Well after 3 long months my car is finally done. Here are some pictures of the project.

Koyo Rad
This was probably the easy part of this whole project. The only modding we had to do was to bend the top brackets just tad for it to fit on.


The rad itself fit like a glove.




We didn't like how the stock hose was so close to the manifold. So what we did is found some extra hose from Power that was laying round and use that.
Now it's nice and far from the manifold
This is how it would have been with the stock hose


This is the new hose. It doesn't bend towards the manifold


Maintec Manifold and Turbo
This manifold is nice and I like it alot. It so tight though...it's not even a mm between the bolt and manifold


This is how the turbo mounts. We had to rotate the inlet side downwards for the intercooling pipe to fit properly.




Fans and Koyo Rad
We were unable to use both stock fans because the one fan is way to big to fit. So we ended up using one stock fan and the other is a flex-a-lite fan.
The stock fan we had to cut just a bit. The arms just near the down pipe. it was about 3 of them. In this pic you can only see on arm bracket thingy smile.gif




Exhaust and Down Pipe
In the mean time we had the exhaust being done along with the downpipe.
The exhaust has all mandrel bend and is straight back.






Installed
HKS Muffler








Downpipe






The best part about this system is it doesn't sound like a ricer and when she goes full bore...she sounds like angry beast.

 

looks nice, but

1. the radiator hose is too short because the reason for the bent hose is for providing some play when the engine moves back and forth. your new hose is too short, and it might fail due to too much tension or compression.

2. the exhaust manifold and fan are too close. mani will hit the fan assembly and damage your manifold, fan, and koyo radiator.


3. your car is illegal now for not having a CAT in it. Buy a performance CAT and install it. drillsergeant.gif

 

Brand new 350cc injectors
We did a flow test on 2 stock injectors, other injector were going to use but it was not good enough and a new one.
The new one reads the highest on the tester and the stock ones are the second highest. We were surprised how good the stock ones did.


Intercooler
This was other easy project and when it gets painted it will look pretty stock.
We did all the welds on the intercooler and it turned out nice. It's an HKS intercooler and is good for a 20 pound turbo.




Mounting brackets for intercooler




The thing a like about this intercooler is, it's not really big, it doesn't hang below the bumper and you can hardly see it...which makes the car such a sleeper.
So before I bought it, I used card board box to make a fake intercooler and took all my measurements to make sure it fit.
I would suggest this to everyone to get the right size you want instead of buying something that says it fits.





<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (nate704 @ May 19 2007, 03:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>looks nice, but

1. the radiator hose is too short because the reason for the bent hose is for providing some play when the engine moves back and forth. your new hose is too short, and it might fail due to too much tension or compression.

2. the exhaust manifold and fan are too close. mani will hit the fan assembly and damage your manifold, fan, and koyo radiator.
3. your car is illegal now for not having a CAT in it. Buy a performance CAT and install it. drillsergeant.gif</div>

1.We already looked into that and the hose is perfect. This hose was much longer but we cut it. Also you can't see it in the picture but instead of bending to the side it bends up now.

2.As for the manifold being to close...there is enough clearence that it doesn't touch. We even had room to put a heat shield to top it off. I will show this in my next few pics.

3.This car is going to be for track racing only starting next year. In the mean time I don't think I will get caught and don't bring my car to the dealership anymore.

 

man, very nice !! you really did your homework here.


very clean installs


even the custom piping you guys did, r had done, is very nice!!

do me a favor though, since you did you exhaust in pieces, with flanges and all, send it to get ceramic coated. that is, if your not going to go with a nice "real" cat back.

that HKS muffler is sweet, i welded one on to a nissan 240 and it sounded great !

nice work on the down pipe. i know that doing a custom job with a bender is a pain in the ass for a downpipe, you just cant get the bends tight enuf, but i see you handled that issue by cutting the exhaust into little pieces and then welding them together. GET THE DOWNPIPE CERAMIC coated, might i recommend JET HOT, tell them your from rdtiburon, and talk to CHRIS, he will give you a great price, and their work is spotless.

I had my air ram and header done by them, now im getting my AEM cold air intake done soon too.

anyways

props on the good work

dyno please !!!!

 

As for the turbo goes...it has a internal wastegate so what we did is use a 2JZ actuator 5psi and fab some brackets on to the turbo.




Intercool piping
All the piping is HKS Aluminum Intercooler Pipes. This took very long to do since we had a lot of dry fitting, cutting and welding. In the end though we have a total of six pipes in the kit and it
fits pefect. Everything down below is pretty hidden and doesn't show anywhere giving it a more stock look. Some of the plastic needed to be cut but oh well.




This is one piece only and goes right up to the intake manifold


This has everything up to the recirculation insert.


Bracket for the intake pipe.


It's like it floats. Also we got top grade tubing for the BOV and it's clear to see if I ever get oil in there.
You can also see that we moved the fuel filter up so we could add a fuel pressure fitting for a pressure gauge. Plus it's easy to replace now.
It was such a b**** to replace the old one the way it was before.


Very Tight but nothing touchs.
This shows how tight everything is. All the heat wrapping is on too and the down pipe was cermic coated and the rest of the exhaust was painted with silver heat spary which
made it look nice.













Install complete...




You can see the nice silver on the exhaust pipe and the silver cermic coating on the down pipe.


On Dyno fixing maps

 

looks good...about how long was the entire install process?

 

It took about 2 and half months. Only because of the dry fitting and custom fabing everything. Also it didn't help running into some problems like wiring from my old alarm system which I have ripped out now and fixed that up. Also the stock injector plugs are no good for a project like this and plus the wires were swelled from the seven years of having this car. I recommend everyone changing to a better plug. I got HKS ones. Last but not least the tuning of the car with the stock computer. I have no piggy back and will never need one. I will post about that on mon. The file I have for the dyno run is in a .drf file...I forgot to convert it to a jpg or pdf. My turbo is a HKS GT2510 ball bearing turbo and at 0.36 bars (5.2psi) on the dyno I have about 134whp with little tuning done to it. Now that the turbo is broken into, I will tune the rest and hook up the boost controller.

 

dam that looks like one hell of a set up.

Shoulda went underaxle for the exahust to minimize the turns.

 

how much boost or torque can our auto tranny handle?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BlueSpanishShark @ May 19 2007, 07:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Last but not least the tuning of the car with the stock computer. I have no piggy back and will never need one.</div>

TELL US NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nana.gif

edit: as soon as you prove to us you have something that we can use I'll be all over it and my smt6 will be on ebay!