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Hey all I previously had a relatively stock r33 which I no longer have and have bought a new one, this one has had a lot of work done on it or so I was told!

Some of the things I know it has is:

Cheapish looking ffp

Upgraded injectors (don't know what they are)

Says spitfire on the front of engine so assuming?

Upgraded turbo ball bearing maybe hi flowed? Makes some noise when the cars turned off? Shaft play??

Was told there was about 15 grand done to the engine but no list of what had been done -.-

Hks pod

80mm TB

Fmic

Blitz? Bov.

And heaps more!

Was told it's near 400hp.. Rather infuriating

Does anyone know how to tell without receipts what's been done? Also I want to make the pod a bit quieter does anyone have any suggestions custom boxes? Idk!

If anyone can help me with suggestions to clean up the engine bay would be great

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I'm not real sure how you expect us to know what has been done to the engine internally? Only way to find out now is to strip it and seen as you haven't indicated that there are any problems I'd say you eons be keen on that

Ask the person you bought it off, which is probably what you should have done in the first place. If I was buying a car and someone said they spent $15,000 on the engine, my first question would be "what's been done to it?"

If you look carefully you can see it actually says 'splitfire' not 'spitfire'.

A noticeable thing straight away is that they have replaced coilpack cover with the gayest thing I have seen in a long time.

It was from a car dealership but I'm not to sure about that scribble.

I tried finding out what had been done.. I got a mod list with the most basic of shjt after I got the car just the shit that's obvious and then he just said what's been done..

Coil pack cover? err.

Nah not to keen on stripping it but maybe..

unless you can find out who the tuner was your just going to have to look for your self, or take it to someone who knows a lot about 33's and have them inspect it..

By the looks of the 'wrecker writing' I'd say he blew the engine and replaced it with one to sell. so nobody will know about internals.

Good luck =)

Maaaaaaaaaate

You could ask a friend who knows what they are looking at to give you an idea on the visuals.

then Take it to your tuner. Get them to tell you what has/hasn't been done and then put it on the rollers

Learn from the experience. Once bitten twice shy

Some people and especially dealers are looking for the uninitiated/unwary.

Good luck

If you look carefully you can see it actually says 'splitfire' not 'spitfire'.

A noticeable thing straight away is that they have replaced coilpack cover with the gayest thing I have seen in a long time.

He's pretty much an expert. Seen alot of gay things in his time. His search history will confirm ;)

Well seeing as the car is yours now, I strongly reccomend getting on a dyno and checking out how it runs. Power , air fuel ratio , timing etc

The last thing you want is to kill an engine due to an unknown tune.

Which I'm going to say is very likely in this case.

Edited by Ben C34

Yeah oils and everything are sweet. They said it had a new turbo put on but I think they're full of shit cos it's noisy as f**k.

And yeah I'll have to go find somewhere (brisbane) to get it checked out. Has a haltech platinum in it. And yeah they're does seem to be a few stupid mods on it.. Been fixing slowly. But to fix something that isn't broken means spending more money haha :P

And it's even worse not knowing where to start! Haha

Hopefully it isn't just some shit engine in there hooked up to 14.7psi :O

Hahah yeah hopefully! Took it to a mechanic when got roady and had some shit done. All they managed to do was make the car run like shit cos they f**ked my throttle body and now it idles too high and put my tune out of wack and then replaced my bov which I then had to replace again -.-

There looks like alot of ebay on there...

Maybe check the fpr is genuine, of not, ditch it and get a better one. Why would you buy a dar if you dont know whats been done to it?

the pedal was sticking and so they cut the screw or some sit and moved the throttle body too high? And yeah they had the stock on there non plumbed and it was ducked haha

Fpr? I'm planning on "defaggotizing" this. And I was originally getting a different one.. I sent someone to pick it up and they came back with this one.. What a tard

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