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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. :)

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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.

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