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Yeah the next package will be pure insanity and super special i cant wait!

I can tell you from the drivers seat that the 2.8L is absolutely insane it free revs like an roadbike engine! A tiny blip on the throttle and the needle shoots off to redline as quick as you can blink! In any gear from 2nd gear and 4000rpm HANG THE f**k ON to that steering wheel as shit around you gets blurry and things start coming up REALLY fast!

Ive been in all kinds of wound up stock 2.6s and nothing is remotely as ferocious as this thing is! If you think that your 500kw 2.6L will touch this car you're dreaming as it just makes grunt like nothing I've ever experienced its sad to see it go as it really is a rare engine and theres definitely not another engine around like this thing.

buy it then
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Car is finally booked into Insight on the 19th of April for the ECU, fuel system and sensor wire in plus the tune. Thats the good news. The bad news is that V-cam aint gonna fit with my pistons and ho

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Small update.... ITS RUNNING. Fired first go! Smells like burnt dust apparently .

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A 9174 would just make the EGP pressure issue worse and in my mind it seems like a bit of a GT RS shit going on. Not that it's horrendously bad (It wouldn't be no twin buttplug pressures), That's NOT

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this ^ has now got me intrigued

Im gonna guess and say that he's going for RB 3.5, with GTX2863r with -5 comp housings, OS88 tranny in an R34 GTR

Nope.

The same head (still need to work out if I take out both squish pads or just the intake like this one had), OS 3.15, V cam with a EFR 8374 or 9180 hanging off the side of it.

I just need to sell this engine first so I can order the bottom end and get the head started. I spoke to Marcus last night about it all. I'll just buy a brand new stock head in Japan to save shipping costs and do what needs to be done over there. Cams, springs, retainers and assembly can be done here. Plonk it on the bottom end and just wait for the right car to pop up.

Box, brakes, ECU, intercooler, front and rear diffs, suspension arms and suspension itself will be taken from the 33 as it all bolts straight in. It's always been the plan so the effort that I've put into the 33 isn't in vain. Pretty much the outlay will only be for the car itself. 90% of the parts I either have or will be already covered by the sale of what I have now (IE engine).

If I put the box in the 33 I'll just never do it so it's pretty much a now or never.

I did some rough calcs assuming I used the same head as I have (intake squish removed only) and assuming a 0 deck height (still waiting on confirmation from OS GIKEN as to what it is) with the Nismo 0.9 mm gasket. Compression was 9.88:1. Sounds good to me with it running on E85. On petrol I'll have to pull boost out of it but who gives a shit.

It's not going to happen overnight but there will be no shortcuts, "hurry I need to make an event" or "rushed jobs".

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Nope.

The same head (still need to work out if I take out both squish pads or just the intake like this one had), OS 3.15, V cam with a EFR 8374 or 9180 hanging off the side of it.

I just need to sell this engine first so I can order the bottom end and get the head started. I spoke to Marcus last night about it all. I'll just buy a brand new stock head in Japan to save shipping costs and do what needs to be done over there. Cams, springs, retainers and assembly can be done here. Plonk it on the bottom end and just wait for the right car to pop up.

Box, brakes, ECU, intercooler, front and rear diffs, suspension arms and suspension itself will be taken from the 33 as it all bolts straight in. It's always been the plan so the effort that I've put into the 33 isn't in vain. Pretty much the outlay will only be for the car itself. 90% of the parts I either have or will be already covered by the sale of what I have now (IE engine).

If I put the box in the 33 I'll just never do it so it's pretty much a now or never.

I did some rough calcs assuming I used the same head as I have (intake squish removed only) and assuming a 0 deck height (still waiting on confirmation from OS GIKEN as to what it is) with the Nismo 0.9 mm gasket. Compression was 9.88:1. Sounds good to me with it running on E85. On petrol I'll have to pull boost out of it but who gives a shit.

It's not going to happen overnight but there will be no shortcuts, "hurry I need to make an event" or "rushed jobs".

why don't you just keep the head you already have Paul instead of doing it all over again. That would save you a considerable amount of cash and time.
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why don't you just keep the head you already have Paul instead of doing it all over again. That would save you a considerable amount of cash and time.

Because the bloke that wants it, wants the head also.

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Because the bloke that wants it, wants the head also.

You must have something very special in mind if you are selling THAT HEAD !

You said it was the best head job you ever had :wub:

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Try build it for that price though, good luck!

Wasn't advertised, just word of mouth and went to very appreciative owner.

What people don't get is that to get the sort of responsive power that Pauls engine has costs $$$ and time.

Anyone can build a peak power engine but to build one that gives you that nice big fat torque hit sorts the real engine builders out from the wannabees. Straight line grunt, pfft...you want a drivers car that gives race engine performance every time the loud pedal gets touched and will do it all day long.

You can bang your head all day arguing the point but proof is best kept to actual bum in seat feel but all passengers must wear a nappy as you'll soon get sick of cleaning shit stains off the passenger seat.

What Paul's planning now will be a very special and unique package and engines like these are far and few between because there are no short cuts, plain and simple they cost $$$, a lot of time and frustration.

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So with this new build Paul, have you considered getting GTRNUR (sorry don't know his real name) to do you up one of his big open deck spacer engines to retain your flash RRR block and your head you already have? Or is it not going to be a cost effective way of looking at it?

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So with this new build Paul, have you considered getting GTRNUR (sorry don't know his real name) to do you up one of his big open deck spacer engines to retain your flash RRR block and your head you already have? Or is it not going to be a cost effective way of looking at it?

I have a few guys interested in my engine so it needs to go complete.

I'd like to retain the GT block but it's will just complicate things and make it all soooo much more expensive.

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