs, welded diff and a 5 puk button clutch. :)

No problems drifting whatsoever.

Do it and have fun :P

The Cefiro cross member is the best to use as it will sit the engine a couple of cm lower then when using a R32 GTST cross member.

Just get your suspension sorted out and it will be easy to throw around.

A 1 piece tail shaft is fine and most big truck shops like Gibbs can make you one up relatively cheaply.

If you have any questions feel free to send us a PM.

I think what people are trying to tell you is how much effort and cash is needed to make it a reality . A long heavy motor thats no torque mountain in std form - for drift . No competitive engine is going to be cheap regardless of if its in the car or on the floor . I think you'll find in this day and age more factory and aftermarket goodies for SR20's than RB20's which means greater availibility and lower cost for the right bits . I can partly understand why in the US there is this S13/RB20 craze - no R32/33/34's or SR20DET USDM cars . If they'd had the R32GTST they wouldn't bother converting S13's . When you can have 400 ft/lbs of torque from a half serious SR20 at 4500 rpm why would you plonk an RB20 into it ?

One more time , said this last time .

Search FreshAlloy.com Forums - Twin scroll question .

Cheers .

Putting a RB20 makes zero sense.

...except they are cheaper, stronger and possibly make the same/more power. Im yet to be convinced that a std SR20 can make the power and response a sorted RB20 can. I think its more to do with the fact that there are so many ppl spending money on SR20s its easy to find a good one. The same cant be said for RB20.

They arent the best engine. But if dollars are tight then i think the RB20 should be on the radar.

...except they are cheaper, stronger and possibly make the same/more power.

id say that is more a tuner fault, SR's are far more det prone than rb20s for sure and 90% of sr's failures are ring land and the rest are big end...... due to det. i have only ever lost one SR and it was a dodgy HKS injector that stopped working.... killed number 3.

sure they are cheaper but by the time its installed 2500 goes quite a way to making pwr on the sr. if it is NA to start with then yes probaly makes sense.

i see SR packages from 1500 regulary you just need to look.

The Cefiro cross member is the best to use as it will sit the engine a couple of cm lower then when using a R32 GTST cross member.

as slide said im using r32 gtst cross member and i needed to lift the bonnet a bit to fit the engine under it

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