Hi guys, thought id post a few pics of my VL that ive pulld apart. What started as a RB20DET conversion, turned into a RB20DET rebuild now whole Cars pulld apart, RB20DET Rebuild: Forgies, Tomei metal head gasket, ARP head studs, ROSS balancer, Gates Timing belt, After market inlet manifold with Q45 90mm throttle body, Xtrem ceramic clutch, ACL race bearings. VL, Full respray, deleted door and boot locks, VS fuel flap, Battery relocated to boot, Fuse box relocated, air con removed, all holes filled and engine bay smoothed, VT window seal. So hopefuly one days itl be all finished, new engines nearly built, bodys all primed just need to sand, manother coat of primer and nice smooth sand and paint. Telll us what you think? Heres few pics. I need the following things:- Calais roof lining (grey), front bar complete, bonnet Waitn for sand and final primer coat. Filled air con pipe holes and fuse box loom hole. Smoothd one-side of engine bay at mo Drivers door lock smoothed. Want more pics check here: http://damosburnouts.50megs.com/cgi-bin/photoalbum Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Looks good so far man! Keen to see more progress

should be interesting with a built rb20 in there, let us know how it goes once its running. what colour will the car be? what sort of turbo are you planning on using? good luck with the rest of it

Looking great man, Why RB20?

love the deleted door locks looks like its coming along quite nicely mate Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Yeh its getn there slow, been bout 2yrs since it was on road i rekn, just buzy workn these days. Why RB20? I dunno, i did RB20 conversion runnig Redtop at the start and after i blew it up i swapd it for a silvertop RB20 so didnt cos me anythnig, then it just went from there, Keen to see what i can get out of a RB20, somethnig different havent seen many built 20s plus im doing everythnig myself. plus it went hell harder then my RB30e. Will just have to wait and see how it goes, my mate had a RB20 VL running 17psi full stock engine made 266rwkws but nosie lefter and stopd it there so it had more power then they ran it too and that thing was nuts. 17psi was wheel spin 1st, 2nd, 3rd could hardly keep it straight. Nar im still open to suggestions to what turbo il be running havent decided yet, will prob end up running hi-flow S2 RB25 till i find a nice turbo to suit? Any ideas are welcome, (except pay outs about RB20s) Thanks Damo I need few parts so i can finish paintn VL, I Need:- Bonnet in good nick no dents still glue down, i need good nick front bar or Group A front. i need rear quarter window covers. Also any good good nick 4 door seals or new ones? and new bailey channels? Any one good anythnig else i might be interested in let us no. Also need a VL manual tailshaft or just front half on VL manual tail shaft for a RB20 conversion into a Nissan Cema at work? Thanks alot guy Damo!!!

Sorry mate, didnt mean to offend with the RB20 comment, was just wondering. There have been a couple of higher powered RB20's, it just seems to get the best use and cost for power people seem to go for the 30 or the 25/30

Quote: Originally Posted by Blink Sorry mate, didnt mean to offend with the RB20 comment, was just wondering. There have been a couple of higher powered RB20's, it just seems to get the best use and cost for power people seem to go for the 30 or the 25/30 Nar man that wasnt aimd at your either, just ppl bag you about going RB20 way, i no what your sayn bout 25s, 25/30s ect but i wana give tha 20 a big crack see what happens. If not happy il biuld something else one day. Does any one have any parts i need, Few update pics:- New paint colour, for got the name, but its bit more green/buler then my old ice blue VS fuel flap forgies in with tha ARP headstuds on Fresh RB20 head Q45 90mm throttle body Ross balancer Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

depending on how much u wanna spend on a turbo i reckon a good T04 or even one of those XR6 turbos! also depending on weather u want a hi or low mount setup, just a suggestion how much did u pay for the balancer/where did u get it?? Looking real good tho!

XR6 Turbo = GT35/40 with the smaller rear .82 from memory.

xr6t = GT3540 with .50 front housing, 1.06 rear housing, internal gate. Early XR6Ts also had a smaller front wheel from memory.

Quote: Originally Posted by jetvl086 depending on how much u wanna spend on a turbo i reckon a good T04 or even one of those XR6 turbos! also depending on weather u want a hi or low mount setup, just a suggestion how much did u pay for the balancer/where did u get it?? Looking real good tho! Koll thanks guys for your imput for turbo, yeh i like the idea of XR6 turbo, but dunno how itl go on the RB20 still wanna keep early boost and keep boost all way through revs. Whered i sorce a XR6 turbo from? My balancer i got straight from Ross them selfs paid $400 odd. Thats a RB30 one so i can keep VL power steer ect? looks tuff. Keep tha input coming guys your great help, Workn on VL at mo pushd her out shed sandn n wash all tha **** off and sprayn small bits at mo.

GT3076r would be good on an RB20... GT3082r if you wanna step things up a little and GT3582r if you don't mind a bit of lag and wanna make bigger power Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Definitely don't drop a XR6T turbo on the rb20 or any sort of GT35 for that matter it will be a pig to drive. Either look at a nice trust TD06-20g with an 8cm housing or a Garrett GT3076r (HKS3037s spec .6comp 6blade comp wheel 60mm turbine) with the .6 rear and appropriately sized ext gate. The old crappy GT3076r that runs a .7 comp cover and 7blade comp wheel is absolute crap. They don't make the power as easily as they should struggling to crack 240-250rwkw. The HKS3037S spec GT3076r that Garrett have been selling for a while is an excellent 300 to very low 300rwkw turbo. The next step up is the GT35r not the GT3082 which tend to be a little lazy; compared to the HKS3037s spec GT3076r and not make any more power on pump fuel. On pump fuel they both peak out around 320-330rwkw absolute max from what I have seen on the twin camers. In saying that I am biased as I have a GT3076r .82 (hks3037s spec) on my rb30det which makes 268rwkw on 15psi at 6000rpm; power holds nice to 7000rpm; seat of the pants it doesn't ease up until rev cut @7100rpm. Still on the std plenum, inlet & exhaust manifold and std 240/232 cams. 17psi peak we saw was 285rwkw BUT (here come the excuses) the rb20t gearbox at the time would not have lasted long & a slight ignition problem began to emerge from the stock cracked coils so we dropped back to stock boost (15psi) where it was happy. A few years back a mates rb25det with 256 duration cams made 323rwkw on a shade over 20psi with a HKS3037S. Definitely not a turbo to write off. Just be sure you are getting the 'right' GT3076r and not the one with the .7 comp cover and 7blade comp wheel that struggles to crack 250rwkw. Size the turbo to the power you want to make + a little more. I'd look at the GT3076r .6 56t 6blade comp with a .6 rear with a pair of mid 250degree duration cams for the RB20 if you want to have a crack at 300rwkw. Don't go too big with cams; the rb20's loose port velocity due to the small stroke and laaaaaaaaaaaag. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.