kiwi303

If you're going to do it that way, you need some proper nose art too, so start scouring the mens mags for a suitable pin up to have airbrushed on

check out farm supply stores for animal load bar systems...

looking at your location, I suppose most of your engine parts will be imported from the EU? One of my cousins was working in Saudia as a Surveyor, he said nearly everything in the shops was German or French with a leavening of British and Italian, only a few bit were American made. Pricewise, you would probably be better looking at importing a fully built complete engine from the US than buying bits which have been through European middlemen and then building your own engine.

A lot of forums I browse through as a guest during a google data search have big adds between post 1 and post 2, which aren't visible to members. Probably the same thing, except to the side rather than between the first two.

welding water jackets? hmm... my ali welding sucks, so I guess goodbye to that idea. Thanks for your advice everyone. I'll just grab a RB20e bottom and a RB20DET manifold and fit together a RB20DET as I find parts. A 20e is only about $60 for a short block looking at trademe...

looking at location, I'm surprised there are no Arabic language forums that would cover modifying motors? given the grammatical and spelling errors, I would expect a arabic forum would be far more satisfying.

big improvement Thanks

My torque wrench works up to the set ft/lb then starts slipping the cluths... doesn't matter how long the leaver is since the friction discs and torque-y bits are in the head. which stays put other than going round and round.

mostly by being mates and attending the same church as a local mechanic, so mount alterations and gearbox to motor adaptor plates are mates rates or roll up and borrow the tools sort of things. Boring at decking and other block work is the expensive bit since he doesn't have the expensive boring and honing machinery. An RB tacked onto a Hilux Gbox and transfer case isn't really much different to a holden 202 onto a hilux Gbox which is what a different garage where I used to livehas done several times on Kingswood Utes. Certification would be the complicated bit.

Yeah, it's an annoying extra click...

30K USD? you could buy a HSV Holden Maloo Ute from Australia, have it factory converted to LHD with Pontiac GTO dash and parts and badged as a El Camino... 2009 LS2 El Camino do it for you? Before the crash and bailout of GM, there were rumours of Holden Utes being made on the G8 production line as El Caminos...

At least it's assult, not manslaughter or murder... Best wishes to your cousin, I've passed along her details to the local village ladies prayer group, (allong with ferrarifergs bro and mother), so there will be prayers on there way over here shortly.

I note this is his 3rd trip to court... does that bring him under the "3 strikes and you're out (or should that be in)" policy or is that a different state? or is that what you mean by "measure 11"?

actually it's more accurate as "There are 11 types of people, those that understand binary, those that don't understand binary, and those that have never heard of binary" You need to ensure one has captured the entirety of the sampling space.

Hmm, about $350 for a RB30e in running condition with ECU and loom, about $400 to $500 for a RB30DET aftermarket top mount manifold, which would fit an RB30e as well. and a second hand turbocharger about $400. Given the Exchange rate between aud and nzd, probably close to $1000aud as well. Doable. I ended up with the RD28, at such a price I just couldn't resist getting it, I'm sure others on here have gained "Bargains" like that which makes one want to do more, which means getting more parts, which makes things expensive Anyhow the RD crank fits the RB block, and can have RB rods fitted, so i was thinking of a RB29DETT... RB30 decked 2mm with a RB25DE head with log style TT manifold and 2 turbos and the RD28 crank which is 2mm less stroke than an RB30. 2mm isn't much, but I was hoping it would be enough to make things a little revvier than the stock RB30 crank. but then I found this RB20DE head, again at an unmissible price... and got thinking about the small port thread... and my hilux needs a better motor than an anemic 3Y 2.0L petrol 4cyl.

A thread on small ports on L6 engines got me thinking. I picked up an RD28 diesel engine for pennies recently and have a RB20DE head. With a bit of work an RB20 head will fit on a RB30 block to provide an RB30DE, which is one way to make the RB30DET motor before RB25 and RB26 heads were common enough to be used as much as they are now. This is the thread on small ports in the L6, and the effects on low end torque. http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=143259 What I am wanting is a torque-y engine to re-power my 2L 4-cyl petrol Toyota Hilux Surf (4-runner in the states) that will enhance the offroad power. Given what was said about small port = torque, I'm wondering about swapping the head off the RD28 for the RB20DE head, and changing the pistons/rods for RB30 rod and pistons. I'd need to have the bore machined out 1mm, but i believe the deck height is the same between the RB30 and the RD28, meaning a 2mm shorter stroke with the RD crank. whether the smaller chambers in the RB20 head is enough or I will have to get the block decked down slightly is the question... Given machining costs... would it be more cost effective to pick up a RB30e bottom end complete with crank, pistons and rods for about $200 and just fit the rb20de head on that? Having the RB20 size ports on an RB30 bottom end should increase the low end torque for the 4x4, which is what I want in a offroader, would it work? and is it worth doing?

March 21st theres the power boat races on Lake Rotoiti about 25Km from me When I lived in the North Island before shifting to the South Island I saw a bored and stroked 454 at Lake Karapiro which was up to 500+ci and running quad turbos, a sequential setup which had one feeding into a second on each bank, running on avgas and putting out over 2000Hp with meth injection cooling! I'd rather have a rally boat than a straight line racer. The difference is between a Lotus 7 and a top alky dragster. 3" displacement and 350Hp in a jetboat swap ends in its own length and other fun stuff like that

that might be why he's trying to learn tigging

there are V4's around... maybe he welded a couple end to end?

2002's date bak to the days when there were more BMWs in the ditches than on the roads. Never driven one myself, but most of those who have say they aren't the best handling cars around! More cute than capable is how I've heard them described.

Have a look at the manifolds pics you can find, some slant left -> right, others slant right -> left with the bolts on top and bottom being on differing sides of the pipe. By spun, I'm guessing he turned them about 90* or thereabouts so instead of going left -> right they now go right -> left instead.

I hope she makes a full recovery! thats not a nice thing to have happen! She's lucky she made it to the ICU. She has my prayers, and I'll ask at the wed morning prayer meeting that they pray for her.

can't he have donated via a couple of fingers up the ar*e? Damn, I should rent that movie again... good laughs

If they don't spool well, why not scrounge a pair of IHI RHF5 turbos? thats what a number of 1000cc turbo cars use and the 2.2L Maserati Biturbo has a pair of them, so they should slot right in the spool range for cc per turbo size.

Mine is HGS130 so while G is extant, it's not always up front either...