RVAE34

Risk vs reward I suppose. Luckily I got a hell of a deal on this car with a massive pile of service history. Everything was done at MB and the car was taken in for the slightest of issues. It's a dream find as far as these cars go imo.

BryanS14

Sounds like an awesome car. It seems most people who have gone from W211 E55 to E63 or the other way almost always like the 55 more, its one of my all time favorite MB's. A coworker has a 42k mile 06 CLS55 that is stock. All my current MB's are slow.

Even though the biturbo V8's are awesome, I was talking about the S/CL/SL 600/65 V-12 cars. I keep forgetting MB has turbos all over the place now. I had an 06 S600, sooo much torque and soooo smooth and comfy.

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Corbic

Even brought back the I6. Damn Catt is bigger then the engine.



https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a1...es-inline-six/

BryanS14

HMMMM wonder if I can get that turbo and head on my 92 190e 2.6.

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RVAE34

The engine bay of the Z31 was just about wrapped up this weekend until they ran out of gass. Literally. I should have engine updates very soon.

The Skyline should be leaving Japan soon too and can't wait to see it.

Meanwhile, had the E55 polished and ceramic coated.

BryanS14

Love it! My favorite interior on the W211.

I had an 06 E500 4matic wagon. I bought it with 201k miles on it, sold it to a friend at 217k about a year ago and he has close to 240k on it now. The interior held up extremely well and looked better than some cars with 40k. The drivers bolster was the only noticeable issue. The only major exterior issues were the headlights yellowing and your typical rock chips. Your car should last a looong time.

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RVAE34

My machinist called me yesterday to say last chance to get pics before it starts going together.

While I was there he ran the crank on the balancer and said it's within NASCAR tolerance. He checked all the pistons and removed some weight to get them balanced and he had to slightly hone out the rods for the wrist pins.

CP said they wanted .0015 gap from piston to deck height at TDC and with the slight decking to get the block clean, it's slightly less than that at .00135 so after he does the final flow bench test on the head to check how much improvement was made, he can put it all back together and check valve to piston clearance and worst case, I get a slightly thicker head gasket but he doesn't think it's enough of a difference to matter so we will see.

Also added some carbon to the E55

bardabe

*insert eggplant emoji *

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RVAE34

Should be primed this week.

JIMB0

cant wait to see that yellow!!!

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BryanS14

Clear coating the engine bay and making a steam punk engine bay? lol

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da_crew10

Gets better and better.

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RVAE34

My R30 car was picked up last night in Japan and will head to port very soon!

5280VertDET

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jumpman2334

christ that thing is beautiful. i think the r30s are my new favorite skyline. thanks.

RVAE34

Mine too. And the FJ20 was the first 4 valve 4 cylinder in production vehicle and the most powerful 4 cylinder ever with the FJ20et at the time.

future

Omg I'm in love

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irax

Nissans first 4 vavle 4 cyl any manufacturer ?

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RVAE34

I thought I had read the first in general but cannot confirm that. I did find where it said at the time it was the most powerful 4 cylinder engine ever made.

RVAE34

Engine bay gets primed tomorrow morning!! This is getting close to being reality!!

RalliartRsX

Oh. FJ with modern ignition. Nice!

RVAE34

Uggg, still not primed as there were a few small pin holes that still needed to be welded but at least it's in the booth.

RVAE34

Yes!!!

feito

Prepping a surface for paint down to bare metal gives me a huge erection.

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RVAE34

My R30 is at the port ready to be loaded on a boat!! And the progress on the vision render.

Thursday7

Have you considered anything other that wats? There's so many old school wheel options that would look righteous on that thing when you have wats on the Z31, with a few rebuilding options for smaller wheels stateside now. Impul D-01s or Starsharks would look the part. Just my $.02, you obviously have this figured out.

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IIIXziuR

You have some excellent taste, boss man.
That R30 is going to look sharp. The paint color and the interior as-is are so cool.

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RVAE34

I am just a huge fan of Watanabe's.

Thank you!

To say my expectations have been exceeded would be an understatement. It's amazing and the car should be painted next week!!

RVAE34

Ignore the runs and the small imperfections. It will be final smoothed by Wednesday. Then paint soon after! Check out the before and afters.

RVAE34

Brand new R34 RB25 5 speed transmission!