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Gents,

i've heard that alot of really powerful cars arent made in clean and tidy workshops, they are made in backyard sheds with little old blokes who use die grinders and can tune cars by listening to them instead of a timing light.

sorry about the rant.

Yesterday i'm pretty sure i spun a bearing, and tonight i will have the engine out of my car and be able to check. Can you guys send me some links to good engine builders, presumably the cheapest option would be guys who want to just build the short motor and i can do the rest. i'm more than happy to strip the whole engine and dismantle all.

Also, is it better if i give them the long motor and have all of it bolted up by a shop? i don't see why? thats all.

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Great things come to those who wait.

I reccommend Paul from Red R Racing too

+1 for Paul

I usually recommend only two workshops for engine building

If it's south of Coffs Harbour, Paul from RedR Racing

If it's north of Coffs Harbour, Dan from ERD

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I know my way around an rb motor, personally researched everything over 3 years to build my n/a 26/30 i work at the moorebank branch (link below)

though depends on where your located too

hmm do you really?

i have my rb30 crank with ross balancer, press plate etc im picking up today?

are you the one that helped me when i was dropping the parts off?

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