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Things To Omit On Rb26?

Carthik

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I removed my RB26 head off of my BNR32 while the motor is still in the car and I was wondering what I can do without while I still have everything accessible. I read somewhere that an RB20 oil filter housing can be used to eliminate the water lines going to the RB26 oil filter housing. What about the water lines running to under the intake manifold?

I am not looking to "shave" my engine bay or anything, just trying to simplify things under the hood and have less things to go wrong.

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Are you going to substitute the original oil cooler with a front mount oil cooler? If not, then why the hell would you want to remove it. If I were building any other RB that didn't have the water cooled oil cooler of the later 25s and the 26s, I would be looking to add one as a minimum, and to hell with the extra water lines. They're a price I'd be willing to pay. And why mess about with trying to delete water lines under the inlet manifold? Just replace them with new ones and be happy for another 10 years or more.

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hey, i'm in the situation as you. i chose to do the following for my track car build:

-painted the valve covers, intake plenum, and other things

-full hicas delete

-oil cooler ( i chose to leave the stock one in place, but deleted the water lines to it.)

-rear oil drain/breather

-lots of cleaning

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Are you going to substitute the original oil cooler with a front mount oil cooler? If not, then why the hell would you want to remove it. If I were building any other RB that didn't have the water cooled oil cooler of the later 25s and the 26s, I would be looking to add one as a minimum, and to hell with the extra water lines.

It's actually more or less an oil warmer.

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It's actually more or less an oil warmer.

Which is a bad thing how? Warms cold oil up a little faster, which is better for the engine, and takes some heat out of the oil (and puts it in the radiator) when the oil is much hotter than the coolant. Just what the doctor ordered.

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