Sold my stillen 'charged and otherwise heavily modded Z



Some french canadian offered me...lots

of money nonetheless!




So now, its just me and my...my....toyota echo sigh


o well, my new plan is to make an NA monster


Planned mods:
Crawford plenum, cats, headers
JWT popcharger
stillen exhaust(once you go stillen...if you, uh, go back, youll be...illin)
Stillen Valvebodies
350evo throttle body
ti cooling plate by anyone
INTERNALS:
forged stock compression pistons with nismo heads and gaskets with a 100mm bore thanks to AEBS sleeves,pauter titanium rods and bolts, nismo ti valves and springs, nismo cams


Nismo wheels, good, sticky tires
5zigen lug nutz
tein flex coilovers (this time, WITH EDFC)
stillen camber and toe parts
Kinetix rear suspension goodies
some track tuning for the suspension(to work out camber/caster/toe)
stock LSD(!)I heart its mildness
nismo LSD cooling plate
350evo 3.9 gears
hotchkis sways
crawford strut bar


Vented CF hood
CF bumper
(trying to find)CF fenders
(any good)radiator, tranny cooler, oil cooler, and power steering cooler
Stoptech stage 2 brake kit(who needs new calipers anyway?)
Sparco torino seats

uhh...uhhh its 2am i am having trouble with the rest of my list

also, did I leave anything out?

actually, dont tell anyone, but I might just get a Z4 with SMG because its lighter, nimbler, and funner to drive...er



thanks, suggestions of stuff?
its 2 am...thoguth id remind yall

off to lalaland for me


ps. last mod will be a TS ecu reflash

 

Why did you sell your Z if you're going to turn around and build another one? Seems like you put alot of time and effort into building the car just the way you wanted it. Wouldn't it have been cheaper to take the s/c off and just keep modding what you already have if an N/A monster is what you want?

I'm also curious, what do you plan to gain by doing this? Certainly there isn't enough potential in the VQ in N/A form to rival the power of a well-tuned supercharger system...

Anyway, good luck with your new project.

 

...FI

vs

NA

and this one I am gonna turn into a track dream

I am really gonna baby her

 

I guess I just don't understand...FI vs. NA? I got that from your first post. I was just wondering what the goal was...

Typically, track cars don't get "babied" per se, they given the hell driven out of them, which makes babying hard to do, I would think.

 

I am gonna baby it till the track, this thing is still gonna be street legal, comfortable, and slick

It'll just have a highly modded engine und suspension

just imagine what a 3.8 liter VQ would feel like


*drool*

 

BTW, great looking Z dude body kit and color look awesome together

 

Thanks, I appreciate it! Hey, while we're at it, can I ask if your S/C'd Z passed emissions in your state (if required)? I've almost certainly ruled out TT kits because I'm hearing that none of them are street legal from a SMOG perspective. I'm in VA, so the restrictions are as tough as CA, but I still need to pass....Thanks.

 

To be honest, I'd think about trying to shoehorn a Nissan V8 in there (5.6, or even 4.5 a la Q45) and build that for NA. There really is no point to modding the VQ35DE for NA. Its cost prohibitive, the gains are minimal, and the comfort level will be nil at best.

Ask anyone on the forum making big numbers with the stock block - its NA all the way.

But I support you for being different, I'd just advise you to work with a different powerplant.

 

It wont be street legal. None of those have a CARB EO# .... just being picky here .. this is asuming the SD means San Diego, not South Dakota ... if not, disregard the post

 

Don't you mean "F/I all the way"?

 

hahahaha He said funner!?!?!?

 

he he...

Yes, for the grammatically and syntactically concerned, it should be "more fun", not "funner". But hey, funner works for me!!!

 

Yup, good catch... just seein if anyone's paying attention... lol riight