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Hello All,

My name is Sam, I'm based in Dubai and drive a slightly modified Infiniti G37S Coupe also known as a Nissan Skyline 370GT in Japan. I am an FIA Scrutineer on the side and was lucky enough to scrutineer for the Aussie V8's when they were at the Yas Marina Circuit two weeks ago! Crazy *** drivers that's for sure :) Will post a pics later in a different thread today.

I've been lurking this forum for a while and there's a lot of valuable info on here. I am currently fed up of my VQ37VHR and it's lame auto transmission, will be swapping that out for an RB26/30 engine with an RB25 transmission. Currently putting all the parts together before my car goes in for surgery sometime next week.

A pleasure being a part of this community.

Cheers,

Sam

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Sounds like an interesting conversion.

would love to see the updates as its coming along.

and find out what you yhink going from a 3.7l v6, to a 3l il6.

of course the turbo will compensate the top end, but down low will be a lot I would think.

also, welcome.

glad you have found info on our site that helps.

always good to hear positive feedback.

Yeah I love this site, did more reading on it than I did for my masters degree and figured it was time to join :)

The VQ37VHR is great engine don't get me wrong, it has a variable valve lift controller (VVEL) on the intake side too which gives it a nice flat torque curve. What I don't like about it is its high static CR (11.0:1) and it's VVEL which becomes one hell of a bottle neck at high power levels. Then comes the 5speed auto with paddle shifters, they're very laggy and behave weird when the car is driven hard.

I've been in a few RB powered machines and was sold on the spot to be honest. A friend of mine will be buying the VQ37 with its transmission off me, and in will go my RB!

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