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Thanks for the kind comments. Argo, CP, Usually use used 26 heads, upgrade pump and drive, N/A block and crank. Rob

Next update: Gentle running on the dyno today and we started to give it some medium loading. It turned out the fan in front of the car was not pushing air very well through the intercooler, trans cooler and engine radiator so water temps were comming up to 95 deg C. We quickly rigged a sheet of thin wood over the fan and rested it on the front guards (hence the rags etc on the fron tof the car) and the water temps dropped 10 deg C straight away. With a slightly rich AFR, 16psi boost and revving to just 5100rpm (150kph road speed in top) we layed down 400whp, we were losing a huge amount as the converter was not locking up yet (stall speed is 6000rpm) Getting 400whp ever with a RB30 at 16psi with pump gas is not to bad at all so it sure looks like its going to really come alive once we get some boost and rpm into it and the trans gets close to being in 'direct drive' http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=oBSz5DnCM7o Rob

And after the cams were bed in:

Here's the first startup:

All went really well, did our initial checks, set base fuel pressure, base ignition timing, brought up oil pressure etc, fired her up, ran the cams in and after 20 mins or so of running we've settled her to a mild idle @ 1500rpm for now, will give it some good work and medium level power runs on the dyno tomorrow, all looks very promising so far More to come................

Z-gad, I just watched your video again and its given me a good shot of "gunna kick some V8 arse and fcuk the haters" I just hope mine will leave 1/2 as smooth as yours and be anything even close to as fast, thanks for the inspiration, Rob

Update: She's all finished and we'll be running it up on the dyno Monday/Tuesday. Put the new street rims and tyres on and I'm really happy with the way it looks but I might drop the front an inch or so.

Update: The motor is now in, we'll hook up a few things, finish a bit of wiring etc then fire the old girl up and see what she'll do, I'll update again next week, Rob

Been a while waiting for paint and polish etc but the motor is now finished and ready to install, I hope you like it:

Lyn Rogers in Auckland built the motor and the owner of the car is Graham. Rob

Just a quick note regarding N/A RB30 power outputs, A guy in NZ who has vast experience in N/A engines built a RB30de (RB26 head) with a pretty big budget for a guy here and it made a genuine 400hp on an engine dyno, so it is possible to get good numbers from them. It's in a 240z track car too Rob

We got a fair bit done today, 6 inch air intake from front lower lip: And the 4inch dump pipe and radiator overflow bottle: Not long now till we can swap everything over to the actual engine and install it all for good, Rob

Careless, RB20,25,26 and 30 lower cam belt gears are all the same so you've done well at $22 for the one you have on the way, thats much less than I pay for them, Seeing as you have very specificly asked for help from AUS RB30 builders I can't help you with anything else sorry:tongue: Rob

The other stage of NOS (this will be activated first while on the transbrake) and the intake side dummy up is all done:

We have a Miller welder and I have the best welder I have ever seen working here, he did the welds you see, I'm too busy designing and building engines to do much welding these days. Rob

Update time: We've been chipping away at lots of little jobs and most of the wiring is done for the Link G3 ecu. Catch tank: Intercooler pipes: Parachute pack is now installed: Just need to weld the cable mount to the cage and we're done: The intercooler is almost finished: We have some fully treaded street tyres so there is no dought about this car being in full street trim: Thats about it for now but we are getting closer to being finished every day. Rob

Alot of aftermarket full counter cranks are in fact heavier than stock, sure they are stronger but I'm sure in a well setup engine the stock crank has huge potential. If we start to damage the stock crank through power outputs we'll install a custom billet crank and compare. Rob

The car has been to get wired up and alot more little things have been finished, the head is ready to go on and then it's exhaust and a few other small things, hope to be racing end of october. I'm off over seas for 10 days so it'll be all on when I get back. Regarding the mains cradle: world record 1600hp+ GTR still has stock cast cradle. Mains studs: I want to test the upper limits of what I sell, no point building something different to what I have sold alot of is there. Stock crank: I know of at least 1 1100+whp RB with a stock crank and no reliability issues with the crank at all, same thing, my motors use stock cranks so I want to test the upper limits. We've never had a failier of any kind and we've had some very good results so if and when I break any of the above I'll address it. Rob

Next update: The 2 x 10lb NOS bottles are mounted: And the 6 x foggers for the first stage of NOS are installed: Now we can start installing the 2nd stage, more pix shortly.

We can build you up something to whatever specs you like wether it be a 26 or 30. www.ripsltd.com

Update time: The short block is finished. We want to test the limits of the stock cradle, stock mains bolts and stock crank, it has billet rods, forged pistons and TOMEI oil pump so it will be interesting to see how far it will go: And with the sump on:

Update time: Sump is finished and acid dipped ready for installation to the short block: Next is the 600 x 300 x 115 bar and plate intercooler core mounts: We'll make custom sheetmetal alloy tanks (3 inch inlet, 4 inch outlet) which will keep the intercooler plumbing very short. More next week, Rob

Update time: We've made a shatter sheild for the flex plate and converter: The trans oil cooler with thermostaticly controled fan is also mounted: Next up is the beginnings of the custom drag sump, it will have a 240 volt oil heater and an oil temp guage: Will update more as we go, Rob

I sold the ute to a guy who's going to finish the body etc and I'll supply the engine, we'll run it as a joint venture in Pro Import. Your sump sounds good, I'll get some pix up of mine once its done. Rob

Next update: the multi-coil mounting bracket has been made and the ignitor mounted beside it on the firewall: Next up we've started collecting the parts for the NOS system, it will be 2 stage with a single fogger just before the throttle body and then a direct port 6 fogger kit in the plenim as well, the entire system will be capable of adding 875hp but obviously we won't be running anywhere near that: Next will be the custom plenim (the plenim in the other pix is not the actual one for this car) and intercooler pluming. I'll update more as we go. Rob