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No actually I am MADAM " Lower your rotational mass" as I am into drag. Yep did the mod a few times to different cars. The engine goes well with cooling as I retain the fan shroud and use an appropriate size/ cfm fan. The fan is normally 'on' in the low speed and stand still situations and off as the car is moving at speed. The 'at speed' part is what the performance angle is aimed at, particularly as the belt pulley drive horsepower losses grow as engine speed and load does. It's when the hammer is down that you like to have the benifit of a redundant fan being driven. Never really 'measured' the results as I thought them obvious but, I'm sure the might be a test somewhere if googled for. Most factory skylines fan shrouds will accept the very large 16 inch davies craig fan with a little cutting to size. Air guides for both the intercooler and radiator are worth chucking in too if you have the inclination for extra efficiency. Some foam can be used if your not a welding type. AndrewD, Rotational intertia doesn't equal horsepower to clear that up. The weight of the factory fan gone helps improve the engine accelleration a small amount, combined with other pulleys made of lighter material it all adds up to help more. The weight of the fan on the end of the water pump pulley increases the load on the belt, which increases the fictional power losses. The benifits you mention seem quite valid by the way. The reliable nature of the pulley fan has it over the electric fans however. If any part of the electric circuit goes down you have no fan, for the pulley fan to fail the water pump pulley has to fall off. For this reason an electric fan has to be done right with the fail safe fuses and relays and spares of these in the car at all times perhaps with a warning light for good measure.

Look. if you want power and lots more of it you must understand a simple rule. More power breaks more things more often therefore power = money. If you don't have the money to build a strong engine yet then you won't have the money to fix all the other things that big power will end up needing. There are lots of guys who start off asking the wrong questions. Like " How much power can I make?". Look at what you want to do with the car first, what is the direction yo want to go in etc.. After you do this you might even find the car you have is not the right starting point and another vehicle would do better. As a daily driver ,and by that I mean giving it some on occasion and expecting the car to drive a substancial number of kms, you ought not to try and push the envelope on the stock internals much over 300. This is if you want to use the term 'low risk'. The 2835 can be tuned under this limit (as any turbo can be to some extent) with the down side being lag over the factory unit and ultimately a very modest improvement in top end. Cams would also help make the power earlier in the rpm range and with less boost required, all good to help the engine live longer. BUT why is the 2835 the turbo to have? What do you want to DO with the car?

I have plenty of times....

16 inch fan within the shroud means a little bit of plastic cutting of the shroud. The radiator needs to come out to fit it correctly, it's very easy to do.

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good for you. Don't think about it , I heard thinking hurts your brain. Is your car faster? Is it more fun to drive? if the answer is yes to both questions then who cares about the dyno results? Unless of course you are a 'dyno queen', in which case feel free to cry into your dress.

bonnet 'up' = inflated power figures. bonnet 'down' = more realistic power number. The difference varies from car to car but, you drive with the bonnet down not up.

work out what you want the car to do for you, what sort of characteristics you want, and start there. Check the health of your motor for a start, to see what you are working with. Compression and leak down tests. No point throwing lots of power at something thats half dead.

When your turbo blows the smaller ceramic particles that can result can find thier way back into the engine. This is why blowing the stock turbo isn't a good 'plan' even if it's the excuse you want to buy a new bigger one.

dyno with the bonnet 'up' or 'down' ?

Piper cross element is very good, K&N is easy enough to find also. There isn't really much improvement at all with the filter upgrade so don't blow lots of money on it. Exhaust wise, if you live in adelaide, like perth there is no EPA testing of public vehicles last I checked. Better fuel efficiency is one reason you could give your wife for an exhaust upgrade. Also consider the initial replacement of the dump pipe to a new split design one if the whole exhaust is 'off the table'. The factory cast unit is a shocker and the dump pipe is a cheap first step and much better than nothing to start with.

When I married my wife 10+ years ago, she hated hot food. I snuck very small amounts of chilli into everything I cooked gradually increasing it till she was addicted to endorphins. She now enjoys it far more than I do. Nothing wrong with losing tollerance as getting it back is alot of fun too.

It's a very very mild habanero chilli paste. Tastes ok though. For people not used to habanero it's a safe introduction. It's not very hot. They didn't go for super power though, most people wouldn't like it if they did. I preffer not mixing in anything other than pure chilli in my sauces, any other ingredients you might like to add always taste much better if they are mixed in 'fresh' at the time of serving.

here in perth we used to have a mexican resurant chain called The Good the bad and the ugly. It stood for good food , bad service and ugly waitresses (that was thier pitch). It was the first experience I had of the habanero as I attempted to eat THE DYNAMITE, a nacho dish made from pulped habaneros as the basis of the salsa. If you could eat it all in 30min your meal and all your drinks were free. At the time I was 18 ,many years ago. being a thai food nut at the time I foolishly scoffed at the challenge, thinking mexican jalepenos were weak so this habanero thing was probably nothing special. The first bite told me how wrong I was but, I pushed on through the pain. I almost finished it but, ended up a mess defeated and feeling so unwell I had to get a lift home with....my mum! It almost killed me, well maybe the wild the sphincter of the universe helped too. That was the begining of my obsession with true hot chilli, I could not let the habanero win. It had dealt me such humiliation it just had to become my new best friend.

Any one in the lab equipement game?what about organising a group buy on some fractional distilation equipement so we can all extract capcacin oil and make 2 million + scoville unit sauces.

I once described the perfect chilli heat level as somewhere between thinking " when will the hurting stop " to " I need urgent medical attention".

If you are still running the stock turbo etc. then 0.8mm ought to work well enough all things being healthy. get NGK BCPR6ES or BCPR6ES-11's , if you haven't already and gap them down to 0.8mm initially. These are copper plugs. When gapping the plugs do not press the gap closed with the feeler gauge still in the plug gap like I have seen some young-un's do. Have a good look over the coils for any hairline cracks or discolouration. I had an issue with one once and as a fix used generous amounts of high temp epoxy , it might be a temp fix depending on the extent of the cracks. With the coil cover off you may be able to confirm an issue if in the dark you have a good look to see if there is any arcing. They do get very hot under that cover and I wonder if nissan may have given them a snick too much dwell time for longevity. The extra dwell would help emmissions I'd imagine but does increase the heat at the same time and possibly reduces the coils lifespan.

wow fully sik! put some spokey dokeys on too!

ahh the ring of fire. reminds me of an online store you can get some very cool sounding sauces from, not to mention some of the abominations containing capcaicin oil concentrates in the sauce. Anything over 1 million scoville units is like driving a nail into your tongue. I tried a few like da bomb and I didn't find them tasty so much as a form of torture or extreme sport. this place sells a few and seems to be reliable (I ordered from them a few times), the names of the sauces make for good dinner conversation too. http://www.hothothot.com

yes when I talk thai chilli I mean the ones in Thailand. not the bunnings variety of midget capcicums. They taste quite nice actually but, aren't what I call hot. They are soothing in comparison to habanero's. I have right now some cross polinated thai chillis with habanero's I am waiting to ripen, the heat will probably not be that great but, I'm interested to see what flavour I get. Thai chillis are chillis for little girls. People who think they are hot I keep away from putting quantity of my sauces on thier food for the sake of retaining friendships. On the other hand when I was in thailand last I took my chilli sauce with me, as usual, and had the great pleasure of half killing several locals who thought an 'aussie' wouldn't know much about really hot chilli. 'Welcome to mexico my asian friend'. The Thai people really appreciate mexican chilli once they get a taste for it though, a local resturant I used to go to I ended up gifting them a big bottle in exchange for mekong. The Indian people also get really into mexican chilli for curries.

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What application (size turbo etc..) are you planning on?