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This is my r31 skyline, bought it when I was about 15 years old off the r31 skyline club.

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Got involved in the whole r31 "scene" and got my mum to take me on car crews as many weekends in a row as possible.

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As you can see the car is a series 3 silo, with an rb30 with minor mods such as-

Auto spoiler, projectors, exhaust, neat little intake setup, pedders struts spings, whiteline swaybars and nolathane bushes throughout.

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Some of you may know that this was ED's car, ed was/is a perfectionist and sold me the car in awesome condition.

Was an awesome little buy that's for sure!

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So I attended my first ever track day at skyline nationals 2010 in Adelaide which happened to work out perfectly for me as I was moving to good old Roxby downs to work in the mines at exactly the same time (originally from wellington NSW)

So I did the trip all in one go, moved house and attended the skyline nationals, still not having my p's at the age of 17 meant I dragged mum along aswell.

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Was a good learning experience, anyway, moved out of home to SA to work in the mines, got my p's got some money together and decided to spend some of it-

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coilovers- 6kg rear 8kg front Angry industries U-weld coilovers

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Wheels- 18" work eurolines

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spacers for the front,

import brakes (struts foul on gts1 wheels without spacers)

HEL braided brake lines

and adjustable castor rods

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Junk Garage Parts supplied me a new FRP vented bonnet

Looked quite good in my opinion, was loving it, but something was still missing.....

  • 2 weeks later...

ENGINE BUILD OVERVIEW- not including all parts/modifications


Nitto high volume rb oil pump
Nitto h-beam connecting rods
Nitto crank collar
Nitto high compression custom pistons- These are a top of the line custom piston to suit a big RB30 NA engine build using an RB26 head being undertaken by Nitto South Australian Dealer Garage 7. Piston features are: 12:1 static compression ratio, asymmetric style forging, under crown milling, skirt window milling, under side oil shed coating, tuff skirt coating, thermal barrier crown coating, custom valve relief cut, contact reduction grooves, accumulator groove, custom select pins and rings.
ACL Race bearings - mains / connecting rods
ACL Race ProSeal engine gasket kit
Brian crower 1mm oversize valves
Ross metal jacket balancer with cam / crank trigger kit
N1 water pump
Nismo low temp thermostat
Oil restrictors
Camtech RB26 camshafts- Camtech RB26 431A grind, Duration - 280 ADV IN / EX. Valve Lift - 10.8mm IN / EX
Camtech valve springs and titanium retainer kit
Custom made ITB setup
XSpurt injectors
Heavily ported cylinder head
Link G4 Storm ECU
Genuine Nissan front / rear seals, idler and tensioner
Custom Gates belt

IGN-1A race coils

Ill think of the rest eventually lol

Edited by Wayne.

Awesome, loving it. Should sound nice too. Did a 31 with a mate a couple of years back, was mainly a panel and paint project but made 109kw with very basic mods, was stacks of fun but would of been 10 times better with a engine like yours in it! Good work.

Awesome engine build!

My R32 started out life with the RB25DE engine... I loved the sound and throttle response. I was very tempted to swap the bottom end for the RB30, but went down the boring (and more cost effective route) of an engine swap to a RB25DET.

Will be very interested to see how you get on.

  • 2 weeks later...

So ive had a bit of progress on the intake side of things, the filters will be getting trimmed down, I also have another piece that bolts on to make it like forward facing plenum to run a pod filter.

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Very very cool, very cool. Engine is looking badass. Should sound fantastic too. I would guess 140-150 on 98? Judging by a mates basic 30 with cheapie eBay chip and very basic mods and mild cam. Twin cam 12:1 with better ecu and better everything else should see mid 150's I would think? E85 who knows. Shouldn't be too far off your expectations!

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