RB30 FED R.I.P.S. Racing - the full story, to world records

[archaeic_bloke]

For anyone interested in seeing the story from start to end of how Rob from RIPS Racing built himself a world record racing machine based on the RB30 engine,...Holy god!! http://skyline-life.blogspot.com/201...-on-board.html

Link here: http://skyline-life.blogspot.com/201...-on-board.html

Personally, I think the craftsmanship is unbelievable, the exhaust on this machine is out this world!! how I envy the people who have managed to acquire cars built by this man.

[leeaspin]

so cool

[maximus140]

Been following these guys for a while. Pretty amazing stuff

[archaeic_bloke]

RIPS does some pretty incredible things with the RB motor, I've been working with rob on this lately and he's got a few more very cool stories to tell,

For anybody who's been reading the various stories on the site, if you want to, you can sign up to the feed here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NissanSkylineGtr-AWayOfLife

you can use just your email address, or if you have a feed reader like google feeds, or RSS/Atom etc those all work too!

and feel free to comment on the stories themselves

[jdms13rhd]

Good find. Its been keeping me busy looking around the past day. Was checking out the HKS 180 too. Thats interesting. I love to study builds like this and see what other people are doing. Race car builds are my fav. I've always wanted to build a rat rod with a rb30 in it. some day...

[xyz999]

Very good read. Taking me days to read it lol....

[archaeic_bloke]

a Tragic day today.... For anyone who hasn't heard the news yet, the FED gave up its ghost!... Rob posted the whole story of what went wrong here: http://skyline-life.blogspot.com/201...y-expires.html

[DarkCaporaL]

Best quote from that story:

it really has done a huge amount of work and given us over 3 years of trouble free racing with 100s and 100s of runs with a huge amount of them in the 7s, all with 2 oil changes, 1 set of spark plugs and a set of rings and bearings about 15 months ago.

[archaeic_bloke]

I figured i just HAD to share this with everyone....

Rob finally posted pics of the blown up engine and bits, you can check it out here: http://skyline-life.blogspot.com/201...mage-done.html

Not very often you get a real look at what a massive amount of horse power can do to an engine... It's turned that rod into something that resembles silly putty!

Even more impressive though is that less than a week later, he's already got the engine rebuilt, and running again... For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, you can check out the whole story from birth, to world records, to destruction, and rebirth here: http://skyline-life3.blogspot.com/p/...ps-racing.html


a couple photos but theres more on the site!

[jdms13rhd]

I figured i just HAD to share this with everyone....

Rob finally posted pics of the blown up engine and bits, you can check it out here: http://skyline-life.blogspot.com/201...mage-done.html

Not very often you get a real look at what a massive amount of horse power can do to an engine... It's turned that rod into something that resembles silly putty!

Even more impressive though is that less than a week later, he's already got the engine rebuilt, and running again... For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, you can check out the whole story from birth, to world records, to destruction, and rebirth here: http://skyline-life3.blogspot.com/p/...ps-racing.html


a couple photos but theres more on the site!

woah, thats pretty crazy.

[BeeGTR]

Wow Bump for an Amazing Thread! I got lots more to read now!!

[RIPSNZ]

RIPS FED now 1NZ

Hey guys, I havn't been on here for ages but stumbled accross this thread so thought I'd say Hi.

We won the NZ championship with "old faithfull FED" and we are rearing to go for that 6 when our season starts again in November.

Once again the V8 boys had a moan about having a 6 cylinder beat them at their own game so they asked me to help re-write the rules to even things up, I made a submission of what I thought was fair and they have accepted it so now our 3000cc 4 valve efi engine is classed as 4200cc when racing against guys with pushrods and no efi.

I wanted to go up a class or 2 as we were already running quicker than the V8s in those classes but they wouldn't let me....quote "because your engine is too small" what a joke.....so I have started this:

http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/151739-6s-200mph-pump-gas-nissan-thats-goal.html

I'm doing great deals on engines, pleinims, catch tanks, fuse box lids, fuel systems etc so feel free to contact me, say hello and make any enquiries you like,

Robbie. www.ripsracing.com

[Spoonman]

That destroyed rod is gnarly!