Ex RACV guy here, those things where awesome with an RB26DETT head on the RB30.
Nice work mate, and yes I have done almost all the work on my cars over the last 40 years. (saved a fortune).
cheers Dave
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Originally Posted by The_bluester
That is a big broad statement and I would have to argue. I would also argue that there are plenty in your industry that can't or shouldn't do what you do either.
The attached is all my own work apart from the roll cage as getting a logbook is easier if a recognised fabricator puts his name to it, and the final tune as I don't have a dyno or the experience to dial it up to the bleeding edge. I built the motor myself in the shed, admittedly without serious machining required, but checked all clearances, did the porting, all assembly, selection of the turbo and appropriate injectors and fuel system and tuned it at the track. When I had it properly tuned on the dyno it only picked up 5KW peak at the boost level I was running. I built the gearbox out of disparate parts of different boxes to select the best ratios available that were spread over several different originating models. Rebuilt the diff including re-configuring the LSD, taking it from puny to stunningly effective. Pretty much all of it still good after a decade.
Now nearing the end of a major round of fabrication and full rewire including the ECU wireout installing and programming the logic functions in a motorsport power control module and electronic dashboard including custom CAN messaging set up by me after the ECU maker did a firmware update to let me do it (As I was the first to ask him to finish an incomplete module to do it) enabling two way communications between all of the ECU, dash and power control modules, controlling functions that would normally need physical switching with CAN messages instead, The dash ECU and power module are not even all from the same manufacturer.
Some of us can, and some of us are smart enough to know what to leave to others to avoid being a demonstration of the Dunning Kruger effect.
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