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Nah that makes sense, doesn't look like you will need to take too much out. What is the advantage of an external pickup rather than say a 9/1L sump with a extended pickup and say a nismo baffle. Sorry for not re reading the whole thread :)

Love the sexy coatings on those pistons mm and I beam rods hnnng

9/10L not 9 or 1, whoops. This pic of external pickup doesn't look like an improvement over a normal style of pickup that is nice and close to the bottom of the sump

Edit: actually sometimes I am a dc, when the motor is installed it would make this pickup at the lowest point of the sump?

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I've got an extended sump and the external pickup. My sump uses the original pickup back into the original position just through the side of the sump rather than through the block. There's really no huge advantage with the external pickup. With an RB30 conversion it's a bit of a pain in the arse extending the standard pickup but can be pretty easily done. The reason I stuck with the external pickup was that the (complete p.o.s in the end) engine I bought had the Tomei pump already modified for external so it was easier to build everything around the oil pump rather than tossing a $1500 part!

  • 10 months later...

Thought I'd better do one more post this year seeing the last one was in January!

Crazy year, too f**king busy to even think about the car.

Built big arse shed (14X8 metres so fits 4 cars easily) myself which turned into a lengthy and testing process!

Bought 2 post hoist for shed, waiting to connect power to the shed to get it set up.

Built (not me personally!) new house.

Spend every spare second of non work time trying to get gardens in some sort of neat condition (but in reality done f**kall really).

Got a promotion at work so now have even less time to actually spend it playing with the car.

I'm going to strip what I've done of the engine back down and start all over again.

Hopefully next year will be better....

I'm going to strip what I've done of the engine back down and start all over again.

Hopefully next year will be better....

oh damn man.

shame, especially when you get excited for a motor and now the wait begins again...

Won't take too long to rip the bottom end apart and reassemble. I'd just hate to bolt it all together, throw it in and spin a bearing in 6 months due to a bit of crap that got in it during moving house and storage. My shed is far from pristine storage conditions so better off starting fresh knowing it's perfectly clean.

Another few months of landscaping and lets hope I can get stuck into it again.

I've started to looking at parts to buy so I must be getting excited about it again! Actually not that I ever really stopped looking for parts to buy, just the excuses I gave myself NOT to buy stuff seem to be dwindling!

  • 1 month later...

Not really Skyline related but will help in the long run (!!) got my hoist erected (not wired and bolted down yet) and half of the shed lights put up and dodgy home electrician wired for now. I've run the power to the shed but need to get an eleccy in to wire up a board and connect it to the hoist.

As you can see the shed is still a bloody mess but getting there.

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Nice shed shoota, will be nice when the liner is living in there

She's in but hasn't been touched apart from moving it out of the way to vaccuum under it!

Just fits :)

Hell yeah, it's a perfect fit. When I bought it I asked the guy over the phone how tall it was. He said "about 3.6m I think", I'm thinking "perfect!". I got it home (from 3 hours away where I picked it up), stood it up in the shed and it only just fit in the very peak of my shed which is 4 metres. Dickhead obviously can't read a tape measure..... Thank god it happens to be one of the very few hoists around that has an adjustment in the uprights which dropped it down about a foot. I just have to get the cables shortened which is a lot cheaper than having to lift the height of my shed which is what I thought I was going to have to do! It now fits perfectly and thankfully due to the height of the Skyline it'll still lift to full height without topping out. I won't be able to put SUVS or taller cars up to full height but at least the Skyline and Datto ute will be fine!

  • 3 months later...

Thanks Ben. No, no progress unfortunately. Too busy setting up my gardens and all the other shit life with kids throws at you!

Started running all the wiring through the shed today so hopefully will have the lights and power wired up soon. It's a pain not having decent light to be able to work with. Will be good to have the hoist wired up too (3 phase). I reckon that will give me a bit of a boost of motivation seeing my baby in the air!

One day...

  • 4 weeks later...

Ok, so I f**ked up. Since I started this drawn out build I've moved house twice which is a major pain in the arse. The problem with the last move is I didn't think it would be so long till i got back to working on the engine so I didn't go over the top in terms of rust proofing. Biiiiiiiiiig mistake....

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Obviously it's only surface rust but time will tell how hard it is to get off. I'll try a rust converter to start with and see how it comes up. I did intend to pull it all down again anyway so not super fussed but it's far from ideal! The bores are all fine as I drowned them in oil during assembly. My brand new cams also have a bit of surface rust on the front seal face but that'll clean up fine with some wet and dry.

Let this be a lesson to anyone storing an engine (or engine parts) for a while or more importantly, buying an engine that's been out of a car for a while.

Man thats mest up. I hate when life gets in the way. But doesnt seem to big of a deal. I know you will looking at those piston cant help yourself but to get it all sorted out. I was hoping you would have been boosting by now. :(

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