whats your rb in?

[Valley]

camaro ? 2200lbs? i'm finding this very hard to believe. 3200, sure.

[Vkoslak]

so your gonna put it in a heavy *** import?

its not bastardizing the RB, its bastardizing the classic muscle car. the pedigree on a..lets say 69 camaro will absolutley blow the doors off ANYTHING the RB series engines has ever done or will ever do. so dont think that a RB engine would be destroied by putting it in a muscle car. the muscle car would be destroied by having a RB in it.

I have to respectfully disagree with you. I've never really liked muscle cars, especially f-bodies, and its not just because of the ratio of mullets behind the wheel. Sure its a classic automobile to some, but the skyline has been around for a long time too and has a unique history of its own. The RB can pretty much trace its ancestry to the s20 motor. Lets not forget the extensive racing history of the skyline both before and after the rb showed up.

Personally, I would take a 4-door 1980 r30 4cyl NA over any camaro or other muscle car. For me the better engineering, technology, quality and refinement will always win out over the crudeness of the muscle cars, even if a given muscle car is capable of more horsepower. The rb26dett to me represents the pinacle of nissan's consumer market engine development. It makes me sad that the RB series was scrapped in favor of the VQ. Not that the VQ is terrible or anything, but its no RB. When I heard no-more RB engines, I started making plans to get one before no-more were available and so I could have what in my mind is a valuble piece of nissan history.

Hopefully someday I can buy a real r-chassis skyline. I will settle with my rb20 det powered 240sx for now.

For the record, I got hooked on nissans in 1990 (long before F&F) driving an 85 s12 200sx hatch automatic. It took a while to get up to speed, but once I was there I didn't have to hit the brakes much. Loves me some VA mountain roads.

[NightKids2]

For the amount of money Ive put into my car to get the RB going, I could have had a muscle car with 3 times the horsepower. I perfer my rice box right now, but theres no point in trying to deny it they are just plain superior. How much do cams cost for an RB, if you can even find them? How much are they for a small block Chevy? lmao

But yea, the fast and the furious movies have done nothing but ruin racing. Hopefully the new movie will raise the price of the 240sx three times the blue book value like it did to the Supra lol.

[RbKouki]

^ yeah I hope so, lol. Yeah being original? uhhhh not so much. Trying to get a Domestic with a swapped import engine before the release of a new motion picture with an almost identical idea behind one of the main vehicles so all the 16 year olds come out and say wow super radical gnarly cool awesome bro dude what a super cool professional drift machine wanna go drift this bad boy down the street,, in traffic? KEWL theres your motivation right there and this is only the beginning of many, MANY threads just like this.

[240sxdominos]

For the amount of money Ive put into my car to get the RB going, I could have had a muscle car with 3 times the horsepower. I perfer my rice box right now, but theres no point in trying to deny it they are just plain superior. How much do cams cost for an RB, if you can even find them? How much are they for a small block Chevy? lmao

But yea, the fast and the furious movies have done nothing but ruin racing. Hopefully the new movie will raise the price of the 240sx three times the blue book value like it did to the Supra lol.

You do live in America so of course parts for Americans cars are going to be easy to find and thus cheaper. I dont think American cars are superior at all, but i do have a lot of respect for them. i still prefer imports for their reliability and more importantly gas mileage ha. Im sure its the same way in Japan except i doubt any of them are driving around in camaros and mustangs but if they did it would be just as expencive as us trying to find parts for their engines.

[flyboy367]

^ yeah I hope so, lol. Yeah being original? uhhhh not so much. Trying to get a Domestic with a swapped import engine before the release of a new motion picture with an almost identical idea behind one of the main vehicles so all the 16 year olds come out and say wow super radical gnarly cool awesome bro dude what a super cool professional drift machine wanna go drift this bad boy down the street,, in traffic? KEWL theres your motivation right there and this is only the beginning of many, MANY threads just like this.

while i will agree f&F movies did hurt tuner cars with tons of bolt on garbage and naws, they did open my eyes. i knew the possibilities of the supra before the F&F1 came out. mainly because a friend had one and off a rolling start it would spank my nova. im am by no means a 16yr old film humper. ill admit the F&F movies sparked my interest in some imports and gran tourismo was what really hooked me on the skyline. i have been building cars since i was 12. i have had some seriouse muscle cars. what really turned me to the dark side was my kia. i have a 98 sportage. say what you will its about 5 times more reliable then any chevy or dodge i have owned. once i got into it more i found out how much more reliable and acceptable to tuning import engines are. so the main thought was take a car i know oh so well (built 35 3rdgen camaros for street/strip/autocross for me and friends) add in a reliable and very tunable engine and you have a unstopable machine. i was going to do this in a 300zx, but the wife likes the 3rd gen style camaro so since i have to live with her thats why i went with it. after some consideration i decided not to go ahead with this. not for dificulty or even what you guys have to say, but i am an emergency responder. 3 times this week i have had to pull basically offroad to reach my firehouse to respond to calls during traffic hours. any car will not handle this amount of beating i am putting on my truck. so maybe a nissan pickup or s-10 style truck is in my future. still thanks for some of the technical imput in this thread. you guys are helping me learn more about these overhead cam drivetrains.

[ca18datsun510]

should do a pinto with a rb in the back, driving the front wheels.
Modified by ca18datsun510 at 9:13 PM 3/28/2006

[CursedGTR]

RB26 Powered Dune Buggy.

[nsrZ32]

Putting any engine other than the VG in a 300zx is sheer stupidity.

a local guy here in nashville is putting a rb26 into a 300zx. he is also making it awd using the skyline diffs and everything pretty cool

hahahahahahahaha

[kamikazi]

300z.... awd, i dont think so

[dark_munchkin]

this is my own opinion, so dont take anything personally.

its stupid. you are destroying a classic car by putting a RB in one. a SBC v8 would make the same power levels, for a ****LOAD cheaper. its a total waste of money and makes me sick honestly. that RB mustang from the new fast and retarded is a monstrosity and the owner should be put out of his misery.

putting a LS1 or something in a 240 isnt that big of a deal because there are assloads of 240's in the world. but defiling a classic car to put a japanese I6 in one is a sin against the car gods.

And there aren't assloads of 3rd Gen Camaros in the world?

It'd be an odd swap but I think it'd be kinda cool.

[IowaRB240SX]

Put an RB25 into a Nissan Hardbody truck. Or convert a Sentra to RWD!

[Dramier]

I guess everybody has completely forgotten what the thread original topic was... lol.

On topic: My RB is in a Z31.

Don't bother with VG comments toward me, I stopped listening a long time ago.

[midnightsliding]

i have an RB25 in a 1991 Q45

[David_NISMO]

I guess everybody has completely forgotten what the thread original topic was... lol.

On topic: My RB is in a Z31.

Don't bother with VG comments toward me, I stopped listening a long time ago.

That's Damn Sweet!!!

My Twin TT RB26 is in an S13, shwing!!

[foCk]

in Japan the rb came in some z31's