bumble zee Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 I wanted to try something different that many have not done. I found 1 fast z's page on the Maxima's LD intake on a Z, and I decided I am going to do that. I found a LD intake on ebay and won it for $15. I had a 280zxt intake laying around that I would use for the intake flange, injector bungs, and the throttle body flange. Its taken 4 months of on and off again work, but its together and will be running this week. What I started with My zxt manifold cut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumble zee Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 Fitting the gas and diesel together Welded Grinding the welds smooth Winter of '07-'08 the real work begins Fitting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Before you weld on the ZXT flange, be sure to port out the runners to the 33-35mm(varies per runner) of the LD intake so you don't have a restriction there. Looks like a fun project! Oh its already done... LOL never mind. You can still port-match it if you haven't already. OTM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumble zee Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 Throttle body had to be on a angle so it wouldnt hit the distributor. Removing the rough sandcast off lower and upper parts of the intake Getting a rough idea for the measurements. My CAD design of what needed to be built for the thottle body so it wouldnt hit the distributor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumble zee Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 Throttle body adapter built Smoothed out to look like one piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumble zee Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 Upper plenum and throttle body adapter and flange welded together Final cleanup for paint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumble zee Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 Painted And finally the final install after countless trails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumble zee Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 All that remains is, My IC to TB pipe has to have 2 inches cut off the IC side, and have the 30 degree bend on the TB side cut in half and rotated 180 degrees. Also I have to lengthen the fuel line to each injector a little bit to clear a fitting for vacuum. Then install a throttle cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravRMK Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 That turned out great! Good job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Wow! That is pretty cool. Its amazing how well those welds cleaned up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonZ Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Wow, it came out looking great after the painting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jknc90 Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 It looks awesome. Great job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamH Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Any noticeable difference in performance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihatejoefitz Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 I remember shortly after 1 fast z's post about that LD intake prices shot up on Ebay to around $200! Your work looks excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumble zee Posted March 24, 2008 Author Share Posted March 24, 2008 After forgetting a few things, It started. Flooded rather quickly because the IC pipes are not hooked up completely yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJLamberson Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 wow that looks good, great job... wanna build me one now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olie05 Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 That looks good. It cleaned up the engine bay quite nicely too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raami Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 That looks very nice. I think I will do that to my intake because I have LD-intake and EFI-intake which isn't very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSM Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 I'm not knocking your welding skills at all and the intake looks very nice, but how would you rate yourself as a welder to accomplish something like this? I'd love to start something like this if I could weld better. It really is like art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumble zee Posted March 24, 2008 Author Share Posted March 24, 2008 My dad did all the welding. He isn't an artist on it since he builds semi's and trailers and the welding doesn't have to look all that great since a lot of it is grinded smooth. I really didnt care what the welds looked like, as long as it had good penetration and didn't have any holes blown through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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