My Luxury Ride

[nissannewby]

OK. Small update. I picked up the 600x300x75 front mount intercooler yesterday for the upcoming upgrades (will post pics later). Also today I had the car dyno tuned at Gympie Diesel. I was quite happy at the outcome with the factory setup punching out 142hp at the rears.

The upgrades that are coming include- TD05 18G turbo (much larger than factory), front mount intercooler, custom intake manifold ( thanks to ben-e-boy for a stock one), 3" stainless exhaust and a high flow airbox lid. Im hoping for the fabled 200hp mark and having been in bens today I think this will be what I aim for.

Cheers.

[threedogs]

Sounds good and not over the top power wise, the utes I see are 335 Kw Rw
and you're either on it or off it.

[Ben-e-boy]

it should be a real torque monster when its finished.

[nissannewby]

So as I said here is a pic of the cooler. I also forgot to mention that I have a moulded vinyl floor and resomat underlay also to go into the car when I eventually get time.

[nissannewby]

Ok bits and pieces are slowly getting here just have to start fitting stuff up. The manifold is off being modified at the moment. Hopefully while im at home this week I can get the turbo fitted up, intercooler mounted and vinyl floor and console in.

[nissannewby]

Ok so I have started the work on the GU. Its a little difficult as I need to keep it mobile so its gonna take sometime. I was hoping to get the airbox lid modification and turbo installed today but I need the car this arv and have just finished the air box mod. So here are the pics of before and after with the airbox lid. You can see how restrictive the factory setup is.

Factory Airbox Lid



High Flow Lid



Factory Lid



High Flow Lid

[nissannewby]

Old Factory setup removed. Its easy to see the restriction here.


Here it is all fitted up. Looks Much better and should help the bigger turbo breath a bit better over what was in place from factory.

[stevogq]

nice setup good idea with the air intake

[nissannewby]

OK so heres a pic of the airbox lid installed to the factory turbo.

[nissannewby]

Got the turbo fitted up and running yesterday. It is certainly better but its hooked up the joke of a factory intercooler which is holding it back big time. Anyone that reads this get rid of the factory intercooler it basically does nothing, there are plenty of items these days that poo all over the factory unit. Hopefully next time im home i can get the rest of engine mods finished. This will be fitment of stainless exhaust, piping up intercooler to the modified intake manifold.

First pic is the old turbo next to the new one. You can see here why a lot of people dont modify the compressor side. The suction side is limited by the 3 bolt flange and so is the charge side.



This is the charge side differences.



Exhaust Side


New turbo Turbine Housing


Old Turbine Housing