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Blowing out your exhaust gasket is not major damage like burnt valves or a warped head, especially not from heat, which is what was stated. Also, I don't know what ECV you have been looking at, but mine almost completely blocked off the exhaust. There was only an opening about the thickness of a credit card between the valve and the wall of the exhaust the entire way around the pipe. It absolutely KILLED my power when it was 100% shut. Way more than the silencer I had before the ECV. Definition of a nutswinger from the urban dictionary....... I have long said and will still maintain; SAU has some of the best info about Skylines and RB's on the net. There is, however, a lot of BS that is based on some crap somebody wrote 5-6 years ago not based on any real experience and it just keeps getting repeated and repeated until it's taken as fact by 90% of people out there. If you haven't seen something happen first hand or talked to somebody who has, the STFU. BTW, I may disagree with Nismoid on more than a few things, but he knows a shit ton about skylines and RB's. The main people I'm venting at are the people blindly agreeing with his wrong point in this thread with no idea what they are talking about.

How about this for full of shit. Have you ever done this or seen it and resulting engine damage, or are you just using your vast Internet knowledge and unquestioned "rep" on here? Yeah, that's what I thought. I had an ECV. Accidental left it half way closed and drove around for 3-4 hours trying to figure out why I couldn't boost more than 1 bar (with my HX40 turbo.) Figured it out a couple hours later after trying different stuff and running it out through the gears with no change. No damage. I've also screwed around with it after this at varying of the ECV being shut. The more it's shut, the less it boosts. I'm not saying a person should do this and I'm not saying it COULDN'T hurt a motor, but making a blanket statement like "DON'T BOOST IT AT ALL!! IT WILL BLOW UP!!" is stupid. I am speaking from first hand knowledge. WHat are you speaking from Nismoid & Nismoid nut swingers? Guilt Toy is right, R31Nismoid is wrong. OP--don't use that as your primary exhaust silencer. Get a proper exhaust. If you put a silencer in though and boost it, it's not going to blow up right away.

If the factory oil pressure gage AND the idiot red light came on, you have a real problem, not a wiring problem. The red light is a seperate sensor that's just and on/off pressure switch and it's completely independent of the normal gage.

Yeah, sorry, I meant I don't like power vs. speed. I'm in favor of power vs. rpm in 4th. And as mentioned, the type of dyno and the loading (or lack of) will affect the boost curve massively. More so than a difference a rear diff ratio is going to make. Things will never be exactly the same when comparing dyno sheets on a forum.

Because you are trying to see what your ENGINE is doing when you put it on a dyno, not how the car will perform. You have the track for that--and don't say suspension/tires don't allow for that, because you can look at mph and just how fast you went down the last half of the 1/4. The power vs. RPM dyno sheets look useless IMHO, and I think it's just the operator not feeling like setting everything up for an RPM reading. Just my opinion though.

Thank you for making my point for me. There is no "oil stuck in the head" problem. It's a crappy sump design problem.

Quick question. Is it just me, or does it seem like the overwhelming majority of spun main/rod bearings are occuring in RB26's?

Why not do the GT3076 on pulp with 700cc's and water/meth injection?

Has anybody mentioned you can make that kind of power figure on a stock RB25 for years with out breaking anything? (well, excluding tranny's, rear ends, and half shafts)

.its skylines and specific discussion lol That's because the mod moved it for you smart guy.

No problem. Pretty crazy stuff the first time you read about it, isn't it? Who'd have thought injecting a meth/water mixture would help performance? There is actually a pretty long history of at least water injection going back to even before WWII believe it or not.

Ahh, okay. That makes more sense. I still think you can do it with an old 350 based engine for cheaper then what you mentioned, but there certainly is a substantial jump up in challenge/price when you try it with a pre-LSX series motor.

Have you seen any of the threads about repairing your own coil packs? I've only had a few coil packs I couldn't save (out of many). Probably worth your time.

I was directing that mostly at payback, however, I find it curious that they sell premixed water/meth (called boost juice) and it doesn't come with any type of experation, nor does the common everyday windshield washer fluid that is 40% meth 60% water. Hmmmm.....