After ordering and installing my last needed mod (ART Pipes) I gave Hills Garage a call, and scheduled a tune. Luckily I didn't have to wait long and went in a week after calling. I've been to Hills Garage multiple times and continue to go back because of their service, quality work, and Frank Hill is just awesome at what he does!

Since I have an 06 Z my goals were to get somewhere around 260-270 WHP after being tuned. My mods are as follows:

Injen Cold Air Intake
MotorDyne MREV2
MotorDyne 5/16 Spacer
MotorDyne ART Pipes
MotorDyne XYZ Pipe
JIC Magic Single Exhaust
Nissan 4.08 Gears

Picture on the Dyno:

https://i.imgur.com/1hg8Xl.jpg

After about an hour of Frank Hill, and Frank Smith tuning my car I got some nice results:





Uninteresting iPhone Video of the last Dyno Pull:


Overall the car runs fantastic, Frank Hill as always has offered A++ work, and Frank Smith (Hill's Garage Tuner) did a fantastic job tuning my car. Excited to go back for a Forced Induction tune sometime next year!!

 

congrats. Motordynes products are sooo overpriced.... 500+ for test pipes...

any ricer fly by videos?

 

I like there products haha great quality and they actually do some R&D. But I can get some videos soon, I was at H2oi and just got back from there and didn't have my car.

 

Nice peak #'s, but the power falls flat after 6K! That really sucks... Did they play around with Cam timing?

 

They did everything they could, yea. I'm not to worried I just want my car running good until I go Forced Induction next summer!!!

 

Good to hear everything went well for you. Seeing any sort of horror story sucks and is unfortunate.

 

congrats. pretty good numbers.

 

Thanks only bad news is the day before I went I changed my oil and discovered it consumed about 2.5 quarts of oil in 3k miles. Going to monitor it for a while and see what happens.

 

oh lawd

 

Power doesn't drop off as bad post-tune... there was certainly a big issue before. If you're consuming almost a qt per 1k miles I would estimate you're losing power somewhere, probably up top where it drops.

 

Yea I'm just going to monitor the oil until I have some money saved up then do a small build and go with a vortech v3. That's what I'm hoping for at least, I tend to change my mind occasionally!

 

It seems you have the rev up curse of burning oil, sorry to hear. 75k on my 06 and not burning oil yet.

 

Numbers are numbers...how about a description of "before&after".
Tell us the difference on how your car feels,drives on the road.
What actually does the 26 extra ponies feel like?

 

Runs real smooth all the way up the RPMs now. Overall I'm very satisfied and the changes are very noticeable!


As for the oil burning I just got to 75,000 keeping my fingers crossed that by some crazy chance it was a one time thing but I won't hold my breathe.

 

Replace the PCV valve, switch back to dino oil if you're on synthetic and hope for the best.

 

Thanks!