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Originally Posted By: ADFD1 Originally Posted By: RyanGTR I'm chainging mine at 100 KM, 250 KM, 500 KM, 1000 KM, and then settle into a regular oil change interval after that. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I'd rather spend an extra 200 bucks on oil and filters for the first few weeks of...

I'm chainging mine at 100 KM, 250 KM, 500 KM, 1000 KM, and then settle into a regular oil change interval after that. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I'd rather spend an extra 200 bucks on oil and filters for the first few weeks of driving, rather than 10 grand on a new engine and turbos again :)

I browse Honda-Tech and I'm suprised I haven't seen that. I bought some GC because it was on sale at Wal Mart, I'm going to break in on Rotella because it's so cheap and I'll be doing 3-4 oil changes within 1000 KM, then see how the GC does. Do a UOA and if I don't like what I see I'll give the...

I've heard good things about 300V, but it's about $18/litre. GTR sump takes 4.5L, I overfill by a litre to prevent starving the oil pickup under hard cornering/acceleration, and my oil cooler/relocation kit added another litre of capacity. I guess one of my questions is would there be an...

Shot of the side of the block showing how compact it is. Deck height on an RB26 is 7.421". Compare that to some other "compact" motors like the Subaru EJ20 (7.913"), the Honda B16 (7.992"), or the 4G63 (9.015") and you get an idea of how small an engine it really is. There's a shot of the...

The old machine shop just did the machining, and then the shop I had work on the car did all the assembly. I don't really trust what they did after seeing the quality of work done on the other bits of the engine. The new shop I'm using is taking all the small precautions. They've built engines...

Originally Posted By: Jim 5 Also, I'm guessing your steering wheel is on the wrong side? I prefer to say it's on the right side :) Here's a picture of some of my old engine carnage... The second picture is the main girdle/main cap assembly, you can see how bad it overheated. It was...

Originally Posted By: Jim 5 Do you have the factory clutch? I'm wondering what could have wiped out the thrust bearing. Either there's inappropriate load on it or there was an engine assembly issue. Clutch isn't stock, those like to keel over and die in short order. I'm running an OS Giken...

So, my last engine failed spectacularly. 625 KM's on the built motor and a thrust bearing went. I've owned this car for 2 years and 3500 KM's and I'm on my third engine, so I'm a bit scared of blowing it up I'm trying to decide on what oil to run for my new engine. -8000 RPM redline -500 to...