What Is Wrong With My Rb26?

[Duncan]

no mate these were top $$ genuine r32 n1 turbs. Steel wheel front and rear and 270o bush bearings.

Great for their day but only a lunatic would buy a pair of turbos like that for 6k or whatever nissan wants these days.

Unless the regs require it.

Tubro shop was:

Precision Turbo Chargers - John

51/97 Newton Rd, Wetherill Park.

02 9756 5757

BTW no idea where the foreign object ended up, we never found it.

[GTRgeoff]

Hell yeah, and I've seen what some of the bandits want to rebuild turbos with steel wheels. My GTR turbs were about $2700 going by the receipt, but I'd be chasing some Garrett cheaters for that money, GTSS equivalents are about 1200-1300 each and look stock.

[700HP-GTR33]

Hell yeah, and I've seen what some of the bandits want to rebuild turbos with steel wheels. My GTR turbs were about $2700 going by the receipt, but I'd be chasing some Garrett cheaters for that money, GTSS equivalents are about 1200-1300 each and look stock.

Hi there,

They are $2570 for the set.Garrett GT2860 -9 .$300 Extra with Tune agent manifolds.RB26dett.

Cheers.

[GTRgeoff]

Thanks, my point exactly. $1500 would be the limit of value I could put on rebuilding the R34 turbos I have.

[Godzilla32]

Hi there,

They are $2570 for the set.Garrett GT2860 -9 .$300 Extra with Tune agent manifolds.RB26dett.

Cheers.

Where is that from??

Could i bolt these onto an otherwise stock engine/support system for the time being? Same question for the GTSS kit. Thats my biggest problem really. I dont have the budget to go out and modify everything at this stage. Just want reliability..

Cheers,

Deren

[Kinks]

ouch, that ingested a pretty hefty chunk of something!

shit eh

[Duncan]

yum, bolts

watcha driving these days geoff? i heard a rumour you downgraded to an r33?

[Kinks]

Yeah, I must be getting old.. my new baby's totally standard besides a nismo rear muffler - and although I plan on doing the exhaust eventually I don't want it any louder

Certainly moves alright though.. it had 33,600km on it when I bought it so it's only just been run in!

[Godzilla32]

Hi there,

They are $2570 for the set.Garrett GT2860 -9 .$300 Extra with Tune agent manifolds.RB26dett.

Cheers.

Where is that from??

Could i bolt these onto an otherwise stock engine/support system for the time being? Same question for the GTSS kit. Thats my biggest problem really. I dont have the budget to go out and modify everything at this stage. Just want reliability..

Cheers,

Deren

Anyone?

[Duncan]

hahah don't ask me! I didn't even realise washers were bad for turbos!

Seriously though, larger turbos and everything else standard will work.....but not optimal, the injectors, afm and tune will all need doing to make the most of the turbos

[Godzilla32]

Hmm well at this stage i dont even have a sports exhaust haha! The car was stock when imported. Never modified so im starting from scratch. So it'll be a decent improvement even with no support system mods?...Over standard anyway? My biggest query was that will it be safe to drive and run, ie:detonation...

Edited September 18, 2006 by Godzilla32

[SKY031]

I put a screwdriver on the head next to my ear, and looked like a person with a screwdriver in my ear.

A fashionable alternative to a screwdriver in the ear, is a set of ear-muffs with a straightened coat hanger held to the outer of one of the ear cups.

P.S,

I'm sick of the gnomes getting a bad rap, so it's good to hear that no gnomes were involved with the destruction of this turbo.

[Kinks]

A fashionable alternative to a screwdriver in the ear, is a set of ear-muffs with a straightened coat hanger held to the outer of one of the ear cups.

It works better if the coat hanger is bent into the shape of australia.

[Beer Baron]

i still say it was underpants gnomes.

work all day, searching for underpants hey! we wont stop till we find underpants...

[SKY031]

If that was the case, it would mean that Duncan must keep a change of undies in his engine bay.

Interesting concept, this one could catch on!

[Revhead]

That would imply he actually wears underpants.

[Duncan]

hmm I was wondering if I should bring up skid marks but I think the tone of this thread has been lowered enough already

[s13_Skyline_inside]

lol this has gone way of topic

what im interested in asking is what happened when you went to fix it did you take it to the people who put it together and pull them up about it?

[Duncan]

Well kind of.

I made the people who built it:

Pull the motor out of the car

Pull the motor apart

Remove the gnomes while disassembling the bottom end

Take all the bits to the various machine shops

Pay for the machining and turbo repair

Pay for the new bearings, rings, oil pump, oil cooler, gaskets

And I am expecting them to

Reassemble motor

Seal all orifices to keep gnomes and similar out next time

Put it back in car

All the bits should be back from the machine shop in the next week, once we finally got started (12 months lol) it is moving pretty quickly.

Need to get it all back and running reliably since we now have a date with a bunch of tasmanian roads on 17-22 April next year.

[MK2]

Watch it on the Tassie roads, the gnomes tend too mark their territory down there on corners and stuff. Also next time just get a bigger tubbo so bolts, washers, gnomes and stuff can pass through the bigger fan blades and wont get broken.