Well after a long and stressfull 3 weeks of doing the install on stands at home and by myself for 99% of the job, a little bit every day after work it is finally finsihed.

The kit was a perfect fit in every respect the only downside was the instructions were in japanese. Tell you what google translate became my best friend.

Basically at the moment the install is per the book. Stock boost using the wastegate spring which is holding it around 4.5psi. The pics don't show it below but nearly everthing and anything has also been insulated including the body work near the turbo.

In addition to the kit I have fitted the following

Ceramo Coated the manifolds
PE 510cc Injectors
Upgraded fuel pump
AAM Intake Spacer
HKS FCON V Pro with MAP,TEMP and harness
HKS Super Fire Plugs - 40IL's
HKS Oil cooler on order
NISMO Thermostat
NISMO Radiator Cap
HKS SSQV - on its way
Radiator - researching
Catch Can - No idea where th hell to fit one

The car was already fitted with a Amuse R1 exhaust which is still being used.

At the moment it has about a 95% tune in it and all I can say is the car with the FCON is super smooth. There is no hesitation WOT, Part throttle or with any accessories running etc. What annoyed me the most was that my Pro Dealer has never done a 350z before so we expected that the harness and supplied base map would be good to go to get it running. My a$$ it was. After a good 5 hours of troubleshooting on how the fcon will control the throttle and before we started modifying the harness we thought we would send an email to HKS asking if there was any gotchas with the FCON install in the Z. PNP my butt after they came back to us with about 5 pages of info on how the harness, fcon and maps should be modified it was all up and running So much for a $390 buck harness

The car is making about 310WHP on the 4.5psi which you all will say that is nothing but keep in mind these are early days. Need to get everything in check first before we start tinkering.

At the moment it looks to be creating full boost at about 2900-3100rpm.

Also a big thanks to Tom my local HKS Pro Dealer

Below are some pictures of the install..



















Michael

 

Good job man! Man I wish that kit were available here in the US.

 

very nice kit, good job.

 

Congrats on the install. Any pics of the engine bay?

Looks good.

 

Hey man did you coat the piping that is heat wrapped? I just ask because when it gets wet the wrapping soaks up the water and the piping rusts pretty bad unless its coated.

 

Ok, this is the HKS kit right. That isn't out state side is it. If so you got that on a U.S spec car installed. I'am sorry to sound like a new, but I read about it once while back suposed to be a very nice kit. How much it run you and what year is the kit compadible with..... LOVE THE KIT.

 

Seems like the location of the turbo is similar to the APS ST kit. Interesting.. Does it use a sump pump?

 

Looks to be a well put together kit. Install looks great too.

 

VIDEOS please!

 

I'm hella jealous. Looks good. I wish we could get that kit in the US.

 

That's awesome, props on translating the instructions!

 

Dayum.. it seems like it's going to own all the other Single kits out there.
Keep us up with more updates and what kind of dyno was this on??
Any plans on running it on the 1/4 after all the work is done for our sake?? lol

 

ohh post a dyno sheet, I would love to see the powerband.

 

Nice, would love to see numbers.

 

Thats awesome....but I have one question....why would they spec. a 60mm wastegate for a single 3037? Thats a huge wastegate for the size of that turbo.

 

damn looks nice

 

great job, does HKS make a twin turbo kit also?

 

Maybe they had overboost problems too lol

 

Perhaps allowing for improvement, so that you don't have to buy a bigger wastegate futher down the line.

 

Great job looks bad A$$.