Overall, I'm liking.
Only thing i'd do is something about the headlights. I'm not a big fan of projectors like that, and I'd probably do a 97-99 front end.
That of course is just me!

Good job man, you certainly made it your own!

 

you know I'm not trying to be mean but your the 5th person I have read that has said either "I don't like the projectors" or "Projectors are stupid".

Not on his car but on a couple forums lately. I just don't understand why. Fine you don't like how they look...okay no big deal. But the thing is its so much safer on the road at night to have these and to be able to see where you are driving at night.

Just my thoughts

 

been almost a month, but the supercharger is finally in and running well, so i figured i would throw up a engine bay shot:

 

I was wondering how much you paid for the paint job, if you don't mind? It looks amazing. Props on the S/Cer setup!

 

I actually had it done by a local Maaco. Only cost $250 for the paint, but I had them do some body work too from when my car got broken into. they replaced my driver's door and smoothed out my driver's side rear quarterpanel. So all said and done it was about $900 which is really reasonable imo.

 

It's amazing how that car stransformed from what it was to what it is, fantastic imo

 

Very hot and clean.
I have the same color as you before you painted. The champagne beige color..
I have been wanting to get away from that color. I've been wanting to keep the original OEM color.. So instead of using the actual nissan paint.. I have been looking at Lexus, Acura, Similar colors ya know?
My question is..
When you painted the car.. did you do all the jams and such too?
I know it's a pain.. Just was curious. The ride looks fresh.

 

Didn't do the jambs, just not really necessary IMO. Had I been going show quality, I would have done them, but to do them would have been another 60 per jamb.

 

Where did you get the stillen lip from? I am looking only for the lip. Does anyone else know?

 

uhmmmmm I dont know, you ever think from Stillen?
or was this just a way for you to make a post to bump your post count?
http://www.stillen.com/product.asp?i...N&model=MAXIMA

 

NICE JOB MAN........looks like a lot of hard put got put into it.

 

Looks great! Love the color def one of my top 3 4th gens.

 

Next project is in the works... I have to put this into the car in the upcoming weeks...



It's a fresh 3.5 with less than 13k miles. Here it is after I painted the valve covers:



Have OBX V2 long tube "equal length" headers to go with the 3.5 and a new ebay exhaust (since my exhaust is one piece from the headers back...)

 

looks good

 

Hows your dad man?

 

still in the hospital, might be getting out tomorrow. He's still not all there mentally, but there is a limit on the amount of time they can keep him in the psychiatric unit. We had another facility lined up, but the social worker is being a ***** and suddenly saying he doesn't need extended care even though his psychiatrist says otherwise...

All i know is the garage is an utter mess right now. I thought I drained the tranny completely, was definitely wrong and it took a **** all over the floor. Ruined 2 towels trying to clean it up.

 

those trannies hold alot of fluid in intricate places, i thought mine was empty so i picked it up and put it in my trunk, when i went to take it out there was atleast a quart of fluid just chillin.

 

Well I took the car to the dyno after getting everything installed. I don't have the run files though; only have 2 print-outs they gave me. First run, the crazy blue line, fuel pressure was a little wacky and my FMU wasn't helping. AFR's were in the 8-9 range or less We dialed back the base pressure from 40 to 30psi and dropped the rise rate several times, which didn't help much at all. Eventually we came to the conclusion that even with the FMU dialed all the way out (giving a 2:1 rise rate), it was still giving waaay too much fuel (i think it was 5-6 pulls till we did this).

We decided to unhook the FMU, and just use the VAFC to add fuel up top, and the thing sang like you wouldn't believe. We raised the base fuel pressure from 30psi to 37-38psi, and sans the FMU, the numbers jumped from mid 200's to low 300's and the AFR's were actually registering .

After some fine tuning with the VAFC, here's the final numbers:
334.98 whp / 316.12 ft.lbs SAE corrected
354.58 whp / 334.62 Uncorrected

I will say, the sheet doesn't show the highest numbers of the day (based on the couple video clips I shot - see below). Our only problem today was the speed limiter. Couldn't make a single full pull in 3rd gear as the speed limiter would cut in around 5.7-5.9k RPM (damn GXE's - don't let the screen name fool you). I'm betting there's another 5-20hp waiting up top (and my last PSI...), each pull was still building power up until the speed limiter fuel cut started... Also, I have a very strange sound in the upper rpms that I can't quite put my finger on (again, see videos below).

Power-train details:
'95 Auto 4.5 gen
13k mile '06 3.5L,
Stillen/Matty V2 Supercharger kit 3.25 (10psi) pulley,
600cc Deatschwerks injectors,
Synapse FPR/FMU,
Walbro 255,
Z32 MAF,
VAFC-2


Dyno Sheets:
*Analog 1 is boost in PSI, and notice smoothing set to "0", very good tune and combination of parts*

SAE Corrected:


Uncorrected:


Dyno Video's:

Highest Torque I videoed, peak boost was 8.43psi...


Highest HP I remember seeing is in this Video (SAE corrected). Not entirely sure why the torque is so much lower on this particular pull. If i had to hazard a guess, I would say belt slip (since there is a "hump" near the speed limiter on the boost line).

 

nice

 

Those are some nice numbers man! You can tell that motor wants to keep going tho. I am sure there is still plenty of potential thats waiting to come out.

Very nice progress though through the years

 

351whp.....GAWD...can I haz

 

Thanks man. She definitely wants to keep pulling up top (going to do so even more when I swap out my VIAS delete IM with my SSIM that's been sitting around. Still need to tackle the slight detonation I have over ~5200rpm. I have an intercooler just hanging out in my garage, and ran into a guy that said he could fab up my piping for about $150, so I may be doing that here in the next few weeks which should help. Also considering either doing an EU to adjust the timing and/or Water/Meth injection. Only thing holding me back with the intercooler is I need 3" piping and couplers since they sent me 2.5" piping instead of 3" (need to do some shopping on eBay).

Here's a couple pics showing dimensions and approximate size:



Actually 354.58hp It might be for sale here in a couple months though Haven't totally made up my mind yet...

 

NO!