I finally figured out picture hosting. So i will share my kit with all of my fellow boosted maximas (warning 56k'ers)

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/maxmax.../ph//my_photos

 

I really wanted to show them all with a big write up of what ive done but i guess the write up will have to come second

 

pretty impressive

 

That looks pretty nice man.

 

WOW!! very well thought out and very well put together

sombody knows what there doing

everything is well braced A+ on that

is this running yet? does the oil drain work? it doesnt look like it would drain right since it goes up hill at the end. turbo specs? and fuel system?

no offence to anyone else but this is probobly the nicest turbo setup ive ever seen on a max

 

Out of curiousity, where are you feeding oil in from to the turbo. I see your return line. I'm curious as I'm close to installing a turbo on my 2nd gen.

S

 

Yes it's up and running, he had it out on the road course all day on monday the 4th. I saw it there. It's very nice. Kid knows what he's doing. This is the one I mentioned in a couple threads with the 1.32 A/R turbine. It's a .60 on the compressor side it says in the pic.

 

The car is running and already has over 1000 miles on the turbo kit. the oil drain works flawlessly, never had any problems with it, even though it angles up slightly at the end by the time it gets there it has already fallen a foot and a half. and ive even put it to the test by road racing on the turbo kit at Gingerman raceway and had no problems with the kit. The turbo oil was taken off of the Factory 300zx turbo oil feed location which is a banjo bolt on the front of the moter behind the alternator. I figured that this would be the best place to feed from becuase if it worked on factory cars then that means it will work on my car, i even bought the factory banjo bolt from nissan. The fuel system im running is custom venom 550cc/m injectors with a socketed ecu runing a romulator and live edit. so far i havent had any issuses with it. i did some wideband tuning a few weeks ago and the engine management is working awsome.

Thankyou for the compliments guys

Jeremy

 

nice custom build up. It's nice to see people doing stuff like this when no kits are available.

sean

 

looks great man...

 

looks good...cleanest so far

 

Interested in making a partial kit (manifold, piping, xover)? If so pm me.

 

looks VERY VERY GOOD

Nice job and good planing

 

Thats a BIG F'nnn Turbo. I love the pipes and the structure of your kit. Very original and clean. My only question or concern that I have is your Oil Drain. I see where you have that 90 degree elbow going into your sump.. Gravity will be working againt you. You may want to bing that return line above more so that it can drain better.

Otherwise nice job.

 

Very impressive. We will have to get together when I come up to see Neal next.

 

the oil drain does go up for a bit at the end but that is after more like 2 feet of falling. that is plenty of downward travel to overcome the little bit of upward right at the end. I have driven it in the most extreme circumstances and never had any problems with it. What made me not worry about doing it the way i did is when i saw that the new Greddy kit for a brand new civic SI put the turbo oil drain to the Oil pan drain plug using a banjo fitting, i figured that if that works then i will not have any problems with my oil drain. i figured if its going to back up into the turbo and smoke it would be in hard driving at high rpms while taking a hard right turn, and i did that at the road course with no smoke.

 

Did you cut and weld those pipes yourself? If so, man, you have some skill! Either way though, it looks like an awesome design, major props!

 

yes, everything was fabricated by me

 

I really like how you have the exhaust manifolds routed to the blower. I've been wondering for sometime if this exact setup could be done with our cars, and its nice to finally know that it can. Great job Bro!

 

Congrats on the setup. I was just wondering at what rpm do you reach full boost with such a big a/r. I posted a while back that i have the same turbo setup but with a 1.15 a/r and the consensus feedback was that it would be useless for my car (4th gen) since it would not reach full boost(if even) until close to redline. i would love to hear your analysis since you are actually driving a similar setup. thanks.

 

in first gear i reach full boost around 4000, and above that i can hit it around 3500. i plant to improve that slightly when i open up my 3 inch exhaust. Right now i have a Dynomax superturbo muffler, great for non turbo but it really isnt all that high of flow. It tapers down to less that 2.5 inches on the inside. I planing on going either a srait pipe and if thats to loud a dynomax Strait through 3 inch muffler or just presilencers.

 

Dude thats killer! Ive been planning a turbo setup exactly like yours, with new, better flowing manifolds and piping right up to a close turbo like yours. You'r whole setup looks awsome, I hope when I build up mine its that good. Just one Q, does it spool up and make good power down low? Because my max would be a daily driver and I dont want a setup that makes good power only in the upper ranges of 3ed 4th and 5th.

~Alex

 

-this is maxmaxima's brother, not him (he's signed on at my work computer)

it spools fine, feels great! maxima's already have quite a bit of low end torque for an import (at least his VG does). i'm very impressed as how that enormous turbo doesnt spool hard and late....it makes a very progressive and nice torque feel, and the car feels fast, but SMOOTH. its definitely a highway monster, and its going to really rock when he up's the boost a bit.

i owned his car for about 30,000 miles (was second owner, then sold it to him when he was 16). i drove the car bone stock, then added an exhaust. compared to how it drove then and how it drives now, its night and day. jeremey has really made it an amazing all-around machine.

the torque delivery imppressed me most..smooth. i'm used to my hard hitting turbo'd civic's power (which jeremy also did 75% of the fab. work on). it has nothing, nothing, nothing, then BAM! spins the tires. his maxima blows my mind. mild mannered, but also completely wild when you want her to be.

-adam(sorry for using your name jeremy, i'll register, dont worry)

 

yeah the vg does make gobbs of torque! Im making like 351lb to the wheels with a stock ct26 on 10 to 11 psi. NICE set up man!

 

Wow, that looks great! Do you have any problems with boost surge by having the ehaust manifolds not be equal length?

 

no boost surge..

 

wow very nice fab work there. to you.

 

What a nice slide show to view. First rate job!

 

No one on this board has equal length exhaust manifolds I'm willing to bet, it doesn't cause any problems.

 

I dont see why that would really matter anyways.

 

yeah, especially with such long runners on the "y" pipe, any exhaust pulses are going to be completley merged by the time they reach the turbo. especially in the high RPM's...they are hitting so close together, and they have so far to travel. there is almost no way you could have made equal length runners if you wanted to anyways jeremy, too much crap in the way in my opinion...would have been cool though...

we'll just have to make them on my car. -adam

 

thanks for the info maXmax, i feel a lot better about trying a large a/r.

 

A larger A/R will perform well as long as your kit is very high flow, the shorter the distance you can make it between the exhaust ports and the turbo inlet the better. In my kit i tryed to make the entire system as high flow as i could. Also since your Engine flows more than mine if you can make a system is equal or close to mine you could probably be boosting by 3000 in first and even lower in higher gears. If you where to put that size turbo on a Reverse Y-Pipe still turbo kit it may not perform near as well. Also make sure your Down pipe and exhaust is as free flowing as you can make it, you can never have to much exhaust on a turbo car.

Jeremy

 

great job man.. i wouldn't have thot that manifold would fit on the back

 

I didnt at first either, Then i realized how easy it is to move the oil filter down to the factory 300zx/2gen max location. All i had to do is get a new stud for the oil filter.

 

my point exactly...i am not too impressed with the downpipe configuration on the pfi kit, so i plan on having it redesigned for quicker spool up...once again your info is appreciated.

 

yea but now changing the filter from above is nearly impossible.

 

Id much rather have the power

I cant get over how sweet that is. I think Id have to do with a turbo one or 2 sizes down, as its cool to have a highway powerband but I want some fun down low too It looks killer. About how much did you spend on parts? Id do all/most the fab work my self, and my friend works in a turbo shop so he can help me with the hardest stuff. Thats pretty much the exact same that I wanted to do....A very nice clean setup with custom high flow headers. How well do you think it would respond with a slightly smaller turbo? Im looking for a good percentage of the boost around 2200rpm. Not full boost or anything, just a good amount of it.Oh and what kind of HP/boost are you running? Have you done any intake or exaust porting? Do you have the stock cams?

~Alex

 

major props, thats some great work you did.

 

Do you guys have the part number for the banjo bolt? Also how difficult was it to fab the headers....would you guys be willing to make another set?

S