Well... alot has changine in the year ive been boosted. I thought i would share two of the bigger changes. First off.. my custom intake manifold. I installed this a few months back when i fixed my bent rod that some of you may have read about. Its been great. Gobs of top end power yet it still has the low end of the stocker. Its a large plenum, short runner design that uses a lower plenum from a Quest/mercury villigar. I chose that because all of the ports are inline with each other. and the runner design is a bit higher flow than my stock lower plenum. I drew the entire intake manifold up on cad and then sent it to my cnc cutter. once cut, i port matched the main plate with the lower plenum and also cut velocity stacks into it. the rest i tig welded together including a place to mount the IACV and a 240sx throttle body.
Heres the pics.

Lower plenum.


CNC'd Lower plate with freshly cut velocity stacks


Throttle body and CNCd throttle body plate


I just like this picture


All welded up


Continued....

Can never have enough Vac ports


Installed


So thats the intake manifold. So far, it has been wonderful. Driven it almost 5k miles with no problem.

On to the Compressor upgrade.....

My old compressor was just getting a bit to small... and i ran across a used 62-1 compressor and housing for 50 bucks that i couldnt pass up, and i finnally got around to puting it all together and installing it. Ill let the pictures explain the rest, because im bad at it.

housing before modification


Milling off the 4" velocity stack I wish i had room for it. but theres no point in going from 3 inch through the maf up to 4 inch then back down. and plus i could have never made the bend had i not done that.


Finished milling


Intake tube with Crank case vent and BOV recirculation tubes welded in



Continued......

Intake tube ready to weld to the houseing.


Housing all welded up..


Installed on the car


Finished install


All in all.. its a great improvement.. and opens up many more power potential doors... all i need now is.. Better fuel injectors, and a bigger intercooler.. and im ready to start uping the boost and pray my tranny holds.

very nice, glad to see people starting to experiment with different options.

What size is that exhaust housing? Looks huge...

1.32 A/R... and i LOVE IT... top end monster. I start building boost by 2500 and full by 4000.

look at this hack job

haha just kidding. mike was supposed to send the injectors out friday to you he said.

Wow that is a really nice weld.. Top notch.

Looks very good, nice job! Planning on going to the dyno with the new stuff? I definitely want to see what that thing will put down.

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That's hardcore and very creative.

lol, now look at his exaust manifolds, thats the way all turbo setups should be. Hes got detailed pics of everything, a link is usually in his sig. Its pretty sick.

Oh and max, I been meaning to ask, whats your redline?

~Alex

right now im reving to 6500.. but im upping it to 7 soon. Talkin with 300zx guys it seem to be that with stock cams the valve springs can go up above 7

Very nice. You do really good work. I will be up in the Chicago area the middle of August. Me you and Neal should get together....my car is sold.

Will be looking into the injectors for you today or tomorrow.

Awesome man.. give me a call whenever

Great progress!!!!

I don't think I've even washed my car latley... or been on here!

As usual.. awsome job on everything...

I'm going to look into a auto trans for my car (possible GM trany) GTP GrandPrix (if dementions allow) or sell my car and get a GTP. I love my Maxima but with the 5spd I know I'll break it or not hook/tire hopp like last time. I can boost launch with a Auto and have more precise controll of shift RPM. I'd much rather have a Nissan than a GTP as a driver.
Great Job again!
Scott~

Very impressive work man!!! The intake is a nice job. looks very 'industrial', but definitely gets the job done.

Would you be interested in doing one for my VE? I simply don't have the resources to do it, but I'm really wanting to get something different going on mine for more top end.

thanks guys.. Stick nissan scott . Matt.. im sure we could work something out. PM me and we can discuss it further.

Jeremy

I remember seeing your car at Byron.. Very very nice work!!!

That is a very nice VG seriously man! Now you gotta get it tuned on a dyno, and go to the track. Very interested in seeing what kinda #'s it puts down.

I like it.. good job

So what welder/rod/etc did you use?

Looks excellent.