Snyper

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Well I officially started the tear down today and will be getting ready to start building the kit soon. I first planned on using C6 manifolds but that idea was quickly shot down when I tried to put them on the car and they were pointing RIGHT at the engine mounts. So I went out and did it the old fashioned way with the truck manis. My setup will consist of the following:

-PT88 truck manifolds with a 4" downpipe exiting through the passenger side of the engine. Im having the flanges cut off the manifolds and vband rings welded in place. That will prevent me from needing to clearance the side of the car so the driveside can fit and its just a much better connection.
-Twin 38mm tial wastegates. Polished(I wanted black but my black tial 44 turned purple after a month so im gonna stick with ones that wont discolor)
-50mm Tial BOV black
-83lbs injectors with a redone return fuel setup using a magnafuel 4301 pump using -8 to feed the engine and -6 as a return.
-317 heads/PRC springs
-228/228 .588/.588 @114+0 camshaft
-ebay 4" i/c with all alum. 3" piping.
-im going with a custom radiator but im not sure on the specs yet..im pretty much going to build the turbo kit then build the front end around it. Im going to be going with a custom rad. support to give me the room I need to make this happen
-MSD launch control/2step
-Some form of methanol not exactly sure which brand yet but im leaning towards alkycontrol just from the positive feedback ive heard on this form.
-2.5bar custom
-iat from typhoon
-magnafuel 4301 external pump

..the parts list will continue to grow as I find things I need for the car. But as of right now I want to get the kit on the car and working and tuned for 4-8 psi and once its up and running perfectly im going to have the bottom end rebuilt and break it in on the low boost tune. One thing im not sure of yet is whether im going to be using my MAF or not. I hear so many mixed stories so im going to try and source a good tuner around here who knows what hes talking about and see what he says. I want to run 10-15psi on the street and maybe 20(or whatever the turbo will take) at the track. Heres a few pictures from what I have so far..

The typical turbo/soda can picture haha


Soda can IN turbo pic..(dont mind the FRCs..they were just laying on the engine to see if I liked them and I didnt)


Little peek-a-boo-shot


And so far heres the best spot I could come up for it to fit. There is NOT a lot of room in the engine bay so im limited in where I can put it.


just a random shot of the car at the track..(hopefully there will be more of this next year)

Snyper

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Did a little cutting up front. Im going with a 22x19x3 radiator and the only way to have everything fit in this small space is to cut into the frame "arms" now they dont actually support anything except the headlights old bumper support which I havent had on the car for a while now so I can cut into them. The are still very sturdy and more than enough to support the headlights and the rad/intercooler support. I now how JUST enough room to fit everything nicely.

(this is the turbo side and unfort. theres not going to be enough room for an airfilter like on my last setup)






(this is the radiator side)

Snyper

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Heres the manifolds with the 3 bolt flanges cut off and the vbands welded. They are welded inside and out. Now they dont hit the side of the car when I put them on.






Alternator stays in the same location. =)

Snyper

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After planning and measuring this is going to be where the turbo sits(it will be up higher and closer to the headlight..



Heres the new oil pan.. WHAT AN IMPROVEMENT over my original stock "modified" pan

TooLateVTEC

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Good God theres like NO room in there it looks like. I bet you get a lot of wierd looks with a 350Z and a v8 rumble coming out of it, lol.

Good luck on the turbo install man, that thing is going to RUN.

DiscerningZ32

Lookin good.

That thing is going to be even crazier than before.

chavez885

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holy crap...

rao

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Looks like fun

Snyper

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I know..everything is going to fit tighter than a virgin. Im going to do whatever I can to try and keep the factory radiator support..but we will see how that goes. If not ill be making a custom chromoly front end.

lamdenali

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Man that is sick. I had a virgin and she wasnt fighting,may she not a VIRGIN and lie to me

Snyper

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Haha I meant fit. My bad.

LSX-PWR

Any updates and what type of oil pan is that?

jomomma

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and under the stock hood. i love it!

fmowry

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So did you completely solve the CANBUS interaction? I know some RX-8 and 3rd gen Miata guys that would like a definitive solution.

Frank

boosted350z

nice man...i have a z but its still got the little vq in it on stock block with a vortech kit on 9.5 psi (420whp/350ft. lbs.)...i run at lebanon valley but ive never seen u there., ive only gone on wed. night street nights though..i took it once last year with the vortech kit on and went 11.90@116 and put it away before i broke and axle or something, just wanted to see where it stood..a night with track prep and a good launch its good for 11.7x's but its my daily driver...i like this swap the more i see it and with some boost will be out of hand, cant wait to see the results and maybe see it at the track

bad2000z

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Updates??

DiscerningZ32

Oh damn, I didn't even notice that was LVR from the photo but it is.
I wouldn't mind seeing that thing run but I haven't been to LVR in a while.

Snyper

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Yeah hopefully next year ill have a little better luck. My best times were on street tires(11.3) and the best I could do with slicks was a 12.1@83 haha

bovi

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Im in love!!!! I was having a Z before, really nice car, i cant imagine what it is with a 8.

VENGEANCE

That is incredibly whoopass. Im not a big Z fan, but that is sick.

*thumbs up*