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Yeh, my old R31 had these rocker covers on the the later model R32 engine it had. I left them the std R31 colour and just rubbed back to ribbed tops. I think they woudl look better if they were the std R31 colour rather than lipstick red...but meh. By the time they are covered in blow-by wont be able to tell :)

Well my 20G is going to be for sale once the new engine is tuned and run in. It seems 350rwkws is about the mark for a basic Skyline doing track work with E85 these days so need to go to billet or T67 to get there.

God that is a lot of power and going ot be painful to get oil and coolant temps under control :( Whole new suspension and rear end and diff about to go in as well so the car will be like new. Just have to decide whether I want alloy tailshaft or carbon

They are Tein RAs with custome valving and different springs. From memory they are 8F/4R or thereabouts. Need to check. New stuff is the same thing just that they are GTR gear so have the forks rather then eyelets so suit the new rear end I have. The GTR gear is being revalved almost the same as my current gear and I am throwing a bit more spring at the car as I have softer swaybars now that I went from custom Whitelien to ARC so needs a bit more roll control. I may end up going back to custom swaybars if the higher spring rates do things to the pitch that I dont like.

What are they worth. Well RussGTSt is selling very similar Tein REs near new and has had them up for sale for ages as he cant move them...so I guess less then that though my hoarding whore self may just keep them as they are near new and still shiney

Yeh, back in 2001 my car was the development car used by Whiteline to develop their Bilstein kit, swaybars etc. I kept that kit to around 2008 when I changed to the RAs. I almost got the Bilsteins rebuilt to be a little more racey but the Teins being alloy body pretty much sold me on them.

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