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I am throwing some steel wheeled turbos into my 260rs stagea and I am not aiming for more than 300rwkw (280-290 would be fine) however tuner recons the afm would be out of range, so got to get something else in there yeah I know the best route is prob Nismo but with the aus $$$ not going to happen, and the Z32 is a good option however I am tempted just to throw in the RB25's, how may people are out there running them in GTR they also plug straight up into the loom. I am also thinking how to mount onto std air box anyone just re drilled the holes into the airbox so they fit??? and just stretch the rubber going to the turbos over the 80mm, will that work????

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also interested in this, from what i have read lots have ppl have been limited to around 270-280kw due to afm unable to cope but have also read tuners like ben@racepace simply tune around the limitation.. are rb25 afm same size body or larger?

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Stock will be fine

Worst case, you can put any AFMs on, you just need adaptors to make em fit.

Better off buying new, simply because they are new. 2nd hand AFM's are a pain if they start failing, by the time you replace a couple you could have brought new ones lasting another 15 years :)

Or have connectors failing like i do making me think it was AFMs :)

So get the Nismo GTR Replacement AFM's IMO.

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RB25 AFM, R33 are used on the vg25 and vg30 which you'll find in a maxima, a fwd cefiro, 300zx etc etc etc, two of these are three litre engines and have no issues with reading upto 600 hp aslong as you leave enough distance in piping between the afm and the turbo to stop turbulence.

the other trick is to grab the throttle body of a vt to vy commodore with the map sensor and do away with the afm all together

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What my mechanic told me on this subject was that, the higher you go on stock AFM's the more difficult it will be to tune around them. Obviously there is a limit here but it wouldn't be 300kw, pretty sure Evocoop on this forum was running just under 330kw 19-21psi through stockers with ease.

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