Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Hi everyone.

I'm new here so I present myself. :)

I'm Romain, 28 years as of now, and i live in France.

I'm not a skyline owner, I juste own a mighty RB20 freshly installed in my 180SX, mysteriously called 200sx in France despite the CA18DET originally in it.

I swapped the car this year, and this RB has first started in september 2013.

The CA that was previously in the car has 2 cylinder down in compression (5 and 8 bars on cylinder 2 and 3). After weighing pros and cons between a complete rebuild and a swap I chose the RB swap.

I work as an engine bench operator in a small engineering company.

For those who know or are contributors to the folding@home project, I'm folding for 5 years now under the same user name : R_34

See you on SAU. :)

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/435373-a-new-guy-in-here/
Share on other sites

Hi and welcome to the forum. Don't worry about not being a Skyline owner, many of us aren't. 180sx's (under their various names) are great but having owned a CA18 180sx and currently owning an RB30 powered car I think you definitely made the right choice going with an RB.

By the way, there is a thread for Folding@home here: http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/256306-foldinghome/

Thank you all. :)

The 240SX has been sold in the USA with the KA24 in it, 140hp in single cam form, then 155hp in DOHC. The KA24 has never been sold in France and Europe to my knowledge. An engine specifically designed and built for the US market.

"They're is no replacement for displacement".

Not a funny engine at first glance, but turbo-ing it seems giving very good results.

The import scene is not as much developped as in other part of the world. Much less than in our neighbor the UK. We have very few good spec and/or stunning looking imports. We are pretty mean and we look twice at the price and only once at the car before buying it.

Skylines were not sold in France, so we need to buy them in the UK and makes them street legal in France afterwards.

A lot of people takes back some skyline from UK, but only the rustiest ones, and mainly R33 GTS-T because of the prices we can get them. They're so f**ked up that they can't pass the test to get street legal. The good thing is they bring back a lot of parts that the silvia community can use : brakes, engines swaps, final drive ratio, wheels and so forth.

The main import community is in love with Soichiro Honda. So we have a huge civic community (in comparison with Nissan or Toyota, or even smaller Mitsubishi or Mazda ), and some interesting cars to see.

But again this is nothing compared to what we can see in other part of the world.

France is not a big car fan country anymore. :(

Diesel and CO2 are what drive the French peopel to which model they will buy. Passion has vanished in the mid 90's in favor of price and fuel comsuption.

I think that chosing an RB for my silvia was the best move I ever did. But the swap is still fresh and not really finished yet. So it's a little soon to make any conclusion. The RB feels healthy, and happy to live, happier than the CA was.

I loved my CA and wanted an engine a little more rev happy. The RB20 looks a lot more rev happy in fact. :P

All I hope is solving the last issues I have, getting a tune to match the setup and having a lot of fun with it.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Yea - I mean I've seen my fuel pump which is decades old and uh, while I'm not saying this with real knowledge... but I sure get the ick at using anything in the fuel system that produced the state of that pump. Many years ago I went through multiple pumps (and strainers) before I dropped the tank to clean it out with extreme violence. I'm talking the car would do maybe 50km before coming to a halt, which resulted in me cleaning out the filter with some brake cleaner and going on my way. None of my stuff ever looked like what came out of your fuel tank. I don't think I'd be happy with it unless every single component was replaced (or at least checked/cleaned/confirmed to be clean here).
    • I'm not going to recommend an EBC pad. I don't like them. Just about anything else would suit me better. I've been using Intima pads for a while now.
    • Agreed, and in particular the earth strap that should go from the subframe to the chassis but it often broken or left off. There is a section in the R32 workshop manual you can follow for troubleshooting if you don't see anything suspicious, and depending where you are (there is no location on your user profile) you should be able to get your hands on a second hand replacement unit still if needed
    • Yeah they mention as a R34 for 2.5 Turbo...but then again thos "small" were also for R34 by that different site. But i look into it and that 310mm EBC is for R34 GTT. And by those you linked the specs are the same 🙂    EDIT: I found these on one site here: DBA 4000 series T3 DBA42304S They are 310mm...and it says are for R34GTT...are there good? EDIT2: ok they have pads too.  What "color" should i get for street use? I dont want/need some noisy ones...(and if they are not that dusty that is good too)
    • Yeah, shame. Maybe  driver's carpet is available 🙏. I am waiting for both amayama and nangun to confirm.
×
×
  • Create New...