yer iam happy with it looks standard and not like a drift car, ummm he did say mph but i forgot but thats just by going off him wether or not it does it is another thing thats why i would like to find out for myself :)

yer if you want to go any lower then a 10, people say that you can pretty much say your looking at 10grand a second, still 10-11 sec that is a fairly bloody quick street car nothin to laugh about at all. I thought you had this up for sale?

Yeah it was for sale but I decided to keep it. It's too much fun!

Time for an update!
I ordered a RIPS RB30 bottom end with some extra goodies inside plus a high capacity sump. RB30's require an extra oil gallery for the VCT if you're putting the RB25 head on, but rather than do that I've been a man about it and I am converting the head to solid lifter which gives me more cam choices. This means the baby Tomei cams I bought at the start of the year and never got around to using are being sold and I've ordered some Tomei Procams (270deg 10.25mm), solid lifters and Tomei valve springs rated at 9500rpm.

I was going to have the head ported and put some bigger valves in but it really isn't necessary for what I want the car to do, plus I think I've already spent enough money on it this year!

500hp at the tyres is my goal and I know it will achieve it, however a lot of people are telling me that the 35/40 won't hold up at 500hp for long. I don't believe them, but if they're right then my plan is to use a Borg Warner S366 or S400. Guys in the States are making good 1/4 times on BW turbos in Supras so they seem to be pretty good and a heck of a lot cheaper than a GT42R or something like that.

More updates to come when the bottom end turns up from NZ!

I call second opinion before you lay any cash down.

It's a VN Japanese commerhoor.

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Originally posted by Juiceman

Time for an update!

500hp at the tyres is my goal and I know it will achieve it, however a lot of people are telling me that the 35/40 won't hold up at 500hp for long. I don't believe them,

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I wouldn't believe them either...... A 3540 is a 700hp turbo and has supported 500 +hp at the treads many times on many different engine combos.

Do you no what A/R the exhaust housing is? this will be your only limiting factor to what this turbo is capable of.

Hell........ im only 80hp shy of 500 at the treads with a 1.6L

Hahaha Mark it's a little bit different to a VN! Only a bit...

It's a .86 rear housing. It'll make 5 hundo!

Man I can't believe you're making that much power from a 1.6L...that's awesome and you're crazy hahaha!!!

RIPS baby!

Once I get things sorted I'll give the cam covers a clean up and a bit of paint.


Custom sump (needs paint also)

Got some things mocked up. Due to the extra inch deck height of the RB30 bottom end a few things need to be modified, but it's nothing a grinder can't fix!


Screamer pipe.

thats stealth look, nice. did you get a new turbo? is it a 35R.

Hey mate, it is a 35R but it was on the old motor so it's not new. It was only running 16psi though, so it'll be in for a rude shock in a a few months time!