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NA rocks :P but lack of turbo push gets annoying only sumtimes. Problems you should look at is the history of the car like accidents, genuine km's, respray jobs and stuff like that. Some ppl find out one day that their cars arent so genuine which is quite unfortunate! The RB is a very strong engine and is great, so good i know a bimmer that has one under the bonnet!

I must admit that RB engine is very solid block no frizzles (is that a word???)

Let me put it this way my 1994 R33 never had engine problem, no leak of any kind. once I was worried that there is not even one drop of oil in my drive way :mad:

if you can do the compression test while it is under warranty. but I tell you SGIO or RAC wont do it cuz RB engine's compression test is hard to do.... well that;s what they told me.

cheers

Joe

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The RB series is a pretty solid engine range. The R31's had RB30DE's same as VL's. My old VL went past 200k on the clock and its going. I treated it like a whore (my first car) and it still loves it. VLs were widely known for having the RB series engine in it built by Nissan.

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