Checking in

[JustJeff]

I'm expanding my horizons and checking out what these forums are all about. I've owned S5 verts for the last 10 years or so. Mostly OEM, but 3 years ago I made the jump to turbo swapping with a JDM engine. I paid a shop to do the work for me and have been learning and catching up ever since. The swap went forward with no rebuild and the car was a daily driver for 3 years. The only issues the engine ever had were user error type things as I learned my way around. Here's the build so far, nothing exotic, or extreme

89 vert
S5 JDM 13B and tranny
N370 ECU and modified N/A harness
RB REV TII exhaust and FCD
FD fuel pump 550 primaries and 800 secondaries
S4 Differential
FD alt
Cosmo MAF

Was waiting for the Rtek S5 turbo chips to come out of beta testing....but detonated and blew the front rotor. In the process of doing my first rebuild. The engine is out and torn down. Damage was the front rotor was iffy, front housing was shot. Turbo wasn't damaged but it had enough thrust play that I replaced it with a S5. Rotor has been replaced, still looking for a housing.

I'll be honest in saying that I'm torn about RCC. What I read about the intent of these forums is that it's a mature and low drama alternative. That the things 7club are/were reputed to be, such as high drama, lots of "SEARCH NOOB!!" to new member and general trolling are NOT over here. I hope thats true.

I've stayed away so far because my reality has been that alot of the people who were on 7club creating drama, trolling, and being harsh to new members came over here after the fallout at 7club. I'm hoping thats not the case and that the perception I created is by my own design as those types of thread were what i paid attention to.

Hopefully I'm wrong in that perception and I'll find sharing of info, community, love of rotaries, what baby unicorns eat for breakfast and why dolphins are always smiling.

All that being said, I'm checking RCC out with an open mind.