Very Sad News

[pintaline]

sucks to hear dude...

try here---> link

freight from gold coast to canberra only cost my mate $500 with canberra carways so try them for a quote

D.

[NAman]

fandango, rest

I do agree with Mid life Crisis:

Can't afford the insurance - you can't afford the Car!

Hopefully we have all learn from your accident

It is lucky that he was uninsured as I'm sure if he was he would be chasing you!!

Also if you are going to take legal action - I'd stop posting any details on a public forum.

Bad luck, but good luck looking for a shell.

[Gus-]

to put prices in perspective...my mate just bought a RB25 setup from just jap.

1800 for the front cut - auto

1500 gearbox - manual

400 clutch - brass button exeddy.

[Gus-]

it would be a good solution...

but id have no idea how to put it all in etc...dont really feel like paying labour and dont wana depend on james and mick for labour...

would be cool though.

and now my mate has one i am very very tempted

[GTRKat]

You should buy the engine Gus!!!

[GTRKat]

Surely it couldn't be that hard... Surely!!!

It'd so be worth paying for the labour.

[Gus-]

nah it woudln't be to hard...take them both out...probs do some work to the 25 before it went in to make it a bit more worth it...drop it in...i think id need a new tailshaft, rewire engine, probs reorganise front mount piping a bit, and yeah...

probs more...im sure mick would know. maybe i can pay him to do it haha

[MANG]

you can just use the 20 box/tailshaft, she'll be right... for a while, my 20 box is still going... kinda.

would be the second time the ECU in your cars been pulled out to do a 25 conversion heh

[StinkyPoo]

I reckon I could get the conversion done in one weekend (using stock gearbox). That's what I did, not quite one weekend because I had a modified loom (that was a nightmare). All the RB20 stuff lines up, so it is not necessary to change anything.

Don't bother doing work to the 25, it'll just break quicker. Keep it stock until your ready to do an RB25/30.

Regarding pricing, I would think it's worth around 4-5k as is, more if you have it in pieces.

- RB25DET, $1000 to $2000 (more around the $2000 mark).

- RB25 Gearbox $1000 to $1500 (I don't think it's worth this much, around $700 is what I would be happy to pay for it).

- Plus the rest of the stuff, diff/interior/etc

Also, I would recommend removing this thread or talk about the accident until after all the legal stuff is sorted!

[Gus-]

eh...if i was going to a put a 25 in...id rather put a new turbo on and a ecu...do it right and give me a reliable tune n stuff....n then when it breaks...eh.

im mad keen for a 25 now lol.

[EVL-R33]

can i ask how you lost controll in the first place ? i think you might find been sideways blocking a lane is a little diffrent from been rear ended . seek legal advice i would also like to know to answer to this one . you say the other driver wasent driving to conditions .

but at least he was facing the right direction. the fact you lost control suggest that you wernt driving to the condions either .

im sure he doesnt need another 'dad' telling him what he did was wrong...

[mid life crisis]

im sure he doesnt need another 'dad' telling him what he did was wrong...

i wasent telling him what he did was wrong i was trying to get a understanding of how he lost control if you bothered to read all my post

[StinkyPoo]

More performance = less reliability, that why stock is lower performance.

Still, replacing the turbo while the engine is out is probably only a 20min job.

[Bullet32]

Gus - Sorry mate but Im preoccupied with fixing my own car at the moment, I wont have time to concentrate on doing another R32 RB25 conversion for a while.

Stinkypoo - I have an RB25 that has been pushing 240rwkw for almost 3 years and it hasnt popped yet... Im planning on getting even more power out of it. Reliability depends heavily on how high quality the parts you use are and how good your tune is.

[TiTAN]

nah it woudln't be to hard...take them both out...probs do some work to the 25 before it went in to make it a bit more worth it...drop it in...i think id need a new tailshaft, rewire engine, probs reorganise front mount piping a bit, and yeah...

probs more...im sure mick would know. maybe i can pay him to do it haha

you know, if do an RB30 twincam and use an RB25DE head from an R32 your loom wont need to be replaced.

[CeJay]

r32 rb25de head doesn't have VCT either. Although Gus if you were buying an engine, swapping it ec, putting something like a vipec in, I wouldn't expect much change from 5000$ to get all that done, even if you do it yourself.

[StinkyPoo]

Yeh, my rb25 (supposedly) has been putting out 236rwkw for over 1 year. I've only had it for a few months, but from what alot of people has said, they're not an overly strong engine. When it does blow, I'm doing the RB25/30 conversion straight away.

[Bullet32]

They arent the strongest RB engine but overall that doesnt mean they're weak. RB20 and 26 can usually put up with more punishment though.

[TiTAN]

they are a lot stronger than people give them credit for, provided they have a decent tune a lot of them are quite happy to run around with 300kw.

[RRB20ASH]

bad to hear about your liner. got a picture?