TheHulkGB
Club Member
The work is being carried out by the GTR heritage centre, they’re the ones who’ve proposed putting in the VR38 instead of the RB26. They need to see if it’s viable first which requires some more investigation on their part.WOW, My R35GTR arrived new with 520BHP and currently the guy that has it tells me it has 690BHP on Litchfield's dyno with decat, injectors and induction mods. To do justice to that engine you need people like Litchfield's or SVM to be doing the work. What gearbox would you use? You can't bolt it to a 5 speed RWD Skyline box as it will break it and most others and without cutting the tunnel up a lot of gearboxes won't fit. You will be in Quaife sequential territory https://www.quaife.co.uk/quaife-products/motorsport-gearboxes/ bespoke housing and special setup.
Just to give you some stuff I do know the R35GTR engine reduces boost in lower gears to stop breaking the stock gearbox and the engine/box talk to each other. The stock box is good to 800BHP if you treat it well but as its a transaxle that is not easy to fit
The person on here that did that basically took an R35GTR and grafted on an S30 bodyshell onto it
Its a really big job... the faff we had to get a CD009 in my car is nothing compared to what you are thinking of doing
Love the idea but not sure how complicated it would be but they can do but at what cost in mods to the cars original shell?
I’m leaning towards the VR38 as it’s a newer engine and I’ve been told it’s near enough bulletproof. No planning on modding the engine as standard is plenty of power. I’ll put your comments forward to them about the use of a skyline gearbox. They mentioned the use of a 350z gearbox in our conversation to be used with the VR38. Either way it looks like I need to find out more information from them as I don’t want to start cutting my transmission tunnel up.
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