A longtime member from www.twinturbo.net and who most feel is very credible posted some new info.

8-9 psi @ 450hp sounds promising.....I think I would take that and be satisfied.....

 

Yep, that's the best part......I hoped 400ish would be doable on stock internals and keep it reliable.

450 is great....jsut have to wait and see how the tuning and reliability pan out......


It's good to be the z owner.......

 

Cole-

Thanks again for letting us know when some good tidbits are posted over on 350zforum.

I thought the wait for the Z was bad. Now the wait for toys is going to kill me.

JD

 

I've never been in the market for an aftermarket turbo in the past. Which kit companies are known for the highest quality kits in terms of durability? (durability in terms of both the kit and the durability of car itself - e.g. kits that aren't over-boosted or do bad things to the ECU)

 

It depends, the best turbo kits vary from car to car. Best solution is to do a lot of research, and build a custom one yourself. The key is tuning your turbo, which can cost a lot of dyno time. But when done right, you'll produce more power out of a more efficient turbo.

 

Do you have a link to the specific thread? I did not see it mentioned on the main page.

 

SunsetZ,

It was on the second page. Link

Enjoy!

JD

 

Can anyone estimate what this will cost? Im thinking 7-8k?

 

As sweet as that is, 7-8K kind of hurts. I had prepaired myself for about 5G's for a setup (single turbo), d@mn that's up there. Then clutch, gauges, and if your doing clutch why not flywheel? Then a better LSD............it is a disease that spreads quickly.
BUT....You gotta do what you gotta do, where do I sign?

 

A friend of mine is a nissan mechanic. Mechanics get sent up to the nissan training cehter for new model updates. During one of those trainning sessions, he told me they were discussing the engineers at nissan are testing the 350Z motor being used in the next model skyline with a turbo charger and getting 400hp + and that they were playing with the idea of dropping it into a 350Z. Again, this is food for thought and because I did not hear the engineer say it to me personally, I am at the mercy of trusting his word. Has anyone else heard these rumors?

 

No problem.......my turbo eclipse was boosted from my apartment a few weeks back (never recovered) and I'm dealing with the insurance company on it right now. Hopefully some of the moeny from those guys, if they don't bend me over tooo bad, will fund my forced induction for the Z....but I know what you mean. The wait sucks, it would really suck if I was sitting back, financialy prepared for and jsut waiting for the product to be offered.

Fortunatly, along with the "Z" came a new girlfriend, so she is keeping me distracted in the mean time.

 

The girlfriend is fun to have but might end up being more expensive in the end then a 37K 350 track model.

 

wouldnt that mean they had the same engine? what would seperate the skyline from the Z? AWD? thats not a big thing... I would say the engineer may have said that, but that doesnt mean it will ever happen.

 

New S4 has a normally aspirated V8.

 

That might be okay for a race set up, but I would only consider a kit that the manufacturer has put through a 49 state emissions certification process.

 

Colecat, which Z version did you get? I thought the Performance was a good deal, but if I had known there was a "girlfriend" option package, I would have ordered that.

-D'oh!

 

Whoa, when did the "Girlfriend" option get added to the list? Is this on NissanDriven.com? I swear it wasn't there when I ordered. And wouldn't you know it the damn site is down.


Congrats on the option, ColecatZ!

I hope everything works out with the insurance company. Don't let them work ya!

JD