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12-04-2010, 07:21 PM

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Thats not a quality tune!

Cobb sucks! Its a Cobb job.........

No HFC's or Test pipes?! Thats your biggest issue! Should have spent the $350-500 bucks for those.

I can appreciate that Cobb is not #1 in Z tuning, but it was a custom tune by Tim Bailey himself. Look him up - not a crappy tune.

ART pipes = test pipes.

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12-04-2010, 07:22 PM

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DE>HR.....RUNS for cover

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12-04-2010, 07:27 PM

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i'd expect 30 whp from having the art pipes and xyz pipe with that catback you mentioned above, all without a tune... with tune i'd expect another 10 whp, so total 40whp for all bolt ons...

am i just being way too hopeful? i only have the art pipes with stock catback on my hr, and i definitely felt the gain...

kind of what I was expecting....lol

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12-04-2010, 07:32 PM

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ill buy your ART pipes right now then

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12-04-2010, 07:33 PM

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You saved about 50lbs with all the bolt ons.

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12-04-2010, 07:40 PM

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Figure 240 horsepower before. Plus 40 horsepower gives you 280 horsepower. That is a 16.6 percent increase. That may not be possible.

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12-04-2010, 07:45 PM

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DE>HR.....RUNS for cover

Troublemaker.

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12-04-2010, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by biggersNISMO

This sir, i wish I could have.

I don't think its possible, on an HR for that price.

But if someone can prove me wrong, please do so.

Dosnt matter if its HR or DE. I just put in Wisecos($600), eagles($400) and kept HR head bolts and gasket. Balancing crank and little machine shop stuff (~500ish).

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12-04-2010, 08:44 PM

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With all my Mods I am in the 296-299 RWHP range! Now if you pony up the extra cash and do 4.08 gears you will really wake the beast.

I only went the bolt on route cause I needed something to keep myself busy and provide some gains till my warranty runs out. I'm pretty happy with my gains the way the car sits now! Its a night and day differance compaired to stock.

Edit: What elevation are you at? What fuel are you using? Ethanol content is on the rise. If you can find a station that sells ethanol free gas use it....

Zim

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12-04-2010, 09:37 PM

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Dosnt matter if its HR or DE. I just put in Wisecos($600), eagles($400) and kept HR head bolts and gasket. Balancing crank and little machine shop stuff (~500ish).

Are you boosted or N/A? I know its an age old Z topic but its a proven fact that DE's are more tuner friendly than HR's. HR's are a phenomenal engine and I wont disagree but its not tuner friendly.

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12-04-2010, 09:47 PM

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Just lookat it this way wasn't a total waste your new exhaust will flow better for FI

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12-04-2010, 09:50 PM

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Zim,

Elevation is only a couple hundred feet. Unfortunately we cannot compare dyno #'s as we used different dynos. I do know Cobb/Surgeline's dyno reads low. I am disappointed with the minimal gains between the custom tune and my baseline. Did you baseline your Nismo?

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12-04-2010, 11:26 PM

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Are you boosted or N/A? I know its an age old Z topic but its a proven fact that DE's are more tuner friendly than HR's. HR's are a phenomenal engine and I wont disagree but its not tuner friendly.

Yeah in a previous post I mentioned having rear mount turbo.

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12-04-2010, 11:48 PM

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with a cobb ap, injen dual intakes, AAM testpipes and greddy dual TiC exhaust i made 298 at the wheel with my HR NA

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12-05-2010, 01:02 AM

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Yes, but what did you baseline? You're in the same boat if the dyno you were on baselined you at like 290hp.

Edit - oh, and you were on a dynojet, so naturally the numbers are going to be higher

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12-05-2010, 01:09 AM

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WOW...

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12-05-2010, 02:05 AM

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This thread just woke me up.

I got the cams installed couple of months back during my rebuild, now planning to get a set of headers + Ypipe to complete my bolt-ons but...

I think I'm gonna stop modding "N/A" now and focus more on more important mods like handling / cooling (for trackdays), before it's really too late. FI ftw.

Thanks for sharing Nismo!

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12-05-2010, 02:20 AM

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Tomei headers, test pipes and cams ( 264 in and out ), HKS exhaust, Injen CAI and tune got me 46 whp. It ain't easy on the HR, but the 4.08 final drive woke it up.