MY R.I.P.S RB30 BUILD

[Ludders]

Welcome to the R.I.P.S Club Sparks.

Rob is a diamond.

Keep us all informed how it's going.

Jeff

[Snowfiend]

Originally Posted by R.I.P.S NZ

Its really very easy, the car goes in a sealed box and I'm the only one who gets to open the box once it gets here, I also make sure no-one else touches it or drives it, I take the whole process very seriously and basicly guard the car with my life because of the trust involved.

The customer is kept informed every step of the way and I personally take car of anything related to getting it to NZ, to my shop, and once there I have a huge compound and 2 VERY nasty man eating guard dogs who also guard customers cars as though their lives depend on it.

Rob

Rob, sounds like a great service mate

Just a question, do the cars have to be de-registered and re-registered because it goes out of the country for so long ? You dont have to pay any sort of import duties again I assume ?

[sparks]

There was no de -registering but i will let Rob explain what happens as he knows a lot more about it than i do !!!!

[R.I.P.S NZ]

as far as this end goes, I import the car under a temporary import order, its a very legally involved process with declartions of intention, time scale etc and it has to be aproved by some pen pusher somewhere.
Doing it this way, I don't have to pay huge taxes.

Basicly from a UK customers point of view there are just a few small fee's to pay for usual port, customs and inland shipping charges this end.

As the car is exported to me for 'repairs, modification or maintainence' not sold to me there is no big deal in getting the car back into the UK as you are not actually purchasing it from me, your just getting your own car back.
For piece of mind, check with a shipping company/customs broker in the UK.

[drifter-boy]

great looking car mate will be even better with the rb30 in and from what i have heard from robs work you will be more than happy

i wouldnt think twice about sending my car rob as soon as i have the rest of the money the car will be there without a doubt

[clarky88]

nice car mate! cant wait to see it on the streets of newcastle

[sparks]

Rob has run the car on the dyno today to get a bassline figure purely for comparison as the project progresses. As always Rob was super helpful and explained all that went on and also explained the graphs







The car made just over 310 BHP @ the wheels, with a solid smooth Torque curve (For the last time!!). This is all done with standard engine just Blitz filters, HKS Downpipes and a JASMA Cat back exhaust

Next up the work to strip it down starts

Cheers Sparks

[R.I.P.S NZ]

I just want to clear up one thing if I can please so there is no missunderstanding.

Due to the diff ratio's in the R34 and not wanting to run the rollers excessivly fast we did this power run in 4th gear and up to 9000rpm (not 5th gear which is 1:1)

All other model GTR's we run in 4th which is 1:1 but they have lower diff ratio's.

I have decided to do another run today in 5th up to 7500-7800rpm as this will be the rev limit of the new RB30, then we will have acurate information to compare against.

It will be interesting to see what difference the 4th to 5th gear change makes to the readings, No dought Sparks will post the 5th gear run as soon as he gets it.

I just wanted to make sure that everyone was clear as to how we tested everything.

Rob

[Asim R32GTR]

That torque figure seemes to be waaay of??

almost 800nm at the wheels?

[R.I.P.S NZ]

Originally Posted by Asim R32GTR

That torque figure seemes to be waaay of??

almost 800nm at the wheels?

Every dyno reads different and we use them for comparison only.

Test the same car on the same dyno before and after, thats the only way.

I have Dyna pak hub dyno printouts with 2700Nm at the wheels from just over 400whp so there is no rhyme nor reason to it.

As far as 800 sounding high, on the dyno we use I can assure you it is a very low reading and it will be improved apon substantially.

Rob

[Asim R32GTR]

Originally Posted by R.I.P.S NZ

Every dyno reads different and we use them for comparison only.

Test the same car on the same dyno before and after, thats the only way.

I have Dyna pak hub dyno printouts with 2700Nm at the wheels from just over 400whp so there is no rhyme nor reason to it.

As far as 800 sounding high, on the dyno we use I can assure you it is a very low reading and it will be improved apon substantially.

Rob

I see... on the dyno we have at work we put in diff ratio`s that way there is a correction for everyting that is measured.

Asim...

[R.I.P.S NZ]

Running it up in 5th it made aprox 5hp difference but the torque reading was lower which was as expected, I'm sure Sparks will post the graph shortly.

Rob

[Mashrock]

Yeah i was going to add, with my getrag i did my car in 4th. and then 5th and there wasnt much difference at all.

[SPEED MERCHANT]

Extremely interesting thread as I was looking RB30 in a few years & a superb looking R34 to boot.

[sparks]

Cheers for the comments guys , here is the dyno graph for the 5th gear run,



Sparks