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I think a couple of years ago I was asking ~ 650 for the OE clutch R160 diff . Sounds steep but this is a complete bolt in assembly ready to go . Rocking horse doo doo . That gearbox cost me 1350 and I'm thinking a grand isn't unreasonable considering it is a hybrid of three Vortex Gen 1 Lib and L c...

Clutch plate OEM RX Turbo .

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When I had Ellie the RX Turbo I went to a lot of trouble to reverse Subarus ideas of positive camber and negative caster . Generally people look for lots of negative camber because they think its the racer setup . Neutral or a smidge of positive camber and a swag of positive caster is what works bes...

As some of you would remember I had the white series 1 L RX Turbo known as Ellie . I unwittingly killed it with Subarus own upper engine cleaner and over about a year removed the tastier bits and threw the rolling chassis away . May have seemed like sacrilege but I sunk a lot of time and money into ...

He knows more about selling things than winning things .

After a year hogging my garage Ellie is gone and the Skyline returns to being parked off street . It went as a rolling chassis but the engine gearbox and LSD are still taking up space . And the wheels radiator and a few black interior trim bits console cluster and surround . I think I have 1.5 Spide...

Why ? I wanted out of mine and the gods just brought the demise forward .

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They would probably be positive offset wheels meaning the hub mounting face is 55mm outwards of the rims center line . If you look at an OE aluminium wheel they generally have the offset marked or cast somewhere on the inner face or maybe the hub itself . If it says 55P it means 55mm Positive offset...

Generally it makes it easier to change gears because the engine revs drop faster meaning the syncromesh doesn't have to work as hard to equalise gear speeds .
Downside is its easier to stall the engine at very low revs .

There are positives and negatives to extra flywheel innertia .

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90% sure all turbo manuals have the 25 spline shafts . Much of what an XT4 has RX Turbos have too , except the SR AWD box in the later ones - and the Spider inlet manifold etc . These aside I think the drivelines and brakes are interchangeable .

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The CAN part of CAN Bus stands for central area network and it runs on http (internet communication protol) . The reason for going to this system is to mi nim ise the wirin g between the ECU and the various onboard computers ie windscreen wiper trans AC etc etc . High pressure capable injectors don'...

Will get back on that , cheers A .

Those rear door trims I think are both there but may not be so easy to get off if they were glued on . I got the starter off and the bellhousing/engine mounting bolts/nuts loose and I may have lined up an engine lifter for tomorrow . With luck engine and maybe box out and thats all the heavy stuff r...

I still have everything bar the rear disk brakes . I'll see if I can get those trims off - shouldn't be a problem . I'kk have a go removing the cluster over the weekend .

Engine and AWD L box still in chassis , clutch plate R160 LSD still here too .

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Down pipe turbo and header out and will hopefully get to the bellhousing and gearbox fasteners tomorrow arvo .

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Sorry so long but I found the time to remove the RXs rear brakes and substitute with drums I found - keeps it a rolling shell . Removed so far is rear LSD , rear disc brakes , twin core radiator , Spider manifold , most of exhaust , custom made larger anti roll bars , heads . Just about to get the t...

Its out of rego now but if someone else wanted to make it complete . As I mentioned I still have its original engine and gearbox and I'm not asking much for them or the rolling shell . if the wreckers get it I get nothing for it - except my garrage back . I'm just selling the desirable bits because ...

Ok , yesterday before swapping 6 cylinders for 16 I removed both sway bars , rear clutch LSD and axles , rear 2/3rds of exhaust . Can the last poster interested in the twin core rad PM me his details . With luck I'll get the front of the exhaust plus the stainless header and Garrett ball bearing tur...

Guyph all I'll have time to do today is remove the swaybars and possibly the rear diff and shafts . Never did find a way to post pics here and previous ones went via Gannon . As I said very busy with the trains ATM which I work on at lots of odd hours . I seem to have built a large collection of all...

Yes and yes for two more days .

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