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Old 09-15-2006, 05:18 PM
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Damn...this is gonna be a bad *** project
 
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Old 09-15-2006, 07:23 PM
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sounds amazing, im even excited 4 u..good luk with everything
 
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Old 09-16-2006, 05:53 AM
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another good alternative is a twin turbo m45 engine (v8). That would also be a pretty nice swap, and there was one guy that did it in a magazine and I believe he was also pushing out 800+ hp.


Rb engine would be bad *** also, I'm just giving you another option. Lol.
 
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Old 09-16-2006, 09:21 AM
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The vk45 is a little more cost prohibative just b/c of trans choices.
 
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Old 09-16-2006, 03:05 PM
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damn what a project
 
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Old 09-16-2006, 03:40 PM
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please dont do this.... unless you are loaded and dont care about money. Im not sure who it was... maybe skunk projects? imnport tuners? i forgot now, but they did an article in one of the tuner mags. A company with pretty much unlimited funding and more knowledge than pretty much anyone else, chose to scrap the rb and go with the sr20 cause of all the extra fabrication work that would be necessary. I was looking at doing the same swap like 8 months ago. I located a whole front clip, r33 for $3500. how much did you pay for the motor alone?

I would strongly recommend the sr20..............

iron block is heavy as hell also... its not a bolt in by any means. dont let the shop take advantage of you.

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Old 09-16-2006, 04:29 PM
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this is silly! i may need to take a drive by this shop of urs!?
 
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Old 09-16-2006, 04:46 PM
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a rb motor in a g35, now thats something worth seeing. do it.
 
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Old 10-17-2006, 12:10 PM
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So how is the swap progressing?
 
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Old 10-17-2006, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by CarFanatic56
wow an 06 g and already swapping in the motor...is the RB26 the Skyline GTR motor?
RB26 is Skyline GTR. The other model Skylines use RB20, RB25. Good Luck on the swap. That will be one bad *** G. My son and I are planning on doing a APS twin turbo on his 04 G35 coupe next summer. We just live a few hours from Z1 Motorsport in Georgia. What are you going to do to your G35 motor? Are you planning on selling it? I can use a new motor for my 86 300ZX turbo(VG30DET). We got my son the G to replace his tired, but still hauls *** ZX turbo.
 

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Old 10-17-2006, 08:31 PM
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i bet there is a lot of ... "well we need to fabricate this and this and that and we dont know what to do about that. we may have been wrong with our initial estimate". i dont mean to hate i just dont see it happneing.

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Old 10-18-2006, 12:23 AM
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i knew someone would do it, but im on the "why not go FI" side of this discussion.

if you just TT your car and build the internals im geussing your car would be moe reliable, less tuning maintenence and still be faster than most of the cars u run across... buuuuuut you lose the uniqueness of having teh RB26.

whatever floats ur boat!
 
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Old 10-18-2006, 01:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Blackedout05G35
yeah right now the shop is looking for a well maintain rb26 with low miles =)

HOLY MOLY!!!!! ORGASIM!
 
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Old 10-18-2006, 01:28 AM
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I know that it's already been done successfully in japan... My friend just got back and was telling me about a shop that dropped in the rb26 in a G... Lots of custom work but it can be done... U r gonna break the bank!!! Good luck
 
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Old 10-18-2006, 02:52 AM
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its gonna be siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick.......gl
 


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