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Had the exhaust all welded back up. Pulls very hard from mid to upper rpm. Sounds quite a bit different too, seems quieter at idle and cruising but louder at wot. I'm going to try my best and get a video clip up sometime this weekend. Not my work but I'm very pleased with how it came out.

So I found a near complete RB26 ITB / intake manifold set-up from an R33 for only $180 shipped to me. I couldn't pass this up since I see just the intake manifolds going for $150 and the throttle bodies/linkage going for $200. I began pondering on the possibilities of doing this swap on my motor and it just may turn into a future project. I would want to keep the oem plenum in order to retain the maf and therefore use the oem ecu. This would likely hold back some of the power to be made but should keep tuning it much easier. This is my understanding so far at least, feel free to tell me if this is a pipe dream. I would basically be attempting my version of the Autech RB26DE. The advantages I'm after would be a much cleaner engine bay, the sound, throttle response, and the ability to run a strut bar again. I honestly wouldn't be expecting to make much power at all but the other advantages make it worth it in my eyes.

Finished smoothing the inlets out and gave them a little beveled edge. Before: After: Bolted up with a new set of locking nuts

Yeah they look great. I waited over a month for mine but well worth the wait!

I decided to change directions with my gauge situation or lack their of. Ordered a custom set (tach & speedo) from Speedhut with a nice black friday discount. 4" versions so I could have them in the stock location. The speedometer is GPS so getting that going will be super easy and it will tell me things like 1/4 mile, 0-60, max mph, and a few other things. It will be nice to have a pinch of technology in the ol girl. Some of you eagle eyed viewers may have noticed the speedo is backwards. I was surprised to see this as an option when ordering the gauges and for some reason intrigued me enough to go for it. I think it will be pretty cool to see both needles rise out from the center, and heck what other Z is running a counter clockwise speedometer? Apparently some older cars such as Cobras ran counter clockwise speedos. Anyway I've talked myself into it enough, hopefully I'll like it because there's going to be no going back! So far I've got the tach retrofitted into the oem housing. Turned out well, the speedo housing is totally different so I'm hoping I'll be able to match the same level of fit & finish. Oh ya and got Akuryo Z put on the tach face.. for $10 why not? The needles are actually much more red than orange but hard to pick that up with the camera apparently.

Next step is going to be smoothing the inlets a bit, most of them are a little wonky like this one. Probably won't make any bit of difference but I'll sleep better at night knowing they're all ported nicely. Starting to look like an all motor engine should. It's too bad the intake pipe is going to cover half of it up. I might have something to remedy that coming up here soon.

Gotcha, that makes sense now. Cut and smoothed out. Both sides are nice and level now.

How does $40 strike your fancy?

You might enjoy this, its an R32 documentary, to bad it's not translated.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtnX4BQ-PfY&t=789s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpWB8mmzKWQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6egdEkVAA2o

Awesome thanks

Looks like this, need the valve and assembly it bolts to just as you see here: