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how hard is it to fit a skyline motor to a patrol?

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how hard is it to fit a skyline motor to a patrol?

Post by wingy69 »

I want to fit a turbo'd skyline motor to my gq patrol comp truck, does anyone know how hard this is??
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Re: how hard is it to fit a skyline motor to a patrol?

Post by Skegbudley »

wingy69 wrote:I want to fit a turbo'd skyline motor to my gq patrol comp truck, does anyone know how hard this is??
It's easy concidering some GQs came out with them.
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Re: how hard is it to fit a skyline motor to a patrol?

Post by short stuff »

most of the old petrol patrols were rb30 carby so im guessing it wouldnt be hard
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Re: how hard is it to fit a skyline motor to a patrol?

Post by MARKx4 »

I think they are a straight bolt up to replace the RD28 as well.

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Re: how hard is it to fit a skyline motor to a patrol?

Post by SWBMQCraig »

It will bolt up to a GQ RB30 gearbox, and like Mark says 95% they bolt up to a RD28 gearbox too
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Re: how hard is it to fit a skyline motor to a patrol?

Post by bozwon »

rd28's apparantly bolt up to rb25 boxes so i cant see why an rb20/25/26/30 wouldnt bolt straight up to an rd28 box
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Re: how hard is it to fit a skyline motor to a patrol?

Post by Borris the Blade »

Why wouldn't u turbo a tb42 ??

Maybe do a little research, I think you may be surprised
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Re: how hard is it to fit a skyline motor to a patrol?

Post by MOO_R32 »

yea all the skyline "RB" motors bolt straight up to the GQ rb30 and rd28 gearboxes and the GU rd28 gearboxes, TB42 turbo is good too.. iv just done mine.. aprox 160kw at the wheels
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