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Captain Natro Grand Master

Captain Natro

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Ok so after many years of abuse my poor re5r01a auto box has decided to spit second gear. So an now faced with a decision:

1. Rebuild re5

2. Buy a new re5

3. Buy an re4

as these boxes only came behind the 33 and 32 non turbos (as far as I know) they are quite hard to find I imagine (if you have one pm me).

So my question is can the re4 (which is basically every auto behind 32/33 skylines be slotted in im its place ie will the loom match up and be able to work successfully?

Thanks,:)

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would have thought their boxes were pretty strong..

might have to source an re4 + tailshaft. it should fit, since they're essentially the same box with another gear slapped on.

i'd say you'll prob need the re4 ecu aswell if you're going to have a go

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Not doing a manual swap, have much bigger auto plans in mind.

fark it all, what a pain...

Would love to find another re5, bit they aren't anywhere in qld.

They are in the S2 Stagea - usually one or two wrecking or converting to manual. Mostly they are awd but it should be a lot easier to adapt one to rwd than to convert an RE4
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