Snyper

yeah im from wallingford and live in meriden now.

Did a little cutting today. Im going with a 22x19x3 radiator and the only way to have everything fit in this small space is to cut into the frame "arms" now they dont actually support anything except the headlights old bumper support which I havent had on the car for a while now so I can cut into them. The are still very sturdy and more than enough to support the headlights and the rad/intercooler support. I now how JUST enough room to fit everything nicely. (this is the turbo side and unfort. theres not going to be enough room for an airfilter like on my last setup) (this is the radiator side)

It went 11.3@128 on STREET radials and a 75 shot spraying in 3rd. Best time with slicks and a 150 shot is 12.1@83(the car was all over the track) with horrible track prep;.

Well I officially started the tear down today and will be getting ready to start building the kit soon. I first planned on using C6 manifolds but that idea was quickly shot down when I tried to put them on the car and they were pointing RIGHT at the engine mounts. So I went out and did it the old fashioned way with the truck manis. My setup will consist of the following: -PT88 truck manifolds with a 3.5" downpipe exiting through the passenger side of the engine. Im having the flanges cut off the manifolds and vband rings welded in place. That will prevent me from needing to clearance the side of the car so the driveside can fit and its just a much better connection. -Twin 38mm tial wastegates. Polished(I wanted black but my black tial 44 turned purple after a month so im gonna stick with ones that wont discolor) -50mm Tial Q BOV black -80lbs injectors with a redone return fuel setup using a magnafuel 4302 pump(I can always upgrade to the 4301 later on) using -8 to feed the engine and -6 as a return. -I think im gonna try the speed inc TU3 (225/225) turbo cam with the stock 243 heads/intake for now. -ebay 4" i/c with all alum. 3" piping. -im going with a custom radiator but im not sure on the specs yet..im pretty much going to build the turbo kit then build the front end around it. Im going to be going with a custom rad. support to give me the room I need to make this happen -Lingenfelter launch control/2step -Some form of methanol not exactly sure which brand yet but im leaning towards alkycontrol just from the positive feedback ive heard on this form. -2.5bar map sensor from a cobalt ..the parts list will continue to grow as I find things I need for the car. But as of right now I want to get the kit on the car and working and tuned for 4-8 psi and once its up and running perfectly im going to have the bottom end rebuilt and break it in on the low boost tune. One thing im not sure of yet is whether im going to be using my MAF or not. I hear so many mixed stories so im going to try and source a good tuner around here who knows what hes talking about and see what he says. I want to run 10-15psi on the street and maybe 20(or whatever the turbo will take) at the track. Heres a few pictures from what I have so far.. The typical turbo/soda can picture haha Soda can IN turbo pic..(dont mind the FRCs..they were just laying on the engine to see if I liked them and I didnt) Little peek-a-boo-shot And so far heres the best spot I could come up for it to fit. There is NOT a lot of room in the engine bay so im limited in where I can put it. just a random shot of the car at the track..(hopefully there will be more of this next year)

3100 even. (the scale goes in incriments of 20..so its somewhere beteen 3080-3120) full interior 3/4 tank of gas...no A/C or spare tire.

Under light throttle the car would barely run..it would buck and surge REALLY bad..to the point where I unplugged the maf. As soon as I relocated it it worked fine. If your running a gto setup you should copy my setup.

Shitty cell phone pic of the new intake. This stupid intake solved all of my MAF issues. I guess having it that close to the TB really does mess it up.

more sidewall. =) which as you can see doesn't help that much.

Ill have the airfilter on once I get the intake on. For now just for testing purposes a panty hose will work fine haha. GTO shift knob and boot that I cut and fit in the center console..

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First attempt at starting the car...

Got a little creative today..took the OEM GTO boot and cut and made it fit to the Nissan center console.. So close..few more days...

This is the terminator of all shifters..and needs no explaination to you guys haha( I couldnt use the B&M or GMM because the arm goes up to high when going into 1st 3rd 5th and reverse..with this shiter the arm stays parallel.) I decided to convert the factory style returnless system to a full return system with an aeromotive FPR..it looks much better in there now.

twin disc (it looks much nicer in person)

Well, while waiting for my stuff to get in I decided to roll my fenders. Now you can only roll the fenders so much before you run into issues with paint cracking...however in my case I want as much room as I possibly could. So my body guy told me to just roll them and do whatever I had to do and he will go in smooth, and repaint the quater panels. So I went to town with the fender roller completely flattening the fenders. If you notice on the pics the fender sticks out a little bit past the rear bumper. Thes either going to push that part back in a little bit or pull the bumper out..with how much pressure I put on the fender roller it seemed to slightly(2-3mm) pull the fenders out and actually looks really good. When I bring it to him hes going to see if he can get a few more out of it before getting into major body work..any little bit helps. Heres the pics:**sorry for the ****ty cell phone pics** You can see how far up I folded them..I have big tires to fit back there haha Here you can see what I was talkin about with the fender being pulled out a bit.. Heres the new ass view...it looks so much better with wheels/tires that actually fill the wheel wells..

some more... Im using arp head studs, and arp 2000 rod bolts just for some extra safety

The car is a Silver 2004 Nissan 350z that I bought in June and originally turbo'd and got bored with it within a few months which is why im doing the car now. I recently purchased an 05 LS2/t56 drop out with low miles. My original plans were to drop in a PTE 78 and do a custom front mount turbo system but after taking a **** load of measurements theres simply just not enough room without cutting the rad support and moving stuff around and I refuse to do a rear mount....so gonna stick with the old nitrous setup this year:) Next year after the car has been running for a while, ill most likely cut up the front end and turbo it. I dont have alot of pictures yet(there really isnt anything to take pics of yet)..but as everything starts coming along I will add pictures. Im using the Hinson supercars swap kit along with his 1.875" long tubes into a custom exhaust ill be making. My plans for right now are just a decent size cam (238/240) a 200 shot and all supporting mods. My cars curb weight is 3188 and ill be removing a few lbs trying to get the car down to 3100 with the LS2 in(no a/c). Heres a few pic of the previous set up..and some of the new. This is how the look of the car will remain. Clean and stock. No body kits, decals, underglows, ect...